[C38] Good news on the officer front and a proposal......

[Chuck Finn]

  Our Steve Smolinske has agreed to be our Technical Editor!  Steve 
comes to the position with a wealth of sailing and technical knowledge 
and is one of the very few people I know who can begin to fill the shoes 
of Tom Troncalli.  He did make me promise that he would not have to do 
this alone and I happily volunteered you all to help out!  Please 
welcome Steve to this extremely important position in our Association!

My son, Anders has agreed to step out from behind the screen and 
actually become our Webmaster!  While I have been able to cobble things 
together (with his help) for our website over the years, he has 
forgotten more about programming than I ever knew.....   He says I still 
have to run the Listserve because it takes a lot of attention/time that 
he does not have (he also told me it would be hard for even an old man 
like me to screw it up).  We will shortly see what really can be done 
website wise!  By the way, he lives in San Francisco and is always 
looking for a C38 to sail on!

And how about this?
The reason I called Larry Malmberg and got into all this Commodore 
trouble was to float a proposal for a 2011-13 get-together.  No one 
knows for certain, but San Francisco's $270 million bid to host the 
America's Cup in 2013 looks pretty good given the home of the cup is the 
Golden Gate Yacht Club and Redwood City, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison gets 
to make the location decision.  I am told there are at least four and 
probably more C38s based in and around San Francisco.   Wouldn't it be 
fun if we scheduled a C38 Rendezvous to coincide with the America's Cup 
races leading up to the big one in 2013?  Maybe we could get some of our 
friends a bit further down the coast to bring their boats up if we can 
make arrangements?  Maybe we could even get a few races of or own 
going????  Larry Malmberg really likes the idea and maybe we can get 
both him and Steve Smolinske to regal us with Trans Pac stories?

Please welcome Steve and Anders to key leadership positions in our 
Organization.  Then, what do you think about a Rendezvous?

Regards,
Chuck Finn
Commodore