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MattL
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Initially Posted - 10/27/2003 : 17:34:36

at the end of the season in 1998 a friend and I decided that our club needed something for the end of the year awards ceremony that would be for the common person. That is we were tired of only a select few getting awards and we started our own personal set of trophies. We have had the anual "Sand Bar Bob" award given for obvious reasons, a Calamity award for some sort of disaster (one person lost his rig while sailing on SF bay). We gave a fire man award and a acrobatic award. etc,

These awards have been greatly appriciated by the membership. I dare say we get more intrest than the actual racing trophies. I have had people come up to me mid year even to thank my friend and myself for making them. After we presented them I had one lady, one of the top racers, come up to me saying how mad at herself she was because she was late and missed our presentation. She got one a couple of years ago.

Basically what I am saying is these tropyies were easy to make, it took me about 3 days working part time to put them all together with a bandsaw, drill, and dremell, and that they make a great warm feeling for all the members of your club. If anyone would like to copy my idea, or add to it feel free to do so or contact me for any assistance I can give.
This year we gave out 11

This is a gate ceeper award with a man overboard behind it.

This was given to our house captian, in charge of keeping the club house in order. We had problems with mice and she was responsible for getting rid of them so it is the "No mouse in the house" award.

By the way the house captain is my wife. She was elected as our vice comador for next year.
That is another man over board award in the background. One was given for falling off of a boat, the other for falling off of the dock. The formar was late at night during a campout we had after consuming massive quantities of plant distalate.
The last photo is just the general fleet of awards I made.

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
E.C. Rider 5411
Cat 25 86'
FK/SR _/)

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 10/27/2003 : 17:43:04

Really neat... very interesting... thanks for sharing

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/27/2003 : 22:05:30

Your club is lucky to have you and I bet they know it.

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frog0911
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Response Posted - 10/27/2003 : 22:42:02

Matt, The pieces look outstanding and I'm sure your club is appreciative of your time and effort. This would be a great item to put in the ship store on consignment. That way the association and you make a little $$$ and the rest of us who purchase them get all the enjoyment of having them in our offices or on the mantle.

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MattL
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Response Posted - 10/28/2003 : 03:03:42

Frog,
I never thought of selling them and have no idea how to go about it. materials list is short shipping couldn't be to high. My problem is that my band saw is in storage till I get a shop built. I made these at work.

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frog0911
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Response Posted - 10/29/2003 : 00:00:08

Matt, your capability is not in storage, but I guess we can all wait awhile. As for selling them, just work out a deal with the ships store based on the material cost, labor and shipping. They can then add there 10% plus shipping and the carvings will sell themselves. If you need some help in figuring a price drop me an EM and I can give you some ideas on how to compute.

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 10/29/2003 : 08:38:38

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by MattL
obvious reasons, a Calamity award for some sort of disaster (one person lost his rig while sailing on SF bay). We gave a fire man
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Our sailing club Awards Banquet in in three weeks, and one of the awards I will present (I'm outgoing Captain), is the "Knock on Wood Award". This year it is being given to a couple who Lost their entire boat, a Catalina 25WK, when it broke loose from the trailer coupler at the top of the Folsom Lake launch ramp and rolled free more than 200' to the bottom of the ramp, wiping out a couple of parked vehicles along the way. At the bottom of the ramp, the trailer slewed sideways, pitching the boat off where it slammed down onto the ramp at the water's edge, sustaining mortal damage to several places on the hull and transom. The marina had to bring in a crane the next day to lift the boat back onto the trailer (which was also severley damaged, but repairable). The local fiberglass repair shop quoted $14,000 to just repair the cosmetic damage, but also warned that the hull structure was probably damaged around the keel joint in places impossible to get at for repair, so the insurance company totalled it. I figure this is just about the #2 ultimate "Calamity" anyone in our sailing club has suffered. Number One happened a few years back: One of our dedicated Catalina 22 racers was on his way south from Sacramento to a lake regatta near Fresno, I think, when a motorist coming in the other direction lost control and crossed the median, airborne, and "torpedoed" their car right into our club member's Catalina 22 race boat (hitting the roof of his tow vehicle in the process, right over the head of a crew member who was asleep in the back, which shows how "airborne" the car was). I was told that the boat was "smashed to smithereens", but I don't remember hearing that anyone was killed.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 10/29/2003 : 09:26:50

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> it broke loose from the trailer coupler<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

How?

I learned a $400.00 lesson when I manoeuvered my 24' enclosed car hauler around the yard with the hitch just resting on the ball.....positive tongue weight kept it on there right?

When the car I was subsequently driving into the trailer was about halfway....the trailer suddenly became a hill with a 30 degree incline......All I saw was my buddy, who was in a position to watch the coupler stabbing the back of the Suburban, covering his face.......

Now, during the launch/retrieval process while uncoupling/recoupling hitches extenders etc. etc. I check, check and check again.........

Oscar
250WB#618 Lady Kay on the Chesapeake

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