The Breeze 1 July/August 2014 TOLEDO SAIL AND POWER SQUADRON BREEZE the A Unit of United States Power Squadrons®, District 29 TOLEDO, OHIO Sail & Power Boang www.toledopowersquadron.org July/August 2014 There are no General Membership Meengs in July and August Enjoy the Rendezvous COMMANDER’S RENDEZVOUS TOLEDO YACHT CLUB AUGUST 1, 2, & 3 Come one come all!! Friday, Aug. 1, to the “Red Neck Yacht Club Party”. Yep, wear your best red neck/tacky garb. There will be 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place prizes for gen’ all spiffed up. I have reserved 10 docks for this weekend. If you plan on coming by boat please call TYC and speak with the club manager for reserva- ons, 419-726-3485. The cost will be $1.50 a foot. If staying two nights, the second night will be free. What: Commander’s Rendezvous Where: Toledo Yacht Club Pavilion When: Friday, August 1 Time: 1730 - 1830 Social hour (alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages provided) 1830 - 1930 Dinner 1930 - ???? Fun Menu: Appezers during social hour. Shredded bar-b-que chicken and sloppy joe sandwiches, potato salad, three bean salad, leuce salad, and birthday cake. Table service provided. Cost: $8.00 per person For reservaons call Cdr. Debra Shaulis: home 734-848-2806 or cell 419-351-1914. You may also send an e-mail to [email protected]. Please do so before July 27. When I get your e-mail reservaon I will respond with a confirmaon of receiving it. Any reservaon not canceled 24 hours before will be charged. ______________________________________________________________________________ “A Night Under The Stars” Saturday, August 2 Time: 1730 - 1830 Social Hour (cash bar) 1830 - 1930 Dinner 2000 - 2300 “Band of Brothers” will be playing outside The menu and cost have not been set as of yet. Watch your e-mail for more informaon. We will be joined by Middle Bass Island Yacht Club. They will be at TYC that week end for a rendezvous.
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The Breeze 1 July/August 2014
TOLEDO SAIL AND POWER SQUADRON
BREEZE
the
A Unit of United States Power Squadrons®, District 29
TOLEDO, OHIO Sail & Power Boating www.toledopowersquadron.org July/August 2014
There are no General Membership Meetings in July and August
Enjoy the Rendezvous
COMMANDER’S RENDEZVOUS
TOLEDO YACHT CLUB
AUGUST 1, 2, & 3
Come one come all!! Friday, Aug. 1, to the “Red Neck Yacht Club Party”. Yep, wear your best red neck/tacky garb. There will be 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place prizes for gettin’ all spiffed up.
I have reserved 10 docks for this weekend. If you plan on coming by boat please call TYC and speak with the club manager for reserva-tions, 419-726-3485. The cost will be $1.50 a foot. If staying two nights, the second night will be free.
What: Commander’s Rendezvous
Where: Toledo Yacht Club Pavilion
When: Friday, August 1
Time: 1730 - 1830 Social hour (alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages provided)
1830 - 1930 Dinner
1930 - ???? Fun
Menu: Appetizers during social hour. Shredded bar-b-que chicken and sloppy joe sandwiches, potato salad, three bean
salad, lettuce salad, and birthday cake. Table service provided.
Cost: $8.00 per person
For reservations call Cdr. Debra Shaulis: home 734-848-2806 or cell 419-351-1914. You may
also send an e-mail to [email protected]. Please do so before July 27. When I get your
e-mail reservation I will respond with a confirmation of receiving it. Any reservation not
Tues. Jul — No General Meeting — Enjoy boating season Tues. Jul 29 - Executive Mtg. 7:00pm @ Toledo Yacht Club Tues. Aug — No General Meeting — Enjoy boating season Tues. Aug 26 - Executive Mtg. 7:00pm @ Toledo Yacht Club
PLANNED GIVING
If you would like to include the Toledo
Sail & Power Squadron in your estate plan
or provide another kind of gift, please
contact P/C Haynes Lee, Jr., AP.
July Birthdays
Toledo Rendezvous 2014 Leamington July 6, 7, 8 Kellys July 9, 10 PIB July 11, 12, 13 Harsens Island Aug 15, 16 Sarnia Aug 17, 18 Bayfield Aug 19, 20 St Clair Aug 21 Cove Aug 22, 23, 24 Contact Jan Leutz for more details or to make reserva-tions. [email protected] or 419-367-4017
Cruise to Port Clinton June 27th, 28th, and 29th 2014
To all members, families and guests of the Toledo Sail and Power Squadron please plan to attend our 2nd annual cruise to Port Clinton Ohio (come by land or by sea).
Location:
Clinton Reef Club, 800 Clinton Reef Dr, Port Clinton, Ohio 43452 (Lakeshore Dr. between Moose Club and Jet Express)
Planned Activities: Friday night stern in party, Inflatable boat cruise on Sat-urday, Live man overboard demo. Dinner/ Saturday night entertainment
poolside, Sunday morning breakfast.
Optional Activities: Aviation Museum, P.T. boat tour, shopping, pool/hot tub, sauna and more.
Dockage: 32 ft. and under $40.00 per night, 33 ft. and above $50.00 per night. (CASH or CHECKS Only)
Other Accommodations: There are many hotels nearby, a few just down the road (walking distance) along with condos that are for rent.
District Commander Larry D. Cole, SN is planning our Summer Council and Rendezvous July 4th to July 6th, 2014, at the Huron Boat Basin. For Friday evening, July 4th he is planning a reception for all members. The menu will be pulled pork sand-wich, fresh sweet corn, Cole slaw, potato salad, fruit and beverage for only $10.00. Please get me a firm number of your squadron members that will be attending the Friday dinner by June 28 so that we are prepared. Also Cedar Point is scheduled to have fireworks both Friday and Saturday evenings that weekend. A short walk on Huron's pier should give a great view of the fireworks. The fireworks may also be viewed from the water if you come by boat.
A local motel that has a very good rate for the holiday weekend is The Gull Motel, 45 Cleveland Road, Huron, (419) 433-4855. It is a short walk from the Boat Basin. Other hotels in the area are much more expensive since it will be the tourist season here. This should be GREAT Friday evening and a wonderful Summer Council and Rendezvous. I look forward to seeing many of your squadron members here for this event. For more information on the Saturday evening steak fry contact P/C Tom Lander, JN at [email protected]. For information on dockage, contact P/C Dale Crawford, AP at [email protected] or phone 440-241-5336. D/29 Lt/C Robert DuBray, AP (419) 433-3054 [email protected]
The last ABC class of the year was May 10th at a new location, Perrysburg Township Fire Depart-
ment, great facility, thanks to Joe Schaller and his contacts. Thanks to all who helped, instructors
Jim Sommers, Nelson Evans, Joe Schaller and I. Registration was Louise Sommers, Joyce Mease,
Larry Cole, and Jason Snook. Lunch helpers, Gloria Parker and Lorene Bixler. Thanks to all that
helped grade as well, most people were listed above (I hope I did not forget anyone). We had a
total of 19 students that attended and all did pass and had a good time.
The “Firm Foundation” radio show on 1470 came out Saturday May 17th for the national “ready set wear it” campaign and to
kick off to National Safe Boating Week. The show went really well with representation from the Maritime Museum, ODNR,
Coast Guard Aux, and of course our squadron.
We will be offering a piloting class this fall, please keep an eye out for more information and more classes.
I would like to say a big thank you to all that have helped and supported myself and the education department throughout this year. This includes all that were involved from beginning and planning of classes to the end, and of course Joyce Mease and Mary Jo Price for their great support and great advertising.
Each spring brings out all the boat cleaners and waxes. It also brings out the worst damage to gelcoat if one is not careful. I have seen “professional” men waxing hulls on large boats with an electric drill and a buffer pad. This is the easiest way to eat through your paint or gelcoat unless you are extremely careful. The high speed of the drill and the circular motion can destroy the surface with velocity and heat. If you want to use a buffer, I suggest using an orbital buffer. These are slower in speed and, what is more important; does not drive the buffing pad in a perfect circular motion. Instead it sort of wobbles and offers the user more protection against burn through. Whatever your choice, please use care when buffing.
I intended to include some material from the May issue of Sail magazine about wearing life jackets. I am sure it was in the May issue be-cause of the life jacket wearing promotions in May. However, for those of you who may not subscribe to The Blade, Matt Markey, our speaker from a couple of months ago for the squadron has a good article which I am in-cluding now. While we are not mentioned by name for our promotion of life jacket wearing this year, the information is helpful and some of it is sobering (sobering is also a hint to re-main so while boating). Back to Sail magazine later. So please go near the water safely. I like seeing you at the meetings.
John Mather,XO
The Breeze 7 July/August 2014
Keep all members and families in your prayers daily as we continue on.
Bill Miller died of a heart attack and his wife Phyllis is in a nursing home with a bro-
ken hip. Bill has been a member since 1972. They own Otter Creek Marina.
Judging a Book…
Over the course of years I have been asked many times just how I got into cruising. I usually came up with some stock answer but never really spoke about an experience that opened my eyes.
This is going back a lot of years, all the way back to my first semester of high school. When my junior high class moved onto high school, it proved to be an eye opening experience for all of us. First of all, our classmates were broken up and spewed forth into different curriculums with new faces everywhere. All the high school kids were like adults, everyone seemed a foot taller than us, which was intimidating. All the boys shaved, all the girls, well, you know what I mean…all grown up. Our class was mainly composed of short, non-shaving boys, and flat chested girls. One learned to act in an adult manner at all times which for our part, was a learning curve.
In junior high it was the norm to see a lot of classmates dressed in the Boy or Girl Scout uniforms. These kids emitted a quiet pride and it reflected well in our school. But once in high school, the uniforms disappeared from the halls and classrooms. I guess wearing the scout uniform was for children, not young adults.
My first full week of school brought me into some great classes and one that I did not belong in, that being “Public Speaking”. Somehow I landed in a class that was for mid level grades. I was the shortest kid in the front row and hoped that I was not called upon while trying desperately to be invisible. The good thing was I got to sit in this class for a week and just listen to eve-ryone else.
Our first formal day in Public Speaking presented us with a teacher who told the class that for the next few days each student would give an impromptu speech lasting a minimum of ten minutes. I was excused from this work.
The following day as the students were entering the classroom a heavy set girl, in a full dress scout uniform came and sat down. There were a few snickers behind her but the class settled in. This was the first scout I had seen in high school and thought that she must have had a lot of courage just to wear the uniform.
As the speeches began, most of the kids I heard were not bad, but some stumbled and had not thought out what they were going to say. One guy was really quite good about how an ant crossed a busy street. I can still remember some of it today. But the best one in the class was the Girl Scout.
She got up in front of the class and said that we could figure out that she was a Girl Scout by her uniform. This was the final year of scouting for her and she spoke of her regard for the program, but that really was not her speech.
She went on to explain that her troop wanted to do something really different before getting out of scouting so over the past year they did bake sales, car washes, sold candy, and other things to earn enough money to go to California.
That is, to reach San Diego and meet up with a chartered fifty-foot schooner that her troop was to sail, along with a sailing mas-ter and another scout leader. They reached their goal for the money and everyone packed up and took a flight to California. Upon reaching San Diego they headed for their schooner. Two days later found the eight girls out in the ocean. Their destina-tion was Tahiti. I looked around and there was no snickering, only wide eyes and open mouths. You could have heard a pin drop. This Girl Scout went on to tell the class of sailing across the Pacific, of what they saw and of their daily routine. She spoke of spending over a month on board with her troop, which included exploring Tahiti, visiting with the local people, and what she learned from her travels.
Respect, ahhh my dear, you could have cut it with a knife in that classroom. No one snickered anymore and if someone made a comment and it was overheard in the hallway, well, one of those students in the Public Speaking class quietly corrected them. The speech probably made a greater impression on me. This girl was not wealthy, but rich in determination. She and her fellow scouts proved that dreams can come true in real life, not something conjured by Hollywood writers; and I, along with a number of other students learned about the old adage of judging a book by its cover.
Philip and Boni Thibert SN(s)
Ojibway Princess
Issue XXIX
The Breeze 8 July/August 2014
Toledo Sail and Power Squadron Executive Meeting
May 27, 2014 Toledo Yacht Club
Cdr. Debra Shaulis, S called the meeting to order at 1900 hours. P/D/C Al Hess, AP gave the invocation. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by
P/D/C Al Hess, AP. D/1st Lt Jason Snook, SN stated a quorum was present. Motion to approve minutes from February made by Lt Leonard
Buck, JN, seconded by Lt John Miga, P. Motion carried. Motion to approve March minutes made by Lt/C Ray Gall, JN, seconded by P/C Feli-
cia Evans, AP. Motion carried. Motion to approve April minutes made by P/C Felicia Evans, AP, seconded by Lt Joe Schaller, AP. Motion car-
ried. No guests were present.
Bridge Officers Reports
XO- Lt/C John Mather, P There are about 20 people attending the Point Place Parade and will be riding in the Parkers fire truck or pontoon boat from Brenner’s.
All will be wearing life jackets and will be passing out coloring books and ball point pens imprinted with squadron info. Start time is 11 a.m. on 5/31.
VSC’s are starting to get underway. All 8 examiners are re certified and ready for VSC’s Lt Mike Schabeck, AP is currently number one in the nation for Co-op Charting.
SEO-Lt/C Chris Hoover, AP – absent. Report given by D/C Larry Cole, SN
Seamanship is complete with 17 students passing. Radio program on the 17th went well and many people were there to take picture on the Schoonmaker with their life jackets on. Port Clinton Rendezvous is June 27-29. Kayak Seminar is June 14. Cost is $40 for lunch, lesson, and kayak trip
AO-Lt/C JoAnn Scott, S
Bobbi Miga has 2 sessions to meet with kids to do posters for the poster contest on June 20 and June 29
June general meeting will be at TYC and will be a potluck. Program will be Kaye and Ron Soka discussing the Mills Race.
Program still needed for the September meeting.
Treasurer-Lt/C Ray Gall, JN Checking account balance is $1,564. Total assets are roughly $35,000. Squadron is solvent.
Secretary-D/1st Lt. Jason Snook, SN - No Report Commander-Cdr. Debra Shaulis, S
District Rendezvous is July 4-6 at the Huron Boat Basin
Commanders Rendezvous is August 1-3 at TYC
Committee Reports Audit committee met and everything is up to date. Planning committee met and a motion was made by Lt/C John Mather, P to form an ad-hoc committee led by Joe Schaller, AP to design
and discuss costs for a pop up advertising tent for the squadron. Motion seconded by Lt/C Ray Gall, JN. Motion carried. Another motion made by Leonard Buck, JN: starting Jan 2015, a member’s personal ad in the Breeze is free for the first 3 months each
year, and then is $10 a month thereafter to keep it running for the year. Motion seconded by Lt John Miga, P. Motion carried. Old Business
A motion to table the recommendation of purchasing of the WLESBC trailer was made by Lt/C John Mather, P. Seconded by Lt/C Ray Gall, JN. Motion carried. D/C Larry Cole, SN abstained from voting.
New Business Good of the Squadron Lt/C Ray Gall, JN moved to adjourn, seconded by P/C Felicia Evans, AP. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 2030 hours.
Respectively submitted,
D/1st Lt. Jason Snook, SN
The Breeze 9 July/August 2014
Thanks to These
Friends of “THE BREEZE”
Don Sudek—Breathless
Jo Ann & Charles Scott - Scotfree
Ernie & Joyce Mease
Varland Rice
Senior Friends of “THE BREEZE” - $20 or more
Lorene Bixler In Memory of P/C Jim Bixler - A-D-Ates
Gloria Parker In Memory of Tom Parker
Jim & Jean Balogh - After Hours
Dan & Mary Strohmeier - Concubine
Gregory & Kelly Arndt
Felicia & Nelson Evans - Moor Family Tradition
Tom Haines & Mary Loudenback
Bill & Marian Linenkugel
John & Bobbie Miga
Leonard & Rita Buck
Larry Cole - Trust Me Knot
Mary Jo Price & Bob Hardesty
Joe & Mary Schaller—Ray Sea
P/D/C Read & P/C Dorie Backus
Don & Jan Leutz - Distant Light
Keith & Lucia Rooks– Avanti
P/C Jim & Louise Sommers
Bruce Emerson
Bob and Kadee Poiry - Beech St II
Clyde & Debra Shaulis—Tap Tap II
Barb & John Mather
A special thank you to the Toledo Sail and Power
Squadron Members who brought their life jackets
and participated in the Ready, Set, Wear-It event on
the Schoonmaker. The weather did not cooperate
but we still had a good time touring the vessel and
getting our picture taken.
Participants in the radio program “A Firm Foundation” at
the new National Museum of the Great Lakes. Thanks to
Chris Gilchrest for allowing us to use the conference room
