Present: Richard Carrey, Michele Felder, Steve Wallace, Henrik Kolding, Joe Shieh
start 19:45pm, Residents Club
Date: November 2nd 2005
1. Regatta Review
- Prizes (antique style instruments) looked great. Would be better to have class and place engraved on
- Cavern was a good venue for the party, outside space very good, great deal on food + show ($200). Drinks expensive
- Doing kit bags the day before handout made it easier
- Must get more small / medium shirts
- We sold half the stock of spray jackets
- Kit was very good quality
- Catering was very good, especially Philippe, and having sandwhiches both days. Res Club needed to refill the buffet more
- We overlooked getting a photographer for prizes. Res Club helped, but result was not too good
- Is it possible to include the price of the prize giving dinner next year?
- Must put out results for review before prize giving
- Need to start racing quicker - have boat boys set course whilst briefing
- RO needs more preparation on choosing course - get more advice from Awah
- Volunteers need more practice on timing
- Safety was very good
- FH bouys were hard to see
- Must get bigger flags and green flag for port rounding
- Trimarans were ok, though a bit slow at finishing
- stickers were a problem - DB too big and peeled off very quickly
- HKR should do more at the even if they want to use the publicity
2. Lloyds TSB want to sponsor the club more through the year. Ideas :
- sponsor Cheung Chau Challenge
- new sails for some boats, with their logo
- series with special skills, more fun stuff to get more people there
- pay for some of the hut and put their sign up
- sponsor an open day
3.Xmas Ball
- $600 per person, Ladies Recreation Club, 3rd Dec
- want 120 people. 10 tickets given to each committee member to sell
- Offer free to Philippe, Bo, Kevin, FH, Awah
- Should we have mahjong?
- Venue has little room for a band
4. Round the island race
- 13th Nov. Awah to help us go over on Sat 12th. Leave noon
5. Training
- Need to finalise accounting to make sure everyone who attended paid - SW, NK
- The standard of people of the advanced course was too low
- Should focus on intermediate next time, give that course the best dates
- Committee needs to spend more time with brian, we left him on his own a bit too much this year
- We will invite Brian back for Oct 2006
6. Club house
- Steve to go to lands Dept to look for a lease. We pay rates, so there should be something on file
- RC + Joe to meet Ken Woodhouse from HKR next Thurs to talk about regatta - talk about hut as well
- We have about $340K in the bank(last year had about $260K). Could spend about $250K on new hut
- We should ask at AGM for the right to charge up to $1000 per boat extra fee for hut. Actual amount to be decided before bill goes out in Dec
7. Trolleys
- Need big rivets to fix cups (donated by Steve) to one set. After that we have enough
8. AGM
- Should delay to 26th Nov, to give time to get hut related presentation ready. Might also have news from Lloyds by then as well
- Should invite the canoe section to attend future committee meetings, rather than full committee place
Finished 9:45
