Stardate:  October 23, 2004

Place:  Lake Union Sea Ray

THANX TO LAKE UNION SEA RAY

The hospitality of the nice people at Lake Union can only be measured in huge quantums.  They not only make their show room available for our meeting, they supplied a beautiful buffet of HDO's.  Truly a good time was had by all.

For our members who didn't have the opportunity to attend the meeting WE MISSED YOU.  As always it's fun to see all our cruising friends even if it is on dry land.

WHO couldn't notice the great packets handed out to the membership at the meeting?  They didn't drop out of the sky.  Many thanx to Karen Ashley for hours of hard work producing the documents and stuffing packets.  It made this meeting run smoother than ever before.

NEW BURGEES

Like we didn't need them.  Most of our burgees flying or should I say faded, drooping and tattered were in desperate need of replacement.  Our burgee supply had dwindled to a huge inventory of 2.  Did we run it close or what?  The burgee committee has been at work on the design and there have been many.  Many were scrapped.  The prime objective of the committee was to design a burgee that was unique and could be viewed clearly at 100 yards. 

The club reviewed the mock up of the new burgee; a majority vote was cast to accept the new design.  The order is going in and new burgees will be available soon.

DUES

Since we have the expense of the new burgees a new dues amount was voted and accepted for THIS YEAR ONLY.  The dues for this year will be $100 this includes your membership and a new burgee.  Next year the dues will return to the usual amount.  Of course, your dues can be paid to Nancy Catalano at the Christmas Party or by mail.  Make checks payable to SRCCNW.

Nancy's address can be found in the roster.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Treasurers Report

Treasurer Nancy Catalano reviewed the printed report with the membership.  For those who couldn't attend and do want to see the report contact Nancy.  We are solvent if you are wondering.  As our commodore Jim Hobbs said he would like to have Nancy hold his check book.  She is tenacious, she questions everything and you don't get a penny unless you have a receipt.  We love you NANCY.

Budget Report

As you review the cruise schedule you will find we have reduced the number of cruises this season to 9 hosted cruises.  By reducing the number of cruises we can increase the allotment given to cruise captains.  For the coming year the 3 day weekend cruise captain allotment will be increased to $300 and 4 day holiday cruises increased to $400.

Website

Mark Daymond-webmaster

Surprise, there are a lot of people visiting our site.  About 3,000 according to Mark.  To date we have over 500 pictures in our album. 

Many thanx to Mark for making this valuable communication available to the club and for the hours of time he puts in updating the site.  As we discussed in the year end meeting the website saves the club at least $1,500 in postage and printing for the newsletter alone. That savings is passed on to the membership in increased cruise allotments. Now we have a picture album that is ongoing. 

Coming soon to the website.  Jim Hobbs has volunteered to be the new TECHNICAL OFFICER.  He has an extensive mechanical background.  There will be a venue where members can present questions relating to mechanical issues with our Sea Rays, Jim will research the problem and get back to the member with a solution.  Do we have it all or what!

NOTE BOARD
Discussion regarding a note board on the website for members to post info to the general membership.  This will work great for small groups getting together for cruises that are not sponsored by the club.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

Results:
Commodore - Dave Parry
Vice Commodore - Karen Ashley
Secretary - Debi Freund
Treasurer - Nancy Catalano
Roving Reporter - Glenn Moller
Webmaster - Mark Daymond
Assistant to Webmaster - Bill Ruddick
Technical Officer - Jim Hobbs
Communications Officer - Augie Catalano

THANX A BUNCH
A big thank you to our outgoing officers and congrats to the incoming slate.  As Jim Hobbs has said so often this is PLEASURE BOATING lets not turn it into something else. 

It is the goal of the officers to make each cruise a pleasure for every member.  What goes on behind the scenes to make this club function would surprise the general membership.  The officers and cruise captains are always there to take a phone call or unsnarl slip reservations.  These people spend countless hours on the phone and email to ensure everything goes smoothly.  As pleasure boating becomes more popular every year, the challenge to find guest marina space for our growing membership also grows.  We average between 17 and 22 boats at cruises. That number most definitely impacts small marinas. 


ROSTER

All members attending the meeting were asked to review the roster and make corrections so the roster will be accurate and up to date.  You can view and print the roster from the website.  It does require a password.  Call or email any of the officers for the password.

If you find incorrect phone numbers or addresses please notify us as soon as possible.


CRUISE CALENDAR FOR 2005

The cruises you see on the calendar are the club supported cruises, BUT!

WE love to go boating and there will be impromptu unhosted cruises throughout the cruising season.  Check the NOTE BOARD and your email.

APRIL 15 - 17
BROWNSVILLE - Bob and Heidi Vettleson, Cruise Captains

MAY 27 - 30 -- MEMORIAL DAY
PLEASANT HARBOR - Bill and Karie Ruddick, Cruise Captains

JUNE 17 - 19
PORT LUDLOW - Mark and Suzanne Daymond, Cruise Captains

JULY 1 - 5 -- 4TH  OF JULY WEEKEND
ELLIOTT BAY MARINA - Phil and Debi Freund, Cruise Captains