February 12, 2012
We had a meeting of Mutineer owners and loyal friends on Sunday afternoon to accept our Fleet #2 Charter (see attachment) and plan for the upcoming year. Here are some of the things we decided:
To accepted the Fleet #2 Charter, see Charter here.
We elected officers and appointed the Racing Chairman.
We agreed to race on Sundays so as not to conflict with GSC Keel Boat and Catamaran
racing on Saturdays, to allow new sails, to limit Spinnakers for 2012.
(but to encourage everyone to sail Spinnaker next year).
To fly Ernie
and Carol French in for a Mutineer Racing Seminar on Memorial Day
weekend. We agreed the racing seminar is open to any boat and crew who will contribute and drag their Mutineer 15 to Grapevine, TX.
It's great to see the enthusiasm in our group and work together to get things moving forward.
Seriously, if anyone wants to join the seminar just let me know by email.
Greg
Link to February 12, 2012 meeting minutes here.
January 24, 2012
Hi Greg,
The Executive Committee has approved your request to be granted an MCA fleet charter for Fleet #2 at Grapevine, Tx.
Congratulations
to you and Chad for forming a sizable fleet within a few months of MNC
2011. And, no, I did not expect that having MNC 2011 at Grapevine
would create sufficient enthusiasm to generate a fleet so quickly. But,
one of the reasons the class moves the nationals around the country and
to new venues when possible is to expose
sailors and non-sailors to the Mutineer and the people who sail it. I
think both the boat and the Mutt sailors sell themselves (mostly the
sailors), but maybe I'm somewhat prejudiced.
Your
planned racing series and sailing lessons sounds like a great start for
Fleet #2. Let the EC know if there is anything we can do to help your
fleet progress.
Fair Winds
Bob
Commodore, Mutineer Class Association
January 20, 2012
We had our first
official meeting of Mutineer owners here in Grapevine Texas this past
Saturday. We have identified 10 Mutineer owners who all want to start
racing here this spring and help form a new fleet. I am writing to notify
the current MCA board members that we would like to request a fleet designation
for Grapevine, Texas. Please reassign and rename the old Fleet #2 Dallas,
Texas to Fleet #2 Grapevine, TX. As you will see below we already have a
significant commitment and we are all ready to get started.
I would say our first
meeting was a success. Seven of our ten Mutineer owners showed up at the
lake for an informal gathering and to talk about what we would like to do this
year. Four of the owners showed up with their boats and even though we
didn't sail everyone had fun looking at the differences in the boats and how
they were rigged. Several other sailors stopped by to ask questions and
are talking about finding a boat of their own.
At least five or six of
our owners are first year skippers who will be learning to sail and race their
Mutineers this summer. We are planning a schedule for three Sunday series
events, spring, summer and fall. Four afternoons for spring series, eight
for summer and six for fall. If everything is going well we will try to get two
races off each day. Our goal is to have everyone doing well enough by the
end of the year that we can ad spinnakers next year.
We are planning to
answer questions and help everyone improve after every race. I have some
old learn to sail and race VCR tapes that we are going to convert to digital
and that should help too. Next time we meet we will also start to set up
the new fleet rules and try to restrict new sail purchases etc. so we don't
have a few owners trying to our money everyone else.
Did you imagine that bringing the Mutineer
Nationals to Grapevine would create a new fleet of excited Mutineer sailors?
Here are the names and emails Grapevine sailors
who are also MCA members and will act as the founding members of The Grapevine,
TX Mutineer Fleet #2.
chad@conceptfulfillment.com ChadHarris
togregsmail@gmail.com
Greg Reed
jeremy.d.polk@gmail.com Jeremy Polk
ra88pk@gmail.com
Peter Arnold
uwehale@gmail.com
Uwe Hale
Let me know if there is anything else we need to
do.
Greg
