Salty Dog Sailing Club

of Denver, Colorado

March 2019 Newsletter

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Commodore’s Log                       Marilyn Allen

Blame the Commodore for the late newsletter.
I’ve been sailing in the Eastern Caribbean for the past 2 weeks and our editor
agreed to hold the presses awaiting my tardy contribution.|

As I was enjoying turquoise 4 — 6 ft seas with occasional 10 – 12 ft surprise
waves and 20+ knot winds on a 9 hour sail between Antigua and St Barths, I fear
the newsletter was not at the top of my mind !

ShaneFor those of you who missed our annual Landlubbers, you missed a fun time,
where we honored the 2018 Board and especially our 2 year Commodore, Becky
Mock. There were awards for unique behavior with fun certificates and we
honored our members who had made over the top contributions to the club during
2018. Shane Brouilette received both Coordinator of the Year for the number of
events he coordinated and the challenge he took on and conquered when he
agreed to take over the Sterling sail. He also got Broken Mast for, well, a broken mast!

Dave Salty Dog of the YearDave Westfall was well deserving of Salty Dog of the Year for his readiness to share
his boat, coordinating the Lake Mac Sail (along with Diana Bliss) and lots of
contributions to the website. Thanks to all. There are a couple more fun awards waiting to be given out, so come to the March meeting.

Your board has been busy and we’ll be presenting some new marketing ideas to
build membership as well as highlight updates to our web site. I’ll talk briefly about
our club liability insurance because there appear to have been some
misunderstandings about our coverage.

IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE A COPY OF OUR POLICY TO REVIEW, EMAIL commodore@saltydog.org AND I WILL FORWARD IT TO YOU FOR YOUR REVIEW. THIS IS AVAILABLE TO ALL MEMBERS.

Vice Commodore Blair Ohler has lined up great guest speakers, and will be
presenting the new club Vision, Mission and Goals. Like any good organization, the
club needs direction and we’re hoping the membership will be as excited about
these as your board is.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Piccolo’s on March 14.

Marilyn Allen, Commodore

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February 2019 Newsletter

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February 2019 Newsletter

Commodore’s Log

Marilyn Allen

Pueblo SailHi fellow Salty Doggers –

I’m looking at this PILE of snow in my driveway and really craving some boat and beach time. How about you? Several of our members are on sailing trips to warmer locales about now. Many of the trips have been arranged through friendships and associations formedthrough the Salty Dogs.

The January meeting was our planning meeting for 2019 sailing events. If you didn’t attend, well, I hope you like what our club has scheduled. We’ll be doing a 4-day trip to Lake Mac in Nebraska, a couple of trips to Dillon, one to Pueblo (see photo), and of course our single day trips to local lakes. We’ll be doing a little more on Cherry Creek and also more weekday events, at the request of our members. Some of the Cherry Creek and
week day events might be a little more spur of the moment, so keep your eyes open for web blasts as sailing season starts.  Diana Bliss, our On the Water Coordinator is working hard with the Board to put together a great sailing season that will appeal to all.

We also passed out a questionnaire to uncover what you, the club members, would like to see from our club during 2019. I know Blair Ohler, our able Vice Commodore is covering that in his log, but we’ll also be passing out the questionnaires at
Landlubbers. That will be your final chance to help guide the club to be what you, the member, want it to be.

Speaking of Landlubbers, get your checks and your reservations in NOW. We need to plan fun events and get numbers to the restaurant. $29 check, made out to Salty Dogs reserves your spot. Send to Marilyn Allen. The date is February 16 at 6 PM at
Piccolo’s. Deadline for checks is Feb. 10, but we’d sure like to hear from you before that.

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2019 January Newsletter

Happy 2019 everyone.

I wish you success, health, wealth and LOTS of wind in your sails! You have a great 2019 board with a solid combination of both new members and us more “seasoned” ones. We’re already initiating some changes, which will make things easier for our
volunteer board members and hopefully, give our club great exposure.

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING ! IT’S IMPORTANT !

As a standard practice, our newsletter is distributed to members and also published on our public web site. Soon, it will be available in additional areas of the web as well. While your board and trip coordinators want to be fully available to our members, we don’t want our personal contact info publicized to the web world.  Historically there were 2 versions of the newsletter; now there will be one and it will not contain personal contact info for either your board members or trip coordinators.

Trips will have the coordinator’s name and a web address such as pueblo@saltydog.org or the like. To get personal contact info for your board members, you will need to refer to the club roster, which will be coming to you shortly via email. Please keep it handy.

There will be a little different procedure to get your monthly newsletter. To increase traffic numbers to our web site, members now will be emailed a link to the newsletter, which will allow the newsletter to be viewed in the web site. To get your newsletter, click on the link. Increased numbers of visitors improve our ratings and saltydog.org will come up higher when someone searches for sailing in Denver. If this makes no sense to you, I understand, but we’ve got some wonderful folks on the board that know this stuff. Inquiries from the web have resulted in many new members. Watch to see an expanded presence.

For the January meeting, I’ve suggested to our Vice Commodore and our On the Water Coordinator that we go back to the procedures of a few years back and make this a planning meeting for our upcoming sailing season. We can discuss potential locations, get volunteer coordinators and explore options. Our On The Water Coordinator, Diana Bliss, has already gotten coordinators for some of the big sails. Bring your ideas, your spirit of volunteering, and let’s lay plans to make 2019 the best sailing season ever. We’d especially appreciate your ideas for expanding our membership, especially boat owners.

My new office view is to Cherry Creek Reservoir (THINK SAIL !) and visions of sailboats are dancing in my head. Happy 2019 everyone.

Your new Commodore, Marilyn Allen

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Commodore’s Log                 Becky Mock

Ahoy, Saltydoggers! It gives me great pleasure to announce your Board of Directors for 2019:

Commodore: Marilyn Allen     
Vice Commodore: Blair Ohler                    
Treasurer: Brooke Mooreland
Membership: Tance Walker              
Secretary: Gary Kieft
Newsletter: Ira Greenberg
Webmaster: Dave Westfall
On the Water: Diana Bliss
Dryland: Andrea Lewis

Thanks to all these folks for stepping up to guide the Salty Dogs through next year. They will be taking over in January. Please watch your email for an updated copy of the financial policies. We’ve made a couple of changes. Here are those changes in a nutshell:

·   Boatowners will be receiving a per mileage disbursement for out of town trips for gas and wear and tear. This will be equivalent to the IRS standard deduction for mileage. Mileage will be determined by Google Maps with the starting point being where the boat is usually kept.  

·  Also for out of town, multi-day trips, a deadline for registration and a deadline for cancellation will be published. These dates will be determined by the policies of the venue we are reserving. Cancellations prior to deadline will receive an 80% refund. After the cancellation deadline, no refund will be given. Personal emergency cases (i.e. illness, sudden injury, death in the family, etc.) will be handled on a case by case basis.

·  We increased the dues by $5.00 at every tier. We have not had a dues increase in over ten years. This is much needed to cover our increasing costs.

Here are the new 2019 rates:

            Single:

            Early:                $40        (before 12/31)

            Renewal:          $45        (1/1  –  1/31)

            New Member:  $50

            Couple:

            Early:                 $75        (before 12/31)

            Renewal:           $80        (1/1  –  1/31)

            New Member:   $90

 
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