South Shore Yacht Club SOUTH SHORE PARK MILWAUKEE, WIS. PHONE 481-2331
February 10, 1982
Winter Storage Set for 21 Years Winter storage of yachts on the South Shore grounds for the next 21 years has been approved by the County Board and County Executive, in return for a fee equal to 35% of the charges paid by the stored boats. Commodore Walter C. Fuhrman announced the agreement at the general club meeting Jan. 28. Major action by the membership included approval of a three year, $30,000 modernizing program in the galley and of the club's buying a computer at a cost no greater than $15,400. The Board of Directors presented a balanced budget for, 1982. Fuhrman explained that the winter st 'sge authorization would be written the club's lease and would remain ,ld as long as the lease does. Members who store on the grounds will receive statements similar to those Bill Dickinson's pencil captured the chill of another snowy winter in this skid lot of past years: Haulout at $1.80 per view. foot, launching at $1.80 a foot, and so on. There will be an additional item: County surcharge of 35%. Computer Will Speed Many Club Tasks Fuhrman said it would amount to less than $18 on his 28 foot boat. By Mark Hauf Straw Box. Mechanized accounting, automatic Bette Simonsen, office administrator, Members whose boats are lifted by race scoring and faster, more accurate has been studying computer operation club derricks but are taken from the production of rosters and mailing lists for several months. She should be grounds will not pay the surcharge. are among the goals the club will operating our machine in March. Rear Commodore Marshall Reckard pursue with a computer authorized at said much of the club's cooking equip• the January general meeting. What's Going On ment was 25 or more years old. For some months. Bob Aring's Stove, broiler and deep frier will be Computer Committee has been look• Sun. Feb. 7 Brunch 10-2 replaced in the first phase, for which ing into the ways such a device could Sat. Feb. 13 Beachcomber Party the members approved an expenditure serve the club. Mon. Feb. 15 Dues Delinquent of $10,000. Slip Fees Due After looking at several different Tues. Feb. 16 SSYC Board computers, the committee selected Thur. Feb. 18 PHRF Meeting The Lewis Legacy the DataPoint 1550. This machine Compass Staff and the packages needed to run it Sun. Feb. 21 Brunch 10-2 would cost $12,900. Other services Tues. Mar. 2 Auxiliary raise the total cost to $15,400. Data- Dues Deadline Point is a major manufacturer with an Sun. Mar. 7 Brunch 10-2 excellent reliability record. Sat. Mar. 13 Dinner served Tues. Mar. 16 SSYC Board The purchase price includes pack• ages for ledgers, payables and receiv• Every Tuesday Happy Hour 4:30 - 7 p.m. - Snacks ables, payroll, bar and restaurant Every Wednesday reports and budgets. Movies at 7:30 p.m. Since the machine is programmable, Every Thursday — Ross A. Lewis we can develop our own applications Happy Hour & Tacos - 4:30 p.m. "How come you can do acrobatics on for it. Aring already has assembled a Every Friday the boat all summer but can't go to the group of club members with the needed Fish Fry and Specials - 5 p.m. club and dance?" skills. 2 Secure Your Boat From The By Bill Dickinson FLAG The gavel falls. "Sold to the gentle• man in the South Shore Yacht Club BRIDGE Blazer," says the auctioneer. of my neighboring boats was hit for txr. - radios and electronics including a TV • • • The man in the club jacket is you. and microwave. My finger pier partner You have just paid $285 for your own had prowlers scared off his boat. A Regency Polaris ship to shore radio. sailboat on "D" dock was invaded at By Walter C. Fuhrman Its appearance is now marred by noon one busy Saturday. Commodore, SSYC screw driver scratches. At this price, it's cheaper than buying a new one. Boats attract criminals. Most boats are not, and cannot be made, secure. By the time this becomes print we This hypothetical situation is re• Boating electronics are amazingly will be over the hump and down the peated annually at the police re• easy to steal and highly marketable. hill, with the worst of this year's winter covered property auction, according Poor lighting of anchorages and piers behind us and everyone looking for• to Sergeant Robert N. Moe. He patrols affords cover for thieves. ward to another successful and good the harbor. year here at South Shore. Let's hope He wants you to have your stolen Sergeant Moe advises: it's fair winds and calm water for all. property back, but the police can return 1. Know who belongs on which boat. The last that I heard regarding our to the owners only that which can be 2. Approach unknown people. Don't application for winter storage was positively identified. Without owner• be shy, but don't antagonize either. don't worry about a thing; it passed ship documentation, chances are The simple fact of your interest will committee with a 7-0 approval vote excellent the thief will go scot-free. discourage crooks. and the entire Board of Supervisors There are 5 boat robberies per "We don't care how many times we approved it 20-0. We then here at average summer in the South Shore are called to investigate something South Shore will have winter storage basin! Although moored boats are suspicious," Moe said. "Dry run or not, for the remainder of our lease or the particularly vulnerable, no boat is we'll try to check it out. We sincerely next 21 years. Complete details when unmenaced. Lastyeareven the police want to put an end to this stealing and everything is final. I know that I am not boat was boarded by thieves. Radio vandalizing, but we do need the mem• complaining. gear was taken. bership's help at South Shore." It can be noted and I wish to bring to Slip boats too were ripped off. One I'll write about how to "Secure The the attention of all members that this Boat" next month. year's budget request totaled over $355,000. The budget committee met five times and balanced the budget In Memoriam without the raising of any club dues. SSQ&A ^ But it should be noted also that no Richard IH. IVIayer Got a question about club business major repairs have been made to the you're reluctant to ask the responsible clubhouse since the remodeling. Richard H. Mayer, a life member committee cliairman? Ask us. We'll ask At the request of the Board of Direc• who joined South Shore in 1936, died for you and protect your anonymity. tors I have appointed a Long Range Jan. 12 at the age of 65. Why is the committee boat covered Planning Committee, co-chaired by A retired foundry superintendent of only by a foot of snow? Don Dillon and Ned Reiter, for the Badger Die Casting, "Richie" was Al Dreher, Race Committee chairman, purpose of developing a five year plan skipper of the graceful green Tumlaren acknowledges an error of judgment. for the replacement or acquisition of Kari. Born in the shadow of St. He left the canvas off to install a capital equipment. This committee Augustin's, on the "west hill" of Bay hardtop, and the weather surprised should throw an awful lot of light on View, hehadbeguncomingtotheclub him, he said. He planned to dig outthe many budget items that I know will be at the age of 12 and never stopped. Lily E. and put the cover on Jan. 31. coming up. He belonged to the generation that We have survived the wintersofar in built much of the present clubhouse good shape. The club got its annual with its own hands, and helped to complete housecleaning the first two install and test the large derrick. He weeks of January. sailed Stars in their heyday. Having all of the confidence in the He was a good companion, and his world that nothing will go wrong, I passing leaves a void in our lives. would like to thank Peter Reiske for the good job he will have done at the January meeting covering the instal• lation of officers. YACHT • BOAT • YACHT • BOAT Slip Licenses l\/lailed complete INSURANCE Slip Licenses for 1982 have been mailed. If you have not received yours, service contact Chairman Fred Hankwitz or Business-Auto-Home-Boat any member of the Slip Committee. TELEPHONE SYSTEMS PONS & CO. est. 1887 Gain efficiency & reduced cost by owning Both copies must be signed and 929 W. Mitchell Center your own electronic Key or Patox telephone returned by Feb. 15 with the full slip system. Milwaukee, Wl. 53204 CREMER ENGINEERING CO., INC. fee. If you do not intend to renew, 321 N. 121st St., Milwaukee, Wl 53226 please notify the committee at once. 645-6300 Phil Fons 414-774-8300 — Gary Mattson FULLSERVICECOMMUNICATIONSCOMPANY PHRF Rule Chosen ForSkelding Series The Race Committee has approved a rating change for the Skelding Series and added Division III to the PHRF fleet for SSYC's 1982 racing season. The Skelding Series, held the third weekend of June, has been sailed under the lOR rule. Now it will be raced under PHRF, said Al Dreher, Race Committee chairman. MORC and lOR boats are encouraged to enter the series this season, he said. The third division in the PHRF class — Bob Aring was added because the fleet is growing Pitching the bull: John Strassman, Jeff Putney and Scott Bruesewitz extolled El and the additional division helps to Toro dinghies for a frostbite fleet. , accommodate all the boats in PHRF, Dreher said. For details on the divisional breakdown and ratings, PHRF skippers should call fleet captain Gerald Schmid, Frostbiters Talk Up El Toro Dinghies he said. The regular SSYC weekend races in By Jan Gottfredsen the 1982 season will be Wind Point, Thirty hardy SSYC members met in A dinghy racing fleet was proposed Skelding Series, Tanger Series, December to discuss forming an El by Strassman, Jeff Putney and Scott Queen's Cup, Racine, Port Washington Toro dinghy fleet for frostbite racing Bruesewitz as a reasonably inexpen• and Grudge Series. The Tanger and each fall. A second meeting was sive alternative for skippers who want Grudge Series remain MORC only planned for January. to race In late fall but already have and lOR only races, respectively. The When the month came and passed their boats hauled out for winter storage. Queen's Cup and all other SSYC without a second meeting, John "Many of us would like to continue sponsored distance races are for all Strassman, one of the organizers, was racing into, say, November," said fleets, Dreher said. The 1982 racing asked why. Strassman, who is captain of the 210 schedule will be set by March 1. "It's been too damn cold to even fleet "But even if you have three 210s For specific details on respective ok our noses out the door for a out racing then you have nine people fleets' racing seasons, skippers should i.ieeting!" he said. involved. These nine sailors could be contact their fleet captains, Dreher said. The captains are Schmid, Ed January's blast of cold and deep individually racing their own dinghies Freiwald, MQRC; Jon Fischer, ICR; snows daunted even the hardiest, but if they had El Toros." John Strassman, 210; and Jerry Strassman has promised his group The 8 foot El Toro dinghy was Kedziora, SS/SSS. will meet again in February. suggested forSSYC by the organizers because it costs only $750, is popular — Jan Gottfredsen (10,000 U.S. owners) and appeals to the do-it-yourselfer. "An El Toro can be built in a base• ment by someone with minimal skills," A Word to the Unwise ISLAND YACHTS Strassman said. "We even have tem• Time is running out. Financial 1431 8. Carferry Dr. plates and the jigs for any member Secretary Dick Strassman warns. Milwaukee, Wl 53207 who may want them." (414)272-1472 Under the new By-Laws, dues paid Strassman said that the class is very HUGE MODERN HEATED after Feb. 15 are subject to a 15% popular on the West Coast. There is INDOOR SHOWROOM delinquency fee. Unpaid memberships an active racing fleet as near as BROKERAGE FOR terminate Mar. 2. Waukegan, III. Members interested in POWER & SAIL dinghy racing should contact him. COMPLETE SALES & SERVICE NEW BOAT DEALERS FOR POWER 210 Regatta Set Carver Hatteras Calitornian by Wellcraft SSYC's 210ers will host the 1982 Tiara Trojan Graves Plaque and 210 Midwest SAIL Championship regatta at the club this Catalina Hunter IIJ.PROSSEN INC. summer. Morgan 82 Pearson The Graves Plaque is set for July 29 ALSO SEE DUCHOW MARINE Design, Build - Industrial & Commercial and 30 with the 210 Midwest Champ• FOR TRAILERABLE BOATS Construction • Land Development ionship races capping the competition and Financing DUCHOW'S HARBOR MARINE July 31 and August 1. FOR WATERFRONT SERVICE & Defending his 1981 Midwest title 1425 Commerce Avenue A COMPLETE LINE OF will be SSYC's Rick Schulz. Skippers Brookfield, Wl 53005 ACCESSORIES & ELECTRONIC and crews from the Muskegon Lake Phone 784-3126 GEAR Yacht Club, Gull Lake Yacht Club, Winter Storage & 15 Year Financing Available. Milwaukee Sailing Center and SSYC are expected to compete. 4
4 Launching From Lanes To Begin April 15 Launching of boats stored in the alleyways will begin April 15, with all boats in the water by May 30, according to Derrick Committee Chairman Joe t Masik. Boats in storage have already paid Winter brings its the launch fee, Joe said. For boats own kind of beauty brought in by trailer, the fee will be to South Shore. $1.80 per foot Jim Morrill The small derricks for dry-sailed braved the cold boats should be ready by mid-May, to record it. with a $20 season fee. Rescue Stations To Close Short of money, the Coast Guard is closing several Lake Michigan search and rescue stations. Eliminated are stations at Plum Island at the tip of Door County, Two Rivers, Calumet Harbor, III., and Manistee, Mich. PHRF Sailors Called USCG Auxiliary Offers Safety Courses To Meeting Feb. 18 By Paul Bargren By Gerald Schmid Even if it isn't the boating season it Gateway Technical Institute, is still the boating safety season, and Kenosha, Jan. 2 - April 20. Members of and newcomers to the the Coast Guard Auxiliary will be offer• Port Washington Yacht Club, PHRF fleet are urged to attend a fleet ing boating safety courses throughout Feb. 1 - April 26. meeting at the yacht club Thursday, the Milwaukee area in weeks to come. Oak Creek High School, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. The new season's Anyone interested in one of the activities will be discussed. sessions can contact Eldred Fishbein Feb. 9 - May 4. Three divisions are planned for the during business hours at 372-5040. A Franklin High School, regular 1982 season — more for the few classes have already begun, but March 3 - May 26. Queen's Cup. The Rating Committee, it's still possible to enroll, Fishbein A shorter course will be held Feb. 9 which has done such an admirablejob said. to March 9 at the Harbor Commission in past years, will provide the new Most courses meet at 7:30 p.m. office. division assignments and review weekly for about 13 weeks. Here's a The Auxiliary will also offer the five- handicaps. list by location and date. session DNR boating safety for young• Six distance races and a series of sters who wish to operate motor craft. five course races — for the Tegtmeyer Harbor Commission, Course will begin May 5 at Greenfield trophy — are planned in addition to 500 N. Harbor Dr., City Hall, Feb. 9 at Oak Creek High the new Skelding series. Two non- March 23 - May 25. School and May 26 at Franklin High counting "fun" races are also under First Wisconsin National Bank, School. consideration. 37th and Villard, And a 13-session sailing course will Mark your calendar for a PHRF Feb. 17 - May 26. be offered Jan. 26 - April 6 in the Season Qpening party Saturday, Greenfield City Hall, Hamilton High School Community April 3, at 6:30 p.m. at the club. Feb. 3 - April 7. Center. 5 Cold Winds Break Clubhouse Pipes ^ The lucky presence of contract cleaning workers and some quick action by Tom Bell saved the clubhouse from what could have been a major castastrophe when water pipes broke Jan. 11. That morning, cleaning personnel noticed water coming from the ceiling on the north side of the first floor. They called their supervisor, who happened to be in Tom Bell's hardware store at the time. Bell went to the club with the supervisor and shut the water off. Later inspection found fifteen water pipe breaks in the second floor kitchen area. Water had begun to run into the first floor false ceiling and — Bob Aring down the north wall into the basement Tom Buckley turned the club into an ice palace, but New Year's Eve generated Marshall reckard. House Committee considerable warmth anyway. chairman, reconstructs what happened this way: "The club was closed and the second floor temperature set to 65°. The doors Put Sand in Your Valentine's Shoes and heating vent to the kitchen had accidentally been left closed. In "Bring your Valentine and spend the Drawings at midnight will award a extreme cold and high winds, outside evening on a tropical island," Enter• champagne dinner for two and a air was forced through an intake duct tainment Chairman Lowell Marks said, Bloody Mary brunch for two, and the into the kitchen. and he was talking about SSYC's next best looking beachcombers will also "With almost no heat coming to the big bash, Sweetheart Beachcombers be chosen. kitchen, the pipes along the north wall Night on Feb. 13th. Call the club to reserve tickets. New froze." Lowell promises that the evening Year's Eve bash sold out and then Reckard thinks the breaks occurred will be "in the same great tradition as some 208 attended, so better hurry. at about 9 a.m. The water was off by the Halloween and New Year's Eve "As for dress — casual, and just 10:15. parties." pretend it's the Fourth of July," Lowell Reckard expects the cost to be Tickets are $5 per person. That said. under $1,400. includes hors d'oeuvres all evening — Paul Bargren — Mark Hauf and dancing to a five-piece show band. The party runs from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., but party-goers are invited by Lowell to stay on for "coffee and etc." Guests HOME OF THE are welcome. MARINE EXPER_TS___ commitment to Complete Service: professionalism dealing • Haul Out with over 50 insurance • Storage companies to bring you • Fiberglass Repair personalized service. . . O'ROURKEDIST. CO.,INC. a A • Custom Installations BUSINESS JB^^^. Wisconsin's Largest Citgo distributor for HEALTH ~SSt Over 40 Years. 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Club Offers Surplus South Shore Yacht Club Milwaukee, Wis. 53207 BULK RATE For Silent Auction SOUTM SMOK P*RK MILW*UKEE WIS WONE «1 1331 U.S. Postage PAID By David Semling, Mgr. Permit No. 107P^ Milwaukee, Wis We have a number of items up for bidding. They are listed below. The bids are to be sealed and in the office no later than March 1. All Items are as Is — no guarantees. Assorted Chlnaware; Wine Glasses; Step Stool; Power Buffer; Two Adding Machines; Assorted Beer Pitchers; Two 5-gal. Storage Buckets with Lid & Ricliard L, ochulz Handle; Seed Spreader-Manual; Juice 1831 Manitoba Ave« Extractor; Delicatessen Scale - Elctric Extractor; Delicatessen Scale; Electric So. miTraukee, ¥1 53172 Fan; Metal Mop Bucket; Electric Skillet; Coffee Urn; Misc. Pans, Bowls, Etc. Dated Material Life Lines>J Column About Life Members Auxiliary To Meet The Ladies Auxiliary will meet at the By Bruce Nason club at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 2. Forty-eight years ago George "Pete" aboard Harry Ziemann's 12 meter Program arrangements were incom• Tanger joined SSYC. That was back in Norsaga. Pete's billet during most of plete when the Compass went to press. '34; the club was a shack on the west the races was at the helm. December brought two Christmas side of the parking lot because a A sailing memory that he says he'll events — our own meeting with music northeaster had destroyed the float• never forget is while at the helm of and gifts distributed by Santa herself, ing club house. Norsaga on the backlog of a Wind and the Christmas cocktail party He was 18 then. He remembers the Point race. They were broad reaching which has become one of those events $200.00 assessment and the 200 and charging through the water in you hate to miss. Our thanks to Marilyn hours each member pledged to build excess of 15 knots. "The brow wake Bruesewitz for her handling of the our present clubhouse. was shooting out like huge seagull cocktail party details. Pete — that's a nickname that his wings," Pete said. One of our lifetime members, Met^ Dad hung on him — got the sailing Pete owned an International 210 for Laurie, recently observed her 85* ^ urge early in life from hanging around many years and campaigned it relig• birthday. Family, friends and neighbor the old Steel Mills Yacht Club with his iously. Until he sold it last year, he was shared the day with Meta and cele• brothers Howard and Norman. As the club's senior boat owner. brated the occasion with a champagne teenage sailors they built Stars, Pete has aged actively and wisely at lunch at the yacht club. National One Designs and a South South Shore. He chuckled as he said, — Ruth Dillon Shore One Design (designed by club "If I can hang on for a couple more member Otto Dreher). Pete was years, I'll have 50 years at South Midwest champ in a Snipe in the mid Shore and I'll be very happy." '30s. When Pete got on the big boats he brought that expertise on board. In the years that South Shore boats were Automotive & Industrial Radiators • Safety Glass Installed B( Cleaned - Repaired - Recored Plexiglass Installed UAT & YAUn winning the Queen's Cup and the INSUR/ "Mac" he was usually nearby. Jim Blackwood, Sr.'s Kid Sister and Otto MILWAUKEE ruTr^ol^^sCO. PROMPT, COMPETITIVE QUOTES Dreher's Lively Lady won the Queen's call 1-414-483-0220 Cup races with him on board. He also JOHN LAITSCH 701-71I S. I6TH ST. PHONE (414) MILWAUKEE, 53204 recalled several "Mac" race wins. 672-7926 wis. • POWER CRUISERS Pete crewed with Ralph Huse on his • SAILING YACHTS Swan 36, Breal