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Please cast your vote in the poll on the general message board. The poll will be active until this Friday 3/16/07 noon. http://www.nspn.org/htdocs/dcforum/User_fi...2d63e6c3c3f.jpg

The survey has been completed. The results were: 34 YES votes, I do want the club to take a position against the proposed legislation by preparing and submitting to the state legislature a formal opposition letter. 3 NO votes, I do not want the club to take a position against the proposed legislation by preparing and submitting to the state legislature a formal opposition letter. During the general meeting in November 2006, recent proposed MA legislation singling out kayaks was discussed and the members present, approved a letter stating NSPN’s position against legislation. A letter is being drafted; however, there was only a fraction of NSPN represented at that meeting. Our objective with this survey is to determine if in fact the majority of NSPN as a club supports the opposing view of the legislation and wishes it expressed in a letter to the legislature. NSPN primarily objects to the following: • Singling out of kayaks as having mandated PFD regulations • Having a different approval type for PFD’s than what is already approved by the Coast Guard. • Mandatory use of a compass with no required training on how to use them. • Mandatory wet exit training if the kayaker is out in more than 5 ft. of water and mandatory wet exit training even for kayakers not wearing sprayskirts. For more information, please see the bill at: http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/st02/st02709.htm

In the words of a wise man.... DOH! time has been corrected

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Original Post By Suz: Chinatown Pool Sessions – December 10, January 14, February 11, March 11 Good news - Pool Session is on for Saturday December 10,from 7 to 9pm. I know this is short notice but we have not yet found a registrar for the pool sessions so temporarily will do so. If we can book all four this month, I could do it but my schedule for Jan/Feb won’t allow me to volunteer to be registrar for the season. Are you ready to practice your roll? Do you want to perfect your re-entry technique? Are you afraid that time spent without practicing a high-brace will leave you high and wet? Or do you just miss being in you boat? All of our pool sessions this year will be the “Open Practice” format where you can learn from your peers. Things that can be practiced in a pool include skills, techniques and strokes that do not need an expanse of water, such as: * Wet exits * Rescues, assisted and unassisted. * Equipment testing, exploration, shakedown, usage or just getting comfortable, for example,using a paddle float for rescues. * Strokes not needing an expanse of water, such as draw and pry. * Rolling, bracing, balance bracing, sculling, etc. Equipment for pool sessions, includes: * Own boat, either sea kayak or short boat. * PFD -- required for anyone in a boat in a pool session. * Spray skirt -- required for the vast majority of skills to be practiced * Paddle float – optional, for rescue practice, rolling practice, etc. * Pump – optional for practice involving capsized or swamped boats * Goggles or a face mask -- highly recommended for practice that involves immersion, since chlorinated pools can be hard on the eyes. PLEASE NOTE: NSPN requires that payment for the pool sessions must be made in advance of the pool session. Your Registrar will provide you with the details that you need to know. Pool sessions are non-refundable. (Short notice for the first session on December 10, so bring your money and your waivers if you are a non-member – BUT you must RSVP so that I can plan for the right number of spotters!) Registrar: Judy Whipple winter_hill at hotmail dot com Price: $20 members; $40 non-members (that’s right - $20 for the pool, $10 for the ACA and $10 to encourage you to join and be a member ) When you inquire about a pool session, please include: Your name, phone number, NSPN membership number, expiration date, emergency contact and their phone number in the email. Chinatown pool helpful hints: It is important that we arrive on time for this pool. The garage will be OPENED at 6:30 p.m. Once we close the garage down, you would need to park on the street and then walk into the building to let the pool people know you are there and we would then have to come outside and open the garage back up to let you in. SO it is really important that all participants arrive between 6:30 – 6:45. When we are asked to get out of the pool, we have to get out promptly and plan for a QUICK rinse off shower and back out to start hauling the boats back outside as a group. The lifeguards can’t leave until we are clear of the pool area. So, quicker we are out, they go home. If you need more time to primp or dry your hair, get out of the pool earlier. We need to be clear of the pool area absolutely no later than 9:10. If we are really lucky, Sing will come with us to my favorite Vietnamese restaurant after our pool session! Directions: (Google the directions if you aren’t sure) See the BCNC (Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center) website for directions and map: http://www.bcnc.net/directions.php - I am sure the ones on the website are accurate. The pool is on the Washington St. address. The GARAGE we park at is on Oak St. West I pulled the directions below from a prior post on the message board and they may be wrong now that all the changes take place in the tunnel. The part to look at though is the directions to the garage once you are in Chinatown so I have left them on here. Coming from the south, get off at Exit 20 for Frontage Road and Williams Tunnel. Stay on the left hand side. On the second set of lights, take a left (you'll see a sign for Back Bay/South End). Go straight through the light at Albany St., followed by another light at Harrison Ave. On the third light at the intersection for Washington St, take a right and go straight. When you cross over the Mass turnpike, you'll hit a light. You'll see the community center/school building on the left hand side. You can take a left on to Marginal Road and look for on street parking. Or, you can go straight through the light and take a left at the next light onto Oak St. West. The parking lot is half way down the block on the left (right across from the YMCA). If you're coming from the north, cross over the Zakim Bridge and go down into the tunnel. Stay on the left lane in the tunnel. The exit to Chinatown and South Station is on the left hand side in the tunnel. When you come up to the end of the exit ramp, stay on the right hand side and proceed straight onto the surface artery. You'll go through one set of lights (Chinatown Gate can be seen on the right) and then on the second light, take a right onto Kneeland St. From there go straight through the light at Tyler St, then Harrison Ave. On the third light, at the intersection of Washington St, take a left toward the New Medical Hospital Center. You will pass right under the Hospital, and then go by the Double Tree Hotel on the right. At the light after that, take a right onto Oak St. West. The parking lot to the center is half way down the block on the left, right across from the YMCA

Original Post By Suz: Chinatown Pool Sessions – December 10, January 14, February 11, March 11 Good news - Pool Session is on for Saturday December 10,from 7 to 9pm. I know this is short notice but we have not yet found a registrar for the pool sessions so temporarily will do so. If we can book all four this month, I could do it but my schedule for Jan/Feb won’t allow me to volunteer to be registrar for the season. Are you ready to practice your roll? Do you want to perfect your re-entry technique? Are you afraid that time spent without practicing a high-brace will leave you high and wet? Or do you just miss being in you boat? All of our pool sessions this year will be the “Open Practice” format where you can learn from your peers. Things that can be practiced in a pool include skills, techniques and strokes that do not need an expanse of water, such as: * Wet exits * Rescues, assisted and unassisted. * Equipment testing, exploration, shakedown, usage or just getting comfortable, for example,using a paddle float for rescues. * Strokes not needing an expanse of water, such as draw and pry. * Rolling, bracing, balance bracing, sculling, etc. Equipment for pool sessions, includes: * Own boat, either sea kayak or short boat. * PFD -- required for anyone in a boat in a pool session. * Spray skirt -- required for the vast majority of skills to be practiced * Paddle float – optional, for rescue practice, rolling practice, etc. * Pump – optional for practice involving capsized or swamped boats * Goggles or a face mask -- highly recommended for practice that involves immersion, since chlorinated pools can be hard on the eyes. PLEASE NOTE: NSPN requires that payment for the pool sessions must be made in advance of the pool session. Your Registrar will provide you with the details that you need to know. Pool sessions are non-refundable. (Short notice for the first session on December 10, so bring your money and your waivers if you are a non-member – BUT you must RSVP so that I can plan for the right number of spotters!) Registrar: Suzanne Hutchinson email: suzanne dot Hutchinson at Comcast dot net Price: $20 members; $40 non-members (that’s right - $20 for the pool, $10 for the ACA and $10 to encourage you to join and be a member ) When you inquire about a pool session, please include: Your name, phone number, NSPN membership number, expiration date, emergency contact and their phone number in the email. Chinatown pool helpful hints: It is important that we arrive on time for this pool. The garage will be OPENED at 6:30 p.m. Once we close the garage down, you would need to park on the street and then walk into the building to let the pool people know you are there and we would then have to come outside and open the garage back up to let you in. SO it is really important that all participants arrive between 6:30 – 6:45. When we are asked to get out of the pool, we have to get out promptly and plan for a QUICK rinse off shower and back out to start hauling the boats back outside as a group. The lifeguards can’t leave until we are clear of the pool area. So, quicker we are out, they go home. If you need more time to primp or dry your hair, get out of the pool earlier. We need to be clear of the pool area absolutely no later than 9:10. If we are really lucky, Sing will come with us to my favorite Vietnamese restaurant after our pool session! Directions: (Google the directions if you aren’t sure) See the BCNC (Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center) website for directions and map: http://www.bcnc.net/directions.php - I am sure the ones on the website are accurate. The pool is on the Washington St. address. The GARAGE we park at is on Oak St. West I pulled the directions below from a prior post on the message board and they may be wrong now that all the changes take place in the tunnel. The part to look at though is the directions to the garage once you are in Chinatown so I have left them on here. Coming from the south, get off at Exit 20 for Frontage Road and Williams Tunnel. Stay on the left hand side. On the second set of lights, take a left (you'll see a sign for Back Bay/South End). Go straight through the light at Albany St., followed by another light at Harrison Ave. On the third light at the intersection for Washington St, take a right and go straight. When you cross over the Mass turnpike, you'll hit a light. You'll see the community center/school building on the left hand side. You can take a left on to Marginal Road and look for on street parking. Or, you can go straight through the light and take a left at the next light onto Oak St. West. The parking lot is half way down the block on the left (right across from the YMCA). If you're coming from the north, cross over the Zakim Bridge and go down into the tunnel. Stay on the left lane in the tunnel. The exit to Chinatown and South Station is on the left hand side in the tunnel. When you come up to the end of the exit ramp, stay on the right hand side and proceed straight onto the surface artery. You'll go through one set of lights (Chinatown Gate can be seen on the right) and then on the second light, take a right onto Kneeland St. From there go straight through the light at Tyler St, then Harrison Ave. On the third light, at the intersection of Washington St, take a left toward the New Medical Hospital Center. You will pass right under the Hospital, and then go by the Double Tree Hotel on the right. At the light after that, take a right onto Oak St. West. The parking lot to the center is half way down the block on the left, right across from the YMCA.

I hope to see everyone there, it is the (kayaking) social event of the year. The NSPN Holiday party will be held on December 3d at the Gould Barn in Topsfield from 6:00pm to 10:00pm More details are below. Celebrate the holiday season! Bring your favorite potluck dish! When: Saturday, December 3d Where: The GOULD Barn in Topsfield (directions are below) Time: 6:00 to 10:00 pm What to bring: Your favorite pot luck specialty! What else to bring: BYO Spirts - the club will provide plates, cups, ice and a cooler What's Happening? Friends, food, a few awards as well as the opportunity to renew your membership and buy a hat or stickers, and maybe win a door prize or two. DIRECTIONS: From the south, take Rt. 1 north exit off of Route I-95. Follow that to Rt. 97 west into Topsfield. At the stop sign, the library will be on your left and a small side street immediately before the stop sign is on your right - that is East Common Street. Take a right onto this street and park in the lot on the right that is for the Emerson Center/Congregational Church. From the north, take I-95 south to the Topsfield Rt. 97 exit. Proceed to Congregational Church on the right and Town Common on the left. Make a left turn onto Route 97 East, for 1/2 a second and then take a SHARP left onto East Common St and park in the lot on the right that is for the Emerson Center/Congregational Church. We have permission to park there from the church

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See Alex's post, boat has been returned. This comes from Doug Gray at Billington Sea Kayak On Thursday evening, May 19, a Surge kayak was stolen from our demo fleet. It is 17' 7" long and is kevlar. It has a sea lavender deck with white hull. The identification number located on the inside of the cockpit is 5BW9715. It is a used kayak and has normal scratches, etc. I am offering a reward of $500 for it's recovery and information as to the person that took it. I can be reached at Billington Sea Kayak, 41 Branch Point Road, Plymouth, MA, 02360. 508-746-5644 or 508-789-2676 ©. Thank you. Douglass Gray Ok everyone a Surge is a pretty unique boat, lets try to give Doug a hand and help him find this boat. Michael Crouse

Just checking to see if the time change worked. Mike

Hi folks, When submitting images with your posts, please keep the individual image sizes to under 70k. We’ve had two posts recently whose images exceeded 42 inches on the longest side, which is clearly too large to view on screen. If you do not have software that you can use to control the image size, please send it to me and I will do it for you. Regards, Sean