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The Scuttlebutt - May, 2003 Return To Newsletters Volume XLIX, Issue 7
Commodore Report
Getting back to the Opening Day at the Marley Boat Club, I’m happy to report that we won two plaques. We received a plaque for having the most Past Commodores in line and one for traveling the longest distance by water. I’m hoping we hold on to this good luck for a while. I have seen the club go through a whole season and win only two plaques. I extend a thank you to the officers and members who attended the Marley Opening. Fleet Captain Joanie Ridnour (JR) has a full schedule of cruises planned for the MCC. She generally has to make reservations to insure enough dockage at our destination point. So, give serious thought about your personal cruising plans, call JR at 410-437-4390 and she will fill you in on the details; but, come out and join us on the Bay. Our next General Membership meeting will be Friday, May 16th. There are no General Membership meetings in the months of June, July and August. The next meeting will be held on September 19th and will be our MCC crab feast. We have had good attendance at our meetings to date. So, let’s wind things up in grand style. Set aside May 16th for the MCC and come out to the Sparrows Point Country Club for another enjoyable evening.. Just a reminder! The April Scuttlebutt contained a flyer with information about the CCC 2004 Ball in Ocean City. If you plan to attend this affair, you best send in your $300 dollars, now. This is the only way to insure a reservation. If you pay by three installments, you are not assured a room until the last payment is made.. Anyone who sends in their $300 before your last payment will be assigned a room, immediately. There is the possibility that all the rooms could be reserved before your last payment. There will be a number of MCC people attending the Ball so come join us. Happy Mother’s Day! - Commodore Donald Antos Uniform Of The Day: SALT & PEPPER FOR OPENING DAY (MAY 10) THEN WHITES FOR THE SUMMER Vice Commodore Report
I was reading the history of MCC and an excerpt from a 1955 edition of the Scuttlebutt was quoted in part: “Wasn’t it great to be on our first overnight cruise of the Season? The fleet consisted of 27 boats carrying eight-four people. The cruise was to St. Michaels. “You will find more history of MCC in the front of Maryland Cruising Club’s Opening Day Program. They were given out at our Opening Day on May 10th and I hope that you were able to attend. Thank you, to all who stepped up to make this a very successful day. This officially begins the boating season for MCC and is a very special day for our club and all our sister clubs. It’s a great time to meet and greet the Princesses, Commodores and Officers of visiting clubs and a wonderful way for the MCC membership to show our colors and offer our hospitality. During Opening Day Weekends, many clubs offer a full schedule of activities and will also provide free dockage to those who attend. It is always a fun time so if you are interested in participating in any of the Opening Day Ceremonies of sister clubs, contact F/C Joanie Ridenour or any of your officers for more information. F/C Joanie has many fun cruises planned this summer so, contact her and join the fun. The 7th Annual Parkinson’s Walk is now history and a donation of $3,702 was made to the Johns Hopkins Parkinson’s Disease Research Center and an application for a Corporate Matching Gift of $1400 has been processed. Donations continue to come in so it isn’t too late to include your gift. I want to thank all that volunteered to help, solicited donations and walked. It takes the support of a lot of people to facilitate an activity like the walk and hopefully, next year it will be bigger and better than ever. - Vice Commodore Dottie Murray May, 2003
Schedule of Events 05/01—Board Meeting, 7:30 PM to be held at Secretary Madden’s 05/10—MCC Opening Day. Contact F/C Joanie Ridnour for dockage (410-437-4390). 05/12—Deadline to call for Dinner Meeting Reservations. Contact E/C P/C Brian Hunt For dinner reservations (410-255-3120, bhunt@cablespeed.com) 05/16—General Membership Meeting—7:00 PM. Contact E/C P/C Brian Hunt For dinner reservations (410-255-3120, bhunt@cablespeed.com) 05/24—Cruise to Baltimore Yacht Club Opening Day. Contact P/C Darlene Sauer (410-591-8838, screwielouie1@juno.com) 05/30—Cruise to Maryland Yacht Club Opening Day. Contact P/C Darlene Sauer (410-591-8838, screwielouie1@juno.com) Access The CBYCA Web Site for Sister Club Activities: http://www.cbyca.org Fleet Captain Report Our Shakedown Cruise was a success, not as big a success as I would have liked. The rain and threat of thunderstorms kept many of us from venturing out by boat. It sure didn’t keep Pat and Chris Brettschneider away. They were out there Friday night just like they promised—when they left their dock they lost one engine but they kept going and endured all the rain just so Chris could dinghy our fleet back and forth. The rest of the fleet came over Saturday afternoon—Joyce and Ron Felius. They kept Pat and Chris from being lonely Saturday night. Thanks to Pat and Chris MCC won the plaque for the boat that traveled the greatest distance. They live right around the corner so they must have counted the distance from Sparrow’s Point. Marley’s Opening was great and their Shrimp Feast was even better. Commodore Don and Rosalie and me and Duane arrived at 9:00 a.m. Sunday morning and Chris picked us up by dinghy and all of us had breakfast aboard “Music Maker” just like I promised. Thank you Pat and Chris for all that you did for the Shakedown Cruise and for winning the plaque for MCC. There was a slight problem at the Shrimp Feast. I had two tickets left and I read my list over and over and could not figure out why I had these tickets. I finally decided that I must have been given the extra tickets by mistake. Secretary Beverly Madden approached me and said her husband Charlie had purchased two tickets from someone else a few weeks before, but she forgot and purchased two more from me at our last meeting! Commodore Donald told her he was glad she was secretary and not treasurer! I resolved the problem and Beverly should be getting a refund from Marley Boat Club. Thank you Beverly for making my evening a little more exciting. PLEASE READ BELOW ABOUT OUR CRUISES. I WILL HAVE SIGN-UP SHEETS AT OUR GENERAL MEETINGS AT SPARROW’S POINT COUNTRY CLUB. LET’S HAVE A GREAT SUMMER! TILGHMAN ISLAND MARINA Seven boats have signed up for our Cruise to Tilghman Island with Ventnor Yacht Club on July 11-13. You can stay one or two nights. The cost is $1.50 per foot and the electric cost is $5 for 30 amp and $10 for 50 amp. Friday night you are on your own for dinner. Saturday night you can participate in a crab feast—let me know by the first part of June. I understand the crabs will be sold at cost. The marina said they can accommodate one more boat if anyone is interested. Let me know ASAP. CASTLE HARBOR MARINA Five boats have signed up for our Cruise to beautiful Kent Island on 9-10 August. The cost is $1.50 a foot and the electric cost is $6 a plug. We can check in any time on Saturday and leave any time on Sunday. I am reserving the pavilion so we can have a brunch on Sunday. We can take a ferry to a restaurant for dinner for a cost of approximately $6 per person round trip on Saturday night or maybe we can all pile on someone’s boat and go out to dinner. Who wants to volunteer to be the captain for the evening? MILES RIVER YACHT CLUB Cruise to beautiful St. Michaels on August 30-September 1. Info will follow in a future Scuttlebutt. MARYLAND YACHT CLUB OPENING WEEKEND May 30, 31 and June 1. For further details, please see P/C Darlene Sauer’s article later in this issue. BODKIN YACHT CLUB OPENING WEEKEND June 13-15. Please let me know if you are going by boat and if you are staying 1 or 2 nights. Food will be available at a cost all weekend. There will be music (probably DJ) Friday night. There will be a horseshoe pitching competition on Saturday. Saturday night there will be a big party with live music. The Opening will be held on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. I understand your club gets points for each night the boats stay over. In order to win the plaque, we need lots of MCC boats to stay all weekend!!!!! You will need to purchase script tickets starting Friday afternoon to pay for everything over the weekend. - Fleet Captain Joanie Ridnour-Skinner Support your club and wear your colors! Fleet Surgeon Report - The Care & Feeding Of Summer Skin A simple approach to skin care makes sense in the summer, but there are also special challenges. You already know that you should wear sun protection daily to avoid premature aging and skin cancer, but you might not recognize the more immediate problems caused by heat and humidity. If your skin is dry, it may look and feel better in the warmer months. But if it’s oily, the hear and humidity of summer can make it feel more so. Small adjustments in the products you use can mean the difference between good skin and problem skin. For example, if your skin tends to be oily, start with a soap-free cleanser and finish with a few swipes of an alcohol-free toner. You will remove makeup and dirt, but you won’t strip the skin of all oils or cause irritation. Exfoliation, important in warmer weather when you're revealing more skin, can easily be overdone, so proceed with caution. Exfoliating scrubs, sea sponges and loofahs are great for elbows, knees and heels, but keep them away from the face. Using scrubs on the face can produce microtears in the skin that can lead to uneven pigmentation if you're exposed to the sun. A much better approach is to use a cleanser and/or moisturizer with an alpha-hydroxy acid, such as glycolic acid or lactic acid. These exfoliate, improving the skin's tone and texture. If you normally use moisturizer every day, you may find that your skin will benefit from a lighter, oil-free formulation in the summer. Most oil-free moisturizers contain silicone or glycerin-based ingredients that provide moisture without feeling heavy or clogging pores. To lighten up, consider using a dual-purpose product like an SPF moisturizer. If you don't need a moisturizer, you could use a foundation with an SPF. If you like wearing foundation but would prefer lighter coverage, consider a tinted moisturizer.
Sick & Welfare If you know of anyone who has been ill, please contact Fleet Surgeon Sharon Rebbel so she can send a card and we can post the information in the Scuttlebutt! The Officers and members of Maryland Cruising Club wish to extend their condolences to P/C Angela Krzystan on the passing of her husband Dan Krzystan. Our deepest sympathies are sent to Teddy Stephen on the passing of P/C Nick Stephen. Nick was Commodore of Maryland Cruising Club in 1978 and he was the first officer to complete all four flag offices in consecutive order. We continue to send get well wishes to Libbie Eastburn for full and speedy recovery. Libbie is ever vigilant in providing updates about her condition. Thank you Libbie for thinking about us. Continued get well wishes to Ivy Broscoe. Ivy, you had better get well soon, you don’t know what kind of trouble P/C George will be getting into while you are under the weather. Get well wishes to Millie Sporer. We hope that you are feeling better. We saw P/C George Sporer at the Marley Boat Club’s Opening Day and he is another P/C that we need to keep an eye on. Get well wishes to the son of B/M Al Freedman. Al’s son David was in a very serious car accident. Al tells us that he is doing well but will have a long road to a full recovery. Get well wishes to Dick Sulcer. We hope that you up and about and are feeling better real soon. As you may know, P/C Pam Hunt’s father, William Wharton has been under the weather and was in critical condition. P/C Pam says that he is becoming stronger day by day. We wish him a speedy recovery. Please keep all of our members in your thoughts and prayers. - V/C Dottie Murray Fleet Chaplain Report Trust in the goodness of God There are times when no matter how hard we try, The best things in life seem to just pass us by. Yet even when we do not understand why, We can trust in the goodness of God. At those times, we may feel we can no longer cope, But the problems we have, may seem smaller in scope If we face them with patience, with prayer, and with hope, And trust in the goodness of God. - Fleet Chaplain Fred Levitan New Members The following potential members have applied for membership with Maryland Cruising Club: Elaine & Russell Kirkhoff 1001 Fell St Baltimore, MD 21231 410-675-4123 ps7084h@sears.com Thanks!
It was the best $25 'investment'! Thanks also to Joanie & Duane for donating the vacation week that made this possible. Does it look like we had a great time??? - P/C Jim & Shirley Poling Birthdays & Anniversaries Congratulations to Everyone who is celebrating a special day this month! Birthdays 05/17—Sheila Wurst 05/25—Ken Norris 05/26—Shirley Chenoweth Anniversaries 05/16—Secretary Beverly & Charlie Madden 05/20—P/C Walter & Phyllis Amass 05/27—P/C George & Millie Sporer MCC Invited To Baltimore Yacht Club Opening Weekend In keeping with our yachting community tradition, Baltimore Yacht Club will be hosting their Opening Weekend festivities on Memorial Day Weekend, May 23, 24, 25, and 26. Maryland Cruising Club, along with all our sister-clubs, has been invited to attend for all or part of the planned activities. To assist their Club with dockage assignments, BYC asks that we let them know how many of our boats are planning to attend, and their arrival day. Please keep in mind that slip assignments cannot be guaranteed (as with all opening weekends) and you may be rafted with other boats. Electric service will be provided to all boats, though it may be reduced, i.e., only 1-30 amp line instead of two. BYC’s party theme for the weekend is “Treasure Island”. You may decorate your boat for the party, as well as wearing theme-appropriate attire. Our host club will be presenting their Opening Show on Saturday evening for your enjoyment. The weekend schedule includes:
The swimming pool, bar services, and “cook-out” food services will be available for the entire weekend. In addition to the adult dances in the main clubhouse, there will also be teen dances each evening in the lower level of the clubhouse. The dockage cost for the weekend is zero. Food and beverages must be purchased using the weekend “funny money”, so be sure to visit the “cash office” in the front of the Clubhouse shortly after your arrival. Come on out and join in the yachting community fun!!!! Louie and I will be arriving at BYC late on Friday afternoon. If you’d like to attend, please give me a call or a quick email and let me know what day you’re coming in, and the length of your boat and name of your boat. This information will be passed on to the docking crews at BYC so they can lay out their dock assignments. Please contact me by Wednesday, May 21st at the latest!!!!! Phone: 410-591-8838 (voice mail available 24-hours)/email: screwielouie1@juno.com Happy Cruising!!! - P/C Darlene Sauer & Captain Lou Maryland Yacht Club Hosts Queen Pageant Can’t believe it’s been almost an entire year already, but the 2003 Queen of the Chesapeake Pageant is only a few weeks away!!! The weekend of May 30th thru June 1st will bring Maryland Yacht Club’s Opening Weekend celebration, highlighted with the Queen Pageant on June 1st. For anyone wishing to attend, here’s the basic schedule: (1) Optional dinner, music and dancing to the tunes of Sherry Powell on Friday evening; (2) Optional breakfast, optional dinner, Music and dancing to Robin & The Rhythmix on Saturday evening (also known as The “Queen’s Dance”); (3) Optional breakfast on Sunday. MYC’s theme for the weekend is “Jimmy Buffet in the Islands,” so come prepared on Friday evening to “look the part” and be a “parrothead!!” Boat decorations are also welcome. “Fresh from the grill” food items will be available all weekend long, and the swimming pool will be open for your enjoyment. Remember to purchase your “funny money” when you arrive at the Club. The highlight of Sunday afternoon will be the Queen of the Chesapeake contest, set to begin at 1:00 pm. Please come out and support our Princess Laura in her bid for the crown. And remember our “Princess Party” to be held immediately following the Pageant!! For those attending by boat, this is yet another FREE dockage weekend!!! Along with the FREE dances and lots of friends, who could ask for more???!!! Louie and I plan to arrive at MYC on Friday afternoon. To join us, please call or email and let me know which day you’re arriving, length of your boat, and name of your boat, so we can help the MYC dock master plan the dock space. You can reach me at 410-591-8838 (voice mail always available), or email to: Screwielouie1@juno.com. Please let me know by Wednesday, May 28th, so I can add you to the list!! - P/C Darlene & Capt. Lou Sauer CBYCA Delegate Report Commodore Ken Bean reported on the queen’s party that was held at North Point Yacht Club, and hosted by Queen Bridget Smith. There were 20 princesses in attendance along with past queen of the Delaware River Yachtman’s Leage Ms. Barbara Gricco. Also announced were the availability of the CBYCA princess T-shirts. The t-shirts have the princess logo on the front, and a complete listing of all the yacht clubs and their princess on the back. The cost of the shirts is $15.00. Vice Commodore Betty Stahler mentioned that the opening day ceremonies are about to begin and that you can go into CBYCA’s web site for a complete listing of all opening’s (www.cbyca.org). Rear Commodore John Garlotta gave a heartfelt thanks to V/C Betty Stahler, P/C penny Orth, P/C Donald Antos , P/C Joe Helner, and many others who did an outstanding job in producing the 2003 roster book. The books were handed out at the meeting to all the delegates who will deliver them to their clubs. Coles Marsh, CBYCA’s Maryland Legislator reported on house bill # 442 that will establish a task force to study the feasibility of licensing boaters. CBYCA has requested to be a member of this task force. Contact any CBYCA Officer if you have any input to this issue. Otherwise, you can contact me on freedmanal@aol.com and I will pass on your comments to the appropriate CBYCA officer. There were two speakers at this meeting. Mr. Jack Neil who is a political analyst and Mr. Bill Burton, who was brought back by popular demand. Bill has endless stories about his fishing experiences with the rich and famous. - B/M Al Freedman The Choking Gourmet Recently a bunch of us went to the Texas Steak House (previously the Oxbow) in Arnold Maryland, 969 Ritchie Highway. The food was good, as was the service. They feature their Texas steak Monday through Thursday, an 8 oz. New York Strip with mashed potatoes and veggies for $7.99. The Monday special is a full rack of baby back ribs with beans and cole slaw for $9.99. Tuesday special is a T-bone steak, mashed potatoes and veggies for $9.99. Wednesday they have fried catfish, “all you care to eat” for $8.99. Thursday is “Fajitas nite” served sizzling at the table, chicken or pork is $7.99, steak or shrimp is $10.99. Every Friday and Saturday night there is music in the lounge starting about 8:00 p.m. Though we enjoyed the food very much, I enjoyed winning $50.00 playing Keno more. * * * * * * * * * * I received an e-mail from P/C Pam Hunt regarding my bio that was in the last issue of the Scuttlebutt. She suggested that had I attended Catholic School and saw what they did to bad boys (referring to Jesus nailed to the cross) that I would have immediately straightened up. I answered her e-mail advising her that in Hebrew School, we had something similar. There was a statue of a Rabbi with a knife in one hand and I don’t have to tell you what was in the other. Though I didn’t want to go through that again, it didn’t help! * * * * * * * * * * The year is 5761 according to the Jewish calendar and 4698 according to the Chinese calendar. That’s a total of 1065 years that the Jews did without Chinese food. * * * * * * * * * * Dear Darling Son and That Person you Married, Happy Easter to you, and please don’t worry. I’m just fine considering I can’t breathe or eat. The important thing is that you have a nice holiday, thousands of miles away from your ailing mother. I’ve sent along my last ten dollars in this card, which I hope you’ll spend on my grandchildren. God knows their mother never buys them anything nice. They look so thin in their pictures, poor babies. Thank you so much for the birthday flowers, dear boy. I put them in the freezer so they’ll stay fresh for my grave. Which reminds me-we buried Grandma last week? I know she died years ago, but I got to yearning for a good funeral so Aunt Bertha and I dug her up and had the services all over again. I would have invited you, but I know that woman you live with would have never let you come. I bet she’s never even watched that videotape of my hemorrhoid surgery, has she? Well son, it’s time for me to crawl off to bed now. I lost my cane beating off muggers last week, but don’t you worry about me. I’m also getting used to the cold since they turned my heat off and am grateful because the frost on my bed numbs the constant pain. Now don’t you even think about sending any more money, because I know you need it for those expensive family vacations you take every year. Give my love to my darling grandbabies and my regards to whatever-her-name-is-the one with the black roots in her hair that stole you screaming from my bosom. Happy Easter Love, Mom - B/M Al Freedman Boating Tip Of The Month - Wind and Current Editor’s Note: If you have a great boating tip that you would like to share with the rest of the club, please submit it for publication to V/C Dottie Murray at dmurrayqm@hotmail.com Most of us can feel the wind and know it has an impact on our docking procedures. If we have done a test or two, we know that the wind will rotate our boat up into the wind or off away from the wind at a slow rate of turn. It will also push our boat at some speed downwind. We may even know that these rates of rotation are about 45 degrees a minute and the downwind speed may be 10 feet per minute. The effect of the current is much more significant. A one-knot current moves the boat over the bottom at 1.7 feet per second. A two-knot current moves the boat at almost 3.5 feet per second. The current effect is almost 100 times that of wind. In order to gauge the local effects of current and wind, the absolute best thing you can do before any close-in maneuver is to stop your boat dead in the water very near the place where you will execute the maneuver. Note the current and wind and the effect they are having on your boat. After you are sure you know what will transpire, discuss the maneuver with your line handlers and then go for it. Keep in mind that when you are trying to dock, the 5’ of spare slip width is gone in 3 seconds with a one-knot side current. Prudence sometimes dictates looking for another slip. - Credit Marlow Marine
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Fun Fotos - April General Membership Meeting - April 18, 2003 and 2003 Bull Roast - April 4, 2003
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Answer To "Whose Boat Is This" "Seaclusion" Fleet Captain Joanie Ridnour and Captain Duane Skinner |
Well,
April got things off to a rip roaring start. We survived the MCC Bull Roast, the
Parkinson Walk-A-Thon and the Marley Boat Club Opening Day/Shrimp Feast. In the
month of May, there is something scheduled for virtually every Friday, Saturday
and Sunday at one of our sister clubs. It’s hard to get anything done around
the house, the boat or any place else. By the time things settle down in early
July, hot weather is here, the boating season is in full swing and you are lucky
to get anything done. It seems like it goes this way every year. You got to have
a very understanding wife who will put up with this.
Ah
Spring, sounds of birds chirping, boat lifts putting boats in the water,
sanders, the smell of boat wax and everyone with the same goal in mind, getting
their boat ready to cruise the Chesapeake Bay.
Thanks
to Maryland Cruising Club for the opportunity to win our great vacation to the
Mayan Palace Resort in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico.
