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Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild
Weekly Update
January 16, 2008
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I can hardly wait until next week to put more faces to names, those of you coming to the Annual Dinner will see me at the welcome table with Ann Preston handing out nametags! Be sure and send in a picture for our yearbook project - we need more faces!
As always, remember, feel free to contact me if you have any news or notes included in the Weekly Update. I am based at the Guild office (215) 238-0280 or you can e-mail me at: sarah.waters@philashipguild.org
Fair Winds,
-- Sarah Waters
Director of Marketing & Development
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Last Chance to Join Your Crewmates for
AWARDS, ENTERTAINMENT, GREAT FOOD!
January 25, 2008
at
The Restaurant School
4207 Walnut Street
7:00 pm
Dinner at 7:30 pm
$50 / ticket
There are still some seats available
DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS
NOON
January 17
If you would like to come please call the office (215) 238-0280 with your credit card number
or
use the PayPal donation button from our website
WE MUST HAVE YOUR DINNER CHOICE FOR THE RESERVATION!
Choice of Entree:
1) Chicken - Cider marinated boneless breast of chicken, apples, dried cranberries, and dried cherries, citrus fruit glaze
2) Beef - Pan-seared flat Iron steak, peppercorn medley, chicken stock, sherry macerated golden raisins, cream
3) Vegetarian - Open-faced ravioli, julienne of vegetables, sage, walnut pesto cream
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Special Volunteer Opportunity
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rack up some of your Guild volunteer hours by helping man the phones at the 91FM WHYY RADIO February Pledge Drive! The Guild will get free advertising as they announce " Gazela" or " Jupiter" several times during our volunteer shift. Volunteers for this assignment should be able to use a headset, answer phones, type information into a computer, and provide their own transportation to and from the station. Dinner will be provided. The following shifts are available: - Thursday, January 31, 3:00 to 8:00 pm. - Tuesday, February 5, 3:00 to 8:00 pm.IF you can make either of these dates to help out please contact Sarah Waters sarah.waters@philashipguild.org or (215) 238-0280 |
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Merchandise Committee
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A Merchandise Committee Meeting was held at 4:00 pm this past Sunday, January 13
Here are the highlights:
- Melissa (Marston) Black is the new Chair of the Merchandise Committee. Thanks to Lynn Yonelly for all her past work.
- A list of this year's items will be announced in February, the order will be placed by the end of March.
- If you have ideas for specific items to order, Marston wants to hear your ideas! She can't promise to order them - but send them to her for review at mblack258@gmail.com
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New Skills Class
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Please contact the Guild office, pspgoffice@aol.com or (215) 238-0280 if you are interested in these classes. The first six people to sign up will fill a class, don't forget to leave your phone number or e-mail for Bobby, please!
Engineering Classes:
Please sign up for both if you can -- if these dates don't work for you, contact the office - the instuctors have agreed to arrange alternate dates!
Intro to Engineering & DAMAGE CONTROL!
Wednesday, January 23 - Basic Systems Operations / Fundamentals of Ship Engineering & Damage Control! - Taught by Jesse Lebovics, 6 to 8 pm.
Intro to Engineering & DAMAGE CONTROL!
Wednesday, January 30 - Basic Systems Operations / Fundamentals of Ship Engineering & Damage Control! With special focus on Jupiter - Taught by John Gerry, 6 to 8 pm.
Chart Plotting Class:
January 29th OR February 6 -- 6 to 8 pm, Guild Office. Basics of chart plotting, will go over Lat. & Long., symbols, the nautical mile, compass variation, and practise with plotting tools on charts! Matt Glenn Instructor.
LOOKOUT, FIREWALK, RUNNER & HELM Class:
The title says it all, don't miss it -- this Weekend, January 19th, 1:00-3:00 pm - meet on Gazela. Deb Peretz instructor.
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Foreman Report
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By Ed Stemmler
Last week, volunteers painted more of the forecastle, the galley table and began prepping the name boards for painting. The steel hatch pieces were completely stripped of paint using a needle gun and have been thoroughly treated with rust converter. Matt Glenn and Fran deCurtis moved the wire seizing on the foretopmast stay to improve our ability to tighten the stay.
Patrick Flynn has laid out a new set of tasks to examine the repairs made to the rudder in 2006. The guild is looking at this repair to see how it has held up over a year of sailing. Marcus Brandt will be installing a rod through the rudder and attaching threaded eyes to each end of the rod. Once the eyes are in place, volunteers will hook up come-alongs to keep the rudder from moving. Once that control is in place, Ed Walsh will remove the worm gear from the casting. Patrick will then supervise the removal of the casting, also known as the "cross-head".
We're happy to report that Patrick has been hired by K-Sea in NYC. He'll be working two weeks on, two weeks off and will return to the Guild during his free time.
Robin Schimpf will serve as foreman on Saturday January 19th. Sunday's crew will be led by Ed Walsh.
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Notes
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Crewmate Elizabeth Foretek decided (against her wishes) to try flying across the hood of a car in Charleston.
Although flying is natural for her on the ship, this one was unnatural by any means. It was a hit and run on the Ashley River bridge while she was riding her bike home. Luckily she is recovering from a broken hand, lots of muscle pain and scrapes. She joins Nick on our list of injured "hands".
Welcome to the New Crew Recruitment & Retention volunteer
Francisco Franqui -- we welcome Francisco in his new commitment to this key volunteer position and we say farewell and a huge THANK YOU to Lenore Khan for her years of service as volunteer coordinator!
Discount prices on rigging tools, books & videos
Go to the crew section of www.gazela.org to link to Brion Toss Yacht Riggers special 15% sale.
NEW CREW - REMINDER
Please complete your Skills Survey and return it to the office (301 S. Columbus Blvd., Phila., PA 19106). We are making a data base of skills and areas of interest for upcoming events. Please send this in as soon as you can - if you do not have a Survey, Lynn can e-mail one to you foretekyonally@rcn.com
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January Dates
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January 19 -Work Day, meet on Gazela
- Adze Class, 1:00 pm
- Understanding Wood Class, 3:00 pm
- Lookout, Firewalk, Runner, & Helm class, 1:00 pm
January 20 - Work Day, meet on Gazela
January 23 - Engineering Class, Gazela, (6 to 8 pm)
January 25 - Annual Dinner
January 26 & 27 - Blacksmithing Class (9 to 5 pm)
January 29 - Chart plotting class, (6 to 8 pm)
January 30 - Engineering Class, Jupiter (6 to 8 pm)
January 31 - WHYY 91FM Fundraiser, Volunteer opportunity for the Guild, 3 to 8 pm.
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