The Bulletin of the Dolphin Swimming & Boating Club
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FA L L 2 014 DOLPHIN LOG THE BULLETIN OF THE DOLPHIN SWIMMING & BOATING CLUB • SAN FRANCISCO • ESTABLISHED 1877 Listserve Members wishing to receive Once ’Round the Cove notices posted on the Club’s Listserve should go to: Kayaks at the club Members.dolphinclub.org and click on “Join” You can Dolphin Log he Dolphin Club were in high afternoon choose to receive every upload individually or a single posting Keith Howell, Editor Tmaintains a fleet of winds and big chop. What Joe Illick, Editor water craft usually referred should they have done? of the previous day’s posts at Sunny McKee, Graphic Designer to as the motorized and First, if you think you will midnight. Andrew Cassidy, Swim Stats the non-motorized craft. encounter big water, attach Story Rafter, Proofreader The non-motorized craft a paddle leash before you are not functional and which Contributing Historian include kayaks, paddleboards leave. If you are in the water, we don’t need. Let Brian Walter Schneebeli and standup paddleboards get upwind of your boat and Kiernan (coastprop@aol. Published By (SUP) as well as the wooden hang onto your paddle. A com) or me (terryhorn@ sbcglobal.net) know if you The Dolphin Swimming rowboats and the sculls. boat full of water can cause & Boating Club There are a few people serious harm if you are own one of the kayaks stored 502 Jefferson Street who take particular interest downwind of it. Next, relax; at the club. San Francisco, CA 94109 in kayaking and in the take your time to gather your All kayaks and SUP’s www.dolphinclub.org kayaks including Brian thoughts. Try to climb back stored at the club may Board of Governors Kiernan, Barry Christian, JD into your boat. Everyone be used by qualified club Rick Avery, Janice Wood, J.D. Durst, Dave Zovickian and who has taken the kayak members. We have had some Durst, Brian Gilbert, Lolly yours truly. The club offers safety class during the past kayaks and SUPs go missing Lewis, Gretchen Coffman, as well as a paddle or two, Sunny McKee, Tom Davis kayak pilot training and a few years has been required place to store the kayaks. to dump and climb back and others damaged. Rinse Officers The general rules of kayaking in. If you can’t climb back, off all equipment after use. Diane Walton, President were published in the Fall make yourself visible. Hold If a kayak has foot braces, Ken Coren, Vice President move the braces as you rinse Lisa Newman-Wise, Recording 2012 issue of the Dolphin the paddle high. Secretary Log (available online) and If you, as a paddler, them. Accidents happen. Jane Mermelstein, Financial includes: the training and come upon someone who If you damage a kayak or Secretary certification of kayakers, needs help, stay beside or find one damaged, please let Charles Cross, Treasurer rules of kayak use, rules for downwind from him/her. Brian, Boat Captain John John Blackman, Boat Captain Blackman or me know, or Jay Adams, House Captain accompanying DC events, Offer reassurance. If he/ Swim Commissioners Joe and rules of storage. she cannot get back into the leave a large note on the Marenda, Virginie Jabbour, boat, very likely in the big boat. Finally, when you are John Nogue Safety water we experience in the returning kayaks and paddles to the Zahler Room, dry Cover Safety is our first and highest afternoons or outside the Gate, stay with him/her. Try them off to protect the newly Dolphin Club heroes Kim priority. Please do not put finished floor. * yourself in harm’s way. Do to tow him/her back to land Chambers and Joe Locke while he/she hangs onto the Thank you, not paddle in conditions Terry Horn that are above your ability. back of your kayak. Try to Printing *House captain Jay Adams Paddling conditions in the flag down another watercraft. MC Printers writes: The installed finish is Cove are very different from Be conservative. We don’t Prepress a polyurethane sealer called the paddling conditions want to have to rescue two Royce Color, SF Bona Traffic HD (Heavy near the South Tower of people. Duty). It is an expensive Editorial Policy the Golden Gate Bridge. commercial grade floor Submission of any and all You will have a different Storage material to the Log editors from finish made to resist water. paddling experience near the The club has kayaks stored any and all authors constitutes The staining is a result of South Tower on a calm day in the outside shed, the an agreement between the standing salt water. The authors and the editors. This compared to paddling there Zahler Room, under the other floor finishing option agreement gives to the editors on a gnarly day. outside stairs, and between is a penetrating sealer called the right to alter the submitted This summer someone the Dolphin and South material in any way that the Waterlox. This is a four-coat went overboard from a End Clubs. Some belong editors feel will improve the sealer that soaks into the wood. kayak returning from the to the club. Others are material for Log readers. Each coat requires a minimum Decisions to alter or publish Bay Keeper’s festivities owned by club members of 24 hours to dry, and the submitted material will be the near AT&T Park. Another and we are trying to fumes are noxious. Installing it decision solely of the editors. person, well intentioned, accurately determine who would require shutting down attempted a rescue and was owns them. We are also the club for a week. also dumped. The kayakers determining which kayaks 2 DOLPHIN LOG Corrections The swimmers in this year’s Bay Bridge Swim were listed incorrectly in the last issue. You will find the correct list on page 14. The photograph in the Summer 2014 issue purporting to be of new Life Member Richard Perkins was actually a photograph of long time Life Member Richard Antonchuk. Photo Rich Cooper Annus Magnus Some extraordinary records—including two new ones in 2014. Photo: Carol Block his has been an extraordinary year for the Dolphin Club. The Swim Commissioners’ Report on page 13 lists the many Taccomplishments of club members, many of them unprecedented. Suzanne Heim-Bowen swims around Manhattan in under eight hours, Rachael Perry and Kelly Amdur won the Head of the Charles double, the nation’s most prestigious sculling meet Vic Pizarro tows a rowboat from Alcatraz, his arms and ankles shackled (page 20), Sunny McKee qualified to race in the Hawaii World Ironman Championships where she finished in 6th place in her age group, and a couple of relay teams swam the English Channel. But most remarkable among all the successes are the achievements of Kim Chambers and Joe Locke. Kim completed the last two swims of the Oceans 7. She talks about her extraordinary adventure and ordeals in “Swimming as Therapy” (page 4). Joe Locke, in contrast only completed one swim, but such a swim! It took him seven tries, but in September, challenged by currents, temperature, and the threat of sharks, he became only the second person ever to swim from the Farallones to the Golden Gate (see page 8). They have been nominated for the titles Open Water Swimmer of the Year in the women’s and men’s categories. The year culminated in the Club’s victory, our first in ten years, in the annual competition with our notorious rival to the east. We didn’t just beat them, it was a drubbing, winning handsomely in all three sports—swimming, rowing, and running. Our victory is owed in large part to the influx of new talent and enthusiasm. We initiated over 200 people in 2014 and now have over 1400 members on the roster, a record and a challenge. The Editors Dolphin Club Building Fund Missing Minutes Year End tax-deductible donation The Dolphin archives work group is looking for missing Dolphin Club Board Meeting minutes. It’s The Dolphin Club building fund was established in a long shot, but you never know what you’ll find if 1998 as a method to develop and maintain an additional you ever do get to cleaning out the garage or attic! source of capital for major building related projects. The So we’d like to check if any members have informa- Club established a “Dolphin Club Account” with the tion or know who might have some of the minutes San Francisco Bay Keepers, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, that for these dates: maintains the account under a written agreement with the club. Over the 14 years of it’s existence the members of the January 1912 to December 1945 (one can but try) DC have donated monies to the Fund which has enabled November 1960 to December 1972 Photo: Sunny McKeethe Club to renovate the Ladies locker room (’99), replace The earlier years are probably handwritten in the Pier (’08) and replace the lockers in the Ladies locker bound books. The later years might be typed. Please room (’10). Please consider the Dolphin Club Building contact Morgan Kulla ([email protected]) Fund in your year end tax planning. Your tax deductible Want to volunteer to help with the archives donation should be made by check payable to (or securities project? Watch the listserve for announcements of endorsed to) “Baykeeper”, with a notation on the memo line future work days. This is a long-term project, so if “DolphinCourtesy Club Building of Richard Fund”. Cooper All donations should be you’re too busy, there’s next year or the year after.