After so many years with a core group of people doing their part it comes together pretty well.
Barb Caster and Sue Korz are this years co-commodores.
They did the oversight. (I cook hotdogs)
I looked in our booklet and came up with 41 differant committee's listed. That means 41 people in charge of a committee.
So lots of help makes it easier.
Some of the key positions:
NOR/Registration, Website, Welcome committee, Booklet,Friday Party, Breakfast/Coffee, Saturday Party, Saturday Dinner, Sunday lunch, Parks & Permits, Entertainment/DJ, Race Committee, Chase Boats, T-shirts, Trophies,Sponsorship,Scoring,Beach Captain,Jury,First Aid,Beer/Soda/Water/Rum,RC Lunches,Marks & Tackle, etc. etc.
When new people come in we try and "encourage"(railroad) them into doing a committee with the help of a more seasoned fleet member to make sure they know the counts and have a reasonable budget to work with while not feeling intimidated by the whole thing. At the fleet meetings each committee is discussed to be sure it's being handled so there are a minimum of surprises(there are always still surprises)(think Rum in Clevland).So most items are out in the open as far as what is happening.
My feeling is that you give out a t-shirt, provide plenty of food and drink, nice trophies and a place to dance, people will keep coming back. We try and really show appreciation to the volunteers to keep them coming back. There are a lot of people that don't sail that help with this regatta.