The April 2004 Scuttlebutt

The Amelia Island Sailing Club

COMMODORE’S CORNER

Gene Sokolowski

Gene_sokolowski@condordc.com

(904) 321-5662 (home)

(904) 261-9090 (work)

Thanks to All for Another Great "Pot Luck Dinner" and Looking Forward to the Finger Foods for the April 6th Meeting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it certainly appears that the Race Season is off to a Great Start with 2 consecutive races with 15 knots or more of wind. Would like to thank "Holmes at Sea" for their support in the Green Bush/O'Kanes Race as the Committee Boat. Outstanding Job!!!!!

Another "FIRST" is coming up for the Club, Saturday, March 27th. After 10 + years we will be participating in a race with the North Florida Cruising Club in their 1st offshore race of the season, from the mouth of the St Johns River to St Mary's River entrance G15. Starting time will be 9 AM, which would mean that boats will be able to be seen off the beaches starting sometime around noon. At this writing, 5 of our boats have showed interest in participating. They are; Cheese Boat, Gods Gift, Baby Blooz, Mary Wanderer, and Sunday Mornin' Jazz. Seeing that this is the weekend of our "Cruising Overnight Stay & Pot Luck at Cumberland Weekend" it would be special to have some of our boats welcome the racers as they come across the finish line. Just Like the "America's Cup"!!!!

Hope to see you at the finish line, Cumberland Island or at the next meeting.

Fair Winds To All

Gene

VICE COMMODORE

Hanko Rosenblad

lhankr@aol.com

(904) 491-1300 (home)

(904) 277-0074 (work)

(904) 710-7310 (cell)

Seems that I missed a great St. Pat's buffet at our March meeting.  The word is that every morsel was delicious.

There seems to be no further news about the tall ship's visit to Jacksonville in June.  My contact at the ASF has 'given up' on pursuing a contact in Jacksonville and has said that the Maritime Museum is in charge of the event.  I have not yet seen any publicity on the event and we are getting closer to the arrival date of the ships.  If anyone in the club has information, give me a call.

Let's hear it for our Commodore who recently celebrated a 'significant' birthday.  A significant birthday is one in which the last number of the magic day ends in a zero.  Here's to many more, Gene.

See you all at our next meeting.

Hanko Rosenblad

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REAR COMMODORE:

Joe Blanchard

jlblan2@bellsouth.net

(904) 277-4257 (day)

(800) 567-1148 (pager)

The Scuttlebutt is placed on the new website each month and is archived to that site. The Scuttlebutt is also e-mailed to each member who has submitted an e-mail address. Hard copies of the Scuttlebutt are available at the meetings. A Calendar has been added to the website, check it out. The latest Membership list is on the website. Check out the very helpful links on the website.

AISC Websites

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or

http://www.ameliaislandsailing.org (New Website)

Please go to the above website and register on the Forum page if you are new to the club. A calendar has been added to the website.

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TREASURER:

Lin Bass

lbass@mindspring.com

(904) 277-4398 (home)

We currently have $1492.64 in the club treasury, with no expenditures this month. Things are looking good! Feel free to give me a call should you have any questions.

Fair winds to you all.

Lin

Just Cruisin’

Butch Beard

wgbeard@yahoo.com

(904) 491-0755 (home)

(904) 281-1990 (work)

(904) 206-0668 (cell)

April cruising is upon us, the season of the most beautiful weather and some awesome bugs. Mar and I are going to jump in and test the waters by taking our annual spring-break pilgrimage north starting April 6^th. I have to work Monday or we would start a lot sooner. We plan to return to join the fleet for the great northern circumnavigation scheduled for Easter weekend. The plan is to anchor in Cumberland Friday night (4/9). The fleet will head north cruising off shore to either the entrance at St. Simon’s or even a little more north depending on the weather and sea conditions. We will anchor Sat night. I am still working on some sites and will update later. For those requiring yellow snake, we should be somewhere in vicinity of Golden Isles Marina. Sunday we will return by way of the beautiful ICW making stops along the way at all of the popular spots. Hope to you all on Friday night (4/9/04).

Daytona for the Fourth

I have at present secured tentative reservations for the 6 boats that signed up for the Daytona 4th of July trip. Halifax Harbor needs confirmed reservations ASAP. Please call Pam at 386-671-3600 with credit card info. If you are not going let me know. If you want to go and did not sign up, let me know.

Butch

I put forth the following as the cruise schedule for AISC for 2004. I would welcome comments.

		Long Holidays
		Easter	Apr 9-11
		Memorial Day	May 29-31
		Jul 4th	Jul 3-5
		Labor day	Sept 4-6
		Thanksgiving	Nov 25-26
March	27-28	Anchor out at Cumberland Dinghy to Island Pot Luck
April	9-11	Easter around the world cruise
May	Shrimpfest	Anchor out Downtown
May	29-31	If race weekend, Jeckyll, no race farther north
June	5-12	Beaufort, SC
July	1-7	Daytona for the fourth
Aug	28-29	Full Moon Cruise - All Night
Sept	3-6	St Augustine
Oct	2-3	Lots of moon Anchor out (Cumberland)
Nov	19-28	Thanksgiving cruise to Charleston
Dec	31-1	New Years in Jax

Race Committee

Bob Cannon (Offshore Racing) Joe Bowen (Inshore Racing)

Jadesail1@aol.com jbowen9@comcast.net

(904-261-4904 (home) (904) 277-1614 (home)

(904-556-9566 (cell)

Great race in March!  We had 10 boats turn out for the Greenbush Regatta/O'Kane's St. Patrick Day race.  Nine boats finished within a 30 minute time span!  Our next race is April 17th, the Nassau Sound Buoy Race.  This is an offshore race to "The Lost Buoy" and back.  This race is a lot of fun, a nice day's offshore haul.  Come one, come all, let's race and have a load of fun.  We'll give info pertaining to the Captain's meeting at the April meeting.  See you there!

Joe Bowen

AISC

2004 Race Schedule

February 28 – The Ice Bucket Regatta

March 13 – The O’Kane’s St. Patrick Day Race

April 17 – The Nassau Sound Buoy Race (Offshore)

May 8 – Around the Sound (Cumberland Sound)

August 21 – The Bikini Race

September 18 – The Jefferson/Smurfit Regatta

October 2 – The Rayonier Regatta

October 23 – The Florida Georgia Challenge (Offshore)

November 13 – The Stars and Stripes Regatta

The race dates listed are Saturdays and are primary race dates. If a postponement is necessary due to weather, the race date will shift to the next day, Sunday.

Normally the Captain’s meeting will be held at 8am on race day at the “old dock house” at the Amelia Island Yacht Basin. If there is to be a change, it will be announced as early as possible.

Amelia Island Sailing Club

2004

PHRF Ratings

BOAT NAME BOAT OWNER BOAT TYPE PHRF

AQUILA Terry Roslie Catalina 34 159

BAY GULL Curtis Duncan Dufour 29 195

BABY BLOOZ Tom Mason Morgan 27 175

BORROWED TIME Scott Ingliss Hunter 28 197

CHEESE BOAT Butch Beard Hunter 30 199

COY MISTRESS Bill Bass Catalina 34 159

GALE WARNINGS Buddy Kellum Hunter 380 135

GOD'S GIFT Lindsey Lechie Seafarer 37 141

GREEN SLIP Frank Reidinger Irwin 32 176

INTEGRITY Howard Layne Pearson 39 121

JADE Bob Canon TMI 22 255

KALEN Allen Throwbridge Catalina 32 165

MARY WANDA 'ER Charlie Steinkamp Hunter 34 156

MIDWATCH John Brooks Catalina 25 222

MOJO Joe Geagon Com-Pac 30 234

NIGHT FLYER Steve Ritter Catalina 34 156

SPINDRIFT Jim Rogers Hunter 37 120

SUNDAY MORNIN' JAZZ Gene Sokolowski Islander 36 151

VALHALA Don Knight C & C 33 149

VESTED VIRGIN Joe Bowen Catalina 25 225

Program Committee

Roger Henderson

rogwan@att.net

(904) 277-3499 (home)

Our speaker for the month of April will be Jim Mayo. Jim is the Baptist Medical Center-Nassau hospital administrator. Jim will enlighten us on what our hospital is doing and services they can offer us. Let's show Jim and his wife Nancy a warm welcome at our April meeting.

Roger Henderson

Land Cruisin’

Linda Leckie

lindanewlife@aol.com

(904) 321-0856 (home)

(904) 206-2295 (cell)

No input for Scuttlebutt received

However

Pot Luck with an April Fools appetizers theme for the April Meeting.

Membership Committee

Susan Bowen

sbb0804@comcast.net

(904) 277-1614 (home)

Please ensure you have renewed your membership for 2004. Beginning April 1, the membership roster will be updated to reflect those members who have renewed. If you have any questions regarding your renewal, please contact Susan Bowen or Lin Bass.

Past Commodore

Butch Beard

wgbeard@yahoo.com

(904) 491-0755 (home)

(904) 281-1990 (work)

(904) 206-0668 (cell)

No Entry from the Past Commodore

ITEMS FOR SALE:

1997 Johnson 8HP, 2 Stroke Outboard, Low Hrs: Approx. 20 Hrs.

Excellent Condition: Asking $675.00/OBO

Call Gene @ 904-583-1877

18 HP Nissan Outboard

Contact: Eric Hughes home phone on the island: (904) 261-0585

or work phone in Jacksonville: (904) 323-2464

AMELIA ISLAND SAILING CLUB
March 2, 2004

MINUTES

(Note: My thanks to Lin Bass who taped the meeting and summarized the highlights in my absence.  The minutes will be brief this month as the quality of the recorder used was marginal and most of the meeting was barely audible)

The Commodore called the meeting to order after everyone enjoyed early celebrations of St. Patrick's Day with our Irish food covered dish theme.  He noted the absence of the Vice Commodore and Rear Commodore who is recovering from recent back surgery.  The minutes of January's meeting were present and unanimously accepted by the membership present.

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS: Visitors were introduced to the membership.  John and Gail Burns will be bringing their Hunter 356 down from Connecticut where, as Joe stated, "there is great cruising for 4 months of the year!".  John and Judy Raczynski, past members were welcomed.  They keep their boat on E dock at the Amelia Island Yacht Basin and Judy would, "like to quite working so much and start sailing".  A warm welcome to John and Colleen who are friends of Lucy Athey.  Welcome to one and all.

GUEST SPEAKER: Roger Henderson introduced quest speaker Mike Owsley, Commander USCGA and a personal friend.  Mike recognized members of the AISC who are also members of the Auxiliary.  His presentation focused on the USCG Auxiliaries mission and what they do specifically in the Fernandina Beach area.  Some issues discussed were how the threat of terrorism is a major concern in our area and how we can be proactive in helping our USCGA to recognize unusual events and report them, what not to do to 'clean up' an oil spill from your vessel, the fact that ICW will be blocked to traffic the first full week of June and other very interesting topics.  The USCGA is always looking for members, if you are interested contact your fellow club members who are members for an application.

VICE COMMODORE: No report.

REAR COMMODORE: No report.

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE: John and Colleen Hodge (sp?) were introduced.  John is a Captain for Lomar Expeditions and Colleen is an accomplished sailor.  Applications for membership are always available at meeting and gladly accepted along with your dues!

TREASURER: Lin announced that there was still an opportunity to purchase 50/50 tickets before the drawing at the meetings end.  She also announced that at present, the club has $1,200. in the coffers.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sorry, tape recorder was not running and no report was captured.

LANDSIDE COMMITTEE: Linda was absent but the theme for our next meeting's covered dish will be an April Fools appetizers.

CRUISE COMMITTEE: Butch discussed in detail the upcoming cruise schedule.  He announced that the club's first 'raft up' will be on March 27th at Cumberland Island.  It will be a 'pot luck' and some boats will be late in arriving due to participation in a race being held the same day. 

RACE COMMITTEE: Prior to the race report, Roger announced that he will be making a side trip, of approximately three weeks, to the Abacos in May.  The boat will leave at the end of the first week in May, returning Memorial Day weekend.  If you are interested in joining Roger to cruise along with your boat, get in touch with him.

The first race of the season was deemed 'real freezing butt cold' and quite a windy day but six boats signed on to race.  Five completed the course in the following order: 1st. Cheeseboat, 2nd. Sunday Morning Jazz, 3rd. Baby Blues, 4th. Coy Mistress and 5th. Merry Wanderer. 

The next race will be the St. Pat's Race on March 13th.  The back room of O'Kanes has been reserved for a post race celebration from 4 to 6 p.m.  March 27th will be the St. John's to Fernandina Beach and back race.  For more information on this event visit www.sailjaz.com.

NEW BUSINESS: The Commodore was asked if the club will host another 'fun regatta' this summer.  He responded that we will and it will probably be held sometime in June or July.  Gene mentioned that last year's race was phenomenal with the number of boats participating with an after race party that was great.  Butch Beard will once again come up with the regulations and course for this year's race (Butch, should it be called the annual Rocky Raccoon Regatta?)

The 50/50 drawing was held with Butch Beard winning $34.

A motion was made, seconded and unanimously approved to adjourn the meeting.

A I S C

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