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NC

2

Keeping costs low for younger members, also consider promoting through 'Boat US'.

3

NC

4

Attract more youth as members.

5

NC

6

Nc

7

The Fleets are organized in four geographic locations that are too widely dispersed. I would look at reorganizing the Fleets into tighter geographic groups that would facilitate greater participation and foster greater Membership....such as breaking the LIS Fleet into Long Island/NYC and Westchester Cty/Connecticut. Another geographic division would be North and South Shore-Boston.

8

I would eliminate the different layers of the Afterguard by having just one association Afterguard.

9

Get our members who do not own boats out in other members boats.

10

More transparency at the Associstion Afterguard/board level.

11

No concrete ideas

12

More activities

13

Following up on the above, how about such a simple thing as spreading out all the officers at the dinners so that they do not all sit together at the front and other members could get assign to the tables randomly. It is always the same people that sit with the same people. I have been a member for over 20 years, and I think we need to promote more interaction between members than we currently are.

14

Plans need to be laid out further in advance. My squadron activities are generally known at least six months out. I often experience conflicts.

15

Nc

16

Recognize the different characteristics of fleets and work towards unity among them - encourage introductions among different o fleet members when traveling by creating easy ways to meet small groups of fellow members.

17

NC

18

Although I may not have done all that I could, more on water local events in addition to the annual cruise which has been the highlight for me.

19

As above

20

Determine who we are? Streamline the membership process.

21

This is selfish on my part, a 'rally' from Maine through the Chesapeake and then onwards to either Bahamas or Caribbean

22

More events on land where people can interact face to face and get to know each other. Guests should be welcomed and this may lead to new members. Monthly happy hour events work well too !

23

NC

24

Easier connection for crewing/delivery

25

Simplify the organization's organization. Too many cooks, too many officers, it's too top-heavy and too many posts to fill. Should be more fleet-based.

26

Make connecting sailors to crew or who need crew a focus of the organization. Sailors who need crew and who want to crew need to have a way to get to know each other before going on a long cruise together. Short day sails targeted at such connections might be helpful. For example, have one or two on-the-water 'meet the crew' days.

27

Post a firm cruise event AFTER a cruise captain has been identified. It's tough to make a plan when posted days are cancelled due to cruise being truncated due to lack of a captain.

28

NC

29

More small cruises

30

I would restore the parent organization. I don't think Federation of fleets works well. I would also eliminate the fleet funding and have the aftergard of the parent organization control the finances. I know I'm sounding like an old goat but the previous model worked really well for a lot of years.

31

Work to bring in more members and younger members. Make sure that we are open to including people from all walks of life.

32

NC

33

Corinthian leadership lacks cohesion. They don't know each other. Reestablish that the board and Afterguard meet monthly in NYC, in person and travel at personal expense.

The custom of a social dinner after meetings guaranteed that our leadership knew each other with relationships developed over many years.

34

Spouses or significant others should be considered members

35

regularly scheduled events

36

De-fang the nominating committee (NC). NC duty should be to solicit openly (as well as privately) for positions and allow anyone who wishes to stand for election to do so. No more 20 name petitions nor delivering a slate a few days before deadline. Open for volunteer nomination June 15 and close all nominations Sept 15. Notify members at least every 2 weeks of who has self nominated (or been persuaded by NC). Have independent secret ballot voting with brief bios and goals.

37

Monthly in person meetings of Fleets

38

Build up on-the-water events as we are doing in LIS

39

Better organization of events, delegation of workload, and more timely communications.

40

NC

41

Attracting the next or younger generation.

42

Younger membership

43

Advertising

44

There seems to be a membership movement toward larger vessels and wider-ranging sailing. Improve the ability to find and interact with fellow Corinthians as cruising range expands.

45

Not sure

46

More women involvement as it's own group. Most of the members are couples with boats. Perhaps because sailing is expensive. There are many women that love to sail (including single women) but may not have a boat not because they can't afford one, but because they don't know enough to own OR they have a boat and spouse no longer in the picture.. Perhaps host a women's night to learn about the club, sailing opportunities.

I've been out of the club for a year, so maybe it's changed.

47

Perhaps introduce monthly week end short races for Corinthians. This may encourage non participating members to sail on others boats. Complement the racing with occasional talks on aspects of sailing.

48

Encourage more members to go out on the water and raise their sails.

49

Make program meetings available through ZOOM so that members of distant fleets can still participate.

50

Involve more youth

51

more cruise related events

52

See above, sorry!

53

More gams for the NE Fleet

54

Find more ways to bridge the geographic distance so that members of the different fleets have opportunities to get to know each other. Have the CB Fleet contingent at the Frostbite is a great example.

55

nc

56

Ask not what your Association can do for you. Ask what you can do for your Association.

57

NC

58

Be involved in running events that are open to both members and non members

59

Share the budget and P&L

60

NC

61

Find ways to attract younger sailors

62

Return to the New York Yacht Club for our big annual event .....regardless of

the expense. Currently we have no single focus.

63

Organizing on-line and in-person sailing and boating how-to events, as well as more recounts of exceptional experience by members, also accessible on-line and in-person

64

Better publicity in sailing magazines or tabloids (Windcheck, Soundings, Points East, etc.)