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Cat TalesJanuary 2000 |
Pete Denholm, Commodore
We are not alone in our appreciation of
Catalinas. In the fall of 1999, SAIL magazine invited readers to inspect,
test-sail, and send their picks for the 10 best new boats from 36 nominees for
SAIL's Top 10 Award for 2000. The reader ballots and SAIL's nine test-sailing
judges picked the Catalina 310 as one of its Top 10 Boats for 2000. The
write-up about the Catalina 310 is on page 71 of Sail's February
issue.
The number of people who stopped by the Catalina display at the
Sail Expo boat show in Atlantic City confirms Catalina's popularity. Karen and
I volunteered at the Catalina Owners' Association booth for the Sail Expo. The
booth was located right in the middle of the Catalina display boats and we were
often mistaken for Catalina sales people. When we weren't standing behind the
booth or in a casino gambling, we were looking at all the other new boats and
checking out the equipment vendors. It made me think about the upcoming sailing
season and our club's scheduled events.
CCYC's annual planning meeting
was held at Wayne and Joan Savage's house on January 9th. We had a large
turnout with over 15 members present. I want to thank everyone who participated
for the great food and ideas for this year's events. We have a full schedule
with a variety of activities for monthly meetings and a variety of sailing
destinations for our cruises. Check out this year's sailing schedule included
in the newsletter. Now's the time to mark your calendars! You know the old
saying, the more the merrier, so I hope to see many of you at our events this
year.
Speaking of events, our February meeting will be a joint meeting
with the International Catalina 36 Fleet 3 club on February 12th. It will be a
luncheon and diesel engine class. Come find out how to maintain your diesel
engine and meet some Catalina 36 club members. See Ray's article for more
details.
See you at the diesel class.
Ray Nieves, Vice Commodore
The February Members'
Meeting is going to be on Saturday, February 12th from 10:45 am to 2:30 pm at
the Rams Head Tavern, 33 West Street, Annapolis, MD. This is going to be a
combined meeting with Fleet III of the Catalina 36 Association and will include
a buffet luncheon and a diesel engine seminar conducted by Harvey Smith of
Annapolis Marine Diesel. Advance reservations are required to assure an
accurate head count for planning the buffet luncheon, so contact me by phone
(301-855-3398) or by email (ClassieChassie@erols.com) no later than Thursday,
February 3rd.
The agenda is:
10:45 - Registration/pay for
luncheon
11:00 - Seminar Session I
12:00 - Buffet Luncheon
12:45 -
Seminar Session II
2:30 - Conclusion
The seminar will be on diesel
engines and will discuss:
Preventive maintenance
Fuel system and fuel
filtering
Cooling system
Lubrication system
Exhaust
system
Electrical system
The Buffet Luncheon will include your choice
of 3 entrees (Chicken Piccata, Pasta Primavera, Sausage Supreme), Classico
Caesar Salad, beverage (coffee, iced tea, sodas). The cost is $16.00 per
person, which includes tax, gratuity and speaker fee. Please bring your
checkbook to pay at registration.
Several spouses are planning to stay
for the luncheon and then head off for a few hours of shopping during the
second session. Feel free to join in.
Tall Ships 2000, affiliated with the nonprofit
American Sail Training Association and its international counterpart, will kick
off with a race between Southhampton, England, and Genoa, Italy, in mid-April,
2000. On May 7th, the group of more than 100 tall ships will begin a special
transatlantic race, scheduled to end June 9-12 in Bermuda. From there, the
ships will cruise along the East Coast, stopping at various ports, including
Norfolk, Philadelphia, New York and finally rallying in Boston for the race to
Halifax and then to Amsterdam. For a complete calendar, contact the American
Sail Training Association, 401-846-1775 or check the web site
http://tallships.sailtraining.org.
Ships
from more than 60 countries will participate in "OpSail 2000: The Nation's
Celebration", a two-month tour of East Coast ports. The event will begin in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, May 25-29, and then visit Miami, Norfolk, Baltimore
Philadelphia, New York, New London, Conn, and Portland, Maine. The July 3-9 New
York event is expected to draw the largest parade of tall ships in history. You
can get information at http://www.opsail2000.org or call
202-955-5850.