Bay Beaver Bugle September 2007

 Contact the Bugle at: 613-399-2476, or by email at kilahara@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions: The 28^th of each month except February, when it is the 26^th.

Coming Events!

Friday Dinner – September 28
Colour Cruise – October 6
Lift-out – October 13
Docks and Trailer Boats  Out – October 27

Commodore’s Ball – November 24
Annual General Meeting – November 25

Commodore’s Corner
The Viking Regatta and Pig Roast were both extremely successful this year.  There was some extremely exciting racing and a photo finish inches from the bow of the committee boat.  More on the results later in this edition I believe.  The Pig Roast was a great event – well attended and excellent food.  Russ Cole has a way with flambé pig!  Many people made this a great event – Don Hudson and the race organizers, Mike Roy and Sherry Tait and the shore-based volunteers, and Rob Giberson and the race committee, they did a wonderful job. Special thanks to Doreen Hunt who has faithfully started races for us this past season.
You may have noticed that we have a speed bump installed in the driveway to the yard – many of us (me too) drive through too fast - hazardous to people in the yard and creating a lot of dust. I’ll go slow if you will!
Tyrone Vanson finishes his job as Dock Steward this month – he’s done a great job greeting and helping visiting boats, as well as keeping active in cleaning and painting around the Club.  Thanks Ty!
September is usually a great month to go sailing – still warm but not too hot, water’s warm, mosquitoes mostly gone, so I hope to see you on the water.  By the next issue of the Bugle, however; we will have had our haulout and winter storage applications and be thinking of how to endure the winter and hard water. 
There will be some work done in the yard in September to examine the retaining wall, which is not “retaining” in some places, so the yard will be closed at some point for this work.

Dave Dodd
commodoredave@sympatico.ca

FROM THE DOCKS
In the next few weeks, we will be making repairs to the mast crane with a view to making it stand in a true vertical orientation along with replacing all three legs of the support structure.  Additionally, we will be installing a new winch and cable to the boom and new blocks and line.  This should produce a safer and easier crane to use once the work is complete.
In mid September, work will begin to do an exploratory series of excavations along the seawall to the side and rear of the Clubhouse to ascertain the condition of the seawall and the stability of the ground adjacent to it.  Please excuse our temporary mess.  Barry King excavation will be doing the work and anticipates it will take no longer than a few days.
Within the next couple of weeks, a committee will be formed and meet to review the current state of the club docks and also make recommendations on a replacement program including design recommendations.  The Club has, in the past done some work on this and it needs to continue with a view to both the short and long range replacement schedule along with a budget to meet the future needs of the Club.
 Tonny den Boer, Dock Master

At South Bay Mariners’ Museum!

Have you learned the ropes?
Do you need to learn to tie your shoes or brush up on those important sailing knots?? If so, then Mariners’ Park Museum has the answer!

Join us on Saturday, September 8, 2007

for three seminars on how to tie knots with knot expert

Brian Grimley

of the International Guild of Knot Tyers 

Mr. Grimley served on the HMS Victory 25 years ago

Cost is $4.00 per person, which includes supplies.

Refreshments will be served.

Please call the museum at 613-476-8392 to reserve your place and specify whether you’d prefer the 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m. seminar.

Learn to tie the love knot and take it away with you!!!

Property Report

An engineer’s report has been completed on the PEYC building. This report was commissioned by the Board of Directors in order to identify those areas of concern within the building and also inform the Board of what possible renovations could be completed in order to improve our club house.
Since this report the Property Director has established a committee of members who have volunteered to review this report, prioritize those areas in need of action, identify possible future renovations and report this information back to the Board for consideration. The committee will meet in September and would encourage other members who may have ideas to write them out and submit them to Gary Eames. Included will be those suggestions from our organizational meeting in the spring. More news as available will be reported in future issues of the Bay Beaver Bugle.

Gary Eames, Director

Hedonist Corner
A Bruce anchor has been tested and found satisfactory at Glenn Island.

 Kerr Shoal
This shoal has also been tested. It is composed of rock, has less than a metre of water over it in late August, and is definitely hard.

There are still some weeks of good sailing ahead! See you again in October, and at the next Friday Dinner, too… 

The next Friday night dinner will be September 28 when the same talented team of gourmet chefs will present . . . . . Tortiere!

Same fantastic price ($15). Same fantastic time (7.00PM) - So please make your reservations early with Dennis (he's fantastic too) at the club (476 5585).