Soundings Newsletter of South Port Sailing Club April 2009 Message from the Commodore, Rene Brown Launch May 2nd is right around the corner, and the South Port calendar of events is quickly filling up. We have the Wine Tour on April 5th. Contact Nora Walton to sign up. There is a Canadian Power Squadron Youth Boating class at our club April 18th. Don t miss the Member s Pot Luck on April 25th organized by the Bufton s. Come on out and we can tell each other how much work we have left on our boats before launch. Then of course there is Launch day! The Mainstays yard sale on May 9th can help us clean out our garages, attics and basements. SPSC racing starts with the first Wednesday race on May 13th. After Launch we will straighten things out around the grounds at Allen Shearn s May 23rd Work Party. The club house walls look great with a new coat of paint and we thank all those who came out to the painting party. If you haven t checked out the website lately, you will find much new content. Thank you Ryan and Chris for all your time and effort. We just returned from BVI where we enjoyed an excellent adventure with great friends. Won t be long now before we are sailing right here on Lake St. Clair! Content Pg 2 Land Cruise 04/05 Cruising 2009 Pg 3 Cruising BVI Pg 4 Sailing School New Fireplace wall Pg 5 ECPHF schedule 2009 Youth Boat Pro class Property Chair message Pg 6 April Calendar Clubhouse duties Proud Grandma Membership changes ECPHRF Boats of the Year 2008 Pg 7 Mainstays Yard Sale Men s Lunch Cards & Games nite Mainstays Meeting May & June racing Members Pot Luck Pg 8 Webmaster message Windsong to Sea We are attempting to alleviate some of the distortion of the photos in our newsletter. It is partially caused by the down sizing required to send the issue by email. This month once it is on the site, we will notify you by email with only the link. Go to the site and click on newsletter or Soundings to view. From the Harbour Master Launch May 2nd If you have not returned your Launch and Summer Dockage form, please submit with payment to the Attention of The Harbour Master as soon as possible. Any questions regarding dockage or haul out, please contact Wesley Arthur. If you misplaced your form, extra copies are available in the main room of the clubhouse. March 23/2009 5 weeks to go! Mark your Calendars Sail-A-Bration 2009 Sunday June 7, 2009 Details and reservation form to follow in May Soundings South Port Tees $10.00 S-M-L robtim@cogeco.ca Pg April 2009 Soundings
2 Land Cruise Sunday April 5, 2009 Viewpointe Estate Winery Hop on The Windsor Essex Trolley leaving Southport at 11:00 a.m. Return 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Cost $50.85 per person includes tax, transportation, wine tasting, and lunch. Viewpointe s culinary director, Mary Ann Marshall will instruct us in how to prepare some New Orleans classics. Them time to relax and enjoy lunch paired with Viewpoint s wines. Additional wines are available by the glass. Contact Nora Walton, Cruise Chair at your earliest to reserve. Space is limited to 45 people at the winery. We need a minimum of 30 people to run the Trolley. Members and their guests welcome! david_walton9@sympatico.ca or 519-979-9491 Cruising 2009 organizers Land Cruise Viewpointe Winery April 5 Dave & Nora Walton Sandbar Dinner Cruise May 23 Dave Robichaud & Jackie Timothy Thames River Weekend Cruise June 13 & 14 Tim & Denise Aseltine LaSalle Mariners Pelee cruise/race..continues beyond July 12 to Lake Erie North Shore July 10-12 Dave & Nora Walton Peche Island weekend Cruise July 25 & 26 Greg & Fran Schlosser Great Lakes Yacht Club weekend Cruise Aug 1-3 John & Sue Bufton SPSC Invitational race/cruise Aug 8-9 Committee to be established Belle River dinner Cruise Aug 15 Dave & Nora Walton Thames River weekend Cruise Sept 5-7 Jack & Marg Entwistle End of Season Cruise Windsor Yacht Club dinner Cruise To be determined To be determined Details of each cruise will be highlighted as the season progresses Soundings and on the website calendar www.southportsailingclub.com A long distance cruise to The North Channel July 4 is being organized by Ken Blyth, with member of the Windsor Yacht Club. Please contact Ken directly if you have an interest or for additional details. kblyth@cogeco.ca Pg 2 April 2009 Soundings
3 The South Port Burgee flies again in BVI by Jackie Timothy The Browns, Aseltines, Waltons and Robichauds headed to BVI March 6, 2009 and spent a week sailing aboard a 42 Catamaran Imagine. With 4 cabins and heads, and 4 good skippers, we started off in Road Town on Tortola and visited Norman Island, Peter Island, Cooper Island, Spanish Town, Monkey Point, Leverick Bay on Virgin Gorda, and continued on to Jost Van Dyke, Sandy Spit and White Bay then on to Sopers Hole spending our last night moored in Little Harbour. We motored back to Road Town Saturday morning March 14th. Imagine flew the American Flag, South Port Burgee, our Commodores flag for Rene, and the Canadian and Ontario flags. We ate most meals aboard, enjoying great dinners on the BBQ. We sunned, snorkeled, took the dinghy in to the Islands, and enjoyed lots of laughs. Lisa and Nora took a turn at the helm, but the ladies left the handling of the yacht to the guys! All our concerns about hairdryers and makeup vanished within a day! We docked our evening in Spanish Town celebrating an early 30th Anniversary dinner for Tim & Denise. The night ended with gag gifts on our return to Imagine over after dinner drinks. The weather cooperated, although very windy for this time of year. On the 13th we experienced some minor rain showers. Other than the usual flight delays returning home, it was a great trip! Snorkeling BBQing Sunning Edible what?? Happy Anniversary Tim & Denise! Pg 3 April 2009 Soundings
4 Head Sailing School instructor Darcy Fuller is hard at work with the paper work preparing for the new season! 42 degrees 19`03 82 degrees 50`33 Thank you..it looks great! Our fireplace wall has a new look thanks to the efforts of Peggy Shearn over the painting weekend. The technique is a faux treatment that simulates pitted travertine. A wallpaper liner is installed and from there Peggy s talents went to work! The Latitude and Longitude of the Club is painted above each bookcase, and hanging in the center of the wall is a new piece of sailboat art Pg 4 April 2009 Soundings
5 Essex County PHRF Association 2009 Regatta schedule for 2009 May 16th LMYC Shakedown Regatta 1 Lake Erie Counter July 4-5th TRY Sea Regatta 1 Lake Erie Counter July 18th CIYC Maple leaf Regatta 1 Lake Erie Counter Aug 8-9th SPSC Invitational Regatta 2 Lake St. Clair Counters Aug 22nd LMYC Fighting Island Regatta 1 Wild Card (St. Clair or Erie) Sept 6th CIYC Labour Day Regatta 2 Lake Erie Counters Sept 19th SPSC Harvest Moon Regatta 1 Lake St. Clair Counter Youth Boat Pro Class from The Property Chair, Allen Shearn Work party May 23rd 9:00 a.m. till 12:00 noon Have your children or grandchildren register for the Youth Boat Pro Class. Pass the exam at the end of the class and receive their Pleasure craft operators Card. This class is open to ages 8-14 yrs. Birth Certificate must be provided if writing the exam Saturday April 18th 0900 to 1700 ( 9 to 5 pm) at South Port Sailing Club All materials and lunch provided Cost $ 40.00 Contact Tracie Berekoff at 519-978-3071 or tberekoff@cogeco.ca Thank you to the Painting Crew! If you have been to the clubhouse lately, you will have noticed the main room and hallway have been painted. If you have not been out, you are in for a treat! On the weekend of March 6, 7, 8th. we held the first work party of 2009. Before we started, Gord Richardson delivered both his and John Bufton s extension ladders. Friday night the 6th, Greg Schlosser and his sons, Paul, Mark and Mike cleaned the ceiling fans, moved the furniture and pictures and prepared the walls for painting. Peggy put wallpaper lining above the fireplace and primed it in preparation for a new look. Saturday the 7th, Bev Pryce, Denis Rivet, Jay Laird and Graham Cowen painted the main room, while Peggy continued work on the fireplace wall. Sunday the 8th, Bev, Jay and Rachelle and 3 year old daughter Jayda, painted the hallway. The same day the fireplace was completed. That evening Greg returned with his sons to reset all the furniture, hang pictures and replace the switch plates. Thank you to the members above who volunteered their time. Pg 5 April 2009 Soundings
6 April 2009 Calendar This is the calendar displayed on our Web site. For details on each entry, please click on calendar on the Web site at www.southportsailingclub.com (the links are not active in Soundings but details are included in the newsletter) May 2009 Clubhouse Duties Calendar of Events May 3 to 9th Brixa K, Brockman L May 10 to 16th Colbourne, D & C May 17 to 23rd Cowan, G May 24 to 30th Dolsen M, McGeorge, M If you are unable to carry out your week, contact Allen Shearn to arrange for a volunteer to replace you! Please fill out the work sheets in the Kitchen Binder and make note of your total hours. Thank you Proud Grandma with her new grandson Luca Congratulations Adam & Renka Gesing Don t forget!! If you do not require a hard copy of Soundings each month, please email Jackie at robtim@cogeco.ca to be removed from the postage mailing list. Membership Changes March 2009 The executive has accepted the resignation of two long standing members Phil & Rosalind Peck Denis & Imogen Souliere Congratulations South Port Skippers & Crew Essex County PHRF Boats of the Year 2008 ECPHRF Spinnaker 1st Mo Regnier ECPHRF Spinnaker 3rd Chris Eagen ECPHRF JOG 1st Rene Brown Soundings is the newsletter of the South Port Sailing Club 210 Brighton Rd. Tecumseh, ON N8N 2L3 www.southportsailingclub.com Editor: Jackie Timothy Please send your contributions for the May issue by April 24th to Jackie 519-971-9699 or robtim@cogeco.ca Pg 6 April 2009 Soundings
7 Men s Lunch 2nd Wednesday of every month John Novak for details 735-3737 Card & Games Nights April 4 & 18th 7:30 p.m. Everyone Welcome... Contact Lorne & Rita Mann 948-9004 or Wayne & Nancy Hind 974-3905 Mainstays Meeting Annual Spring Pot Luck Dinner Tuesday April 7th 6:30 pm Come help us plan our summer activities, and our yard sale to be held May 9th. All Ladies welcome, especially new members. Come out and make some new friends! May and June Racing Schedule and Regattas Welcome in the 2009 Sailing Season May 13 1st. race Wed nite Series 1 SPSC May 16 LMYC Shakedown Put n Bay Ohio May 20 2nd race Series 1 SPSC May 27 3rd race Series 1 SPSC June 3 4th race Series 1 SPSC June 10 5th race Series 1 SPSC June 12 WYC Canadian Club Regatta WYC June 13 DRYA C Course Regatta June 17 6th race Series 1 SPSC June 20 Women s Challenge Regatta SPSC June 24 1st. Race Series 2 SPSC With a Pot luck Dinner Saturday April 25th 2009 6:30 p.m. Bring a dish and BYOB Come out and enjoy an evening with fellow members and make plans for another summer on the water! Organizers : John & Sue Bufton Pg 7 April 2009 Soundings
8 News from the Webmaster, Ryan Masse Share your photos on the South Port Website 1. in order to gain access to the club s new photo gallery on line, you will first need to have an account on our Forum. If you have not already done so, please visit the forum and register yourself a new account. By doing so, you will now be able to participate both in the forum activities and the photo gallery. 2. In order to post your own pictures to the gallery, you will first need to navigate your webpage to the gallery home page. There are links on SPSC s homepage found both at the top and left menu bars referencing the Photo Gallery. Once you find yourself at the gallery page, you will need to be logged in with your Forum login and password. In order to do so, click on the Login button at the top right hand side of the gallery page. 3. Once logged in, there will be a number of links at the top of the gallery home page that will appear, the most important being the Upload File link. This link will allow you to submit the pictures you have stored on your PC to the gallery and efficiently post them on line to the Internet for everyone to see. 4. To upload one or more pictures, click on the Upload File link at the top of the page. The next page will allow you to select up to 5 pictures to upload on the site. Click on the Browse button and find the picture on your PC that you want to post. Repeat this process for each picture (up to 5) then click on Continue 5. If all is OK, you will be presented with a screen that says Successful Uploads. Click on continue. 6. For each picture you have uploaded, you will need to select the album that you would like the picture to correspond to and optionally provide a title and description to that other can clue in on what it is. Once complete, click Continue. 7. That s it!! You should receive a confirmation on the screen that everything is OK. At this point you will be able to see all the pictures you have posted to the Gallery. 8. For information on all of the other features and controls of the Photo Gallery, you can visit the FAQ section found here at http://www.southportsailingclub.com/gallery/faq.php 9. If you have any problems, feel free to email me at spsc@masse.biz for help. www.southportsailingclub.com The Bahamas Windsong to Sea Update Jamie & Spots last posted position on Feb 18th was Hog Cay Bahamas..next door to Duncan Town on Ragged Island. Cuba Turks & Caicos Islands Pg 8 April 2009 Soundings