2. Vice Commodore's Report
With Christmas and New Year's approaching, I know it is hard to think of anything but the time spent with family, friends, great food and perhaps a little traveling. Along with Susie and our son Tyler, who will be visiting from Colorado, I plan do some skiing and I hope you have exciting plans too. After Christmas, however, I hope you can help with a very important project at our club; inspecting the dock structures. In particular, the inspection will focus on the pilings, pile caps, stringers and other structural members, similar what was done a few years ago. Art Mauldin and Richard Frisch are heading up the project and plan to start on December 29 and continue until early February. If you can help with this effort, please find the announcement in this Bilge Pump which lists contact information. Art and Richard are looking for eight members to act as inspectors and to ensure consistency in the process, they would need to be at most of the scheduled inspection dates. Even if you can only make a few dates, your help would be appreciated, as there are lots of other tasks to perform. By having the members do this inspection, we will be saving the club thousands of dollars and in my opinion, we will do a more thorough job than if we hired an inspection service. It also conforms to the club’s tradition of member involvement in maintaining our facilities.
The downspout project has been completed, and a huge thank you needs to be extended to Tom Youngs for seeing it through from start to finish. Also, Docks Co-Chairs, Randy Garvie and Dave Svendsen played a big role, and as is typical with these types of projects, it couldn’t have been done without lots of member participation.
In November, the Board of Trustees passed a few moorage rule changes; members may moor at the "U" for seven days (formerly 10) in any 30 day period. The rule allowing an additional seven days when attending a club event at the main-station did not change. "Blue tarps" or other types of poly tarps are no longer allowed except for maintenance, up to fourteen days. Tailored, fitted canvas covers will be allowed. With regards to the moorage rules at our outstations, between September 15 and May 15th, moorage on the outside of the "U" at Winslow will be limited to 15 days in any 30 day period. The rules for Ganges are now similar to the rules for Deer Harbor along with a new definition for length of stay, which is now defined by "nights" rather than "days". These changes will be published in the new annual and everyone is encouraged to review them for exact wordage.
A few final tidbits; a new bike rack has been ordered for the Winslow Outstation and will be installed this winter. Also, please remember to contribute to the "coffee fund" at the Main-station. I’m not sure if all members know that the cost of providing coffee is self sustaining, and it is important that contributions continue. I apologize for such a lengthy report, but there was a lot to report this month. Happy Holidays.
Dale Roberts
Vice Commodore
