Soundings. Newsletter of South Port Sailing Club May Happy Hour & Euchre Night! Friday May 5th. Message from Commodore, Kelly Johnson

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1 Soundings Newsletter of South Port Sailing Club May 2017 Message from Commodore, Kelly Johnson As I write this we are only a few days away from launch. This month, SPSC has been a hub of activity as everyone gets ready for the water. Our strong sense of community and the pride we have in our sailing club is apparent as you walk through the grounds. It s evident as you see people helping one other, learning from each other, talking through new projects, or just chatting over a beverage. It s amazing how many jobs turn into 2 person jobs. During the month we had a few great activities at the club including the Happy hour & Trivia night, which saw 70+ people at South Port. Upcoming events in May, include a busy first weekend with Happy Hour & Euchre on the evening of the 5th, the spring work party on the 6th, and the SPSC Yard Sale on the 7th. Club also begins this month, including the new Sunday Turtle Stampede starting once a month on Sundays, from May through October. The first ECPHRF regatta, LMYC Shakedown takes place the weekend of May 20th. May 27th is the first cruise of the season to the Sandbar. Sail A Bration is also fast approaching. The reservation form is included in this issue. With all the activities planned this month, I hope the only ones staying away from the club are the geese! You can register online for club racing and regattas at The new monthly Sunday Turtle Stampede Series starts May 21st. Check it out under the racing section on the website and get registered! Happy Hour & Euchre Night! Friday May 5th Happy hour 5:00 pm Hot Dogs & make your own Tacos for purchase Fun Euchre tournament to follow in the sunroom at 7:00 pm. ($2.00) For non euchre aficionado s cards available for any game you like! pg 2 pg 3 pg 4 pg 5 pg 6 pg 7 pg 8 pg 9 BYOB & snacks Content LMYC Shakedown/Yard Sale Calendar of events/roster changes Cruising/Property Changing address 2017 RC duty schedule Trivia night/social from the Harbourmaster Spring Work Party Sail A Bration Reservation form 1

2 Race Instructions available on LMYC website On line Registration will be available starting May 1st. Sunday May 7th. 9:00 am to 1:00 pm SPSC Parking lot 210 Brighton Rd. Tecumseh Sellers & Buyers Welcome! Sailing related items only please If you are interested in participating as a seller or have questions please contact Gary Gavin at gary@garygavin.ca or Louise Marentette at social@southportsailingclub.com Fee for Sellers is $5.00 Pull up your car or truck and open your trunk. If you require more space a few tables will be available. If the weather does not cooperate we will be in the club s sunroom. Coffee and baked goods available for purchase! 2

3 The calendar is also displayed on our Web site. For details on each entry, please click on the calendar on our site at (the links are not active in Soundings but details are included in the newsletter) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday YARD SALE MAGEE SEEGER TEPE Sunday BATES Roster changes Monday Monday Monday Executive Meeting Practice Club Club Series Club Bob & Betty Layfield address: Amica Windsor 4909 Riverside Dr E #601 Windsor N8Y 0A4 HAPPY HOUR euchre SPRING WORK PARTY 10:00 am LMYC Shakedown Sandbar Cruise Clubhouse Duties June 4-10 Steel, B & G June Rindlisbacher, T & L June Brown, R & L June 25 - July 1 Van Beek, W & C Please complete the sheet in the binder located on the kitchen counter and note your total work hours on the lower right. To new members All supplies are in the stock room. The key is marked and hanging on the wall in the kitchen. If you have any questions please robtim@cogeco.ca If u see a repair or supplies are needed, sheets are available at the back of the binder. Please slip it into the office mail slot. Thank you! Lorne Seeger: boat name change - Against the Wind Adult classes start June 7th CANsail July 3 Kidsail July 17 Info available on the club website Sailing School Classes 2017 Soundings is the newsletter of The South Port Sailing Club 210 Brighton Rd. Tecumseh, ON N8N 2L Editor: Jackie Timothy Please send your contributions for the June issue by May 25th to Jackie robtim@cogeco.ca or call

4 Annual Dinner Cruise Saturday May 27th, 2017 Boats will be leaving the club approximately 3:00 pm Arrival & Dinner 4:30 pm A sign up sheet will be available in the club foyer or Denise Aseltine at 57gardengirl@gmail.com or RSVP by Wednesday May 24th In order for the Sandbar to accommodate us, please confirm the size of you vessel and number of people attending Land Cruisers Welcome! 2017 Confirmed Cruising Dates Metro Beach July 7 & 8th Great Lakes Yacht Club August 5,6 & 7th Full details will follow closer to the date If any member is interested in organizing any additional cruises, please Cruise Chair, Ann Ramey at cruising@southportsailingclub.com Reminder from Property Chair Please try to step your mast as soon as possible after launch to allow for grass cutting to start and picnic table maintenance to take place. If you are unable to do so by May 13th. please move it to the south side of the clubhouse building. Thank you for your co-operation! 4

5 5 From Communications chair, Paul Ramey

6 Race Committee Duty Monday Night 2017 Race Committee Duty Thursday Night 2017 May 15 May 22 May 29 June 5 June 12 June 19 June 26 July 3 July 10 July 17 July 24 July 31 Aug 7 Aug 14 Aug 21 Aug 28 Sept 4 Sept 11 Sept 18 P Ramey RJ Robbins K Tepe P Bowsher A Baker F Edgley L Seeger G Magee P Soles M Bevins F Eagen M Draisey B Steel W Hind W Bellemore W Van Beek R Jutras C McGhie B Pryce Spring Series May 11 K Johnson May 18 K Blyth May 25 J Marentette June 1 M Regnier June 8 D White June 15 B Dawes June 22 J Halpin June 29 K Mogyorody Fall Series Aug 10 D Fuller Aug 17 R Brown Aug 24 J Baker Aug 31 J Kepran Sept 7 J Shaw Sept 14 W Arthur Sept 21 T Aseltine Dates were selected at random. D Robichaud has volunteered to run the RC for the open Series in the summer. If you require re-scheduling for your week, please refer to the list above to make the appropriate switch with another member. Failure to provide RC for the week you have been assigned will result in a DSQ for that week on your overall score. Any question please contact Race Chair darcy_fuller@hotmail.com 6

7 From Social Chair, Louise Marentette Hopefully everyone's brains have recovered from the work out on Trivia Night! Thanks to all who turned out, it was another fun evening. Congratulations again to the winning Titanic Trivia Team members Paul & Ann Ramey, Gary Gavin, Matt Draisy, Bev Price and Christine Gignac. It was a close call, coming down to a tie breaker with the Dolsen, Halpin and Hellenbart team. (They generously re-donated their winnings back to the social fund to help with future events. Thanks! ) You guys are all so smart! Next month's happy Hour on Friday May 5th will have hot dogs and make your own tacos for sale. If you stick around after 7pm, the cards are coming out! There will be a FUN Progressive Euchre Tournament in the sun room. Buy in is only $2 and there will be 6 rounds of 8 games each. Everyone will switch partners after each round, just to make things interesting. Don't worry if you aren't the best player, its all in fun. The winning individual will take home 1/2 the money pot. In the main room, for the non euchre aficionado's, there will also be cards available for any game you like. Maybe we could get a wicked game of Go Fish or crazy Eights going, or maybe cribbage or rummy! You could even just sit back, relax and visit. It's up to you! Hope to see you there. The Winners!! 7

8 From Peter Soles, Harbourmaster On Saturday April 22nd we made an initial check of the channel depths in the lake. The good news is there was 6 to 9 feet of water in the center f the channel, and we expect the 3ater level to continue rising until July. We will recheck it using the Trillium on launch day. Thank you to Norm Rose for the use of his boat and Dave Robichaud and Joylane Gagnon for their help driving and recording the measurements. A Harbour work party was held on April 1st. 15 members came out to support it, and the following jobs were attacked: -A number of loose and rotten dock boards were replaced including one of the supports. -Deck boards and support stringer were installed on the north/south walkway, and it is 80% complete. -The old wood was removed from the two finger docks used by the sailing school, new support stringers were installed, and the dock board replacement was started. This job will be completed before launch. -A hole had started to form near the Gobi mats at the edge of the dock near the gin pole. A repair was made with concrete and rocks (similar repairs in other areas last year seem to be holding up) -John Marentette led a group of people in the construction of the new floating dock for the small boat crane (the old one was rotten) This job is complete, although some more work maybe be needed to improve the stability. Thank you to all members who attended this work party! Spring Work Party Saturday May 6th 10:00 am 8

9 Sail A Bration 2017 Sunday June 11th Let s Flamingle! Join us for a fun family day on the water and on shore Sail past Kids & Adults Games Blessing of the Fleet Dinner Menu: Cost: 2:00 pm 3:00 pm TBD 5:00 pm Chicken & Mashed Potato Bar Please bring a salad to share Cookies & Ice Cream $ per person Children under 10 eat Free Bring your own Refreshments RESERVATION DEADLINE Sunday June 4th To reserve please complete and drop off at the club office or mail to: Louise Marentette, Social Chair SPSC 210 Brighton Rd Tecumseh, Ontario N8N 2L3 Name Telephone Total Number of Guests Children under 10 Amt enclosed $ 9