Sunny and warm during the week and rainy and cold on the weekend, was the weather forecast for most of the week. They said that it might rain on Friday but the weekend was definitely not going to be good for outside activity. I agonized all week about what to do about the scheduled dock work day. My experience is that a lot of the time the rain is a day or so late in getting here, so I waited. Friday, late, I got an email from Ashley Hawkins who lives in Forsyth asking that if I decided to call off the work day to send him an email early Saturday and an email from Ronnie Hartley saying that it did not look good. What should I do? Call it off or wait. Felt like I was in a poker game and trying to decide if the weather player was bluffing. Decided to check and wait until Saturday morning. Got up early and looked out at the lake, like being dealt another card, and the weather raising the stakes. Got a call about 8:30 AM from Bob Horan who said it was raining in Warner Robins. Bob and I both agreed that the rain usually moves from West to East, so it was probably going to start raining here soon. I knew that Bob always has a long list of projects he is working on, so I told him that we would forgive him if he stayed at home. Then I got a call from Pete Ekstrom who lives in Madison, and he said the weather looked like it was clearing and the sun might break out. I decided to send out an email saying that we may or may not be rained out, and I left for the club and arrived there a little after 9 AM. I was the first to arrive. Put on a pot of coffee and started hauling the tools and supplies out. Still no rain and the weather looked better. Shortly, a few hardy workers started to arrived and by about 10 AM, the official start time, work was well under way. One crew started tearing out the old deck boards, another started sawing deck boards, another started preparing the new stringers, another started hauling the old dock boards off the dock, another started pulling nails out of the old dock boards. Then the wrecking crew moved over to reinforcing the old sub structure which was barely hanging on, others started removing the old temporary walk way and rebuilding it, others started to attach the decking. Another very important crew started preparing a gourmet hot dog lunch prepared by Grayson and her crew. We had 12 workers: Charles Ballard, Mike Bragg, Brian and Erin Davis, Howard Gregory, Ronnie Hartley, Ashley Hawkins, Dick Mueller, Calvin and Grayson Smith, Jack Sterrett, and me. (I know it is risky to list the people for fear of leaving someone out. If anyone was left out please let me know.) We finished about 20 feet of dock and about 15 feet of walkway before the rain looked imminent, and we ran out of lumber at about 1:30 PM. We quickly attached a few critical cleats so we could retie the boats and put the tools and supplies away. The food was good, the fellowship was good, and we got a good bit done. We also created a large pile of debris which we decided to wait until later to clean up. Check out the photo link below. If anyone has a little time and wants to help out a little, here are some tasks that can be done at any time: 1. Pull the nails out of the old dock boards that are in reasonable good shape and stack them on the concrete pad beneath the deck. 2. Discard the old boards that are in less than reasonable shape into the dumpster. 3. Discard any bits and pieces of new lumber that is less than 1 foot long. 4. Discard any old boards that are less than 3 feet long. Several people have said that they are available to work on a weekday. I would like to schedule a weekday workday between February 27th and March 3rd. If you are able to participate, let me know at jimmy.harrell@riverside.net or 404 234 8463. [Feb 18 Work Day photos->http://www.osyc.net/photos/2006-02-18-Dock/page_01.htm]

What: Dock Raising Work Crew When: February 18, 10 AM to 2:30 PM A few of us, Bill Shaw, Ronnie Young, Dick Mueller, and I met at the club on last Friday and added a few more boards to the main dock. Before adding the boards we discovered that much of the old structure holding up the dock had separated from the poles and we had to reattach it before we could proceed. That portion of the dock was really in bad shape and really was not safe. We were able to rebuild the sub-structure and add about 15 more feet of dock boards. If a few people can make it, I would like to put together a crew for next Saturday, February 18. Hopefully, we will be able to finish the main dock and if we have enough workers, at least one finger pier. Hopefully the weather will cooperate, warm and little or no wind so we won’t be tempted to go sailing. Anyway, if the weather is warm and the wind just right, we can knock off in time for a sail in the afternoon. BTW, someone from the last work day left a DeWalt battery powered Drill and a hammer at the club. They are in the basement. Bring battery powered drills and extra batteries; we tend to run out of battery power. If someone has a 1/2 inch electric drill, we need it to drill the bolt holes in the posts. We will also need a couple of circular saws and other common carpentry tools. Email Jimmy Harrell at jimmy.harrell@riverside.net if you can come to the work day.

We had 12 members present for the work day. We did not get as much done as I expected. (It is not unusual for me to expect that I can do a job is much less time than it actually takes.) We finished about 15 feet of main dock and two finger piers, and pulled nails and stacked the old lumber which is good enough to use for some future project. The finger piers took longer than expected because Bob Horan and Mike Bragg had to do a lot of the work sitting in a jon boat. It took about 4 hours to do the first one. We must have learned a lot because it took only about 2 hours to do the second. The rest of the main dock is going to be a little more complicated. It looks like some of the nails holding the old stringers have pulled loose and some of the cross bracing is missing. We sill need to reattach the old stringers and replace some of the cross bracing before we add the new stringers and deck boards. A special thangs goes to Arlene Mueller who prepared lunch for the gang. [Click here to see photos of progress.->http://www.OSYC.net/photos/2006-1-28-RaisingDock/page_01.htm]

OSYC Members, especially Slip Holders, Commodore Bill and the Dock Committee has scheduled a dock raising work day for next Saturday, January 28. The committee has met two times to engineer the project and do a proof of concept. About 25 feet of the main dock has been raised. None of the finger peers have been raised but we think we have figured out how to do it. With about 10 volunteers, we think we could get most of the job done in about a half a day. One more work day should complete the project. Tools to bring: -Power circular saws, -Battery powered screw drivers, -1/2 inch drill, -Crow bars, -Measuring tapes, -Misc carpentry tools. We could use one flat bottom jon boat. If you have one you could bring, please let me know. We also need a volunteer to prepare lunch. The usual menu is hot dogs and beans. If you are a slip holder on A dock and have not put your boat in, it would be best if you held off until after the work day. We would like to meet at about 10 AM and knock off about 2:30 OR 3 pm. If you can come, please respond to this email. Also let me know if you have a jon boat you can bring (it doesn’t have to have a motor). Jimmy Harrell -706 484 1405 -404 234 8463 cell

{{[Launch-day photos of Calvin and Grayson’s new Telstar 28->http://osyc.net/photos/2005-11-Smiths-Telstar/page_01.htm]}} As you can see from the photos there was quite a contingent on had for the arrival of the “new to them” Telstar trimaran. We were all mesmerized as Calvin sat in the cockpit and turned the winch to raise the mast. The mast is hinged with a variety of rods and pins so that it magically lifts from the traveling crutches and sets itself vertically. Just before it was floated off the trailer, a few of the welcoming committee insisted that they be allowed to christen the boat, even though the Smiths had not settled on a name. They decided to pour a little beer across an amas instead of breaking a champaign bottle since they did not have champaign and didn’t want to waste a whole can of beer. After it was in the water it expanded from a with of 8+ feet to 18 feet wide. It looked sort of like a water spider standing on surface tension. After Calvin and Grayson motored out on the lake they circled back and picked up several of the welcoming committee and we all went for a sail. It sure is fast and a lot different from a monohull. We are anxiously waiting on a decision on the name. Jimmy Harrell Note 11/11/07: Calvin and Grayson have decided to sell the Telstar. [Click Here to See the Ad ->http://osyc.net/SPIP/article.php3?id_article=126]

No, your computer hasn’t gone crazy – the OSYC web site has undergone a dramatic change. The new look and feel is the result of a new Content Management software package that makes it somewhat easier to manage the site, and will allow multiple authors to work on different parts of the site at the same time. As with all new software, there are bound to be a few bugs, so let me know if you see anything that doesn’t seem right.

from Bill Shaw: -[->http://www.ned470ko.nl/wnd_movie_hb.asp] -[->http://www.denburger.com/video/skiff1.html] -[->http://www.denburger.com/video/skiff2.html] -[->http://first317.janwil.nl/Mumm30.mpg] -[->http://hyeres.ffvoile.net/videos/01.wmv (after the windsurfing some pretty cool 470-stuff!)] -[->http://hyeres.ffvoile.net/gbr/video/home.asp] -[->http://team.abnamro.com/]

{Tuesday January 3, 2006}: They have started refilling Lake Sinclair. On Monday morning it was up about 6 inches and this morning it is up one to two feet. At this rate, it should be at full pool by the weekend.

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