If you have not yet logged in to the new website, https://augustasailingclub.com , please do so at your earliest convenience. Important communications reside there as well as a nifty new page for volunteer opportunities https://augustasailingclub.com/content.aspx?page_id=2664&club_id=805814 and online sign up for those tasks. Halloween Regatta is 3 days away and we still have open slots and needs. Reach out to Kim Bagnoni, Danny Bagnoni, or Daniel Fodera if you have difficulty signing in.
1. On behalf of the Harbor Master, I am reminding members with power boats that we need every available spot on the East Point dock for race committee volunteer's boats and club boats.
2. The ice machine on East Point is up and running. Please consider conserving and/or filling your cooler on the way up at Pollard's bulk machine ($1.75) due to increased ice needs with BYOB and no refreshments at the club bar.It would be a good opportunity to dump that old, stinky, frozen blob of cubes from your ice maker at home. They make your cocktail taste bad.
3. Thanks to Dan West, et al, the mast gantry has been refitted with new hardware and available for use.
4. The master fixer, Pete Claffey, would not let the compressor at the gantry die a natural death without a fight after he heard I was told it had major problems that I didn't want to invest in repairing to pump up tires. He tore it down to find in the last repair that a check valve was put in backwards. It was pumping about as much air out of the air intake as it was out the hose. Small wonder that it would not run a DA air sander, So, for the cost of a few parts, Pete resurrected it and it is running like a champ. Buy Pete an adult fizzy beverage the next time you see him. He saved us $$.
5. If you have been at the club on West Point, you may have noticed a pontoon boat in various stages of construction/deconstruction. That is a boat Tom Cook found and wheeled and dealed for while getting rid of the old v-hull that sunk. We salvaged the good 90hp motor and had it "de-watered" by Augusta Marine and installed on the pontoon. Our goal is to build it up into our primary safety boat with rescue equipment, lighting, space for RC support, The good news we should be close to break even when done, or minimally invested, after sales of old equipment and insurance claims. That is a darned good tradeoff for that dangerous V-Hull. Good riddance.
Thanks Tom, Jack, Nancy, Jim, Michael, Gaines, Johnnie and others who have advised or gotten their hands dirty helping out with this project.
Mark |