HILLSBORO INLET SAILING CLUB June 2020 Lighthouse Point, Florida Inside This Issue From The Helm From the Helm 1-2 Three months have gone by and the virus is still Upcoming Events 3 with us. We are begin- Club Information 4 ning to see some life as Helloooo Cruisers! 5-6 beaches, restaurants, and businesses slowly Anchoring—tall tale? 7-9 open. While some say Membership 10-11 we should stay locked More from Bimini 12-13 By Dale Kern down, others say open Commodore 2020-21 everything up, and the Lord Nelson’s Flag Signal 14-17 Wind Punk rest of us somewhere in- Crossword Puzzle (NEW) 18-20 between, one thing we can agree on is that nothing says "social distancing" like rac- Boat Docks Wanted & Available 21 ing. So let's race. Starting in June we Soundings 22 are going to follow our race schedule as it was previously planned. June 7th is the Club Classifieds 23-25 last race of the Spring Series, so I guess it Sponsor Advertising 25-28 will be a "Winner-takes-all" race day. I Calendar of Events 29-30 am happy to announce that we will be also hosting the Nederlanden coastal race on Sailing Humor 31 June 20th. After race parties will be host- ed via teleconference until further no- tice. We have several club boats partici- Continued on Page 2 pating in the "64-1/2th" Miami-to-Key-Largo race on Biscayne Bay. It is an out-and-back to the Featherbeads, with no gathering in Key Largo. Hoping for good seas and great results for our participating sailors. Cruising is a little more complicated. So there are no formal cruises or raft- ups scheduled just yet. But, if you visit an anchorage with other club boats (at a safe distance), then you can earn a cruising point. Our cruising commit- tee is also working to put a Social Sail on the calendar as well. Jeff Sussman and the By-Laws committee have been busy at work. They have done good work and I am excited to have them present it to the mem- bership. However, there is no rush, so we have decided to present the results at the next in-person meeting rather than over a virtual meeting. While things are beginning to open up, I want to remind everyone that partic- ipation is not mandatory. As much as I would like to see everyone again, it should be at a time at which you are comfortable. We will continue Virtual activities as things remain uncertain. Our last Virtual Happy Hour was a ri- ot, and I look forward to the next. Soon, I will be moving the Virtual Happy Hour to every fourth Thursday. Eventually, and hopefully soon, I would like to convert the Virtual Happy Hour to a regular happy hour and keep it on the calendar. Looking forward to seeing everyone, hopefully in the near future. But in the meantime.... Let's Race. Dale Kern HISC Commodore 2020-2021—Wind Punk 2 Upcoming Events HISC 2019 Governing board 05/05/2020 Zoom Happy Hour Commodore Dale Kern Vice Commodore Paul Alcock 05/07/2020 Board Meeting Rear Commodore Ross Hunton 05/12/2020 Zoom Happy Hour Past Commodore Jeff Sussman 05/14/2020 General Meeting (Zoom) Treasurer Peder Sahlin 05/17/2020 Zoom Happy Hour Secretary Jeff Keiser Two Year Directors Ken White 05/26/2020 Zoom Happy Hour Joe Gomez 06/04/2020 Board Meeting One Year Directors Christeen Pozniak 06/11/2020 General Meeting Michael Sparks Staff Commodore Doug Knickerbocker TBC: To Be Confirmed—Subject to the Pandemic. Races, Regattas & After Race Parties Schedule Date Race Manager Host 05/03 Spring Series TBC #5 & #6 05/16/ WPB Race TBC 05/31 Spring Series TBC 7 & 8 06/07 Spring Series TBC 9&10 06/20 Nederlanden TBC Race Cruising Calendar MONTH DAY(S) EVENT HOSTS LOCATION 05/2020 23-25 Memorial Day Lady Grey, Cookie Bimini Cruise TBC Monster, Commotion 06/2020 20-21 Father’s Day Bahia Mar Cruise 3 BOAT US MEMBERSHIP Boat US membership dues are $30.00. Since we have a group membership; current HISC Members as well as any new HISC Members in 2016 should only pay $15.00. Our Group Number is GA83724S If you need any additional information call me, Tim Leonard, Boat US Coordinator at (754) 367-1085 or e-mail to [email protected] The Club Purpose The purpose of the Hillsboro Inlet Sailing Club is to develop, encourage, promote, and stimulate interest in sailing, and to encourage the fellowship and camaraderie associated with sailing and sailors in the Hillsboro Inlet area from Palm Beach to Miami and beyond. Membership An application for membership in HISC may be obtained from membership chairperson Bob Schuldenfrei at (954) 864-9791 ([email protected]) or by contacting any club member. There is a $30.00 initiation fee and annual dues of $150 (family), $125 (single), are payable upon joining and every January thereafter. After June 30, the dues are 75.00 (family) or $62.50 (single) for the rest of the current year for new members. Monthly General Meeting The Hillsboro Inlet Sailing Club holds a monthly membership meeting generally on the second Thursday of each month, 7:00pm at the Galuppi’s 1103 N Federal Hwy, Pompano Beach, Florida 33062, Tel: (954) 785-0226. Please check the monthly calendar or call the editor for any changes in the meeting dates, times, or locations. Club Links: Club Website: https://www.hisc.org Club Youth Sailing Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HISCYouthSailing/ Club Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/hisc.org Club Photos Online: https://hisc.smugmug.com/ Club Calendar: https://www.hisc.org/events/ Hillsboro Inlet Soundings: https://www.hisc.org/inlet-info/ Want to get your Local Knowledge into Print? Could you write a Local Knowledge article? We’re looking for arti- cles about Lake Boca, Hillsboro Inlet, Boca Inlet, Port Everglades, The ICW from Port Everglades to Hillsboro Inlet, and other areas. We’re looking for Articles for 2020 Issues of the Inlet Outlet. Please contact the Editor if you would like to author a Local Knowledge article. 4 Hellooo cruiserrrrs! As you well know, the official cruising activities of the club have been on hold with our cruising gatherings challenged by the social distancing measures imposed by the state. Keeping each oth- er more than 6 feet apart, keeping our boats more than 60 ft apart, and having a maximum of 10 peo- ple on board are definitively not the way we con- duct our cruising activities. Since I have always work from home ad now Lucy does it too; the “new normal” is kind of business as usual for both of us. Although we miss connect- ing with friends beyond ZOOM, one thing that we cruisers have, and we should not ignore, is that we can easily be self-isolated on our boats. And that is something we have been doing during the past weekends. Going out and anchoring in the Intracoastal lakes has been a relaxing, entertaining experience, and an excellent opportunity to take care of the boat. And of course, a way to score points to get that cruising flag when you meet other members in the anchorage. But now that norms have relaxed a little bit, we must be more careful with those that are not. This past Memorial weekend, we had the opportunity to anchor close to Af- fection, Catabatic, and Cookie Monster at Marine Stadium (one cruising point each!). Marine Stadium offers a breathtaking view of the Miami-Brickell skyline combined with the vegetation of Virginia Key. An absolute paradise… Well, that is until the party boats arrived, then it was a complete zoo! Miami Dade PD, The Firefighting Department, and other law enforcement vessels spend hours at the location. They instructed people to spread apart and break their raft-ups, only to see how quickly they came back together as soon as they turn their sight to another infractor. An anchor line tangled with the propeller of another boat, a large powerboat with megaphones mounted on the roof blasting music forward, and swimming suits that are not for swimming and can hardly be called suits were part of Saturday’s and Sunday’s scene. Still, the star of the night was a 50+ ft, powerboat. They came with blasting music, full speed ahead, avoiding anchored boats in the middle of torrential rain with no more than 300ft visibility. They stopped by the end of the basin, leaving a 6ft wave behind them that rocked all the boats at precisely 1:13 AM. Wow! 5 At dawn, a little sailboat previously anchored a hundred feet away from us, their anchor dislodged by the wave, was resting across the other side of the Stadium after it hooked to the anchor of another sailboat. And in CH16, you could hear efforts by the Firefighting Department to rescue a small catamaran that lost their mooring and ended up dismasted against the bridge. Boat boats unoccupied. The moral of the story to me is: 1.- Set your anchor well enough to resist a strong wind gust or a tidal wave even when you are in a place where it may never happen. 2.- Leave a light at night that makes your boat visible to the untrained eye. 3.- Keep your phone at hand and ready to shoot video. It’s an excellent way to document when somebody is about to cause an accident. Your cruising chair, Hector 4 Easy Steps for a Successful Cruise: 1.—Have a pre-cruise meeting with all of the Hosts.