Telltales Pleasure Craft Operator Card and a Radio Operator’S Certificate
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SALT SPRING ISLAND SAILING CLUB Things we need to know To operate our boat safely—and legally—we all eventually need a TellTales Pleasure Craft Operator Card and a Radio Operator’s Certificate. VOLUME 19 • NUMBER 1 • JANUARY 2000 Staff Captain Mary Neil wants to know how many members are interested in challenging the Operator Card test in a club setting, and how many would like to participate in a VHF radio course. Please give Mary a call at 537-5897 if you’re interested. Visit our club website at... www.islandsails.com/sailingclub Here you’ll find: • The latest edition of TellTales • Cruising schedule for 2000 JOHN CAMERON PHOTO • Complete racing news • Home Waters schedule Only the geese were sailing during • Club’s Long Term Plan the foggy Christmas season • and much more! Here’s to the new SPAGHETTI NITE cruising and Tuesday, January 25th racing year! at 1900 hours in the clubhouse The first of a series of ‘International Nites’ The racing fleet getting ready Please let either June Mason (537-2786) for the start of the New Year’s or Mary Neil (537-5897) know by day novelty race January 19th if you will be attending Spaghetti with all the trimmings $5 per person (see information elsewhere in TellTales) Valentine’s Day Captains’ Treat PHIL MASON PHOTO PHIL Monday, February14th Socked in at 1900 hours in the clubhouse POTLUCKSUPPER BYTHEMEN PHIL MASON PHOTO PHIL Prize for the best Valentine poet! (see explanation elsewhere in TellTales) Commodore’s report The gals promise to enjoy it all! Welcome to the new millennium! I Long Range Plan as a guide in our con- hope all of you have had a very enjoy- siderations. This planning document able transition to the next 1000 years. is available for perusal in the clubhouse We have had two meetings of your and on our internet website. All of COMING EVENTS Executive Board and everyone is get- these projects will be made known to Tuesday SPAGHETTI NIGHT ting down to the planning and execu- you via TellTales and general meetings Jan 25 SOCIAL tion of the required work for the com- with any major cost issues being vet- ing year. Some of this work has already ted and approved by the membership Monday VALENTINE’S DAY been completed. There are a number prior to initiation. As well, the mem- Feb 14 SOCIAL of new and interesting projects in the bers of your Board are available for any development stage both on the land information on club activities. Deadline for the next and on the water. We will be using the Continued on page 2... TellTales is 4th February The management of the Sailing Club’s internet website is now in the Home Waters Club ‘special’ on hands of Per Rasmussen, our Editor of inflatable vests TellTales. Pete Drage did such a great Thursday, February 10th Recently the Race Committee (cruis- job of setting up and running the site at 1900 hours in the clubhouse ers, keep reading) approved a new rule for the past couple of years, and he will ‘Health emergencies on board’ making it mandatory to wear an ap- still handle the racing aspects of the proved life preserver at the start of site. Per has placed the latest issue of with our own Dr. Ruth Pankhurst every club race. This led to some dis- TellTales on the club website as well as cussion about ‘bulky’ life jackets, the the Long Range Planning document Refreshments following. heat of summer etc., etc. It was sug- and cruising information. To access —April Steel gested that we might be able to get a TellTales and the Long Range Planning ‘deal’ on a bulk purchase of the newer document you require a password. inflatable life preservers and after some There is guidance on the club website inquiries on and off island, here is the to obtain this password. Members best offer available. Thanks to Fah can access the website at Ambers for nailing this one down. www.islandsails.com/sailingclub or Specification: Airforce vest MUSMD via the general Salt Spring page at 3010 RED $130.00 plus tax if the Sail- www.gulfislands.com. ing Club buys 10 or more. Delivery in In an effort to improve our commu- February. One size fits all. nication with you we are looking for Only one tax applies, so the full price new and innovative ways. As we uti- will be $139.10. The best we can do lise the internet and our web page locally is $160.50, so there is a useful more over the next months I will be Needed— saving to be had. looking for your input as to the use- I will act as the gatherer of orders so fulness of this type of communication. your surplus... if you would like one or more of these As well, I would like to know if any of periwinkle/myrtle (vinca minor)! vests please put a cheque for $139.10 our members would object to having If thinning some of your rampant per vest in the Fleet Captain Racing’s their email address utilised for commu- periwinkle is part of your gardening box in the clubhouse by January 25th. nicating with you with club informa- plans, please consider giving some to Please make the cheque to me person- tion. The email addresses would not the club. ally as the supplier wants one cheque be available for any other purpose than We have a small budget for landscap- for the entire order. Once the shipment club authorised communication. As ing, but thought members may already is picked up I’ll arrange delivery. more of our members acquire email have periwinkle, which they tidy up —Pete Drage addresses we have the opportunity to each year, and which could be re- send the TellTales and any other infor- planted at the club. If you'd like a good mation to you via email. We would home for your plants, please call Sheryl Wharfinger’s continue to mail copies of TellTales to at 537-4716, and we will co-ordinate those members without email. The cost replanting at the club with your plans. report of printing and mailing each issue of —Sheryl Taylor-Munro Hydro hookups for all boats have now TellTales is approximately $1.00. We been measured for amount consumed could enjoy a saving of approximately versus amount paid. Any measure- $90 per month or $900 per year if only We are always open to suggestions ments found to be at variance with our one half of our membership utilised on how to effectively improve our en- record keeping have subsequently this medium. However, all this is in the joyment of the club and welcome your been tested for a second time. While future and we will continue to com- input. I would only ask that, if you the number is small, there are some municate to you as before. have a suggestion, you follow up any boats that are using electricity but have There are a number of minor pro- verbal communication with a more as yet not made any payment, or are jects under consideration which will comprehensive rationale in writing in consuming more electricity than paid require someone to investigate suppli- order that we can better understand for. These boats will again be tested ers to determine availability, quality the suggestion and discuss it at the later this month, with invoices then and prices and have input into the next meeting of your Board. issued if a significant amount is in- project. The Board is looking for any Again, let me wish you a very happy volved. I will be pleased to take any volunteers from the membership who and prosperous New Year. phone calls if you are concerned about would be willing to take on any of —John Farquharson your electric consumption. these projects. If you are interested Commodore —Tom Locke, Wharfinger please contact me or any other mem- ber of the Board. For various reasons we have had TellTales is published ten times a year by the Salt Spring Island Sailing Club nine regular and three associate mem- 152 Douglas Road, Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 2J2 bers resign at the end of the year. How- Any part of the publication may be freely reproduced in not-for-profit publications. We will ever, we have had nineteen new mem- appreciate it if you mention us as the source and also send us a copy of your publication, bers join the club in 1999. addressed to the Editor. We are a self-help club where everything is done by members who There was a great turn out for our volunteer their time and expertise, so please come forward with articles, photos, letters, first fun race and social on January 1st non-commercial want ads, questions or comments. Send material for publication by email along with a beautiful sunny day or leave in the ‘TellTales’ box in the clubhouse. which we hope is a precursor to the Editing/production by Per and Lynetta Rasmussen (537-4796 or [email protected]) activities at the club in the coming year. The social scene The Christmas party was a huge suc- Club members cess with 50 members attending. Many enjoying hot rum thanks to Phyllis Waltho for a truly and lunch during magnificent job of MC-ing the gift ex- New Year’s day change. Each and every gift was fun. gathering The New Year’s day reception was also a success. The racers came in from the Rum Race and joined the rest of us for hot rum, egg nog and a light lunch.