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Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild Newsletter
Small Stuff April 2006
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Spring news.....uprigging,sailing schedules,etc.
-- GAZELA 2006 SAILING SCHEDULE.....sign up NOW!!
-- Always busy....PSPG Public Relations (Donna Vito)
-- Jupiter News - Ralph Onesti
-- Seaport Museum Event - April 30 -- Crew merchandise (Jupiter and Gazela) -- News from the office.......... -- Education News-Lynn Yonally -- Dockside Education and school groups -- Dockside Display at Penn's Landing
The warmer weather has finally come and there is much work to be done before the official sailing and "tugging" season can get underway. The nice weekends are a wonderful way to get to know the new crew and join the fun on both the ship and tug. We hope to see you!!! |
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GAZELA 2006 SAILING SCHEDULE.....sign up NOW!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gazela will leave port several days prior to each
event. Please sign up for your expected trips so we
can make an assessment of availability.Please provide your desired trip/dates and send them to the office.
Jupiter's Season is also coming together...check out their news and sign up for their trips also. If you need a ride......sign up on the message board. |
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Always busy....PSPG Public Relations (Donna Vito) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We will spend much of April promoting the trip to
Baltimore and Annapolis for the Volvo Ocean Race.
We need people to call the media and send out press
releases.Plans for Maritime Day, June 4th, will start soon. It will be discussed at the next Publicity Meeting on April 11 at 6:30 PM in the Penn's Landing Conference Room. Successful presentations were held at the Pennsylvania Victorian Society and the Union League in March. We will continue to work with the Board and Guild members to schedule more of these types of appearances. Summer is a good time to schedule meetings with local media as well. We will be preparing a press kit to distribute. A mailing to meeting planners is being prepared to promote the ships for receptions for the summer. We need more ideas for summer events. We are talking to WXPN about live broadcasts and want to talk to local TV stations about remotes from the deck as well. Please contact us with any and all ideas you may have at pr@gazela.org.
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Jupiter News - Ralph Onesti ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JUPITER Training Sail ... Date: April 15, 2006 (3rd Saturday). Training session at 0800 ...We leave the dock at 0900 hrs and return at 1200 hrs. There will be breakfast and lunch fare. We will start with lines, terminology, and a man over board drill. There will be a training log for you. Make sure you get signed off on your task accomplishments. This is the start of a semi-formal training schedule for JUPITER. Please keep in mind we are trying to impress the CG with our willingness to treat Jupiter as an inspected vessel. This will become very important in the near future. IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND, notify JUPITER's Event Coordinator:, Mary Beth Tomlinson
There is a request for our girl to attend a
Birthday Party. The festivities for Steam
Tug BALTIMORE'S birthday celebration are slated for
the weekend of October 21st and 22nd. and will be
free to the public. There
will be a tugboat parade both days. To our
knowledge, such a great tug boat parade has not
occurred in this city since the 200th celebration of
the Port of Baltimore held back in 1906. There will
be a Friday evening fund raiser, October 20th at the
Baltimore Museum of Industry.
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Seaport Museum Event - April 30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Deepwater Pilots in the Days of SailAt the end of the 19th Century, off the New Jersey- Delaware coast, when tall ships sails were sighted on the horizon, jaunty, swift-winged pilot schooners raced one another to be the first to reach her and win the fee to have one of their own captain-pilots guide her up Delaware Bay and River, and deposit her safely at a landside berth. Piloting was arduous and fraught with danger, pursued in all seasons and weather, day and night. Join Philadelphia author and sailing enthusiast Tony Junker as he recreates those exciting days in a lively illustrated talk that includes readings from his recent sea novel, Tunnells Boys.
Admission is free. |
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Crew merchandise (Jupiter and Gazela) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jupiter garments are being ordered. Chambray short
and long sleeve shirts with embroidered logos as in
the past. New item this year Navy Hooded
Sweatshirts with front pouch, with logo. If you are
interested, please send an email ASAP with JUPITER
in the subject to gogretchen@h
otmail.com . I will reply with the details. Crew
garments must be ordered soon for the upcoming
season so please respond promptly.
GAZELA CREW SHIRTS
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News from the office.......... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Once again April is upon us ... and once again we
have passes from Cultural Volunteer Managers of
Greater Philadelphia (CVM) for Guild members to use
in cultural institutions in the Greater
Philadelphia area during the month of April. You will need your Ship Guild membership card as well as a pass to visit the participating institutions. We are not doing a blanket mailing of the passes due to the cost in postage ... we will be glad to mail you a set if you send an email to the office pspgoffice@aol.co m.
To avoid seatime documentation delays in 2006, we
will make sure that there are supplies of the requisite
USCG form for tracking your seatime aboard the
vessels (GAZELA & JUPITER). It will be up to you to
track your seatime and get the form signed by the
ship captain before you leave at the end of your trip.
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Education News-Lynn Yonally ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Girard Cadets are finishing up their course of
study with us. They did an excellent job of cleaning
the fo'c's'le and dry stores in preparation for the
Intensive training weekend. Their scrubbing and
sweeping was their work contribution during their
training....all of them participated.We only have two more classes: Fri. April 21 (Navigation) Wed. May 10 Cadet test of skills
the cadet over night has been changed to:
Thurs. May 11 and Fri. May 12.
We will need crew to be on hand after school at 4 -
4:30pm to greet them and help stow their gear.
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Dockside Education and school groups ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When we are dockside in Phila or other ports, we
often have school groups request time on board.
There is a brief description in the "Education" cabin
of tours that work for this event.During a school visit we set up 3-4 "stations" that the groups visit. They can be mechanical advantage, knot tying,history,navigation,etc. We usually divide the school group into smaller groups for these demonstrations which works better for all involved. If you are on board and a school group requests coming on....please use the folder and information packet....it will make the visit easier and also target the education objectives mandated by curriculums. There is also a education brochure available to be used in PR releases and for sending out prior to port visits. In conjunction with this, during open ships we also have available a "children's tour" of the ship which has activities and information geared toward 5-10 year. olds. These are also kept in the trunk in the "Education" cabin. Many parents have praised the tour and appreciated the information gained for their child.
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Dockside Display at Penn's Landing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We have been given the opportunity to develop a
dockside display on one of the unused sign boards
along the walkway. We had a preliminary meeting
March 17 and gathered several good ideas.
Our next meeting will be Fri. April 21...anyone with
graphic design background or signage experience are
more than welcome....please meet on the ship at
6:30pm.
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Contact Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
email:
office@gazela.org
phone:
215-238-0280
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