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I have spent some time this winter on documenting all the Association
Trophies. Deeds of gift, past winners, what they are for and where they are.
The web site is now up and running, although it has had quite a lot of glitches
and at times seems to have a mind of its own. However slowly with a lot of
help from my "in house" IT consultant, it is coming together. It now has a lot
of information on it, the Gallery still needs pictures and the fleet pages are
yet to happen. NFIA also has a new web page with all the Nordic information
on it.
This year 2023 is a 'Nordic Measurement Certificate ' year. Certificates must
be renewed bi-annually. There are 51 current certificates. Owners will be
sent a renewal form in April. It has one extra question on it this year about
mast type. The type of mast that a Nordic has will now be put on the
certificates, this is going to be a NFIA requirement soon.
As usual there are the same old appeals.
Please tell the Secretary if any of your details change especially if you sell
your boat and please pass on the Association details to a new owner and
encourage your crew to become a member. Also as usual we are looking for
contributions for the Yearbook, especially from cruising boats and of course
photographs.

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5. To receive a statement of Income and Expenditure for the year ending 31
December 2022
First the Treasure apologised, there had to be a revision to the accounts. She
said the error was entirely hers and that it should have been picked it up
when the accounts were finalised at the beginning of January. This was an
allocation error in Subscriptions. Subscriptions come into the Associations
two bank accounts. HSBC and Lloyds. The HSBC figure was in fact the total
figure for subscriptions then the Lloyds figure was added again (An XL spread
sheet allocation error) . Giving an extra £1,551 to the Subs value; so giving a
bottom line for Income of £6863.55 which should have been £5312.55. It
was estimated last year that increasing subscriptions would give us an about
extra £750 a year, assuming no drop off in membership. We in fact got an
extra £547. The last years subscriptions spread sheet was very colourful as

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