Here's the latest news from SEAS Monmouth From Commodore Jerry Grennan

I have great hopes for this chapter of the Society for the Education of the American Sailor over the next two years and I will need the help of every one of you to achieve them. You might have noticed that we have lost the services of many of our truly great active older members. Some have moved away from NJ, others have passed, while others have lost the ability to carry the load due to age or diminished physical abilities. We need you to step up and fill the void. There are many opportunities available for you to contribute to this organization with the talents that you already possess. Your Board of Trustees and I, along with many of our long time active members, are available to you to help start you in sharing in the operation and growth of our club. We offer all our members training in sailing and non sailing positions: become a skipper, advance your skipper rating, learn and teach new sailing skills, administer activities, learn basic and advanced boat maintenance. We are the most successful chapter of SEAS with the most members, the most boats, the best and most diverse sailing areas. This chapter is going through its second iteration of its membership and it is up to all of us to step up and carry on with the successes of those who have done the work to make SEAS Monmouth the shinning example that it has become. Remember that 4 hours of volunteering your time is part of your membership requirements.

Interested in learning about racing?

Keyport Yacht Club holds an annual 3-part intro to racing series for their members. Any SEAS members who might be interested are cordially invited to attend any or all sessions. Part 2 (Sat Mar 9) focuses on “race day” – people & jobs, start sequences, scoring Part 3 (Sat April 6) is a “Rules” primer.   Each session runs an hour or two (depends on participation). No cost, RSVP not needed, anyone interested can email the RACE committee ( kycrace@gmail.com) or Diane Bonnell directly at dcbp33@optonline.net. Here is a flyer describing the program in detail: Racing Seminars Flyer

Monthly General Meeting, Tuesday February 26, 2019, 7:30pm. Keyport Yacht Club, 115 First St, Keyport

Note the new earlier starting time for the meeting. This is in response to members' comments about the meetings ending late on a weeknight. Alison McCarthy, Coastal Watershed Protection Coordinator, Clean Ocean Action (COA) will speak about their water quality work in the Navesink River. Come find out more about what's going on to protect and restore one of our primary recreational and sailing resources! For all who are interested, dinner before the meeting will be at Old Glory Ki tchen, 84 Broad St, Keyport, NJ 07735, gathering at 6pm.

We need ideas for speakers and/or topics for our monthly meetings If you know someone who can present a topic of interest to SEAS members, or if you attend a meeting somewhere else that has a presentation that you think would be relevant at a SEAS meeting, please let Joan Venezia know. If you are able to speak with the person about coming to a SEAS meeting that would be great, but if all you have is their name and contact information, with some background information about their topic and where you saw them, email it to Joan at joan.venezia@hotmail.com  and she'll take it from there!

It's Membership Renewal Time!

The membership application is available below.

2019 Membership Application

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