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Commodore’s Corner by Tony Angel These aren’t catfish-a- jumping Editor: C. Sabella: 727 360-6122 BCYC BOAT PARADE TOY DRIVE DECEMBER 2005 NOV. –DEC EVERYBODY’S NORMAL TILL YOU GET TO KNOW THEM That’s the title of a very popular book written by John Ortberg and it’s so right on! The truth is that we are not all just created uniquely different from each other. We are all “slightly irregular”. If you go into many stores, (West Marine, J. C. Pennys, and many others) you will find a corner that is filled with bargains. They are sold “as is” and they are marked “irregular. Usually you have to look carefully to find what it is that makes them differ- ent, and then you consider if that is acceptable to you. In the end though there is usually great value in that part of the store and that’s why you are drawn to the bargain corner again and again. The social family of BCYC is like every family I have ever known. We accept each other “as-is” because that’s just the way it is with people that you get to know well. The closer we get to each other the more we realize that we are all “Slightly Irregular” and guess what ----That’s normal ! We all have a cruel tongue, a temper, a judgmental negative mood we can activate, and a tendency to sit with those who’s flaws are known and accepted rather than complicate things and sit with someone we don’t know so well. That’s not because we have cliques, it is because we all have another flaw,- - cont’d on pg 2 November 2005 Volume 11 Special points of interest: Racing Report Page 8 Toy Drive Page 10 Nominations Page 10 Boat Parade Page 11 Cruising Budgets Page 11 Events Calendar Page 12 WINDWORD Vice Commodore’s Report by Arlin Briley BCYC Directory Going to Press The year is almost over and it is time to plan for the 2006 edition of the BCYC Directory & Membership Book. It will be going to press soon after the November General Membership Meeting when we elect officers and directors for next year. I have been updating our master records in the office throughout the year to add new members and as members change phone numbers, etc. At the Novem- ber meeting a preliminary membership directory will be available to check your information and make corrections. But there is no need to wait if you know of a change! Email updates directly to me @ [email protected] .

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Commodore’s Corner by Tony Angel

These aren’t catfish-a- jumping Editor: C. Sabella: 727 360-6122

BCYC BOAT PARADE TOY DRIVE DECEMBER 2005 NOV. –DEC

EVERYBODY’S NORMAL TILL YOU GET TO KNOW THEM That’s the title of a very popular book written by John Ortberg and it’s so right on! The truth is that we are not all just created uniquely different from each other. We are all “slightly irregular”. If you go into many stores, (West Marine, J. C. Pennys, and many others) you will find a corner that is filled with bargains. They are sold “as is” and they are marked “irregular. Usually you have to look carefully to find what it is that makes them differ-ent, and then you consider if that is acceptable to you. In the end though there is usually great value in that part of the store and that’s why you are drawn to the bargain corner again and again.

The social family of BCYC is like every family I have ever known. We accept each other “as-is” because that’s just the way it is with people that you get to know well. The closer we get to each other the more we realize that we are all “Slightly Irregular” and guess what ----That’s normal ! We all have a cruel tongue, a temper, a judgmental negative mood we can activate, and a tendency to sit with those who’s flaws are known and accepted rather than complicate things and sit with someone we don’t know so well. That’s not because we have cliques, it is because we all have another flaw,-- cont’d on pg 2

November 2005 Volume 11

Special points of interest:

• Racing Report Page 8

• Toy Drive Page 10

• Nominations Page 10

• Boat Parade Page 11

• Cruising Budgets Page 11

• Events Calendar Page 12

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Vice Commodore’s Report by Arlin Briley BCYC Directory Going to Press

The year is almost over and it is time to plan for the 2006 edition of the BCYC Directory & Membership Book. It will be going to press soon after the November General Membership Meeting when we elect officers and directors for next year. I have been updating our master records in the office throughout the year to add new members and

as members change phone numbers, etc. At the Novem-ber meeting a preliminary membership directory will be available to check your information and make corrections. But there is no need to wait if you know of a change! Email updates directly to me @ [email protected].

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we are lazy, and it takes extra effort to put on a “normal act” when we first meet a new person. So I guess we all have a deceptive streak also, ---- because most of us will try to act very “normal” to gain accep-

tance by someone we don’t know very well.

With all these faults it is amazing that we ever have any one who wants to join this sailing club. Fortunately there are a lot of unpretentious sailors in the bay area who can see right through the “normal act” and recognize the value of a group of honest individuals who want to unpretentiously share sport of sailing. Isn’t it great to have a place where you can go to enjoy the companionship of sailors that know you as you are and accept you “As- Is” This spirit was never better expressed than at the spontaneous OCTOBERFEST following our last meet-ing. On very short notice we secured the boats, tied down the club boats and our neighbors boats, and responded to the cancellation of the Apollo Beach party by holding one of our own. Dan Carpenter brought the music, Janett & Todd brought the Brats and the dishes that the club made were better than any catering operation could have supplied. We got a

little wild and so did the jokes but no one hurt anyo-nes feelings. We are moving into the best sailing month of the year. October and November have strong depend-able winds, and cool temperatures. For new mem-bers there is no better time to learn how to be “normal” in a very “as-is” group than to go cruising with BCYC. Our club cruise in November will be to Lisa & Jacks house in Big Bayou on November 10th & 11th. After that November has a great four day holiday that pro-vides us a wonderful opportunity to enjoy our boats and each other. We will have a group that will take a long cruise to Boca Grand and Charlotte Harbor. They will have Thanksgiving dinner together and then sail back stopping at Sarasota, Moore’s, The Seafood Shack, Desoto Point, and rafting with club members along the way who couldn’t get the week before Thanksgiving off. Some of us will go to Apollo Beach for their postponed Fall Fest if they hold it on Satur-day November 19th, and others will raft up on Thanksgiving at Desoto Point. The BCYC burgee will be a common sight on the west coast and Gerri and I are looking forward to the joy and companionship of it. Strong Easterly Winds and Calm seas, Tony Angel Commodore

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JANUARY 2006 INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS BANQUET Time flies rapidly and it is now approaching the holiday season. One of the highlights every year for BCYC is the Annual Installation Banquet for the Incoming Flag Officers. We have secured an interesting venue this year for the fete. The Holiday Inn, St Petersburg Beach. They have a lovely new banquet facility on their property. Beach level, marble and mirrors. A nice menu has been planned, and we will have a band for dancing. They have offered rooms 25% off normal rates. It is the one big time a year that we see each other gus-sied up, and is always an event to remember. Invitations will be forthcoming soon, so RSVP, (unfortunately a MUST), and join us for a lovely evening. Cocktails at 6:00 pm, and dinner at 7.

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REAR Commodore’s Report by Craig Smith

As the year winds down let’s take a moment and reflect on the substantial ac-complishments we have made this year. The year started with the new ice machine and the new patio furniture. We built an inflatable dingy-sized dingy rack. New dock carts were purchased and assembled. We made progress on the Tif-ton Street beautification pro-ject; the rest will be carried on by next years Rear Commo-dore. We planted grass seed, and many, many plants. The boat ramp was repaired. The public address system was re-vamped. Then there was the Herculean clubhouse interior paint project, with all the atten-dant chores that had to be done, (not the least being the restoration of the Burgee Wall of Fame). Railroad ties were placed around the perimeter of the clubhouse/parking lot inter-face. New heavy-duty saw-horses were built. And this was in addition to the gargan-tuan job of cleaning, repairing,

gardening, dock repairing, and general maintenance of the building, grounds, and boats. Leases, bylaws, storms, big storms, sail school, potluck, youth sailing, Sir George, ad-ministration, and many other tasks ate up volunteer man-hours. A conservative guess-timate would be about 4000ish of them. Some would think that was a very complete year, buuuut….. in addition to all that, WE SAILED, a lot. Every-where. That is what we do. Three cheers to everyone that contributed and I hope that next year exceeds this one. On the 15th we had a workday to replace the one that was lost to the TSS Au-tumnfest cruise. While not large in scope much was still done. As was the norm all year, Chef Linda Ray, and her able assistant Keith, prepared a lovely breakfast spread for our nourishment. Whereas no special large projects were planned for

this day, a lot of general main-tenance was taken care of…..toilets were fixed, yards were raked, docks repaired, and much general cleanup was done. In attendance were Todd and Janet Terrell, bobby and Kathryn Reynolds, Lars and Rhonda Allebrink, Bill Morse, Bill Beyers, Paul Lachance, Ma-rina Yeazell, Don McCollister, Stewart Dary, Tom and Camille Carlin, Dotty and Dave Tar-box, Dave Gibson, Doug Fuller, Rick Price, Don Davis, Hal Frank,Steve Adams, Ron How-ell, Joye Swisher, Chris Vocar, Ursula Raia, and Bob Calvillo. Thank you. November workday is being usurped by the resched-uled TSS Autumnfest, so I thank everyone for their efforts this year.

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MAKE PLANS TO BE AT THE

DECEMBER BCYC BOAT PARADE!!!

PRIZES PRIZES PRIZES

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Rescue At Sea I found this information in a book by John Ortberg, I found it interesting, I hope you do too.

There is a museum on Nantucket Is-land devoted to a volunteer organiza-tion, that was formed centuries ago. Back then people traveled by sea, and this form of travel was very dangerous. The severe storms in the Atlantic Ocean along the rocky coast line of Massachusetts, took many lives within a mile or two of the land.

So a group of volunteers went into the life saving business. Then came together and formed a group that they named the Humane Society. They built huts all along the shore, and had people watching the sea at all times.

Whenever a ship had trouble and went down, they spread the word and would go out into

the sea.

They devoted everything to saving every life they could. They did not do this for money or recog-nition, but did it because they prized human life. To keep them focused on what was at stake, they adopted a motto:

“ You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back.”

This does not sound like a motto that would be good for recruiting others, but it was. They risked their lives to save people they had never met.

Over time, things changed. The U.S. Coast Guard began to take over the task of rescue at sea. For a while they worked side by side, then it was thought “Let the profes-sionals do it, they are better trained and they get paid for doing the job.

The volunteers stopped manning the little huts. The stopped searching and sending teams out to rescue drown-ing people. However they could not bring themselves to disband. This life-saving society still exists today. They are just not in that type of life saving business any more.

Gerri Angel Historian

Dottie Grissom 2nd Kelly Marguerat 2nd Daniel Nelson 18th David Swisher 14th

Carolyn Whaley 15th Pim Miranda 15th

Jacqueline Marguerat 16th Jim O’Donnell 16th

Jean French 19th Joye Swisher 21st

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November BIRTHDAY CORNER

To keep them focused on what was at stake, they adopted a motto: “ You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back.”

FLEET CAPTAIN REPORT

Wet and Dry Slip 2006 annual lease, rental agree-ments, are being processed and are due by Novem-ber 19, our November Workday. If you plan to mail your lease please use this check off list:

1 On the two page Lease, be sure to: o Sign the back of the white page, and, o Back of the yellow page.

2 Provide a copy of your insurance sum-mary page.

3 Provide a copy of your boat’s registra-tion.

4 Sign the Lease understanding / confirma-tion document.

5 Mail these documents to BCYC attention Fleet Captain.

We will be accepting leases during the November Workday. For those who have already submitted their Lease, thank, thank you.

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September Report You all know that story that goes—but for the shoe the horse was lost, but for the horse the battle was lost, but for the battle the war was lost. Well, this one goes this way. But for the cotter pin the mast was lost, but for the mast the race was lost. So it was with Larry Sanders when he did the nasty at one of the recent races. Chuck Owens approached the dock by the hoist intending to tie up for a few minutes. The Porch Committee ran over to help Little Bear tie up only to find Chuck was sans of any kind of line aboard. And, in the ensuing ex-citement of scouring the boat for some kind of dock line, his keys went overboard. But wait—there’s more. I don’t have all the facts but you all know that has never stopped me before, so suf-fice it relate to you that Chuck anchored out and what ever he was using for rode snapped and away went the anchor. Good show, Chuck! The chance of someone else los-ing an anchor in the same month is next to the impossible. But if one guy can come up with the impossible, it’s our guy Ricky “Bubba” Price. Yes, the cause of the parting rode was different but the result was the same. You won’t believe this but the story is this. Rick anchored out and had a generator running on the fore-deck, and somehow the generator burned through the rode and away she went. Wait—there’s more. When Bubba was leaving

the dock for this excursion to Egmont, he failed to remove the spring lines, threw El Caraime into reverse and really gunned the en-gine. Surprise!! What’s for the second act, Bubba? So Keith Ray removed his hatch to do some work on it, he cov-ered the opening with some sun-brella material and warned Linda of the missing cover. Not long thereafter, Linda, of course, stepped on the sunbrella and did a beautiful back flip down the hatch. A.J. Pope has been absent from the club for several years and I’m happy to say “welcome back kid”. Before I present my old buddy A.J. with his first, of many to come, “Good Ship Lollipop” flags, I must tell you my favorite A.J. story. A.J. was singlehanding his 37’ Irwin ketch with all sails flying across Tampa Bay when he saw three damsels in distress. They had run out of gas and had no radio, so A.J. did the ordinary thing, as only he would do—he set the autopi-lot, climbed into his dinghy with a can of gas and set out for said damsels. After he got the girls under way, he motored back to Starship and continued on his way. Well today’s rescue tale is not as romantic but it is typical A.J. He was sitting with the Porch Com-mittee one day when they noticed an empty round life raft drifting down the canal. While everyone was remarking how odd it was, A.J. ran to his truck, backed the dinghy into the water and zoomed out of the basin. When he reached the bay he spotted a guy in the water and went to the res-

cue. Welcome back, A.J.! There is a 27’ Catalina here in the club named Trust Me and is sailed by skipper Nina Berkheiser and crewed by Bobbie Mensching and Suzanne Furlani and Jean French. We affectionately call this group “The Dipsy Chicks”, for it is a given that when they join us on a cruise, they will be awarded any number of flags at the following meeting. Well, unbelievably, Trust Me has gone flagless on the last three cruises, and it is therefore a pleasure to recognize this feat with the “WOW!” award. As Hooligan was leaving the basin the other day, the last thing heard after Carole screamed “we’re too close”, was Larry answering “we’re just fine”, right before they slammed a piling. OCTOBER REPORT So you’ve all seen Bill Casey hob-bling around here with that cast on his foot. We understand he was told not to go near that boat while the case was on but you know Casey. He climbed aboard Moondancer, attempted to go be-low and you guessed it, the cast got stuck in the ladder and Bill could not go up or down. Some Good Samaritan heard his cries for help and came to the rescue. So—the “Ouie” award to Casey and the “Good Ship Lollipop” award to his rescuer. CONT’D ON PG 9

Flag Officer’s Report by Sir George Freund

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It was the third on the water sailing lesson on a bright, fall Sunday afternoon with not too much wind. BCYC #2 negotiated the channel and was well across the bay when Lisa stated more than asked that she thought you were supposed to head up wind to raise the sails. “Normally you do, but if the wind is light ….” The Capt began, then realizing Lisa was referring to Sea Lark drifting mostly down wind and watching Jackie struggle with the partially raised main he added. “Or the engine is not running well and you want to go sailing bad enough, you might be able to raise the main on a beam reach with the main luffing like Patty is doing now.” Patty brought Sea Lark around and Jackie began to raise the jib. Kevin shouted. “The jib bags’ over board!” “Watch…” Jackie grabbed a boat hook and rescued the errant bag in less time than it takes to tell of it. “That bag did not fall over board.” claimed the Capt. The crew of BCYC Sailboat #2 noted all at once. “Yes it did, we all saw it.” “The Seven Second Rule Of Sailing applies to this situation you see.” The Capt instructed. “I thought it was five seconds, and then it didn't count.” “Well in sailing you get two more seconds because time slows down when you're on the wa-ter.” With the mood of the day discovered, the crew set a course to sail around in rectangles and intimi-date the Safety Boat. As is always the case the day ended too soon and as is always the case #2 was the last boat to head in. “ B C Y C S a f e t y Boat…..“BCYC Safety Boat…..” The radio crackled “Come in please .. This is Sea Lark, Over.”

After the second repetition of the message with no response, the Capt. told Lisa to hold her course and grabbed the radio. “ Aaaah Sea Lark this is BCYC #2. Can we help??…Over.” “Our motor won't start and we need a tow” Capt. Patty of The Sea Lark began “I can sail to the chan-nel, but can the Safety Boat bring us in? Over.”

“Sea Lark, I don't see them… Where are you? Over” “We're on the West end of the bay sailing South—Over” “Both sails up? Over”

“Yes, that’s us!” “OK, We're at the outer channel markers now and we'll go find the Safety Boat” “OK, Sea Lark clear and monitoring channel 5.” “We've got to tack” Lisa ordered as an anchored, rusty town home loomed too close “Right Now!” “I'll get the jib” Kevin volun-teered “if the Capt can sit down a minute!” “Sea Lark, this is the Safety Boat.. Where are you? Over” “We're on the West end of the bay… Over” “Aaaah ….. I still can't see

you—Over” “There they are” Kevin said pointing to the boat just a little south of us identifiable by its cargo of large orange markers. “Safety Boat this is BCYC # 2 just to your north” The Capt inter-vened. “Sea Lark is the only boat on the West end headed South with both sails up.” “Ohhh…. OK,… I see ‘em!” The BCYC Safety Boat radioed, “If you guys don't need me I'll go tow them in.” “That’s OK Bill, we're fine.” The Capt. confirmed “BCYC #2 clear and monitoring channel 5.” “Take us home Lisa.” “You guys really do that for each other?” “Well the long answer is that if I'd asked the Safety Boat to guide us in he would have stayed and let Sea Lark sail to the channel. On the other hand if Patty was in a really serious situation, say someone was hurt or the boat was sinking, the Safety Boat would have left immedi-ately and given the crew we have today we likely would have followed or stood by to help.” “The short answer is yes, we do.” “Wow” The lights went on “So if I got into trouble out here someone would help me.”

“Yes, we would.” So it was that another young sailor was born. And another, a salt of older vintage, was reminded of why he vol-unteers for Sailing School. {Patty, of course, was tried and appropriately sentenced by The Court of Sir George.}

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The Adventures of the HideAways The Captain Goes to Sailing School

By Matt Maloy

So it was that another young sailor was born. And another, a salt of older vintage, was reminded of why he vo luntee r s fo r Sailing School.

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What a difference one month makes, as October’s race more than made up for the lack of wind in the September race. Weather conditions were clear and sunny with winds initially in the 10 to 12 Knot range building to 16 plus Knots. This month drama came from a new boat named Surprise, the S2 Dave Brangaccio and Joe Sabella rescued off our lawn. As the S2 is an 18 foot centerboard boat, Dave made the decision to retire before the start when the winds started to creep up to 15 Knots. Unfortunately, I set the start on the south side of the bay and they had a long beat up wind to reach the club. They only went about 500 yards before their first knockdown, after which they were both still dry, hiding out on the centerboard. However, when the boat righted, it immediately went over on the opposite side and unceremoniously dumped both of them in the bay, only to

be rescued by our Un-Safety boat. Therefore Surprise earned a DNS (did not start) for her efforts. Then there was Key lime, which came by looking for a starting line at approximately 11:30 Am, as the race started at 10:35 Am they also earned a DNS for their efforts. Then we have Larry Sanders who apparently just stayed home and this earned him a DNGON (Did Not Get Out of Bed). As to the race, our committee boat had to leave with one minute to the start, to lend aid to Sur-prise (see above). As we still had a valid start line we started any-way and no one was called for being over early. At the start Bill Morse’s put Pell-Mel in overdrive and was gone. Apparently Trimarans really like heavy air sailing and this left an

over powered SeaduceMe to take second place. In Cruising Class the previous nights Halloween party must have been quite an event, as Redemp-tion Song was not at the top of her game and finished in third place. Then there was Why Not who despite ripping her head sail managed to take second place. First Place went to Tony Angel’s Seraphim who despite being la-beled as a “Tender” boat managed to keep her bottom in the water and thus dominate her class. Based on the how beat up every-one was in the first race, to the relief of all the second race was called off. As to up coming events the next race will be a race cruise on No-vember 18, as a part of the TSS event. Peter J. Kvasnicka

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Racing Report The October Racers

BCYC’s New

“ODD COUPLE” goes

OVERBOARD (in more ways than one)

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Before I award the “Grounding Flag” to Larry Lynch for running Hooligan aground right in our bay (near the Maximo marker I’m told--geeze Larry!!) , I must present the “Owie” flag to Carole for having some old joints replaced recently. Eons ago when Parry Smith was seen pulling and tugging on the starting rope on her outboard, our guy Don Peterson walked over, pushed the starter button and started the engine. Now we have Patty grinding and grinding on her trusty engine, when Keith walked over and connected the

fuel line and wadda ya think—the engine started. Then Patty went sailing and as usual was towed in. This time the good deed was done by, would you believe this---Bill Casey, the guy how is usually the towee. Patty, always nice to see you get out on the water!! As you all know, the sole purpose of you flag officer’s existence is to relish in the agony of others and so it is, we relish the mere thought of Ginny Quinn going sail-ing. Not long ago Ginny ventured out in Haven her Catalina 27 tak-ing along Keith Ray as crew. So---Keith reports—they almost made

it out of the basin before they ran aground, “How, you might ask, can you run aground in the ba-sin?”—by not raising the center-board—that’s how!! Then, as they were returning to the basin, Keith warned Ginny to slow down be-cause they were headed for the mangroves. Ginny instead, turned the engine off and did in fact wind up in the mangroves. Ginny—we just love it when you go sailing. George

Flag Officer’s Report: Cont’d pg 5:

OCTOBER 30, 2005 RACE 1 Racing Class Pell-Mell Bill Morse 0:48:27 1:04:05 1 SeaduceMe Doug Fuller 1:14:05 1:21:35 2 Surprise Dave Brancaccio DNS 3 Key lime Kurt Gregory DNS 3 Warm Enough Larry Sanders DNGOB 4 Cruising Class Seraphim Tony Angel 1:02:38 1:14:28 1 Why Not Paul Zorovich 1:14:42 1:18:32 2 Redemption Song Dave Swisher 1:04:50 1:19:38 3

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O nce again Brian Franson will be spearheading the BCYC Toy Drive on behalf of the poor and underprivileged children of Gulfport. The drive will begin at the annual Thanksgiving din-ner and will conclude the night of the boat parade. Please bring new & unwrapped pre-sents for the kids.

The Hot Toy list for 2005 includes: Aquadoodle - Ages 2 & Up - Spinmas-ter Barbie(R) and the Magic of Pegasus - Ages 3 & Up - Mattel Batman - Ages 4 & Up - Mattel Bratz(TM) Rock Angelz(TM) - Ages 6 & Up - MGA Entertainment

Chatnow - Ages 8 & Up - Hasbro

Disney Cinderella - Ages 3 & Up - Various Fantastic 4(R) - Ages 4 & Up - Toy Biz Furby - Ages 6 & Up - Hasbro iZ - Ages 8 & Up - Zizzle Plug It In & Play TV Games - Ages 5 & Up - Jakks Star Wars Darth Vader Voice Changer Mask - Ages 5 & Up - Hasbro Star Wars Lightsaber Battle Plug N' Play Game - Ages 8 & Up - Milton Bradley Star Wars Revenge of the Sith Lightsaber - Ages 4 & Up - Hasbro Tamagotchi Connection - Ages 6 & Up - Bandai Tumble ime(TM) Tigger - Ages 1 & Up - Fisher-Price V.Smile(TM) - Ages 3 & Up - VTech World Wrestling Entertainment(TM) Figures - Ages 8 & Up - Jakks We also suggest sports equipment but ANY-THING you bring will be greatly appreciated. Your generosity in past years has always been overwhelming and has benefited many of Gulfport’s needy children. We look forward to another great year!!

NOMINATIONS FOR OFFICERS AND BOARD 2006

Commodore: Joel Heyne Vice Commodore: Craig Smith Rear Commodore: Dave Tarbox & Linda Ray Treasurer: Jim Meyer Secretary: LaDawn Bell Fleet Captain: Ron Howell Board of Directors: One year - to fill Ron Howell’s position: Dianna Silsby Two-Year Positions: Ed Heyman Peter Kvasnicke Larry Lynch Bob Phillips

At the November general meeting, there will be a vote for the Rear Commodore position only. We will ask the general membership to elect the remainder of the proposed slate of officers and board mem-bers by acclimation. There is only one vote per membership and it will be by se-cret ballot. Elected last year and remaining on the board for one more year are: Pete Colon Tim Pierce Linda Ray Any questions? Call Tom Hicks

BCYC TOY DRIVE FOR GULFPORT

Voting will be

held at the

November

General

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Although the Windword presses were held for news of the BCYC BoatParade, the editor has finally thrown in the towel and has resorted to just giving you the facts as SHE believe them to be, no guarantees though. First, the BCYC Boat Parade is definitely being held sometime in De-cember. Word has it the parade is on December 3, 2005. Don’t know the time but I suspect that that it is around O’dark:thirty just as it always has been in the past. I do know that it is being organized by George Freund, Brian Franson and Debbie Vance. I also know that it will be loads of fun, just like it always has been, so plan on being there . . . whenever it is, and

BRING A TOY FOR THE TOY DRIVE !!!!!!!

The Cost of Cruising Fulltime

Excerpts from Realistic Cruising Budgets by Sue & Larry @Sailnet

“So, what will it cost you to go cruising? If you have the desire to cast off, there are many dif-ferent ways to play the cruising game. We have met a cruising family of four who report that $500 per month is plenty when cruising remote islands. We know other sailors who treat themselves regularly to marinas and shore-side din-ners and who are spending $2,500 to $3,000 per month. And then we have friends who are tired of all the "How -cheaply-you-can-sail" books and would like to write the guide on cruising in style. It seems, however, that the figure of $1,000 per month comes up more than any other when talking to fellow cruis-ers. Believe us when we avow that we have never met a happier, more content group of people.”

BCYC BOAT PARADE

Budget Busters ..

Eating and drinking ashore Staying at marinas Cellular phones Equipment failures Having work done on your boat by professionals

Budget Buddies Entertaining fellow cruisers on board Fishing, crabbing and collecting other seafoods Using book swaps and public libraries

Cutting each other's hair Set your boat up ahead of time to be able to sustain your battery power. Sewing machine. Carry one aboard to make your own repairs and to fabricate awnings, weather clothes, and a multitude of other things.

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November 2005