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DSC Calendar
October 27 -- Wednesday Open Sail October 30 -- Halloween on the Harbor November 6 -- First Fall Work Party
See our complete calendar HERE. |
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Sign Up Now!
Saturday, October 30, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. the Downtown Sailing Center will host the 1st Annual Halloween on the Harbor. Halloween on the Harbor will be a family friendly, fun event that we hope will result in EVERY DSC BOAT being sailed on the harbor this Saturday. The grill will get started around 12:00 p.m., and costumed cruisers will be sailing until 4:00 p.m. Following the on the water festivities, we'll be sharing laughs, refreshments and a few prizes for the best dressed at Little Havana's from 4:30 to 7:00. There will be no cost for this event but donations are suggested. Visit HERE to view details and register for Halloween on the Harbor! E-mail Grady HERE with questions. |
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Work Parties - Coming Up Quick!
Thank you to all the volunteers who have committed to helping us decommission the fleet this fall. By registering early, you are helping us prepare to make these work parties the most productive in DSC history!
Starting November 6th join us to help decommission the fleet every Saturday starting at 9 a.m.
The party will be split into several groups. We ask that you sign up ahead of time and let us know which group you would prefer to participate in. The groups will be as follows:
-Sail teams (3 ea) - remove sail covers, remove, inspect, sort and store sails.
-Cleaning teams (3 ea) - remove pumps, buckets, throwables and trash from boats. Inspect, sort and store equipment. Wash boats.
-Boom teams (3 ea) - remove booms, label with boat name, secure and store.
-Mast lowering team (4 ea) - secure halyards, lower mast, remove rigging and mast from boat.
-Mast securing team (4 ea) - remove Windex, label mast with boat name and store in rack.
We will also need volunteers with vehicles that can tow the boat's trailers. If you would like to volunteer to help with this please contact Steve Maddox.
E-mail Grady if you have any questions or to sign up! Please indicate what work team you would like to be a part of, what your second choice is, and what dates you are available. |
Member Stories
At the DSC we are always trying to get to know our members, friends, and family better. We thought a fun way to do so would be to here your sailing stories! We would love to here about your 2010 sailing season. Stories should be about picturesque sails, good times with great friends, new experiences, and anything that went on in 2010 you would like to share. Each person who submits a story will be entered into a drawing for a canvas sailing bag. Get started writing now, contest entries will be closed Friday November 5th.
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Save the Sails!
The Canvas Committee works very hard to keep the fleet's supply of sails and canvas in good working order. Having been in existence for a short period of time, they've been able to save the DSC hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars in repair and replacement costs.
This has required many hours of volunteer labor sorting and repairing sails and sewing mainsail covers, repairing dodgers and biminis, all the while using a donated 1931 Singer sewing machine, one similar to those on display in the BMI!
Steve Maddox, the DSC Director of Operations, is working to acquire a beautiful, fully functioning (including REVERSE; yay!) Sailrite LZS-1 sewing machine for the canvas committee's use.
The DSC is asking for donations to cover the $500 cost of the sewing machine. Please help us reach this goal so the canvas committee can continue providing this valuable service.
Thank you!
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Picture of the Week!
Submit your shots HERE |
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Trivia!
The first person to answer the question correctly wins a DSC t-shirt. Email your answers HEREIn the story at the bottom of this section you will read about a manatee being spotted in Baltimore's Inner Harbor last week. In that theme, how fast has a manatee been known to swim, and at that speed, how long would it take to get from Fort Lauderdale, FL to Baltimore(roughly)?
"Could another manatee - or more than one - have found its way up the East Coast this summer, swimming into the Chesapeake Bay all the way to Baltimore?
The National Aquarium staff has been scrambling to confirm reported sightings of a manatee in the Patapsco River in recent days..." Read more of this story HEREAnd read about the happy end to the manatees journey HERE |
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