June 2026

Club Meeting - Tuesday - June 9th

Come early to meet and greet your SPSC members. Meetings starts at 7:00pm. We are in a meeting room at District 850, 2662 Fleischman Way, Tallahassee, FL.

Meeting Agenda

Constitution of the Shell Point Sailboard Club

Summary of Consitutional Changes

Rick Upson
2026 SPSC Commodore

News from the World of Windsurfing

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Blast from the Past

Here are some blasts from the past images. The one with Paul and Joan was on December 30, 1997, when it snowed in Tallahassee. Paul told me that he had called in sick that day to go sailing. Hope his boss didn’t read the democrat!

Summer Series 2026

This year’s summer series is off to a great start. We’ve had 20 different sailors participate. Because there is no registration for these races, we have been writing down names of people instead of sail numbers.

This past race had one sailor not able to get his centerboard down, yet he managed to finish the race and when he got to the beach, the centerboard came right out the bottom, and another sailor raced the entire last race without a fin. I’m guessing he was having too easy a time with a fin.

Scoring has the same score for Did Not Start (DNS) and Did Not Finish (DNF). Usually, a DNS is total number registered plus 1 whereas a DNF is total finishers plus 1. Since we have no registration for the Summer Series, if 6 people finish and I have others that sat out but have raced in the past, they would all get sevens. On Sunday, the wind was wicked, so not everyone sailed every race, so if only 2 people raced the last race, all the other people in that fleet that didn’t race would get threes. The key to winning the summer series is to race as many races as you can.

SPSC Club Meeting Minutes

May 12th, 2026 – District 850

Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm

Approval of Minutes

Motion: Joe
Second: Jack
Approved

Announcements

Rick: Film SC Regatta – end of meeting.

Purser’s Report (Bob)

Insurance due June – Agent updating info
Funds split with Smith Regatta
Bank account healthy
PayPal too.
CD: Healthy
Total Balance: Healthy

Equipment

Bought 5 booms (training)
Some funds spent for practice days (?)

Membership

Rahib: ? New member
87 members total

Prestige Flags – Burgees

45 burgees
Cost + shipping + PayPal
Losing a little per burgee

Banking / Financial Administration

Debit card for Bob – Board agreed: John Gilbert – For Chase – Bob bought
Synovus – debit card
Vaughan is 2nd Purser
Rick: “Can never have too much money”
Rachel: “If we had a billion dollars, is that too much money?” (Bailey may be late). Ask about cats
Ryne: Absent
Pia: IGN

P.O. Box

P.O. Box – Rick: Expensive to rent
Mail going to Bob’s address now
Action: Update website address – Bob to do; P.O. Box on brochure?

NIMBY – Location Discussion

Rick thinking about locations
Potential locations discussed:

Buccaneer St. George – Presnell?
Panacea Inn?
Carrabelle Camp Ground?
Moorings?

Random discussion on how to find a location – No decisions made

Short Video

Shown at meeting

Award Presentation (Joe – Added Agenda Item)

Several months delayed
Welcome to Sport Fleet Rachel
Trophy – photo taken

Old Business

Discussion on replacement doors on the trailer – Ask Stan?
Bob picking up equipment from traveling nurse – Anyone interested?
Random chatter about Rick and the WETA

Constitution Revision

Bob offered petition update
Enough signatures to proceed

Upcoming Events (Rick)

Motion to? (add to events calendar?) – Bob to add
Reggae? Adding – All Sailboards Race (Atlanta?)

Meeting Adjourned

Meeting adjourned. (Adjourned at approximately 8:05 PM)

Post-Meeting Discussion

Discussion on how to make events more “green”
Discussion of asking places like Posey’s to use cardboard clamshells for dinner packaging instead of styrofoam