Hoofer Sailing Club: August 2016

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Commodore Lukas Duddleston may have sexual offenses. Link.

TOP NEWS: Edgewood College student drowns off Hoofer sailboat on 6-JUN-2015.... HSC does $10,000 in damages to four boats on their spring break 2014 trip.... UW student drowns off Porter Boat House (dorm) piers on Aug 21, 2013... On Aug 30 2012, another UW student drowned off the Limnology pier....
TOP OLD STORY: Jim Rogers removed as Hoofer Advisor!

Click for a message from the Wis. Union director!

Mark Guthier: 20 yrs, 20 accomplishments. Since becoming Wis. Union director in 2001, Mr. Guthier has:

1. Removed all public phones at the Union.
2. Added dozens of security cameras.
3. Paved over most of the remaining grass on the Terrace.
4. Forced a $200 million fee increase on students.
5. Altered Union policies to give himself total authority.
6. Destroyed Union South.
7. Lost his license to practice law.
8. Added password login on all computers to bar visitors from using them.
9. Committed multiple felonies.
10. Trained his student employees to commit crimes.
11. Paved over any remaining grass on the Terrace.
12. Demolished Hoofers for no reason.
13. Rebuilt Hoofers in state-penitentary style (concrete block, high security, etc.)
14. Taken de facto control of Hoofers by altering Union rules ("I Am Altering the Deal, Pray I Don't Alter It Any Further!")
15. Installed magnetic card access for all areas.
16. Installed dozens more surveillance cameras.
17. Trained a new crop of student employees in the art of stalking, harassment, and surveillance.
18. become a child molestater.
19. Committed more crimes and civil rights violations.
20. Contributed to two Hoofer Sailing Club deaths.

Congratulations Mark!

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

For Instructors only

Extra lessons are now available, taught by HOI Dave Elsmo.

Tonight is "Rig tuning" (6 PM on the lakefront) for those who want to learn how to maximize a boat's power and win races. This lesson will cover stay tension, car positioning, halyard tension, weight placement, etc. This is only open to instructors (because most of them don't already know that stuff?).

General club members aren't expected to win races, so they are not eligible to take this class. Of course, they're not eligible for a lot of other instructor goodies, either.... General (i.e. paying) club members are mainly around to provide cash for the instructors.

Next Tues Aug 23 will be "Sail Trim". In this lesson we'll cover proper sail trim for all conditions at all points of sail. Again, not open to paying club members.

Huh. I actually teach all this stuff myself from time to time on the keelboats, as do some of the other KB instructors, so why aren't these lessons open to any Hoofer Sailing Club member..? They're not even full (as of the time of this post), and general club members are the ones who pay Elsmo's salary. Evidently he thinks it makes more sense for him to teach it to the "instructors", and then they can try to pass some of it on to the plebes.

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