Hope you all enjoyed the glorious sunshine and 70 degree temps as this was being written, spring is almost here and we can't wait to get back out on the water! It's also just really nice to be able to work on our boats again without losing all feeling in our fingers.
We have pretty much wrapped up the moorage renewals for this year, summer billing will go out later this month. Thanks to everyone who responded in a timely manner to our emails showing your existing moorage and requesting confirmation. We have automated this process now and we hope that this method of getting positive confirmations proves to be efficient and effective in the future. As Gordon had done in the past, for those of you who were billed for winter storage and did not respond to the reminder email that went out 2/1, we made the leap of faith (more of a short hop, really) that keeping your boat on the grounds over the winter was a pretty good indication that you intended to keep your existing moorage for the summer. But just to be sure, we sent out another email on 3/1 showing your existing moorage again to let you know what would be billed unless we heard from you otherwise by 3/15. We've not had anybody in this group respond saying that they did not want to renew their summer moorage, but please do let us know right away if that is the case so we don't waste our busy bookkeeper's time sending out billing that has to be reversed later. We'll see how well this approach works this year, but we just can't see any value in hounding people about something that seems pretty obvious.
You can always check your existing moorage at any time by going to the Member Moorage page on the EYC website and clicking on the “VIEW EXISTING MOORAGE” button. If you need any help finding or using this information, please let us know. Also, please check your email spam folder and add us (PortCaptainEYC@gmail.com) to your list of approved sender email addresses to ensure that important communications regarding your moorage make it to your inbox.
If you didn't see the Port Commission Note in the March 4th weekly newsletter about the upcoming class in boat rigging and mooring requirements and practices, please take a look at that. The exact date hasn't been set yet but it will likely be in early April and we encourage everyone to attend. I've been boating for some 60-odd years now (and some of them were very odd) but as a relatively new member I'm looking forward to this as there is just no substitute for tribal knowledge.
Apart from that, not much else going on. We still have half a dozen boats/watercraft on the grounds with unknown owners. We'll be putting bright orange notices on these and posting pictures on the bulletin board in hopes of finding out who they belong to so they can be properly billed like everybody else.
Fair Winds,
Art Stiers & Murray McLeod
(The Port Captain Committee)