NBA Committee Notes
at 11.15.2009
From the NBA Committee meeting at the Open/Jr Nationals at Spring Lake: The 2010 Open and Junior Nationals will be at Glen Lake MI on 20-22 July. Overseeing the event will be the 2010 NBA Commodore, Glen Lake's Vic Peirce (yes, his last name is really spelled that way). Also planned for 2010 is a complete online registration system that will allow sailors to enter one or both of the NBA events and pay online. The system will also allow the NBA to manage members' email and physical addresses, as well as sail numbers. The NBA will also be sending out email newsletters on a regular basis, to everyone who provided a readable eamil address on their regatta entry forms over the last two years.
The class will also be establishing a tax-deductible foundation to help support Butterfly activity and development of youth sailing programs.
The builder, Windward Boatworks, reassured the NBA Committee that the parts supply problems of the past couple years that have kept sailors on shore will soon be solved. An unfortunate issue that has come up, partially as a result of the parts supply problems, is that there are now some class rules issues that will have to be watched more closely, perhaps even requiring an equipment check at events. This has been in the Sailing Instructions of the NBA events for the past two years, but the class has not yet acted. One issue currently being considered for implementation in 2010 is a new Black Band on the mast to control how low on the mast the boom can be set.
