Minutes of the First Steering Committee Meeting

Minutes of the Steering Committee Meeting of the Sailing Ship Anne Margrethe Association

15^th May 2007

Participating: Thomas Bretton Meyer, Niels Gade, Kaj Hansen, Arne Larsen Ledet, Bjarne Møldrup

Not in attendence: Martin Stockholm, Helene Moodie

AGENDA:

1.Founding General Meeting and the new steering committee

All expressed satisfaction with the successful way the meeting developed.

- A few errors crept into the first newsletter sent the 10^th of May. Arne will correct them.

- The Association has finally gotten an SE number (financial registration with the tax authorities) It is registered on the association’s bank account. Arne is working on establishing a netbank for the association.

- We’ve received an email about Helene’s future participation in the steering committee’s work. Thomas will contact Helene and follow up on the mail.

2. Reporter and meeting protocol

As the secretary was absent these minutes were written by Bjarne Møldrup. Until a meeting protocol can be established on a closed page on the Association’s website, Thomas will make a ringbinder as meeting protocol. These meeting minutes will be sent to steering committee members, and Arne will send them on to members.

3. Homepage. How we best use it.

The website is important for our communication with members. Arne is sweating and busting butt to make it as user-friendly and informative as possible. We’re working on the following:

- “Translation” (transcription so it is readable) of the original building contract of the ship. Any volunteers? David has promised to make an English translation.

- Arne is checking on the possibility for banner ads

- A members only part of the site should be established with log-on function.

- A membership list and debate forum will be here. (on that member’s page)

- Following email addresses will be set up:

info@annemargrethe.dk as public contact to the association¨

nyheder@annemargrethe.dk sent to all members- news

bestyrelsen@annemargrethe.dk sent to all steering comm. members

4. Membership list and mail list. 4.A Collection of Dues

Arne will update the mail list, which will be set in the members’ only page of the website. All members who have provided an address will be sent minutes and other information. Collection of dues. Arne will send a Giro card to members. Dues will be collected in two ½ yearly installments of 400 kr. each.

5. How do we get new members?

Each steering committee member has the goal of recruiting 5 new members

Thomas and Niels will try to get companies as members. These can well pay more than 5,000 kr.

Kaj will try to make a link from Thurø Sail Club and encourage TSK members to become members.

Thomas will work on making a folder about membership and a sticker with “We support Anne Margrethe”.

We will offer new members the possibility of paying their deposit in five installments.

Arne and Niels will investigate advertising things to sell from the website.

6. Planning and good ideas for the future.

As it will be a while before we can gather around the ship, it’s important that we establish sociability for members in other ways.

-Niels and Thomas will come with suggestions for courses to offer.

-Over the summer there will be at least two arrangements, for example

A lecture.

An outing to the ‘Loa’ ship project in Ålborg.

-A sail outing possibly to Ærø to visit Bonavista

7. Contact to Peter Ring-Andersen

Thomas will contact him to get the future cleared up. The goal is to get a written declaration of intent with purchase conditions.

8.Exhibition in Svendborg Sparekasse (savings bank)

Niels will check the possibility for getting the exhibition set up in the Town Library. Thomas will photograph the exhibition for the website.

9 PR, Radio, TV and other.

We must check out the possibilities for getting one of the TV stations to follow the renovation of the ship. Niels will contack Thomas Dal.

Thomas will be responsible for ongoing coverage in the press.

10. Invitation to apply for a legate from Birgitte Bruun’s family Fund

Birgitte Bruun has invited us to apply to her family fund for a legate. The application must be in hand by the 24^th of May. Bjarne and Thomas will meet her on the 17^th.

11. Other ideas.

There were no other new ideas.

12. Other and Diverse

The next meeting will be the 29^th of May at the Maritime Center.

Breakthrough!

Orietta Sloth, one of our Peace Odyssey crew from NZ all the way through to HK, 1974 - 1976 and a dear old friend, put the membership account over 250,000 kr. with her membership. Welcome Orietta! The balance stands at 256,000 kr. this weekend.

Gilbert Nicolas, the Frenchman who sailed the whole passage from NZ to arrest at Moruroa formed a Friends of Fri group in Bretagne, many years ago, and has been a faithful supporter and believer in the Fri story all these years. Les Amis du Fri have contributed 40,000 kr. to the membership appeal. They have just sent an additional 8,000 kr. to be used for the ship itself. I thought that it might be a good idea to try to do a basic video documentary of the ship as it is now, before any changes the association might want to make.

I would like to "video and tell" from one end of the ship to the other. The 8,000 kr. could cover professional help and materials to get the story "in the can". Editing and making it into something useful can come later. There are so many precious things from so many chapters in our part of her long story, and stories we've been told by the first owner's daughter and other crew from times past, stories connected to bits of the ship... stories which shouldn't be lost.
The Association applied to the Ragnhild Bruun Fund for money and just got notified that the Association has received a grant of 100,000 kr. with no conditions attached. Thomas Bretton Meyer, the chairman, feels that the money should be put into the membership account towards the purchase of the ship, and can be used for other purposes when the membership drive is complete. This is a big break!

Henk Haazen, one of the gallant gang from the PLENTY International and Nicaragua Peace Fleet projects in 1982-84 has just got his email list up and running again, after a salt water encounter at sea on board his beautiful 'Tiama' Charter Yacht (tiama@clear.net.nz --'Tiama' and Henk sail to some of the most remote and screaming 50's islands in the world, as well as Antarctica, Aussi and NZ)....and has circulated an appeal to Fri friends in NZ. They have started an account towards the purchase of memberships there. They have a balance of 2500 NZD.

I am waiting for the minutes of the first executive committee meeting from Thomas, and will translate and send them out from here.

Apologies for the long pause, my own computer has been destructively creative, and my mail list also is down... help!