Category: Class Business

After a 30-day voting period open to current Class Members, all five rule changes proposed by the Executive Board were passed by a majority vote. The amended Class Rules can be found under the Racing tab, above, or via the link following this news item. For an explanation of these changes, please see the document …

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The Executive Board of the J109 Class has approved five changes to the Class Rules. Voting members will now have 30 days – until February 19 – to weigh in. Current class members who are eligible to vote have been sent an email inviting them to vote on each of these proposed changes. If you …

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The annual meeting of the J109 Class Executive Board will take place next Tuesday, November 19. The Agenda for this meeting has been posted on the Class Documents page.

Fellow J109 Sailors, Here we are at the beginning of March and the northeast has in the last few weeks been dealt a bitter cold spell and record breaking blizzard. What better time to start to plan the upcoming sailing season. We already have three world class events on the schedule. Each one is in …

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The recently proposed rule change as been approved by the membership. Please go to the Class Documents page to find the amended Class Rules document.

Class Members, A proposed change to our Class Rules was recently approved by a two-thirds majority of the Executive Board. This proposed change can be found on the Class Documents page of this website. To become effective, this change must be approved by our Voting Members. There will be a 30-day voting period, closing at …

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Fellow J109 Sailors, It is an honor and a privilege to be the newly elected president of our class association. Rick Lyall is leaving very big docksiders to fill. I certainly want to thank Rick, Ed Dailey, and Ric Campeau for their many years of providing leadership to the class. I also want to thank …

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The Sperry Top-Sider Annapolis NOOD Regatta will take place from May 4-6 this year. So far, TWELVE J109s are registered for this event, which is not only the J109 Mid-Atlantic Championship, but also the first qualifying event for the 2012 East Coast Regatta Series (the second, and final, qualifying event will be the NAs in …

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At its meeting on February 6th, the Executive Board unanimously approved three proposals to amend our Class Constitution and Class Rules. These changes were effective March 15, 2012 after approval by Voting Members. Proposal 1 amends section 7 in the Constitution to permit consideration of urgent and exceptional Class Rules changes at any time, upon …

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The Executive Board of the Class Association will meet by conference call on February 6th. The Agenda is posted in Class documents under GOVERNANCE at the top of the homepage. /Ed Dailey, Class Secretary