Diagnosing the infection

In honor of the traditional Annual Instructor Party, and in honor of our previous post below explaining how we are better than you, and in honor of Tom Barry who invented the funky monkey award, we're sharing our favorite page from the HSC Instructor Manual (at right). This is a secret document not available to general club members. Instructors are actually warned not to show it to non-instructors. Why?

Because it tells about some of the secret parties, trips, and other goodies that only instructors get to enjoy (at your expense). We're even discouraged from inviting our boyfriends/girlfriends and BOC members. It's only for HSC instructors. All 60-80 of us.

I like how it says sailing seasons are measured by how good the instructor parties are! (weekly parties that aren't even open to 90% of club members). Not by how many ratings were given out, or how few injuries there were, or how many keelboats were donated, or anything like that. But by how good the private parties were.

I especially like Jim Rogers' comment about the ANNUAL PARTY (again, only for instructors), otherwise known as Instructor Weekend Off:

"If the club disintegrates without us, who cares?"

That's a non-sequitor, Jim. The instructors are the club! Duh. Everybody else are just paying customers.

NOTE: Dave Elsmo (or maybe Borko) removed that rather obnoxious line from the newer manuals, but nothing has actually changed.