Lake Champlain PHRF Meeting Minutes                                                     Date: 11/3/04

Meeting Notes

Present:            Marty Olsen, Gene Cloutier, Brian Dowling, Chris Duley, Tom Morley, John Pylak

Meeting Called to Order at 7:05

• John Pylak requested that the Omnium be included in LCPHRF and that he act as the Omnium representative. 
• Gene made a motion to admit the Omnium
• Chris seconded the motion
• Discussion included questions regarding how LCPHRF would handle the large number of PHRF applications we might face. 
• Can we integrate the Omnium into LCPHRF Championship?
• John will develop a plan and proposal to present to the committee on how to integrate and include the regatta.
• For Motion: Unanimous
• Against Motion: None
• Election of LCPHRF officers for the 2005 season.
• Nominations
• Marty Olsen- Chairman
• Gene Cloutier & Chris Duley- Vice Chair
• Marty Olsen- Secretary
• Gene declined the nomination; felt Chris would add to board with representation from the New York side of the lake.
• Motion to Elect Nominated Members
• Accept- Unanimous
• Opposed- None
• Chris brought up the fact that much of what LCPHRF does appears to most to be a secret society that hides what it does.  There was general agreement that we need to change this.
• Items needed
• When reviewing boats as part of either annual review or a protest, we need to contact all effected boat owners.
• We need to develop a PHRF website-Marty will contact Mark Gardner to develop the site.
• We will post the Minutes and agendas on the website.
• We need to be proactive about charges to the operation of the committee.
• During the next several weeks we will work on site development.
• Winter 2004&2005 Boats for Review
• LCPHRF will review the following boats. Committee members will gather info and present during the next several meetings.
• Wavelength-24            John
• J-24                                    John
• Aerodyne-38                        Tabled due to Lightning strike
• Ericson-33                        Chris
• Tarton-3000                        Gene
• C&C-99                        Gene
• J-105                                    John
• Olsen-30                        John
• Pearson-37                        Brian & Tom
• Melges-24                        Brian & Tom
• We need empirical data, member input, and cross analysis between boats within the fleets.
• We need to check the website info against the PHRF ratings used by clubs.  Marty will get in touch with Al Ouellette and Bette Reuter to check info.
• The next meeting to be held in Plattsburgh on December 13^th at 7:00 or 7:30.  Date and time to be confirmed via email. 
• 104 Cooper Drive, Plattsburgh
• Motion to Adjourn- 8:44