September

September, 2006









2006 Board of Directors & Flag Officers

COMMODORE Jack Berry

H # 734-675-4261

VICE COMMODORE John Armatis

H # 734-285-2238 W # 734-284-6700

REAR COMMODORE Mary Alderman

H # 734-283-0661 W # 313-749-2453 BERRY BEARY GOOD

TREASURER Dave Gutowski P/C Jack Berry

H # 734-281-3153

SECRETARY Ray Stewart

H # 734-282-2199

DIRECTOR Mike Garf It’s kicks and trips in 2006

H # 734-671-0367 W # 734-558-8674

DIRECTOR Rick Kasza The boating season is rapidly coming to a

H # 734-676-2492 W # 734-466-1572

DIRECTOR Rob Ponder close with haul out just days away. Remember

H # 313-381-0968 to be ready for that day with a vessel that runs

DIRECTOR Rich Fater

H # 723-284-9665

and lines ready. Also remember to come

FLEET CAPTAIN Rob Ponder ready to work because Ralph’s list will be full.

H # 313-381-0968

EDITOR & PUBLISHER Rick Kasza Another bit of history; The SS Delphine was

H # 734-676-2492 W # 734-466-1572 built here in 1921 when it was Great Lakes

E-mail address rkasza@ameritech.net Engineering. It was a 258-foot pleasure

steamship built for the Dodge brothers. In

G.L.S.B.C. Clubhouse # 313-297-3282

Deadline for articles is the 2nd Saturday of the month. 1926 it caught fire and sank, it was then

Web Site http://groups.msn.com/glsbc/homepage restored and hit a rock in 1940. The navy

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 29073, Ecorse, MI 48229 purchased it for the war as a flagship in 1942

and renamed Dauntless. The Dodge family

2006 GLSBC Committee Chair and Delegates bought it back in 1946 and basically it traveled

GROUNDS Ralph Pennybacker P/C

DOCKS John Armatis the Great Lakes until 1967. Lundeberg

QUARTER MASTER Mary Alderman Maryland Steamship School then bought it and

ENTERTAINMENT Mike Garf used it for a training ship for merchant seamen.

EDUCATION & SAFTEY Rich Fater

HISTORIAN Jack Spanitz P/C From 1986 until 1997, 3 groups to restore

ILYA DELEGATE Dave Gutowski P/C purchased it and all decided to do nothing.

AYC DELEGATE Richard Kasza

Finally in 1997 it was purchased by an Italian

family and fully restored. After 5 years of

restoration, it is now a classic old yacht with

the most modern comforts and cruises the

UPCOMING EVENTS Mediterranean.



September 23rd – South-Side Party

October 7th & 8th – Haul Out

October 21st – Silent Auction

December 9th – Annual Meeting

February 16th, 17th and 18th - AYC Ball

February 24th – GLSBC Commodores Ball



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Lady Tami and I attended the Sun Parlor Boat

Club’s Commodore’s reception at Holiday Harbor.

We would not have made it without the help of John

and Cheri Armatis. They invited us to go on their

boat and we were able to return for the Steak

cookout and for me to get to work. Once again the

weather cooperated for our Steak Cookout. Ralph

and his crews had the club impeccable. Mike and

Judy Garf had things well under control with the

help of Mary Alderman and her “crew”. There were ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

plenty of customers and fabulous steaks ready.

The band was enjoyed by all the partiers. By the The steak cookout was a success with the support

time I got to the club after work, there was just time of 156 club members and their guests. We all

to eat and have a cocktail or two. enjoyed good food with steaks and chicken breasts

grilled to your liking (literally). Entertainment was

Lady Tami also attended the Seaway provided by Vocal Point, a band familiar to

Commodore’s reception at Seaway Boat Club and GLSBC. The weather cooperated by clearing up

the Detroit Beach Boat Club reception. I was once just in time for the party to begin. Raffles for Gas

again at work, but sent my regards Dock and 50/50 were collected again by Julie

It was very unfortunate that Rob and Sabrina had to Tacket. Winner of the $100 gas certificate was

cancel the last rendezvous at Toledo Beach, but Larry Peter. The 50/50 was split into three prizes as

response was very low. Looking back the weather follows: 1st Mike Garf $75, 2nd Mike Donahue

was not good anyway. $50 and 3rd Mike Donahue $30.

We wish Mary Lou Labadie a complete and speedy Thank you to all whom worked the kitchen both in

recovery from her surgery. food prep and clean up. Thanks to the grounds crew

If you hear of an illness, concern or loss of a as we received many compliments on what a

member or someone in a member’s family, please beautiful and great club we have. I need to put out

call and let me know. If you have any questions or a special thank you to Mary Alderman since she

concerns please feel free to contact me at 734-675- basically ran this event for Judy and I. This enabled

4261. us to bring our annual group of about twenty in by

boat that afternoon.

From the dinghy of the Commodore

Thanks Again,

Mike and Judy Garf

“THE 2006 SILENT AUCTION”

October 21, 2006

Doors open at 5:00pm- $7 includes food, drink & fun!

DOCKS



This is the last request for articles for the “Auction”. Yep its that time again and I hate to use the dreaded

We are requesting that donations be turned in by haul word haulout but I must. Haulout is a few weeks

out. Of course we will accept articles later – just away Oct 7th and 8th and it is a work weekend for

let me know you are planning to make a donation. all members, so be prepared to work both days from

Remember this is a fundraiser for the 2007 8am to 5pm. If for some reason you will not be

Commodore’s Ball for Dr. John & Cherie Armatis. there let your crew leader know, also let me know

We have some fantastic donations – let’s make this so we can make arrangements to have your boat

the best auction in GLSBC history! Thanks so much lifted.

for your help, In preparation for haulout please oil the threads on

your jack stands, this makes it much easier on the

Tami Berry 734-675-4261 or email = crew. Also if any member is in need of jack stands

tamiberry@hotmail.com



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they can be purchased from Charlie Labadie(734- CONGRATULATIONS GO OUT TO THE

285-4900). FOLLOWING:

When winterizing your motors the use of non-toxic

antifreeze is mandatory, and if you change your October Birthdays:

motor oil please recycle. Do not leave it in 6 Laretta Owens

containers on boat club premises or discard in the 14 Bernadette Miller

dumpster. 18 Tony Spath

If you shrink-wrap your boat remember to tape your 20 John Homenick

gas vent and remove it after completion. Also make 22 Sandy Miller

sure a fire extinguisher is close by. 23 Rich Fater

23 Ray Stewart

26 Sue Schafran

John Armatis

27 Donna Fickeisen



October Anniversaries:

6 Charles & Gert Green

DOCKSIDE NEWS 10 John & Jean Homenick

17 Dave & Geri Gutowski

To make it official, I have a correction for the

August Channel Marker when I included an 24 Rich & Lacreta Curylo

incorrect last name: OK it was Britney Thompson! 26 John & Virginia Exner

30 Brian & Una Bonner

Thanks to Julie Tackett for supplying the following

web site that contains some wonderful pictures of

the Great Lakes, take a look: SAFETY AND EDUCATION

http://www.aerialpics.com/H/greatlakesshoreline.html

Dotting the Great Lakes

Thanks to Patty Kovach for supplying the

International Burgee Registry web site and A specialized team studies over 30,000 islands

information, I have submitted the GLSBC Burgee to in the region. Some no bigger than a boulder,

be included on the web: another the world's largest freshwater island

http://www.burgees.com/burgeeframe.htm (Manitoulin) is 80 miles long. A 3-year study in the

U.S. and Canada by a collaborative team has been

There is a “Professional Women’s Symposium” studying each island in the lakes region to

scheduled for Thursday September 28th at the determine which are the most important. A draft of

Holiday Inn on Northline. There is a flyer in the the 180 page report will be available in the fall A

final report is to be released early next year and will

clubhouse or you can contact Wendy @ 734-692-

be available online at

5614 or Sandina @ 734-671-6113. www.greatlakesislands.org.

The AYC has received an application for a new Neighbors, Businesses suffer as some

club, the Middle Bass Island Yacht Club (MBIYC) waters remain low

has requested to join, more details to follow. There

are a few upcoming events that may be of interest For some people, lower water levels mean their

including a Feather Party at Swan Boat Club in boats are stuck in the shallow canals, for others, it

October and a bus trip from Seaway Boat Club to means weeds and odors as beaches turn to

the Greektown Casino in November. The details for marshes. For marinas, it can mean empty boat

these and a few others are located in the AYC slips and less business, and for the shipping

binder located on the counter in the Club House. industry it means lighter loads and less profit.

Although water in our marina and area seems to be

By Rick & Michelle Kasza fine, those around the lake St. Clair area and

elsewhere to the north are dealing with low water

levels. From Drummond Island to St. Clair Shores

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there are tales of woe. In Harrison Township there become giant carp ponds. Asian carp suck algae

is the a story of a new homeowner who bought a and zooplankton out of the water like submarine

house 6 years ago and has never been able to take vacuum cleaners. They will not bite a lure or a

his boat out of his dock. Other neighbors cannot baited hook. By the time they reach adult size, they

even get their boats off the hoists, and cannot get have no predators. They can thrive under the ice.

equipment to the boats to remove them even if they We know that they can handle the climate and they

wanted to sell them. Garbage, weeds, dead fish, do well in bays, estuaries and backwaters. They

bottles, and rotting seaweed have piled up along tend to become 90-95%of the fish population in a

the shore. body of water. Being hit by a flying carp is like

To the shipping industry, low water levels result being hit by a flying bowling ball. From a boat on

in lost revenue. For every inch of water lost, a the Illinois River, the flying carp look like something

1,000ft freighter loses the ability to carry 270 tons out of an animated cartoon, their gleaming forms

of goods per trip. soaring 10ft high and30ft across the surfaces as

a 2005 study by a Toronto firm said that Lake they jump from the water. Numerous boaters and

Michigan and Huron had suffered a permanent jetskiers have been hurt. The bridges over the

drop of at least a foot because of dredging in the Illinois are all pretty high because of barge traffic,

early 60's in the St. Clair River. A bathtub drain but a lot of bridges in Michigan are just above the

reference as to how the water now flowed out from water. Imagine what would happen if a big truck

the upper lakes more quickly and dropped the went over a bridge and spooked a school of these

levels significantly. Lake levels rise and fall monsters.

depending on how much rain and snowfalls on the



GLSBC/SBC

lakes and their drainage basin, and how much of

the water evaporates from the lakes. Ice cover in

the winter reduces the evaporation. Whether global

warming is lowering precipitation and increasing

evaporation is a key question.

CORN MAZE/HAYRIDE

RedneckTournament / Invading carps close

AND

HALLOWEEN PARTY

Mike Pernet was one of among 300 people who

took part in the 2nd annual redneck carp SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28,2006

tournament Aug.26, on the Illinois River. FUN ACRES CORN MAZE

Participants could only use hand nets or clubs to

capture the Asian carp as they erupt from the water Which club will get through the maze first?

like missiles when spooked by boat motors. 78 Check it out:

boats caught 1,840fish in three hours by netting http://www.funacrescornmaze.com

them like butterflies. the winning boat caught 126 MEET AT THE CORN MAZE AT 4:00PM

AFTER THE FUN RETURN TO

carp. One man taken to the hospital with a broken

nose. In their native Southeast Asia, the (big heads

can reach 4ft. and 100lbs), The (silvers 4ft. and SBC

60lbs). A bar owner in Bath Ill, staged the event to

draw attention to the invasive fish that experts fear FOR PIZZA

could threaten or even wipe out- sport and AND HALLOWEEN PARTY

commercial fishing in the Great Lakes. An electric

fence is supposed to be in the process of being ENTERTAINMENT BY “THE

WILD BUNCH”

built in Ill, to keep the fish from entering the lakes.

The fence should have been completed by last Oct,

but congress has yet to approve$16 million in

funding. The House and Senate have passed

LOOK FOR SIGN UP

separate bills to fund the barriers but must reach a SHEETS AT EACH CLUB

compromise. Some people on the committees are

$7.00 for Maze & Hayride

unwilling to go further with the bills because they

Pizza $2.00 a slice

believe that the fish have already reached the

Great Lakes. These fish pose maybe the most Club Contacts:

serious threat to native species yet. The lakes will Mike Garf

4 or Patty Kovach