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Intro | In Memory
| Central Bay | Peninsula | North Bay | Eastbay | Rio Vista SFBA Newsletter - April 98 Bay Area Windsurfing ’98 - Are You Ready? Success comes when preparation meets opportunity. Now more than ever, SFBA needs your support to ensure we can provide adequate influence and direction to the numerous changes facing the Bay Area windsurfing community. You can’t attribute everything El Niño! Change can be bittersweet, and the last five months have been no exception. In this issue you’ll read about a windsurfer, father, husband and co-worker, Brad Beitel, who passed away unexpectedly while skiing this winter. His family thoughtfully requested that contributions be made to the SFBA on behalf of Brad, to be used to improve the sport of windsurfing in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. The SFBA would like to thank the Beitel family and friends for their generous donations in the memory of Brad. As any expert skier or windsurfer will tell you, anticipation and constant correction for instability ate two of the secrets to being smooth. If you’re smooth, change is a cinch. In this issue you’ll also learn about what the SFBA has done to anticipate, influence and correct for changes at Crissy Field, Treasure Island, Berkeley, Rio Vista and other windsurfing locations. The SFBA is also working to be a more proactive and responsive organization, and in this spirit the Board of Directors has made “listening to you” a high priority. At our parties/meetings in September (Peter’s Café) and October (St. Francis Yacht Club) of last year, membership feedback included a number of suggestions:
We're working on these and other suggestions, and we need your help to make them a consistent reality. You'll also notice that in this issue we've included an updated site map, the usual calendar/list of events and windsurfing vendors, and other goodies in anticipation of and in response to your needs and requests. SFBA is also undergoing major change in its day to-day operations. Throughout its history, SFBA has operated exclusively on volunteer energy. Volunteers, comprised of windsurfers and non-windsurfers, for whom tomorrow is just as real as today. Beginning this year, SFBA is considering going 'semi-pro' to assist with the administrative, financial and newsletter production responsibilities. While this should improve things such as our ability to respond to new member applications and other requests, this increase in effectiveness and responsiveness doesn't come for free. To continue to provide the most basic service to our members and the many non dues-paying windsurfers In the Bay Area, and to make the jump to a more responsive organization we are raising the annual dues from $10 to $20 per year, due at the beginning of the season. So pay-up Shriners, as we have lots to anticipate, to prepare for, and to accomplish in this Year of the Tiger, 1998! Bill Robberson, SEBA President P.S. - Mark your calendars for our first party of 1998 on Friday, April 17, at the St.
Francis Yacht Club Editor's note: This is our first newsletter of the year and I just wanted to recognize
a few new faces and names at SFBA. First, I wanted to acknowledge Todd Drake and Kho
Siodin for volunteering without exactly knowing what they were getting into. Kudos also go
to Dianne Thomas for her contributions to this newsletter (hopefully we'll hear more from
her in the future). Don Fukushima. Brian Geasa, and Bill Robberson will be keeping us
up-to-date as access issues continue to untold at Berkeley. Rio Vista and Crissy Field.
Peter Liu has also volunteered to report on events at Coyote. Anyone with ideas or
articles to submit, news, etc....please email me at karinaoc@earthlink.net or call at (415) 661-9584.
SFBA Volunteers Wanted We are currently in need of an SFBA Newsletter Layout / Desktop Publisher. The
volunteer must know Adobe PageMaker or OuarkXpress. Please call Karina O'Connor at (415)
661-9584. We are also looking for a person to process membership documents. Please call
Bill Robberson at (415) 885-4357. |
