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Work Sessions

O'Day

The sessions continue on the O'Day - here is a list of tasks that must be completed before it can be launched. Please consider which tasks you can help with. If you know how to do it, great! It should be easy for you. If you don’t know how to do it and want to learn, we can teach you. There are opportunities to learn basic rigging skills, water system maintenance, mechanical maintenance, and wood finishing. Work parties are scheduled every Saturday at 10 a.m. Lunch will be provided.

Rigging – 2 hours
Replace the jib halyard
Replace the main traveler lines
Remake the mainsheet eye splice
Install lazy jacks
Install gennaker sheet blocks on genoa track
Pressure Water System – 1 hour
Drain anti-freeze
Add water to tank
Add cleaner to tank
Flush out tank and lines
Fill water tank
Mechanical – 3 hours
Replace water pump impellor
Replace freeze-out plug on cylinder head
Run engine to flush out anti-freeze
Grease the rudder post
Install new zinc anodes on drive shaft
Rebed keel bolts
Seal keel nuts
Topsides – 2 hours
Refinish wood trim
Install chafe guards on toe rails
Polish stainless
Hull – 4 hours
Wash and wax hull
Bottom – 4 hours
Prep and apply anti-fouling paint

Contact Matt Montanari, montanamcs@hotmail.com or 732-739-4592

Rhodes

There is a special project going on as part of the "stop the leak" campaign. We determined last season that previous water intrusion had resulted in a waterlogged condition under the v-berth. Last week we broke out disintegrated concrete ballast and now we need to replace it. This is not a high-tech task. We need a bunch of people to form a "chain gang" to pass buckets of mixed concrete from the ground up into the boat. (We won't make the buckets any heavier than people can lift.) A session is planned this coming Monday April 22nd at 1pm to get this done. Please contact Graham Blundell at graham.blundell@gmail.com if you can assist with this. The boat is at Monmouth Sailing Center, 46 West St., Monmouth Beach.

Skipper Review Sessions Scheduled

The 2019 Annual Skipper review class will be held before the general meetings on April 30 and May 28 at 6:45-7:30. The annual skipper review class is required for any level 1, 2, and 3 skippers as well as anyone who anticipates becoming qualified as a skipper to use the SEAS Monmouth boats during 2019. It is also for sailors who want to know more about the responsibilities of a skipper on a SEAS boat.

The schedulers will not accept a reservation for any of the boats, unless attendance at the annual skipper class has been confirmed by one of the presenters.

After these two scheduled sessions, if a qualified skipper needs an annual review, it will be scheduled at the convenience of one of the approved presenters (which may not happen quickly - you are strongly encouraged to make it to one of these sessions).

Monthly General Meeting, Tuesday April 30, 2019, 7:30pm. Keyport Yacht Club, 115 First St, Keyport

Global Cruising

Ann and Lew Tucker will present various aspects of cruising, such as weather, provisioning, navigation, etc. Highlights will be discussed through personal experiences of the passages they have made, followed by Q&A.

Ann and Lew Tucker both grew up sailing on Lake Ontario, NY. They have been sailing for over 70 years and lived aboard a Camper Nicholson 48' ketch for over 20 years. During this time they traveled the ICW several times and circumnavigated the globe once.

Dinner before the meeting at Old Glory Restaurant, 84 Broad St, Keyport, 6pm.

(Also Skipper Review Session prior to the meeting - see the details above)

Opportunity to serve SEAS

SEAS Monmouth is seeking an individual or individuals to organize and schedule social events. These would include the spring and fall organization parities but can also include local picnics or events for smaller audiences. Karen Ruckdeschel will be happy to mentor and support a new person to develop into this role. Please respond to kruckdes@verizon.net

We need ideas for speakers and/or topics for our monthly meetings

If you know someone who can present a topic of interest to SEAS members, or if you attend a meeting somewhere else that has a presentation that you think would be relevant at a SEAS meeting, please let Joan Venezia know. If you are able to speak with the person about coming to a SEAS meeting that would be great, but if all you have is their name and contact information, with some background information about their topic and where you saw them, email it to Joan at joan.venezia@hotmail.com and she'll take it from there!

It's Membership Renewal Time!

The membership application is available below.

2019 Membership Application