Hunter Sailing Association #1 The Log May 2016 Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2

Commodore’s Corner

Ahoy fellow Hunter sailors! If you are not signed up for the Rendezvous, the highlight of our Spring seems to have been season, please do so before it is too especially long in coming, late! The venue only holds a certain but it has finally arrived. number of folks and we are rapidly Hopefully everyone is ready coming to that number. I would hate to to get out and enjoy the Bay see anyone from HSA-1 not be able to with your fellow association attend solely because they waited too members. I’m happy to say long. we finished commissioning Stargazer and can now One of our goals this year is to increase enjoy our time on the Bay our membership and our visibility within with the club. the sailing community at large. If you see another Hunter on the This is right in time for our water or at your Marina, I implore you to next big event, Memorial reach out to them and talk about HSA-1, Day Weekend. Our raft captains, Mike and our events and most importantly, our people! Tina, are planning a special weekend for us in the gorgeous Corsica River where the club The double-sided tri-fold brochure that you can has not been for many years. This holiday download from the HSA-1 Clubhouse makes it honors those who gave the “last full measure easier to reach out to other Hunter owners. It of devotion” to our country as Abraham would be great if every member had a couple Lincoln said in his address at the battlefield tri-folds on their boats to be able to hand out to of Gettysburg. our “lost” Hunter sailors.

I had the honor of presenting the connectivity See you on the water. Don’t forget to keep seminar from our Brunch to the Kent Narrows checking hsa1.org and our Facebook Page for Sail and Power Squadron with which we activities updates. If you are on FB and haven’t have more than a few joint members. It “liked” our page, please do so as it helps our reminded me that an objective stated in our visibility and ability to communicate with you club by-laws is “to conduct educational about what we are up to! programs” related to cruising and racing of . I’m thankful this year’s Your humble servant, Rendezvous is filled with excellent content to Commodore Greg align with that objective. S/V Stargazer

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Inside this issue: Editor’s Notes:

Throughout The Log, websites and email The June 23-26 Rendezvous at Solomons is addresses are hyperlinks. this year’s big news for Bay Hunter sailors. I am personally putting a lot of effort toward Commodore’s Corner ...... 1 making this the best Rendezvous ever and Welcome New Members ...... 3 hope everyone in the club gets to partake in Directory Update ...... 3 this great event. HSA-1 Officers ...... 3 We reprinted part of the first page of a 1997 Rendezvous ‘16 ...... 4 issue of The Log in this issue’s Out of the Past. 2016 Calendar of Events ...... 5 Like then, Nortons Yacht Sales and Hunter Upcoming Events ...... 6 (now Marlow-Hunter) are generous sponsors Digging into the Bag of Tricks ...... 7 of the Rendezvous. And again, many When the Chart Plotter Fails ...... 7 companies are generously providing door No Instruments at All? ...... 7 Where We Keep Our Boats ...... 8 prizes and goodies for our Captain’s Bags. Saint Michael’s Wrap-Up ...... 9 This year we are giving our registrants a Spring Forward Wrap-Up ...... 9 chance to show their generosity by hosting a Shipwreck Sock Burning Party Wrap-Up ... 10 food drive for the local food pantry, SMILE. Out of the Past ...... 11 We have a couple of club events before the Rendezvous. I plotted a course from the Bay Bridge to the next one. It is Memorial Day Weekend on the Corsica River, only 20 miles from the Bay Bridge. Come join the fun. Check out our website: www.hsa1.org See ya on the water – and at the Rendezvous, for the latest Club news Carl Reitz, Editor

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Welcome New Members We are happy to introduce our newest members and hope to see them on the water and at the June Rendezvous. Offer them a warm welcome when you meet them.

Peter & Deborah Sapphire 1994 Hunter Legend 40.5 Herrington Harbour North Jonathan Fidelis 2000 Skipjack Cove Yachting Resort Joseph & Paula Blue Heron 1983 White Rocks Marina Bob Isabelle Madison 2004 Chesapeake Yacht Club Susan & Glenn Ambiance 1990 Hunter Passage 42 Anchorage Marina Beverly & Dale Treasure Hunter 1998 Mears Marina Richard Promise 2006 Hammock Island Marina Christa & Joe Firefly 1983 Hunter Cherubini 27 Whitehall Marina Tom & Irene Musetta 2004 Jackson & Aden Marina Mary & Jim Lisa Marianna 2013 Marlow-Hunter 33e Fishing Bay Marina

Directory Update With the new members joining HSA-1, we will soon be updating the Membership Directory. You can view and print the updated directory by clicking “CLUBHOUSE” at hsa1.org. Our Membership Chair will notify all members by email when updates are ready.

HSA-1 Officers These officers are our Executive Committee and Board of Directors for 2016.

Greg Guthman Commodore Lois White Secretary Tina Meegan Vice Commodore Mike Meegan Treasurer Dan Breitenbach Fleet Captain Helen Kelley Immediate Past Commodore

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Rendezvous ‘16

June 23-26, 2016 Solomons, MD

The next Chesapeake Bay Hunter Rendezvous, open to all Hunter sailors, is only a month away.

The program will be centered at the plush Harms Gallery of The Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons. Dockage for our boats and outside activities will be at the beautiful Spring Cove Marina, and Solomons Harbor Marina. Both are very close to the Museum.

View the full schedule and register for the Rendezvous at www.Back2Bay.org. Make your slip reservations by clicking the links to one of the marinas above or by calling Spring Cove at (410) 326-2161 or Solomons Harbor at (410) 326-1052.

Bayside Bull’s fare is always a favorite They will again be our caterer

Nortons Yacht Sales and Marlow-Hunter are sponsoring the Rendezvous. Many companies are supporting it by providing speakers or promotional materials and thousands of dollars’ worth of door prizes.

Each registrant has an opportunity to be altruistic and give back to those in need. During Friday’s Movie Night we will collect non-perishable food for the local SMILE (Service Makes Individual Lives Exciting) Food Bank, smileinc.org.

Please bring some larder to share with the needy.

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2016 Calendar of Events

Date Event Location

Apr 30 Spring Forward Raft Pirate's Cove

Miles River & San May 14-15 St Michaels North & South Rafts Domingo Creek

May 28-30 Memorial Day Raft Corsica River

June 11-12 Choptank River Raft Leadenham Creek

June 23-26 Chesapeake Bay Hunter Rendezvous Solomons

July 2-4 Independence Day Raft Dun Cove

July 15-17 Night Sail to Circle Raft Shaw Bay

July 23 Oriels vs. Indians Baltimore

July 30-31 Southern Maryland Raft Patuxent River

Aug 12-14 Pirates & Wenches Fantasy Weekend Rock Hall

Aug 27 Herrington Harbour South Pool Party Herring Bay

Sept 3-5 Labor Day Raft Rhode River

Sep 17 Crab Feast at Severn Grove Saltworks Creek

Oct 6-10 Sail Boat Show Annapolis

Oct 15-16 Chili Cook-off TBD

Nov Annual Meeting TBD

Annapolis Waterfront Dec 10 Annapolis Parade of Lights Hotel

Come out and enjoy these events. Better yet, offer to help organize one. Contact Fleet Captain Dan or Vice Commodore Tina.

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Upcoming Events

Go to hsa1.org/activities/ to learn more about these events.

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Digging into the Bag of Tricks When the Chart Plotter Fails One of the speakers at the Rendezvous will be George Day of Blue Water Sailing Magazine. A seasoned blue water sailor and circumnavigator, George is going to speak on the Exumas, one of your editor’s favorite Bahamian cruising grounds. A recent Blue Water Sailing article reminded me of the last time we set out to take WindRose to the Exumas. A common jumping off point for the Exumas is Royal Island. On New Year’s Eve we completed the all-day sail from Lynyard Cay to Royal and all of our electronic instrumentation was working just fine. The next morning, the electronic chart plotter wasn’t displaying a chart! No it wasn’t an issue of a cocktail hangover. A storm rolled through and fried the SD slot in the chart plotter. That takes us back to the Blue Water Sailing article “Digging into the Bag of Tricks”. Check it out. It talks about keeping your favorite non-electronic tools aboard. We were glad we did. We did have GPS, so could pinpoint where we were on our paper charts. It was fun doing it the old way. No Instruments at All? Well our little exploit sans chart plotter was no big deal. Perrian and Ed Upton’s friend Marvin Creamer sailed around the world with no instruments! He did it without the use of compass, sextant or electronic instruments. He did not have a clock, but took an hourglass to get his two shipmates to stand their entire four-hour watches. During his circumnavigation, Marvin discovered that he could depend entirely on the sun, moon and stars – if they were visible. In overcast and stormy weather, he studied currents and wind patterns. He also found that the composition and color of the sea, cloud formations, the horizon, drifting objects and different types of birds or insects were valuable sources of information. Marvin obtained his latitudes by identifying a star with known declination that happened to be directly overhead. After a lot of practice, he was just as aware of his longitude as was an eighteenth-century mariner, so he had only to sail down a parallel of latitude for landfall. On one occasion a squeaking hatch served as a navigational aid. Marvin had lost direction in a prolonged calm. With no visible stars and no currents to guide him, he could do little more than sit and wait. When the wind finally began to blow, a crew member moved the hatch cover which made a loud squeaking noise. Marvin concluded that dry air coming off the Antarctic had caused the squeak. Moist air would have lubricated the track. He spotted the “F” marker just 15 miles south of Cape May on May 17, 1984, and entered Cape May harbor after 30,000 miles during 17 months at sea. He wrote "It has been a jolly romp!".1 Marvin now lives in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. He celebrated his 100th birthday this January. Marvin & Elaine at the Upton’s house He was only 97 then

1 Creamer article abridged from download of http://www.globestar.org/feat.htm

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Where We Keep Our Boats

Thanks to Fleet Captain Dan Breitenbach for going through the new Directory to chart where we keep our boats. HSA-1 boats are located from the Upper Bay to Deltaville, Virginia.

The number in the blue circle is the number of HSA-1 boats at that location

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Saint Michael’s Wrap-Up Weather forecasts – thunder bumpers on Saturday, Gale Warnings on Sunday! No wonder Windrose was the only HSA boat anchored in San Domingo Creek and Stargazer and Enavigare were the only two on the Miles River side of St. Mikes. The group was prudent enough to sit out the Gale Warnings and wait until Monday to go home in the not-so-springlike weather. Even with the not so ideal weather, the group enjoyed the local restaurants, the Maritime Museum and of course time spent kickin’ back with other Hunter owners.

Spring Forward Wrap-Up By Sharon & Mike Crothers HSA-1 started the sailing season at Pirates Cove Restaurant and Marina on April 30th. While the rain and grey weather kept the number of crews coming by boat down, we had a great turnout including several new members.

The evening started with Happy Hour on Stargazer. We had 19 happy souls aboard the new 40-footer. A few people opted for the cozy warmth of the inside bar instead, then joined us for a great dinner thanks to Pirates Cove's new menu.

The energy level was high as everyone looked forward to getting out on the Bay for another great season, headlined by the Hunter Rendezvous in Solomon's on June 23rd through 26th.

Twenty-seven people from these 13 boats enjoyed the meal and are excited about the upcoming season. Monarch Realization Desert Star Red Sky Dreamboat Saoirse Isabel Madison Stargazer Mood Swings Wind Rose One Dog Canoe Zum Wohl Pau Hana

Thanks to Mike and Sharon Crothers for being raft captains and for preparing this wrap-up. Thanks also to Commodore Greg Guthman and Bob and Pam Buchenauer for letting us use Stargazer when the group outgrew the cockpit of Mike and Sharon’s Monarch.

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Shipwreck Sock Burning Party Wrap-Up A Wet Success by Barb Steele

Remember the old adage … Neither rain, sleet or snow will keep the postal service from delivering? Well a little rain and snow didn’t keep thirty-seven HSA-1 sailors from attending the Annual Shipwreck Sock Burning Party at the NAS Annapolis Bay Room on March 19th.

Commodore Greg Guthman kicked off the event by ushering everyone outside to toss their socks and underwear, yes underwear, into the fire. We managed to get our socks burned before the next round of showers and headed back indoors to feast on a spectacular potluck.

Back inside we had a mercifully short meeting. Commodore Greg introduced new members Tony, Kim, and Chris Valerio and Frank and Karin Anderson and gave them welcoming gifts. Hunter Rendezvous Chair Carl Reitz updated the group on the June 23-26 Rendezvous. Plans are gelling nicely. Fleet Captain Dan Breitenbach gave everyone the latest update on our schedule. Dan is still looking for raft captains so please get in touch with him if you are interested.

Another old adage, time flies when you’re having fun, couldn’t have been truer. Before we knew it, it was time to start cleaning up. In HSA-1 grand tradition everyone pitched in and in no time the Bay Room was ready for its next event. Thanks to Greg, Dan, John Murphy of the Activities Committee, Rich and Helen Kelley who secured the Bay Room for us and all of the attendees for making this event such a success.

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Out of the Past Check out this article from 19 years ago in The Log. Interesting that we had Tom Neale speaking at the 1997 Rendezvous when his daughter Melanie, this year’s keynote speaker, was a teenager. Oops, I should never give away a woman’s age, especially around Mother’s Day.

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