Shallow Water Sailor 2014 Membership Roster SWS#184 Revision 1 - 1/30/2014

Sea Fever

John Masefield (from Salt-Water Ballads, 1902)

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a gray mist on the sea’s face, and a gray dawn breaking.

I must down go to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way, where the wind’s like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over. A Birthday on Barnegat Bay By Jake Millar August 2002

I left my dock on a hazy day Out Beaver Dam Creek Bound for Barnegat Bay.

South of the bridge, the sail is set Shorebird heels over and gives me her best.

Down a bay full of diamonds, history and lore, My mind wanders back to days long before all this "progress" defaced the Jersey shore.

My reverie led me to dream of the past. I spied the Rosamond coming up fast, Captain Dorsett at the helm in a cap and a vest.

Catboats with names like Lotus and Vim Ghost down the bay on a breeze and a whim. SHALLOW WATER SAILOR Scows and schooners haul lumber and hay, Published for the SWS membership. It's 1900 on Barnegat Bay. ISSN 1935 - 200X

And just as quickly, I'm returned to the present, Editor : Kenneth G Murphy 20931 Lochaven Court Homes line the bayshore - nature is spent. Gaithersburg, MD 20882 Would Captain Dorsett recognize this place? 301-330-4983 Would a tear run down his weathered face? [email protected] www.shallowwatersailor.us In my own lifetime I'm saddened to say, "We have not been kind to Barnegat Bay." The purpose of the SWS is to share members’ sailing experiences and know-how. It is through this sharing Thunder clouds rumble somewhere to the west. that sailors are made and friendships Time to get home if you know what is best. gained. With such skills and relationships, sailing becomes more Shorebird and I will sail back to the north, than a past-time, it becomes a life-long Loving this bay for all it is worth. pursuit, a source of joy and rich memories.

- 2 - How to Submit Articles

The Shallow Water Sailor newsletter depends on members submitting notes, articles, and letters

For short notes or articles of any length, emailing the text is the easiest way for the Editor to receive and insert the material into the draft newsletter. Using any sort of word processing program adds the program's own type-setting commands that must be removed. So email is easier for the Editor. He simply copies and pastes the text into the newsletter.

If there are pictures that go with the article, sending them via email is, again, the best way. You can send full size photos as they come from your digital camera. If you send me photos, please remember that they may appear in other places such as a SWS CD or on our web pages. Those members still living in ages past ... with no Internet connection ... can send me hard copy photographs and text that I will scan in and immediately return to you. Also, I do think that members like to see and read actual handwritten letters coming from other members. Some of you have wonderful penmanship so send it on and I will scan your letter and place them into the newsletter. Subjects needed are the adventure stories of cruises on the nations seas, bays, lakes, rivers, and creeks. Any salty subject will do. How-to articles are always welcome as are tips on provisioning, comfort, clothing, and cooking. Seamanship, navigation, sailing trim, weather prediction, tricks on where to collect information for a cruise are all important subjects.

- 3 - Supplying Stories for the SWS Web Pages

The SWSer web site receives over 3000 hits every week. A number of people who spotted the website, and liked what they saw, have since joined the group. The most popular pages are the member stories. Lately the Editor has used Youtube videos that can add music and voice as well as images. The main problem is developing the text (the captions) that go with each picture. Unlike articles going into the newsletter, the web stories are basically pictures with captions. Members can help. Submit or identify photographs to be used and the captions for each photograph. The idea is lots of photos and just enough text to help the story along. The Editor can then be challenged to get the story and photos on the web. The front page, with a nice heading and appropriate background and text font structure, will be selected and the rest is pretty simple by downsizing each picture for the web and pasting in the text. The web pages have been upgraded to a 200 Mb size, so we have plenty of room. So bring those stories on.

The SWS On-line Sailing Manual

The Editor occasionally adds to the current manual. The organization can be improved and lots of good stuff added. I just don't have the time to write new sections, or re-write or add to existing ones. The manual focuses on the Dovekie and the Hens. We need other designs to be added. We need a Copy Editor who assures the use of good English and checks spelling. We need specialists in the various areas – navigation, maintenance, seamanship and the like. Please take time to review the manual and help out where your interests lie.

- 4 - Adding Your Personal Information to this Roster

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Send Me Your Quotes

When reading, or when in conversation, you will suddenly realize that someone has written or said something worthy of remembrance. If it's a salty type of a quote, or one you believe the SWS membership would enjoy, send it on for publication in the newsletter. In SWS Issue #138 I sent out a mystery quote. Here it is to refresh your memories:

“The first list we made out had to be discarded. It was clear that the upper reaches of the Thames would not allow the navigation of a boat sufficiently large to take the things we had set down as indispensable; so we tore the list up, and looked at one another!

- 5 - “George said: You know we are on a wrong track altogether. We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can’t do without.” “George comes out really quite sensible at times. You’d be surprised. I call that downright wisdom, not merely as regards the present case, but with reference to our trip up the river of life, generally. How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things which they think essential to the pleasure and comfort of the trip, but which are really only useless lumber. “How they pile the poor little craft mast-high with fine clothes and big houses; with useless servants, and a host of swell friends that do not care twopence for them, and that they do not care three ha’pence for; with expensive entertainments that nobody enjoys, with formalities and fashions, with pretence and ostentation, and with - oh, heaviest, maddest lumber of all! - the dread of what will my neighbour think, with luxuries that only cloy, with pleasures that bore, with empty show that, like the criminal’s iron crown of yore, makes to bleed and swoon the aching head that wears it! “It is lumber, man - all lumber! Throw it overboard. It makes the boat so heavy to pull, you nearly faint at the oars. It makes it so cumbersome and dangerous to manage, you never know a moment’s freedom from anxiety and care, never gain a moment’s rest for dreamy laziness - no time to watch the windy shadows skimming lightly o’er the shallows, or the glittering sunbeams flitting in and out among the ripples, or the great trees by the margin looking down at their own image, or the woods all green and golden, or the lilies white and yellow, or the sombre-waving rushes, or the sedges, or the orchis, or the blue forget-me-nots. “Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. “You will find the boat easier to pull then, and it will not be so liable to upset, and it will not matter so much if it does upset; good, plain merchandise will stand water. You will have time to think as well as to work. Time to drink in life’s sunshine - time to listen to the Æolian music that the wind of God draws from the human heart-strings around us...”

The above is one of my favorite quotes that I’ve considered in my own life and have sent it on to my kids in the hope that they seriously use its teaching in their lives. I did get some interesting responses from the membership. Jake Millar was first to respond that it was from "Three Men In A Boat" by Jerome K Jerome. A must read book written over a hundred years ago. Jake added that the “K” stands for "Klapka", so he got an extra point.

- 6 - Many who responded, indicated that the book was one of their favorites.

Hanson Robbins wrote the following:

The quote in SWS #138 is from "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome. It is one of my favorites. First published in 1889, it was a super best seller in its day, yet its Victorian humor still tickles my funny bone. I have a beautifully illustrated copy dated 1989 by Pavilion Books Ltd. drawings by Paul Cox. Here is the preface to the first edition:

The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened. All that has been done is to colour them; and for this, no extra charge has been made. George and Harris and Montgomery are not poetic ideals, but things of flesh and blood - especially George, who weighs about twelve stone. Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but for hopeless and incurable veracity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it. This, more than all its other charms, will, it is felt, make the volume precious in the eye of the earnest reader; and will lend additional weight to the lesson that the story teaches. London August 1889

Jake Millar sent the following quote:

When I think how great a part of my life has been spent dreaming the hours away and how much of this total dream life has concerned small craft, I wonder about the state of my health, for I am told that it is not a good sign to be always voyaging into unreality, driven by imaginary breezes..... If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps better than most. E.B. White The Sea and the Wind that Blows, Tales from the Skipper

- 7 - Leo Smith, in a letter, sent the following quote:

One thought ever at the fore – That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, all Peoples of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination.

Walt Whitman

Here are a few more quotes that have been used in past SWS newsletters:

He always thought of the sea as La Mar, which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her, but they’re always said as though she were a woman.

Thoughts of Santiago, the old man who caught the great marlin in “Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

“My heart has a smile on it – being happy is my heart’s law”

Spoken by grandchild, Erica Houck, age 6, in response to her dad’s question: “Erica, why are you so happy ?”

- 8 - Abbott Tom & Patty Spiro 850-773-7929 Dovekie #7 2658 Country Road [email protected] Chipley, FL 32428 Panhandle of Florida, with almost unlimited shallow water around the edges of the Gulf

Abeles Fred & Ann 301-662-6772 Bay Hen 21 7001 Runny Ct [email protected] Frederick, MD 21702 Eastern Bay of Chesapeake, MD

Ahlers Bob & Carol Moseley 518-469-3485 MacGregor 26 911 Central Ave. #287 [email protected] Albany, NY 12206-3443

Anderson Bruce

Bertacchi Mark 248-540-4316 899 Woodlea [email protected] Birmingham, MI 48009

Breeding Paul 303-465-1942 SCAMP # 82, Peep Hen, and a few smaller boats 1350 Daphne Street [email protected] Broomfield, CO 80020-1119

Campe Kaz & Diana 410-798-1103 Bay Hen 21 3329 Leritz Lane [email protected] Edgewater, MD 21037-3102 Glebe Bay, South River, Cheaspeake Bay, MD

Chipman Syd 828-728-1322 17' Sharpie 4445 Sister Lane [email protected] Lenoir, NC 28645 Small local lakes

Craig Mac [email protected] Australia

Davis Robert 228-466-4528 Macgregor 26D (1989) 127 Felicity Street [email protected] Bay Saint Louis, MS 39520 The Bay of St. Louis and Mississippi Sound

Deppmeyer Carl & Arlene 2425 SE Westmoreland Blvd 772-335-0630 Meadowlark Port Saint Lucie, FL 34952-5337 [email protected] South Florida including St. Lucie River, Intracoastal Waterway from St. Lucie to Stuart, FL, Atlantic Ocean

Deren Carol 631-923-0824 21 Horizon Court [email protected] Huntington, NY 11743

- 9 - Doormann Rudy 707-265-8415 Mudhen + other boats boats 17' or less 1732 Milton Road [email protected] Napa, CA 94559-9773 California, Oregon, and Washington State

Downs Laura & Chuck 704-843-5929 Dovekie #121 6606 Shaw Avenue [email protected] Waxhaw, NC 28173 Carolina coastal waters

Duff Maggie 508-758-4991 8 Harbor Rd Mattapoisett, MA 02739-2332

Durrett Dan & Sonnie Dovekie, #79; Kayaks; Hobie Adventure Island 586 L'Ombre Court [email protected] Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547-1815 Western Choctawhatchee Bay

Felix Gary & Celeste 402-689-5092 5121 Western Avenue [email protected] Omaha, NE 68132 North Channel with the Trailersailors in 2003 & 2005 in a Rob Roy 23, 2010 in a Dana 24

Follansbee Paul & Deborah 609-443-4028 Shearwater 04 & Red Zinger 203 Summit St [email protected] & [email protected] Hightstown, NJ 08520-4222

Forehand Gary & Deborra 252-729-1916 Dovekie #139 PO Box 129 [email protected] Marshallberg, NC 28553-0129 Biscayne Bay & Florida Bay, Florida; Core Sound plus Beaufort region, North Carolina

Forsyth Brian & Valerie 443-804-6439 Sea Pearl 21 13464 Lore Pines Lane [email protected] Solomons, MD 20688 Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent River

Gardner John & Lynne 585-637-4803 Shearwater 28 3 Carolin Drive [email protected] Brockport, NY 14420 Lake Ontario and canals nearby (Erie, Rideau, Trent-Severn)

Gerty John & Patricia 978-369-6014 Martha Jane #1 211 Deacon Haynes Rd [email protected] Concord MA 01742

Goldman Jay & Anna 609-426-1740 19 North Rochdale Ave, P.O. Box 545 Roosevelt, NJ 08555

- 10 - Gunnison Maureen (for Dana)

Gustafson John 805-643-8695 Dovekie #123 811 Saddle Lane [email protected] Ojai, CA 93023

Haberer Bill & Betty 828-697-0014 7112 SE Bluebird Circle [email protected] Hobe Sound, FL 33455-6010 Lower Florida Keys

Herold Gary 631-682-5430 Dovekie #119 131 Conklin Avenue [email protected] Patchogue, NY 11772 Great South Bay and Peconic Bay, Long Island, NY

Hoddinott Ron 727-391-7927 Sea Pearl 21 12492 104th Ave. N. [email protected] Largo, FL 33778

Hooten Wendy & Delane D's 501-250-4331 Shearwater #10 724 Janey Lane [email protected] Heber Springs, Arkansas 72543 Greers Ferry Lake, Little Red River, and Buffalo River

Hudson-Taylor Norm & Diana 301-229-2163 Litorina 16 Welleslay Cir [email protected] & [email protected] Glen Echo, MD 20812

Hume George & Anne 416-214-9331 Mirror, Laser & a canoe, kayak, & 2 o/b 513-39 Parliament Street [email protected] Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5A 4R2 South-east Georgian Bay - Honey Harbour area - summers spent on Bone Island.

Kapitan Morry & Linda 610-751-7621 Peep Hen 2741 W. Greenleaf Street [email protected] Allentown, PA 18104 Barnegat Bay, NJ and Chesapeake Bay tributaries

Kimbrough Graham & Wilma 423-334-4274 Dovekie #019 1725 Red Cloud Rd [email protected] Ten Mile, TN 37880 Watts Bar Lake, TN

Kimmerle David & Diane 416-224-5378 27' Bolger Schooner 270 Spring Garden Avenue [email protected] & [email protected] Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2N 3G9 Cruising Ontario lakes, rivers & canals

Kinns Howard Australia [email protected]

- 11 - Klopping, Jr Ernest c/o Pat Smalley 914-266-8040 Dovekie #005 14 West Cookingham Drive [email protected] Staatsburg, NY 12580 Hudson River

Knowles Larry 303-887-2023 Shearwater #1 2250 N Piper Avenue [email protected] Camp Verde, AZ 86322 Kühtreiber Hannes [email protected] Austria

Laux Donna & Dave 302-875-2917 Farrier F-27 18043 Asketum Branch Road [email protected] Georgetown, DE 19947

Lester James 978-768-3278 Compac 16 + Dovekie #41 83 Wood Drive [email protected] Essex, MA 01929-1126 Cape Ann, MA

Lewis David & Marcia Greenberg 301-862-2930 Montgomery 17 and a Hunter 26 P.O. Box 5013 [email protected] St. Mary's City, MD 20686 Chesapeake Bay and the Bahamas

Mahler Sonya Wood &Larry Mahler 144 N. Tanyard Road [email protected] Cadiz, KY 42211

McCrary Peter & Anna 703-369-6100 CLC PocketShip 8751 Weir Street [email protected] Manassas, VA 20110 Upper Potomac River and Chesapeake out of Shady Side or Solomons Island.

McGuire Ed & Mary 802-989-1636 Dovekie #94 4590 Munger Street [email protected] New Haven, VT 05472

McGuire, USMC CAPT Tyler 802-388-6740 1262 Newland Ct. [email protected] Carlsbad, CA 92008 Now flying HU-1Y helicopters at Camp Pendleton

Meledones Dean & Mary Slaughter 301-332-7569 Shearwater #03 9101 Eton Rd [email protected] , [email protected] Silver Spring, MD 20901 Chesapeake Bay and tributaries; MD & VA waters; Cape Cod & Islands, MA; Penobscot Bay, ME; North Channel, Georgian Bay, ON; Trent-Severn Waterway; Rideau Waterway, ON; Lake Champlain, VT&NY.

- 12 - Millar Jake & Judi 732-295-0531 Dovekie #107 612 Fisherman Pl [email protected] Brick, NJ 08724 Barnegat Bay, NJ

Mote Harry & Alice 609-660-0100 Shearwater #08 18 Woodmansee Blvd [email protected] Barnegat, NJ 08005-2431 Barnegat & Little Egg Harbor Bays

Murphy Ken & Virginia 301-330-4983 Bay Hen 21 20931 Lochaven Ct [email protected] Gaithersburg, MD 20882-4467 Chesapeake Bay, MD ; St. Johns River FL ; Everglades Wilderness Trail, FL

Neal Peter 715-651-4988 Dovekie #034 2615 West Lakeshore Drive [email protected] Rice Lake, WI 54868-8826

Parsons John & Nancy 410-268-2935 Sabre 32 1314 Homewood Lane [email protected] Annapolis, MD 21401 Middle Chesapeake Bay

Payson Charles & Evelyn 920-563-9125 Dovekie #44 N1133 Vinne HaHa Road [email protected] Fort Atkinson, WI 53538-8713 Door County, Wisconson

Regan Steve & Marianne 319-352-5153 West Wight Potter 15 1626 Maplewood Drive NE [email protected] Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 Iowa lakes

Repolle Israel 302-745-4864 1400 Canopy Walk Lane, Unit: 1414 Palm Coast, FL 32137

Robbins Hanson & Linda 410-778-6015 Grand Banks 36 Box 551 [email protected] Chestertown, MD 21620 West coast of Florida to Halfax, NS

Ross Leigh & Desiree 484-464-1575 Martha Jane & Dix Coquette 39 PO Box 574 [email protected] Kresgeville, PA 18333 East Coast and Great Lakes

Sampson Phil & Paula 703-830-1795 Dovekie #013 12648 Water Street [email protected] Clifton, VA 20124 Chesapeake Bay

- 13 - San Miguel Frank & Julie 484-288-8325 AF3 #2 327 Wagontown Road [email protected] Coatsville, PA 19320 Upper Chesapeake Bay

Scheuer Nick & Gayle 815-398-5640 Albin-25 233 N. Calvin Park Blvd. [email protected] Rockford, IL 61107 Anywhere in North America!

Smith Leo & Sandy Lommen 518-283-0565 Martha Jane 166 Sharpe Rd [email protected] Wynantskill, NY 12198-2916 Upper Hudson, Erie Canal, Lake George, & Lake Champlain

Smith Carr & Joy 904-742-4167 Sanibel 18 1988 3704 Marianna Road [email protected] , [email protected] Jacksonville, FL 32217 St. John's River, also joined the West Coast Trailer Sailors

Soechting Peter & Karin Helgolaender Str. 22 25938 Wyk auf Foehr [email protected] Germany +494681-2929

Sparks Brent 728 Fown Lane [email protected] Newark, DE 19711

Tomasi John [email protected]

Travis John & Coleen 920-459-8383 Bay Hen 21 and Rhodes 22 328 Riverview Ln [email protected] Sheboygan, WI 53081 Lake Michigan (Wisconsin Shoreline), Green Bay, Lake Huron - North Channel

Trussell John & Kathy 803-776-5822 Toon 19 & Scamp #95 209 Running Deer Road [email protected] Hopkins, SC 29061 Lake Murray, SC

Wilcox Elliot & Nancy 203-488-2192 88 Notch Hill Road, Apt. 158 [email protected] North Branford, CT 06471-1848

Wolfe Norman & Tiiu Kera 301-216-4842 18' NormsBoat design by Michalak 556 Russell Ave. [email protected] Gaithersburg, MD 20877 Most of the Chesapeake Also we have a second boat a Raider, 24' designed by Jim Michalak (stored in Tallinn, Estonia)

Zohlen John & Mary 410-266-6516 Bay Hen 21 2546 North Haven Cove [email protected] Annapolis, MD 21401-6894 Chesapeake Bay and tributaries; MD & VA waters

- 14 - Zutter Steve & Teresa 703-369-5092 1989 Peep Hen #8? 8567 King Carter Street [email protected] Manassas, VA 20110-4891 Potomac, Occoquan, parts of the Chesapeake Bay, the Chincoteague, VA area and Key Largo, FL / Florida Bay area.

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