Pacific Coast Yachting Association


Minutes of January 19, 2002

 

Commodore Lewis called the meeting to order at 10:00 hours.

 

Roll Call of Officers and Member Associations

Officers Present

            Commodore                             Bill Lewis         SCYA

            Vice Commodore                     J. D. Smith       SCCA 

            Rear Commodore                     Marda Phelps   PIYA

            Secretary/Treasurer                  Jerry Wellnitz    SDCA

Members Present

SMBPF/SCCA                        S/C (1989)       Joe Castagana

            IPBA                                                               Gordon Dickson

            IPBA-N                                                           Bob Lindal

            IPBA-S                                                            Jerry Downer

            YRUSC                                                           Paul Artof

           

Others Present

            Bruce Campbell                                                PIYA/Chm. U.S. Sailing National Offshore Counsel

            Ben McKessen             S/C

            Pat Goodfellow                        S/C (1991)       PIYA

            Dave MacCullogh                     S/C                  SMBPF

            F.P. Fromhagen                        S/C                  Marin Yacht Club/Kona Kai Int. Y.C.

            Phil Johnson                             S/C (1984)       PIYA

            Shef Phelps                                                      Seattle Yacht Club

            Graham Swindell                                              IPBA

 

A quorum is present

           

Eight bells were sounded for the following Staff Commodores:

            S/C Jack Weber           (1967)

            S/C Bill McLean           (1986)

 

Correspondence

            Clem Hartley, Bob Leslie, Ward Cleveland and Marge Gandelman sent regrets in being unable to attend the meeting.

 

Secretary’s report

            The minutes from the June 25th, 2001 meeting held at the San Diego Yacht Club were approved as corrected.  The following corrections are noted:

1.      Barusch/Castagana will be held on June 6th, 2002

2.      Langlais Trophy does not go to a youth organization

 

Officers reports

            Secretary/Treasurer Jerry Wellnitz – The 2001 roster is current based on information gathered during the 2001 fiscal year.

            Based on total normal income versus expense, there was an approximate $200 negative cash flow last year.  Commodore Lewis suggested that this was from the aborted Carr regatta, with its expenses and no income.

            S/T Wellnitz was concerned about the high cost of stationary and postage, especially for the distribution of the minutes.  The Board spent time discussing ways to reduce this expense, but determined to keep the distribution at 2 copies for each Organizations delegates’ and one for each Staff Commodore.

            One way to deal with the high expenses is to increase the dues from $170.00.  This was discussed, but there was no motion.

            Several delegates to PCYA stated that they did not get invitations to this meeting. S/T Wellnitz discussed the difficulty he had in obtaining mailing information for some member organizations.  At that time, YRUSC delegate Paul Artof passed out a roster of names obtained within the last two weeks.  This roster was based on a recent mailing asking for updated information and forwarded to Paul.  Although all member organizations have not returned this questionnaire, it was reviewed for accuracy and completeness.  It also had several errors and omissions.  Updates were made and a follow-up will be undertaken by the 2002 Secretary/Treasurer to insure that the submission information from the member organizations is brought up to date.

 

Rear Commodore Marda Phelps

            The Rear Commodore was concerned that the correspondence was getting to its target delegates.  R/C Phelps would like to have additional sign-up sheets mailed with meeting announcements to help the meeting host(es) to organize the various activities.

 

Vice Commodore J. D. Smith

            Suggested including a self addressed stamped envelope with current billing to help expedite return correspondence.

 

Commodore Bill Lewis

            Discussed the difficulties in conducting the Carr Regatta over the last two years and the process by which Marda Phelps was asked to step in and take over the responsibilities of the Rear Commodore and welcomed Paul Artof as the Secretary/Treasurer elect.

 

Committees

            V/C J. D. Smith announced that the Langlias Trophy would be awarded to Tom Collins who is was nominated by SCCA.  All other candidates will remain in the selection pool for next year’s nominations.   Joe Castagana suggested making an additional presentation of this award at the next running of the Barusch/Castagana Race this coming June.     

            Commodore Lewis announced that winner of the Garret Horder Youth Award was Coronado Yacht Clubs submitted by SDCA.

 

Old Business

            Commodore Lewis presented the opportunity to have our own website and not be part of the SCYA hosted site.  It would take an approximate $50 installation and $50 additional annual fee to make this possible.  MOTION: by Paul Artof to create an independent website for PCYA.  PASSED.

            A committee was formed by MOTION to determine a way to enhance participation and prestige of the Carr Regatta.  PASSED.  This committee will announce its findings at the next meeting.  The committee will be as follows:

Paul Artof, Chairman

Comm. J. D. Smith

R/C Marda Phelps

S/T Jerry Wellnitz

S/C Phil Johnson

S/C Pat Goodfellow

Ward Cleveland will contact the Carr family to alert them of the possible change.

Joe Castagana announced that we give approximately $600 to an association to conduct the Barusch/Castagana Race and thought that it would be nice if we once again presented a plaque to the winning skipper of the event.  It was determined that PCYA was currently in a better financial position by offering the $600 to the host organization and purchasing awards.

 

New Business

            Commodore Lewis alerted the Board that the next individual to join the Bridge should be a Powerboat owner from the San Francisco area.  We should all be considering names of possible candidates that may fit this criterion.  Next years Junior Staff Commodore will chair the nominating committee.

            U.S. Sailing National Offshore Sailing Council representative Bruce Campbell solicited participation in the forthcoming meetings in Colorado and Marina del Rey, California.  He suggests going to the U.S. Sailing website to locate current information and use the e-mail link to him for comments and discussion.

            Commodore Lewis discussed a letter received from the Balboa Yacht Club. BYC states that they have a trophy issued from PCYA called the Balboa Challenge Trophy.  This event takes place every year.  Commodore Lewis is looking for information about this event.  It is a trophy issued in 1950 and no one at this meeting was familiar with it.  Commodore will look into it.

            Brochure – Commodore Bill Lewis displayed a brochure created by S/C Marge Gandelman and suggested that it could be reproduced and updated for the 80th anniversary.  The new Bridge will look into this as they represent the 79th year of this organization.

            Archives – Staff Commodore Dave McCullough has old PCYA records in his garage.  Commodore Bill Lewis will speak with a representative of SCYA to see if there is a place to store them.  He is also looking into the possibility that they may be archived in bound books at the University of Southern California Library.  There will be a lot of work to prepare the records but they will be safe and available there.

 

Election of Officers

            Staff Commodore Ben McKesson acted in the capacity of the Installing Officer.  Current officers were praised of a job well done and dismissed after a year of service.

            New officers were installed and they are as follows:

                        J. D. Smith       Commodore                             SCCA

                        Marda Phelps   Vice Commodore                     PIYC

                        Jerry Wellnitz    Rear Commodore                     SDCA

                        Paul Artof         Secretary/Treasurer                  YRUSC

                        Bill Lewis         Staff Commodore                     SCYA

After hardy congratulations, the meeting was adjourned.

 

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

 

Paul Artof

2002 Secretary/Treasurer