PO BOX 814 • SANDUSKY, OHIO 44871-0814 • www.sanduskysailingclub.com The object of the Sandusky Sailing Club shall be the promotion and encouragement of sailing and seamanship, and of a sportsmanlike attitude toward racing and competition. The Club is organized to encourage small boat sailing and racing among those who may not be able to afford large annual dues and assessments. May 2017 Cross Bearings Regatta Committee – Jay Austin is the contact for anyone 05/01 Mon Sadler Basin Committee meeting ........7:00pm looking to bring a regatta to our awesome facilities. We all 05/02 Tues Junior Sailing Inc meeting ...................7:00pm need to be promoting our facility to potential regattas. 05/06 Sat Adaptive Sailing fundraiser dinner ......... TBA Jay will help promote and assist all regatta chairs in managing 05/09 Tues SSC Board meeting .............................7:00pm any requirements. 05/17 Wed Wednesday Night Race ........................ 6:55pm Don’t forget….We will be hosting the Flying Scot North 05/20 Sat The Big Steak Out at SSC ...................5:00pm American Championship this June 23-29. PC Steve France 05/21 Sun Sunday Centerboard Race ................... 9:30am and Jay Austin are putting together the list of volunteers, so 05/24 Wed Wednesday Night Race ........................ 6:55pm please put a call in to one (or both) of them to help show our 05/28 Sat Lighthouse Inspection Tour ................. 9:00am “best selves” at this prestigious event. Mark your calendars 05/28 Sun Sunday PHRF/JAM Race/Cruise..........8:45am and plan appropriately. As usual with these large events, there 05/28 Sun Sunday Centerboard Race ................... 9:30am will be some disruption to regular club activities. Watch for 05/29 Mon Memorial Day Ceremony and potluck ..11:00am more details. 05/31 Wed Wednesday Night Race ........................ 6:55pm 06/03 Sat SJRT at Berlin Yacht Club................... 9:00am “Sponsor a Window” challenge update – The pride I feel 06/04 Sun Sunday PHRF/JAM Race/Cruise..........8:45am in our membership is quite overwhelming! We actually have 06/04 Sun Sunday Centerboard Race ................... 9:30am all the windows sponsored and delivered. Maybe, by the time 06/05 Mon Sadler Basin Committee meeting ........7:00pm this Cross Bearings reaches you, they will all be installed and 06/06 Tues Junior Sailing Inc meeting ...................7:00pm the final staining and varnishing will be complete. I offer 06/07 Wed Wednesday Night Race ........................ 6:55pm a HUGE thank you to all the contributors, especially Steve 06/09 Fri Mills Race, Toledo Yacht Club ............4:00pm Springer, who sponsored the Galley windows in memory of 06/10-11 SSC One Design Regatta ..................... 9:00am his father and mother, Jack and Lila Springer. THANK YOU! 06/11 Sun NO Sunday Centerboard Race Also, a correction to last month’s article. We had Harrison and 06/12-16 Learn to Sail Session 1 ........................ 9:00am Rosie Pratt listed as donating one window when in fact they 06/13 Tues SSC Board meeting .............................7:00pm donated two windows. THANK YOU! 06/14 Wed Wednesday Night Race ........................ 6:55pm Spring Workday & General Meeting – As this Cross 06/16-18 Cruise to Leamington Bearings goes out just AFTER workday, and I am writing 06/17 Sat SSC Junior Regatta .............................. 9:00am BEFORE workday....I can only hope that the weather forecast 06/18 Sun Sunday PHRF/JAM Race/Cruise..........8:45am was wrong and we had a beautiful sunshiny productive day 06/18 Sun Sunday Centerboard Race ................... 9:30am that culminated in a wonderful lunch with birthday cake! 06/19-23 Learn to Sail Session 2 ........................ 9:00am So...check out the June Cross Bearings for a final report. 06/21 Wed SJRT at Edgewater Yacht Club ............ 9:00am Thank you to everyone who did come and all those 06/21 Wed Wednesday Night Race ........................ 6:55pm “independent contractors” who have taken on projects! 06/23-29 Flying Scot North Americans at SSC .. 9:00am 06/24 Sat SJRT at North Cape Yacht Club .......... 9:00am Open House (Steak Out) and New Members Welcome Party – 06/24-25 Cruise to Lorain International Festival Please plan to come enjoy each other and a great steak dinner. 06/25 Sun NO Sunday Centerboard Race I am looking forward to seeing all of you here on May 20. 06/26-30 Learn to Sail Session 3 ........................ 9:00am As always, please feel free 06/28 Wed Wednesday Night Race ........................ 6:55pm to contact me anytime. For more info go to: www.sanduskysailingclub.com. As your Commodore, I am committed to serving you Commodore’s Comments .......Comm. Wendy Kaufman and hope that you will join Dues statements – Considering the “glitch” in dues billing our board meetings the this spring, I personally audited the records and sent out second Tuesday of each reminders for those who have not renewed; hence the delay month at 7:00pm. Thank in receiving your new cards. You should be getting your new you. Com. Wendy cards in the mail shortly. Tim will send out an email letting Kaufman, text or call 419- you know when to use your new (green) card. Thank you for 656-9566 (cell) or email me your patience in this matter. at willowwalkers@aol. We have a new Secretary – Fred Melick has offered to serve com our club as secretary. I would like to thank Wes for his Adaptive Sailing service the past two years and am excited to have Fred jump participants head out in! on a Windrider. Vice Vice Baby!! .......................VC Mark Gross Feel free to contact me with questions or concerns about Spring Workday – THANK YOU to all who helped out on the marina or clubhouse, at [email protected] or call workday, getting your club ready for another great season! 419-656-5881. Now all we need is some sunshine, warmer temperatures, and boats in the water to make it feel like summer! Membership ........................... PC Steve France Member Get-A-Member update – The program is 2017 Yearbook – The yearbook is almost ready to publish. delightfully uncomplicated. If you are principally responsible Thank you to Comm. Wendy Kaufman and PC Eric Winkel for bringing in a new regular member and that responsibility for all their help in getting it put together. We are looking to is acknowledged by the board, you are eligible for a $100 go to print soon! Now is the time to update your contact award. There is no limit to the number of new members you information on your web member listing. can recruit. Your award(s) will be presented and you will Contact me at [email protected] or 419-357-6747. be recognized at our Awards and Appreciation Banquet in November. The View from the Rear .....RC John Schwartz New member – Jan Adams hails from the Columbus suburb of Junior sailing – For anyone with school-age kids, this is a Worthington and has been sailing for nearly thirty years, most crazy time of year between school events, competing sports recently out of Harbor Park Marina in Port Clinton. He sails schedules, house projects, and maybe even something about an Island Packet 27 which will sail out of Sadler this season. a boat if there’s time left. The Schwartz’s have been big- He is a confirmed cruising sailor and is looking forward to boatless for three years now because it just doesn’t seem to get participating in some of the Cruising Fleets many sail-aways. all the way to the top of the list. It’s a new year, so we’ll have We welcome Jan to the club and look forward to getting to to see how this season shapes up for us. I’ve clearly got the know him when we get our boats back in the water this month. itch, and I may pick up an Interlake to follow that fleet around, just to get me on water (even if I can’t sleep on it). Steak Out at SSC – No, that’s not a misprint and the law My kids sail SJRT, so I get to watch a lot of people sailing won’t be spying on the club looking for smugglers or other every season at least. For anyone with school age kids – a unsavory characters. On May 20, beginning at 5:00pm, SSC quick plug for the junior race team – it is an awesome deal as members and guests will have a rare opportunity to savor parent-funded kid sports go and involves a great group of kids prime, 14oz. sirloin steaks grilled to perfection. The steak and parents. There quite a few open 420’s this year, so talk to purchasing gurus at SSC will procure the finest sirloins for me or any of the other SJRT parents if you want to learn more you to prepare on the club’s grills to your own particular about SJRT. It really is a super-affordable, fun and productive perfection, aided by the best supplied herbs, spices, rubs and thing for kids – and 90% screen-free. sauces. Bring a side or dessert to share. While you watch over the grilling of your steak, enjoy the evening’s featured drink New Member Party/Steak-Out – With all of our schedules - a rum punch concocted from a secret recipe stolen from in mind, I haven’t arranged a forum for May. I’d like to see a Foxy’s notorious beach bar on Jost Van Dyke Island good turnout for Steve France’s New Member Party/Steak-Out in the BVI. on May 20. I know that he’s putting a considerable amount of During the evening, we also introduce and welcome time into making it a fun event for new and old members.