MINUTES OF THE 58TH U.K. FOLKBOAT ASSOCIATION A.G.M.
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Minutes of the 58th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Folkboat Association
Saturday 16th March 2019
Royal Lymington Yacht Club at 11:00
Present:
Present: David Fox (Chairman), James Hoare (Vice Chairman),
Nicky Henderson (Secretary/Treasurer), Chris Baldwick, Jim Tennant, Stephen
Mead, Tony Smee, and 21 members.
Apologies for Absence:
Stuart Watson, Simon Osgood, Phil Jenkins and a large
number of apologies from members which have been received by email.
Minutes of 57th AGM held on 17th March 2018
The Minutes had been made available to members. The members accepted them
as a true record of that meeting by a show of hands. Acceptance of the minutes was
proposed by Martin Le Gassick and seconded by Stephen Mead.
UK Folkboat Association AGM Chairman’s Report - David Fox
After a good spring and summer with winds either too much or non-existent we
started Folkboat Week full of optimism. Sadly, in the middle of the week our President
Robin Walters died. It seemed most fitting that this should happen at this time.
Interestingly ever since I took the chair, he had been chasing me to put the Walcon
cup back into being. Now I feel a duty to try and come up with a plan for some sort of
International Event. Any thoughts on this would be very welcome.
On the water a successful season of races were held. Our thanks should go to the
local class captains. Chris Baldwick and Martin Le Gassick who push us out to go
racing even if we don’t really want to.
On the cruising side, Philip Jenkins has got in touch with the cruisers and has already
organised a successful meet with more to follow this year. Of course, Nordic’s can go
too. This will definitely improve the situation for those who do not want to just race.
The major events of the year are Folkboat Week and the Nationals.
Both were very well supported and surprisingly in the Nordic division produced the
same winner and runner up. Congratulations to first position Crackerjack and Tak,
2nd who both had the same results at both events. At Folkboat Week the cruiser
division had hotly contested races with Folkdance the winner and Kingdom Come
closely second.
However, looking down the top ten boats it is really good to see some new names
occurring having moved up the fleet. This only promises to give us some really close
racing at the top of the fleet. This means that boats like me that have our own battles
in the middle of the fleet have hope to keep on trying. Don’t write us off just yet! Other
events, like Cowes Classic that gave us our own start line this year, have slowly
grown in popularity.
