Chesapeake Sailing Club

March 2011

SCUTTLEBUTT

Newsletter of the Chesapeake Sailing Club

Calendar at a Glance
    Mar 12 - Winter party - Joe and Margie host
    Apr 9 - Dinner - The Italian Market
See the detailed Cruise Schedule

Commodore's Column
Dave Ewing, Cherette

Hello from Florida! We hope you all up in the north are surviving this winter and are planning your summer fun to include all our wonderful events that Dave and Joe have planned. Since Janet has retired we are planning on participating in many cruises and races. To get in the mood, I am continuing to race with Pim, Tim, and Jim and am trying to remember all their tactics so that we will have a small chance against Frank! Janet goes out on the girls boat every Tuesday and next thing you know we will have to get a spinnaker for our Catalina!

Joe and Margie Powers visited us here in Florida and we took them out on our little power boat that used to belong to the Luciano's. We were all happy to get out on the water even if it wasn't a sailboat! I hope everyone remembers to pay their dues because this looks like one of the best years for our club ever! See you on the water.

Vice Commodore's Report
Joe Powers, Aquavit

Check your calendars for upcoming events. The March dinner will be at the Powers' house (405 Berkshire Drive, Riva) on March 12th at 5PM. We will supply corned beef and cabbage and the liquid refreshments (soda, beer, wine). We are requesting appetizers, salad, bread and dessert. Please let us know by email if you plan to come and what you want to bring.

The April dinner will be at the Italian Market on Defense Highway on the 9th at 6PM. We hope to see a lot of you there.

Fleet Captain's Report
Dave Nance, Ariel

You don't need a maxi-yacht or a crew of twenty to cruise or race with the CSC (but it would be nice to have at least one in the club to have parties on).

Enjoy realistic sailing and fun racing with CSC starting in only nine weeks! ☺

Cruise Report-

A Fine February Feast
Glenn Whaley, Bay GyPSy

We were few, but we were happy! On Superbowl Saturday, the CSC social contract was renewed once again with a party at Glenn and Sue Whaleys' domestic mooring. Oh yeah, and Skittles', too. A grand total of seven of us made the rendezvous: Besides the Whaleys and Susan's dad, Bob Adams, attendees included Frank and Liz Cingel, and Jim and Dona Force. [see us on the photos page]

We shared an Italian din-din, with some really great pizza rolls, a very serious deep dish lasagna created by the hostess, an Italian salad to die for (thank you, Liz!), garlic bread, and cheesecake for dessert. Those great bookends to the meal hyphen - the appetizer pizza rolls and dessert hyphen - were contributed by Dona. So it really was a feast. Sorry more folks weren't able to be there to enjoy it!

No matter, though. It was really just a warm-up for our voyage in April to the Italian Market. But before that, there is the March 12th get-together at the Powers. And then, after all the winter and spring parties hyphen - joy of joys! hyphen - the sailing season will be upon us and true life as we know it can resume! Looking forward to seeing everyone at Joe and Margie's in March.

Webmaster and Acting Editor
Frank Cingel

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