New Jersey Windsurfing &
Watersports Association
NJWWA News
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4/24/10 - Brant Beach, NJ Earth Day Beach Sweep
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day. As part of NJWWA’s commitment to working to protect our water rights, our volunteer members took part in the annual "Green Up Clean Up" day held up and down the shores of Long Beach Island (LBI). This event was sponsored by the LBI Business Alliance and other groups including NJWWA. For many of us, this was the first time we had met since last year, so it was great to see everyone again and to catch up on all the various news.
Our contribution was to clean up the north and south beach areas at Bayview Park, a popular sailing spot in LBI. We all met at 9 a.m. at the park and, after donning our official GUCU T shirts, and getting fortified for the day with donuts kindly provided by Paul Smith, we split into two groups to tackle the two beach areas as well as the children's playground and parking lot.
It was a nice sunny day, so this made the clean up really quite enjoyable. It became apparent that the seemingly endless winter storms this year had washed quite a lot of debris onto the beach areas. Over the course of several hours, NJWWA members bagged hundreds of pounds of trash including the usual suspects such as glass, cans, Styrofoam, bottles and bags. Also a substantial amount of wooden construction material (estimated at 600-700lbs) was washed up by the harsh winter storms.
At the end of the morning, an impromptu interview was held during which Joni interviewed Wallace about NJWWA’s involvement in the day’s activities. This interview is available for viewing on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eliEO0_-huM .
We hope that the newly spruced up park will entice everyone to start dusting off their various watersports gear for the season and head down to the shore. The water is getting warmer and a number of us have already been out, so, we look forward to see you all there soon.
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3/24/10 - USWA Veteran Joins the NJWWA Board of Directors
The Board of Directors has unanimously voted to install Tom Latham as NJWWA's new Secretary. In his acceptance speech Tom stated, "I'm glad to be a part of the NJWWA. I look forward to reporting to our members, and helping to steer the club in the right direction." We now have a complete slate of Directors and are very excited to learn from Tom's past NJWA Club experience, as well as, his extensive USWA regatta racing knowledge. Please join us in welcoming Tom aboard!
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3/8/2010 - Earth Day "Green Up Clean Up" on April 24th
The Second Annual Earth Day Long Beach Island "Green
Up Clean Up" will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2010. The NJWWA
Board of Directors and our volunteer members will meet in Bayview Park,
Brant Beach at 9:00am to sweep the Park of trash and debris. More
information and details to come so, please check in for updates at
LBI Business Alliance.
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12/16/2009 - Board Meeting - NJWWA Member Survey
The results of our 2009 Member Survey are in and were discussed in
great detail during our Board of Directors Conference Call on Wednesday.
We had a tremendous response rate with over two-thirds of the membership
taking the time to complete it. Now armed with the honest opinions and
desires of our membership, the Club's leadership is fully prepared to
make our second year even more successful at meeting the needs of all
our members. A sincere thank you goes out to everyone who took the
Survey.
As we head into our second year, we would like to remind everyone that
our Board positions all carry a two year term of service. So if you are
thinking of taking a more active role in the direction of the club,
please let the board know and we will certainly include you in our
general board discussion throughout the year. We do technically have an
open board seat for Secretary now that Paul has assumed the Race
Committee Chair position. So please don't hesitate to step up and
volunteer for this important role as third-in-command of the
Association.
We wish you happy holidays and a safe, prosperous new year!
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8/7/2009 - World Windsurfing Day set to August 16th
SuferToday.com - On August 16th, 2009 the World is invited to share the
magic of windsurfing with their friends and family. A concept that has
been started by the innovators at Starboard; ‘World Windsurfing Day" is
designed to introduce new blood to the sport.
This year, the program is intended to be a small-scale event. The
concept is based on the fact that most windsurfers in the world are
introduced to the sport by their family, and without that critical first
introduction many people would not have started.
Starboard’s Brand Manager Tiesda explains:
“More than 80% of active windsurfers today are windsurfing because their
dad or a friend taught them. Growing windsurfing is as simple as that.
So on the 16th of August, we’d like to invite the hundreds of thousands
of windsurfers the world over to introduce windsurfing to friends and
family. It’s simple virus theory: one cell becomes two, two becomes
four, four becomes eight, and so on. It really is up to us to introduce
windsurfing to those around us, and this is what WWD is all about”
“Windsurfers the world over are invited to head down the beach and
introduce a friend or two to windsurfing. Your best mate, your
girlfriend, your son, your daughter, your grandpa or your pet – share
windsurfing with them on WWD 2009.”
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8/4/2009 - First Steps Taken with New Race Program
Working toward fulfilling Section ii. of the club's charter, the board has promoted our Secretary Paul Smith to Race Committee Chair. Paul did a tremendous job from planning to organization to execution of our "Race Across the Bay" event on August 1. With our first Race successfully under his belt, Paul intends on taking our Race Program even further towards full-fledged USWA sanctioned Regattas in the future. Paul will be fulfilling both board positions until a new Secretary can be installed, so please contact us with your nominations or pledges to volunteer.
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6/20/2009 - New Board Position Created
During our Second Board meeting held at Lakes Bay, the new position of Membership Chair was instituted primarily to lead our membership recruitment activities. As a member-based recreational club, we rely almost solely on membership dues for our operating expenses. Although our operations are fully funded for the 2009 calendar year, we are in need of additional capital for future initiatives. Our Secretary Jeff Bauer has accepted the challenge to head up the new position and NJWWA member Paul Smith has graciously taken over for Jeff. One of our members has generously donated $100.00 and existing members can also help by purchasing T-Shirts and decals from our web store with each item netting $10.00 for our club. Stayed tuned for our full Board report!
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6/5/2009 - NJWWA highlighted in USWA Newsletter
Click here for the USWA June Newsletter
Penned by one of our founding members, Alasdair Gilfillan, the article titled "East Coast Update: New Jersey Windsurfers Fight for Water Access" provides a great overview of our Bayview Park Access Initiative. It also includes a rendition of our Logo and a picture of NJWWA member Bill Steber speeding across the bay! A big thanks to Jim McGrath USWA President and Scotia Bauer USWA Executive Director for their support of our organization.
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5/29/2009 - NJWWA Logo Final Design Adopted
During the New Jersey Windsurfing Association's first meeting of 2009 recently, it was decided to change the charter of the organization to include all non-motorized watersports; Kiteboarding, Kayaking, Stand Up Paddling (SUP), Sunfish Class, etc.
The membership has since been working hard on redesigning our logo and we finally have come up with the final design. All existing members will soon receive a newly minted 4" round vinyl decal suitable for application to sail panel, board, hull, car bumper, or any other place to show off their dedication to their sport.
Now, new members upon payment of dues will receive a club welcome letter and logo decal via US mail. Also, existing members who wish to have additional decals may purchase them on our website store for $10 with the proceeds going to support our causes.
See you on the water!
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4/26/2009 - New NJWWA Website Launched
We are proud to announce the launch of our new website www.windsurfnj.org. We are asking for current members and prospective members alike to offer suggestions for articles, pictures, videos, links, etc. by emailing your ideas or files to info@windsurfnj.org. Let us know what you would like to see offered for sale with the NJWWA logo, such as t-shirts, flags, sunvisors.
We are also offering a free Lifetime Membership to anyone who brings on a Corporate Sponsor! Corporate Sponsors can have their web banner ads displayed on our homepage, as well as, a link to their website listed on our links page. Contact us at info@windsurfnj.org for more information.
See you on the water!
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