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| Commodore |
I hope everyone has been able to enjoy the Club as much as I have this year. Super Kudos to Wayne Myers and his staff for training our youngsters for two weeks this year! I’m going to try to talk him into 3 weeks next year! And, I especially want to thank my son Ki for stepping up as lead instructor. He started in the program back when Karl Walther was teaching and fell in love with the sport just like a lot of us. Also, back in use now is our gin pole. I helped Bill H. and Ralph M. with encouragement from my safe spot upon terra ferma. I call them the High Rollers now. Great work.
Going to try something different this year, so don’t make plans to go to the gambling boat...just come out to the Commodore’s “Casino Royále” Party on August 11th at 6pm. Once again, we will be raffling a wet slip for the remainder of the season to a new member. This will be available to any who joined the Club after last year’s Commodore’s Party, and who don’t already have a slip. MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!! And, we’re also giving away some fabulous prizes “Casino” style. We’ve got Black Jack, Craps, Texas Hold’em and Let it Ride tables along with hors d’oeurves and beverages. Just bring yourself, bring a friend, and bring your luck! If anyone happened to pickup a Purple and Black Full Hobie butt bucket (trapeze harness) with spreader bar, please let me know. Mine’s missing.
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Summer is officially here and the last few weeks have flown by. We are right in the middle of socials here at ECSC and though we have celebrated quite a few, we have many to go! Speaking of socials, we have a big one coming up Wednesday, July 4th. We will be grilling and chilling at the shelter house at 5pm that afternoon. It’s the annual July 4th Pig Roast. Please come by and celebrate with fellow members. Please bring your favorite side dish to share with everyone. We will be roasting a pig and will provide hot dogs, hamburgers, and corn on the cob as well. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank George Alyea, Kathy Lee, Charles and Kimmerly Kidd, Commodore Bob, and as always Bob Bodish, for putting together a great Father’s Day Brunch for everyone. We had nice weather and had a good turnout that Sunday. Thanks a bunch for all of your help!!!!!!!! Hope to see all of you at the Pig Roast and on the water!
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There are still a few members who have slips assigned and their boats are still on trailers. If this is you and you find a strange boat in your slip, call me, Rick Graef, or Commodore Bob Hickok instead of whomever is in your slip. We probably told them to be there. It's way past the date set by the Club to make sure you are in your assigned parking space. And, I say again, you can be fined for being so late. Please be courteous to your fellow club members.
Rick and I have been busy checking boat and trailer stickers. If yours isn't current, please make sure you attach it soon. The sticker on your boat is your pass to be on the Lake. If it isn't current, you may be asked to pay the lake launching fee (it's included with our current membership). We have also been trying to get rid of the ever present derelict boats. If the Club sticker on your boat isn't current, it may be mistaken for abandoned. And for those of you who never knew the gin pole was broken (that's the telephone-pole thingy you raise/lower your mast with), it is fixed. A BIG thanks to Ralph Merriman for helping me on the lift...to Bob Hickok, Bob Bodish, and Rick Ahrbecker for ground duty and to Don Birt for supplying most of the hard effort to get parts (alley brace, double arm bolts, etc., and other parts I'd never heard of before).
Right: Bill up high.... Also, PLEASE lock the gate when you leave after dark...even/especially if there are members still at the Club.
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From June: Bailer: "So, say this is “Pirates Penance,” why are you the only pirate I see? Guess you’re the one that has been leaving all the notes with tips and I suspect you know something of the Tailer-gone-missing mystery." Sam Bellamy: "Oh, it's no mystery. Tailer...I know where Tailer is...don’t you worry about that. After what you done to me, I realize how much I liked Tailer. Compared to you, he was my best friend."
The Beginning of July
Bailer: "OK, if you’re so magical and stuff, turn back into the catfish with me watching and maybe I will listen." SB: "OK, said the prince of the pirates. You watchin'?" Some water boiled to a huge inpenetrable mist, then a splashing sound! In the tank lay a catfish of nearly 22 stone! Bailer: "Huh? Do it again!"
SB: "I’m not a circus act." ...came the muffled voice from bubbles in the tank...all and all very good intonation for underwater speak. Bailer: "I missed it, I blinked." SB: "OK...insto presto!" ...Mist, boat shaking ,bubbles, same as before but different and then, splash! Pirate again! Bailer: "That’s cool, do it again." SB: "That’s enough. Now do you believe me?" Bailer: "Kinda, but If I saved your life, why are you giving me so much guff?"
SB: "Because I picked you out special. I was gonna take your body and put yours in the fish. You would be the fish and I would be you...none would be the wiser." Bailer: "I get it. You take my body so you can walk the land as a mortal and I’m stuck eating stink bait off fisherman's hooks while they swill beer and talk about “Old Joe”? That is selfish and you should be ashamed...yet, you are a pirate and all. So, I guess you get a gimmie on this one. Aha! I figured out why you chose me, I must say I do feel a little flattered." SB: "You know why I chose you, eh? Why then?"
Above: Ki helping with a capsize drill Bailer: "Because I am one of the most respected members of this Club, not to mention Hollywood handsome." SB: "Ha! That’s the first real laugh I have had in centuries. I chose you because I recognized you as a crackpot and no one would think anything was fishy if you acted out of character. The entire Club is already used to your aberrant behavior. I could go about my business and not play a part. I could be myself and no one would suspect. But nooo, you had to save my life and now I cannot take over your body! Now I am bound to be your servant. Pirate's code…uhh acid reflux…uck." Bailer: "My servant, eh? That works out well because my personal assistants went missing and I need some help around here. first task, fix my generators."
SB: "If I could go missing, believe me I would! I envy your crew. Personal assistants? Servant or not, do not call me a Personal Assistant. I’m a pirate! For the love of me, show some respect! And, by the way, the generators are fixed and running." Bailer: "Fixed and running? I don’t hear them." SB: "That’s because I put a muffler on them and added oil. Motor oil...not lard! Who does your maintenance?"
Bailer: "I had a muffler on them, I put them on myself. And the lard? What’s the big diff?" SB: "An empty beer can is not a muffler." Bailer: "Lay off, servant! Hey, my blender works! Want a boat drink?" SB: "Nay, I am a ghost. Remember?" Bailer: "What’s with your accent?" SB: "I’ve been roving this world for over 300 years. I don’t always talk like a pirate and for that I am ashamed...so it goes. What I will tell you is there are over 500 pirate ghosts wandering around this area and of all the fool ideas I ever heard was the pirate's code. I have to protect the one that saved my life. So listen close, here are three words to scare off pirate ghosts: “Git Gone Pirates!” Remember this. It will save you from being taken by one of the ghosts and save me from wandering the earth forever living as a fish...pirates curse and all."
Bailer: "What a crock! Joke's over! Git Gone, Pirates!" The trees shook. Boats rocked. The water boiled. Bird’s fell from the sky. A lone Giraffe ran across the parking lot. Bailer: "Hmmm, that was so cool! So, you’re my servant and you have to protect me and I know the secret words. I love this. Dance servant, dance!"
Sam Bellamy did a little jig. His peg leg clumping and then I stuck up my hand and said, “Cease pirate!" Above: Junior Olympic Regatta at Lake St. Clair Bailer: "So, these are some fancy tricks and to tell you the truth, I may believe you just a little. But, if you are a ghost, why do you clump and how can I see you?" SB: "Easy. Holographs and other special affects. I used to travel with Houdini a few years back. He taught me a thing or two. Now don’t feel any pressure. I do not expect to learn anything from you but humility...or should I say humiliation?" Bailer: "Alright ya knave, how about conjuring up some tips for our Club out here? I expect them now or in marina time when I am finished making my boat drink. Oh Prince of the Pirates, how about some tips?" Black Sam turned red in the face reached into his puffy shirt and pulled out a skin with writing on it (some would say foreign). A few days later, after I studied my test results, the skin was from the dried skin of a Giant Sloth (long extinct). The language was easy to translate..it turned out to be American. The most puzzling part was that the ink was from a sharpie...not a Wal-Mart sharpie but an art store quality sharpie. Odd I thought. I have to get back to the lab. I am doing some other research and Black Sam has some important questions to answer. Before I start drilling Black Sam for answers, I share these tips to study. There will be a test for a change of pace just so I know you are keeping up with your studies. It will be multiple choice so don’t sweat it. Below: Austin with his medal from Sandusky
Kind Regards and tack well..... The Bailer
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Junior Sailing Camp Over 50 boys & girls signed up and learned how to sail the past two weeks. I wish to say, “Thank You” to all who help out.
 July 15th – 20th are the dates that our junior sailors will be going to Bay Week this year. EJ Williams, Erika Williams, RJ Graef, Austin Graef, Cody McCoun, Jake Hubbard, and our newest Junior George Jerman. Team Support parents are Katie & Evan Williams, Rick & Sandy Graef, Bob & Anne McCoun, Tony & Joyce Hubbard, Bryan & Amy Jerman, along with Ki Hickok as team coach. Good luck to you guys.
Junior Sailing News
Something to Think About For all the educational books, courses, and videos, you can’t duplicate time behind the mast.
Calendar
* Denotes the I-LYA Traveler Series Races - Registration due by June 16th (Best 5 of 8) # Last chance for open-water qualifier for Bay Week. If you or your junior would like to travel to one of these regattas, please call or talk to us. The Club will supply the boats and some funding is there.
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Please welcome our new members to the Club: Greg and Linda Dallas of Greenwood, and their crew (children) Danielle, Drew, Natalie and Dallas, all sailing a MacGregor 26 and Hobie 16. Paul and Elyse Bernstein of Indianapolis, and their young crew Ryan, sailing a MacGregor 26 and a Y-Flyer “Tickled Pink”. Jack Haley of Indianapolis sailing the Merit 22 “Danny Boy.” Membership Count: 238
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2007 Overall Club Calendar, Click Here.
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