Feb 15 – 4LIYC Meeting Tonight on Zoom


Happy day-after Valentines Day. Our normally scheduled meeting should have been last night, but to keep everyone on good terms with their significant others and out of the doghouse, we scheduled for tonight. Club members in good standing should have received an email with the Zoom link.

4LIYC ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING – 2 PROPOSALS
Club members in good standing will vote on two items, a dues increase and the induction of Ken Whitehorse into the Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club Honor Roll.
Ken Whitehorse Nominated for 4LIYC Honor Roll

BY LAWS PROPOSAL
A By Laws Proposal has been submitted by Daniel Hearn and Lars Barber. The club will take a vote on the proposal at the February 15, 2024 4LIYC Business Meeting.

Proposal to change Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club Bylaws, Article 3, Section 4
Section 4 – Effective 11 /1 /96 dues shall be as follows:
• Senior member – $20.00
• Junior member – $5.00 (3/27/96)

Change to

Section 4 – Effective 11/1/2024 dues shall be as follows:
• Senior member – $30.00
• Junior member – $5.00 (3/27/96)

Reason: Expenses have increased significantly since 1996.
Submitted by: Daniel Hearn and Lars Barber

By Laws Proposal & 4LIYC Zoom Meeting Tonight @ 6:30 PM

Zoom meetings from a Skeeter cockpit are fast.

We will be meeting remotely tonight via Zoom. Club members should have received an email link. If not, please let me know.
WHAT TO KNOW:
Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM CT
ZOOM ONLY!

A By Laws Proposal has been submitted by Daniel Hearn and Lars Barber. The club will take a vote on the proposal at the February 15, 2024 4LIYC Business Meeting.

Proposal to change Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club Bylaws, Article 3, Section 4
Section 4 – Effective 11 /1 /96 dues shall be as follows:
• Senior member – $20.00
• Junior member – $5.00 (3/27/96)

Change to

Section 4 – Effective 11/1/2024 dues shall be as follows:
• Senior member – $30.00
• Junior member – $5.00 (3/27/96)

Reason: Expenses have increased significantly since 1996.
Submitted by: Daniel Hearn and Lars Barber

Notice of Dues: Join the 4LIYC With New Online Payment Option

Tim and Peter McCormick sailing Renegades on Lake Kegonsa, March 2023. Photo Credit: Ethan Brodsky

JOIN THE 4LIYC
It’s time to start sharpening runners and renew your Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club membership for the 2023-2024 season. We are excited to introduce our new online payment option. Whether you are a first-time member or renewing your membership, we’ve streamlined the process by offering online payments. However, if you prefer to make payment by check and mail, you will still be able to access and print our membership form. Your support is instrumental in advancing the sport of ice sailing.  By joining, you’ll get the coolest yacht club membership card in sailing in electronic or hard copy.

4LIYC By Laws Proposal for Feb 15 Business Meeting

 

Joe Norton flags Damien Luyet at the 2023 Renegade Championship on Lake Kegonsa. Photo: Will Johnston

Proposal to Change the 4LIYC Bylaws & Racing Rules
Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club scoring chair, Tim McCormick,  has submitted a proposal to change the Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club Bylaws and Racing Rules. Tim’s proposal will “alleviate the confusion we had last year in the Skeeter fleet and clarify scoring classes with multiple fleets at regattas.” The changes are marked in red in the pdf document and affect the following:

  1. Bylaws: Article 6, Section 6
  2. Racing Rules, Part III Race Management, 7. Scoring, h. Fleets
  3. Racing Rules, Part III Race Management, 8. Stay-At-Home-Series & Regattas, c.

Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club members in good standing will vote on the proposal at 4LIYC Business Meeting on February 15, 2023. Please review the proposal.

Notice of Dues: Get The Card

A Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club Notice of Dues postcard should have recently arrived in mailboxes. Please consider joining and supporting the 4LIYC. Your membership helps us maintain our ATV and equipment and keeps this website running. You’ll get this cool membership card to flash around at any yacht club featuring Joe Berger’s fast photo of Nite sailor Don Sanford sailing lifting a runner Lake Monona last season.
Download, print, and mail a membership form here.