View from the Pilothouse in This Issue: 2014 Is Going to Be a Great Year Here at the Marina and out on the Water

Tides & Times February 1,2014

View from the Pilothouse In this issue: 2014 is going to be a great year here at the marina and out on the water. Too much good stuff It is time to get excited about boating again! To highlight some of the changes Galley Slave 2

you will see here at the marina, we will Marina Manager Minutes 2 begin with the temporary or semi permanent repair to the Esplanade at gates FHM Photo of the 3 7 & 8. Anything will be better than Month looking at barricades, netting and "do not Scottie’s Scuttlebutt 3 come close or this may collapse" signs, right? Now, the city's ability to balance Pets on the Poop Deck 4

their check book or have a long term plan Who was Peter Puget 4 will depend on how long we see it sit in this phase; let's assume 3 years. Gates 2-7 FHM’S Gary Stugard 5 will see the Esplanade replacement start in Saved the Day September, the city promises this time, Flagship Maritime 6 really, no they really mean it, this time for Footnotes sure. Can we say about 4 false starts on this already, hmmm? Just have faith folks, eventually they will Tidal Tidbits do something, we too are at their mercy, I Make sure you have a do emphasize mercy. parking pass displayed in your window. If you have a We have added to our SUP (stand up paddleboards) fleet so large groups may guest, make sure they have a now rent these and traverse our waterway and look for ways to torture us un-suspecting guest pass. As we move into skippers just trying to get to the fuel dock. I do believe a few of them have gotten up the busy season and with the close and personal with the bow of a 38' Bayliner, oops did I say that? Have patience recent loss of some parking they are a part of a new breed of boater under the heading of "personal watercraft", spaces due to construction, there is room enough for all of us. It is the sunny days and blue sky's that we all call this has become doubly "boating weather" that draw us out in droves from our dens! How lucky we really are to important. If you are having have this as our back yard. I have put in a personal request to keep fuel prices down issues finding a parking place, this season as well as supply everyone with jobs who needs one. If you look closely you please come into the office will see me up in my office doing some sort of Swedish ritual to ensure a fun and prosperous season for all. As long as the ritual does not include herring as a food and see if we can help! This staple, I shall remain vigilant! summer there will be cars towed if we cannot identify Lori Natucci them. Please help us help General Manager, FHM you.

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As we head into 2014 - a brand new year with new goals, resolutions and chal- lenges - I can't help but shake my head in amazement at how quickly the last 12 months have flown by. Aside from the simple fact that time inevitably speeds up as we grow older, the astounding technological advances we've seen in the last decade or so have only served to make the world pass by at an even faster rate. Now, I'll be the first one to admit that I'm always on my smartphone, checking Facebook or shopping online for any number of my wallet-draining hobbies, but maybe we as a society are starting to lose just a little bit of the creativity, passion and social interaction that has defined us since our beginning.

One thing that's seemingly gotten lost amongst the constant din of online banking, Tweeting and keeping up with the Kardashians is something that you may or may not remember: your boat. You may recall lazy summer evenings, anchored up and sitting on the aft deck during a gorgeous Pacific Northwest sunset with a cold margarita and great company - starting to ring any bells? As someone who's been managing marinas on various bodies of water throughout the country for over nine years, the drastic shift of the boater's mindset away from the art of boating has been both surprising and disheartening. Ask yourself this: when's the last time that you loaded the boat up with steaks, cold beer, the kids and the family dog, pointed the bow northwest and just explored the Puget Sound? If you're like me and the vast majority of your fellow boat owners, it's been far too long. Chances are, adventures like this are exactly why you fell in love with boating in the first place (or at least the idea of undergoing such adventures...).

So, amongst all of the new hopes and resolutions you've set for yourself this year, consider setting aside a couple of days to hit the pause button, hide the I-Phone and reintroduce yourself to an old friend. Trade your Facebook, Twitter and cable for fenders, tacking and companion- ways, if only for a weekend. Trust me, the Kardashians will be there waiting for you when you get back.

Cheers,

Ian W.

Marina Manager

GALLEY SLAVE Philly Cheese Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients mushrooms, onions and garlic for 4-5 minutes until tender. 4 peppers - any color, 2. While the vegetables are cleaned cooking, cut the tops off of the 1/4 pound rare roast peppers and clean out the beef deli meat insides. 2 Tablespoons butter 3. In a large bowl, stir roast beef, 1 onion, diced sautéed vegetables, 8 oz. mushrooms, sliced Worcestershire sauce and 1 teaspoon diced garlic shredded cheese. 2 Tablespoons 4. Fill peppers with the roast beef Worcestershire sauce mixture and place in a baking 1/2 cup shredded dish you've sprayed with cooking cheese spray. 5. Bake at 400 for 25 minutes. 5 Nuttin’ will make ya feel like Instructions minutes before removing from yous in Philly like dees here! oven, sprinkle more cheese on 1. Preheat oven to 400. Heat butter top to brown. Enjoy! in a skillet. Once melted, sauté 2 Recalling last month's discussion on the need to routinely inspect our shore power cords and their connections let's this month touch on another of the things we often forget about for long periods of time, the batteries. Out of sight out of mind is probably the main contributing factor in failing to take a look at these rascals. That and that it often involves removing either a hatch or cover of some kind that is under a step or worse, a storage cabinet or locker full of this and that's. Most of us are using the most common of batteries, the flooded cell. It's easy to see the batteries on our boat's much the same as we do those in our vehicles but aside from one that is used only for engine starting, the deep cycle variety that keep most lights, refrigeration units, nav electronics etc. working on a boat need to be inspected and maintained more often. When was the last time you checked the fluid levels on your house battery(s)? The repeated discharge and recharge cycles will tend to boil off the fluid much quicker then what you would see on a starter battery. Is there any of that pesky corrosion build-up at the terminals? These two simple tasks at the very least can help you to get both the full life from the battery and keeps the whole system functioning at its best. Use distilled water when topping off the cells. Clean up those terminals and if the condition continues it’s a sign that something is going on that requires additional investigation. As inconvenient as these task can sometimes be, the truth is they seldom take little more than a few minutes and can save time and money in the long run as well as peace of mind. 'til next month, safe and happy boating.

Scottie M. Operations Manager

Did you know there is an Elliot Bay Yacht Sales branch right next door to the marina office? Well now you know. Debbie Yeend with Elliott Bay Yacht Sales has been around boats her whole life. She grew up in Eastern Washington spending every open weekend at the river with her family and their ski boat. After college she was introduced to sailing in the Seattle area, fell in love with it and soon became an avid racer splitting her time on the sound and Lake Washington! She met her husband, Jon Thompson, after a race at the CYC clubhouse in the mid 80's and they have been racing and cruising together ever since. They have 2 daughters who grew up sailing and love spending time on their Cal 33 and Cal 20. Debbie loves to network with boating friends to find the right boat for her customers. Debbie lives in Tacoma and her focus is listing and selling boat in the South Sound. Call Debbie at 253-732-9988 or visit at Elliott Bay Yacht Sales' South Sound office located inside the Flagship Maritime Center at Foss Harbor Marina.

Pier Peer in Tacoma

Bring your family and join Foss Waterway Seaport and Metro Parks Ta- coma for a "Pier Peer" aquatic nighttime adventure. Explore the hundreds of mysterious marine life forms — including some pretty "alien" looking creatures drawn to underwater lights placed off our docks. See and touch creatures brought up from the deep by local divers. Enjoy a "live dive" where participants can talk to our diver while he is diving. Participate in a plankton tow. After this exciting outdoor adventure, we'll go inside to warm up, drink hot cocoa and talk about what we saw. Please dress for the weather: The docks can be wet. Please bring your own flashlights; we will provide life jackets as well as scoops to catch sea creatures. All participants must wear a life jacket! We encour- age you to bring your own life jacket if you own one. WHEN & WHERE: Saturday, February 1, 2014 - Pt. Defiance Marina, 5912 N Waterfront Dr., 7:30 to 9:00 PM Saturday, February 22, 2014 - Foss Waterway Seaport, 705 Dock Street, 7:30 to 9:00 PM Saturday, February 22, 2014 - Foss Waterway Seaport, 705 Dock Street, 7:30 to 9:00 PM Saturday, March 1, 2014 - Pt. Defiance Marina, 5912 N Waterfront Dr., 7:30 to 9:00 PM Saturday, March 15, 2014 - Foss Waterway Seaport, 705 Dock Street, 7:30 to 9:00 PM Foss Photo of the Month- Thank you to COST: Anthony Skaalerud for sharing this lovely double $8 per person. Each child, 8 years of age or older, requires one adult companion. 3 rainbow with us. Send photos to [email protected] Pets On The Poop Deck

You know her, you love her, you want to BE her!-- Er, maybe I went a little too far there. This familiar face is Esther, the popular pooch; the dynamic dog; the queen of cool; the Milk Bone and cheese loving co-captain who rides with pride aboard the fleet of Pump Me Out boats known as “Number 1”, “Number 2” and the special vessel that services us here at Foss Harbor, “Relief”. Esther has been co-captaining these boats since she was 8 weeks and 2 days old. Now 4 years old, she is an expert commander in all things Pump Me Out. When asked about the daily grind, Esther told me, “It’s a hard job, but someone’s gotta doody it!” Thank you Jeff Kenchtel for the fun photos! Do you have a pet on your poop deck? Send a photo of your four legged family member to [email protected]! Who Was Peter Puget? Lt. Peter Puget Memorial Project Island State Park to commemorate a breakfast stop and Olympia Port In June 2012, Barbara Reid Plaza to commemorate onboard her Albin 25, Shatoosh, replicated Mr. Joseph Whidbey‘s Lt. Peter Puget’s 1792 exploration of the famous noon sight of 47 southern waters, which is now referred to degrees and 03 minutes N as the South Sound. latitude. As a result of her research and To learn more about this replication it became evident to her that project go to http:// after 222 years there are no known memorials to honor Lt. Peter Puget and his exploration party of 20. Barbara, along pugetmemorialproject.blogspot.com with Skip Dreps, and bronze sculptor, Gareth Curtiss will be creating 3 To learn more about Barbara and Shatoosh’s 8000nm adventures exploring the Memorials to be placed along Puget’s navigable waterways on the west coast go to http:// exploration route to Honor, Memorialize shatooshandpashmina.blogspot.com and Celebrate their epic exploration of Barbara recommends these books for Puget Sound Boating: our beloved inland sea. 1. Puget Sound A Boaters Guide by Anne and Laurence Yeadon-Jones The proposed sites are Blake Island State Park to commemorate the launching of 2. Maritime Place Names Inland Washington Waters by Richard Blumenthal the expedition which was part of King George III Voyage of Discovery, Cutts 4 Race Report CYCT Quartermaster Harbor January 18th 2014 AKA FHM’s Gary Stugard Saves the Day! The race itself was set in the most beautiful of sure I missed telling of something else on this list of RC surroundings, it always is. I love this race, a watery slalom course paraphernalia but off to Tyee Marina we went. amongst tall trees. And for some unknown reason we always seem We unfolded, thanked Gary for his services and moved to have decent weather. After the cancellation of our CYCT it all aboard Discovery, my trusty old friend, and headed for Browns Point Race in Gale conditions and the cancellation of the Browns Point. Then the weight and hurry fell. The calming effect Duwamish Head Race in Gale conditions, this race was an elixir of of this beautiful old 6 knot girl took over. We arrived out at the sorts. point, set the start pin, anchored Discovery in 50 feet and fired I don’t want to take away from the race but the real story off the warning at 1040 only 45 minutes late. However, with maybe the fact that the race committee got this race off at all. The Gardyloo in the hunt and the challenge of motoring at 6 knots, it tale starts out with high hopes and does not bode well to set the all the best with myself, Zak, Don marks at Dockton and the and Cyndi aboard Romeo Charlie at Portage in time. But on this day 0745 heading for fuel down the we are living right. Jeff Stewart Thea. Romeo Charlie purred across is out in his 24’ runabout the bay at 2500 RPM 10.5 knots in snapping pictures of his friends light fog. When we entered into the aboard Gardyloo and offers to Thea Foss Waterway we throttled take me and two anchor back to observe the wake packages to set. Perfect. The restrictions and blurped along at 4 course was laid with plenty of knots. After fueling (32 gallons) lines time to spare. were cast, we started to drift on the The Race: Moderate current and wind and Romeo Charlie breeze rolled the fleet to refused to start. She’d catch if you Manzanita and from there it throttled it up 3000-4000 RPM and gradually dropped in speed. Out by the Portage reports were of die when you throttled back below 2500. I tried slamming it into wind speeds as low as Zero. The first to cross the short course gear at too high of an RPM and the millisecond it received the load line at Dockton on the return leg were beating to weather. The of the turning prop she died. It wasn’t for a lack of trying, engine second bunch of boats came across under chute or wing-on- cover off, no visible fuel on the manifold, no fuel smell but the wing as a nice Northerly had finally pushed itself over the trying cooked the starter motor leaving us in the hands of wind Portage. In Windseekers division 2 Lucia took the bullet 61 and tide. seconds in front of Silver Breeze. Windseekers 1 saw a new NFS At 0900 and Romeo Charlie with the A-team of CYCT contender in Jeopardy taking first with Blue Jay finishing on that Race Committee’s aboard now tied at the dock in front of the glorious Northerly wing-on-wing in second place. The PHRF Seaport, we had landed there by pure luck. The 0955 scheduled class 2 saw Radiant hold a commanding lead in division with a first warning off Browns point seemed in jeopardy. All of our land third in fleet finish. Gardyloo finished first across the line, first on transports parked at Tyee and we are in the Thea, cell phone corrected in division and fleet, but Special Purpose was close activity went crazy and Cyndi acquired the help of a real Salty Dog behind by just 3 minutes off Gardyloo on corrected time taking named Gary and his 4 door Subaru Hatchback. As Subaru’s go, it’s second in division and fleet. a small Subaru and I was concerned that we’d inflict permanent The Skippers meeting was a hoot. Big turn out and damage but Gary seemed most accommodating of the cargo everybody stayed to the end as we mingled with the Seahawk packing that was about to happen. Into the Subaru besides Gary boosters. Thirteen boats hit the start line for this year’s went Don, Zak, Cyndi, Billy, three anchor packages, three buoy/ Quartermaster Harbor race up from seven in 2013. If these two race marks, a cooler of beer, a Starbucks coffee carafe, briefcase, events and there numbers along with all the smiles are any numerous bags and backpacks and the topper was three race flags indicators of what’s to come, 2014 is going to be the best. that fit from Windshield to back glass with one inch to spare. I’m Billy, Race Chair CYCT 5 Flagship Maritime Footnotes By Captain Skip Anderson Photos by Jan Anderson

diving, etc. and you get the idea. Now … throw in the

Romance and the Sea … movement of air, and you absolutely capture the energy I felt February has Valentine’s Day, so in this edition we’re going to talk when I sailed off on my very first screaming reach as a seven- about love. Not between two people, but rather about our year old set free by my parents to sail the mighty Little rampant, infectious love for boating. Assawoman Bay (Indian name) in my first sailboat, Sea Flea (Skip name). If “Woo-hoo!” had been in my vocabulary back then, I no No one has to look far to discover evidence that we love boating. doubt would have uttered it. Plenty of boats, complete with boat payments, moorage costs, As for fire, if you’re a true boater you know exactly what I boat houses, trailers, insurance, registration, training, maintenance mean. The welding spark of the underappreciated worker and upkeep, an occasional repair, and so forth. Frankly, however, assembling your brand new fishing sled, that pot of tea on your all those are simply expressions of our love for boating; they are alcohol stove, the reflection of the setting sun on the not the love itself. brightwork of your beloved classic, the sound of your engines

reacting to your call to duty, the smell of a well-run engine Just as in human relationships, the man-boat attraction can be room, and even the heat that envelopes your being as you tough to characterize. As is often the case with so many elements descend into the fireroom of a major vessel. There is warmth at play, it’s difficult to explain the inexplicable. Perhaps, even, it’s all around us. better left unexplained. The residual mystery may actually enhance our experience with boats. That said, I still think it’s Take a look at this child, sailing his OPTI sailboat in a youth useful to pause once in a while to reflect on “how” you got where regatta held in the Center Sound. He was trailing the rest of you “did” regarding boats – the problem is, it’s not the “how” or the fleet by a mile, yet did he care? This photo was taken “did” dialogue that’s most powerful. To me, the words “why” and before this young fella grasped the idea of winning or losing, “be” dig at the heart of our passion for the sea. Let’s take a look. before he knew it was important to sail really, really fast, before he understood it was important to keep up.

Water, Fire, and the Zamboni There are three things that humans simply cannot resist watching: moving water, burning fire, and (of course) the much-celebrated ice re-surfacer working the rink between hockey periods (you Now take another look. Right into his eyes. This is love of water. Do you remember this sensation? I’d suggest too few can’t deny that you’ve watched go round … and round … and people take the time to do so. That’s a shame, because this round). Discounting the Zamboni, consider water and fire. resonance in the moment is the “why” and “be” of being on the water, in the water, and about the water. Reclaim your reason, People go to the beach to be close to moving water. Surf and then never forget your love. surfing is seductive to many. Niagara Falls is fairly famous for its moving water. Throw in sailing, fishing, waterskiing, cruising, 6