NOCKAMIXON SAIL CLUB – 1/13/2026 Meeting Minutes

  • Meeting start – 6:30 pm
  • Attendance:  Dan Reasoner, Brian Scarborough, Paul Prozillo, Gary Bonner, Scott Daniels, Warren Mangan, Frank Fisher, Anli Wu, Marilyn O’Connell, Debbie Servantes, Paul Servantes, Scott Lynch, Craig Tourtellott
  • Review/Approval of Minutes:
  • Minutes from the previous Fleet Council meeting and notes from the Annual Meeting were approved.
  • Treasurer – Frank Fisher
    • Year end financials have been distributed to Fleet Council members.
    • 2025 resulted in a loss of $1,012.
    • There is a projected loss of $1,515 for 2026 based upon current levels of membership.
    • An audit needs to be scheduled. It has been set for 6pm on February 18th (prior to the start of the Fleet Council meeting).
  • Club Officers Reports
  • Commodore – Dan Reasoner
    • The emphasis this year should be on fun, teamwork and communication.
    • We should think about organizing a get together after each scheduled event.
    • Each member of the Fleet Council should enlist one or two people to help them with their NSC tasks.
    • As not everyone uses Facebook, it is important for members to check the calendar frequently.
    • It was noted that the Sunfish is now recognized as a fleet.
  • Vice Commodore – Marilyn O’Connell
    • The Spring Warm Up is scheduled for April 11th 6-9pm at the Gathering Place in Quakertown.
    • Options for catering are being considered. The budget for this event was set at $2,500 – $3,000.
    • The ULDB is scheduled for June 27th.
    • A Save The Date will be sent out/posted for both events
  • Rear Commodore Racing – Gary Bonner
    • The permit process is underway and a list of racing dates has been circulated.
    • Conflicts with other events at the lake have been noted with the exception of fishing tournaments. These will be identified and noted.
    • The number of races may need to be cut down due to the lack of participation on the race committees. It was suggested that 2 fleet days are removed from the calendar as they have the least participation.
    • The race scheduled for 4/25 has been moved to 5/30.
  • Rear Commodore Cruising – Paul Servantes
    • The calendar has been updated for launch day, sunfish clean up, sunfish sails and haul out.
    • It was suggested that additional dates are added for sunfish sailors who are interested in the Single Handed race.
    • Dan would like to see more ad hoc cruising events.
    • Paul will look into the possibility of some technical events for cruisers.
    • Gary will order trophies for the Single Handed and Paxton racing events.

●    Membership Secretary – Debbie Servantes

  • Total membership for 2025 was 110. (80 cruising members and 30 racing members).
  • This is a decrease from 2024 and 2023 when there were 140 and 158 members respectively.
  • The above totals included 28 new members in 2025, 47 in 2024 and 35 in 2023.
  • 2026 memberships are available on the website.
  • Quartermaster – Scott Daniels
    • The club boats will go in the water the first full week of April.
    • Oil changes are recommended.
    • Scott does not anticipate any major boat expenses this year.
    • There needs to be an inventory of all club equipment.
  • Communications – Scott Lynch
    • The website still needs to be decoupled from Dave Strzempek’s server.
    • Scott will get together with Bruce, Brian and Dave to address the website issues.
    • The Mailchimp database needs to be updated to reflect current membership.
    • Dan asked if the is a way to capture names and emails of family members.
    • Dan would like to see a membership directory available to all members
    • Race results on the website reflect 2020 data. Scott will look into a process for updating this.
  • Previous Commodore – Brian Scarborough
    • Nothing to report.
  • Admiralty – Jim Gill (Absent)
  • Admiralty – Angela Rowland (Absent)
  • Admiralty – Paul Prozillo
    • Nothing to report.
  • Admiralty and Park Liaison – Warren Mangan
  • Warren will ask Liam, the Assistant Manager, about a service project for this year.
  • The Friends of Nockamixon have an Earth Day event on 4/26 which the club could help out with.
  • Thistle – Tony Stuart (Absent)
  • The Thistle fleet has a meeting scheduled for February.
  • Flying Scot – John Wheldon (Absent)
  • Portsmouth – Craig Tourtellot
  • Sunfish – Anli Wu
  • Anli asked if a sub-group could be created on the website for the sunfish sailors.
  • It was suggested that a group could be created in WhatsApp for the Club with sub-groups for the different fleets. Dan will look into this.
  • Proposed Borrowed Boat Guidelines will be distributed and voted on at the next meeting.
  • OLD BUSINESS
    • None
  • NEW BUSINESS
  • A proposed change to the Constitution regarding notice of meetings to include email was discussed and will be voted on at the next meeting.
  • A change to the By Laws regarding a change to the accounting close date (from October 31st to December 31st) was voted upon and agreed by all.

Meeting adjournment at 8:55 pm.

Next meeting: Wednesday February 18th at 6:30pm (in person and Zoom).