British International 420 Class Association

 

Minutes of the National Management Committee

meeting held at Grafham Water SC

at 6.00 pm on Saturday, 11th  November,  2006

 

 

1.         Present: Charles Ainsworth, Peter Gray, Geoff Lennon, Peter Saxton and Carla Stanley (in the Chair)

 

2          Apologies: Tani Bassadone, Lesley Bannister, Olly Dix, Geoff Kimber, Steve Strong, Chris Macgregor

 

3.         Minutes

 

The minutes of the meeting held on were approved

 

4.         Matters Arising

 

            (i).        Event Reports – previous items 5,6,7

            These have been written and sent to Y&Y but not published yet

 

            (ii).       Sailors’ Reports - item 10.5

            Limited success

           

(iii)       Worlds Team Update - previous item 8

PS keeping team in touch by email.

All funds are going through the Class bank account

Mark Rushall has been appointed and paid for by the team as the second coach.

RYA has provided a weekend’s training to team by inviting them to join the YS weekend 18 – 19th November.

RYA have given grants to all the boys and mixed teams and the top two youth girl boats. Class appreciates this input from the RYA.

The managers for the event are Jim Macgregor, Andy Foskett and Saron Rusden, and the various duties have been divided between the parents going to the event. 

SLAM has offered to supply World’s Team gear at a substantial discount. The Class would like to thank Chris Trainor (Joe Williams’ uncle) for securing and organising the deal.

 

4.         Trailer tyres

 

On hold

 

5.         RYA meeting – previous item 18

 

Chairman and RYA Youth Manager have agreed to meet after the Worlds to discuss events and dates next year.

 

Chairman has also been informed that two YS boats have been suspended from training pending some discussion about their involvement in the RYA programme. It is hoped that this will be sorted shortly, and the boats concerned have been told they may attend the joint worlds YS training in November.

 

Chairman is going to RYA house to a Jury meeting on 17 Nov 2006.

 

6.         International events.

 

Deferred to next meeting

 

7.         Sailboat

 

Charles has booked a stand.

Peter Gray and the rest of the Sailors’ Committee are to recruit sailors to man the stands.  IT training will exclude some sailors that weekend. Saxtons will provide four volunteers for Saturday afternoon.

Carla to find some video for Charles.

 

 

6.              Sailing Secretary’s Report

7.               

            Online entry seems to be working

            Nationals venues 2008 - ? Penzance

Inlands feedback. Sailors liked PRO Adrian Stoggal and have said what a good job he did at such a tricky venue

Travellers – seems to be going well. Itchenor 9 boats

Dates for Selectors – 27-28 April, 2007   HISC

                                                4, 5, 6 May, 2007  Poole        

Deliberately having Selectors after the Youths so that sailors who still have a 420 can come back from 29ers.

Plan a summer mini-series in June and July for those not wanting to go to Europe.

 

7.         Training Officer’s Report

 

HISC training – enthusiastic, but small team of inexperienced sailors. HISC had no problems and are happy to have us again.

Positive feedback about event and coaches, particularly Callum. Sam Carter was unable to do the last day.

Future training: Online entries coming in for December

It was agreed that we would run a camp in the summer at HISC, probably the first week of state school holidays, i.e. from 24 July.

A coach would be approached to lead it, and some students would be around to help.

Irish may be interested in helping. Tom Mapplebeck is their coach.

Charles to do provisional bookings

         

    8.     Treasurer’s Report

 

            Bank mandate finally sorted. Treasurer to add outline accounts to minutes.

 

    9.     Technical Officer’s Report

 

            Tani not happy about late notification about changes to the bridle.

            Don O’Donnell running Measurers’ Course. 

 

    10.   ET

 

Richard Stanley went to WPNSA to collect ET and found it was not where Nigel Ellis and Olly Dix had left it.

It had been used despite the keys not being with it. The wheel clamp had been moved to the spare wheel, the brakes had been left on and its lighting board was missing.  It is now in a container going to NZ for worlds.

Rob Andrews was very helpful in trying to sort it out, but nobody is able to tell us who the mystery user was. Rob has offered two more sets of keys for her and the Stanley’s have the new cover.

In future she will be kept at either IBI compound or in Oxford.

 

 

   10.    Sailors’ Committee

 

Peter is having difficulty getting much support from his Sailors Committee. He will try and secure some Traveller Series sponsorship and seek out the sailors’ views on medals and trophies.

 

  11.     Publicity

 

Jan Lasko has been writing up our events and steadily putting them out and hopefully raising our profile. .

 

 

  12.     Any other business

 

Charles raised the issue for Class jackets, and we are going to talk to SLAM about it.

   

 

13.       Date of Next Meeting

 

Possibly in February at Open Training weekend. ? to be confirmed.