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SARASOTA POWER & SAIL SQUADRON NEWSLETTER

For Sail and Power Boating for 66 Years www.sarasota-boating.org VOLUME LXIV ISSUE 6-7 A Unit of the United States Power Squadrons® and District 22 June-July 2018

JUNE

JULY

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United States Power Squadrons©

SPSS LUNCHEONS

Marina Jack Restaurant – Upstairs

Registration from 1100 - 1120 $18.00 per person

No reservation needed!

If you desire a fruit cup instead of the planned dessert, please get your fruit ticket with your luncheon choice when registering.

JUNE 7 MARINA JACK II—PRE-PAID ONLY

June 14 Antaeus Balevre, author – “Surviving the Threat: Terrorist Attacks, Mass Shootings and Dan-gerous Situations.” - how to stay alive! Author six books from humorous science fiction and adventure to non-fiction including Surviving Terrorist Threats and How to Stay Alive in Dangerous Situations.

June 21 Carrie Seidman, chief editorial columnist for

the Herald Tribune –“How Carrie Hopes to have a Positive Influence on the City of Sarasota.” Hear about her amazing 40-year career in journalism, her years as a competitive ballroom dancer and life les-sons.

June 28 Daniel Jittu, U S Open Chairman of the Sar-

asota Lawn Bowling Club – All You Wanted to Know about the Popular Sport of Lawn Bowling, “the trickiest sport ever devised by the mind of man”

July 05 No Lunch July 12 Darcy Young, Sarasota Bay Estuary Program,

Restoring Our Bays July 19 Christina Bowman, Sarasota Military

Acadamy July 26 Robin Cain, Sixteen Hands House Sanctuary,

Saving Lives of Abused Horses

SARASOTA POWER & SAIL SQUADRON NEWSLETTER

For Sail and Power Boating for 66 Years www.sarasota-boating.org VOLUME LXIV ISSUE 6-7 A Unit of the United States Power Squadrons® and District 22 June-July 2018

JUNE/JULY CALENDAR/CLASSES

LUNCHEON SPEAKERS

Meet Luncheon Speaker Retired Navy Admiral Larry Chambers

Admiral Chambers was the Commanding Officer of the Aircraft Carrier USS Midway during the evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Viet Nam War. As one of our recent luncheon speakers, he told of the harrowing events of that day and the swarming of helicopters carrying those flee-ing the war to the deck of his carrier. Toward the end of the day, he spotted a single engine plane carrying a des-perate Vietnamese Officer including his wife and children seeking to land on the ship then covered with unfueled helicopters. His quick decision to clear the deck by push-ing the helicopters overboard, and the immediate re-sponse of his crew who pitched in, saved the family from almost certain death. Admiral Chambers symbolizes our fundamental respect for human life at any cost.

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COMMANDER’S UPDATE

SOUTH WIND

Published by the

SARASOTA POWER & SAIL SQUADRON

2814 Hyde Park Street Sarasota, FL 34239-3227

(941) 953-7565

SOUTH WIND STAFF

Editor: D/Lt Robert Wolfe, S Assist Ed: 1st Lt Ray Morrissey, AP Copy Ed: Lt Carol Holmes, AP Contributor: P/Lt/C Sylvia Wedge, AP

2018 SPSS BRIDGE

Cdr Sharon LaPrad, P [email protected] (941) 378-0292 XO: Lt/C Rick F. LaPrad, AP [email protected] (941) 378-0292 EO P/D/C Barry Rush, SN [email protected] (631) 987-8388 AO: Lt/C Christopher Messenger AP [email protected] 804-350-0373 Sec: D/1/Lt Sandy M. Kuskin, P [email protected] (941) 351-2620 Treas: Lt/C Barbara C. Wolfe, P [email protected] (941) 371-1284

Photographers: Frank Ginty, Sandy Boos, Sandy Kuskin, Rick LaPrad, Sue Lomastro and Andre Spalvins.

Next Deadline: 15 JULY 2018

For AUGUST Issue Send photos and articles to:

D/Lt Robert Wolfe, S at

[email protected]

Our members work tirelessly for SPSS. When it was time to put awards and pictures on the wall, update the bulletin board, clean and organize the kitchen and place the trophies in the new trophy case, the following mem-bers jumped right in: P/C Ed Fisch, SN, F/Lt Ed Segraves, AP, P/D/C Barry Rush, SN, P/D/C Sue Lo-mastro, AP, D/Lt Bud Lomastro, S, Lt/C Rick LaPrad, AP, P/Lt/C Sylvia Wedge, AP, Lt Joe Andrade, P, and Lt Mary Messenger. I thank each and every one for their

dedication and spirit. We could not operate without our many volunteers who willingly give of their time. – Thank You. I have a special Thank You for Lt/C Joe Barnette, SN who donated a major portion of the cost for the fantastic wall chart that shows Tampa Bay to Char-lotte Harbor in the North Classroom . Next, I have a GIANT Thank you for Lt Scott Gonnello, AP for his year long work to update and improve our website which is now live. Please check out the new website – www.sarasota-boating.org. We now have a Members Only section where you can download the directory and search members by name. There is also a classified ads section within the Members Only part of the site. As you look at the new site, on the bottom of each page you will see the new logo – America’s Boating Club – this is where you click to get to National’s website. On the upper right you will see – Member Login. Click on this for our new member only site. If this is your first time – you will need to click on Lost Your Password (look below the Log On Box. Enter your email and you will be sent a password that you can use to log in. Once in, you can change your password to one you like by clicking on My Profile. You can download the 2018 directory to your computer or smart phone. To add the directory to your smart phone – after downloading the directory to your computer. Send it to yourself via email. Open the email on your smart phone. Then do the following if you have an iPhone... -Open the PDF -On the PDF, there is a square with an up-facing arrow, click it -The top row of the pulldown, you will see options with first one being mes-sage, slide your finger on this row until you see “copy to IBooks” -select that option, (this copies it to IBooks) -now, all you need to do is open IBooks and you can open the directory...if you can’t find IBooks, get out of apps and swipe your finger down and type IBooks on search link -once you open the directory, you can search for a members name by tapping on the magnifying glass on the top and typing the name, you will get all the listings of that name, so if the person is on many committees, you will get all those listings. Enjoy checking out your new website. Commander Sharon LaPrad, P

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Chaplain’s Corner

"As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it." Brother David Steindl-Rast

P/D/C Robert D. Barber, SN

EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S UPDATE

Old and Tattered Flags Need to be

Retired with Honor and Respect

When an American flag becomes worn,

faded, torn or soiled, it should be re-

tired and replaced with a new flag.

There are several ways to respectfully dispose of the

American flag. The most common method is burning the

torn or tattered flag in a special ceremony. SPSS recently

replaced all our exterior flags which flew with honor at

our building for the last 2 years. The new colors for SPSS

are now looking pretty sharp! A special thanks to our Lt

Andre Spalvins, AP for carrying out this special ceremo-

ny and to F/Lt Ed Segraves AP for replacing the old

flags….Nice Job Guys!

Vessel Safety Checks

As of this date, the Sarasota Power and Sail Squadron

have completed 164 vessel safety checks, with 49 being

completed since last report. Sarasota is currently in 4th

place within District 22 squadrons. On May 5, 2018, Sar-

asota safety inspectors completed 36 vessel safety checks

at the Terra Ceia Poker Regatta which included kayaks

and a few canoes. This affair was well attended with

close to 200 participants.

Cooperative Charting

A total of three surveys were conducted in April which

generated 15 reports.

2019 Commander’s Cruise to Cuba

Lt/C Rick LaPrad, AP invites you to join him on his 2019

Commander’s Cruise to Cuba aboard the Viking

Star. Date: 2/14/2019 – 2/21/2019. See Attached Bro-

chure

Lt/C Rick LaPrad, AP

More on Lightening "When thunder roars, go indoors." If there is time, return to shore and take shelter in an enclosed building (not open-sided) or your car. They are not impervious to lightning, but the light-ning is less likely to do damage.

But if lightning has already begun, getting closer to shore may bring you close to trees and other objects that could be lightning targets. In that case, stay on the boat and do the following:

Go indoors — go down below. Stay in the center of the cabin if the boat is so designed. If no enclosure (cabin) is available, stay low in the boat. Don't turn yourself into a lightning rod!

Keep arms and legs in the boat. Do not dangle them in the water.

Discontinue fishing, waterskiing, scuba diving, swim-ming, or other water activity when there is lightning or even when weather conditions look threatening. The first lightning strike can be a mile or more in front of an ap-proaching thunderstorm cloud.

Disconnect and do not use or touch major electronic equipment, including the radio, throughout the duration of the storm.

Lower, remove, or tie down the radio antenna and other protruding devices if they are not part of the lightning protection system.

To the degree possible, avoid making contact with any portion of the boat connected to the lightning protection system.

On larger boats with an oven or microwave, putting elec-tronics inside should prevent them from being damaged as the oven or microwave will act as a Faraday cage, al-lowing the charge to pass harmlessly through the metal around the devices.

Excerpts from BoatUS article by Beth A. Leonard and thanks to Lt/C Rick LaPrad, AP



Greetings from the Bottom of the

Bridge

Summer officially starts this month,

and do we have a lineup of great

events for the squadron!

A Cruise to Eat is planned for 3 June

at the Seafood Shack in Cortez. Great location, great

food, hope to see a very good turnout. We also lucked out

by landing the Marina Jack II for lunch on 7 June. This is

a deal you cannot beat. Our regular lunch price of $18.00

is in place. Great

way to see Sarasota

Bay. Great way to

spend an afternoon,

so let’s fill up the

boat! Members and

their guests only. Payment must be sent to Barbara Wolfe

In Advance. No tickets sold at the boat. On 16 June we

hold Father’s Day Picnic at the Turtle Beach Pavilion,

another well attended event. Great barbecue, games, good

company, walk to the beach. See the flyer attached. For

all you boaters we are ending June with a raft up with

Capt. Mike! Date is 23 June. We will raft up close to the

Ringling Bridge. Come enjoy the breeze, and bring a dish

to share. Come and watch the dolphins play.

Coming up in July we have our first ever Breakfast at the

Beach. We will go to Lido Key to enjoy Barbara Price’s

cabana on the sea. Going to be a great day! After break-

fast you can play on the beach or visit the shops at St.

Armand’s Circle.

Lt/C Chris Messenger, AP

By shopping at Amazon you can automatically donate 0.5% of the purchase price of nearly everything you buy to the Squadron. It’s very simple. Rather than go-ing to Amazon.com go to AmazonSmile.com. It’s real-ly the same website, but when you buy through Ama-zonSmile you are automatically making a charitable donation.

Once you’re on the AmazonSmile page you’ll see the word Supporting in the upper left. It is there that you have to enter our name. Since nearly a million charities participate it’s important that you choose us. Therefore, enter united states power squadron sarasota. Adding Sarasota is very important, because many, many, many other Squadrons already participate. We will pop up and all you have to do is hit the Select button and from then on whenever you go to AmazonSmile and pur-chase something, we get a little something too! The important thing to remember going forward is to shop through the AmazonSmile.com website and not just

AMAZONSMILE!!!

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ADMIN OFFICER’S UPDATE

POWER SQUADRON MEMBER BENEFITS

Welcome to Member Benefits! As a United States Power Squadrons member, you can receive huge discounts on boat-ing products, insurance, travel and lodging and many more items. Visit the USPS Member Benefits website at the link below and review the benefits that are of interest to you. Benefits include, among others, goods and services (CVS, Of-fice Depot, Vistaprint), Health (American Hearing, USPS Prescription Savings), Insurance (BoatUS, LTCR Long Term Care), Marine (Coastal Explorer, C-Map, Sea Tow), Travel (Avis, Budget, Wyndham Hotels). Use of our many benefits will more than pay a member's annual dues. Take advantage of this today! Read more: https://www.usps.org/index.php/departments/14000/1450001/benefits-alphabetical

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From the Editor This April and May, SPSS re-invigorated its Membership Commit-tee. With new members, new partici-pants and new ideas, it was thought that, along with our much-improved HQ building, it was past time to take a close look at SPSS membership and its growth. We are all aware of the arrival of new members each month, especially out of the ABC Class population. Yet the total number of members remains the same due to attrition. Why? The Membership Committee, with considerable help from Lt/C Rick LaPrad AP, launched a survey on-line to gain insight into why some members tended to fade away. There were many factors revealed and the Com-mittee will be acting on some of them in the coming season. One fact stood out. More and more members are year-round residents. Well over half. Yet most of the Squad-ron events await return of our snow birds in the fall. With so many members remaining here in the summer, SPSS needs to develop programming to bring us togeth-er throughout the year. What would bring you out to join fellow members at Squadron? How about a movie night with popcorn and pizza? Send me your ideas and I will pass them along. [email protected]. -Ed.

Treasurer Do you want to be on the Bridge? Do you want to be part of the Executive Committee? Do you know Quick-Books? Are you an Accountant? The Squadron is looking for an Assistant Treasurer who will be our Treasurer

next watch year. It’ll take a couple hours a week of your time. It’s a rewarding job, it’s a fun job, if you like that sort of thing, which you obviously do! We keep the books just like any business would: pay the bills, balance the accounts, do monthly reports to the Board and the Membership. If you are interested, please contact one of the members of the search commit-tee: Bill Boos 941-451-8994 ([email protected]), Richard Winston, 941-213-9694 ([email protected]) Demetri Lignos 941-400-5086 ([email protected]), or our Treasurer Barbara Wolfe 941-371-1284 ([email protected]).

Secretary We are seeking the "Go to person", your "Commander’s right arm”, and keeper of all things important. Did you know all Power Squadrons must have three essential officers? They are Commander, Squadron Educa-tional Officer and the LYNCHPIN of every squadron, the Squadron Secretary. It is a worthwhile experience and a vital part of the squadron. Interested? Want to learn more? Please contact P/C William Boos N, [email protected]. South Wind This monthly publication is looking for columnists, writers, reporters and other similar ner-do-wells willing to take on assignments and display their craft periodically. Must be willing to work long hours for low pay and with little recognition. The South Wind is distributed to our over 350 members and to squadrons throughout District 22. All published works are filed neatly in the Squadron library where they will be maintained for gen-erations to come. Contact D/Lt Robert Wolfe, S at [email protected].

Casual Mother’s Day at Pier 22



PICTURES YOU NEED TO SEE

KAYAKING WITH THE ANDREW TOLSTOV KIDS

LUNCHEON SPEAKER D/LT ROBERT WOLFE ESQ REVIEWS THE CONTENTS OF THOSE CRUISE TICKETS WE ALL BUY.

VOYAGER BEWARE!

COOP CHARTING: “UH...NOTHING TO SEE HERE, ALL CLEAR.” Han Solo, Star Wars

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BALANCE COUNTS It should be obvious that a boat running level across its beam will ride better. When leaning to one side — listing — a boat is contacting the water on one of the two basically flat hull panels instead of a sharper V shape. As a result, a list-ing boat will generally ride harder, and wetter too, because spray will tend to get thrown vertically rather than out to each side. Listing also induces a turn to the side in which the boat is leaning. This, then, requires more at-tention to the helm and more physical effort, es-pecially if the boat is equipped with cable steer-ing or is powered by a tiller-model outboard. A wrinkle involves boats with flat bottoms, which have no water-slicing V shape to speak of. Way back in the heyday of the Jersey watermen, it was discovered that a listing Garvey (the pen-nultimate flat-bottomed boat type) presented its chine corner to the water in a way that tended to smooth the ride. There’d still be the steering is-sue to deal with, but like boats themselves, tech-niques of seamanship often prove a compromise of one sort or another. Recreational boaters have to deal with what might be called a “live load” and therefore need to be very careful. A small boat — boats under about 35 feet — with a capacity load of crew aboard presents the opportunity for the skipper to exercise judgment, ex-perience and authority. If everyone aboard rushes to one side to see the whale, the shore-side mansion or the cool boat about to pass, bad things can happen. First of all, the boat’s going to want to steer to one side — and there’s a boat, a whale or the shore nearby that must be avoided. Second, the listing boat is going to present your crew with a slanted surface on which to stand. Third, the gun-wale on the side of the boat to which everyone rushes will get lower to the water. Add in an errant wave or wake of just the right size and at just the right moment, and all three of the boat’s reactions to the movement of live ballast can be affected dramatically, resulting in catastrophe. No one can imagine the infinite combinations of wind, weather and situations. However, good seamanship dictates the need to load our boats with care and see that the load remains secure. That holds true whether the load is a cooler full of ice, bushels of clams, or the people we care about most.

With thanks to Boating Magazine April 2018

P/Lt/C SYLVIA WEDGE AP I openly admit I am the only vegetarian in my family. Unfortunately, I often get tired of de-fending my food choices to other family members and friends. I didn't realize how often the subject is actually discussed until one day when I visited my six year old grandson, Robert. His class was studying the food chain and the land and sea as food sources. That day they were studying how farms contribute and the class had made chickens using potatoes and paper feathers. Robert proudly presented his chicken to me, announcing excitedly, "Granny, we finally have the kind of meat even you can eat!"



Donald Kees – Don is retired military and FBI. He enjoys hunting and fishing.

Larry and Tina Lackey – Larry is a Civil Engineer employed full time. He and Tina signed up on our web site.

Richard Hannibal – Richard lives on Longboat Key and has a 47 foot power boat.

Ed Clarke – Ed is an Associate Member from the Lansing

Sailing and Power Squadron. He joined USPS in 1998.

P/C Ed Fisch, SN, Membership Co-Chair D/Lt. Bud Lomastro S, Membership Co-Chair

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

From the Education Officer Take one class this year, either in navigation or an elective. Learn something new and challenge yourself. Never stop learning, come to a class and meet other mem-bers whom you haven’t met before. Learn something new that you haven’t known before! P/D/C Barry Rush, SN

STAY FOR THE FRIENDS

It’s not just boating anymore!

Most of our members have joined SPSS for boating; whether it was for educational needs, a desire to partici-pate in boating events, or just to be around a great bunch of fellow boaters. When in an organization of 350 mem-bers, you will find many members who have a diversity of interests in many other non-boating activities and who love to do the same things you do. They are always look-ing for others to share in their passion. For example, we have trap shooters, pistol shooters, golf-ers, card players, and domino players….the list goes on. One very active weekly function involves our trap shoot-ers who go to Knight’s Trail in Nokomis weekly to shoot shotguns; some weeks it’s trap, some weeks it’s sporting clays, and some weeks it’s wobbler, but the point is they get together, have fun doing something they all enjoy, and then go out for a relaxing lunch.

This is a great way to get to know your fellow mem-bers and make lifelong friends. If anyone wishes to join us for shotgun shooting, please send a note to P/C Leon Warshaw S [email protected]. If you have a passion for a

specific activity and wish to “Captain” that activity to get oth-ers involved, please Email our Administrative Officer, Chris Messenger [email protected] and we will reach out for oth-ers to join you.

STAY FOR THE FRIENDS

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Shock

There are several different types of shock and numerous causes. One of the most common forms is hypovolemic shock, which is caused by a sudden and significant loss of blood or body fluids. It’s always considered a life-threatening emergency because if blood volume gets too low, organs won’t be able to keep functioning normally. Symp-toms of hypovolemic shock can include rapid heartbeat, weak pulse, extreme weakness or lethargy, dilated pupils, nausea, confusion or disorientation, quick and shallow breathing, and/or cool, clammy skin. If you suspect that someone has gone into shock as a result of an injury, lay them down on the deck on the cen-terline, elevate their feet by 10 to 12 inches to help direct blood to the vital organs, cover them with a blanket, and monitor their breath-ing and heart rate for any radical changes. Call for help on the VHF or a cellphone and head back to home port at the best practical speed. Thanks to Boating Magazine March 2018

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