32 Years and Counting… SCOT Comes to the RESCUE! Greater NY / Carolinas District Highlights
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VOLUME 47 NUMBER 4 2003 Looking For The Perfect Start? Putting On FSSA The Show Web Site Championship TIPS OF CHAMPIONS Great 48– 2003! 32 Years And Counting… SCOT Comes To The RESCUE! Greater NY / Carolinas District Highlights CONTENTS OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE FLYING SCOT® SAILING ASSOCIATION VOLUME 47 NUMBER 4 2003 Flying Scot® Sailing Association 3008 Millwood Ave. Columbia, S.C. 29205 803-252-5646 • 1-800-445-8629 From the President . 4 FAX (803) 765-0860 Email: [email protected] Regatta Adventures . .6 PRESIDENT James B. Harris* 775 Haw-Thicket Lane Putting On The Show . 7 Des Peres, MO 63131 (314) 966-8404 Looking For The Perfect Start? . 9 [email protected] FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Championship Of Champions. 13 William B. Ross* 178 Woodstream Road 32 Years And Counting…. 15 Mooresville, NC 28117 (704) 664-9511 [email protected] Scot Comes To The Rescue. 16 SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Bill Vogler* Great 48 - 2003. 17 1902 E. 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FSSA MEASURER The Email address for regatta notices and regatta results to be published in Scots ’n Water Robert J. Neff* is [email protected]. Updates on the web pages will occur between the first and fifteenth of 1032 Old Turkey Point Rd. Edgewater, MD 21037 the month. Visit the site frequently! Please save all articles submitted for publication in the (410) 798-4146 ASCII Text Format. [email protected] EDITOR, SCOTS n’ WATER SCOTS n’ WATER - Registered Trademark, Publication No. ISSNS 0194-5637. Published bi-monthly Kay Summerfield by FSSA at 3008 Millwood Avenue, Columbia, South Carolina 29205. Volume XL No. 6 Subscription is 705 Ocean Avenue $8 a year included in annual membership dues. Periodical postage paid at Columbia, SC 29201. Beachwood, NJ 08722 (732) 286-4890 Publication Deadlines: Issue #1, October 15; Issue #2 December 15; Issue #3, February 15; [email protected] Issue #4, April 15; Issue #5, June 15; Issue #6, August 15. Ad Rates: Call Jean Waldrup at (800) 445-8629. 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Scots n’Water ❘ Volume 47 ❘ Number 4 ❘ 2003 3 President’s Message From The President by Jim Harris, FS 5430 unshine Hartman was an excel- around the country created a supply of To say that we shall miss Sunshine, lent Scots ‘n Water Editor, and I’m real stories straight from the sailors. while a fitting tribute to her efforts Ssure all of us will miss her. Some Your travels with Jerry in your "Hilton" and devotion to her task, would memories of others follow this article. placed you in the center of every possibly send the wrong message to her She was equally famous for the regatta’s action. successor. On the contrary, I’m certain creative Glow in the Dark regatta put on You and Jerry are my good friends the tradition of excellence will by the Hartman clan (Jerry, Steve, Mike, and I’m looking forward to many years continue under our new editor. She’s et al). I could never remember the strict of sailing with you. I’ll miss your activ- certainly been shown the way. I look rules about Kamikaze toasting, prompt- ities and contacts as our Editor, digging forward to my next issue. Thanks ing more rounds of drinks. The out stories and reports from us to share again, Sunshine! costume party was memorable and the with the FSSA members. – Steve “Farkle” Hartman parties were especially good when too Thank you again, Sunshine! little wind or a big blow kept us from – Paul Moore sailing. Sunshine always made sure ■■■ ■■■ An Ode to Sunshine everyone participated in the fun and had a great time. I was always amazed at Sunshine’s “Sunshine” has been to us Sunshine and Jerry have traveled to ability to get out Scots ‘n Water, issue A name that we would come to know most major regattas and seem to know after issue, with interesting articles, A sailboat rare it was everyone. Attending regattas all over regardless of time of year or where she In Scots, it was the Glow the country, her understanding of the actually was! I also really liked her Flying Scot one-design philosophy and approach to regattas – her top 3 prior- Homemade the chili, and the wind her careful editing resulted in Scots ‘n ities were (1) have fun, (2) have fun, (3) They made for quite a blow Water being the best one-design race if it was fun to do so. Makes a lot Sunshine, with her skills at bar magazine published. Her idea of rotat- of sense! Had us to ask for drinks you know ing the focus of each issue among the – Dan Goldberg Sunshine became our friend indeed districts was a great innovation and ■■■ ■■■ With Jerry down the aisle she did go. led to more involvement by FSSA members. What’s more, I feel we all From the perspective of one who has learned from each other. in his many years at the tiller read and Scots ‘n Water is the magazine Sunshine always tried to provide a compared the editorial quality of such That we read through and through balance of articles in each issue, includ- class periodicals as J-24, Sunfish, Finn, Then came a need to edit all the stuff ing racing, parties, recreational sailing, Laser, Banshee, Mutineer and Prindle Sunshine did the job before we knew. helpful hints and other topics. The 16, I can say, without qualification, that How tough it was to get the words following are some thoughts from some Scots ‘n Water is the best. And pictures from the members too. of her friends: three ex- presidents, Over the last 10-odd years, editor With trophies and awards she tried Bernie Knight (poet laureate), Paul Sunshine Hartman has carefully but And words she got were not too few. Moore and Dan Goldberg; and cousin aggressively crafted our beloved news Steve (the chef) Hartman. magazine into a truly excellent Ten years have come and gone. publication. Sunshine’s called for other things to do ■■■ ■■■ Sunshine challenged her readers to not Bidding us to say "Farewell and thanks Thanks, Sunshine, for so many years only continue the tradition of news, bul- For all you chose to do." as our Editor and reporter. You found letins and race results, but to also add the stories that interested all of us. Your human side – the fabric of the people Bernie Knight friendship with Flying Scot people all who make up the Flying Scot family. 4 Scots n’Water ❘ Volume 47 ❘ Number 4 ❘ 2003 Greater New York District Regatta Adventures by Albert Collum, Stepson of Fast Eddy (Ed Summerfield, FS 4736) very regatta is an while sitting in the driveway. felt bad if Ed had driven When a tractor-trailer driver adventure for Ed Although Ed had no all the way down to the pulled next to him, and Summerfield, knowledge of the gun until Midwinters without his boat started screaming at him, Ed #4736, of Toms arriving in Panama City, he or crew!” knew there really was a ERiver Yacht Club in Toms still earned the unfortunate Of course, a tire blew on problem. When he pulled River, NJ. but amusing nickname of the trailer on the way down! over, he checked the boat, Four Midwinters in "Gun Runner". Oh, and no, Herb did not get only to see that the cover Panama City found Ed with The long haul almost nev- sick again on the drive had ripped as they cruised two broken vehicles, a er happened yet another down! along at 75 mph; as they contraband gun, and a year. Ed had been trying to Fate was no more kind to drove, the spinnaker had missing crew. contact Herb Lindsay, his Ed when he attended the been flying out behind the One year, Ed borrowed his crew, for several days before Saratoga Lake Invitational boat! father-in-law’s truck to pull leaving for the Sunshine in New York. What hand will fate deal his boat down to the State. Ed tried Herb’s cell While traveling up I-85, Ed next year at the Midwinters.