Hoofer Keelboat Committee Meeting, Thursday, July 9, 2009, 8:30pm, The Wisconsin Union (Summer Quarter 2009)

[Watson]

This meeting is open to all persons interested in Hoofer Sailing Club
Keelboats. No Ratings or Experience Required!

KEELBOAT COMMITTEE MEETING - THURSDAY 8:30 PM (July 9) - in the HOOFER
LOUNGE
Matt announced Dan Siedlecki's appointment as the "Captain of the
Heavy
Keelboat Fleet" to the BOC last night, so I guess it's official. Dan's
first order of business, is to call a meeting for all interested
Keelboat
sailors to participate in an organizational meeting on Thursday night
at
8:30. If the lounge is in use, we'll post a sign to where we're
meeting.
Dan would appreciate it if you could get the word out to everyone who
might
be interested.
DAN'S AGENDA:

1. New Organizational Positions and Responsibilities
2. Selection of Volunteers for Chief Engineers for each Keelboat
3. Discussion of Key Goals for the Keelboat Fleet for the next fiscal
year
4. Open opportunity to voice concerns and affect a positive solution
to
problems currently facing the keelboat fleet

Dan will try to flesh the agenda out prior to the meeting and be more
specific, but thought it would be important to try and give everyone
as much
advance notice as possible. Hopefully, we'll get good turnout.

FREE PARKING IN LOT 34:
http://www.map.wisc.edu/?initObj=prk_34&z=70&x=-0.183585&y=-0.081754

[Watson]

Hello Sailors:

A Subject for Thursday's Keelboat Committee Meeting: Separate One
Sailing Club Into Three

Perhaps it is time for an organizational "refit" after 27 years of the
Hoofer Keelboat Fleet inside the Hoofer Sailing Club --a natural
result of tremendous growth of assets and persons since 1982. In a
sincere effort to effect positive change that endures, and which is
not just an annual Kumbaya, I would like to broach the topic of
establishing a separate, Volunteer-Member-managed Hoofer Keelboat Club
at the Wisconsin Union. It would operate cooperatively, yet
independently, alongside a separate, Wisconsin Union Employee-managed
Hoofer Dinghy Club; and a separate, Team-Member-managed Wisco Sailing
Team. There is no longer good reason to keep these three unified
administratively at the Wisconsin Union.

Separation of one sailing club very similar to Hoofers into three
sailing clubs has been done elsewhere to great success. The University
of California-Berkeley Sailing Club split nearly 40 years ago into its
three realistic subunits (dinghy school, sailing team, recreational
sailors) on the same site, leading to success for all over 4 ensuing
decades, rather than repeated political conflict that looked alot like
Hoofers today. Hoofer Sailors should explore this option over the
remainder of Summer 2009 and consider presenting it by written
petition to Wisconsin Union Director Mark Guthier and Wisconsin Union
Council to support to solve these issues with their leadership.

Read the example of the successful split at Cal Sailing Club here:
http://cal-sailing.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=22

Michael Watson, J.D.
Hoofer Volunteer Teacher (in a year without so much nasty politics)

*Please post responses to this thread, as the deliberative thoughts of
each person should be open for all to weigh and consider.