mhabich

Give Randi a call. She’s a good egg.

Sea-Lects float. Valleys sink.

No experience, but Steve Whitman does good stuff. Sea-Lect make excellent replacements for Valley hatch covers, and they’re readily available. Just black. Valley covers deteriorate so fast they should claim they’re compostable.

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Email sent. You can always write to membership@nspn.org or treasurer@nspn.org for help like this.

My ears would blow off.

Yes, that’s the place. You can go directly downstairs into the meeting room from the Vine street side. It’s a few minutes from West Beach.

We have open slots for pool sessions tomorrow, Saturday 16 March and next week, 23 March. That's it for the season.

Got my ears.

...or, if you thought this would be an example of what wind does on the water...

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A green salad to go with the pizza and chili.

There are open spaces for this Saturday's pool session, February 3. @JaneC and @David M both have spaces you can have...send them a message. If those are gone, there are still two spaces available in the store. The next two sessions on February 17 and 24 are sold out. Now's your chance.

Schedule from now with availability, updated Feb 25: Mar 16 6 available Mar 23 6 available

Looks like we might have an open space for this Saturday's pool session. If you're interested, send a message to dcycleman. If you get it, let me know.

By the way, the participant agreement doesn't expire with the calendar year. If you read it allllll the way to the end, you'll see that it's good for three years. Easier to sign it each year than to try to remember for three years. You'll get bugged to re-sign it when you renew your membership.

Good catch, Dan. The redirect in the link to the waiver went to a page that's now gone. I've fixed it. The date on the profile page doesn't update automatically when the waiver is signed. I thought I might have a way to automate it after the move, but it's not looking good. That means I'll have to keep doing it manually for each signing for now. Rats.

Device to fit on the loop to lever it over the cockpit rim. No idea if it works. https://www.seaflowdesigns.com/shop?store-page=SPRAY-DECK-EASY-RELEASE-S-M-L-Universal-p461090236

Just used my Osprey cleaning kit to clean a reservoir tube. The brush did a great job to clean the tube, then the springy stem immediately broke into a few pieces. This was the first time I'd used it. If you use a Camelbak reservoir with a bite valve that slides onto the tube, they slide off too. Keep a spare in your kit.

There's also Plan B.2, grab both sides of the skirt and pull. Works with my Snapdragon (so I allege), probably wouldn't with IR. Plan C wouldn't work with a spraydeck with suspenders, and I wouldn't use one of those for that reason. Most important is Joe's point: if you haven't practiced lately, do. What worked with your old spraydeck won't work with your new replacement, because it's nice and snug and you forgot how anyway. Practice on your composite boat with a sharp coaming, not just your plastic boat. See you at the pool or the pond.

We found the problem. We moved the forums to a new host in early December, and shut down the old installation. The old one was still alive enough to send out invoices. We've driven a wooden stake through its heart.

Joe R (not Joe B), I’ll check it out. I did see a chargeback on Braintree, our payment gateway for PayPal. Best way to reach me is treasurer@nspn.org Thanks, Mike Habich

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