Hello Folks, I am catching up on forum topics after much work travel this year and wanted to inform you about a few things that have happened and will happen concerning the association name. First, at the AGM, the collection of voters and postal votes were in favour of the proposal to 1 - rename us to the Parker & Seal Sailing Association, and 2 - retain the current burgee (which you see top left on this page).
Don has already mentioned that Parkers are once more including the Seal on the mainsail by default. This is great news and we are very happy that Bill Parker has taken this action.
We have also just produced an updated brochure to recruit Parker owners. Don will post a copy on our web site shortly. We will also send copies to our area officers, or anyone else that wants some. By the end of this month, we'll have two more brochures to recruit non-members of Seals and Parkers respectively. Feel free to print these and do some recruiting, or send your suggestions for improvement to me. I am all ears!
Next, we will be starting a campaign to get some new attention in the Press. Of course, all publicity is good publicity, but we are specifically trying to reconnect with owners who are not members.
Finally, at least for the moment, we also want Press support to promote one rally per region that will specifically targeted at recruiting new members.
If you have other ideas, let's hear them [:)].
Cheers-Ken
Ken Surplice
Vice Commodore