| Commodore’s Report
By John Pyles
Hello WYC! Well, a great summer has passed and now we
begin the fall and the REAL wind. Thanks to all those who helped out
fixing boats, teaching classes and organizing activities. Welcome to all
new members from summer and autumn quarter! As many of you might have
noticed the Seahawks have moved into Husky Stadium. Despite the disruption
I hope we will have a great autumn quarter and work around the
inconvenience.
In the past few quarters we have made progress in
making lesson signups easier through the web and increasing our
membership. I hope that we can continue this trend and start looking to
other ways we can improve the club. I think topping the list would be
member retention. There are some new faces around the club who have been
helping out a lot, most notably some new fleet captains, assistant fleet
captains and assistant instructors that have been doing a great job. But,
we still lose the majority of our new novice members after a quarter. To
avoid burnout, which I think is one of the club's worst enemies, we need
to try and continue to get novice sailors and new members more active in
the club. I and others have made a number of suggestions of how to do
this. Probably the best way is activities for newer members such as laser
racing and daysails that get them more involved in the club. I again really, really encourage anyone with an idea for an activity
to step forward and run with it. There's a lot of fun stuff we could do to
help get new members involved and make them feel welcome. And, new
members, let those of us who have been around a while know what we can do
to make the
club more fun.
There are a lot of other things going on, come to the
general meetings to find out what's up. Other than that, take a class, go
sailing, take a new member sailing, have fun!
Need to contact the Washington
Yacht Club?
Washington Yacht Club
SB Hub SAO-235
Box No. 352238
Seattle WA 98195
Phone: (206) 543-2219
E-mail: sailing@u.washington.edu
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Learn to fix boats, meet other club members,
keep the club sailing!
WORKPARTIES!
Workparties are Wednesday evenings, 6-8 pm
All quarter!
At the WAC shop
Workparties are for maintenance of our boats, docks,
sails, and other gear. All
members are required to attend
at least one workparty per quarter.
No Experience Necessary! |
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