Monday, December 31st, 2007
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this Week in Wayfarers: 
* Minutes of the 29 Dec 07 CWA Executive meeting
* your chance to see Tom Wharton (W600) on horseback!!
* wildlife photographer, Tim France!
* 2008 programme unveiled for Mississauga SC Sailors' Gatherings - all W's invited!!
* Cameron Eckert (W766) reports in with glorious pics from summer in the Yukon
* "parlez-vous norvégien?"
* educational value of Pumpkins?
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Subject: Minutes of the 29 Dec 07 CWA Executive meeting
----- Original Message -----
From: D BLACK
To: CWA Executive
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: W Exec Minutes 29 Dec

CANADIAN WAYFARER ASSOCIATION: Minutes of the Exec meeting held 29 Dec 07 at the home of Geoff Edwards, and also attended by George Blanchard, Fred Black, Hans Gottschling, Dave Platt, Al Schoenborn.

MINUTES of the 24 Nov meeting were tabled.  Fred moved their acceptance, Geoff seconded, and they were adopted.

CALENDARS have been received with pleasure by all.  Al has a few extras which are available for $10 each.

BOAT SHOW  brochures from last year, about 250, are on hand.  Therefore, we will only have 200 new ones run off.  They will differ only in minor changes to the advertisements.  Hans brought along our knocked-down display stands,
neatly housed in new carrying bags (Thanks, Hans!) and passed them to Geoff who will bring them along on move-in night, Wed 9 Jan at 1800.  Fred will bring a half-dozen club hard hats.

AGM & BANQUET  on Sat 19 Jan will cost $35.  George has made booking and catering arrangements with the TS&CC.  Kit Wallace is collecting names and monies.  Al has seen to some of the trophy engraving, and will be bringing along the 2007 Yearbook DVDs.

SAILING EVENTS are firming up as posted.  We are still awaiting confirmation on the venue for the US Nationals (Rock Hall proposed), and on the dates for the Ontarios at LDSC (19-20 July, or maybe a week later).

NEW BUSINESS  Hans moved that the CWA pay 40% of the cost of Al's new computer, which is used mainly for class association communications.  David seconded and the meeting agreed.

NEXT MEETING  will be held on 8 Mar 08, with the location to be determined. 

George expressed our thanks to Geoff for hosting us today.
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Subject: your chance to see Tom Wharton (W600) on horseback!!
----- Original Message -----
From: WHARTON
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 6:30 PM
Subject: vacation videos

Hello Al and Julia,

... Check out the latest vids from our vacation away.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg0gXPet1A   for the horseback riding and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmj1SSl9PtM   for fishing

Happy holidays,

Tom and Anna, menagerie and family.
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Subject: wildlife photographer, Tim France!
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim France
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:15 PM
Subject: (no subject)

Al:

Got your email and news of you and your family - had forgotten that you were now among the "empty nesters" - lot of time now to do all kinds of  new things! It can be a challenge to set new goals for one's own  life once the kids have left, the mortgage paid and the dog died. One of my own activities is gardening and the birds in the attached picture were
photographed in our own back yard.



... Best wishes to Julia and yourself for a Happy & Healthy New Year - above all, Have Fun!

Tim


Al Schonborn wrote:

Hi, Tim:

Wow! You are indeed the consummate nature photographer!!!

Best wishes to you, Rosemary and the family to a happy, healthy and fun 2008!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim France
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 9:15 AM

Hi, Al:

... This past fall I participated in a short course on bird photography - and we were told how to work our way up close to the birds that we wished to shoot. The two in my photo are the only ones that stayed put throughout my stealthy approach.

Tim
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Subject: 2008 programme unveiled for Mississauga SC Sailors' Gatherings - all W's invited!!
----- Original Message -----
To: 'Beth Ruch'
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:38 PM
Subject: 2008 Sailors' Gatherings

Hi Al,
 
... Thought you might like to post this document or the dates (your choice) on your fantastic website.
 
Thank you and Happy New Year!
 
Gary McIlroy   (905) 453-3009   gmcilroy@rogers.com
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Subject: Cameron Eckert (W766) reports in with glorious pics from summer in the Yukon
----- Original Message -----
From: Cameron Eckert (W766)
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 9:36 PM
Subject: Yukon Summer 2007

Hi Al,

We enjoyed great sailing trips on beautiful Yukon lakes this past summer.


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The idea was to explore some of the warmer lakes right close to home (i.e. minimize driving) that had a suitable island for camping (an island camp means the ship's dog can roam freely). We'd pack up the Wayfarer sail out to the island and camp for a week. Sort of a Jack London meets Swallows & Amazons-style adventure. Lots of sailing, swimming, and exploring. Yukon lakes are never busy even in the peak of summer - on Frenchman Lake the only people we met happened to be some friends of ours camping nearby.


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These are boreal forest lakes with a shoreline of White Spruce and Trembling Aspen, scattered marshes, lots of loons and dragonflies, and an abundance of pike and whitefish.


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The long northern evenings were simply spectacular. With the success of this past summer's trips - perfect for their simplicity - we'll be seeking out more "unexplored" lakes next summer.

All the best in 2008!

Cameron
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Subject: the Schonborn family letter for 2007
Greetings from the Schönborn family - Julia, Al, Joanna and David:
 
2007 has been a fine, happy year for us.

Julia: Every year when it’s time for this letter, I think it’s really time to take up something new – better get onto that! I am still enjoying working as an educational assistant at an Oakville high school, and have been lucky to work with some good teachers and some interesting students. Am enjoying yoga, but still cannot sit straight on the floor for more than a few minutes! My sisters and their families are doing well; my parents struggling just now with some health problems, so we hope that improves soon. Evenings out with friends and my book group continue to be a pleasure, as does working in the garden. Very much enjoyed sailing on Trout Lake again, and on Georgian Bay at Killbear, recalling many happy times spent there with Joanna and David when they were younger, and lots of fun this year with the Bruise Sisters and company, too! Must remember to get Al his very own bow tie - so he won’t decide to wear this horrible furry one he has - for the next Bruise Sisters’ concert in Maine in 2008. 

Al: once again passed his annual stress test for possible angina, and feels great, especially when sailing his beloved Wayfarer. SHADES is now 37 years old but shows no signs of slowing down. She is still winning many races. In addition to his racing sailing, Al was privileged to participate in a marvellous week-long cruise on the Chesapeake Bay in late May, and in our annual Rally (a cruising/camping week) which this year found us at Killbear Park on Georgian Bay. Al continues to spend a few hours every day “feeding” the Canadian and International Wayfarer web sites. He still loves to coach his fellow sailors both on line and live. Al has again compiled the CWA Wayfarer Yearbook DVD for 2007. He still takes pictures, sometimes while racing, and enjoys supply teaching once or twice a week. The French study guide Keys to French which Al and a colleague, Monique, created is still being endorsed and sold by Canadian Parents for French, and 70,000 copies of Level 1 have now been sold.

 

(l) Julia with SHADES aground on Trout Lake – 2006  (r) Al at Killbear - 2007

Joanna: Just turned 22. I am still studying Child, Youth & Family at the University of Guelph and am doing well; I just completed a practicum course, where I worked with junior preschool children at the child care centre on the university campus. I am enjoying working and volunteering with kids and am especially excited to have been hired recently by the Upper Grand District School Board as an ESL tutor in a Guelph elementary school. In February, I competed at the 2007 Skate Canada Synchronized National Championships in Chicoutimi, QC with Team Sirius Junior Festival synchronized skating team. I was very proud to be offered a position on Gold Ice Senior Competitive synchronized skating team for 2007-2008, but unfortunately had to refuse due to a lack of time; I am taking the year off from skating and am missing it very much, but plan to return next year. I was also lucky to see many fantastic concerts this year and am looking forward to a few more in 2008.
David: Turned 20 in October. Now attending McMaster University with no particular subject, although various interests are media, math, archaeology and urban planning.
 
David is still doing kung fu several times a week, as well as working out to keep in shape. He is always busy with his many friends, and still sails now and then with his Dad. Does not like to write about himself!

All of us Schönborns wish you a very happy, healthy and successful 2008!

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Subject: "parlez-vous norvégien?"
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Jensen (W1348)
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 10:58 AM
Subject: Uncle Al family letter 2007

Hi, Uncle Al and Your wonderful Family !
 
Thanks a lot for the very nice *Family Letter 2007* good to read and feel happy about !
 
Here in the basement I have impregnated the floorboards, painted the oars, the two paddles [starboard and larboard, "to be at all  times immediately available paddles"] and the boom crutch, plus the outb. engine's stowage cradle (fwd. by the mast). Now working on my soon to be 42 yrs. old wooden boom for the fishing mainsail. Need varnishing, and then adjustment of the outhauls for the foot of the sail and for the 'flat'/mini-reef - works so well, closehauled on the wind, for a solo-W-sailor!
 
Ropes, sails, fittings and other matters also need attention, so truly, if actually not W-sailing, the next best thing for a W-sea-human is to tend the W + gear !  And best of all:  The SUN is climbing - according to the gable of the neighbour's house - but not yet above it though !  The higher the latitude on our Globe, the larger the diurnal increment!
 
So for all of us, a *Happy GOOD Health-guarded New W-Year 2008* alias Scandinavian:  GODT Helsebra Nytt W-År 2008  with more Peace on Earth !
 
Very best wishes and kind regards - Ken.t.o. alias Ken W1348 "Maitken"
 
PS. Yours + Monique's Keys to French sounds interesting!  I never got beyond "--avec moi sur la table!" but still have not discovered if it works for ladies as well as for beer, when you point to one !  Some years back in France, getting a bit annoyed, I asked a nice English-speaking French lady to kindly teach me to say in French: "Do you speak Norwegian, please?"  Something like this - here, please pardon my French: "Parles-vous norvégienne, s'il vous-plait?"  The result was terrific! When I tried it out, people paled in alarm, some laughed their heads off, the guy behind the desk in the Post Office in St. Tropez nearly rolled on the floor holding his stomach making loud hiccup sounds, while all the other customers looked on in great shock !  K.


----- Original Message -----
To: KEN/K.H.Jensen
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 12:06 PM

Hey, Ken:
 
I love the story about "Parlez-vous norvégien?" Those that would answer "Oui" would have been few and far between, I expect. Also love the font you're using here: Colonna MT, which is the same style as the name on W3854 - see photo from our end-of-September Pumpkin Regatta below:
 

 
I  should be working on SHADES varnishing, etc. like you are but find that the web is keeping me pretty busy. Still, I expect in the next few days to finish off a Christmas present from Julia: a new trailer lights board that will fit onto both of the SHADES rudder fittings. It will replace the old one (pic below) that was made in 1972 for my Fireball, and that had to be tied into position every time I used it and which is being "retired" after only 35 years!!
 
 
Best wishes for a wonderful 2008 to you and the family!!
 
Uncle Al  (W3854)
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Subject: educational value of Pumpkins?
----- Original Message -----
From: susan pilling
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 10:43 PM
Subject: tacking at marks and other things

Merry Christmas!
 
Steph, Dad and I went through 2 hours of the play-by-play you put together for the Pumpkin Regatta. Wow, what a great recap, insight and learning tool and most of all good memories - I think the explanation of right-of-way the rules for tacking at the windward mark might be for me?  :) -  so if you tack within 2 boatlengths of the mark, you have no rights on anyone?
 
I've tried to talk Dad into the Midwinters a couple of times, but no bites unfortunately. I guess they feel I am only visiting them for a few days, so they don't want to be running around. Maybe we will see it for a day?
 
I am leaving Jan 18 to head south, a bit of sailing around the BVI's, and then seeing mom and dad at the end. So will miss the AGM at the boat show, too.
 
Looking forward to next summer. The calendar of events for Wayfarer's will be out when?
 
Thanks again for the great reporting
 
Sue and Steph


----- Original Message -----
To: susan pilling (W4677)
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:31 PM

Hi, Sue:
 
And a very merry Christmas to you as well!!
 
I'm happy that you enjoyed the Pumpkin stuff and found it useful. I oversimplified when I implied that you have no rights if you complete a tack within two lengths of the mark: What the rule actually says is this:
 
"18.3 TACKING AT A MARK
If two boats were approaching a mark on opposite tacks and one of them completes a tack in the two-length zone when the other is fetching the mark, rule 18.2 does not apply. The boat that tacked

(a) shall not cause the other boat to sail above close-hauled to avoid her or prevent the other boat from passing the mark, and

(b) shall give room if the other boat becomes overlapped inside her, in which case rule 15 does not apply."

 

Rule 15 says:

"15  Acquiring Right of Way
When a boat acquires right of way, she shall initially give the other boat room to keep clear, unless she acquires right of way because of the other boat's actions."

 

By the way, I have all the text of the Rules posted  in case you ever need to look anything up. My Rules.in.Pictures article has received very good reviews and been "borrowed" by a couple of Classes in the US. It's on the long side but does explain quite well, the Rules that we normally use. Good winter reading, I would say. For an explanation which explains that Rule more fully, complete with pictures you can click here. Do let me know if this leaves you with any questions.

Sounds like you have potential winter blahs very nicely addressed. Have a great time!!! Hope you can make it to visit with us at the Mids!!

Sue!!! I'm marginally appalled: Our Calendar has been posted for a couple of months and is always updated within 24 hours of when I get any new scheduled info. You should add this link to your list of favourites!!!

Best wishes for a happy, healthy 2008!!!

Uncle Al  (W3854)


----- Original Message -----
From: susan pilling (W4677)
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:56 PM

thanks, how silly (or lazy) of me not to check the website for the calendar. We got our calendars out and wrote events in.
 
good reading ...(those rules in pictures) must make some time to read these. ....one thing I wondered though, and need to read again is... if it is not the windward mark, and if you tack inside a boat fetching the mark, which would cause them to go up to but not past closehauled in order to give you room, would that still be chancy? (or maybe this has something to do with establishing the overlap within the 2 boat length circle, which is too late anyway)
 
just if you get a chance ....

thanks

Sue


----- Original Message -----
To: susan pilling
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:45 AM

Hi, Sue:
 
My calendar has all the essential times booked for 2008 as well! I like your attitude!!
 
It'd be a pretty rare situation for a boat to be tacking at the end of a reaching or running leg. I'm pressed to imagine such a situation - perhaps someone who went around the wrong side of the gybe mark and is "unwinding" the string as they say? Not likely though, is it? In that case, your fear would be letting them in to leeward of you with no need for them to give you room to keep clear as they established an overlap. But don't lie awake worrying about this. If you went past the mark on the wrong side (because you got the overlap too late, let's say) you'd likely be safest to gybe away and then tack at least two lengths from the mark if there were a mass of boats to windward and you couldn't find a gap? I have never seen this happen - but it is fun to speculate.
 
Good night, Sue!
 
Uncle Al  (W3854)


----- Original Message -----
From: susan pilling
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:11 PM
Subject: hmm

ok, I just have to throw in one more curve, as I was up all night thinking about it   ......no,  totally kidding, I slept fine.
 
what if the outside boat at the windward mark overstood the mark and was fetching it while footing lower than closehauled. Would he still need to give the jerk who tacked in from port at the mark, room if it didn't drive him up past closehauled?  Or again a rare situation.
 
Sue ;)


----- Original Message -----
To: susan pilling
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:18 PM

Hi, Sue:
 
No. If the other boat is overlaying/has overlaid the mark, and port tacks in to leeward of him, port is OK as long as windward is not forced above closehauled.
 
Take care,
 
Uncle Al  (W3854)
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