Present:

SOD, Lee Cushman

Webster, Bill Sheridan, Steve Seal & Daniel Heald

Cardremian, Rich Miller (with Cookies Thanks Cheryl)

New Boat, Dave Sadecki

Fleur De Lis, GT

Tachy Fleet, Greg Hopkins (both boats vote for season)

Pleionie II, Geff Slaff

Cherry Bomb, Jane Barret, Tom Wright & Kevin Dumain,

Lisianthus, Helene Webb (holding Morgan’s vote for the evening)

Whoa Donkey, Jeff Mikeska.

Fleet Board for 2024 volunteers

Lee Cushman, Trey Pinner, Bill Sheridan, Kevin Dumain & Greg Hopkins

Fleet Officers

• Fleet Captain: Lee, and Trey unless someone wants the job. This will be the last year for LEE. Trey is open to transition Into Fleet Captain for next Year.
• Fleet Secretary: Bill Sheridan
• Fleet Treasurer: Rich Miller
• Fleet Measurer: Kevin & GT
• Web Master: JJ

Need volunteer’s liaison between Class and Fleet to keep the Fleet Informed re: H20 class business including the following topics.

Greg Hopkins to Replace Rich Miller

• Membership
• Boat Specifications and Manufacture Updates
• E-W Regatta Updates
• Nationals Spring 2025 in Newport Beach

Need to discuss replacement of LEE and RICH (Greg Hopkins to Replace Rich Miller)

Looking Ahead to 2025- On the Water Fun Assignments

• Singlehanded Race Liaison (combined w/ Charity Regatta) Lee
• SBYC Doublehanded race, need Liaison Geoff Slaff

• Miramar Liaison Trey and Lee Dave suggested inviting Cruising fleet and they could handle finish Leg 1 and Start Leg2 – however there were dissenting opinions on advisability of other fleets participating
• 2026 E-W Race Liaison (Lee & Geoff) Does SB fleet4 want to do this?

Lots of discussion fleet agreed to get 16 + boats available with condition of Owners rep onboard and availability of committee boat to tow a few boats that have engine issues from time to time.

• N-S in Santa Barbara Coincide with Fiesta Regatta Rich will contact fleet1 to see if there is interest. (Rich)
• Coed Race Liaison SBSC (John Kavanagh Kevin )
• SBYC Invitational Regatta’s (Centennial, Commodores, *Women’s)

Commitment from fleet for donating Boats to all three (Trey)

• H20 Fleet Race Committee duty, Saturday June 8^th, Spring Regatta LEE
• North Sails- Dock and on water training/seminar Do we want to do this? Fleet Responded yes Lee to Reach out to North
• CHRF Racing Helene
• Championship Series Races Lee & Trey
• Single Handed once a week or month fun race, Thursday or Friday afternoon, during summer. Fleet interested Non Spinnaker Helene
• Nationals In Newport Beach March 20-22 Thursday- Friday

Looking Ahead to 2024 – Off the Water Goals

• Treasure report Balance $ Rich via email (done).
• Fleet and class Membership Rich via email (done).
• Continue/schedule Rules Seminars Lee.
• Schedule a Fleet Party, location? Greg will talk with Wayne.
• Kris le Mert Volunteered to help with event organization Party, N-S, E-W etc.
• Pursue modification to improve rating for H20s Discussion: Bill S and Rich had put some work into this, and some had just recently got their PHRF Cert.
• Promote H20 Fleet 4 : ALL Members.
• Measure all Boats: Kevin  & GT hit list.  Lee or Rich to get Measure Spread sheet from Fleet 1 measurer.
• Fleet Meeting Frequency: Minimum of Quarterly or one every two months if needed.

• New Business
  • Recognized as unlikely to change given rules that Brad has to follow for the fleets with larger boats.
  • Discussion on how to increase H20 fleet participation in Regattas. No overall agreement was reached but the notion of starting later so that there was enough wind to race got general support.

H20 FLEET 4

Members present: SOD, Windseeker, Liasianthus, CherryBomb (Kevin),

          Fleur De lis

Welcome to Fleet4: Eric & Joanna Sachs new boat to arrive shortly.

 Approved Fleet meeting minutes 02/08/24

Treasure Report (Rich Miller) : no report

Class Update Lee and Rich

• Boat Specifications and Manufacture Updates
• E-W Regatta Updates (see Below)
• Nationals Spring 2025 (March 20-22, 2025) in Newport Beach
• Need to discuss replacement of LEE and RICH

Old Business

• Mast genie fleet purchase? Trey to follow up
• Weigh in boats Check Rake to fit with in Class Parameter? GT to follow up
• H20 fleet trailer Talk with Bill Hahn about Fleet helping with expenses. SBSC request to store a Trailor (Morgan and John to follow up)

  John Kavanagh  update

• At this time, SBSC is uncertain whether there is space available—they will know better in a week (after a new trimeran is added to yard).
  • – Rental fee is based on size (length x width).  Rough estimate would be about $1200/year.
  • – Would require SBSC member to sign lease (could be Devin or me)
  • – Would require insurance on trailer

2024- On the Water Fun

• H20 Fleet Race Committee duty, Saturday June 8th? Thanks to Remy, Joe, Bill Hahn, Rich, Greg for volunteering
• SBYC Invitational Regatta’s (Commodores June 28th, *Women’s)

Commitment from fleet for donating Boats. Liaison

Trey putting together list for Commodores Regatta

• SBSC Doublehanded race, July 7^th, LiaisonJeff Miska
• Fiesta Regatta July 20 & 21^st
• SBSC Coed Race Liaison August 3^rd Liaison John Kavanaugh
• N-S in Newport Beach Aug 16 &17^th Liaison Rich no report
• E-W Race in Annapolis Sept. 6-8^th Liaison Geoff no report
• Singlehanded Race Sept.7^th (combined w/ Charity Regatta) Lee
• Miramar Sept.21^st Liaison Trey “reported he has secured a committee boat”
• SBYC Fall Regatta Oct.5^th
• Staff Regatta October 17^th Liaison Geoff no report
• SBSC Goblin Regatta Oct. 26^th Saturday only
• SBYC Doublehanded race, Nov.9^th, LiaisonGeoff no report
• SBYC Holiday Regatta Dec 7^th Saturday only
• Once a week or month fun race, Thursday or Friday afternoon, during summer. Brad has offered to run races for us on Fridays from the SBYC deck. Liaison Steve Seals no report

Wilmont Hughes Ladies Race, Brad said he would have a class for Harbor20 if we get 4 boats on the line next year

2024 – Off the Water

• Continue/schedule Rules Seminars Lee
• Schedule a Fleet Party, HOST Bill Sheridan no report
• Pursue modification to improve rating for H20s Rich Miller & Bill Sheridan no report
• Promote H20 Fleet (Pebble Beach Yacht Club visit to SB) HELENE

END

VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING

Fleet 4 Harbor-20 Fleet Meeting Minutes

17 June 2021

Attendees:

2020 Long Term Proxies:

YACHT	OWNER	PROXY
TachyToo	Wayne Rosing	Greg Hopkins

One Time Proxies:

YACHT	OWNER	PROXY
Pleione II	Geoffrey Slaff	Lee Cushman

Organizational

• Call to Order: 5:30

• Approve May Meeting minutes:

• Geoff to provide the treasury report: Geoff was not in attendance. Lee Reported no change from May

• Rich report on National Class News:

• Do we have a quorum? No

Old Business (Carried over from May 20 2021 Minutes)

• Trophies

Provide trophies for the 2020 Fleet 4 Single-Handed and Double-Handed champions.  (Lee Single Handed, Jeff double Handed)  Action: To Be Continued (TBC) to provide trophies

• Chalk Talk

RULES by Brad Schaupeter 6/17 Update Brad Not Availible 6/19 Action: Bill Hahn

Bill Will follow up with Brad for perspective Dates

• End of year Party. Rich Miller Hosting 6/19 5:00pm

6/17 Update Invite crew and potential new members. Group Discussed Following up with prospective new Owners and current crew to invite to party and give numbers to Rich

• Sails

Continued discussion of pursuing better Sails for our fleet. Parameters that the Group has general agreement on is price, viewed as initial cost and longevity and the ability for all fleet members to trim sails. Bill Hahn, Lee, have volunteered and those present agreed that Rick Yabsley would be able to offer good input as he has done a lot of research. 6/17 update Fleet 1 looking at North sails, Lee spoke with Rick mildly interested Action: Lee to follow up with Fleet 1, Lee mentioned that Fleet1 was currently undergoing same process and would check into see what progress they had made. Rich mention that their sail requirements will likely vary from our as we sail in different Conditions.

• Safety Equipment

Lee reported that Geoff Slaff has almost completed the task of creating a Fleet 4 suggested safety equipment list. Jeff to Lead Discussion Jeff had unexpected family matters to attend to.

• Interested Potential H20 Boat owners.

Trey Pinner (current J-70 owner) Lee, Jane & Tom following up with him. Lee had Trey Pinner and his wife Nancy out on CHRF race, Trey was on the helm, Nancy crewed.

Tony Papa is interested: anyone who has the opportunity is encouraged to follow up. Lee Followed up with Tony in person and invited him to sail a CHRF. Tony followed up with a text saying that he was interested but now is not the timing as he was three boats that he and his son are involved with. He would keep in touch.

Jeff Mikeska is interested and is trying to find a slip before proceeding with purchase: anyone with a lead should get in touch with him.

Al Salzer is looking for a partner. Post meeting addition to notes GT has taken al up and will be Campaigning Fleur.

• National Class Roster

Send Fleet 4 roster to National Class Captain Gary Thorne. Action Greg & JJ

New Business

• Seashell Fleet Request to take some skippers out for a sail. Discussion action Item Lee.

On The Water

• Fiesta Cup Saturday & Sunday July 24 & 25( Fleet Championship Race)

• Miramar Anchor Down Race Saturday July 31 ( change to September 25^th Rick & Nina Yabsley to coordinate)

• SBSC Co-Ed Race Saturday August 7

Rich Suggested adding this race to our Fun race Calendar.  3 race series, all three crew take turns

• Bugay/H20 Single handed championship Sunday September 12

Action: TBC to organize finish

• East/West in Newport 1^st weekend October (Attendance Rich is coordinating with Gary of Fleet1)

• H20 Double handed championship Saturday November 20

Adjournment

Next meeting (In Person at SBYC)

Thursday, August 19, 2021 1730 (5:30 p.m.)

END

VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING

Fleet 4 Harbor-20 Fleet Meeting Minutes

22 October 2020

Attendees:

Rich Miller, Morgan Green, John Jeffryes, Lee Cushman     

2020 Long Term Proxies:

      YACHT                            OWNER                                      PROXY

Fleur de Lis                           Al Salzer                                Billy Bench

TachyToo                              Wayne Rosing                      Greg Hopkins

One Time Proxies:

      YACHT                             OWNER                                         PROXY

Pleione II                               Geoff Slaff                            Rich Miller (attached below)

Call to Order: 5:40 p.m.

Old Business & Action Items

1. 2021 Party:

Rich said that he and Cheryl are up for putting on the party.  Rich took the action to come back with a suggested date.

2.  Hiking Rule:

Lee suggested Morgan to come up with a proposal for a bylaw change to vote on for the next meeting. Morgan’s research led to her suggestion that we eliminate the Fleet 4 hiking allowances and revert to the basic Class rules. Morgan read parts of the Class rules and all parties discussed. Morgan took the action to draft up a proposition to vote on, and immediately followed up with the suggestion to remove the Fleet 4 hiking exception, Rule I.4 (attached below).

>>> VOTE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT MEETING.

3. Invoking Class Rules:

Morgan asked how our Class rules and Bylaws are normally invoked. Rich stated that he already had the action to discuss with Brad the membership rules and would also discuss how Class and Fleet 4 bylaws are brought into play for various regattas. Discussion followed on various paragraphs of the Bylaws that would be impacted. Morgan and Rich and others present with Lee summarizing, agreed that the best approach for now and for voting into the Bylaws at the next meeting would be: All Fleet 4 Harbor 20 one-design races in Santa Barbara County will be Class races with Fleet 4 Bylaws applicable.

>>> Rich and Morgan took the action to fine tune these words and forward to Lee.

>>> VOTE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT MEETING.

4. Single-Handed and Double-Handed Champions:

Lee suggested and there was general agreement that Fleet 4 should have two annual awards: one for the Fleet Single-Handed Champion and one for the Fleet Double-Handed Champion. These might be awarded to the Harbor 20 winner of the SBSC Bugay Single-Handed Race, and the SBYC Double-Handed Short-Handed Regatta. Specifics to be discussed in the future.

5.  North Sails: Lee suggested that Wayne be asked to take the sample North main and jib out of circulation for all racing events until fleet accepts change. If Wayne is agreeable Fleet members could try sails if desired in non-racing conditions or CHRF races. The report on these north sails is they are better shape and could be more economical as life span could be longer.  Action: Lee to discuss with Wayne.

>>> Next meeting:  Thursday, November 19^th 2020 5:30 pm.

Meeting Adjourned 1830.

END (of Minutes)

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One Time Proxy:

Re: Fleet 4 Agenda for Thursday

Geoffrey Slaff	Tue, Oct 13, 1:58 PM
to JJ, Lee, Morgan

Hello,

I will not be at the fleet meeting since I need to cover the class meeting which is at the same time. There is no change in treasurer’s report from last meeting. I wasn’t planning on sending a new spreadsheet since there is no change so please let me know if you would like me to do so. 

Rich Miller has my proxy.

All the best,

Geoffrey Slaff
gfslaff@gmail.com
Cell: 805-796-3100

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Bylaw Proposal:

Morgan Green Email on Hiking Rule Proposal:

proposed modification to Fleet Four bylaws

Inbox

morgan green	Thurs. 22 Oct. 2020, 6:21 PM
to Lee, JJ

As we discussed at the meeting and as you requested:

 I propose:

We revoke Fleet Four bylaw I.3, which states: ” All crew shall keep their hips within the confines of the cockpit at all times excepting the need for immediate repair or safety.”

This revocation would mean Fleet Four would revert to the existing Harbor 20 Class Association rule which states:

II.C.4. Hiking is not permitted. All crew shall keep their torsos within the confines of the cockpit at all times, excepting in the need for immediate repair or safety.

Please let me know if you need anything further on this.  Seeya on the water this Saturday. Morgan

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