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The Chowder ChatterThe Official Newsletter of

The Caloosahatchee Marching and Chowder Society

Cape Coral / Fort Myers, Florida

www.cmcs-sail.org

Next Full Moon: Oct. 27 Nov. 25 P.O. Box 101268, Cape Coral, Fl. 33910 November 2015

Commodore’s Message

2015 CMCS OfficersCommodore: Allen Fiske Vice Commodore: Don LawsonVice Commodore – Summerset: Steve Romaine Rear Commodore – Cruising: Kim BrownRear Commodore – Racing: John Churchill Fleet Yeoman – Bev DuffFleet Purser – Bill Cook Past Commodore – Diane Fowler

Chowder Chatter Editor—Steve Roake

I thought there would be a let-down after such a big deal as our50th Summerset Regatta, butour club just keeps on sailing intothe fabulous Fall weather. Wehad a great turnout for the Octo-ber Membership Meeting, high-lighted by a guest appearance bySteve and Doris Colgate wherethey thanked us for the card wehad sent them congratulatingthem on Steve's induction into

the Sailing Hall of Fame. We are so lucky to havethem involved with us.

In addition, a couple of awesome young sailors fromthe Edison Sailing Center dropped by to present uswith a plaquethanking us forour support ofYouth Sailing.They had justfinished sailingin the RiverRomp Regattaon the river indowntown FtMyers wherealmost 300 kidsfrom all overSouth Florida had competed for two days of racingin Optis, Lasers and 420s. Much thanks to ournearly thirty members who showed up to volunteertheir time to help with the regatta.

Looking ahead, the Blessings have graciouslyopened their Cape Coral home and dock to a Hal-loween Party on Oct 24, the racing continues withthe Festival of the Islands Regatta off Ft MyersBeach on Nov 7th, the Bob Macomber Cruise theweekend of Nov 13th, followed by the very uniqueThanksgiving cruise to Pelican Bay highlighted by aside trip to Cabbage Key for Thanksgiving Dinner.

In the midst of all this, we are finalizing the slate ofofficers for 2016 and still have a few openings to fill.At last glance, we still needed a candidate for FirstVice Commodore, Vice Commodore of Racing, ViceCommodore of Summerset and one Director. Inaddition, I know the Liberty Ashore Committee coulduse some help with our on-shore festivities. Pleaseconsider giving some time back to the club. You willbe amazed at how good it feels.

Finally, don't forget to look at the updated version ofour Bylaws that has been sent to everyone. We willbe asking you to vote on approving them at theNovermber Membership Meeting on the 17th.

Commodore Allen Fiskes/v Minimum Balance

CommodoreAllen Fiske

P.S. Just wanted to advise everyone that at ourSeptember Board Meeting It was proposed andvoted on that we would not have a Commodore'sDinner. We decided to combine it with the Christ-mas Party. See the flyer in this edition of the Chow-der Chatter.

CMCS Chowder Chatter November, 2015

Rear Commodore of Cruising’s Report

Last month I said that Cruis-ers count in Summerset. Boydo they- we had 29 cruiserssign up. More than DangerIsland! And with good reason- Steve and his crew put onan amazing event. Shrimpconsumption was up; Rumconsumption was up. Now ifonly we could have gottenthe wind up on Sunday.Guess if you can only have 2

out of those 3, I’d pick shrimp and rum. I am acruiser- I know where the start button is for thetrusty Yanmar. Thanks Steve and crew for a greattime!

Upcoming:

Halloween- Oct 31-Nov 1. It was lightly attendedlast year and I got no one to raise their hand thisyear to lead it. Therefore this has been scratched asa formal cruise this year. That is not to say thatnothing is happening. Blessings are talking a partythe 24th (announced via blast and at the OctoberMeeting) and Trust Me!!! will be heading up riverthe 31st to the Franklin Locks- Senior Pass in handto check out the revamped docks. Franklin Locksfolks are looking to go ‘Crick or Creeking’ up HickeyCreek to see if we can find the Pfaff’s new spread.Timing for all this doesn’t really align with ChowderChatter deadlines so we’ll report back next month.

Rum and Reading- November 13-15. York Islandoff St James is the destination for this relaxed week-end cruise. Remember if the wind is ‘wrong’ for an-choring off York Island then it will be ‘right’ for Sani-bel bight. Just look for the sailboats. Trust Me!!!may be running late but we will get there Friday forthe sipping rum contest. I have a bottle of lastyear’s winner and it will take on all contenders. Thisis about quality not quantity. Smoooooth matters.After educating ourselves Friday evening, we willhead in Saturday to Bob Macomber’s book bash atWoody’s up the Monroe Canal. Just follow thestream of dinghies. There is a ‘new’ book this year.Please support literacy.

Thanksgiving – November 25-29. Glen and PaulaVetter are the cruise leaders again this year.Thanks! They are taking charge of the headcountfor Turkey at Cabbage Key. See the form on theWebsite. Talking Turkey 2:00ish. It is better thanMom’s (well at least my mom’s ;-). Info elsewhere.After the stuffing (of the sailors) a relaxing weekendin Pelican Bay.

Rear Commodore-CruisingKim Brown

Ladies Bridge Club

Ladies Bridge Club:Monday, Nov 2,2015 10am - 4pm

Captain CathyMadigan Eagle -Useppa Island Dayof ReflectionWe will depart at10am on "Wings toFly", 8421 MainStreet, Bokeelia,

33922

We’ll visit the museum, Collier Inn, walk the pinkpath, visit the Tarpon Bar, and of course the JoseffaBoutique. Bring a bag lunch & beverage (alcoholok) $35 per person includes transportation.

RSVP: Rose Ann Hoffman - 239 540-1911 home,201 820-6028,cellor email: Rose Young [email protected]

The Ladies Bridge Club Christmas party will be onDec 2, 2015; 7pm at Cathy Friedel’s Home, 2713SW 49th Street Cape Coral, Fl 33914 - Home: 239-984-2118 Cell: 856-397-5733 [email protected]

Bring a wrapped gift of $25 for pirate swap; bringhors d' oeuvres or dessert to shareDriving directions:Take Cape Coral Parkway west to the end of theParkway road signThen turn left onto Sands Blvd.Go 2 blocks and turn left onto SW 49th Street.3rd house on the left [brown stucco with 3 car ga-rage]. RSVP: Cathy Friedel - [email protected]: 239-984-2118 Cell: 856-397-5733

Rose Young and Rose Ann Hoffman

Ladies Bridge ClubRose Young &

Rose Ann Hoffman

Rear Commodore of Cruising’s Report

Holiday Cruise- Dec 2? to Jan 3. Carolyn Wilson/Dan Green head up the festivities. Leave when youcan after Christmas, just be sure to be at Fisher-man’s Village for New Year’s Eve. ‘By boat’ is inwait list territory but ‘by car’ is an option. Full infoelsewhere.

Kim BrownRear Commodore-Cruisings/v Trust Me!!!

Rear Commodore of Racing’s Report

Upcoming Racing Events


November 7th— Festival of the Islands RegattaDecember 5th—Commodore’s Cup Regatta

I hope everyone had a greatweekend at Summerset.Many thanks to the organiz-ers and volunteers.

Our next race is the Festivalof the Islands regatta.

I need a race committeeboat and crew to volunteer.If anyone is available,please contact me.

Saturday, November 7, 2015. Festival of the IslandsRegatta (Buoy Series). (This is a CaloosahatcheeBoat of the Year Event) This regatta will take placeoff of Ft. Myers Beach in the Gulf of Mexico. Thestarting area will be in the vicinity of Marker 2, en-trance to San Carlos Bay. The race format will be upto three buoy races. We have traditionally had askipper/crew party after the race. Time and locationto be announced as this date draws closer. BrockJohnson will not be able to host the party as he hasin the past. If anyone wishes to set this up, pleasecontact me.

Rear Commodore-RacingJohn Churchills/v Nurdle

Rear Commodore– RacingJohn Churchill

This Summerset Regatta was no different thanmany recent Summerset Regattas. There was agreat turnout, great wind for racing on Saturday, nowind for racing on Sunday and great parties all threedays!

Thirty-four boats competed in seven sections.There was one multi-hull section with two boatscompeting; two spinnaker sections with a total of tenboats competing; two non-spinnaker sections with atotal of seven boats competing; and two true cruis-ing sections with a total of 15 boats competing.

The overall results for the Saturday Buoy Series(and overall regatta results, as the Sunday raceswere abandoned due to lack of wind) were as fol-lows:

In the multi-hull section, Art Monahan’s Kraken wasfirst, followed by Erik Soronen’s TRIUMPH.

In the spinnaker “A” section, Douglas Forster’sTropical Storm was first, followed by Dan Kerck-hoff’s Southern Crescent, Bob Knowles StillCrazy, Martin Wasmer’s Finn and Gunar Rogat’sForeign Exchange.

In the spinnaker “B section, Paul Robbins’ Soul-shine II was first, followed by Dan Spence’s Vaga-bond, Eric Milbrandt’s Full Tilt, John Churchill’sNurdle and Kurt Martin’s Sail Repair Fort Myers.

In the non-spinnaker “A” section, Jerry Poquette’sFancy Free was first, followed by Dana Castro’sLionheart, Paul McDill’s Essence and Gary Bless-ing’s Jazzy.

In the non-spinnaker “B” section, Bill Curtis’ Morganwas first, followed by Richard Lancaster’s Vakaleleand John Finnegan’s Miss Cathleen.

In the True Cruising “A” section, Brock Johnson’sVixen was first, followed by David Naumann’s JollyMon, Mike Busher’s Serendipity, Rudy Gottsch-lich’s Diva Gorda, Jerry Watkins’ H2O, and IanDavis’Wind Star.

In the True Cruising “B section. Gordon Coffman’sAriel was first, followed by Tom Horner’s Bentley,Ed Brauer’s Euphoria, Mark Beauvois’ Sail La Vie,Arnie Pfalz’ Laura Li, Bill Padget’s Sea-Duction,Joe Martinez’ Karma and Roger Horton’s Adven-ture.

Congratulations and thank you to all who partici-pated.

Summerset Regatta Results

SUMMERSET REGATTARACE COMMITTEE

Sailboat races require lots of hands to keep thingsrolling. This year’s Summerset Race Committeewas headed by Dan Merriman, who also acted asentry processor and scorer. The signals boat,Roger Stafford’s Never Say Never, was manned bythe Principal Race Officer, Joe Periard, Russell &Kathleen Vance, and Dan Merriman. Joe Barch’sRed Stripe with Rodger Pfeiffenberger assisting,was mark boat both days, Bob Kuhn’s Wildcat wasa mark boat on Saturday, and Ned Christensen’sPassion III assisted by Debra George and Paul Per-isho was mark boat on Sunday.


Vice Commodore—Summerset’s ReportA record number of boats for recentyears, Saturday wind, great parties,fabulous door prizes for all, recogni-tion awards and great participationseem to be the words to describe the2015 50th Summerset Regatta.

Seventy boats entered, and mostraced off Fort Myers Beach in West-erly breezes in Saturday’s OffshoreSailing School Buoy Races. Sun-day’s West Marine Coastal Dis-

tance Race had to be cancelled due to lack of wind.This was the third year we featured a coastal raceon Sunday just for the cruisers. Eighteen CMCScruiser racers entered the competition but the Sun-day’s race was not to be with no wind. Overall par-ticipation in this year’s semi centennial event wasterrific, not only from our club members, but fromboats competing from Fort Myers Sailing Club,Punta Gorda, Naples, Marco Island and one fromPlacida.

Our club’s biggest Regatta saw 165 skippers andcrew members at Friday’s pizza and beer party,sponsored by Little Caesars Pizza and Brock &Barbara Johnson, at Bonita Bills. On Saturday,255 enjoyed the poolside cocktail party at the Pinkshell, featuring music by Eric Stone, and sponsoredby Florida’s Premier Yacht Service. Sunday eve-ning 151 sailors, crew and guests took part in theawards dinner sponsored by Lexus, MorganStanley, and SWFMIA in the beautiful DiamondHead Resort Dining Room. This year over 110CMCS members and guests lent a hand, weresponsors and assisted the 14-member SummersetRegatta Organizing Committee making the GoldenAnniversary a special event.

The support received from local businesses for doorprizes, Gold, Gold+ and Silver sponsors was out-standing – 86 strong! The T-shirt Boat Name SleeveSponsor Program was equally supportive. Our goalwas 60 boats. We had 68 boat name sleeve spon-sors – WOW! This record level of support will en-able us to make a sizeable contribution to youthsailing programs. In total, 230 companies, sailorsand generous donors make this possible. Corpora-tions supporting Summerset and youth sailing asGold Sponsors can be found anytime on our web-sites, cmcs-sail.org and SummersetRegatta.com.They have supported us, we need to support them,so please patronize them and don’t forget to tellthem you are from CMCS or participated in theSummerset Regatta. Gold+ sponsors’ businesscards are printed each month in our newsletter.Listed at the end of this article are the wonderfulfolks who are Gold Sponsors, and we thank you andhonor your support.

Vice Commodore-Summerset

Steve Romaine

VC-Summerset Report ContinuedCMCS wishes to thank the area media for coveringthis year’s Regatta. Six articles and numerous pho-tographs have been published covering our event.Photographers covered Summerset with hundredsof photos on Shutterfly and on our website. Thiswas a record number of photos. Thank you to allthe photographers. Sunday evening’s portrait crewshots were terrific! Bill Gladstone, North U’s Execu-tive Director, came all the way from Connecticut tovideo Saturday’s action atop my mast. This videocan be seen on our website and was shown at Sun-day’s awards dinner.

Sunday banquet was special this year as seventeen“ancient mariners” were present to receive awardshonoring them for participation in the early Summer-set Regattas. Also an historical booklet was givenout with photos, news articles, t-shirt and posterdesigns and remembrances over the years of the 50Summersets.

The Fort Gorda Cup was awarded Sunday eveningto the Northern Team. The Fort Gorda Cup is acompetition between boats homeported in CharlotteHarbor and north, and boats homeported south ofCharlotte Harbor. A low-point scoring system isused and only two events are scored: PGSC’s Con-quistador Cup in March and the Summerset Re-gatta in October. The FGC was established to in-crease participation in both of these major regattas.This is only the fourth year of the competition, whichwas won the first year by the South. Come onSouth Team, let’s go to Charlotte Harbor in Marchand try and win the cup back!

I am very appreciative to all those whose effortsover my eight years as your Summerset Chairmanwere productive ones. We have watched Summer-set grow while supporting youth sailing. I am grate-ful to the Edison Sailing Center for presenting mewith a beautiful Waterford Vase engraved Capt.Summerset ESC Youth Sailors and a note “on be-half of all youth sailors who have benefited from thegenerosity of your energy and passion!” Thank yousailors.

We are grateful to all those who participated in theyear’s 50th Summerset Regatta. It was a specialone, with beautiful weather and great sailing. Let’skeep the growth rate up as we have done for thelast six years. Remember, only 345 days to the nextSummerset Regatta! It will be special – “SAIL THETRADITION”.

Steve Romaine, Vice Commodore-Summersets/v Air Supply


Recent Ladies Bridge Club Projects

Thank you tothe Lad iesBridge Club formaking thebeautiful float-ing trophy deco-ra t i ons f o rS u m m e r s e tbanquet. Didyou see yourboat? Photoss u r r o u n d i n gtrophies were ofCMCS memberboats taken atregattas byRose Young.

Meanwhile, Sept. & Oct. meetings had membersweaving pirate pouches & spirit masks. The chal-lenge: finish mask for exhibit at the Cape Coral Li-brary for the month of Jan. & the Berne Davis ArtCenter for the month of Feb. Come & see what ourmembers have created at these 2 upcomingevents.

Rose Young

Rose Young, Marci Mills, DianePfaff and Debra George

Debra George (behind her mask), Joan Perkett,Jane Pfeiffenberger & Sue Stier

Summerset Certificates of Recognition

For those who didn’t get a chance to see the certifi-cates of recognition presented to some of our long-time and previous members this is what the certifi-cate looked like that Kathleen Vance designed.Rose Young wrote their names in gold calligraphyand Carol Pim framed them. These were presentedto: Joel Andrews, Tom Gore, Ben & Carolyn Pre-ston, Jo Haines, Trudy Morris, Austin Bell, BobMacomber, Bobby Lee, Craig Noden, Jo Beauvois &family, Charlie Touton, Brock & Barbara Johnson,Bob & Beverly Duff, Carl Brehm, Bill & Mary Misen-heimer, Gordon Coffman, Kim Brown & Judy Ander-son, John Guzzetta & Fran Chapman, Betty Gooda-cre, Christa Wilson, Grace Cochrane, Carol Pim &Family, Gloria Bogan, T-Bone Whatley, MadeleineTilley, Mike Grill, Barbara Whatley, Wiley Parker,The Springer Family, and Warren & VirginiaCasazza

SUMMERSETGOLD SPONSORS

* ASK AN EXPERT, FL* ASSOCIATES IN DERMATOLOGY* VICKIE & FORREST BANKS* BONITA BILLS* BOB & ANNIE’S BOATYARD* BUCKINGHAM ASSET MANAGEMENT* CHARLIES BOAT HOUSE GRILL* CHEETAH PRINTING AND SIGNS* CITY OF CAPE CORAL YACHT BASIN* D.C. KERCKOFF CO.* DIVERSIFIED YACHT SERVICES* ERIC STONE MUSIC* FIDELITY INVESTMENTS* FRAME GALLERY & GIFTS* I.C.W. SAILING& CRUISING* GEORGE & PIXIE NOYES* PUNTA GORDA SAILING CLUB* RIVER FOREST YACHTING CENTER* SAILING SERVICES* SELLSTATE REALTY – DIANE FOWLER* SHARKINETICS* SMOKIN’ OYSTER BREWERY

SUMMERSET Saturday Cocktail PartyShrimp Police

There were lots of people who made all of theSummerset social events run well. Everyone whoattended the Saturday Cocktail Party at the PinkShell probably encountered our very own shrimpNazis! Debbie Merriman, Theresa Roake, ShirleyMaddix, Debra George, Chris Shields, and MaryYankaskas.

There were plenty of others who have been men-tioned elsewhere but these people spent their eve-ning making sure that everyone got enough (but nottoo much!) shrimp to eat.


SUMMERSET PARTIES SUMMERSET RACING

Membership and Recruitment

Bev SlagerMembership and Fleet Recruiters/v Salty Soul


Full Members:

Sally and John Beaulac, Jr.reside in Cape Coral and havelived in the Fort Myers area for3 months, moving from NorthDakota. John and Sally areretired. They enjoy boating,camping, motorcycles and nowsailing. Sally and John areinterested in cruising and so-cializing with other CMCSmembers. They have a Hunter28 named Aqua Draco.

Wayne Canning and Teresa Scott reside in CapeCoral and have lived here for approximately ninemonths. Wayne and Teresa moved to the area fromNorth Carolina. They have 40 years’ experience insailing and cruising and have an Irwin 40 namedVayu. Wayne is a marine surveyor and Teresa isan accountant. Teresa and Wayne are interested incruising and socializing with other CMCS members.

Crew Members:

Diana Smith resides in Fort Myers and has lived inthe area for 10 years. Diana joins CMCS and has35 years sailing experience. Diana has worked atthe offshore sailing school for 10 years. Diana isinterested in the Ladies Bridge Club.

Current Members:

Don’t forget, it’s time to renew yourmembership for 2016. Membership re-newal forms can be found on the Club’swebsite.

Please download the form, complete itand mail it in to the Fleet Recruiter(address on the form). The deadline forrenewals is November 30, 2015.

http://www.cmcs-sail.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/16-Renewal-Form-v2.pdf

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

The adage, “Don’t fix it unless it’s broke”, is a famil-iar phrase. – one we ascribe to most of the time.But when changes occur within an organization, itbecomes the responsibility of the Officers & Direc-tors to run the “sniff test”, making sure that how theorganization conducts business is what is writteninto its operations manual, otherwise known as ourBy-Laws. The last time CMCS’s By-Laws wereamended was during Joan Perkett’s term as Com-modore. The basic structure of the document hasnot required significant change since then. Corpo-rate governance suggests that By-Laws be re-viewed every five- seven years ( or sooner if opera-tions or structure has changed in such a way thatthe structure is out of synch with the By-Laws).

When leadership determined that there needed tobe, in place, an ongoing system to identify, cultivate,promote, and nominate leaders for the future, achange within the By-Laws was needed to matchthe process to the organizing principles. What usedto be an annual Nominations and Elections processevolved into an ongoing cadre of members andleaders known as the CDC, or Club DevelopmentCommittee. CMCS is blessed to attract and retainthe membership that the organization has enjoyedfor 50+ years. To insure that continuity of leader-ship, the CDC was birthed, and is now led by ViceCommodore, Don Lawson.

Once the Article on Election of Officers requiredsome edits and updating, the Ad Hoc Committeebegan looking at the document holistically and sawminor verbiage that needed aligning, e.g. in someArticles CMCS is referred to as “The Society”, andin others it is referred to as “the Club”. Some Arti-cles contained duplicate language.

The Flag Officers & Directors have reviewed thesuggested edits & revisions and believe they areready to be brought to the General Membership forfinal input and eventual adoption. The draft of theedits is available on the CMCS website in the Mem-bers Only section. If you would like to have a hardcopy of the document, one can be provided for you.

Follow this link to the By-Laws on the CMCS web-site:http://www.cmcs-sail.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-10-22-CMCS-Bylaws.pdf

Stephanie Webb

CMS By-Laws Revisions

Membership andRecruitmentBev Slager


Our cruise leaders are Kim Brown & Judy Anderson.

CMCS Rum and Reading Cruisea/k/a Macomber Cruise

November 13-15, 2015

This is CMCS’s most educational cruise! And it is so simple that there are nopre-requisites. It begins on Friday. Trust Me!!! will anchor at York Island for theevening. As always, if the wind is wrong for York Island it will be right for Sani-bel Bight. Communal Cocktails will in fact occur at 5 PM on Friday night. Judyintends to sweet talk the largest boat in the anchorage to host. If that fails wewill see how many folks we can squeeze on Trust Me!!!. (30 something is thecurrent record). There are no class size limits in this CMCS school. BYOB anda tidbit to pass. There will be an educational seminar on the intricacies of sip-ping Rum. Learn by doing. Trust Me!!! will supply the first couple of choices butfeel free to contribute if you have a special favorite. ‘Old Nassau’ remains onthe banned list; Xaniche– last years winner will be present. The request to use16 oz glasses has been tabled.

Saturday morning we'll weigh anchor if we ended up at Sanibel Bight and headto York Island to anchor (a proper display of flags and colors is encouraged).The expeditionary force from the fleet will dinghy up the Monroe Canal toWoody's Waterside Pub (a very dog and sailor friendly establishment) for theBob Macomber Annual Book Celebration. http://www.robertmacomber.com/Scuttlebutt.html The ’class’ starts at noon though it runs well into the evening.If you aren’t in the first wave of dinghies to head in don’t worry. Folks unable tojoin the naval assault are encouraged to join the land forces that will arrive bycar and bike. The usual drill is there is a hog roast, beer, and a band or two.And we act very literary Bob wanders about being very authorly and hawks asmany books, hats, and t-shirts as he can. There is a new book this year. Atthis point that Wake dude must be as old as Bob. After you are booked out,head back to your boat to recover.

Nothing formal is planned for Saturday night or Sunday so head home early orhang around and hit the Waterfront for lunch and make it a complete tour of St.James city. Trust Me!!! will monitor 16/72 and my cell is 822-6934

CMCS Thanksgiving Cruise - 2015November 25 thru 29, or whenever you can make it.

Cruise leaders: Glen & Paula Vetter aboard Freestyle

Once again we plan to head North to the Cayo Costa State Park area, where mostof us anchor in Pelican Bay and enjoy the Park. This cruise has evolved into avery flexible weekend that can accommodate everyone’s schedule. There’s

plenty to do at Pelican Bay with exploring in your dinghy, access to Cayo Costa’sbeach, and of course, our tradition of happy hours on a boat, beach, and/or mana-

tee hole.

Thanksgiving dinner is done either by preparing the BIG meal yourself on yourboat (not our idea of fun), or by joining us, at Cabbage Key for their traditional

turkey dinner.

Arrangements have been made for a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursdayfor 2:00 PM at Cabbage Key. Please, do not call Cabbage Key to make or changedinner reservations with the CMCS group. Make these reservation through ourcruise leaders – Glen & Paula Vetter. ONLY our Cruise Leaders will be modify-

ing the CMCS dinner reservation at Cabbage Key. We’ve tried to make it easy foryou to make your reservation by using the handy RSVP form on the CMCS web-site. http://www.cmcs-sail.org/event/thanksgiving-cruise-2/. Simply type your

information in the boxes, and then click on “Submit RSVP”.

Please send us an email if you have any questions ([email protected]) or callGlen's cell at 239-207-7457.

Glen & Paula Vetter on s/v “Freestyle”


2015 CMCS CHRISTMAS PARTYCome one, come all to the Annual Christmas celebration

At the General Membership MeetingDecember 15th @ 6:00 pm at the Cape Coral Yacht Club

CMCS will provide the dinner complete with appetizers, salad, entrée and sides.Please bring a festive dessert to share

Each member is responsible for their own beverage of choice.

Additionally

We know we have many creative members SO …Please assemble a centerpiece to decorate the tables…

there will be judging for the best centerpiece.

Members are also asked to bring non-perishable food & canned goodsas well as unwrapped toys for the Cape Coral Caring Center.

Cash and checks are also welcome.

Festive Holiday Music and Fun!

There will be no cost to the members for this event. However, we askthat you make reservations to allow us to plan appropriately.

For questions and volunteer opportunities contact [email protected]


Our cruise is unstructured. Most people work their way up to Pelican Bay on the 26th. Arrive when youcan. The cruise is a destination cruise, so only New Year’s Eve counts for the cruising award.

Pelican is a good anchorage and most boats can tuck in if there is a norther…or go around to School-house Bay (aka Hurricane Hole). Cayo Costa State Park is a great place to meander around. Pleaseremember that there is a $2/day per person shore fee payable at the honor box or you can pay at theoffice if you don’t have change.

As is our recent custom, we are spending New Year’s Eve at Fisherman’s Village. We have free use ofthe boaters’ lounge from 4-12 or later. Bring snacks for snack hour and a dish to share for pot luck.Your hosts (Dan and I ) will provide some form of meat….spiral ham comes to mind and food setups(plates, forks…well, you know what that all is). Snack hour generally runs into potluck and it’s hard totell what phase we are in. We start snacking at 5. Serious food is after that. I don’t mention drinking be-cause that really doesn’t have a time frame.

All are welcome and it is an easy drive up there. No charge for the land cruisers except the requiredfood items!

The marina will also have a band, snack type food, and beer/wine. All are welcome to enjoy the music.Food and beverage- extra charge! (very reasonable).

All slips are currently reserved and the Marina is sold out. If you are one of the 13 boats who made res-ervations for a slip, you are fine. In past years we have had a waiting list and all got in. No guaranteesabout this year, but it is certainly worthwhile getting on the waiting list. You can also anchor out if youlike and use the dinghy dock.

Nothing has changed at the marina. The building is as you remember it! Many of us go up on the 30thand stay 2 nights.

There is a new reservation policy. A credit card is required and there is a 72 hour prior to reservationcancellation policy. If you cancel within that 72 hours, you will be charged 1 night dockage. If you wishto get on the waiting list it is imperative that you speak ONLY to Randy Chevalier. If you speak with any-one else (name withheld-Jim) don’t count on having a reservation. 941 575 3000

If you have any questions other than reservations, feel free to call or email me.

Carolyn Wilson, M/S Bridget O’Toole [email protected] 239 699 8749

CMCSNEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY CRUISE

Fishermen’s VillageDecember 26 to January 1


Election Procedures forCMCS Officers and Directors

According to our CMCS Bylaws the way we electofficers and directors provides more opportunitiesfor the membership to become involved with thegovernance of their organization.

Under the current bylaws, the 1st Vice Commodorehas the responsibility to submit this article in Augustfor the September Chowder Chatter each year ex-plaining how the process works.

There are two ways a candidate can be nominatedfor a Flag Officer or Director position. The first wayis that the Club Development Committee can nomi-nate them and the second way is that any memberin good standing can nominate them.

Historically, the Nominating Committee operated ona 3 month basis. On November 12th 2013 the Boardexpanded this Committee to a 12 month Club De-velopment Committee “CDC”.

The Club Development Committee “CDC” con-sists in part of a past commodore, two current direc-tors and two members from the general member-ship. If you are interested in serving on the CDC,contact the 1st Vice-Commodore. The Commodorewill also solicit interest from the floor at the generalmembership meetings for members interested inserving on the Club Development Committee“CDC”.

At the September and October General meeting(s)of CMCS, the Commodore will review the process ofselecting the Officers and Directors for the comingyear. The Commodore will also encourage that writ-ten nominations for Flag Officers and Director posi-tions be submitted to the CDC no later than Novem-ber 1.

The Nomination form is available on the CMCS Website, and published in the September and OctoberChowder Chatter.

You can nominate yourself, in fact you will noticethat you have to sign the form and another memberin good standing has to sign the form. We do notwant someone nominated who does not want toserve.

The Club Development Committee meets through-out the year to prepare a Nomination slate of Offi-cers and Directors, and will report that slate as arecommendation of the CDC at the NovemberBoard Meeting. No action may be taken by theBoard other than to accept or reject the recommen-dation of the CDC before the December GeneralMeeting of the Society.

In the event that the CDC Club Development Com-mittee does not select a nominated candidate pro-vided from the general membership for its’ own slateof Officers and Directors, that nominated candidateshall still be included and placed on the ballot. Inother words, all properly nominated candidates willappear on the ballot.

All nominations shall then be submitted by Novem-ber to be published before the December Meeting ofthe Society.

Another element to our voting process is the Cre-dentials Committee that will actually run the elec-tion. Two members selected from the general mem-bership, not any Flag Officer or Director, will consti-tute this committee. The Commodore will requestvolunteers at the November membership meeting.Requests for absentee ballots would be made to theCredentials Committee. The Fleet Purser and FleetYeoman will act as staff to the Credentials Commit-tee.

Voting is by membership, not by member. In mostcases that means that each family has one vote. Weanticipate that you will pick up your ballot with yourname tag at the December meeting of the society.There will be provision for write in nominations. Ifyou request an Absentee Ballot and then decide toattend the December meeting of the society, you willnot get a second ballot.

This process and procedure is a work in progressand may need some modifications. Our goal is tohelp you get more involved in the workings of yourclub.

(last update 8-2014)



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Members, to advertise your boating-related items free in the CMCS Chandlery, e-mailSteve Roake, Chowder Chatter Editor at [email protected]

or use your roster for telephone information.Your ad will be listed for 3 months unless you notify me to take your listing out sooner.

Non-members are welcome to advertise their items at a price of $30.00 for 3 months.Business cards or business related listings sent in digital format only :

Members: 3 months, $25.00Non-members: 3 months, $50.00

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November 7 Festival of the Islands RegattaNovember 10 CMCS Board of Directors MeetingNovember 12-15 Fort Myers Boat ShowNovember 13-15 Macomber Rum and Reading CruiseNovember 17 CMCS General Membership MeetingNovember 23 Chowder Chatter DeadlineNovember25-29 Thanksgiving CruiseDecember 5 Commodore’s Cup RegattaDecember 8 CMCS Board of Directors MeetingDecember 15 CMCS General Membership Meeting / Christmas PartyDecember 23 Chowder Chatter DeadlineDecember 26-January 1 Holiday Cruise

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