Attendees 
	Fergie, Pat, Tony, Rip, Marybeth, Rich, Laura. Mike, Cheryl, Jim,
John N. , Paul

Contributions included feedback from Pete Engel and Mike Dziubek (thanks
Guys)

Rich announced that Jim Reinardi has accepted the position of Commodore for
2006. Welcome Jim.

The meeting wss set up as a review of what we did good and bad and to throw
out ideas for 2006 

Notes on upcoming events.

November - Fergie and Pat volunteered to hos a party at their house on
Friday 11th November 6.20pm (race start time). It will be a chili dump and
drinks.

December - The Christmas party is Dec. 10th 

January -  .. West marine. - Annual membership. Including a talk by yacht
clubs. To be arranged.

February - Awards Ceremony . Location TBD (SSYC may be closed)

March - March 4th  MCSC Sailors Ball. Suggest we set up a Mast table.

Web Site

 We looked at the website that Normand design have created for us and that
is Hosted by Net-Directions. 

The site can be seen at www.net-directions.com/customers/mast
We are looking for feedback on the site. There is a movie that is designed
to run on the home page.

Some of the features are under construction. 
One of the interesting features is a real time messsage board that we are
hoping we can use as an active crew search site for last minute crew and
boats..

Our goal is to make MAST  the homepage for the Milwaukee bay. 
One question this leaves open is the Mast logo. Should we change it or
continue as we are. A consideration is that at present we still  have a
stock of  MAST burgees for sale

Our present address www.mastracing.org will continue to point to the
existing site for the rest of this year.. 

Things that worked. 

The Potluck that was run by Rich and his crew was very popular. 
Pizza's events were also popular.

In general the events were well attended and there was more mixing of the
crews that previously. 

Spring brunch was very popular thanks to Laura and Micki for running it. 
The Invitational was a success.  Discussed that we should make it "an
everyone wins" type race. With burgees and stuff. 

Variation of Race type is liked. Primarily Jib/main .. occasional
spinnakers. Primarily windward leeward with some longer distance races.
Laminated start sequence was much appreciated. 

5 minute starts went well led by Lee and  Chuck in the first race.
 
3 Divisions worked well . This is a function of numbers of boats. 
16 race + makup seemed a good number of races. 


Things we could improve on 

The SI 's need some improvement and clarification. We do not define how we
deal with Ties.

Concern on how we keep it social and stop it from becoming like a wednesday
night SSYC.

How we handle race changes... Guide lines for commucation for comittee
boats.

Things we should consider for 2006 

We would like to retire Boat of the year or return it under another name.
Should we move the fall regatta to try and get larger participation. Pizza
party at SSYC to share the travelling. 

Things we should do. 

Award for Jack for running the fall regatta under difficult conditions. 
We should we send out a survey to get feedback from the members on changes
they want to see.

Do more with MCSC. Offer to let the J24 class race with us at the end of
their course . ... 

Get more volunteers from the group to help organize - Maybe a signup sheet. 
If we could get everyone to call 8 people for the events we could be more
inclusive  and it would share the load. 

Piggy back on Cramers strictly sail trip as an event. 

Look at the financial statement once or twice per year. Ensure we balance
our spend.

Get older people involved. Make it more inclusive.

Open boats for social sail ( including the retired members who no longer
race). Follow it with an Ice cream social. Suggested Mid July. Maybe a
Saturday.


Rip is looking for inputs to the Mast Breeze. 
He is also looking for topics for a survey that we can send out. 
We also had a request that the race committee organize the weather. This may
be a difficult to do  :-) 

Thanks.


Glyn