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Table of Contents District Commander’s Corner................................... 3 District Executive Officer’s Report .......................... 4 District Administrative Officer’s Report ................... 5 Education Corner ..................................................... 6

Summer 2019............................................................ 6 Chapman Nominations .............................................. 6 News From National .................................................. 7 Closing Comments .................................................... 7

From the Assistant Education Officer ...................... 8 Introduction .............................................................. 8

A Message from the District 6 Secretary .................. 8 A Message from the District 6 Treasurer ................ 10 Rendezvous 2019 ................................................... 11 District 6 Membership Committee Report .............. 13 From Around the District (and Beyond) .................. 14

Policy Statement: Selling Alcoholic Beverages to the Public ............................................................. 14

Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Notifications................. 14 Comments? Questions? Your Two-Cents? ............... 15

Educational Opportunities in District 6 ................. 15 Navigation ............................................................... 15 America’s Boating Course ........................................ 15 Cruise Planning ....................................................... 15 Advanced Piloting .................................................... 15 Marine Electronics................................................... 15 Sail 16 Rochester Class Offerings ........................................ 16 Publicize Your Training Opportunities! .................... 16

My Yacht Delivery Trip .......................................... 17 And Now For Something Completely Different ....... 21 The Editor’s Editorial ............................................. 22 District Calendar .................................................... 23

Cover Photo: Stormy evening on Point Peninsula, Lake

Ontario. Photo ©2019 by Matt Barstow, used with

permission.

The Deep 6 Published four times a year by District 6 of the United States Power Squadrons.

District Commander D/C Nancy Bieber, P – Susquenango Kirkwood, NY – 607-775-4952 / 518-813-7888 (cell) [email protected]

Executive Officer D/Lt/C Rick Hibbs, SN – Rochester Rochester, NY – 585-752-6046 [email protected]

Administrative Officer D/Lt/C Linda LaDuc, AP – Utica Clayville, NY [email protected]

Educational Officer D/Lt/C Thomas M. Alley, SN – Seneca Big Flats, NY – 607-562-3909 [email protected]

Assistant Educational Officer D/1st/Lt Leslie Smith, JN – Susquenango Johnson City, NY – 607-797-7391 [email protected]

Secretary D/Lt/C David Daniels, SN - Susquenango Endicott, NY [email protected]

Treasurer D/Lt/C Maxine Flagg, SN-CN - Ithaca Interlaken, NY – 607-532-4915 [email protected]

Assistant Treasurer D/1st/Lt Bridgetta Arieno, JN - Rochester Rochester, NY – 585-752-6014 The Deep 6 Staff

Editor D/Lt/C Tom Alley, SN - Seneca Big Flats, NY – 607-562-3909 [email protected]

Editor Emeritus P/R/C Richard E. Ashley, SN - Syracuse The opinions expressed in The Deep 6 are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of United States Power Squadrons® or of District 6. America’s Boating Club® is a trademark of the United States Power Squadrons®

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District Commander’s Corner By D/C Nancy Bieber, PAmerica’s Boating Club

We’re finally in the midst of another summer sea-son after a slow start with rain practically daily all over our state. By now I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful lakes and rivers in New York. Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River are gradually receding

to below flood stage. The New York State Canal system is back in business and fully op-erational. Boaters can once again enjoy all of these waterways. We had a presence at the Buf-falo Tall Ship Festival and will also be at the Brockville, Canada Tall Ship Festival in con-junction with the District Rendezvous. Com-plete information about the rendezvous and Tall Ship Festival plus a reservation form were published in a Special Edition of The Deep 6 and can be found on the District website. Thanks to Tom Alley and Jerry Zambroski for making that happen. Also, many thanks to Bill Herrick for posting the information on Sail An-gle. Marge Baraff, the D8 Planning Committee Chair, surveyed all District Commanders re-cently regarding how districts conduct council and conference meetings. Questions related to scheduling, number of meetings, activi-ties/seminars, meals, awards, and how to at-tract more member interest. When sharing re-sults, she noted that most districts have 2 con-ference meetings and 2 council meetings per year with varying schedules. Most are on week-ends, some schedule council and conference together as we do, some have them separated by 2 weeks to a month apart, some have them both on the same day. Member’s reasons for at-tending were fairly equal between district busi-ness, educational information, and USPS na-tional updates. But, everyone replied that the majority of their members attend for the social interaction. So, this needs to be our focus. I

cannot provide a magic fix, but it’s apparent that everyone wants to gain value for their time and money. We need to make our meetings more member friendly and center on the social aspect of the gathering as well as the business of the district. Any suggestions from the mem-bership are welcome and will be considered. We all received a copy of a Strategic Transition Plan from the National America’s Boating Club recently. I will be meeting with other District Commanders at the the Governing Board Meet-ing to discuss how we feel about this plan – the pros and the cons. This is your organization and I want your input as to how you would like us to proceed so that I can have a meaningful discussion. Any and all ideas are helpful. The Governing Board Meeting is being held in Lou-isville, KY this Fall from September 8th to Sep-tember 15th, 2019. Reservations are due by Au-gust 15th, 2019, and you can find the hotel, meal and meeting reservation information on the USPS website. Consider attending. You’ll be glad you did. It was sad to say goodbye to P/D/C Charlie Gray as he sailed off into the sunset in May. He was a dedicated and loyal member and will be greatly missed by St. Lawrence Sail and Power Squadron as well as the rest of the District. Kudos to Commander Jim Ryder of the Syra-cuse Sail and Power Squadron for planning several, one-day get-togethers at The St. Law-rence River and Oneida Lake this summer. He has also invited District 6 members boating in those areas to join the fun. What a great idea to encourage member involvement across the dis-trict. The Fall Conference will be here before we know it. It is being hosted by the Syracuse Sail and Power Squadron at the Craftsman Inn in Fayetteville, NY from November 8th to November 10th, 2019. There will be an educational pro-gram as well as a guest speaker. More details to follow soon. Hope to see you all there.

- Nancy Commander, D/6



District Executive Officer’s Report By D/Lt/C Rick HIbbs, SN

Finally, we’re seeing summer weather! If you’re on Lake Ontario or its tributaries, you’re wishing for a little less water! But if you can get on a boat, and away from the oversoaked shoreline, your boat won’t know the differ-ence. We’ve had an unusual

start to our summer boating. Bridgett and I, along with our friends Jeff and Chris Wil-liams from Lake Pontchartrain Squadron trav-eled to Corfu, Greece, where we bareboat char-tered a Moorings 45.3 mono-hull for a week of sailing in the Ionian Sea. Jeff and Chris used to be from Rochester, and used to vacation with us on Lake Ontario where we took our cruising sailboats all over the lake. They now live in Mandeville, LA. They are thanking the weather gods for minimal impact of tropical storm Barry! Jeff is the SEO of their local squadron, and Chris is Secretary. So more about the Ionian Sea, and the islands of northwest Greece. The biggest island is Corfu, and is also the northernmost of the is-lands with its northeastern coast just a few miles across water from Albania. Our Captain’s orientation warned us to stay away from Alba-nia, as it would surely result in our being lost for three days, and the boat never being re-turned! (Pirates!) South of Corfu lies the island of Paxos, and south of that is Antipaxos. Across the sea in sight of the islands were the Greek seaside vil-lages of Sivota, Plataria, and Parga. Gouvia (where the Moorings base lies), Kalami, Corfu Town and Petriti are all towns on the island of Corfu. These ports enabled easy day runs across the sea between island ports and main-land ports.

The Ionian water is a similar deep blue as the Drake channel in the British Virgin Islands, and shallow waters near the ports were amaz-ingly clear. We were able to see our anchor and its chain rode on the bottom in 30 feet of water! We swam and snorkeled in the “Blue Lagoon” near Sivota, and at the Voutoumi beach on An-tipaxos, a favorite of Greek locals to come by ferry and spend some time. Grills are not allowed on boats! But we enjoyed the varieties of dishes available in the seaside restaurants. People we met at shops and res-taurants were very friendly, and language was not a problem, with menus being in both Greek and English. Our boat was equipped with a B&G chart plot-ter, and an autopilot, enabling us to easily do piloting and relax behind the wheel. The traffic was very manageable, but there are a lot of ferry boats running near us, and we kept good watches and made course changes that would be obvious to any on near collision courses. As always, our Squadron training in Boat Han-dling, Piloting, Sail, Cruise Planning, and Rules of the Road gave us confidence in what we were doing. That confidence always makes for a re-laxing vacation! Two things you need to know about bare boat-ing in Greece that are different from the BVI’s. The lateral buoys are according to IALA-A, so Red Right DEPARTING!! We also learned that the Greek harbormasters require a bareboat charter to have at least one person on board that holds an ICC (International Certificate of Competence). I’ll do another article on that. But suffice it to say, it is pretty easy to get an ICC if you have completed most of our courses. Celes-tial is not required, but everything else comes into play! Sailing in Greece? We strongly and enthusias-tically recommend it!!

- Rick Executive Officer, D/6

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District Administrative Officer’s Report By D/Lt/C Linda LaDuc, AP

Hello to everyone… Hopefully by now every-one has been able to launch their boats and spend some time on the water. With the high (flooded) water conditions around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, this has certainly been a

challenge. I managed to get our sailboat washed and waxed in late May while navigating around the huge pud-dles of water surrounding the cradle…, nat-urally, I decided against using the electric buffer! So, it was wax on, wax off for me! The fellows at the marina worked around a flooded launch area to get us in and safely to our slip the next week but it wasn’t until the first weekend in July that I was able to bend on the sails. You might ask why? Well, as an-yone around the Lake and River knows, we had a couple of heavy-duty wind storms; when coupled with the high water (much higher than the 2017 levels), the result was… a mess, and a lot of work just trying to pick up some of the debris that washed in and get lawns mowed. After the high water of 2017 most of us along our shoreline had repair work done to fix the damage and help prevent another occur-rence. Well, forget about it! This has been worse. Much worse. Anything that was done in the fall of 2017 has been totally wiped out. I know I can’t really complain when there have been many folks who have lost their homes/cottages, or lost all of their frontage to the power of the high wind and water. Town and private docks and those at mari-nas are just now beginning to poke their cleats above water. We know there will once again need to be repair work done but are waiting until the water levels go down enough so that the high water/wind combi-nation won’t tear it apart again.

There has been much discussion about the In-ternational Joint Commission’s Plan 2014 and its effect on the water levels of Lake Ontario, but their decision to stand by the Plan without suspension for further study is a bit puzzling. Whether the flooding is caused by Plan 2014, global warming (or climate change if you pre-fer), a combination of the two (a likely probabil-ity), the Commission should not expect munic-ipalities and home owners to accept this yearly destruction as the “new normal”.

Photo 1: Shoreline repairs after 2017 high water.

Photo 2: "Undone" repairs from 2019 high water.



On another more positive note, I was finally able to get out on the Lake for a day-sail over 4th of July weekend. The sun was out, the wind was brisk…, it was a perfect day on the water…, can’t ask for much more than that. Hope to see you at the Rendezvous coming up in August.

- Linda Administrative Officer, D/6

Photo 3: Finally enjoying a brisk sail on Lake Ontario.

Education Corner By D/Lt/C Thomas Alley, SN

Summer 2019 Well, the “theme” for articles from the other District officers has been a pretty con-sistent attitude of “Fi-nally!” when it comes to our transition from

spring to summer. While I share the same sentiment, I won’t dwell on it any further. Let’s get busy with things that are happening in the Education Department.

Chapman Nominations Nominations for your favorite squadron in-structors for the District 6 Chapman award are due, like, yesterday. If you have an instructor that you think does a great job, please go online and submit a nomination for him or her – NOW. It’s easy to do and can be completed online in about an hour. To nominate one (or more) of your instructors, go to the National Web Site (www.usps.org) and then follow the drop-down menus to:

• Departments > • Education Department > • Awards

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From here click on the “Chapman Award” link on the left. You will land on a page with all of the details and links to the submission forms.

News From National The latest NEO teleconference shared the fol-lowing information with all of the DEOs:

Help Wanted The National Education Department has multi-ple openings. If you want to get involved in na-tional activities, send an email to NEO Craig Fraser or any of the ANEOs to volunteer. The national committees need help in a number of different areas, so there is almost certainly a role available that will line up with your per-sonal interests and talents. America’s Boating Course v3 (ABC3) Squadrons are reminded that certified instruc-tors should be used for any NASBLA-approved course (i.e., America’s Boating Course). Technically speaking, any course with non-members (i.e., the public) should have a certi-fied instructor on the team of instructors. On-The-Water Standards A new web site is available which has details of new, national on-the-water (OTW) educational standards. Visit the site here:

www.usnows.org

National Educational Statistics Statistics for the 2018-2019 educational year have been posted for the ABC course and are available on the national web site. Statistical data for other USPS courses has been collected and is expected to be available soon. USPS/ABC Learning Centers The first of three ABC Learning Centers is open for business in Florida. Details can be found on the new Learning Center web site at:

www.abclc.org America’s Boating Channel Many of you have heard about the series of boating safety videos that are being created by Marty Lafferty and his team with the help of a USCG grant. You can see these videos by sub-scribing (at no cost) to “America’s Boating

Channel” on www.YouTube.com. In addition, by subscribing you will be notified whenever a new video is released. 2019 marks the fourth year where Marty’s team will be producing these videos. In addition, a new title will be released to the public every Fri-day on the America’s Boating Channel and other social media outlets. Eight new topics will be the subject of videos that have been requested by the USCG and will be recorded this year, and Marty is looking for volunteers to help develop these topics or serve as performers in the videos. For what it’s worth, the Finger Lakes Chapter (Seneca Squadron) volunteered to be actors in two of the videos produced last year, and the members doing this had a blast! It’s been suggested that a squad-ron could use this as a social event to envigor-ate and recruit membership. Topics to be filmed in 2019 include: • The Importance of Boater Education • Engine Cut-Off Switches • Life Jacket Care • Cold Weather Boating • Behavioral Consequences • Introduction to ATONs • Dispelling BUI Myths • New Life Jacket Labeling Standards To get involved, send Marty an email at: [email protected]

Closing Comments As you can see, there is a lot going on and things are not slowing down! The great danger in this is that members of your squadron edu-cation departments that are active will be asked to do more and more. This leads to burn-out and, unless replacements can be found, the eventual collapse of a squadron. With that thought in mind, the priority of each and every SEO in District 6 must be not only to recruit and develop new instructors to help spread the workload around, but also to make sure your existing instructors are recognized for the many hours they volunteer for your squadron every year. While there are formal programs (e.g., Merit Marks, the Chapman Award), you will need to think outside the box.



Polo shirts and monogrammed jackets are nice, but you can only award so many of them before that, too, becomes old. This is something I struggled with as an SEO and, to this day, I don’t have an answer. What

can we do for our instructors to keep them mo-tivated and energetic? I’d like to hear your ideas. Please!

- Tom Education Officer, D/6

From the Assistant Education Officer By D/1st/Lt Leslie Smith, JN

Introduction Happy Summer every-one!! I hope you had a great 4th of July. We just have to remember that the 4th is much more than just barbeque. Happy Birth-day to the USA!!! The boating season

seemed to start a little late this year with all the rain and the high water in most of the waterways, especially Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. I’ll be heading up there on the 7th for two weeks. The 1000 Islands is one of my favorite spots on Earth. I told my wife

when we get to the site I can feel my Blood pres-sure dropping. With all the high water we need to be even more diligent while on the water. All kinds of things will be floating around on top of, or just under the surface. I remember last year in August we were on Ontario very near the St Lawrence just idling when my wife said “What’s that?” I looked over the side and we think it was somebody’s dock. It looked like an airplane wing and was only about a foot below the surface. Thank goodness we missed it. Have a very Happy and safe boating season!!!

- Les Assistant Education Officer, D/6

A Message from the District 6 Secretary By D/Lt/C David Daniels, SN

Here it is mid-summer and I have not been out on the water yet. But, that is about to change. Hope-fully you have been boating, ei-ther on your own vessel or on somebody else's.

Flood conditions on the St. Lawrence River have really slowed things down - literally. The high water levels have resulted in a no-wake

speed limit while 300-feet from shore. Even the freighters are traveling at reduced speeds. The early spring rains and snow run-off have ex-ceeded the levels of 2017, which were then at record levels. Now, the 2019 levels are again setting all time records. Judging from various fishing reports, all is well in that category. By the time you read this edition of the Deep 6 reservations for the Governing Board Meeting in Louisville, KY should already be completed; mine are. Meetings for all departments within USPS are scheduled. Within the Secretary’s De-partment there will be three hands-on semi-nars on DB2000. I plan on attending all three. If you have any DB2000 questions or issues,

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please contact me anytime during July or Au-gust, either by email ([email protected]) or directly by phone (607-765-6288). If you are not locked into departmental or com-mittee meetings, there are many sight-seeing tours in and around Louisville. Listing just a few from the Summer 2019 issue of the Ensign:

• Mary M. Miller steamboat • Louisville Slugger Museum • Kentucky Science Center • KMAC Museum • Muhammad Ali Center • Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts • Kentucky Bourbon Trail

Now, circling back to my opening complaint of not being on the water yet, there are a couple of reasons for this dire situation. One is cer-tainly the high water levels on the St. Lawrence. Another is due to the amount of traveling I have been doing. Central to my travels has been a pilgrimage back to my childhood and young adult home in Massachusetts. My-oh-my, how some things have changed and how some have not. I managed to squeeze in a trip on the Mount Washington cog railway located in Bret-ton Woods, New Hampshire. Here, things have just about remained the same for over 100-years. The Mt. Washington cog railway is a nar-rated 3-hour-round trip train ride to the sum-mit of the mountain on a historic and awe-in-spiring railway. Averaging around 1 hour each way, you have 60 minutes to explore and take

in the summit, including the visitor center. In-side is a museum, post office, small snack bar and, on a clear day, 360° views of the surround-ing areas including up to 5 states, Canada and the Atlantic Ocean! My day was not clear; we all entered solid clouds at about 5000’ eleva-tion; the 6288’ summit also had temp’s in the low 50’s and winds at 40-mph. If in the neigh-borhood, check it out – but, go prepared for tough weather. Finally, in keeping with my ‘look up’ theme, summer is a great time to look at the planets in the evening and night skies. Often, while cruis-ing on our waters, dark night skies are encoun-tered - - making it easy to pick out the brighter objects. During the evening of August 9th, the moon and Jupiter are very close, being only 2-degrees apart in the southwest. Then, on the evening of August 11th, the moon and Saturn are a little more than 3-degrees apart in the south. With your nautical binoculars you should be able to see 2 or 3 of Jupiter’s moons. And, with even a small telescope you should be able to see all four of Jupiter’s Galilean moons (Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io). It will re-quire a medium sized telescope with a magnifi-cation of 100+ to clearly see Saturn’s rings and its largest moon, Titan. So, while introducing your kids and grandkids to our wonderful sport of boating, also include encouragement to ‘’look up’ and see the amazing objects above us.

- Dave Secretary, D/6



A Message from the District 6 Treasurer By D/Lt/C Maxine Flagg, SN-CN

Ahhh, summer is here! Yipee!!! Finally, after so many days of rain, two times it looked like the flash flooding of August 14th, 2018 at 0500 may oc-cur yet again. Thankfully it did not, and it has hardly rained since. Am I missing

the rain? Not at all! As I sit on my porch, I’m thinking what a great summer it has been for boating. Well, for those who have boats. Except for the blue algae bloom that has closed most swimming areas around here, in-cluding our beach now and then. A word to the wise: be careful of what you wish for, as it just might happen. Many of you know that Avatar has been for sale for a couple of years and yes, it did happen. We sold it. To a man and his wife who are going to base it in Boston Harbor to be used as a live aboard, rent-ing it out like an Arbnb, even in the winter! Paul and Bryan, our partner in Avatar, motored with the new owners out of CS-1 on to Albany and then the boat went on to Boston after a brief stay in NYC. I was pretty sad to watch them pull out onto the Seneca River, to say the least. I did join them further down the canal at Canajo-harie for the last leg past the Waterford Flight, getting to know the new owners and realizing they were going to love Avatar too and would take good care of her. All I could ask for… We have so many great memories, great trips with great friends. The River, Alex Bay, Clayton, Sacketts Harbor, taking sights for Nav on our first crossing Lake Ontario, Trent Severn, the Rideau, Ottawa, Montreal, and the Intercoastal all the way to Ft. Lauderdale. Looking back, maybe the greatest thrill was taking our then

10-year-old grandson on a two-week trip to Montreal. He was great at knot tying, and on one occasion, Captain Paul just could not tie a cleat hitch correctly. Jason’s exact words were “It’s easy! Just tie it like me Papa” to the great amusement of several people watching! That 10-year-old now is about to join the Coast Guard – we couldn’t be prouder!!! My second hat is SEO of Ithaca, and as such we will be teaching 4 weeks in July the Amer-ica’s Boating Course to Boy Scouts at Camp Barton, Monday and Tuesday afternoons 4 hours each. Not so many turnouts this year, as the camp calendar has been shortened thanks to NYS not finishing the school year until the end of June. Jamie Saroka will be teaching 2 consecutive weeks, Paul and I one week and Kevin Williams another week. That’s a lot of time during the prime boating season and I want to give them special recognition. Thank you, fellows, so much! I want to leave you all with one thought – if you or a member of your family has a jet ski, please be respectful of all the people living on the shores of your waters. Follow the rules – be safe – while having fun. Don’t endanger other boat-ers by wave jumping too close. Accidents do happen. Don’t let your family be a statistic. As D/6 Treasurer, I encourage all to pay your dues, volunteer when you can, and have fun. If you have a boat, invite a member who doesn’t have one to go on a boat ride. They will be thrilled!! Adios amigos. Fair winds and following seas to all!

- Maxine Treasurer, D/6

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Rendezvous 2019 By Ron Bieber – Conference Chair

[NOTE: This is an updated version of the article which appeared in the Rendezvous Special Edition of The Deep 6 last month. – Ed.] “THE TALL SHIPS ARE COMING!!! THE TALL SHIPS ARE COMING!!!” By now you have been to the Tall Ship Festival in Buffalo and I hope those in attendance found it as amazing as I find the Tall Ships to be. The next Tall Ship Festival will be in Brockville, Canada from August 30th through September 1st and is being held in conjunction with this summer’s District 6 Rendezvous. The rendezvous is from August 29th through August 31st and will be held in the Thousand Island area. We will kick off the event on Thursday by piloting our own electric powered Bumper Boat, bumping into and squirting fel-low members with our own water gun! Watch out for the fountain too. Bathing suits are not required, but you will get wet, not soaked. Don’t miss this opportunity to let loose and laugh with your friends. Then continue the fun with a picnic dinner at Ron Bieber’s place in the 1000 Island Trailer Park followed by a campfire. Ring along a folding chair if possible. We have an exciting canoe ride planned for Fri-day morning, August 30th from 9-11 AM. It’s being held at the Minna Anthony Nature Center located in Wellesley Island State Park. For those of you 65 or over, just show your driver’s license for free entry into the park. We will all be in a 36 foot long canoe and will paddle through Eel Bay as a park naturalist gives us the history of how the river was formed and the ecology of the region. The canoe is large, stable, and easy to embark and disembark from the dock. Rangers will help those in need. And, of course, you do not have to paddle all of the time as there are fifteen other passengers who can keep us moving. Life jackets are provided. As the number of passengers is limited, the first 16 to register will be accommodated. The fun continues on Friday when we go to Brockville for the Tall Ship Festival. This ren-dezvous is not all fun and games, you know, as some of us will be expected to work a shift at

the Festival. The shifts are three and a half hours long and that entitles you to free entry into the festival plus you’ll get a T-shirt to prove it. One of the highlights is the Parade of Sail which occurs at approximately 4:00 PM that af-ternoon. A copy of the activities and schedule follows. We will be having a booth to share in-formation about America’s Boating Club with the public and it will be located on Block Island. So, if you happen to be working the booth at the time of the Parade, you will have an up-close view of the festivities. For detailed infor-mation about the Festival including a schedule of events go to www.tallshipsbrock-ville.com/timeline/. There will be other booths and activities, including food vendors, for our use both Friday and Saturday. The “Red Hot and Blue Rockabilly Weekend” will be located right next to the Tall Ship Festival offering you the opportunity to visit the music festival on your own. We will be the Ambassadors for the Canadian Coast Guard frigate that will be in attendance.



Our role will be to assist the Coast Guard mem-bers in any way we can while they are off board. We also may be asked to help organize trips on the Canadian Naval small boats. They also have a Tall Ship in their fleet that will be at the event. Among numerous Tall Ships, a replica of Christopher Columbus’s Nao Santa Maria will also be there for our entertainment. On Saturday, the public is allowed to board the Tall Ships for a tour and we will be assisting with that in some manner. The ships are docked in two separate areas of Brockville within walking distance for most folks. There will be golf cart shuttles provided between sites for attendees to ride and driving the golf carts is one of the ways on which we may be assisting both Friday and Saturday. We have been asked to stamp “Tall Ship Passports” as the public boards the Bluenose II. Saturday evening we will return to Alexandria Bay for a Prime Rib Buffet at Edgewood Resort. If you are planning on arriving by boat, be aware that there is very limited dockage space as the Tall Ships use most of it. There is public

dockage at the privately owned Tall Ship Ma-rina or you can try to reach the Brockville Yacht Club. Reservations need to be made ASAP as they fill up fast when the festival is in town. Also, please make your room reservations on your own at one of many available in Brockville, Canada or Alexandria Bay, NY. The Bridgeview Motel in Alexandria Bay is the closest to the Bridge to Canada. It’s family owned, clean, and has reasonable rates. Once you are through Canadian Customs, it is about a half-hour ride to Brockville. When crossing into Canada, you will need either a passport or an enhanced li-cense. Also, DO NOT tell them you are “work-ing” at the Festival as they will send you to im-migration for a work visa. Just tell them you are attending. Please complete the Reservation Form and re-turn to Linda Rought by August 14, 2019. For any additional information, please contact Nancy Bieber at 518-813-7888 or [email protected].

- Ron

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District 6 Membership Committee Report One Year Period Ending June 30th, 2019 Respectfully submitted by P/C Thomas Dixon, P and P/D/C Chris Tertenik, SN June 30, 2019 National: 26,038 Members 2018 24,283 Members 2019 -1,755 LOSS D/6: 604 Members 2018 554 Members 2019 - 50 LOSS SQUADRON 2018 2019 DECREASE INCREASE AUBURN 9 8 1 - BUFFALO 31 27 4 - IROQUOIS 58 59 - 1 ITHACA 26 21 5 - LOCKPORT 12 12 - - ROCHESTER 92 81 11 - SENECA 77 78 - 1 ST. LAWRENCE 19 11 8 - SUSQUENANGO 67 59 8 - SWIFTWATER 78 73 5 - SYRACUSE 106 95 11 - UTICA 29 30 - 1 Membership Committee:

Chair, D/Lt Tom Dixon, P PRC ChrisTertenik, SN



From Around the District (and Beyond)

Policy Statement: Selling Alcoholic Beverages to the Public By C/C Gary Cheney USPS It has come to the attention of the Board of Di-rectors that some Squadrons or Districts are considering engaging in activities that involve the selling of alcoholic beverages such as wine or beer to the public as a fund-raising or public relations activity (such as operating a tempo-rary “beer garden” at a local park or fair). United States Power Squadrons does not sanc-tion or condone such activities by Districts, Squadrons or other subordinate units of USPS. Districts and Squadrons should not engage in such activities. The sale of alcoholic beverages to the public, as distinguished from the occasional serving of the same to Squadron members and their guests ancillary to a Squadron event, such as a Change Of Watch or Squadron social event, is significantly outside of the purposes of USPS as a 501(c)(3) organization focused on boating ed-ucation and safety and poses substantial risks to Districts, Squadrons and their members en-gaged in such activities. The serving of alcoholic beverages for profit to the public in a commercial setting requires compliance with all federal, state and local laws applicable to such sales, such as, but not lim-ited to, licensing, training, and sales taxes. It also exposes the District or Squadron, and the participating members to potential lawsuits and civil liability arising out of the additional responsibilities imposed upon the sellers and servers of alcoholic beverages to the public. This exposure (which can be substantial) is generally outside of USPS’s insurance coverage which is directed towards our principal activi-ties of boater education. Consequently, it re-quires that the Squadron or District purchase, at their own expense, separate general liability and liquor liability insurance applicable to the Squadron’s or District’s activities in this area.

Given the magnitude of the compliance and li-ability exposures, this is not a type of fund-raising or public relations activity that a Dis-trict or Squadron should pursue. You should look at LawCom’s Policy Statement on Liquor and Gambling and its Position Paper on Serving Alcoholic Beverages at Squadron and District Functions, which is available at:

https://tinyurl.com/yyqjjemk Read and understand these presentations both for their guidance and for a basic description of the legal and regulatory environment affecting the sale or serving of alcoholic beverages. In the case of District or Squadron social events, it may be more prudent and cost effective to have the licensed establishment providing the facil-ity or food service also provide and serve the alcoholic beverages.

- Gary P. Cheney, Chief Commander, USPS

Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Notifications From the NYSDEC Visit NYHABS, DEC’s harmful algal bloom no-tification map, to view locations of current freshwater HABs in New York State. Each yel-low dot on the map represents a HAB reported in the past two weeks. Click on a dot for more information, including the date it was reported, the waterbody name, and pictures. Click on the arrow at the bottom of the screen to view a list of reported HABs. Know it. Avoid it. Report it. If you see a HAB, please use the new reporting form to submit a report to NYHABS. Because waterbodies may have HABs that have not been reported to DEC, we recommend avoiding con-tact with floating mats, scums and discolored water. If you, your family, or pet have been in contact with a HAB, please rinse with clean water and report any symptoms to your local health de-partment.

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Comments? Questions? Your Two-Cents? Do you have comments about any of the con-tents of this issue? Please send your letters to

the editor ([email protected]) and we’ll share the best/most insightful here!

Educational Opportunities in District 6 Navigation The Seneca Squadron will be offering Naviga-tion beginning in the summer of 2019. The summer months will be spent on-the-water ob-taining sextant observations needed to com-plete each student’s sight folder. Classroom sessions will begin in the Fall. If you are interested in obtaining your “N” grade, please contact lead instructor Tom Alley ([email protected]). Accommodations will be made to allow for tele-learning if you are not near the Watkins Glen area.

America’s Boating Course The Syracuse Sail & Power Squadron has an-nounced its series of “ABC3” courses for the fall and winter months. Courses will meet at OCM BOCES at 110 El-wood Davis Road in Liverpool, NY. All class ses-sions will take place from 6:00-8:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. Each course consists of four, 2-hour classroom sessions followed by a final exam. Cost for the course is $35 per stu-dent and $10 for each additional family mem-ber sharing the same textbook. There is an ad-ditional $39 fee charged by BOCES per stu-dent. Fall Session Wednesdays, September 25th through October 16th, 2019. Final exam: Wednesday October 23rd, 2019. Winter Session Wednesdays January 23rd to February 12th, 2020. Final exam: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020. Registration Infromation Contact: Lt/c Teresa Freedman, 315-446-6329 or via email at [email protected]

Students must also register with BOCES at www.ocmboces.org/adulted

Cruise Planning The Finger Lakes Chapter (Seneca Squadron) will be offering Cruising and Cruise Planning be-ginning this fall. If you would like additional details, please con-tact the Seneca SEO Charlie Fausold:

[email protected]

Advanced Piloting Looking for something to do this winter while you are waiting for the weather to warm up enough to begin preparing your boat to launch? Why not take the Advanced Pilotiong (AP) course with the Finger Lakes Chapter (Seneca)? Contact SEO Charlie Fausold for additional de-tails:

[email protected]

Marine Electronics With more and more electronics finding their way onto our boats – and into our lives in gen-eral – it makes sense to try to get a greater un-derstanding of how they work and what it takes to make them operate properly and reliably. If you are interested in learning more about marine electronics – and electronics in general – please consider joining the Finger Lakes Chapter (Seneca) for their ME course in the spring of 2020. Contact SEO Charlie Fausold for additional de-tails:

[email protected]



Sail If you have always wanted to learn how to sail, the Finger Lakes Chapter (Seneca) is happy to announce its popular on-the-water (OTW) ver-sion of the USPS Sail course. The course will take place in the early summer of 2020, but seats are limited and they tend to fill up fast! The course will be taught in the Watkins Glen area and the OTW sections will be held in the Village Marina of Watkins Glen. To get on the list of potential students, contact SEO Charlie Fausold for additional details:

[email protected]

Rochester Class Offerings The Rochester Squadron has announced its class schedule for the late summer and fall. The following classes are being proposed: America’s Boating Course: August 12th through August 26th.

Boat Handling: September 17th through No-vember 12th. Advanced Piloting: October 16th through Jan-uary 22nd, 2020. For more details or to register, please contact Rick Hibbs ([email protected]) or SEO Don Reaves ([email protected]).

Publicize Your Training Opportunities! If your squadron is planning to offer any type of formal or informal class, seminar or hands-on training opportunity, please let the editor know so we can publicize it here. Not only is it a great way to get more folks interested and signed up, but it’s also a great socializer and way of meeting USPS members from neighbor-ing squadrons! Send information to [email protected].

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My Yacht Delivery Trip By Rick Hibbs Rochester

I arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia at about noon on July 6th, 2019. Rochester Squadron friends Dave and Diane Rhodes had just purchased a Corbin 39 auxiliary sailing yacht (cutter rig) and intended to bring her by water to a dock in Sodus Bay. Quite a trip! They recruited me to help deliver from Chester Cove, Nova Scotia to New York City, or thereabouts de-pending on our actual ability to cover distance. Because of other family commitments, I could only go that far; but it would cover 350 nm most of which was open North Atlantic, over 100 nm from shore! Their plan was to depart Chester Cove the next day, but we were awaiting the arrival of the NY City-based professional delivery captain, who was in route deliver-ing a 45-foot catamaran from St. Thomas, USVI to Long Island, and was running into adverse condi-tions (light winds and low fuel!). Dave and Diane had previously owned a 20-foot sailboat. They also had another friend, Kevin,

along to help. Kevin sails a Pearson 30 out of the Pultneyville Yacht Club, with about three years expe-rience. We used the extra day to continue putting the boat into sail-ing shape, including assembly and inflation of the brand-new dinghy. We rigged jack lines and stowed provisions. We also moved the boat to the fuel dock and topped up the diesel tank and three spare 5-gal-lon jerry jugs. Captain John arrived around 8:30 Monday morning and started through a checkout with Dave of the boat’s equipment and systems. The boat’s spars were recently re-placed, as was the now 2-year-old Yanmar engine. Captain wanted to

see the published fuel consumption curves which Dave was able to download. Knowledge of the amount of fuel on board seemed very im-portant to the captain, as he’d just had a prob-lem on the previous delivery! Based on what was visible and the completed survey Dave had

Photo 4: Chester Cove, Nova Scotia.

Photo 5: Dockside and ready to depart Chester Cove, Nova Scotia.



required before purchasing, we were ruled ready, as soon as we got the waste holding tank pumped out. It was not certain how full it was, and once out to sea (5 nm minimum) we’d be able to throw the Y-valve to dump overboard di-rectly. But better to start empty. Unfortunately, pump out facilities were not plentiful in the whole area! We located the one, but it was not a self-serve, and only operated by appointment. We were told by the answering person that the operator might not be able to get over until Tuesday! We elected to take our chances, and departed Chester Cove Monday about 10:00 am.

We raised the main, and motor-sailed off in very light winds that were also on the nose. Just like ALL my cruises start out on Lake Ontario! We enjoyed the view of the Nova Scotia coastline and set the engine to 2,000 rpm, the most fuel-efficient point on the engine curve. Diane had made a pasta salad while still in port, so we had lunch and discussed the watch schedule. We each were going to be on watch for four hours, and off for six hours. People were stag-gered so that there were two people on watch always, with one person’s watch split with two people. So, when my watch started, Dave was into his third and fourth hours, and was re-lieved by Kevin. After two hours with Kevin, I woke Captain John to relieve me. And so it went, ‘round the clock. The first problem we encountered was the auto pilot. In storage, it had lost its memory (calibra-tion), so although it came “on” when powered up, it was unable to function. According to the manual, step one in calibration is to let it know

the extreme ends of the wheel turns. Unfortu-nately, this has to be done while stationary at dockside. “Uh oh!” So, the boat would have to be steered by hand constantly! The watches suddenly seemed longer! The second problem showed up (or actually DIDN’T show up) as the sun set. Running lights were turned on, and the masthead light was also needed as we were going to be motor sailing. The boat had two set of running lights, the “Lower Nav” giving the usual bow sidelights and the stern light; the “Upper Nav” was a tricolor light at the mast-head. Although the stern light didn’t come on, the upper tricolor was lit, so we were okay for running lights. But there was no light from the “Steaming Light” switch. As a Senior Navigator, with about 30 years of teaching, I was probably most concerned! Captain John wasn’t too con-cerned as we were well off shore and hadn’t seen another vessel in hours. So, the watches began!

Photo 7: Leaving Nova Scotia.

Photo 6: Sailing the North Atlantic.

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Dave and I were on watch for a beautiful sun-set, which I told Kevin all about, and filled him in on the course we were keeping. I went to the after deck to answer Nature’s call, and was amazed to see a very bright trail in our wake! The bioluminescence I’d read about was mag-nificent! On our cruises in the BVI’s we were always at anchor or on a mooring by 1600, so we never sailed at night. I woke Captain John and went off watch at midnight. Which meant that after a 6-hour sleep, I was up again at 0600 Tuesday, and watched the beautiful sun-rise with Dave. We enjoyed our luck, and the fact that the boat was still on course, engine purring, very little seas, and no expectation of bad weather. Also, no winds predicted. Can’t have everything!

Soon after sunrise, Kevin was back on watch with me, and we began to spot other yachts un-der spinnakers heading to where we had left. It was the Marblehead to Halifax offshore yacht race finishing. We watched a scattered fleet all morning, as the Nova Scotia shore line fell fur-ther away. Diane made the crew blueberry pan-cakes, and Kevin made coffee! Great eats after our first night at sea! Once the shoreline was gone, and the race fleet was past us, we had nothing to look at to help steer, and the compass was very slow to re-spond. Others may have done better than I, but I was very happy when they established the

Navionics on a couple of cell phones and I could see results from small wheel changes. Watches continued. With four-on-six-off, we didn’t see the same hours over and over, so there was some variety in that. But the 360-degree view of water was just getting very boring when we started seeing whales! We may have been abeam of the Georges Bank. At least that was the general direction we saw whale spouts. A whale comes to the surface to blow out the old air, and breathe in some new air. Blowing out the old results in a short burst of spray. It isn’t very dramatic, or high, and doesn’t last as long as an aerial flare. But if you’re looking at the area (plus and minus 10-15 degrees) you’ll see it, and of course, we yelled “There she blows!” By the time anyone looking off the other side of the boat gets over to the new side, it’s gone! Diane accused Dave of making up sightings, because she never saw any that he sighted! But I was able to confirm some!! We saw enough that each of us saw at least a dozen! After the blow, a sighting of a curved black back can be seen for a moment, but no sign of tails. More experienced whalers can probably tell variety of whale by the clues we saw, but none of us could. I’ll have to get a book on whales! When Kevin came off watch the next morning, he and I teamed up to make French toast and bacon for the crew’s breakfast. With coffee, of course! I have GPS readings that I kept record-ing at beginning and end of my watches, but haven’t yet plotted all of them on the chart I purchased in Halifax. But our track kept us moving closer and closer to our land fall off Cape Cod. Though there was no visible change to what we could see! I again marveled at the luminescent trail we left, and even tried to pho-tograph it. But the eye is way more sensitive than the iPhone 8s!

Photo 8: North Atlantic sunrise.



We were finally hit with our worst problem. The holding tank was full! The assumed Y-valve to enable offshore dumping was never discovered! Somehow, we managed the better part of two days by continuing number one over the side, and resorting to number two in a large bucket, or internal personal “holding” tanks! And none of the guys bothered with showers, or shaving (explaining the full beard on Captain John!), so we entered the endurance phase of an offshore yacht delivery. Somehow, Diane continued to look great, making me wonder how she was do-ing it! As we got nearer to Nantucket, I suggested we make a quick stop to renew our stock of limer-icks, but it was too far off the course line, so we made one up that rhymed Nantucket with “the bucket”! Not destined for any literary prizes, but it made us all laugh that afternoon!

Then we saw the dolphins! We first saw them at a distance. They didn’t make blows like whales, but came more out of the water than whales. We were enjoying the show from afar, and finally saw three making their way towards us. I got to the bow and was ready to get some photos or videos if they came within reasonable distance. And they did!! They came individually from behind and below, and rose up near the bow (surfing our bow wave?) and broke the surface. I was very excited to get a great 5-second video off the port bow. Then I turned to the starboard, and followed one (or maybe it was two, one at a time) that broke the surface two times. Our dolphins pro-vided our most excitement on the whole trip! As evening came on I could see the low shore-line of Cape Cod from my spot on the bow, so I had to shout “Land Ho!” They said “Yeah, we know, we see it on the Navionics.” Oh well, I had a brief connection to the sailors of old. As we got nearer to the Cape, I could see that we were entering a fog bank ahead. Dave prepped the radar, which Bluetooth connected to a lap-top, and enabled Dave and Captain John to proceed at the same speed. I took a flashlight and air horn and went to my dolphin watching perch to watch for traffic. I strongly urge every boater I meet to throw away the small sized air horns! They won’t last long enough to do blasts every 2 minutes for any length of time. Don’t know why they even are manufactured! Saved our horn power until we heard any other vessel. Fortunately, there were none! We made port at Falmouth, MA, and tied up at a marina fuel dock at 2:00 AM Thursday. No one was there, and there were no shower or re-stroom facilities. But we rejoiced at seeing two Porta-potties on the side of the building! After a celebratory Irish whiskey with Kevin, we all slept for a while. Approximately 350 miles non-stop, it was unusually quiet with the boat not moving! With daybreak, came an urgency to get off the dock, which was next to a docked ferry which began its routes at 0830 daily. We moved all the way into the harbor cove to the only pump out facility (which, thankfully, was self service). As we passed three marinas with NONE of them having pump outs, Captain John quipped

Photo 9: Port tack on the North Atlantic.

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“They really don’t seem to give a s*** about s***!” Meanwhile, Diane had arranged for an Uber car to pick me up for a ride to Logan Air-port in Boston, where I would be able to get a one-way rental car to get me to my daughter’s house in Peterborough, NH. My driver said I didn’t smell too bad, so let me get in. We imme-diately stopped at a Starbucks so I could get coffee; I tipped the cashier $3 for having to look at me with over three day’s beard growth, BAD hat hair, and no shower for days. She said “No, you don’t look bad”, but I knew better!

- Rick

° ° ° ° ° ° ° Aside from being an ac-complished mariner, Rick is also our colorful (and now apparently fragrant) District Execu-tive Officer.

And Now For Something Completely Different Credit to T. W. Hanna and Grammar-Monster.com

What Is the Origin of the Saying “To Freeze the Balls Off a Brass Monkey”? We’ve all gotten the email of urban lore telling us of the origin of the saying above comes from the way cannonballs were stored aboard the tall ships of the 19th century. Many of us probably even forwarded this amusing tale without much thought. A bit of questioning, though, reveals that this legend is probably just that – a legend. The Original Tale of the Brass Monkey In the past, war ships carried iron cannons, which required cannon balls nearby. The can-non balls were stored in a square pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. In order to prevent the sixteen balls from rolling away, a metal plate called a monkey with sixteen round indenta-tions was secured near the cannon. As iron rusts quickly, the plate was made of brass. Whilst the rusting problem may have been solved, brass contracts much more and quicker than iron in cold weather. As a consequence, when the temperature was extremely cold, the brass indentations would shrink, and the can-non balls would roll off the monkey. The tem-perature was therefore cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

Looking at the Explanation More Closely To freeze the balls off a brass monkey is an idiomatic expression meaning it is very cold. Early references to brass monkeys in the 19th century have no references to balls at all, but instead variously say that it is cold enough to freeze the tail, nose, ears and whiskers off a brass monkey; or hot enough to scald the throat or singe the hair of a brass monkey. All of these variations imply that an actual monkey is the subject of the metaphor, with balls being the surviving phrase. It is widely believed that a brass monkey is a brass tray used in naval ships during the Na-poleonic Wars for the storage of cannonballs (piled up in a pyramid). The theory goes that the tray would contract in cold weather, caus-ing the balls to fall off. This theory is discredited by the US Department of the Navy and the ety-mologist Michael Quinion and the Oxford Eng-lish Dictionary’s AskOxford website for five main reasons: • The Oxford English Dictionary does not rec-

ord the term monkey or brass monkey be-ing used in this way.

• The purported method of storage of cannon-balls (round shot) is simply false. Shot was not stored on deck continuously on the off-chance that the ship might go into battle.

Photo 10: Rick on dol-phin watch.



Indeed, decks were kept as clear as possi-ble.

• Such a method of storage would result in shot rolling around on deck and causing a hazard in high seas. Shot was stored on the gun or spar decks, in shot racks (longitudi-nal wooden planks with holes bored into them, known as shot garlands in the Royal Navy), into which round shot were inserted for ready use by the gun crew.

• Shot was not left exposed to the elements where it could rust. Such rust could lead to the ball not flying true or jamming in the barrel and exploding the gun. Indeed, gun-ners would attempt to remove as many im-perfections as possible from the surfaces of balls.

• The physics do not stand up to scrutiny. All of the balls would contract equally, and the contraction of both balls and plate over the range of temperatures involved would not be particularly large. The effect claimed pos-sibly could be reproduced under laboratory conditions with objects engineered to a high precision for this purpose, but it is unlikely it would ever have occurred in real life aboard a warship.

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Thanks to Good Old Boat magazine (www.GoodOldBoat.com) for pointing to the source of this information so it could be shared here!

The Editor’s Editorial By D/Lt/C Tom Alley, SN

Editorial Opinions Those of you who have experienced the ordeal of meeting me in person know that I can be a bit opin-ionated at times. OK, maybe most of the time. All right!

I’m opinionated all of the time! Much of the time I prefer to look at it as being rigorous and thorough, but my wife simply refers to my exercise of these virtues (my opinion) as me being stubborn (her opinion). Boating has its share of topics where absolutes are scarce and anecdotes and opinions reign supreme – sometimes with a religious fervor. Want to start a bar fight? Make a statement about which anchor is “best” over a few beers with your fellow boaters!

And Here Is Another “Conversation”-Starter One of the Seneca Junior Sailing program’s alumni is a Junior at SUNY Maritime and just returned from spending nearly 3 months aboard a tanker delivering diesel and gasoline

to various ports on the Gulf of Mexico. While recounting some of her “sea stories” from her most recent adventure, she made some inter-esting comments regarding maritime practices. Our student’s comments indicate that there is a developing trend for commercial vessels to obtain position fixes by two independent meth-ods. The primary method is, of course, GPS, but the secondary method is…, CELESTIAL! I personally find this fascinating, particularly after listening to all sorts of experts telling me, for decades, that celestial navigation was thor-oughly obsolete in our digital age. At present, obtaining a fix by two methods is neither a regulation nor a requirement, but it is considered a policy and best practice by more than one shipping company. Our Junior Sail-ing graduate was very proud to say she spent her summer obtaining celestial fixes for her ship’s navigator.

- Your Editor, Tom ° ° ° ° °

The editor has, once again, opened his big mouth. Please e-mail your comments to:

[email protected]

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District Calendar 2019 August 1 Summer issue of The Deep 6 publication

date (D6) 30-31 D/6 Rendezvous, Brockville, Ontario.

(D6) September 01-02 D/6 Rendezvous, Brockville, Ontario.

(D6) 08-15 USPS Governing Board, Louisville, KY.

(National) October 15 Deadline for The Deep 6 articles (D6) November 8-10 District 6 Fall Council & Conference,

Fayetteville, NY (D6) 11 Deadline for The Deep 6 news updates

from Council/Conference meetings. 15 Fall issue of The Deep 6 publication date.

(D6) December No events currently scheduled. 2020 January TBA Change of Watch (Seneca) TBA Change of Watch (Ithaca) 15 Deadline for The Deep 6 articles. (D6)

February 1 Winter issue of The Deep 6 publication

date. (D6)

16 Founder’s Day Celebration, Rochester Yacht Club, Rochester, NY (Rochester & Iroquois)

17-23 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL. (National) TBA Change of Watch (St. Lawrence) TBA Change of Watch (Susquenango) TBA Change of Watch (Iroquois) March TBA Change of Watch (Syracuse) TBA Change of Watch (Swiftwater) TBA Change of Watch (Utica) April TBA D/6 Spring Council & Conference (D6) 17 Deadline for The Deep 6 articles (D6)

May 1 Spring 2018 issue of The Deep 6 publi-

cation date (D6) 16-22 Safe Boating Week June No events currently scheduled. July 17 Deadline for The Deep 6 articles. (D6)

° ° ° ° ° Do you have an event that you think others should know about? Please let me know so that it can be included!

– Ed. ([email protected])

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