Meeting place Clubhouse of the Yacht Club
Merenkävjiät on the isle of Särkkä near Helsinki.
Date and Time 23 July 2002 16:50 hours
(after the race of the day)
Presence 25
Owners / Helmsmen from 7 Nations 7
Crewmembers
Apologies Mark Dangel,
Secretary/Treasurer; Sébastien Schmidt, President Tech Comm. Both due to (too)
high cost of mid-week flight rates to Helsinki.
Jonathan
Janson from England.
Ambroise Johnson,
Information Officer, he shall receive a letter of thanks for the brilliant
website he constantly keeps updated.
Substitutes Felix
Meier for Mark Dangel
Matti
Muoniovaara for Séb Schmidt
Teller Felix
Bibus will count the votes.
Agenda 1.
Minutes of AGM 2001
2.
Matters arising of those minutes
3.
Financial report
4.
Technical matters
5.
Racing calendar
6.
Election of officers
7.
Any other business
The Invitation to the Meeting
has been sent to all officers, the Minutes of last years Meeting and Technical
Matters by email or fax a month ago.
All members present received: copies of the above,
the Accounts, copies
of the new Brochure as well as the Finish Metre Class Brochure and the latest
Swiss Class Bulletin.
The Memo “Technical Points to be
discussed” is an additional and separate part of these minutes.
1. Minutes of last years AGM
The minutes of the AGM 10 June
2001 in Flensburg are unanimously accepted
2. Matters
arising out of last year’s minutes
To be discussed
under item 3 and 5. The Chairman explains that item 2.1; our proposal for the
new Advertising Code, has to be sanctioned at this years ISAF November
Meetings.
3.
Financial Report
3.1 Accounts and Balance Sheet as for 2001 are unanimously
accepted.
Bank account as at
31.12.00 CHF 19’085.15
Bank account as at
31.12.01 CHF 28’027.15
-
The total income has almost exactly remained at last year’s level of
approx
CHF
11’500.--
- The increase to CHF 28’000.-- originated
mostly in last years restrained expenses of
only
CHF 2’517.-- vs. CHF 8’278.-- the year before.
-
Higher income from the sale of sail labels (due to increase from 20 to
30 $ introduced as of 1.01.2000 and much higher turnover) has compensated for
countries that have not paid their annual dues.
-
Two countries that have not paid in 2001 Australia and USA. All other
countries have paid (Italy in March 02).
-
Since Great Britain has no longer any active boat, it will be difficult to receive money for 2002.
Remark from the
Chairman: After the meeting, Gordon Ingate
handed over a cheque to cover the Aussies dues.
3.3 Budget for 2002
-
As for the future of the Association’s financial health there will be
quite a few extra payments in the budget for 2002:
Six Replicas of the
WC Trophy; two Half Models as gift for WC-organising clubs; contribution to the
new *Class-Brochure; the Presidents expenses for 01 and 02; assumption
of shortfall of two Nations annual dues.
-
All other income assumptions being constant we have to expect the
Association’s net worth to decline to approx. CHF 16’000.-- from the current
CHF 28’000.--.
-
The Treasurers opinion is that
this decline is digestible because these costs are not of a recurrent nature.
*The Class
Brochure:
To understand the problem of financing the new Class Brochure glance back to 1994, when the last Brochure was made:
Total
costs of CHF 37’000.--: The International
Association contributed CHF 5’000.--; the Swiss Association CHF 10’000.--;
individual Swiss sponsors and advertisement CHF 22’000.--.
The Chairman thinks that it is not correct that almost all burdens for the new brochure (we have not yet received all bills!) should again lie on the shoulders of the Swiss.
He
therefore appoints Felix Bibus to go
around and ask the National Associations Presidents and Individuals for
contributions.
Gavin McKinney analyses the use
of the brochure and proposes, as an additional means for publicity, to contact
International Sailing Magazines for free articles with powerful pictures.
Thanks to Gavin: he will work on appropriate publishers.
The
fees shall be set forth for each year by the annual meeting. In light of the
budget above and because the paying morale has stabilized the Treasurer asks
the assembly to leave all duties at current levels.
- Annual
dues CHF 500.-- per Nation
plus CHF 20.—per boat
- Sail
labels USD 30.--
each
- Entry
Fee CHF 800.-- max for Worlds and Europeans
4. Technical Matters
The Memo
of 27.06.02 by Sébastien Schmidt is to be discussed. From that additional paper:
1. Committee
Members
1.4
Matti believes that Juliane Hempel (he knows her) should remain in the
TC and is asked to contact Séb on the matter.
1.5
This is not correct. The Dutch have nominated Piet van Opzeeland as
member of the TC some time ago.
2. Class
Rules updates
This is an important matter as it
defines the three Categories.
2.1.1
Agreed unanimously; the definition of Tolerance (5) is agreed with 22
votes
2.1.2
No changes in the definition of Evolution Category, 1990 should stay. In
favour: 18, against: 0, abstentions: 1.
2.1.4
Races and ranking: A majority is in favour of only one ranking list.
2.1.5
Sister ships: the TC is asked for a proposal.
2.3.
Mast bending tolerance: agreed with 20 votes, 1 abstention.
2.4.
Jib battens:
the TC is asked to come back with a detailed proposal for next year.
4.
Topics on the desk
We leave them on the desk; the TC will
come up with more information next year.
5. Racing Calendar
5.1 World
Championship 2003: Benodet
as decided last year. Dates:
19 to 24
August SGC*
22 to 24 August French Open
24 to 30 August Worlds
Christian Hauvette, the French President
presents the venue and organisation. The Class has been there for 2 Europeans
and one Worlds twenty years ago. It is a great area and a favourite place amongst all French sailors. A renewed voting is in
favour: 17, against 1, abstention 1.
5.2 Scandinavian Gold Cup*: Jürg Menzi,
winner of this years SGC proposes Lake Thun in Switzerland (the winner of this
cup resp his club has the right to choose place and date of the next venue).
The
advisory voting is in favour of sailing this cup
together with the WC: 17 votes, in favour of Thun 2 votes. Jürg is asked to
think over his proposal.
5.3 World Championship 2004: Sydney was proposed at last years Meeting by Gordon Ingate. As Colin Ryan,
the Aussie’s President is absent; Gordon is
asked to inform him.
The proposal to
race the SGC from 10 to 14 January and the Worlds from 15 to 20 January is not
accepted.
On the condition that
both events can be sailed approx around Christmas to New Year,
19 members vote in
favour of Sydney.
5.4 European Championship 2004: Attersee in Austria; Punta Ala (halfway between
Genoa and Rome) and Torbole, both in Italy, are proposed.
Vote: 4 in favour
of Attersee, 2 for Punta Ala, 17 for Torbole: The Europeans 2004 will be sailed
in Torbole, Lake Garda, Italy.
6. Election of Officers
Since both,
Jonathan Janson, Vicepresident for Europe and Colin Foster, Vicepresident for
Overseas have sold their boats, we must scratch
them from the list.
The President proposes Hans Köster, President of the German
Class Association to be elected as new Vicepresident for Europe. Hans is
elected with acclamation.
7.
Any other business
There’s
being no other business, the meeting ends at 18:40
hours.
4.8.2002 for
the minutes
Felix Meier / Thomas Sprecher