Australian Formula18, 2007 / 08 Season

AGM, Meeting Minutes

Time: 6.20pm, Date: 27th January 2008

Location: Yarra Bay Sailing Club, Yarra Bay NSW

Attendees:

Don Dull - (DD)

Kyle Amadio - (KA)

Claudine Ogilvie - (CLO)

James Ogilvie - (JO)

Chris Caldercoat - (CC)

Mark Laruffa - (ML)

Joanne Acott - (JA)

Mick Guinea - (MG)

Chris Boag - (CB)

Greg Goodall - (GG)

Doug Fimmell - (DF)

Kez Stevens - (KS)

Warren Guinea - (WG)

Phil Homan - (PH)

Jenni Richards - (JR)

1: Past 12 Months DD opens with a thank you to the previous committee Congratulations also given to the following people.

07 Yepoon Worlds Organisers, Mark Laruffa, Joanne Acott, Andrew Holden, Brent, Mal Gay

James & Claudine Ogilvie, Kyle Amadio and Chris Caldercoat thanked for organisation of the F18 association to date.

2: DD proposes election of a new committee and the following positions agreed on

President - James Ogilvie proposed and voted in

Secretary - Joanne Acott proposed and voted in

Treasurer - Kyle Amadio proposed and voted in

National Measurer - Greg Goodall proposed and voted in

State Representatives

NSW - Chris Caldercoat

VIC - Chris Boag

QLD - Warren Guinea

WA - Garry Gornall

SA - TBA

NT - Not applicable at this point. To be assessed next year

3: Australian Formula 18 Association Incorporation CC advises if the secretary is outside of QLD the Association will need to be re-incorporated

It was then agreed that MG will act as signatory for the secretary and JA will take responsibility for the day to day running from NSW. This was agreed by all and avoids re-incorporation

4: Previous years financials

Grant Rogers to provide JO with all financials and documentation by end of coming week to allow for consolidation association funds. ASAP JO to then hand over to KA as new treasurer to ensure all end of year reporting and ASICS requirements are undertaken. Once completed KA to present back to the committee on overall financials

5: National Measuring and certification

It was proposed by several members that a revised measuring system be implemented into Australia allowing for easier certification of all F18 manufactured products A similar system to the United States model has been proposed and GG is to draft guidelines on how this would be implemented.

The basis is for all manufactures who produce a minimum quantity of product will be required to self certify the goods and provide the customer with the certification that the item meets international F18 Certification. This would also mean the manufacture will be responsible QA of their products and if found in breach 3 times would be struck from undertaking self certification.

As part if this certification the association still withholds the right to spot check all boats and equipment and will undertake spot inspection at any organised F18 event.

In reference to National titles GG is also to propose a method to ensure weighing in of all boats is undertaken prior to race registration and further discussion was to be undertaken once the proposed certification model is applied.

6: 2008 / 2009 Nationals

QLD is to be the hosting state with DD's proposed location at this time being Humpybong Yacht Club Inc. Agreement was yet to be met on this and an appropriate date for the event.

The State Rep in conjunction with QLD members are to respond back to the committee with date and time.

7: 2008 Nigran Worlds Selection

Sailing instruction had been revised to show 8 spots allocated to Australia for the worlds in July. Discussion from both CC and ML felt that we have more positions available and it was agreed to ask all competitors during the presentation to put up there hands if they wish to attend.

As a criteria all interested parties will be required to place a $500 deposit down with the association 7 days from the presentation being the 4th Feb 08. JO to make a running list of these names and advise back to GG and the committee . GG will be responsible for co-ordination of the containers in conjunction with JO to help out

8: General issues

MG asked for an update on the change to domain for the F18 web site. JO ran over the changes covering the online registration process and noted that Hobie Australia was the registered owner of the domain name (f18.org.au) and a decision was to run with a new name register under the F18 Association.

It was also agreed that JO would draft a letter of thanks to Steve Fields for the work he had undertaken initially setting up the Association web site and also to ask if was open to cha nging over ownership of the domain name which would then be directed to aus.f18.org.au

9: Meeting Closed 8.15pm 27th January 2008; Minutes Taken by James Ogilvie