MINUTES Annual General Meeting Ajax 23 One Design Class Association

Held at St Mawes

Saturday 31st July 2021 at 6pm

PRESENT

Gordon Sutton (GS) Chair Telemon Amanda Portway (AP) Secretary Polly Oliver

Mike Clayton (MC) Treasurer Polly Oliver

Mike Black (MB) Almathea, Richard and Jeanie Bown (RB, JB) Pintail, Ben Briggs (BB) Nemises, Mike J.Grice (MG) Polyphemus, Kyran Hooper (KH) Polyphemus, John Howard (JH) Polyphemus, Bob Portway (BP) Polly Oliver, Richard Townsend (RT) Achilles, Gavin Watson (GW) Troy

1. APOLOGIES

Dudley Kennet, Jena Robins, Di Ashton, Cedric Thomas.

2. MINUTES

The minutes of the AGM held via Zoom (Gordon Sutton hosted) on 25^th July ’20 were agreed as a true record. Proposed KH, Seconded BB

3. MATTERS ARISING NOT ON THIS AGENDA

There were no matters arising not covered by the items on the Agenda

4. REPORT FROM CHAIRMAN Proposed KH, Seconded BB

(GS) Confirmed numbers have increased on the East Coast and 15 boats are active.

The Short Sharp series (explained by GS) has proved popular on the East Coast. (JH) confirmed the Class has steadily moved towards shorter races in the Championships.

5. TREASURERS REPORT Proposed KH, Seconded BB

(MC) Confirmed the Class has a healthy bank balance but that he was not proposing that any monies be given to each fleet unless there was a need identified? In the brief discussion it was agreed that there were no needs identified.

A request was made that having a list of Class Members would be useful and MC agreed to send a list to both Fleet Captains for sharing amongst their members.

6. REPORT FROM EAST COAST CLASS CAPTAIN Proposed KH, Seconded BB

(TA) had sent a report through to Kyran for distribution in the South West fleet members. GS to check if this has also been shared with the East Coast members.

7. REPORT FROM SOUTH WEST COAST CLASS CAPTAIN

No report but confirmation that new people are joining the Fleet (BB)

8. ELECTION OF OFFICERS

The following were unanimously re-elected: (JH) proposed, (MB) seconded

Chairman – Gordon Sutton

Secretary – Amanda Portway

Treasurer – Mike Clayton

9. AOB

JH requested the boats returning from the last race tomorrow gather to fly their spinnakers as they enter ST Mawes (wind direction permitting!), all agreed. JH to organise a photographer.

JH Raised a possible rule change in regard to using GPS. This is not allowed to be used on board currently and yet most crew carry smart phones. This rule now seems out of date. Discussion followed around the use of GPS and the relative gain and to accessing an App compared to the average cost of purchasing Tic-tac’s. MC suggested a proposal to the Class for consideration at the EGM in October would be useful. Proposal to submitted by JH to an EGM this October ’21.

10. DATE OF 2022 AGM

Gordon recommended that the AGM be held by Zoom to attract and enable more members to attend and this was unanimously agreed. Discussion took place as to the timing of the annual AGM and it was agreed that in October 2021 an EGM take place to bridge the gap to next years AGM to be held in October 2022. GS to confirm dates noting Thursday evenings is when the SW fleet race (other than at the weekend). The meetings to happen as close to the last races of the year (for both fleets) as possible.

Meeting closed at 18.30.