November Fleet Meeting Minutes

[Dylan Spurgin]

November 11th, 2025

7:03 start time

15 members attending

Jim Casto led the meeting with Dom being out this month.

Treasury Report

• Roughly $6200 in the treasury.
• Jim is working on a way to allow new treasurers to access the account.

Upcoming Regattas

• WurstFest Regatta at Canyon Lake Nov 14-16
• Wild Turkey @ AYC Nov 22nd
• Red Eye @ AYC Jan 1st
• Gov Cup @ AYC March 28th

Hill Country Regatta Update

• Race Director Levi Marconette presented details
• Fun Sail is planned for the Friday before the regatta. Experienced fleet members will be there to guide new participants and likely get drone footage
• Chris Reuwsaat handling shirts for the event
• Dylan Spurgin doing trophies - volunteer day will be held a few weeks before the event to help finish trophies
• RC is set and has enough volunteers. Same as last year.
• Still need RC and chase boats.

AustinCats website and branding

• Dylan Spurgin is working with designer on new logo / wordmark for AustinCats to use in merch and on the site
• Dylan Spurgin will begin work on moving the website to a new platform soon

Holiday Party

• Dec 6th at AYC
• Joint party with AYC multi-hull fleet
• Potluck list to be created and sent around "soon"
• December fleet meeting cancelled in lieu of party

2026 Leadership

• Jim Casto brought forth the need to begin gathering names for 2026 positions
• Chris Reuwsaat suggests beginning to post to Instagram and this nets him a communications manager nomination
• Austin volunteers himself as Treasury nominatee
• Need for 2026 membership chair and Fleet Commodore remains
• Vote for new positions to be held at January fleet meeting

US Sailing Multihull Championship

• Terri Kiszer presented her experience in the race this year
• Fleet was Hobie Waves this year
• Terri finished 14th out of 43 boats with one first place finish in race 2!
• Chris Reuwsaat pictures

Soft Shackle Presentation

• Mike Beuerlein gave a short talk on dyneema soft shackles and passed around an example he made to show
• The group discussed possibility of regular presentations at each meeting due to popular demand