Winter 2005 - New England Multihull Association

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The New England Multihull Association is a non-profit organization for the promotion of the art, science, and enjoyment of multihull yacht design and construction, racing, cruising, and socializing. The NEMA Newsletter is published at no additional charge for NEMA members. The editor apologizes in advance for any errors. Please submit articles to Judy Cox, editor email: jcox@inzones.com mail: 5 Haskell Court, Gloucester, MA 01930 Elected Officers Commodore Vice Commodore Treasurer Race Chair Secretary Cruising Chair Newsletter Editor Appointees Fleet Captain 2 N E M A Winter 2005 Tom Cox 978-283-3943 tom@sailtriad.com Nick Bryan-Brown 508-758-3444 nbbre@yahoo.com Wayne Allen 781-665-7295 wayne@20knots.com Bill Heaton 401-934-1312 wtheaton@earthlink.net Ira Heller 617-288-8223 nemasail@aol.com Bob Gleason 508-295-0095 sailfast@themultihullsource.com Judy Cox 978-283-3598 jcox@inzones.com Tony Cabot 617-328-4109 tony@caboteria.org Directors at Large Ted Grossbart ted@grossbart.com, 781-631-5011 Catherine Kornyei catherine@themultihullsource.com, 508-748-1551 Photographer Historian Life Members Martin Roos 781-272-1683 Les Moore 978-768-7668 Dick Newick Walter and Joan Greene Les Moore Spencer Merz Bill Doelger NEMA Web Site www.nemasail.org See the website for Membership application and meeting information. NEMA NEWS Letter from Don Watson, Past Commodore Dear NEMA Members: December 31 marked the end of my term as Commodore of NEMA. I will try to remain involved in an unofficial capacity, but after 12 years as Race Committee Chairman, four as Vice Commodore and two as Commodore, I am yielding to our new Commodore, Tom Cox. I extend him congratulations and good luck. He has earned the position and has the full support of the Board of Directors. NEMA has been a great source of friends and competition to me for many years. I used to sit around the bar for hours after work with co-workers, where my friends and I would gang up on my friend Dolph Gabeler who is now service manager for North Sails in Portsmouth. Dolph was always flipping his little cats and having to be rescued by the Coast Guard. He never tired of telling us how great multihulls were, and most of us told him to get a real boat. This all changed when I went for my first sail on a Dick Newick designed NATIVE that we built in 1983. This boat was a slightly detuned NATIVE, but I will never forget my first experience with multihull acceleration. You see the puff coming, and instead of just leaning over, the boat moves forward with such suddenness that you need to be holding on to something. As I have told others, it can be habit-forming. I was also struck by the culture of sailing with and against good friends that was NEMA. The best kind of sailing is “it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s whether you beat your friends.” These are the people with whom you have friendly rivalries, comparable budgets NEMA Officers Elected At the NEMA Annual Meeting held on Dec. 16, 2004 the proposed slate of officers was unanimously approved. Congratulations to our 2005/6 officers. Commodore: Tom Cox Vice Commodore: Nick Bryan-Brown Treasurer: Wayne Allen Secretary: Ira Heller Race Chair: Bill Heaton Cruise Chair: Bob Gleason Newsletter Editor: Judy Cox and preparation time and the people you seek out after the race. In my early years of NEMA, Bill Doelger, Spencer Merz, Dave Koshiol, Les Moore, Walter Greene, Tom Bandoni and Larry Bedell all set a tone of friendly competition free from protests. You always wanted to win, but you did not press an unfair advantage. If someone’s boat was damaged, you helped them fix it, but you still went out the next day and tried to beat them. Lately, the on-the-water competition has gotten more serious, and the boat handling is in many cases much better than it used to be, but NEMA has remained a great source of friendship and adventure. Six trips to Halifax and back have provided memories for a lifetime. This letter would not be complete if I didn’t mention the help of fellow past and present Board members. To Dave, Deb, Les, Bob, Bill, Ira, Syd, Tony, Tom and Judy, I say thanks. It has been a lot of fun serving with you all. To more recent members, Nick, Ted, Wayne, and Katherine, thanks for your help and keep up the good work. NEMA is a great club with a great history. To the membership, thanks for allowing me to be your Commodore. We accomplished some good things and others are yet to be completed. I hope we can continue to reach out to the Maine and Long Island Sound fleets and offer more to them. Work is being done on NEMA history and I hope to help that process in the future, for it is an interesting story. That’s all for now, see you on the water. Sincerely, Don Watson Corporate Membership category changed to NEMA Sponsor On January 13, 2005 the NEMA Board of Directors voted to discontinue the current Corporate Membership and instead offerorganizations or individuals the privilege of becoming a NEMA Sponsor. A NEMA Sponsor is entitled to a small display ad on the back of each newsletter, an “advertorial” once a year in the NEMA Newsletter and a link on the NEMA website. A sponsor may obtain member privileges by paying the appropriate membership fee.
The Fastest Sailboats on the (frozen) Water At speeds over 130 mph, ice boats are the fastest sailboats on the water, that is if you count ice as water. Dave Koshiol gave an entertaining and informative presentation about the exciting world of ice boating at the NEMA Annual Meeting/Holiday Party on December 16. Tracing the history of ice boats Koshiol described the early Dutch settlers’ boxes with runners in the 1670s through the development of the modern DN, named after the Detroit News, which sponsored the competition where the design was introduced to the E Skeeters. As a member of the New England Ice Yacht Association, Koishiol and his fellow ice enthusiasts report on ice conditions around New England so they can go to the fastest, snow free ice for their weekly races. An ice boating telephone Hotline is updated every Friday and also posted on the NEIYA website (www.cris.com/~Dn4762/) listing the location for the next day’s racing. Dave Koshiol raising the sail on his DN racer Winter 2005 N E M A 3
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