The ® Intercom MEMBER Official Newsletter of the Interlake Sailing Class Association www.interlakesailing.org Spring 2005 Capital Moves Nationals Rule Change Midwinters Preview Overview Results - Pages 8-9 - Pages 9-11 - Pages 13-15 President Past President (937) 390-3525 Hank Boissoneault Don Wilson [email protected] 1415 Marlboro St. 616 Caesar Dr. Sandusky, OH 44870 Avon, IN 46123 Fleet #13 American Sailing Institute (419) 621-1034 (317) 272-6801 Michael Golden [email protected] [email protected] 4147 Normandy Royal Oak, MI 48073-6369 Vice President VP Marketing (248) 549-3030 Kevin Bracy Bob Sagan [email protected] 29337 Dewberry Ln. 8214 S. Watkins Ln. Westlake, OH 44145 Traverse City, MI 49684 Fleet #14 North Cape Y.C. (440) 871-1251 (231) 929-3555 Craig Spear [email protected] [email protected] 2126 Scottwood Ave. Toledo, OH 43620-1642 Secretary/Treasurer VP Southern Ohio (419) 243-1614 Jamie Jones Alan Freeland [email protected] 581 Braxton Pl. E 844 Oxford St Westerville Ohio 43081 Worthington, OH 43085 Fleet #17 Lorain Sailing and Y.C. (614) 899-6856 614-888-5858 Rich Wismer [email protected] [email protected] 34999 North View Circle N. Rodgeville, OH 44039 Chief Measurer VP Indiana (440) 327-8428 Clark Chapin Martin Howell [email protected] 974 Church St. 2408 Parkers Lane Plymouth, MI 48170-1644 Alexandria, VA 22306 Fleet #20 Port Clinton Y.C. (734) 453-4765 (703) 660-6255 Kevin Kyle [email protected] [email protected] 118 Lincoln Dr. Port Clinton, OH 43452 VP Northern Ohio Interlake Class Historian (419) 732-3226 Brad Balmert Martin Howell [email protected] 3702 Valleyview Dr. 2408 Parkers Lane Lorain, OH 44053 Alexandria, VA 22306 Fleet #22 Portage Y.C. (440) 282-4079 (703) 660-6255 Steve Schewe [email protected] [email protected] 428 Spring Ann Arbor, MI 48103 VP Michigan FLEET CAPTAINS (734) 663-2027 Doug Koenig Fleet #1 Sandusky S.C. [email protected] 42126 Woodcreek Ln. Mike Zuilhof Canton, MI 48188-2615 243 E Market St. #3 Fleet #23 Leatherlips Y.C. (734) 397-3426 Sandusky, OH 44870-2512 Michael Mirarchi [email protected] (419) 621-7808 3883 Braidwood Dr. [email protected] Hilliard, OH 43026 Intercom Editor (614) 876-6850 Ron Gall Fleet #4 Jolly Roger S.C. [email protected] 2022 Glencove Dr. Matt Blecke Toledo, OH 43609 2707 Algonquin Pkwy. Fleet #24 Hoover S.C. (419) 887-3389 (work) Toledo, OH 43606 Tom Eisert (419) 382-6998 (home) (419) 475-6613 7248 Stonefall Ct. (419) 351-1926 (cell) [email protected] Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 [email protected] (614) 367-2299 Fleet #5 Mohican S.C. [email protected] Builder Joe Murr Terry Kilpatrick 1435 Cleveland Rd. Fleet #28 Indianapolis S.C. 6913 Manore Rd. Wooster, OH 44691 Bryan Sarber Whitehouse, OH 43571 (330) 262-0296 9764 Springstone Rd. (419) 875-5106 [email protected] McCordsville, IN 46055 (419) 875-5109 fax (317) 335-7385 [email protected] Fleet #6 Portage Lakes Y.C. [email protected] Darwin Steele 256 Woodridge Dr. Fleet #38 Grand Traverse Y.C. What’s Inside Tallmadge, OH 44278 Bob Sagan From the President Pg. 3 (330) 633-3848 8214 S. Watkins Ln. Letter to the Editor Pg. 4 [email protected] Traverse City, MI 49684 PRSA Spring Regatta Pg. 5 (231) 929-3555 A Little Interlake History Pg. 6-7 Fleet #7 Clark Lake Y.C. [email protected] 2005 Nationals Preview Pg. 8-9 Michael Sharkey Rule Change Overview Pg. 9-11 13942 Stowell Rd. Fleet #39 Mid-Atlantic “Generations” Pg. 11 Dundee, MI 48131 Doug Savage Interlake Midwinters Pg. 13-15 (734) 497-1873 2000 Swan Terrace US SAILING Report Pg. 16-17 [email protected] Alexandria, VA 22307 Founders Cup Pg. 18 (703) 765-9008 Chiefs Regatta Pg. 19 Fleet #10 Indian Lake Y.C. [email protected] ISCA Meeting Minutes Pg. 19-22 Jonathan Eckels Classifieds Pg. 22-23 1603 Winding Trail Cover Photo by Jeff Storck Marketing Report Pg. 23 Springfield, OH 45503-2812 2005 Midwinters The Intercom … 2 information gathered at the Cleveland Boat Show. Lorain From the President Sailing and Yacht Club is hosting a learn-to-sail day By Hank Boissoneault based upon those leads. We will publish more on these subjects in future Intercoms. After a long, snowy winter, I am happy to announce spring The Interlake Nationals for 2005 will be held in is finally here. In fact, for 16 of Indianapolis, one of the more beautiful places we are us, spring sailing has already fortunate to sail at every year. I attended the last Nationals started. On March 19- 20, Fleet held at this club back in 1995. Since then, it has been one 39 hosted the third Midwinters of my favorite places to sail. Through the work of Bob of the Interlake Class. Thank Butsch and Past President Don Wilson, the club is taking you to Fleet 39 for a great on a new face-lift, and will be in pristine condition in time event! for Nationals. Friday evening started with a Planning is already underway for the 2006 Nationals at Welcome Party, sponsored by Hoover Sailing Club. At the fall meeting, they presented Customflex and Fleet 39 at Martin and Ashley Howell’s one of the nicest bids I have ever seen to host Nationals. new home. During the evening, Skip Dieball gave us Their bid was in the form of a video presentation, another impressive seminar on “How to Sail our Interlake showing the club, its members, and what they have to Faster.” Loaded with slide shows and some of the newest offer. The nomination was immediately accepted and we thinking, it was a very valuable presentation. are looking forward to the event. In addition to 2006, a bid is on the table for the 2007 Nationals to be finalized at Saturday and Sunday brought near perfect conditions for this year’s fall meeting. the event. Reports, at times during the week, had conditions looking pretty bad, thus making the decision to The Class will be adding Bob Sagan as the new travel a little more difficult. The folks that did travel Marketing Chairman. Former Chairman, Bob Butsch, has ended up having a great weekend for sailing. It is the taken on a more active role at Indianapolis, preparing for Executive Committee’s intention to move further south our arrival this summer. We want to thank Bob for his next year, if a suitable location can be determined. If you past service. have any input towards this regard, please pass it on to the Committee. Bob Sagan is energized with new marketing ideas that will be put into place at the spring meeting in Columbus. This event was the first of many Travelers Series regattas. It’s shaping up to be a very exciting year. A complete list can be found on our website (www.interlakesailing.org) thanks to the efforts of Jeff With every Class, especially one that was founded out of Clark. I hope you will consider traveling to an away wood and progressed to fiberglass, measurement issues regatta. I am confident that you will learn more about come up. We have spent the better part of the winter Interlake racing by traveling, than an entire summer of burning up phone lines and e-mail routers discussing the racing at your home club. Besides, the parties are kind of issues of the day. Every effort is being made to protect the fun too. As with most things in life, it’s what you make of integrity and tradition of the Class, while applying it that counts. The rewards are well worth the little bit of foresight into the future. It’s vital that your opinion is effort required to attend a regatta. heard and one of the best ways to influence the direction of the Class is to get involved. We are coming up on One of the new regattas featured this year comes from nominations for the new board and would like to know of Port Clinton. They have opened up a local club race to all your interest to serve and get involved. It is a good way to Interlakes. The “Can Race”, which is now a counter on give something back to our great Class. the Travelers Series, is a long distance race along the shoreline of Lake Erie. I hope you will consider this as In closing, I would like to say how happy I am with my you look at your summer schedule. Port Clinton Yacht new Interlake. I have owned several used Interlakes. Club’s Commodore has pledged to ensure that a good When I decided to sell them, each of them sold within two time is had by all. weeks. I think that is a real testament to Customflex, the builder Terry Kilpatrick, and all the previous Executive In addition to adding the Can Race, we have also Committees. Consider upgrading. It’s worth a look. Your examined the idea of a cruising weekend to some location investment sells fast, it helps grow the fleet, and you yet to be determined. We were considering a cruise to the won’t be disappointed. sandbar in Sandusky Bay or possibly to Kelley’s Island. We are also adding a sailing expo, of sorts, based on Here’s to a great summer! The Intercom … 3 that were either white or grey… The perception is that Letter to the Editor having a white or grey hull is some kind of advantage. We should apparently either require all hulls to be white or grey, or not allow any to be white or grey.