Minutes EXCO Meeting October 13, 2006

Pan American Sailing Federation – Executive Committee Minutes

Clube do Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – October 13, 2006
I.                   President De Mare opened the meeting by asking the question “what can we do to make PASF Stronger?”

  • We need to have our area representatives come with the consensus of their areas.
  • The individuals representing the areas must me strong, diplomatic and well informed of both the PASF issues and the issues of the areas they represent.
  • The representatives must return to their areas and make certain the countries in their area are brought up to date on the meetings and actions needed form the meetings.

II.                The Minutes of the last meeting were accepted

III.             The Treasurer’s report was accepted

IV.              The importance of the future Pan Am Classes and the discussion on how to work with ODEPA became to focus of the meeting. Based on the feedback from the MNA Forum, the Executive discussed the impact of using only Olympic Classes. The Executive explored the possible number of entries using all possible combinations of member countries of PASF and the classes they would likely sail in. Numbers as low as 38 and reaching up to 78 were examined. Obviously for the sport of sailing this is not the way we want to go. It was felt that if we were forced to use only Olympic Classes and the requirement of 5 entries to constitute a class were maintained the Executive felt that the possible entries for 2011 would be:

RS:X Men

RS:X Women

Laser

Laser Radial

Tornado

Women’s Keelboat (if changed from the Yngling)

V.                 It was felt that a questionnaire should be developed and circulated prior to the MNA Annual General Meeting in 2007 so we would know exactly which countries would enter each class.

VI.              Having no more business the meeting was adjourned so the President could get ready for sailing.