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The Long Island Single Sailor’s Association .. Our 33rd Year Dedicated to Sailing and Boating
Vol. 33 No. 4 April 2020
God Bless America
Commodore’s Corner Howard Marks
Ghost-Town to Boom-Town
Looking forward to the rest of the LISSA year, we can only enter-tain the hope of having our next Planning Meeting at the Commack Library on April 23rd, our Semi Annual Meeting at the AmVets Lodge on May 3rd, Crab Meadow on August 8th and the Ducks Game on Aug 13th. Corona or not, these are the only events on our calendar for the year 2020. Shutting down the world was never a twinkle in anyone’s eye. But surely as God made little green apples, we will for the most part, come out the back end of this thing a little worse for ware, and a whole lot smarter in terms of our preparedness for the next time. And in my opinion, I will hope that many of the items that we manufacture in China will be made here. And for those who play the market, it could be, if timed correctly, the biggest profit making opportunity of a lifetime. “Buy on the dip.” My immediate family is well. My 2 nieces are home. Arianna, who got her first job in the working world after college, is working from home online. Eve, a freshman in college, is home taking classes online. My brother’s wife, interestingly, has been home working online for the better part of a year. But my brother, who has a small photography studio in Huntington, is, at least for the short term, out of business, phones quiet, neighborhood shut. His landlord will re-duce the rent by 25% and so the 3 tenants in that space will get some relief. Let’s see how the government relief program shakes out. Hopefully, those who would sink will be kept afloat. Not everything is negative. Much of our social intercourse can be done online. My family is getting together with a video group chat tonight. We’ve never done this, not ALL of us. It seems like a great way to gather with family members who you haven’t seen for a long time. God works in mysterious ways. Who could have thought that all of the massive growth experi-enced by the US economy in the past 3 years could be wiped out in the space of 4 weeks? Ha…To what glee of the “left?” What evil lurks in the shadows of doom? What vision of the ultimate end is
now placed before us? What tool of viral Armageddon, literal and virtual, has the power hungry elite unleashed unto the world from that lab in Wuhan? Broadway is closed. Airlines don’t fly. Res-taurants don’t serve. Cruise ships don’t sail. Crowds do not gath-er. Baseball does not play. The entire sports industry is closed, not to mention all of their support services, suppliers and vendors. Make your own list. Hollywood is shut, ha, ha, ha, finally prevent-ed, at long last, from spilling their sewage across the land. Billions of dollars are not being spent. But I think Netflix is probably boom-ing as are many of the entities that make their money online. Perhaps Covid – 19 is the creation of the digital empire, some mad and evil genius. Allow me to have some fun: Google, Face-book, Amazon Prime, Microsoft, pick your internet giant, have finally figured a way to eliminate cash and double down on your internet servitude, you playing with their bit coin, their electronic e-media money and making you like it because of the danger of close personal contact with another human being. They are half way there. Achieving a no-cash society will strengthen your bond to digital slavery. Why touch someone? Why go anywhere? We already engage in this behavior, and like it. The already addictive nose-down-into-your-phone lifestyle will no longer be optional behavior, but mandatory behavior, the internet being the only available media of transaction. The failure to obey could be pun-ished by a government agency deleting your worth with a single click. Half a million digital dollars evaporated into digital space. Total control achieved. What better than a world virus to fast-track it to the end. Do you think me mad? But I digress. Your inscrutable and toilet paper rich commodore, is inhaling and exhaling without a problem, not being radically effected, knock on wood, by any more than my usual poverty stricken, social secu-rity check life and the singularity of my lifestyle. And Carol and I are well. In the meantime, try to enjoy the time off from the world. I say ‘try’ because, well, it’s not going to be easy, especially for those trying to create wealth, precariously teetering between fortune and regularity. This will pass, the above notwithstanding. When it does, be ready to shoot out the back end when this is over. We will go from ghost-town to boom-town in record time, but how the deck is reshuffled is above my pay grade.
See You All – Out There, Somewhere, Somehow!!
2020 Board of Directors
COMMODORE Howard Marks (631) 226-1575
VICE COMMODORE Peter Aiello
(516) 443-8614
VICE COMMODORE CeCE Moffitt
(631) 673-0593 [email protected]
REAR COMMODORE George Fuchs (631) 661-1847
FLEET CAPTAIN Kenneth Ruffino
(631) 586-5991 [email protected]
SERGEANT AT ARMS Holly Schiller
SERGEANT AT ARMS
Patricia Kaminski (631) 423-7527
RECORDING SECRETARY Diane Tynebor (631) 331-3517
TREASURER Billy Vassel
(631) 663-3309 [email protected]
MEMBERSHIP Carol Rizzo
(631) 758-9748 [email protected]
MASTER AT ARMS Skip Belli
(516) 551-0633 [email protected]
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Kathyann Peccia (631) 661-4489
The Jib * The Long Island Single Sailor’s Association * Vol. 33 No. 4 April 2020
JIB PRODUCTION
The JIB is produced by Carol Rizzo. All articles must be submitted by the 15th of each month and mailed to JIB Editor, 36 Saratoga Avenue, Medford, New York 11763 or e-mail to [email protected]. Also submit your article to Howard Marks at [email protected].
NOTICE
Should you become aware that a member of our Club is ill or has lost a loved one, please let our Corresponding Secretary Kathy Peccia know so that she may send acknowledgements from the Club. Thank you.
HAPPY APRIL BIRTHDAY
WEDNESDAY April 8th, Sundown
Passover Begins Happy Passover to all our Jewish members
and friends.
SUNDAY, April 12th, All Day Easter Sunday
Happy Easter to all our Christian members and friends
It’s not Thanksgiving, but let’s be thankful for what we have
and pray that this Coronavirus passes as fast it came.
NOT MUCH TO DO WHEN YOU CAN’T LEAVE YOUR HOUSE…
HOWEVER, we can always SKYPE, or Face-time to be with family and friends
Should the “all clear” take place by Thursday, April 23rd, we have tentatively scheduled a planning meeting at the Commack
Library at 7PM sharp. Watch for Howard’s emails.
Paula Glassman 4/4 Carol Rizzo 4/20
Jo-Ann Jelley 4/4 Kathyann Peccia 4/21
George Fuchs 4/6 Peter Cirnigliaro 4/25
Holly Schiller 4/6 Robert Schultz 4/25
James Tedeschi 4/6 Pam Hauman 4/26
Paul Argendorf 4/14 Carol Blair 4/27
Carol Drechsler 5/14
HAPPY EARLY MAY BIRTHDAY
In memoriam Ed vogel
Born September 4, 1921
Died March 4, 2020
The Jib * The Long Island Single Sailor’s Association * Vol. 33 No. 4 April 2020
We lost a great one.
Ed was a major contributor to LISSA throughout the years. His knowledge and experience on the water was always extensive but his true measure was his desire to teach what he knew. Ed was the original LISSA Old Salt and will be remembered by what he gave to all of us. His knowledge of sailing and his willingness to teach it enriched our lives. He once rented a classroom at a local High School and gave lessons. He has taught sailing on and off the water, and chart reading and navigation and, for all those who wanted to sail, always had an open boat. He was also a golfer. I don't know what his handicap was, but it doesn't mat-ter. He played golf more than he sailed as time went on. And, last I remember him, he was danc-ing at Nocello's at one of our socials. Ed is gone but, perhaps, there is some solace here to know that Ed's was a life well lived. There's a certain joy in that. He was 98, God bless him. I will miss him. May he rest in peace. Howard
LONG ISLAND
SINGLE SAILORS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
122 MARIE STREET
LINDENHURST, NY 11757
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APRIL 2020
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LISA EVENTS APRIL 2020