Good news! We got a slip closer to the cranes today for our Flying Scot Sunset Song! For those familiar, it is Selkie's old slip, C-7. Hope the closer slot will make her even easier to take out for a sail!
In other good news, we've been making a lot of upgrades to our boats in an effort to meet and exceed the Vessel Safety Check standards. (Thanks to Coast Guard Auxilliary member Ginny Ivan who is conducting the checks for us and to Tom Vandenboshe who helped conduct the first pass! Ginny, John Imparato and Luis Rivas will be out at the marina tomorrow at 12:00 inspecting two of our Scots.) Here's some of what we've done on the Scots: In the stern of each Flying Scot there's now a First Aid kit that has basic first aid gear, an emergency flashlight that can be used to flash S-O-S at night, instructions for hailing Mayday in an emergency, and a Boating Accident Report form, and contact info for the Harbor Police. There's also a "ditty-dot" distress signaling flag back there. We've replaced some worn anchor lines and "moused" some of our anchor's screw-pin shackles. Since "mousing" is unfamiliar to some folks I've put a photo below. You use a wire to keep the shackle from opening up on it's own and leaving your anchor lying on the bottom of the river unattached to the rest of your boat! There's an anchor holder in the bow of our Scots (two are still to be installed) that holds our anchors in place up front. We've also swapped out several of our pfds that were getting a little beaten up, so that SCOW members and guests will have nice pfds to wear. (We're discussing storing these on the seats so that they dry better and avoid getting moldy.) Finally, thanks to our great bosuns and volunteers all our registrations are up-to-date and our numbering and other gear not mentioned above has been fixed up. Great job to all the volunteers who've helped get us ship-shape!
On the cruisers: we've checked all the navigation lights to confirm that they're working, we did some wiring thanks to Rodger Casey and Marty that has run the electrical to the motor and turned on all the cabin lights, we've upgraded stowage lists, and registrations, and much much more! On the cruisers, Boating Accident Report forms are available in the first aid kits. (First Aid items on our Cruisers are stored in the "medicine cabinet" that is, the stowage compartment right next to the head.) What a great club of volunteers we have pulling out lots of tasks!
Great work all!
Chris
Commodore Chris McGraw
Sailing Club of Washington
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