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Pan American Sailing Federation Minutes Four Seasons Hotel April 5, 2008, Mexico City, DF |
| Attending: Carlos De Mare Argentina President David Sprague Canada Treasurer Rich Jeffries USA Secretary General Abraham Rosemberg Brazil Vice President Enrique Elguero Mexico Mexico Armando Goulard Portugal Guest/Technical Delegate 2007 PAG’s Scott Perry Uruguay Guest/ISAF Regional Games Committee Ralph Nelles Mexico Host/2011 PAG rep. Octavio Jarrin Ecuador Observer Andres Santana Dominican Republic Vice President 1. Carlos de Mare explained that he would run the meeting in Spanish and Scott Perry would translate. All agreed 2. The Question of ISAF and Technical Delegates and the requirement of they being from the continent that the Regional Games will be held came up and was discussed. See #’s 19 and 23 for more action 3. The group discussed the apparent lack of action by Brazil against the athletes involved in the awards ceremony issue at the Rio Pan American games, 2007. See #’ 4. The letter sent by the Brazilians was shared by Abe. Most of the committee had not seen the letter before and were unaware of it. 5. David distributed the annual expense money and Carlos gave his as dues for Argentina, Abe gave his as dues for Brazil and Andres gave his as dues for Dominican Republic. 6. Scott Perry agreed to contact Chile for their dues collection 7. David Sprague gave Carlos $520 US for the website expenses 8. Minutes from the last meeting were distributed and approved 9. A verbal discussion about changing the constitution took place. The first question is where should the Constitution be domiciled? (no answer) 10. It was noted that the working party established in Rio has not been heard from 11. Should our email addresses be on the website? No discussion 12. Andres Santana delivered his Technical report on the organization of the Pan Am Games on screen with a verbal overview. Andres stated that the report is 70% completed. 13. Scott Perry told the group that the ISAF Regional Games committee had adopted his report at the November 2007 meeting 14. Carlos asked Andres to concentrate on Mexico and to keep the report flexible since we will be dealing with other countries in the future 15. A discussion on Charter boats for the Games took place and it was agreed that we should begin working on this soon 16. Carlos felt, on behalf of Argentina, that certain classes should be provided and others should be Bring Your Own Boat 17. LOC should offer to pay the shipping costs and cover the cost of a representative from the company supplying the boats 18. We should have an Opening Ceremony for sailing and Ralph assured us that there will be one 19. The discussion on the Technical Delegate for 2011 took place 20. Armando Goulard was asked to leave 21. Carlos de Mare stated that it has been our practice that PASF accepts the recommendation from the LOC. ISAF told Carlos that they want us to select someone from the continent. Both ISAF and the Regional Games Committee feel that we need to develop TD’s on all continents. 22. After a thorough discussion it was agreed that Nelson Ilha would be approached and asked to be the TD. It was decided that Rich Jeffries write ISAF and let them know of our decision 23. Armando returned to the meeting and Carlos explained to him our reluctant decision and our appreciation of his work 24. We discussed the request of Cuba and Chile to consider the 470 as a PAG class. We confirmed our position that it requires 7 entries to form a class at the PAG’s and we should support Olympic Classes and strong Regional Classes. 25. Concerning the Multihull and their inclusion in the PAG’s it was felt that we should not make the same mistake as ISAF. We should leave the Hobie 16 in and wait to see what ISAF does. It was unanimous that we should keep the current events and equipment for 2011 26. We should get a letter out to the MNA’s with the minutes and stating clearly that the events and equipment for 2011 will remain the same 27. Octavio was asked to make sure the South American Confederation was ok with the classes 28. A discussion on the 2011 Qualification system took place and a committee was established: David Sprague, Abe Rosemberg, Enrique Elguero ( with help from Peter Loewen) 29. The question of Match Racing took place and it was decided that we should promote a Pan Am Match Racing circuit. A committee was formed with Rich and Scott. They will contact Henry Menin about the possibility of having a Match Race around the 2011 Pan Am Games. If Multihull falls out of the Olympics then we will add Match Racing as an Official class in the PAG’s 30. In Feb 2010 there will be a Tall Ships event as part of the 100th anniversary in Argentina with a race from Buenos Aires to Mar de Plata. What can we do around this event? 31. The issues surrounding the Rio Awards ceremony took place. Abe shared a letter from the Brazilian Federation exonerating the athletes which included a 90 day suspension. Carlos will send a letter (Rich to write) to the Brazilian Federation about improper procedure in the handling of the event. Rich motioned for a letter of Sanction to the Brazilian MNA for their handling of the event and Abe seconded. Teresa Lara’s letter was read to the group 32. The issue surrounding the two groups in Paraguay was discussed. It was pointed out that in Rio a person paid the Paraguay dues so the sailors could race. If we had not accepted that they could not have raced. Did we accept the money from the wrong group? We have never asked for a Letter from the MNA. PASF receives money on behalf of the country and not a club> The Paraguayan NOC must deal with this 33. A constitutional question came up: Once appointed/nominated is the rep an individual or a rep of the country? This question is a result of if there was a change of management in a country could they change their representative to the PASF board? 34. Lunch break sponsored by Ralph 35. Ralph Nelles gave an update on the 2011 planning and reported on a meeting he had with Guadalajara. There will be 2 sports in Vallarta: Sailing and Triathlon. The local dry storage marina cannot guarantee space. Ralph pointed out that Vallarta is in the southern part of the bay and the wind is in the northern part. We cannot move to the north of the bay since it is a different State in Mexico and Guadalajara is in the southern State – Jalisco. The Organizers have no knowledge about Sailing and we must educate them. Housing is another concern and Ralph is working with them on this. Both Ralph and Carlos will be going to Puerto Vallarta after this meeting 36. It was recommended that we ask the classes to have events in the area to improve the quality of race management 37. A further discussion on the constitution took place
38. Ralph will establish a data base on IJ’s & IRO’s in the PASF region with Scott’s help 39. The Next meeting will take place in Puerto Vallarta Oct 9-11, 2009 |
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FINAL RESULTS / MEDALS: SUMMARY
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FINAL RESULTS BY EVENT, ALL RACES
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