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AUGUST 2003 TheCHANNEL Coconut Grove Sailing Club SKIPPER OF THE MONTH: 2003-2004 Officers Don Bailey and Committee While in architectural school, Don bought a rowboat Chairmen with a sail and dagger board and, along with a little book on sailing fundamentals, taught himself how to sail. Flag Officers Don, like the senior George Bush, had served in the Commodore ........................... Bud Price military in World War II and was then a student at Yale Vice Commodore................ Jack Hamm University. Don enticed a number of his friends to build Rear Commodore...... Vladimir Stroleny a fleet of 12’ Penguin Sailboats and they formed the Secretary ............................... Anne Platt Outer Barrier Sailing Club on Great South Bay, built a Treasurer ..................... Jeffrey Zirulnick clubhouse using a surplus Quonset hut and grew to Fleet Officers about 50 members and 50 boats. Don says they crashed Fleet Captain ........................Wil Bourne after a few years, because the membership was all single Fleet Chaplain .......... Brian C. Schofield guys and they were off to all parts of the world. His Fleet Surgeon ....... Dr. Nicolaus Martens desire to sail with friends led him to form the Hempstead Board Members Bay Sailing Club, purchase land and build a clubhouse. Gonzalo Bellini Will Pulsford The club, which is still active today, at one time had a Steve Hawkins Charles Rahn fleet of more than 50 Flying Scots. Don won the Mike Lovelady Bill Mauk coveted Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship award at Yale with his Yacht Club Andrea Stringos, P.C. designs and spent then next two years traveling and studying in Europe. After a successful Architectural practice in NY, Don moved to Miami in the 1970’s. He Club Manager - Scott Salzberg was the founding Commodore of the Kings Bay Sailing Club and assisted in the formation of the Matheson Hammock YC. Don was active in sailboat racing in South Florida. At Kings Committee Chairmen Bay, he was race committee chairman for the 12 Meter America’s Cup qualifier, Canada vs. Adult Sailing ..................... Richard Crisler France, which was held in the Atlantic off Miami Beach, and ran the “Battle of the 30 BBYRA Rep ......................... David Kurtz By-Laws........................... Dave Goldberg Footers”, a two year race competition between the J30 and the S2 classes. C-Gulls............................ Krisan Lamberti After retiring form his architectural practice, Don Chamber of Commerce.. Dominic Lamberti spent about 3 years, importing some 100 beautiful 20 Channel Editor ................ Cherie Branning to 30 foot wooden sailboats built in Yugoslavia. For Cruising&Rendezvous another 5 years he ran a wooden boat building school ................ Jo-Ann Pszenny & Elaine Long at MDCC, building, among other projects, the repli- Entertainment ......................... Marc Buller cas of Ralph Monroe’s Egrets, one of which is now at Executive ................................. Bud Price Finance........................... Jeffrey Zirulnick the Barnacle. Future Development ................................. Don has belonged to the CGSC since 1980 and has House ................................. Gerry Marston been a generous supporter of sailing with talent and Jr. Racing Development .............Kay Voss generosity. Don and his wife Edna donated a 19’ Marine Council ........................ Carl Straw Hershoff Bulls eye and 2 Flying Scots to the club as Membership ...................... Richard Crisler well as donating an Egret to the Biscayne National Moorings .......................... Gonzalo Bellini Park and a Cat Boat to the US Navy at Antigua. Don’s & Bill Beavers Orange Bowl Regatta ......... Art Auwaerter sailing has slowed over the years but not the pride of Property ................................. Jack Hamm ownership and the joy of working on sailboats. Protocol ..... David Kurtz & Larry Whipple Marital harmony and frequent trades keeps him from Public Relations ....................... Love Levy revealing his exact inventory of boats but the 26 foot Island Packet, Blade and the 18’ Race ....................................... Wil Bourne Pearson Hudson River Packet along with Flying Scot 1111 (which he sold in the 1960’s, only Rack ................................... Rob Quinlivan to see her advertised forty years later on our bulletin board) are among his pride. Anyone Strip .................................... Karen Young that has a boat formerly owned by Don, appreciates the fine workmanship and care that can Web Master ..................... Beth Hernandez only be motivated by a love of Boats and Sailing. Be sure to say hello to Don and share his dry wit and world of sailing experience. Volume 59 Issue 2 2990 South Bayshore Drive • Coconut Grove, FL 33133 • Tel: (305) 444-4571 • Fax: (305) 444-8959 website: www.cgsc.org A Not-For-Profit Corporation e-mail: [email protected] COMMODORE'S For all CGSC members who have POSITIVE REPORT letters to send regarding As of this writing we are CGSC, here are the addresses. waiting for a report from the Wa- terfront Advisory Board concern- City of Miami Officials ing their take on our situation. 3500 Pan American Drive Johnny Winton says he wants to Miami, Florida 33133 see the report before he starts Fax: (305) 858-1610 meeting with us. I expect meet- Mayor Manuel A. Diaz ings to start during the last week E-mail: [email protected] in July. This gives a couple of weeks to prepare. Since we still City Manager Joe Arriola don’t know what the focus will truly be we must be E-mail: [email protected] prepared to talk intelligently about whatever aspect it takes. Telephone: (305) 250-5300 This means a lot of preparation. Jack Hamm is heading the District 1 Commissioner Angel Gonzalez “homework team”. He needs all of the help he can get. E-mail: [email protected] Please contact him to see how you might help. The last Telephone: (305) 250-5430 meetings ended in our favor strictly because of the informa- tion we were able to gather and how prepared we were. I District 2 Commissioner Johnny L. Winton expect the city to come back even more prepared this time. Telephone: (305) 250-5333 We will not prevail as easily. We will need to be even more E-mail: [email protected] prepared to keep pace. It is my opinion that our community District 3 Commissioner Joe M. Sanchez service record, both past and present will probably be the E-mail: [email protected] thing that makes this all come together. In that light please Telephone: (305)250-5380 sign up with the sailing director or Scott to take guests sailing when you go out. We are compiling a list of people District 4 Commissioner Tomas P. Regalado who come in and want to be introduced to sailing. We need E-mail: [email protected] a list of members to match them with. When you go out you Telephone: (305) 250-5420 simply call the people from the list and invite them along. District 5 Commissioner Arthur Teele, Jr. This program is good for the club and good for the sport of E-mail: [email protected] sailing. Our club was built and thrives on the volunteer Telephone: (305) 250-5390 spirit lets keep that alive. Johnny Winton has asked that we stop sending the The Miami Herald volumes of emails he has been getting. In his words One Herald Plaza “You’ve gotten my attention and I’m on the case, please Miami, Florida 33132-1693 E-mail: [email protected] call off the dogs”. This doesn’t mean we should completely take the pressure off. Letters to the Mayor the city manager and the other councilmen are still in order. Please remember they don’t respond to negative comments. In fact those types of letters probably set the cause back. Be positive. Try In Memorium telling them what the club means to you. Please join me in Steve Witherspoon, a long time CGSC member thanking the many, many people who have so far given up countless nights and weekends to defend our club. and Lightning Fleet Sailor, passed away on Commodore Bud Price Saturday, July 12, 2003. A Memorial Service was held at the Coral Gables Congregational ADULT SAILING Church on Wednesday, July 16, 2003. Steve Please be reminded of the upcoming two day leaves behind wife Debbie, teenage sons Kevin Learn-to-Sail Class for Adults to be conducted on and Michael, and his mother Juanita. August 9 - 10. Call the CGSC office to sign up. Coconut Grove Mural to be Displayed at Sailing Club Four different people, from very different paths, all had the same unique. With eight weeks of research and a better understanding of vision: finding a way to reach the children that often slip through the their community, a need for a forum to express the lessons learned cracks of our overburdened public schools. Officer Austin, a City became apparent. Robin guided the children through a discussion of Miami Police Officer, had established a friendship based on that led to the theme and various parts of the mural. With these ideas common interests with Brian Grant, NBA player on the Miami Heat. in place, the mural began to take shape. Xavier and Robin created Brian and his wife Gina were actively involved in community the framework for the children’s creativity. outreach while living in Portland, Oregon and were seeking out a way to connect to their new hometown. Officer Austin was actively exploring avenues to connect with the community and connected with Lisa Martinez, a Nationally Board Certified Teacher at Coco- nut Grove Elementary School. Together they formulated the plan for the Positive Partnerships Program with the support of the Grant Family. Its pilot year generated great amounts of local community support, which has pushed this program’s founders to dedicate more time and resources to the program’s mission. The Positive Partnerships Program mission can be summarized in three words: Project Safety Net.