November 2004
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- Christmas Potluck Dinner - Calendar - Editors desk - Piloting - Members - Commanders Report Not available Social Committee Report Okay Members ----- this is it !!!!! Our Christmas Pot Luck is just around the corner !!! Thursday, December 2nd, 2004 Room A - ECRA Centre, 224 St., Maple Ridge, B.C. Happy Hour at 1830 hrs. Dinner at 1930 hrs. We are looking forward to seeing you at our Christmas gathering and enjoying your special contribution to the supper table. As is the custom, your social committee is seeing that you have a wonderful dinner with great prizes to be won during the evening. Be sure to come out and support your hard working Power Squadron members and make it the introduction to a wonderful Christmas season in 2004. Note: We will have the contribution box to the Food Bank under the tree and look forward to having you fill it to the brim. Looking forward to seeing you there !!! Anne Dixon, Social Lt. Calendar of Events: 2004/ 2005 December 2, 2005 @ 1830 hrs
January 12, 2005
January 28, 2005 @ 1930 hrs
February 25, 2005 @ 1930 hrs
April 28, 2005 @ 1830 hrs
Editors Desk This Hailer is a short version because of time restraints. Your executive would like to remind you of our Christmas Pot luck dinner. The best dinner in the world because Alouette Squadron members are the best cooks in the world, at least our world. Please, don’t forget to bring a food donation for the Food Bank. This will be the last Hailer until the New Year, I think, so I would like to wish each and every one of you and you families a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you at the Christmas Social. I draw your attention to the changes in the 2004/ 2005 "Calendar of Events". Due to availability of rooms for our functions two of our largest socials will be held on Thursdays. December 2, 2004 our Christmas Potluck and April 28, 2005 will also be held on a Thursday. All other socials will be held Fridays as usual. Training Report PILOTING COURSE ANYONE? As members of Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons we are fortunate to have access to advanced courses, from Piloting up to, and including, Celestial Navigation. Among our active Alouette members, we include the following members with advanced grades: 1 member (full certificate)(SN) Senior Navigator 1 member (JN) Junior Navigator 12 members (AP) Advanced Piloting 26 members (P) Piloting There are probably many reasons for studying advanced CPS courses, but we would probably all agree that we can never know too much about the ocean environment, in which we choose to spend our leisure time. At present we have six members who would like to upgrade to Piloting and we need at least ten students to make up a class. The Piloting course is an interesting and challenging course and is a prerequisite for the Advanced Piloting Course. Very briefly this is what you will learn: 1. Improved Navigational and Plotting Skills: Determination of course to steering a current, and how too determine distance off. Lots of Plotting in this course. 2. Additional Seamanship skills: understanding the hazards of weather, wind waves and currents, and how to deal with them, 3. Boat Capabilities and Performance: hull speed, stability, propellers and rudders. Please let me know if you are interested, and if we can make up a class we would probably start early in the New Year and be finished in time to practice our new found skills in the spring. It is the happy policy of Alouette Squadron to offer these advanced courses at the cost of the classroom, and materials only, so your financial outlay will be modest. The Vancouver Squadron is also offering a two day course on Navigating with GPS. It will be held two Wednesdays, March 9 and 16, 2005. The cost is $35.00 to CPS members. Registration for this course can be made online at www.vpsBOAT.com Alan Slater Phone 604-790-2550 E-Mail alanslater@telus.net Environmental Report: Not available Thinking of our Members: Just wanted to let everyone know that Steve and Sandy sailed the Wind Ketcher safely around to its permanent home at Reed Point. I guess Indian Arm will be well travelled in the next few months as the happy couple practices their sailing skills. Maybe they will be out with the rest of us in the Gulf Islands or Desolation Sound next summer.
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