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June 14, 2011, Board of Managers' Meeting

Minutes from the June 14, 2011, Y-Knot Board of Managers’ meeting minutes in Clifton Park are submitted for consideration as follows:

In attendance were Scott Stewart (Vice President), Spencer Raggio, Don Miller (Vice President), Mark Carnevale (President), Keith Edwards (YMCA Camp Chingachgook liaison), Trish McCluskey, Dave Whalen (via Skype), Steve Mintz, and Dan Byrnes (Secretary).

Don moved to accept the April 19 and May 17 minutes. Scott seconded and the motion passed.

Keith had the budget report, and he said we had about $525 of new donations in the last month. Don told us that Eric Rose said he would inquire about a grant from Vermont Country Stores and Keith said we’ve received some donations from that company before.

Regarding boat maintenance, Keith said the tarps are finished. Mark said he’s seen them and they look great. Graphics have been put on some of the boats and will be applied this year, but the ones for the transom need to be tweaked a bit. Rick Irvine will be working on the new dimensions for that. Our goal is to get one more done by the time AQVA happens in July.

Regarding the new waterfront plans, Keith says he now has dredging permits from the Lake George Park Association.

The Americaid raffles went pretty well, Keith said. We participated in three days of raffles and look forward to receiving a check for about $3,000.

At the Americaid rally, Keith said he spoke with Joan Faron who publishes Lake George Guide. She offered to list Y-Knot activities in their online information resource: http://www.LakeGeorgeGuide.com/ and in the magazine.

Keith said we’ll be testing out the new deck mounted compass on Saturday.

Regarding plans for the Y-Knot Regatta in September, Don said we won’t be able to attract a critical mass of 2.4 meter boats to our Regatta because of a class nationals conflict that weekend. We decided we may put a 2.4 meter event on the schedule for next year.

While attending one of our sail days, Karen Malcolm proposed that we should have the slings washed. Karen offered to do that, but she wasn’t sure what kind of turn around she could deliver. Keith said the slings can be washed at camp and he’ll do that. Thank you, Karen, for letting us know they could be washed.

We have 3 people confirmed for the Ti Race this weekend. Steve will call Kyle Lavoy to make sure the race committee knows there are at least 3 Martin 16s coming over from the Camp.

The Board all agreed that Billy Rankin’s regular Monday morning recaps of what happened the previous sailing day has been a great addition to the communications program for Y-Knot.

Our next meeting will be August 16, at the Clifton Park YMCA.

Submitted by Dan Byrnes, November 12, 2011.

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May 17, 2011, Board of Managers' Meeting Minutes

Y-Knot Board of Managers’ meeting minutes in Clifton Park are submitted for consideration as follows:

In attendance were Scott Stewart (Vice President), Spencer Raggio, Don Miller (Vice President), Mark Carnevale (President), Steve Mintz, Rick Irvine (Treasurer), Keith Edwards (YMCA Camp Chingachgook liaison), Billy Rankin (YMCA Chinghachook Director), Trish McCluskey, Dave Whalen (via Skype), and Dan Byrnes (Secretary).

Rick reported that there is $9,500 in the bank. Donations include $1,000 from Stewart’s Shops and $2,000 from Powermat for a matching grant. In addition, we received $1,720 from the Pauline Whalen Memorial Fund. Don mentioned that the Rainbows used in the spring Learn to Sail community sailing classes looked great and we thanked Keith for his work in boat repair.

We have been invited to attend Nyack this Friday, but no one from this group is able to attend.

Regarding boat repairs, Pathfinder backed into the port side of No Limit during the spring sailing class two Sundays ago. A patch from a repair some years ago popped off and it will need repairs subsequently this fall.

Tarps are being built with a lot of extra space for signage which could be used to tell visitors to the camp about Y-Knot. Tarp costs will be $230/each, for a total of about $1,500. Our canvas maker Bill Weatherbee has done a great job with the tarps.

Rick Irvine showed a printed banner that can be used as a table runner. It says Welcome Y-Knot Sailors and Volunteers to Camp Chingachgook on Lake George.

Rick and Keith showed pictures of artwork for graphics that are going to be applied to the hull's freeboard and transoms of the Martins. They look great.

We plan to acquire the hyphenated URL Y-KnotSailing.org, but Spencer wanted to remind everyone whenever we write down or print our URL, it is best to be consistent and use YKnotSailing.org without the hyphen.

Keith reported that he bought a Ritchie Navigation sailing compass to try out to see if it’s going to work for us. Keith plans to Velcro it just behind the mast and in front of the splash board. They are $58/each, from Port Supply (West Marine).

Regarding the DisAboom.com Web site directory listing, Spencer contacted them about listing Y-Knot Sailing. He never heard back. Spencer also contacted U.S. Sailing, who got back right away with a positive letter and Y-Knot is now listed in the directory there.

Don said that when he was at Havastraw, NY, a few weeks ago, someone there offered to bring a 2.4 meter boat up for our Regatta in September. Spencer said we could put the word out and see if anyone else would like to bring other boats in so we could get a racing quorum of at least 4 boats. Don said he would get in touch with his contact with the 2.4 meter boat to see if he’d like to put something together.

The Americade Raffle is coming up and the sponsors have asked us to fill some spots for the raffle on June 7-11, 11-2 and 2-5 PM. He’d like us to have 8 people to fill these slots. One or two people need to go to the training session on the 6th and Keith will represent us at the training session.

No Limit’s furling jib is starting to wear out, Keith said. Spencer suggested at least a 100% jib to replace it. Our sailmaker Ed Trombley asked for $550 including the cover. The Board told Keith, go ahead.

Keith asked if people can register to volunteer earlier using the web site. We decided to try to make a greater effort to use the email addresses to gather reservations and that Billy was going to step forward and make that happen in conjunction with the weekly email updates he promised to send out.

Eight volunteers showed up for volunteer training day. Six were new.

Don brought up the idea of member dues which have been a source of income in the past. Spencer suggested, pay so much get a membership, a little more, get a membership and a hat. Rick agreed to make up a sign that would be used to remind people to support Y-Knot Sailing by becoming a member and buying our merchandise.

Submitted by Dan Byrnes June 14, 2011.

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April 19, 2011, Board of Managers' Meeting Minutes

Minutes from April 19, 2011, Y-Knot Board of Managers’ meeting minutes in Clifton Park are submitted for consideration as follows:

In attendance were Scott Stewart (Vice President), Spencer Raggio, Don Miller (Vice President), Mark Carnevale (President), Steve Mintz, Rick Irvine (Treasurer), Keith Edwards (YMCA Camp Chingachgook liaison), Dave Whalen (via Skype), and Dan Byrnes (Secretary).

Keith reported that we received a matching grant from GE for a donation that Herm Lintner gave Y-Knot last year. Y-Knot also received a $3,000 grant from the YMCA for its Reach out for Youth activities.

Rick has new graphics for the boats we use including No Limit.

Mark said he, George Painter (YMCA Camp Chingachgook Director), and Mike Peluso went to visit State Senator Betty Little about the $100,000 grant that expired last year. She was called away at the last minute for a meeting with the lieutenant governor, but they met with members of the Senator’s staff. They were sympathetic and said there may be an opportunity to restart the grant, but nothing specific was discussed.

Mark said only about 3 people have responded to the idea of holding a Chowder Cup, so the benefit of holding that in conjunction with a 15-year celebration might be kind of slim. Mark said the concept was to race at the camp and have the “lunch” right at the camp. The question was raised of whether we have enough water to allow the draft of a J/22.

Spencer commented that he thought the sailing crowd is sort of in the habit of signing up at the last minute and that he thought we’d get 15-20 boats if we held the Cup. In the past it’s been held in May. The Lake George Club doesn’t start up until the end of June, so there’s kind of excitement in May about having an event to open the season. A tentative date of May 21 was brought up, which would coincide with the first day of sailing for Y-Knot.

Curt Leatherbee sent a request asking for help promoting a disabled sailing regatta in Newport, RI, http://www.sailnewport.org/regattas/newportRegatta/, at the start of July. Keith and Mark said they could take two boats down each, for four boats. That would still leave two Martins and the Freedom (No Limit) for use at the camp by Y-Knot’s other program.

Spencer mentioned that Y-Knot now has a Facebook page and that he and Pierre Richard from Montreal both subscribed as friends.

Regarding sailing dates, Markproposed moving our regatta from 9/11-12 to 9/17-18. That weekend though is the Alexanderson Cup, so it’s hard for us to move the event and find an open date before it gets cold in October. We plan to leave the event for 9/11-12. The July 9 date will remainin the schedule, even though some of our most active sailors may be travellingwith some of our boats to Newport, RI.

Regarding new business, Keith Edwards said he’d like to re-register all members of the Y-Knot mailing list. We want to look friendly and sending bulk emails out to people who don’t want to hear from us any more isn’t very friendly. Plus people’s email addresses change, and it’s hard for us to update the list. Spencer proposed replacing the Camp’s list with the Google Group’s list, where people can sign up and unsubscribe on their own. There are 160 people signed up at Google Groups. Spencer offered to merge anyone from the camp’s list into the Google Groups’ list.

Don said Susan Zebriski invited us back to Clayton for 2012 North Country Access.

None of us have heard anything from Nyack so it’s not clear that there’s going to be any event there this spring.

This year’s New York State Governor’s Expo for the Disabled was cancelled. We’re looking for other events to get the word out.

Submitted by Dan Byrnes, 2011-06-14.

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