Just sit right back

with your wallet out...

The sailing club/Union have come up with a new scheme to try to raise cash to pay instructors: the Three Hour Dinner Cruise. Prices start at $24.50/person (which is at least $98 for a group of four)--and you bring the dinner. Make sure to bring enough for the skipper and crew too, or they might toss you overboard!

Check out the flyer here.

Are there so few club members who want to sail on the keelboats anymore that the club/Union have to lure unsuspecting members of the public..? I remember when we had Friday evening cruises on at least two or three keelboats every week. What's more, we would happily take anyone along--even if they weren't a club member. Not anymore. Now that the club has started paying kb instructors, it's cash on the barrel (and, in a sense, for the barrel...)

We recommend a picnic on picnic point instead. That will cost you nothing, and you won't have to bring lots of extra food for hungry Hoofers (who are also getting paid by the hour in addition to eating your food).

PIRATE'S DAY!

This Saturday... there will be m-a-y-h-e-m.

Come help us celebrate the lawlessness and abuse!

Get practice at hijacking and other terrorist acts!

Play bumper-boats and do things that would normally get you extra work hours (or worse).

Help glorify assault, rape, and other violent crimes!

Help us eat piggy!

It's Hoofer Sailing Club's Pirate's Day!

New this year: Our group photo for a big postcard to President Obama!*

Cost: $25 (not incl. extra work hours, fines, bail money, etc.)

*Just kidding--we don't want to be arrested by the FBI.

Hoofers/ASA spending opportunity

June 21 UPDATE: No one signed up yet so the testout is rescheduled for June 25.
June 24 UPDATE: Cancelled again--no takers! One wonders if it's because of the assigned instructor, or perhaps people are wise to this scam.

Hey everyone! There's still time to sign up for this year's ASA 101 testout scheduled for June 11! The cost? About as much as an annual membership in Hoofers! ($200 for non-students--plus the cost of HSC membership.)

Passing this worthless course qualifies you to take more worthless ASA courses (and more importantly, at least to paid HSC instructors, helps to support their drug/alcohol habits). Seriously though, ASA ratings are worthless. They're for people who aren't good sailors but who want to be able to say, "Look, I'm a good sailor... I got an ASA rating! (or two) Whoo hoo!"

Good sailors, i.e. competent, experienced sailors, don't need ASA ratings, e.g. to charter a boat. The last thing I would ever do when reserving a charter is to tell them I have some ASA ratings from Hoofers. If you do that you're guaranteed to get extra scrutiny from the charter master when you arrive, and probably a testout too. Charter masters can smell the fear.

If you want to be able to go and charter, say, a 37 ft. cruiser (monohull) in Florida, just learn as much as you can on regular Hoofer keelboat lessons, get a skipper rating or two, and then start teaching keelboat lessons! Alas, that last item isn't up to you--the club simply won't let some people teach. You have to be either (a) super party boy, (b) a groveling workaholic who loves fibreglass resin and power tools, or (c) butt-buddies with the right person(s). Seriously.

Nor does teaching keelboat lessons guarantee you'll become a good Hoofer sailor, but it sure helps.