Fall, 2000 Meeting

US SAILING One-Design Class Council Meeting

October 12-14, 2000
Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans, LA

1. Call to order and Introduction

Chair Dick Martin called the meeting to order and asked the members present to introduce themselves. The list of attendees is shown in attachment 1.

2. Chairman's Remarks. Dick Martin discussed his tenure as ODCC Chair and his desire to remain as the web liaison. He also announced that SNAX would henceforth be a web‑based distribution only.

3. Approval of Minutes.

The minutes of the March 2000 meeting were approved as posted on the website. Clark Chapin pointed out that the draft minutes from each meeting will be posted as soon as possible. Corrections can be made continuously up until the approval at the next meeting.

4. ISAF Advertising Code.

The Council discussed the draft ISAF Advertising Code. The Council passed the following resolution unanimously: The One‑Design Class Council supports the ISAF Executive Committee recommendation that for non‑ISAF classes, the class shall determine their advertising level (with Category A as a default).

5. ODCC Class Marketing Seminar.

5.1. Marketing Seminar 13‑Oct‑00.

Patty Lawrence discussed the upcoming marketing seminar scheduled for Friday 13‑Oct. Stan Betts asked if the seminar materials could be posted on the website
and a copy of the materials will be made available for us. Patty asked for questions to be submitted to Walter Green at tomorrow's seminar. On Saturday, Patty discussed the success of the seminar. The lessons will be absorbed and used to generate marketing plans over the winter.

5.2. Future Seminars.

Future seminars include class websites, promotion of regattas, newsletters, and submitting articles for sailing publications.

6. ODCC Awards.

The Council discussed how to generate nominees for the ODCC Awards. Nominations are due by December so that the balloting can occur and the awards made at the Spring Meeting. A donation has ensured that the awards will be funded.

7. Fleet Captains Manual and Class Management Handbook Updates

The Council discussed updates to the Class Management Handbook and the Fleet Captains Manual. Clark Chapin was appointed as the revision coordinator for the Class Management Handbook. Clark will work with Dick Tillman to consider additional material related to boardsailors and solicit new or revised chapters. No volunteer for the Fleet Captains Manual was forthcoming.

8. ODCC website

The Council discussed new and additional uses for the website. Stan Betts asked about providing materials from seminars that have been presented. This is easily doable, and the proceedings of the ODCC seminar on Class Growth and Promotion have been posted on the ODCC website since shortly after it was presented at the Spring, 2000 meeting in Chicago. Additional material will be added that is not class specific and then linked to various pages. A survey about web content can be added to the page as well as circulated through the ODCC list server. Ken Signorello suggested changing the class database from a search operation to a list. Ken also suggested other enhancements such as cataloging champions, cataloging links to tuning guides, but that has some difficulties in keeping the links current. Reciprocal links with the member classes are another idea that can be facilitated by including a "member of US SAILING ODCC" logo on each class's site. No ODCC class has currently opted to have USSAILING.net host their site, most likely because most classes wish to retain their own domain names, but some smaller classes may not see this as a barrier. It is possible to handle on‑line class membership using the US SAILING credit card processing, but this entails some policy changes and would also include some sort of payment to US SAILING, since this does involve a cost to the organization. Organizational members may be able to pay their memberships on line, but the process is not simple or obvious.

9. ODCC List Server

The Council discussed the ODCC list server and how to revitalize it. Stan Betts suggested using this to disseminate the issues and lessons from this meeting.

10.Championship of Champions

The Council discussed this event and how to generate entries as well as provide support for it. The Council decided to more actively promote the event to the member classes, even if this results in more applicants than can be accommodated in any single year. This would then make selection of a class's champion a more prestigious event all by itself.

11. New Business

11.1. Visibility Programs

The Council passed the following resolution:

The One-Design Class Council supports preserving the Boat Show and Regatta Visibility Programs by means of staffing solely by volunteers with only promotional materials from US SAILING.

11.2. Directory

The Council passed the following resolution:

The One Design Class Council supports that a means be found to publish a directory.