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| Commodore |
July has sailed by and we are drifting into August with several more opportunities to gather at the Club. With only about half of our sailing season passing under our rudders, there is a lot of time left before we put our yachts onto the hard...so come out and enjoy the lake.
Our ECSC Laser team and the ISC/ECSC 420 team were also very competitive at Semi's and will return again next year. I congratulate all of our Indianapolis junior team members for the hard work and preparation they did in getting ready for this event. I also thank all of our Club members, parents, and adult coaches and chaperons for their support and for contributing their time and resources to make our ECSC junior sailing program so great and rewarding. We look forward to seeing you on the water at the Club in August for Wednesday night fun racing, the Supper Sunday event, the Governor’s Cup regatta, and the Commodore’s raft up and rendezvous party. Who says there is NO sailing in August? Safe and fun sailing....
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Jim and Kevin did a splendid job preparing the Pig for the 4th of July. This was their 20th year to cook all night. They had a number of good ole stories the night before. They surprised us with a soda-pop cozy cover. Fran, Ed Rice, and the Knapp Family hosted the event. Many mucho applause for them. Except for a little rain all morning, the well-decorated shelter house was still crowded at the dinner bell. Great job!!!! Our next event is the Commodores Party. Our Commodore has requested a change in date, August 8th, 6:00pm. Permission was granted. This will be a raft-up, BYOB, and bring hors d’oeuvres for 30 plus. So hop onto our Race Committee boat, float a party pontoon or your yacht, and join us on the Lake. We will have a Full Moon. So come and join us tipping our Commodore exchanging good ole stories!!! One last opportunity left. We have NO host yet for the Labor Day Cookout. That’s Monday, September 7th. This is a golden opportunity to get your maximum Work Credits (15) for 2009. So call me Charlie, Diane, Judy, or Bob. We all need a leader. That could easily be you!
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| Vice Commodore |
I'm writing this from the stern of GOBLIN, a Nelson/Marek 50 on a delivery trip from Mackinac Island to Harbor Springs. But, first to our outstanding junior sailors and the fabulous support team our Club took to I-LYA's Junior Bay Week. Indianapolis Junior Sailing (kids from both ECSC and ISC) sent 9 of our best youth sailors to Put-In-Bay for this year's US Sailing Smythe, Bemis, and Sears Cups. Full results can be found elsewhere in the TellTales, but I must say, I was proudest of our kids receiving the team sportsmanship award!
Right: Our Junior Bay Week Team As I write this, seven of our kids are competing in Sandusky, Ohio for the Semi-Finals. Our two young ladies sailors (who are not at Semis), raced in a class that is not sailed at Semis. Another of our Club's shining moments at Bay Week was when I heard over the marine radio when help was needed on the course, "Let's ask that nice boy in the Eagle Creek RIB to help!" Nice job Ki and Hannah!! Also, kudos to Evan Williams and Phil Hallstedt for their work on launch and recovery (70 boats daily), and to Tony and Joyce Hubbard for bringing Integrity to the island for the most eye-catching viewing platform on the lake. And finally, Thanks to Wayne for getting gear and kids there and ready. Also, kudos to Hannah Fisher who coached for us at Bay Week, and to Jason Hubbard who stepped up and is coaching our kids at Semis. I was proud to be from ECSC!!
Left: Rick on GOBLIN Ahh - life on the bow! Now, I'm headed to Harbor Springs for 2 days of working the bow on STRIPES...a Santa Cruz 70. Then, back on GOBLIN for the Harbor Springs regatta...and a long delivery back to Chicago. Editor's Note: In our Laser Full-Rig Area E Semi-Finals last year in Cowan Lake, Ohio, the two winners (Tim Zacher and EJ O'Mara) went on to the National Finals in Chicago and won there, too. This year, our ECSC youth sailors competed almost every weekend against the National Champion!! Our two Laser sailors who are currently competing at the Semis are John Fisher and EJ Williams.
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| Governor's Cup Regatta |
This years Governor's Cup Regatta will be held on 9/12 and 9/13. We expect 30+ boats to participate in the two-day event. Last year, we had a great turn out and a fun dinner party under the tent in the lower grounds...and this year will be even better!After racing on Saturday, the regatta committee is throwing a Mardi Gras themed party complete with all the Cajun favorites including boiled craw fish, grilled shrimp, and crab etouffee. Everyone will want to stay around for drink pong, a team flippy cup challenge, and an ECSC Idol karaoke contest. Dinner will be at 6:30pm, $12 per ticket. Bring the entire family out for a great time!
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| Safety & Education |
Junior Bay Week NewsWith 147 boys & girls running around the Put-In-Bay Yacht Club, it’s very hard to pick out our kids... This is our 7th year at Junior Bay Week and we just get better each year. 9 junior sailors this year represented us from ECSC and ISC. We didn’t win a 1st place, but what a show...Up to 14 races over 4 days in light air and a heavy chop.
Right: Our team with coaches and awards at the awards banquet
Laser Radial Class (18 boats):
Laser Full Rig Class (15 boats):
420 Class (38 boats):
 Above: All the junior sailors at Bay Week!
Becca Hallstead started out poorly the first day of racing at Bay Week, but she put her head together and climbed to 10th the second day and by the third day, she was 8th. The last day with only one race didn’t have much of a chance to climb any more. “Good job (iron lady).” John Fisher, sailed in 2nd place most of the week. This young man finished 1st at Bay Week in Radial last year and moved over to Full Rig this year. He has 3 more years before he times out. Remember, the sailor John was always 2nd to is the reigning national champion in the Laser.
RJ Graef, was running in 2nd place all week, but ran into trouble the last day and lost places in the end. "A Job Well Done" to our ECSC and ISC junior sailors!! Left: S&E Chair Wayne I also wish to say “Thank You” to our support staff: Tony & Joyce Hubbard, Phil Hallstead, Rick Graef, Evan & Katie Williams, Ki Hickok, and Hanna Fisher for all of their hard work in putting this together. Without your help, the kids would not know this part of sailing and team work. And, Thank You to all of our Club members who helped with their donations to send these kids to this major U.S. event!
Have Opening For Two More Junior Sailors
Something to Think About
Junior Sailing Calendar - 2009 Above: EJ who just edged out John for 4th place
at the Area E Semi-National qualifiers.
September 6, Super Sunday ECSCSeptember 12/13, Gov’s Cup ECSC September 19/20, Lake Lemon, Indiana October 10/11, Hornback ECSC
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| Bailer's Tips & More |
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“Take a tall thin water tumbler and fill it with finely cracked ice. Lace this broken debris with 4 good purple dashes of Angostura, add the juice and crushed peel of 1 green lime, and fill the glass almost full with Holland gin....No sugar, no fancying. It’s strong, it’s bitter – but so is English ale strong and bitter, in many cases. We don’t add sugar to ale, and we don’t need sugar in a Death in the Gulf Stream – or at least not more than 1 tsp. Its tartness and its bitterness are its chief charm. It is reviving and refreshing; cools the blood and inspires renewed interest in food, companions and life.“
PART I The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built as solid as a ship. It was shaded by tall coconut palms that were bent by the trade wind. On the ocean side, you could walk out the door and down the bluff across the white sand and into the Gulf Stream. The water of the Stream was usually a dark blue when you looked out at it when there was no wind. But, when you walked out into it, there was just the green light of the water over that floury white sand and you could see the shadow of any big fish a long time before he could ever come in close to the beach. It was a safe and fine place to bathe in the day, but it was no place to swim at night. At night the sharks came in close to the beach...hunting in the edge of the Stream. From the upper porch of the house on quiet nights you could hear the splashing of the fish they hunted. If you went down to the beach you could see the phosphorescent wakes they made in the water. At night, the sharks had no fear and everything else feared them. But, in the day they stayed out away from the clear white sand and if they did come in, you could see their shadows from a long way away. A man named Thomas Hudson, who was a good painter, lived there in that house and worked there and on the island the greater part of the year. After one has lived in those latitudes long enough, the changes of the seasons become as important there as anywhere else and Thomas Hudson, who loved the island, did not want to miss any spring, nor summer, nor any fall, nor winter. Sometimes the summers were too hot when the wind dropped in August or when the trade winds sometimes failed in June and July. Hurricanes, too, might come in September and October and even in early November. And, there could be freak tropical storms any time from June on. But the true hurricane months have fine weather when there are no storms. Thomas Hudson had studied tropical storms for many years and he could tell from the sky when there was a tropical disturbance long before his barometer showed its presence. He knew how to plot storms and the precautions that should be taken against them. He knew, too, what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane made between all people who had been through it. He also knew that hurricanes could be so bad that nothing could live through them. He always thought, though, that if there was ever one that bad, he would like to be there for it and go with the house if she went. The house felt almost as much like a ship as a house. Placed there to ride out storms, it was built into the island. I woke with a start, a dog was licking the salt off my sweat-stained T-shirt. I was disoriented more than usual. The days in Bimini seem to drift along, I have no compass fix, no globe...nuthin’. At least this is what I think every morning/afternoon/odd hours when I wake with a start with dogs, goats and other island wild life licking me. I should have never discovered the recipe to Hemingway’s favorite drink “Death in the Gulf Stream,” but when I read his novel, Islands in the Stream, I had to …and the rest is history. Sail on....Sail on!! The Bailer
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| Membership |
Welcome to new members:Will & Marcia Jewsbury of Kokomo who will be sailing a Hunter 23. Ryan & Wendy Knapp (Legacy to Ray Knapp) of Avon sailing a Hunter 23. They are the 13th & 14th new members to join since 2/25/09, making our total active membership number 233.
Right: New members Mark, Vera and children Sophia, Adam, & Carl at the New Member Regatta. Rich Fox will host a New Member Orientation on Saturday, August 29 from 10am to 11am at the Upper Shelter House. This is open to any member who would like to become more familiar with the operations of the Club. We would especially encourage members who joined in 2008 or 2009 to attend. New members will also learn how the Club's Winter Storage program and Annual Dues/Fees programs are administered. If you have friends or family members who are interested in joining the Club, bring them along. There is plenty of great sailing weather left this year! Remember when talking to possible prospective members, anyone joining after September 1st will pay only the initiation fee. They will not have to pay annual membership fees for the remaining months of 2009. This would give them the advantage of sailing in the fall and also place them higher on the wet slip waiting list.
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| Ask Sharkey |
Dear Sharkey,As a new ECSC member without boat, how can I get myself invited to crew with someone from the club? -- Sealorn
Dear Sealorn,
Right: An obstacle on our Lake to watchout for. Smile at anyone who even looks like they could be associated with a boat at the meeting and introduce yourself letting one and all know you are ready to get onto the water and have some fun! Share some fun facts about yourself such as you own a "dancing" Bar. If you are a gal, tell them you used to dance at one and still have a cousin who does (and she is coming to town for a visit and wants to go sailing). Offer to crew and bring lunch, adult beverages, or both. Bring a business card to pass out on how to get in contact with you. How about announcing that any one who has you as crew will get help cleaning the boat. Finally if you own a dancing bar, used to dance at one, or have a cousin that still does, will help clean the boat. Bring lunch and adult beverages! Look for the boat with all the flags flying called MACH 1. =================
Dear Sharkey,
Dear Joyce, The name "Cirripedia" is Latin, meaning "curl-footed" for those ECSC members who speak Latin after a few rum drinks. Around 1,220 barnacle species are currently known to exist according to Sponge Bob who shared the Barnacle clan recently...had a family reunion which took place on your pilings. It was quite the party with special guest Barnacle Bill the Sailor in attendance singing his one-hit wonder until all hours of the night. Got a question....Ask Sharkey |
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As for me, I left Put-In-Bay and headed to Port Huron, Michigan to sail on GOBLIN for the Bayview-Mackinac race. We finished 3rd in our section and had a great trip. We were among the first 10 boats on the island. I experienced everything from going up the rig under full sail (to clear a halyard) to a fire-drill spinnaker douse on a #4 jib seconds before being hit by a 35-knot squall. Then, there were the numerous late-night spinnaker peels and headsail changes. 
EJ Williams, was running in 3rd place most of the week, but let a couple of races get away from him. He will be a round for 1 more year. Good Job (Tight Squeeze??).