SEPTEMBER, 1976 South Shore Yacht Club SOUTH SHORE PARK MILWAUKEE, WIS, PHONE 4^1-2331

SOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB From the viewpoint of both a racer and a co-chairman, I am happy that the MILWAUKEE BAY 210 FLEET HOSTS Milwaukee Bay 210 Fleet hosted the Midwest, Graves and Nationals. I am also MIDWEST, GRAVES AND happy that it is over. Finally, it is time to relax and to come back to earth. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA'S There has been two years of work since Jim and Barb Drake drove to Boston and convinced the class officers that Milwaukee should host the chamion- ship regatta — two years of planning, meeting, writing letters and making phone calls. I am proud of the results, though. Our fleet organized a first-class cham• pionship regatta and we have a long list of people to thank. Firstly, our fleet members, who put in the long hours of n0 planning. Secondly, Herb Knepper for roasting the pig that impressed every• body — especially the easterners. Thirdly, all of the people who provided housing for our guests. Fourthly, the boat owners who offered their boats as stake boats, spectator boats or judges boats. Fifthly, the board of directors for their cooper• ation in using the grounds and the tender for the 210's. Sixthly, Marie for the good food and service at lunch time. There are more, I am sure, but in gen• eral, one big thank-you to everybody who helped make the 1976 210 National Championships an outstanding regatta.

"When I Offered My Dinghy For The Corn Roast I Didn't Know Bringing The Corn Was Rick & Ray Schuiz 210 WABBIT (Jaws) Photo by Bruce Nason Part Of The Deal!" 2

From The extend its hospitality to visiting yachts• men. JUNIOR NEWS FLAG Two more boats will be added to the By Don Dillon - Junior Advisor 210 fleet. One of them is Norm Hundt's As most of our membership knows, '^J BRIDGE "Spirit of '76" which was launched on our Junior team of Jared Drake (skipper) August 19th. After many, many hours of and Andrew Dillon (crew) took first place *• • • work. Norm has finally achieved what in the USYRU Area semi-finals in Ann most of us would have deemed impossible. Arbor, Michigan. The team will be leav• The other 210, Gypsy, was purchased by ing Saturday, August 28th for the Coral By J, Thomas Poth Reef Yacht Club in Miami, Fla. for the Commodore, SSYC Peter Reiske. This was one of the East Coast boats that participated in the races. U.S. Junior Sailing Championships. The Just recently I received my applica• We wish both of them good luck. competition our team will face will be tion for haulout. This is clearly a re• Congratulations! Andrew Dillon and the best of the 8 areas of USYRU. We minder that it won't be long before we Jered Drake placed first in the USYRU wish to thank John Strassman again for must focus our attention on preparing semi-finals held at Ann Arbor, Michigan. taking the time to chaperon the boys to our boats for winter storage. They will now have to compete in the Miami. With the opening of schools and United States Junior Championship at South Shore Yacht Club also wishes colleges, we have the usual problem of Coral Reef Yacht Club in Biscayne Bay, to thank Pete Harken & Vanguard for losing the services of our tender opera• Florida. There they will be racing a No. the use of a 420 practice boat which is tors. Mark, Mike and Tim have already 420. Both of these boys are a credit to the type of boat our team will use in left for college. We will now be operating the Junior Organization and its sailing Miami, We also send our gratitude to on a tentative schedule of hours which program. We are proud of you. Murphy & Nye Sailmakers of Chicago out of necessity have to be somewhat for shipping us a set of sails for our team curtailed. Check at the dock house where to use. Our Ladies Auxiliary has also the hours will be posted. donated 3 sets of SSYC t-shirts and a As a member of Operation Sail, I was club burgee for our team to use in Miami. privileged to be a guest on the Erawan, The Junior Picnic was a huge success the Panamanian tall ship that sailed into with 35 lbs. of wieners, 12 doz. ears of Milwaukee. In my conversation with Cap• corn and 4 cases of soda consumed. D'-'^^ tain Philippe Esnas, he mentioned how to strong N.E. winds, we were not able - impressed he was with the large fleet of to hold the annual watermellon races, boats that greeted his ship in the harbor. but a good time was had by all. As I stood on the deck of the Erawan for MIDWEST REGATTA almost three hours, I was surely pleased GRAVES PLAQUE to see boat after boat from South Shore The 210 Midwest Championship The 1976 Graves Plaque, held here on Yacht Club pausing to view the tall ship Regatta was held here August 7 and 8. August 14 and 15, marked the first time as it lay at the dock of the Municipal Pier. Twenty-three boats participated and Jim ever that the eastern and midwestern The National Championship Regatta Peloites from Muskegon sailed Nora Ann 210 fleets had competed together in is now a matter of history. The chairman Too to first place with finishes of 2-1-3. large numbers. Peter Costa from Boston and committee members did an outstand• Second place went to Dave Hatfield of sailed Gypsy to victory in the 33 boat ing job in preparing for and conducting Gull Lake in Happy Days with finishes fleet with finishes of 4-1-3. John Hur- this event. Some of our members, not of 1-6-4. Mike Gautrand of Muskegon witch and Jim Summers were second in involved in the races, contributed their was third with finishes 3-2-9. The best Witchcraft (1-6-2). Bill O'Connor was support by using their boats as stake local finishers were Rick and Ray Schuiz third in Saxa (6-3-1). boats, judges boats, and for patrolling in 5th place sailing Wabbit (1 2-5-1) and The first midwestern boat was Dave and taking spectators to view the races. Ted Sneddon in 7th place sailing Play• Hatfield of Gull Lake. Dave sailed his As the skippers left for home with their mate (11-7-6). Happy Days to 7th place (10-8-9). The trailers and boats in tow, many of them first Milwaukee boat was Rick and Ray commented on their enjoyable stay here. YACHT INSURANCE Schulz's Wabbit In 16th place (21-12-18). It is only through the combined efforts of SPECIALISTS Weather conditions were not good. so many dedicated members, that South The first race was held in northeast winds Shore Yacht Club was once again able to Complete Insurance Service over 20 mph with 5 foot waves. The second race was postponed from Satur• Real Estate day afternoon until Sunday afternoon to MILWAUKEE YACHT PRODUCTS 6456300 allow the conditions to improve. Jack Murphy's Commanche and Ted Sneddor, CONVERTIBLE AND CAMPER TOPS PONS & CO. established 1887 Playmate were both dismasted Saturday. DODGERS - SAILCOVERS CUSHIONS - UPHOLSTERY 929 W. Mitchell Center Both boats suffered chainplate failure. Philip Pons Active Member Playmate, however, suffered extensive 836 N. 67th Street 258-9400 deck damage In the accident. East Coast 210 Sailors take all the Silver Photo by Bruce Nason Curtis, Summers, Hurwitch

Graves Plaque Winner Photo by Bruce Nason Pete & Grace Costa, Walter Chadwick, GYPSY

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NOTICE LAST BLAST PARTY It has been brought to our atten*^ tion that many new members or September 18th - 8:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. members who have moved have not Live Band — Bump Contest been receiving the Compass. The Compass is mailed from the com• Presented By puter mailing list of which the Ed• itor has no control, however, if any Entertainment Committee & SS-SSS member knows of such a person please have them send a card to LAST BLAST PARTY Compass Editor, South Shore Yacht By Lowell Marks Club Office, 2300 E. Nock, and Entertainment Committee every effort will be made to get Sponsored by your Entertainment them to these members. Committee and the SS-SSS, the Last Blast Party will be held at the Clubhouse on Saturday, Sept. 18th, from 8:30 p.m. RACE SCHEDULE to 12:30 a.m., and will commemorate SEPTEMBER the end of the sail race season. SAIL "Impact", a seven piece brass band with a very talented lead singer will en• SEPT 1 WED SSYC SS-SSS tertain in the Disco manner. 3 FRI SSYC SSYC to Sheboygan We are planning on having our first lOR, MORC, annual "Bump" contest at this party USRYA and make sure if you are a bumper to • 8 WED SSYC SS-SSS enter this contest because it may give 11 SAT SSYC Up-Down Series for 210 some sailors who did not fare too well 12 SUN SSYC Up-Down Series>»^^ in sailing, a chance to receive recognition for210-IVlYC r of almost equal stature. Some of you Wind Point Race who have seen me dock my boat "NAMU" 17 FRI SSYC Grudge Series for recently, feel I could be a certain con• CLUBHOUSE HOURS lOR, MORC, LWIYA tender. FOR SEPTEMBER 18 SAT SSYC Grudge Series for As if all of this is not enough to lOR, MORC, LMYA arouse your interest, we are also going Mon: 12:00 to 2:00 24 FRI MYC Last Blast for lOR, to throw in free beer and snacks. Tues: 12:00 to 2:00 MORC, LMYA Wed: 12:00 to 2:00 Admission is free so all you have to POWER save is your energy. Thurs: 12:00 to 2:00 All sailors, power boaters, dock sitters, FrI: 12:00 to 2:00 & 5:00 to 10:00 SEPT 12 Hankwitz Memorial Pred log Wind Point fishermen and summer dwellers are wel• Sat: 12:00 to 8:00 come. Sun: 12:00 to 8:00 SEPT 18 Night Pred log Contest

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

After a busy day and a half of measur• ing sails, inulls, spars and keels, on Mon• day and Tuesday, the National Cham- pionship Regatta began on Tuesday after• noon, August 17th in moderate wind. Bill Hicks from Boston Bay won the first race, but the defending champs, John Hurwitch and Jim Summers of Fal• mouth, Mass. were able to retain their title with finishes of 4-1-2-1-2-1. Bill O'Connor of Marblehead was second and Ralph DiMattia of Boston Bay was third. The top three midwestern finishers were Dan Pender of Gull Lake in 6th place, Sherm Poppin of Muskegon in 10th place, and Rick and Ray Schuiz in 11th place. Racing conditions were very good over the four days of racing. Morning races usually saw light winds and smooth water. Afternoon races usually saw strong winds and a chop. The only tragedy of the regatta in• volved Ted Sneddon. After losing his mast in the Graves Plaque Regatta, Ted borrowed Tom Feller's boat for the Nationals. Unfortunately, Ted was in• volved in a serious collision before the^N start of the third race. Ted was hospital ized with a broken nose, stitches above his eye and three broken ribs. Ted tells us that he is sore everywhere, but doc• tors expect a complete recovery. Charlie Strassman also received multiple bruises in the collision. Social events during the regatta in• cluded a pig roast, a corn roast, a brewery tour and an awards dinner. 7

SLIP COMMITTEE REPORT

By Carl L. Muelley

The status of electrical outlets for the new slips seems headed for a final solu• tion; however don't hold me to any pos• itive promises. All of us have had some experience with our great system of government codes, in this case related to electrical codes; need I say more. After all of these years of satisfactory operation with our electrical system on the slips, someone decided the code needed changing. As a result our system of a central circuit-breaker box taking care of entire slip sections was in danger of being scrapped which would have necessitated a revamping of our electrical plans for the new slips — and of course at a much higher price. Our electrical contractor and your slip committee chairman have been work• ing hard to solve this problem and with new information obtained from manu• facturers of the equipment we need, it appears we can continue with the present system and still meet the new code re• quirements. This requires a complete water-proof outlet box with or without the electric cord being plugged in and with underwriters seal of approval. Thanks for working with us on this problem. In the meantime if power is essential for your boat arrangements which have already been made, I may be able to accommodate those essential needs. Contact me or Dick Pfoertsch. BULK RATE U.S. Postage AUXILIARY PAID RAISES FUNDS Permit No. 1078 Milwaukee, Wis. FOR FUTURE CLUB REMODELING

Boating enthusiasts will be interested in the following items which the Auxil• 2300 E. Nock St. iary is offering for sale: Milwaukee, Wis. 53207 Navy blue t-shirts - $3 to $3.50 Pocket patches - $3 Nylon yacht club burgee patch — $2 Port & starboard socks - $1.35 Small yacht club burgees — $10 Forwarding & Return SSYC pins - $5 Postage Guaranteed Ladies' charm or neck pendant — $5 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Pierced burgee earrings — $7 As a correction to last months article (Sweatshirts will be available in the on the Junior Championships, South near future) Shore Yacht Club has had two other Your money will be well spent, as the LMYA Championship Crews. sale proceeds are earmarked for future re• In 1938 Bill Dreher-Skipper, Marvin modeling projects at SSYC. If you would PAST JUNIORS Mueller, Bob Baty and Bill Thornberry like to purchase any of the above items RECEIVED won and sailed on Long Island Sound. and are not at the club when they are be• NATIONAL In 1940 Richard Mueller-Skipper, ing offered for sale, please contact Audrey Carl Mueller, Ray Baty and Roy Quinsey at 483-4928. RECOGNITION Christenson won and sailed for the Tuesday, September 7th is Shipmates' By Carl Mueller - Club Historian National Championship off Glouschester, Mass. Night, and Auxiliary members are in• vited to bring a guest to the meeting (hus• band or boyfriend, but not both!). Usin- ger's will have a representative on hand POWER-SAIL with a movie presentation, and samples of their delicious sausage will be available TROJAN after the meeting. There will also be a Largest film presentation of TV 6 "bloopers" CARVER that should be hilarious. Our October 5th and Most Complete meeting will involve a review of our by• SCAMPI Marina in Wisconsin laws with an eye towards voting on amendments thereto at our November MORGAN meeting. NEWPORT

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