Safety At Sea - Agendas and Minutes - 3/17/2007 Minutes
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The agenda was emailed to us with the news of Alan McMillan's illness and surgery. We were Welcome by Sheila McCurdy who expanded on Alan's inability to attend the meeting due to illness. We were all very grateful to hear that Alan had done well with the surgery and was on his way to recovery. Telephone sign-ins were accepted at this time. We all expect Alan to be addressing us at the next meeting, looking quite well! Sheila McCurdy
stepped in to chair the meeting. b. Paul Miller: Submit to ISAF Special Regulations Committee revised 3.08.2 (see attached). Hatch rule previously written poorly and was ambiguous. Many boats now unable to pass with offset hatches and lockers that open to hull. Discussed the 110 sq in rule for portlights and we decided no change needed and to apply same opening limit to offset hatches, limiting them to 2. With revised wording motion passed. c. Stan Honey: Submit to ISAF Special Regulations Committee revised 4.28.2 (see attached). Submission of a new regulation for a required Man Overboard Button near the helmsman. This to increase the probability of rescue at see of overboard crew. Current rule in Cat 1 only for an alarm. Discussed that by 2012 a MOB button be placed at the helm and attached to the navigation equipment. With discussion we expanded this idea to Cat 2 also. Motion passed. d. Glenn McCarthy: Submit to ISAF Special Regulations Committee revised 3.14.6c (see attached). Discussion of Lifeline lanyards to be replaced at least yearly. Discussed. Motion passed as worded. e. Skip Allen: Submit to ISAF Special Regulations Committee to delete 5.02.5a. This to get rid of 2 conflicting rule statements in the regulations; one that says “shall” and one that says “may.” The deletion removes the recommendation that is already a regulation about having taught lifelines and harness attachments. This passed with little discussion. We also discussed that is ISAF did not pass the above changes we would then make them US prescriptions to the regulations. 4) We then moved on to item 2 in the agenda: Bill Stumps drafted Terms of Reference for the SASC were not available We reviewed term limits: discussed rejoining if asked, getting a mix of people involved, we have technical memberships to cover areas of need. We also discussed a change to allow the use of “electronic” meetings. Sheila promoted the idea of term limit for chairmanship to limit power but not membership. No firm action was adopted. 5) We then skipped to item 4 to ask Paul Miller about the change in Hanson Award leadership as Paul is moving on. Dan Van Heeckeren and Dr. Gino Bottino volunteered to take over the position. Discussed the problem of electronic voting that counts a no vote as a no vote and a quorum is hard to obtain. If we had an electronic “meeting” then the quorum of the members at the meeting would suffice. 6) We went back to item 3 and asked Dan Nowlan to discuss ISAF compliance training for the SAS seminars. One had just been done in Hawaii for the Pyewacket crew with the help of Mr. Disney. NYYC needs one to be done for the upcoming Atlantic race and Dan was hoping to have on June 16 and 23rd. 2 days of training are needed. Dan O’ Conner is certified by the US Coast Guard to do it and will but needs supplies like life rafts and survival gear to use. An Event Organizer is needed to fill the role and get things done. Someone on the phone volunteered who? 7) Membership was item 5. Paul recommended Renee Mehl to replace him. Dave Lumian and Kirk Brown were also recommended to the board and all were invited to the next meeting. Another member informed us he was stepping down and Jim Kronly was named to replace him. 8) Our last item was a re-discussion of the development of a book or books referencing Safety at Sea matters, including a text to supplement the SAS seminar program. We had discussed “publishing” this on Wikipedia but a number of committee members were against this approach. Chuck Hawley lead the discussion and has taken on the job of investigating ways of publishing a book and cost issues. 9) Under New Business Jim Teeters discussed a problem with a boat (a McGregor 26) and its ability to sail safely. There was an incident on Lake Champlain where a 2 and 12 year old drowned, while a 8 year old dove into the cabin of the sinking boat and was able to rescue a dog. The captain was criminally charged with operating under the influence and sent to jail as the boat was over capacity. We asked Jim to get more detail about the boats design and righting moment and re-discuss it later. 10) We Adjourned and again all expressed our concerns for the health and well being of our fearless leader Alan McMillan -Alan we wish you a speedy recovery!
Note: All ISAF recommendations were passed by the House and the
Board.
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