Flicka Friends May 2014 Flicka Friends Index Issue # 59
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Flicka Friends May 2014 Flicka Friends Index Issue # 59 Flicka Friends Index Flicka Friends 1 FLICKA FRIENDS INDEX C ONTENTS Contents ......................................... 2 Flicka Friends Index A Flicka Friends Index ................... 2 Thank You! ..................................... 3 About Flicka Friends ..................... 3 Flicka Friends History ................... 4 Flicka Friends Cover Photos 1995-2013 .................................. 5 Flicka Friends Issues 1995 Issues and Articles ........... 9 1996 Issues and Articles ........... 10 1997 Issues and Articles ........... 11 1998 Issues and Articles ........... 12 1999 Issues and Articles ........... 13 2000 Issues and Articles .......... 13 2001 Issues and Articles ........... 14 2002 Issues and Articles .......... 15 2003 Issues and Articles .......... 16 2004 Issues and Articles .......... 17 2005 Issues and Articles ........... 18 2006 Issues and Articles .......... 19 2007 Issues and Articles ........... 20 2008 Issues and Articles .......... 21 2009 Issues and Articles .......... 22 2012 Issues and Articles ........... 22 2013 Issues and Articles ........... 23 2014 Issues and Articles ........... 25 Flicka Authors Flicka Authors ........................... 26 Flicka Articles Turning south into the San Juan Channel aboard s/y BLUE SKIES. Flicka Articles ........................... 30 Photo: Tom Davison © 2014 By Tom Davison As the editor with more familiarity than most, s/y BLUE SKIES it often takes time to flip through the pages or the computer files. For someone new to the Years ago, when someone wanted all of the Flicka 20 and Flicka Friends, the task may back issues, they had to be photocopied and take longer than many have the time for. C OVER mailed. The amount of time that this took, not to mention the expense, meant it wasn’t Hopefully, this index will be the reference My Flicka, s/y BLUE SKIES ad the docks in done very often. The twenty mile drive to that is needed to help everyone locate the Fisherman Bay on Lopez Island, Washington. town and the several hours required wasn’t Photo: Tom Davison © 2014 article they are interested in. very efficient. • Flicka Issues After the summer of 2001, Flicka Friends • Flicka Articles issues were produced as Adobe Acrobat • Flicka Authors Portable Document File (PDF) files. This Now that most of the work has been done, I’ll B ACK C OVER change proved to be the best way to share the try to publish an annual index that contains Flicka # 387, s/y ZANZIBAR at the dock newsletter. After scanning the early issues, the new articles and photos for the previous. after a long cold winter in Michigan. every Flicka Friends newsletters were posted year. Photo: Tom Davison © 2014 on the Flicka 20.com website. As usual, I’m looking for articles and photos With fifty-nine issues of Flicka Friends, 869 about the Flicka. There is always a need for pages of information, 1,506 photos, and 362 another article or a photo from your favorite articles, there is a need for an index to locate cruising ground. If you would like to share an I SSUE 59, V ERSION 16.4.4 specific articles and information about the image or story about your Flicka, or a recent 06/20/2014 - 2045 Flicka. trip. Please let me know. 2 Flicka Friends Index FLICKA FRIENDS INDEX A BOUT Thank You! F LICKA F RIENDS Flicka Friends is a newsletter that is written specifically for the people who own, crew aboard, or are interested in the Flicka, a twenty foot sailing vessel designed by Bruce P. Bingham. Based on the Newport Boats of Block Island Sound, this little ship has been built from various materials from the 1970’s until 2002. This includes Flickas constructed from plans obtained directly from Bruce’s California office. About 400 sets of plans were sold. According to Bruce Bingham, many Flickas can be found in New Zealand, Australia, and Sweden. A number of hulls were built by Nor’Star and some were completed by Westerly Marine. The manufacturer of the bulk of the class is Pacific Seacraft who built 434 hulls in California. Flicka Friends is published on a quarterly basis: with issues being posted to the Internet in March, June, September and December. Articles and photo- graphs are welcome and encouraged. You can download the current issue as well as the back issues of Flicka Friends from the Flicka Home Page: ! www.flicka20.com Flicka Friends is always in need of articles and photographs for publication. Please consider sending something to me for the next issue of the newsletter. Editor:! Tom Davison ! P.O. Box 462 ! Empire, MI 49630 My Flicka: s/y BLUE SKIES at the dock in Fisherman Bay. ! Photo: Tom Davison © 2014 Desktop: [email protected] By Tom Davison captains and crew members that have provided stories and photos from around the iPAD: This newsletter has been in publication since world. Without their help and assistance, the summer of 1995 and, including this index, Flicka Friends would not be what it is today. [email protected] there are fifty-nine issues so far. This index also shows the numerous people Flicka Thank you! Flicka Friends Index 3 FLICKA FRIENDS INDEX Flicka Friends History By Tom Davison Conversion of Flicka Friends to the Adobe By May, most of the Flicka 20 Home Page had Acrobat PDF format in 2002 brought about a been moved. Best of all, Flicka Friends is During the spring of 1995, Dennis Pratt and major change. Acrobat Pro is a software available on the Internet at the Flicka Home his son Geoff were returning from their boat program that converts just about anything into Page. The web page has been popular with hits storage when they first discussed the idea of a the PDF files that are commonly used on the coming in from around the world. Flicka Newsletter. Dennis wanted to exchange Internet. ideas and information about maintaining the In 2008, Gus Bear, the captain of s/y Flicka, to share stories about the Flicka and to Adobe Acrobat allowed me to take advantage CARAWAY (Flicka # 423) agreed to take establish Flicka gatherings. of the YAHOO Flicka 20 Group on the over the duties of the Flicka Home Page Internet. Rather than creating a newsletter webcaptain. He migrated the existing The first issue attracted forty responses from and photocopying it for mailing, the original information to a software program called two continents. Pacific Seacraft sent out 400 publisher file would be “printed” into an DOT.NET Nuke. He is continuing to manage copies of the newsletter using their mailing Adobe PDF file. Even with years of computing, the Flicka 20 Home Page. list. The subscription numbers increased until I still find the compression of a 250 MB file roughly two hundred and fifty people were down to less then 2 MB incredible. At the same time, Daryl Clark, captain of s/y getting the newsletter. This included thirty- BALLO LISCIO took over as the editor for four U.S. States, three Canadian provinces and The best part about changing to PDF files is Flicka Friends. Several issues were produced six other countries. that the newsletter could be in full color. Since until a computer crash killed three more the newsletter was not being sent through the issues. The early Flicka Friends issues were low tech mail, the need to charge for the newsletter and in black and white. At the time, color disappeared. This also meant that printing, In October of 2012, Daryl Clark and I agreed issues were possible but the additional folding, collating, sealing, applying stamps, on a change for the editor and he turned the printing costs limited this option. placing mailing labels and mailing was gone as control over Flicka Friends back to me. The well. newest issues are created using the MAC and Flicka Friends isn‘t the first Flicka related their Pages desktop program and Adobe newsletter. Another newsletter called “The Initially, the newsletter files were placed on Acrobat Pro. Scrollwork” was published by Morris and the Yahoo Flicka 20 web page. The file Karen London between June of 1984 and limitations prevented posting all the back A photo issue in the fall of 2012 was posted on spring of 1987. Six issues were published. On issues. the Yahoo Flicka 20 site at a lower resolution. the pages, you can find Flickas with their early A higher resolution version was posted to the owners, including # 171 sailing on Lake Mead Hal DeVaney helped with the back issues of Flicka 20 Home Page. Plans were laid for by Del Delgado. There are stories about Flicka Friends for a while. He also another photo issue in January of 2013 and a various gatherings, including one in Isthmus recommended moving the Flicka Home Page “regular” issue in March of 2013. Cove in 1984 and another on Block Island. to the company he uses for his business. The March 2013 was the fiftieth issue of Flicka Maybe the most unusual image that appeared In 1999, Rod Bruckdorfer started the Flicka Friends, certainly a milestone. While there on the pages of The Scrollwork was of Pacific Home Page on the Internet. He managed this have been some gaps in printing. The Seacraft Flicka #284. Named Adventure, the site until turning it over to me in 2001. The newsletter has continued through the years. Flicka was placed in a small swimming pool web page was created and placed on a local With seven issues, this was also the year with behind the brokers home. This must be the Internet server using the space provided with the most issues published. With as many as 34 smallest body of water to ever float a Flicka. the basic e-mail account. pages, a single issue in 2013 often exceeds the Another interesting image that appeared in number of pages in an entire year at the The Scrollwork is that of Nor‘Star Flicka # 5.