SOUTH WINDS SAILING CLUBMinutes from meeting: May 8, 2025
- becky.combs
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Commodore Chris Behnke
Vice Commodore Steve Trofemuk
Fleet Captain Bruce Lane
Purser Brian Kuhnel
Yoeman: Becky Combs
Commodore Chris Behnke
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m.
A motion was made by Amy Kuhnel to waive the reading of the minutes. It was seconded by Gary Holcomb. The motion was passed.
The St. Thomas Cruise was April 25, 26 and 27, 2025. Friday afternoon under cloudy skies, the boats headed to Victoria Harbor Marina and docked at the fuel dock. Brian and Amy, Mike and Susan and Mike Dixon met at Sunset Grill for dinner. Saturday, Ed and Becky joined the sailing group and we all had lunch at JD’s. Anchored and beached at Sweetwater Cove for the night.
There is a sail scheduled on Lake Hartwell for June 6 thru 8th. We will be joined by some folks from Western Carolina Sailing Club. We are hoping for an invitation to use their facility but we if don’t, we will launch from Green Pond Landing. Honeymoon Cove is a great anchorage on this lake.
We still have a few burgees left for $17.80 each. See Chris for a burgee.
Vice Commodore Steve Trofemuk
Sunset Sails have resumed, every Thursday, weather permitting.
The Florida 120 is May 14 -18, 2025 in Pensacola, Florida. Currently, four boats from SWSC have signed up for this cruise.
We are having a Memorial Day Picnic at Harbor Town picnic area. Commodore Chris will be doing pulled pork BBQ. Everyone is to bring a side dish to share.
A “Beach Raft Up” on June 21, 2025. Those participating will beach their boats on the north shore of the lake (north of Harbor Town Island). The plan for this raft up is to start it around 3:00 p.m. to allow trailer sailors time to pull their boats from the water before dark. The tentative date for this is June 21, 2025. The other raft-ups on the calendar will be like previous raft ups.
Fleet Captain Bruce Lane
Spring Races end May 10th and the Summer races begin on May 31st.
Knot Talk - Vice Commodore Steve Troemuk gave a presentation on Raspberry PI – an above board computer. The website is htt;://raspberrypi.com. It costs about $200 to build. There are several items you can program into this computer.
Purser Brian Kuhnel
Brian gave a financial report that we currently have a balance of XXXX.
New business.
Pete and Jenny are putting their Catalina 250 up for sale as they don’t have the time to sail it anymore.
Old business: nothing discussed.
Sea Scouts – Gary Holcomb. Sea Scouts have several boats for sale. Sea Scouts may come on race days to crew on boats.
Meeting was adjourned at 7:40 p.m.
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