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OUR WATERWAYS The Sarasota Sailing Squadron—Active and Affordable—Faces Financial Challenges By Harmon Heed The Sarasota Sailing Squadron is really the best of both worlds. It’s salty, old South cedar on an island—City Island—in the middle of artsy, high-rise Sarasota Bay. To its west is the modern Mote Marine Laboratory. On its north side lies access to the Gulf through New Pass, which is bordered on its north side by affluent Longboat Key. Farther to the south is the opulent St. Armand’s Circle of shops, which is linked to downtown Sarasota by the fairly new Ringling Causeway high bridge over the ICW. Directly across the bay from the Squadron is Sarasota’s performing arts center—the angular, avante garde and very purple Van Wezel. The Squadron doesn’t have big motor yachts towering over its docks like the nearby Bird Key and Sarasota yacht clubs. It has a few long-term berths at $6.33 per foot per month. It has over a dozen temporary berths, where the first three nights are free, the next five nights at $10 per night and the next five nights after that at $20 a night. That’s per boat, not per foot. It has 400 smaller sailboats on trailers in its acres of secure dry storage. Dry storage rates range from $165 for a NO MORE HOLDING TANKS No More Smell • No More Dumping • No More Pumpouts INSTEAD USE WAG BAGS Use it… Zip it… Toss it! Place the Wag Bag in your toilet (see photo), use it 2-3 times. The “Pooh Powder” in the Wag Bag solidifies the waste. Stick it in the disposal bag (shown here on top of the toilet seat), zip it shut, store it, then take it to the trash — you can legally dump this in a city trash can or city dump (it will break down in several months). NOW SOLD THROUGH SOUTHWINDS MAGAZINE — PRICE REDUCED — $4 for one, 10 for $30 Plus shipping/Sales tax applies in Florida <strong>Read</strong> the articles about Wag Bags on our Web site at www.southwindmagazine.com/wagbags.php To order, call (941) 795-8704 or e-mail editor@southwindsmagazine.com Credit Cards Accepted Sarasota Sailing Squadron, where you can still get a burger, beer and chips for under $4. Photo by Harmon Heed. pram to $634 for a 30-foot boat. That‘s per year, not per month. If trailer boaters don’t want to use the boat ramp, there is a 2 ½ ton hoist available for $17 per hour or $204 per year. There are also 400 racks for smaller boats and kayaks. The Beginnings — 1920s The Squadron was born as a youth sailing club at the Sarasota Yacht Club in the 1920s. Those youths grew up, and later, when they returned from WW II, a few of them got together and chartered the Sailing Squadron in 1947. Its original location was at the city pier at the end of downtown Main Street where the pristine and profitable Marina Jack sits today. It was there from 1947 to 1958. Before and during the war, the city dredged out New Pass and a channel across the ICW to Payne Terminal, 10 blocks north of the city pier. With the spoils, it created City Island on a sand spit just inside New Pass, potentially to hold commercial wharves and docking facilities. Neither the shipping nor wharves materialized. In the ensuing years, more land was filled in. The city gave one acre of the island to a local public radio station, WSPB, and a small landing strip and a dirt racetrack were graded. There is still conjecture that the planes had to race the hot rods to take off and land. During the 1950s, when the city was expanding its waterfront for commercial, industrial and recreational use, the veterans were looking for more room and bigger facilities to teach their booming babies to sail. In 1958, the Squadron approached the city to lease a portion of City Island for “public use.” They were provided with a “perpetual” lease of $1 per year for the then barren and unimproved property they still occupy. At the time, WSPB was the only other island occupant. The property is no longer unimproved. Over the years, with no money asked from or provided by the city, the members built a 5,000 square foot clubhouse that includes a dining room, bar, office, heads with showers, laundry, and a spacious, screened-in patio for meals, meetings or dancing. Adjacent is a large, raised pergola with bandstand/stage and bar that is popular for barbecues and weddings. Big, bricked-in gas barbecues and refrigerators are next to it. See WATERWAYS continued on page 30 24 September 2010 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com
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