2015 Fall Pilot - Sailing Club Of Oriental

SCOO PILOT
SAILING CLUB OF ORIENTAL
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SUMMER and FALL 2015
Gordon Kellogg, Editor
COMMODORE’S MESSAGE
Commodore Jerry Buckman
Sailing has been good to Elizabeth and me for the last 50 years! Mostly it has been racing on Hobies,
Tornados, Dragon Flies, Melges and fast keel boats but not a lot of cruising.
After moving to Oriental five years ago and joining SCOO that all changed. Where in the past our pleasure in
sailing was from the competition and the sailing in itself. Now our enjoyment in sailing has broadened to the
act of sailing, navigation, exploration at the destination and camaraderie with like-minded people. We enjoy
the cruises, socials, races and friendships associated with SCOO.
There are six activities left on the calendar for 2015: Cape Lookout Cruise, Commodore's Cup, Mumfest,
Little Washington Cruise, South River Cruise.and the Annual Change of Watch. It is NOT TO LATE to sign
up for any or all scheduled events. Hope to see all of you there.
Jerry Buckman
VICE COMMODORE’S MESSAGE
Vice Commodore Joe Glorioso
It has been a HOT summer but our 2015 sailing season has had some well attended and fun events. But the
season is not over yet. I just wanted to remind everyone that we STILL have some great cruises and the
Commodores Cup race coming up.
We have lots going on and some great cruise captains on board to facilitate these last five events. Members,
don't miss the chance to participate! As always, the more the merrier.
Let's see you out there,
Joe Glorioso
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DATE
EVENT
CRUISE CAPTAINS
PHONE
Sept. 22-25 Morehead City/Cape Lookout
Pat and Almira Dallas
Sept. 30
Commodores Cup
Jerry B., Gordon K., Ed B.
Oct.9-11
Mum Fest, New Bern
Ray and Kathy Ruppert
249-1162
Oct. 13-16
Little Washington/Bath
Bob and Stacy Taylor
745-4630
Oct. 27
South River Pizza Cruise
Bill and Phyllis Chaplik
249-0275
MEMBERSHIP REPORT
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Beth Michne, Membership Chairman
Mac & Sheila Ernest, sponsored by Art & Elise Tierney, have completed their requirements for full
membership.
Carl Franklin & Joanna Harrell, sponsored by Charles & Ann Stackhouse have also completed their
requirements for full membership. SCOO extends a warm welcome to our newest members!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prospective members, Roger & Leslie Hammer, Tom McElroy & Alice Petree, Gantley Huhn & Lila
Forsberg and Carl Franklin & Joanna Harrell are working on completing their requirements by the end of
our season. Good luck to you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a reminder to those who are sponsoring prospective members: It is recommended that sponsors attend
the trips with their prospective members to help them complete their requirements.
There are no new applicants at this time.
SOCIAL COMMITTEE NEWS____________
Chris Behre, Chairman
SCOO is looking for a volunteer SCOO member or SCOO couple that is willing to take over the Social
Committee Chair responsibilities for next year. I will be running for the Rear Commodore position and
likely will not have a lot of opposition. I would be happy to talk with you about the Chair’s responsibilities.
If you are fairly new to SCOO, it is an amazing way to get to know many of the SCOO members, and the
committee makes the Chair’s job quite easy and rewarding.
If you are interested in the position, or just joining the social committee, please call me or send an email.
Following the successful spring SCOO events, the Summer Picnic and Regretta Regatta social events were
well attended and fun for all! Coming up our last event of the year:
Sep 20 – Commodore’s Cup – Pecan Grove – set up at 3 p.m. (Catered by Silo’s – pizza)
I want to thank all members of the social committee for all you do! The smooth and efficient
way you all chip in to make it seem seamless to the SCOO membership is quite welcome!
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CRUISE AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES REPORTS
STEAKOUT AT THE STACKHOUSE’S
Charles and Ann Stackhouse
For the third year in a row, the Steak Out took place on Gideon Creek. Despite the threat of subtropical storm
Ana swirling around the Carolina coast, the weather held and fifty nine people attended the Steak-out on May
7th at the home of Charles and Ann Stackhouse. Only four boats braved the elements and spent the night at
the Stackhouse dock.
Since this turned into an eating event rather than a cruising event due to the weather, most of this discussion
will revolve around the food. Prior to the main event, the makings for Nachos (tortilla chips, salsa, jalapeño
peppers, and hot cheese) were enjoyed along with nuts, cheese and crackers, and two types chex mix (one was
chocolate covered). The host gave a brief oral discussion of the history of Pamlico. The menu consisted of
steaks cooked by the attendees, baked potatoes with butter and sour cream, caesar salad, rolls, water, coffee,
and tea. Toppings for the ice cream sundaes included crushed cookies, walnuts, cherries, whipped cream,
chocolate and caramel syrups. Earl Evens Bananas Foster was truly missed.
The number for breakfast the following morning dropped from 33 to 9, however, since the boating forecast
was somewhat dismal. The breakfast menu consisted of sausage gravy with biscuits, assorted pastries, fruit,
juice, and coffee.
We would like to thank two prospective members of SCOO, Carl Franklin and Joanna Harrell, for all of
their assistance. Special thanks to Brantley’s Restaurant for finding us the best steaks available and to the
Marine Corp for the rental of their cooker.
BROAD CREEK SHORE PICNIC
Joe and Carol Glorioso
We had the Cookout held the eve of the Summer Solstice Race at Point Marina on Broad Creek. Boats were
allowed to dock on the end of "T" pier at Point Marina so they would be ready to race the Summer Solstice
Race the following day. We had close to 40 persons attend the cookout and pot luck dinner. The great thing
about Point Marina was that the clubhouse is AIR CONDITIONED! Therefore it seems appropriate to say
that we all had a cool time.
Joe Glorioso
SUMMER SOLSTICE
Gerry and CherylCrowley, Dennis and Elaine Snyder
The 2015 SCOO/ODC Summer Solstice Sailstice was held on 20 June 2015. Twenty boats registered for the
event, however three boats dropped out due to concerns over weather, leaving seventeen (17) boats competing
for coveted trophies and bragging rights.
Sailing Instructions (SI’s) with course to be sailed and individual boat start times for the “pursuit style” race
format were passed out at the 0900 Skippers meeting. This race has for the past twenty five years continues to
be run in the lower Neuse River off Broad Creek and Pamlico Sound. The course is roughly a ten mile triangle
course utilizing Government marks “Neuse River Junction”, “NR” and #4 off of Broad Creek.
It was only fitting that the first boat to start at 1200 hrs., was POLLYWOG, skippered by Tim Balfour a “card
carrying” charter member (#32) of the Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor Club (WYTC).
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POLLYWOG
Skippered by Tim Balfour and Jennifer Smart. A Bruce Bingham designed Flika
Fitting in that this event was originally organized and run by Nick Santoro of Whortonsville Yacht & Tractor
Club (WYTC) fame for twenty year. Twenty years was enough the Admiral said. Since 2010 The Sailing
Club of Oriental (SCOO) with cooperation and assistance from the Oriental Dinghy Club (ODC) has
organized and run the event.
The above picture shows, at the start of the race we were in the doldrums. In fact they lasted for
approximately two hours before the winds began to fill from the South to 10-15 MPH which became a
significant advantage to the later starting and faster boats. To illustrate, the last boat to start: VECTOR, 70
minutes after the first, finished second.
We did have one participant that took the doldrums opportunity to play an improvised game of “pin-ball” with
the course’s inflatable marks…scoring points by bumping off both of them (starting line “pin” & first turning
mark (#4)) .Luckily Pin-Ball was only “played” with the inflatable marks and not the fixed government
marks.
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Some boats were setting as much “canvas” as they could, evidenced by Kevin Bryan’s Long Shot, a Tartan
34C pictured here. BTW you might recall that past Commodore George Duffy, now deceased, sailed a
Tartan 34C and use to try to convince us that the “C” stood for “CLASSIC” not center-board.
With the building winds storm clouds eventually came and with NOAA predicting thunder storms, yada,
yada, yada, the Race Committee called to a few boats still on the course to “abandon” and head for cover. As
it turned out the severe weather and rain passed north without incident.
Race participants and guests reconvened at the Fork Point home of our hosts Dennis & Elaine Snyder, for
awards/trophies, and Berkley Hill’s “pig-pickin” and covered dish social. Pictured below is Berkley serving
the pig.
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As part of this year’s Summer Solstice we put out a “challenge” to the Ladies to wear their “fascinators” and
several did. Pictured from left to right: Laurie Sampson, Beth Michne, Carol Small, and Kathy Ruppert
Order of finish as determined by the Race committee was as follows:
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Bottle Rocket…………..Rob Barefoot
Vector……………………….Manfred Rott
Bewitched…………………Joe Glorioso
Stimulus…………………….Jerry Buckman
Nevermoore………………Brian Brown
Nova Carina……………….B Michne
Long Run…………………….Kevin Bryan
Jorum…………………………Chris Behre
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9.
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Orion………………………….Margret Alexander
Short Cut………………….Nick Santoro
Cielo…………………………..Bob Luhrs
Legend………………………Nelda Coates
Wind Melody…………….Dick Mannion
Heron…………………………Ron Scotti
Lansa………………………….Eric Lind
Lady K ……………………….Ray Ruppert
Pollywog……………………..Tim Balfour
Trophy presentations and awards were made as follows:
First Place: BOTTLE ROCKET, Rob Barefoot
Second Place: VECTOR, Manfred Rott
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Third Place: BEWITCHED, Joe Glorioso
A tradition of the Whortonville Yacht & Tractor Club’s Summer Solstice Silbration for more than twenty years has been the
presentation of home baked bread of Whortonsville’s own Ambassador Rebba Tiller. Loaves of bread were awarded to the fourth
and fifth place finishers as follows:
Fourth Place; STIMULUS, Jerry Buckman
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That’s Brian on NEVERMOORE who took fifth place and accepting for Brian was Rob Barefoot.
A side note…wanting to verify that Rob actually delivered the loaf of bread to Brian I contacted Brian and in
his own words: “who baked that bread. It was the best trophy I’ve ever gotten” ..and trust me, he meant it and
Brian is the only skipper that has won this prestigious event twice.
Two additional awards were presented. One being the “Fascinator” award which was presented to SV NOVA
CARINA, specifically Laurie Sampson and Beth Michne
Laurie Sampson and Beth Michne of SV NOVA CARINA accepting the “FASCINATOR” AWARD
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BTW, generally NOVA CARINA is “raced” by Beth Michne with a female crew but it’s understood that Bill
Michne had stowed away this year and once found had to be put in irons and chained to the mast.
AND……last but not least the “Founder’s Cup” trophy was presented to Nick Santoro the founder of the
Whortonville Yacht & Tractor Club’s Summer Solstice Sailabration.
Nick Santoro accepting the FOUNDER”S CUP
We hope that everyone enjoyed themselves as much as we did and special thanks to those that make the
Summer Solstice possible. YOU the participants and specifically Dennis & Elaine Snyder for again
providing the venue for our “picnic”, SCOO (Social Chair Chris Behre) for providing tables and coolers,
Earl & Sandy Evens for the use of their Mainship SOUPER for Race Committee duty, the Oriental Dinghy
Club (Bill Michne Commodore) for the use of Race Committee gear (marks, anchors and signal flags),
Rebba Tiller for baking loaves of bread for trophies, Gordon Kellogg for doing the “handicapping,” Berkley
Hill for barbecuing the pig, my “Admiral” Cheryl for her support and photography and the crews of
CIELO & JORUM for supplying photographs also. You can find additional photos on PICASA utilizing the
following link: (just copy and paste into you’re your browser)
https://picasaweb.google.com/106078837565132092054/2015SUMMERSOLSTICE?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRg
CJDXn7-HmdrgeQ&feat=directlink
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ANNUAL SCOO PICNIC
Gerry Buckman, Social Committee
This year’s SCOO Summer Picnic on Tues, July 14, 2015, was a bit different from past SCOO annual picnics.
While the predicted heavy rain did not materialize, the temperatures were hot. Very hot. Brantley’s, again
this year provided fried chicken and fixings. But with a dour weather forecast, Brantley’s offered SCOO the
use of their back room. We accepted, and it turned out to be a great success.
We had 65 members attend the event, and the only problem worthy of mention was when Brantley’s ran out
of their great fried chicken. We added ham to the menu as an alternative for those that didn’t eat fried food,
and there was ham left over. So – in the future we will make sure there is enough fried chicken to go around.
Brantley’s air conditioning was quite well received. For future picnics I recommend having a backup plan
for an indoor venue in the event of bad weather and or severe heat.
Chris Behre, Social Committee Chair
OCRACOKE CRUISE II
Jerry and Donna Luh
One never knows what the weather gods will send us in August, but 25 cruisers on eleven boats were blessed
when they headed to Ocracoke Island on August 10th for a SCOO outing.
We had calm seas, light winds, and mild temperatures on our way to Ocracoke. Since cruise captains Jerry
and Donna Luh (Bluejacket) were leaving from Broad Creek, Bill and Phyllis Chaplik volunteered to meet
the in-town cruisers at Oriental marker #1 to sail over as a group. Everyone who wished for a spot at the
National Park Service Docks in Ocracoke was successful in securing a slip. By 5:00 p.m. we found our way
to the national park service picnic area where, under the shade of some very old cedar trees, we shared happy
hour with heavy hors d’oeuvres then took an evening stroll to the other end of town for an ice cream treat.
On Tuesday, most of the gals headed for the local coffee shop to start their day of shopping while many of
the guys took a hike thru town and around Springer Point Park. At the arranged hour of 1:00 p.m., some fun
loving souls were back under the cedar trees to play the Sailor’s Game… family feud style. Divided into two
teams, the Keel Haulers and the Plank Walkers, the teams vied to answer questions posed on seamanship,
yacht equipment, general boating trivia, marine trivia, and navigation. As we played the game, the weather
continued to deteriorate. We remembered the adage used by many in the cruising world “all plans are made
in Jell-O”, so our pot luck get together was postponed for a day while we all headed to the Flying Melon
Restaurant for dinner. It rained lightly on us as we walked to the restaurant and as predicted, the sky began
to open on our return trip to the marina. We were treated to a real lightening light show before turning in for
the night.
We awakened to a bright new day on Wednesday with plans for more island exploring, shopping, and boat
hopping. By 5:00 p.m. everyone headed back to the picnic area for a wonderful pot luck dinner of home
cooked goodies. That began our fun filled evening which took us on a trip to the Deepwater Theater to enjoy
the Ocrafolk Opry. Nineteen cruisers went and came away from the show with happy faces and kudos for the
Ocrafolk performers.
On Thursday morning, we were again greeted with beautiful skies, temperate temperatures, and light winds
for sailing back home…perfect conditions for Joe Valinoti to guide all interested cruisers thru the Nine Foot
Slew.
A great big thanks to all who participated: Prospective members Roger & Leslie Hammer (Angelyn) [with
friends Bill & Brenda Hallam] and Tom Mc Elroy & Alice Petree (Highland Fox); and SCOO members
Chris & Jamie Behre (Jorum), Jerry & Elizabeth Buckman (Stimulus), Bill & Phyllis Chaplik (Juniata), Joe
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& Carol Glorioso (Cefalu), Hans Nickstadt (Lulu), Bob & Stacey Taylor (Pelican), Henry & Karen
VanGamper(Kory), and Joe & Paula Valinoti (Il Gatto).
REGRETTA REGATTA
Gerry and Cheryl Crowley
2015 was the nineteenth (19th) year that SCOO has had a REGRETTA REGATTA. The event was first
envisioned by Commodore Art Tierney and his Admiral Elise. Cheryl & I have had the privilege of
“orchestrating” the event for about seven years now.
This year was another success with eighteen (18) boats participating. In no particular order the boats were:
Lady K, Jorum, Stimulus, White Gate, Whisper, Cefalu, Clew-Less, Juniata, Wind Melody, LuLu, Bay-B,
Detour, Lansa, Quixotic, Miranda, Kory, Stinger, Spindrift. The Elbonians assured us that weather would
not be an issue for the 2015 Regretta and they were proven correct. Perhaps it was a little too perfect for the
sailboats as the winds barely approached 5 knots at times. However the skies were clear with no precipitation
on the water and at our shore event.
Bill and Phyllis Chaplik allowed their Mainship 40, JUNIATA to serve as the “Committee Boat” and
onboard assisting Cheryl & I were Walt & Mary Ann Brown. As a result the pursuit style race got off on
time for once at 1200 hrs., for a clockwise course around the Government marks of Garbacon, Adams Creek
and Oriental 1. (did you know that actually Oriental 1 is really Smith Creek channel #1??)
There had been credible rumors that the “Donald” might make an appearance on the water but we later
learned that he had scheduled a hour hair appointment with Flo, which eventually turned into three
hours!!!!...Whoda thunk????
As is customary for the Regretta, the “Three Cheat Rule” (TCR) was in effect., with a significant number of
participants vying for “Whistle-Blower” status in identifying what they perceived as infractions of the TCR;
while they vied for favorable “positions’ on the course. The Committee took all protests seriously before
blowing them off.
Due to the extremely light winds the race was terminated around 1345 hrs., to give the boats sufficient time
to return to home ports and get to the awards/trophy ceremony and social at Sea Harbor Marina, scheduled to
commence at 1630 hrs.,
At 1700 hrs., the awards and trophy presentations commenced with “presentations” as follows:
First Place Sail…………………..CEFALU
First-Second Place sail………….LADY K
Thumb’s Up………………… …STINGER
Slow Poke………………………WIND MELODY
Going-in Circles……………… STIMLUS
Wishing…………………………MIRANDA
Diamond-in Ruff……………… QUIXOTIC
Dirty Bottom………………… .BAY-B
Following the award and trophy presentations was the covered dish social. Which I believe everyone was
able to get their fill.
Cheryl & I wish to thank all the Social Committee members and Chris Behre (Social Committee Chair) for
getting everything set up at Sea Harbor and the Chaplik’s (Bill & Phyllis) for the use of their boat as the
Committee Boat and Walt and Mary Ann Brown for assisting the Race Committee.
We hope everyone enjoyed themselves on the water and at the shore event and we hope to see everyone next
year.
We’ll get pictures posted to PICASA where everyone with a computer can access them.
REGRETTA REGATTA Headquarters
Gerry & Cheryl Crowley
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