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IN THIS ISSUE
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Greetings:
NCESA has been busy working on the issues that concern all class members the last few months. From the National Regatta to the Experiments, to the changes in the scantlings rules. NCESA is working hard for you.
This past month NCESA's Board held it's annual Directors Meeting in Chicago with the largest turnout any of us could remember. We had some great discussion, hopefully someone from your fleet attended and will be able to brief you at an upcoming local fleet meeting. If not, later in this issue we have a good summary that will get you up to speed.
The most important issue we discussed was the big picture of the E-Scow Class Scantling Evolution and we had a long discussion and decided that we are a slow evolutionary one-design and that radical leap-frog development is not what the majority of the fleets and members would want at this time. We still have a very important scantling proposal in the A-sail on the table and it will take all of our wisdom (the Builder, Directors, Fleets and Members) to come to a good unified decision next fall. Please give it a fair review by getting a ride and discussing it within your fleets. Be well everyone.
Pete Price TO-12
BOARD SUMMARY 
NCESA's Board of Directors met at Chicago Yacht Club at the Monroe street facility Saturday November 13th, 2004. The twelve NCESA Directors (5 ILYA, 3 ECESA, 2 WMYA, 2 MESA) along with the four officers were joined by 11 regular member guests. The meeting began at 9:30 AM and ended around 4:30 with only a short break for lunch.
REGATTA Issues - Reviewed the racing at Crystal Lake in 2004 and reviewed the tremendous effort by a limited number of volunteers. Received notice from Martin Ford that he will no longer be available for PRO. Selected Minnetonka as the host in 2006, the 2005 Nationals are slated for Little Egg Harbor in New Jersey. 2008 (50th Anniversary) has three bidders and 2007 has none at this time. Hope to recieve more concrete ideas for a spectacular 2008 50th Nationals.
MEMBERSHIP Issues - 208 Regular Members, 265 Associate Members for a total of 473 members along with 23 new boats built in 2004. All of these numbers are up significantly from the past several years. Discussed the long-term problem and lack of support from ILYA area events in collecting NCESA dues to support the association operations of running Nationals, controlling the scantlings and disbursing information to all members. A new discounted $125 three year NCESA Regular Membership was instituted a $25 discount.
RULES (scantling) Issues - Reaffirmed the asymmtrical experiment limit of ten participants. Three open slots will be filled with a new application process. Discussed the possible timeline for submitting the asymmetrical proposal to the membership. Discussed the cost of conversion assuming it is approved. Listened to a proposal from Hans Meyer and discussed the issue of incremental change versus leap-frog change and came to the consensus that incremental change is most supported by the fleet. Discussed the use of carbon in E-Scows and agreed to submit a scantling ballot to allow carbon hiking sticks, carbon is prohibited in all other uses.
NCESA 2004 Board Meeting Summary - pdf
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A-SAIL THREE SLOTS OPEN |
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 The Board discussed and confirmed that ten Asymmetrical boats is enough for the fleet to get a good chance to review the proposal. Better distribution across the country is the goal in adding the final three slots that went unused last year.
Ted Beier and the Rules Committee are accepting application for boats that want to be added to the experiment in 2005. Boats that are in geographic areas that did not have an A-Sail boat in 2004 and boats that plan to travel to multiple regattas will most likely be given preference.
All NCESA Regular Members interested should contact Ted Beier tbeier@sbcglobal.net by 10 December 2004 to be considered. The committee will notify all by 1 January 2005 with their decision.
At the Board Meeting it was decided that the timeline for the A-sail Proposal is that the Rules Committee and the designers will finalize the scantling early in 2005 for review by all members, followed by a straw poll vote at Nationals in September, followed by input from all fleets and members to the Directors in the fall, followed by a vote by the Directors in November Meeting, followed by a mail-in vote being submitted to all NCESA Regular Members in the winter of 2005/ 2006. If approved, 2006 will be a transitional year with two sets of keeper trophies at Nationals, with the full scantling change taking effect in 2007.
Rules Committee Notice to Members
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LONG BATTENS APPROVED |
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NCESA's Regular Members were sent a scantling ballot to approve the Long-Mainsail Battens to extend the life of E-Scow mainsails. The ballot was sent out on September 30th and
By a vote of 96 in favor and 10 against the motion was passed by the membership and went into effect for the 2005 season.
Sailmakers have already sent out flyers to promote the change. 
Long Batten Ballot Results - pdf
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Easter 2005 - date |
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 Carolina Yacht Club will again be hosting the Easter E- Scow regatta on Friday and Saturday at Charleston South Carolina with the dates March 25-26.
Crayton Walters and Ross Griffith plan to serve up some Southern Hospitality for MC and E-Scows.
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BLUE CHIP RESULTS |
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 Tom Burton M-9 won the 2004 E-Scow Blue Chip held on gorgeous Pewaukee Lake. Winning only the last race and getting thoroughly trashed by Dick Wight (two bullets) on the first windy day. Just as they did at Green Lake at the ILYA Championships Burton's team won with consistency.
Friday saw great "Blue Chip" weather. Clear sunny skies and heavy air out of the West. Mantaloking New Jersey's MA-10, Dick Wight won both races going away. In the morning he was followed by Tom Burton in M-9 and newly married Jim Gluek of Pewaukee. Wight won the second race by playing the first south shore perfectly on the first beat and locking into a huge puff the first downwind and eventually won by 1 minunte and 20 seconds. Very impressive comebacks in the afternoon race by Mike Darrow and Toby Sutherland after both had bad first legs. Rob Terry was near the top all during the afternoon race as well using the north shore in on the first beat.
Saturday morning was beautiful, but with the winds lighter. Augie Barkow and his team recovered from a broken lower shroud the day before to win race 3. Saturday afternoon the winds lightened even more and Tom Burton in the M-9 picked the correct side every time to win race 4. Mystery Guest Johnny Lovell led the first several laps of this race, showing he was picking the Pewaukee racing game up. Sunday morning was a great water skiing day. The wind tried to fill in and the race committee (Sandy Sundberg) tried to start a race to no avail. 
Total Scores: Tom Burton-16, Dick Wight-24, Tom Sweitzer-25, Bill Allen - 28, John Dennis - 30. The Mystery guests was Olympic Tornado saillor John Lovell who finished a respectible 7th with 34 points. Pewaukee looks forward to hosting the ILYA Invitational in 2005.
Blue Chip Regatta Report È
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NEW RACING RULES |
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 The cycle of revising and updating the racing rules of sailing is now complete and the 2005-2008 rules are now available to all current US Sailing Members for free. Are you a member?
Join now to ensure that you have time to read them over and become familiar with the changes.
US Sailing Website
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ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES |
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The Minutes from the NCESA Annual Meeting have been posted on the website for several weeks now. There was very good attendance after the first day of racing held on the porch of Crystal Lake Yacht Club. 56 boats were attended the regatta and about 30 of the racing crew were NCESA Regular Members and allowed to vote.
Annual Meeting Minutes @ Crystal È
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WINTER EVENTS |
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 ILYA WINTER INLAND is schedule for Madison on February 11-13th. This annual event included fleet meeting in the morning and seminars in the afternoon with a luncheon keynote speaker US Sailing President Janet Baxter. For more information check ilya.org
STRICTLY SAIL (Chicago and Philadephia) is holding its series of Boat Shows with a wide range of boats on display including the new Melges-17 that should on display in Chicago. A new Philadelphia show is schduled for January 20-23 that will be for the NJ and NY area centrally located. With Chicago's Strictly Sail slated for Feb 3-6. http:// www.sailamerica.com
Strictly Sail - Philadephia Show Hours: Thursday, 1/20: 11am-7pm Friday, 1/21: 11am-7pm Saturday, 1/22: 10am-7pm Sunday, 1/23: 10am-5pm
Strictly Sail Website
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BURGEE FOR SALE |
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 NCESA is selling E-Scow Burgee Flags for $30. They are high quality heavy duty and will take years of abuse on the stern of your powerboat or on the flagpole by the water.
Drop an email to Dierk@E-Scow.org if you want one.
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