A few moments ago I sent this message to those as many MOWIND
members as I had email addresses for. In case you did not get the
message:

It is time for the 2008 MOWIND annual meeting. We have scheduled
the meeting for next Sunday, December 9 at 6:00 pm based on feedback
from many of you. I have arranged for a conference call at that
time. Please call 877-412-8800 with a passcode of 665-4637. If you
cannot attend at that time, please send a message to this group with
any feedback/information you feel should be presented at the
meeting. Jack & Craig - please contact me if you need assistance
with your reports.

See Files section of Yahoo group for a copy of the 2007 MOWIND
schedule. I would appreciate if all race directors could review
this and send me a message confirming your dates for 2008. Feel
free to reply all to this group and/or use the MOWIND Yahoo site for
any discussion. We will also discuss this during our meeting.

One other note - Bonnie and I went to the memorial service this
afternoon for Jeff Meissner. Jeff was the kitsurfer who died last
week on Lake Koshkonong. We left a card and donation from MOWIND
and Wind Power Windsurfing. Thought you might want to know that.

Agenda for the meeting:
- President's report (Jeff Koeberl)
- Treasurer's report (Craig Bergh)
- Scorer's report (Jack Wiley)
- Nominations & Elections
- Committee Assignments
- Other?

Minutes from last year's meeting:
Kevin's President's report
- Want to improve insurance situation, particularly for instruction
- Need more representation from MI, OH. Only MI/OH rep was Jim
Donahue

Treasurer's Report from Rick Guidon
- Beginning balance was $1,048
o Raffles got us ahead here
o Would like to continue to find sponsors for raffles
- Insurance costs $665 for 2007
- Mirer's Briggs Co
- Having a hard time getting covered for the instructional events
- Annual awards have cost $200-$400 in the past

Scorer's Report (Jeff Koeberl and Kevin Gratton)
- Scoring is up to date
- Current postings are updated on Yahoo Group
- Jeff would like to have someone new do the scoring
- Good participation in Women's Sport (12)
- 59 total sport, 50 did more than one event
- Possibly split Sport Men's by ages, or by weight
- 96 racers in A-fleet
- Only 3 women in A-fleet
- More stats (numbers for each class, etc) can be found in the end
of year results spreadsheet

MOWIND newsletter:
- Continue newsletter for start of the year, pulling from Yahoo
postings
- Move towards Yahoo Group as singular source for MOWIND news

Elections
- Jeff Koeberl 2007 President
- Combine VP/secretary duties
- Uffe 2007 VP/secretary
- Treasurer/insurance- Jeff Hegwer and Craig Bergh may team up
- Craig Bergh and Jeff Hegwer 2007 Treasurer/Insurance
- Need to get insurance in line before the Saylorville Regatta
- Jim Donahue and Jack Wiley will be the 2007 Scoring Team (Jeff K
can as well)
- Arden will continue as newsletter editor
o Send out an instructional email about using the group

Committees
Insurance Committee
- Kevin Gratton, Jeff Hegwer, Rick Guidon, Craig Bergh, Frank Murray
(might help since in the insurance business)

Calendar of Events Committee
- Jeff Adamski and Craig Bergh
- Marlin Meitzen can make the calendar again
- Arden will post the dates to the Y! Group Calendar once the dates
info is confirmed

Scoring & Classes Committee
- Jim Donahue (East Rep), Jack Wiley (Central Rep), and Arnie
Cleveland (West Rep)

Trophy Committee
- Larry Reed, Uffe, Woody, and Don Altmyer (with Howard)

Sponsorship Committee
- Arden, Rod Clevenger, Kevin Gratton, and Mike Fox

MOWIND Membership
Mission Statement:
MoWind Membership – As a reminder, MoWind membership provides a
central organization for structuring the annual regatta calendar.
This helps to promote sailing events throughout the Midwest. As a
secondary benefit, membership provides access to insurance for
regatta organizers via MoWind's relationship with US Windsurfing.
- Probably need to go with what we have for insurance right now
- Look into alternatives for insurance for next year
- $60 insurance dues per event, $120 for two or more events
- Need to get dates verified on the calendar
- May want to create a "longboard-only" class
o Maybe put it in the 8.5 class, or as a sub-class of unlimited
o Scoring and classes committee can look into this more
- Want to continue to promote women and juniors
- Sport fleet classes look good, use same as last year (see results
sheet)
- A-fleet classes look good, use same as last year (see results
sheet)
- Scoring will be the same as last season (hi-point)
- Insurance committee is working on this year's policy
o Once finalized, the policy and coverage details will be posted to
the MOWIND group site

Attendees:
Jeff Adamski
Jeff Hegwer
Ulf Jentler
Larry Reed
Woody
Arnie Cleveland
Jeff Koeberl
Don Altmyer
Jason
Craig
Steve VandeCorput
Jim Donahue
Rick Guidon
Arden
Mike Fox
Kevin Gratton

Jeff Koeberl
Director of Enterprise Engineering
Information Systems
Northwestern Mutual
JeffKoeberl@...
(414)665-4637