EDITOR'S
NOTES
Welcome to the twelfth edition of our
quarterly
electronic newsletter. As usual, an e-mail version is available for
members
who lack or don’t use Internet browsers. E-mail addresses and URL’s for
World Wide Web hot links in the text are also appended as footnotes.
Your contributions and suggestions for upcoming
issues would be much appreciated! Please send your ideas or articles to
the
editor.
EVAN'S
WINNING ENTRY AND 2005 BOATWISE
NOTE CARD CONTEST
As promised in the December issue, here is the
bookmark that merited a third prize win for Gerry
and
Helen's
son Evan in the 2004 CPS BoatWise
Bookmark contest.
This year the CPS BoatWise Bookmark Contest is changing to the CPS Boatwise Note Card contest. The 2005 contest
is open to children or grandchildren of CPS members, or any young
people
who have taken BoatWise or Boat Pro courses. The age categories are 6 to 10, and 11 to 14 while the
theme is "Lifejackets". Only original art is acceptable and entries
must be in colour on poster cards, size 10 cm x 13 cm. All the rules
are
available on the Members Moorings page of the CPS web site. Scroll down
the directory on the left side of Members Moorings to the bottom link,
Youth Committee, and click there to a page that includes a PDF file containing an
entry form and the contest rules.
Entries from Pender Island should be submitted
to Training Officer Marti Tilley before June 15.
SQUADRON
OFFICERS FOR 2005/2006
The following members were elected
at the Annual General Meeting on April 15, 2005. They will officially
take office at the Change of Watch on Friday May 6 at Keith Lacey's
home.
Commander
|
Cdr Nick
Samsom
|
Past
Commander
|
P/Cdr
Frank Weniger
|
Executive
Officer
|
Lt/Cdr
Nancy Coutts
|
Training
Officer
|
Lt/Cdr
Marti Tilley
|
Secretary
|
1st Lt
Helen Lemon-Moore
|
Treasurer
|
1st Lt
Dick Steil
|
PRO
(Public Relations Officer)
|
1st Lt
Amanda Griesbach
|
Membership
|
1st Lt
Dick Steil |
Communications
|
1st Lt
Fran Rose
|
The following members were
appointed to fill the positions listed:
| Assist.
Training Officer |
Lt Ken
Coutts
|
| Assist.
Training Officer |
Lt
Elizabeth (Bunny) Wilkes |
Assist.
Training Officer (Galiano)
|
Lt Jack
Paine
|
| Assist.
Training Officer (Galiano) |
Lt Kurt
Bandelow
|
| Chief
Proctor |
Lt Bob Rose
|
| Historian |
P/Cdr
Pim Manning
|
| Programs-Events |
Lt Steve
Fisher and Lt Rich Fox
|
| Assist.
Programs-Events |
Lt Roger
Pilkington
|
| Environment
Officer |
Lt John
Cowan
|
| Socials
Officer |
Lt Liz
Watts
|
| Assist.
Socials Officer |
Lt Julie
Lywood
|
| Supply
Officer |
Lt Ken
Coutts
|
| Officer-at-Large |
R/C A.O.
(Tony) Merry
|
| E-mail
Newsletter Editor |
Lt Fran
Rose
|
Port
Captain
|
Lt Chuck
Spence
|
The following appointment
was also made:
Auditor
Tom Kieffer
VICTORIA HARBOUR FERRIES: ALL YOU WANTED TO KNOW
- AND MORE!
The Victoria Harbour Ferries (2.)
was the subject for Speaker's Night on March 11 at the Library.
Barrie Hobbis gave a very interesting account of the company which is
half owned by our incoming commander Nick Samsom. Barrie covered the
maintenance of the ferries as well as their operation and manning. The
42 skippers are mostly retired and include a former Air Canada pilot, a
former admiral and even a former UVic history professor! Candidates
take courses on collision avoidance and other subjects as required for
a Transport Canada oral exam, spend 16 to 20 hours with a senior
captain who is giving tours and are given training in conducting tours,
etc. A knowledge of the history of the harbour is crucial. In the
summer, one skipper checks out large yachts and their owners each day
so that celebrity yachts may be pointed out. Information is shared at
monthly breakfast meetings paid for by the 2 owners.
A new maintenance shop on Johnson Street is a busy place. All the
vessels are refitted annually, in a process that takes about 3 weeks
for each one. The machinery and fittings are removed, labelled
and thoroughly checked and painted. The 2 stroke Mitsubishi engines are
rotated regularly and are shipped out for repair if necessary.
Barrie's presentation included slides and the Knowledge Network's BC Moments presentation about
Victoria Harbour Ferries. He also spoke at length about the heavy
traffic in the harbour with includes boats of every size and type,
ferries, float planes and during the summer, Transport Canada harbour
patrol vessels. The skippers monitor transmissions from the Flight
Information Centre. The skippers have their hands full navigating
in all that traffic while keeping the passengers informed about the
landmarks they are seeing and entertaining them with stories about the
harbour.
Students in the boating and advanced classes along with some of their
instructors and proctors were fortunate to enjoy a gloriously sunny
morning aboard one of the little ferries on February 27. They
practiced plotting and took bearings in both the inner and outer
harbours. There is a photo of the group included below.
Lt Fran Rose, Electronic Newsletter Editor
CPS
MEMBERSHIPS CAN NOW BE RENEWED ONLINE - OR VIA CANADA POST
Continuing members will have
received renewal notices from the CPS national office in Toronto.
Anyone who has yet to renew might want to do so before April 30 as the
dues increase after that date. For many years it was possible to pay
the local Pender Island Membership Officer, who would send a portion of
the money on to Toronto, but that is no longer the case. It now works
the other way around.
A convenient new feature on the CPS web site (1.)
is online membership renewal. Click on the Renew on line link in the yellow
rectangle near the top of the home page and follow the prompts. You
will need your invoice and a credit card. Be sure to read the renewal
form carefully. If you don't want your personal information traded, you
must indicate that by ticking a box on the form. If you have already
renewed and wish to change or add to your personal information, there
is a Personal Information Change Request form in the Members Moorings
section of the web site. Click on its name in the directory box on the
left hand side of Members Moorings and scroll down the resulting list
of forms.
The CPS Confidentiality Policy,
posted in December, is near the bottom of the home page.
OFFICER AT LARGE
1. NEWS FROM THE
CPS
TRAINING MEETINGS IN TORONTO
There are two new courses available
from CPS, both to do with GPS. One,
called Navigating with GPS, is a much more
user-friendly course
than its discontinued predecessor and contains at least twice the amount of
information. The other course is titled Finding Your Way with GPS and is designed for the hunter/hiker
population rather than boaters. Spencer Anderson, the National Education
Officer for U.S.P.S., attended our
Training Meetings in Toronto
and advised us that their boating
course graduates taking Piloting or Advanced
Piloting are plotting in
Magnetic rather than True because their primary navigation is based on
GPS and electronic charts. Well
there's quite a switch!
Another interesting subject brought up at the
meetings was the problem of
outdated flare disposal. Transport Canada requires us to have up-to-date flares aboard our vessels therefore we
have to replace them every
four years in order to be legal! Should Transport Canada then not be responsible for the disposition of
outdated flares? What if an accident
was caused by outdated
flares not properly contained because a person could
not dispose of them? Could
Transport Canada be held liable? Food for
thought!.
According to a survey by the CBC, persons under the
age of 25 put their inherent
trust in electronics whilst those over the age of 25 trust paper more than electronics.
2. NEWS FROM
REGIONAL BOATING ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING, FEBRUARY 10, 2005
The Contraventions Act between
B.C. and the federal government has finally been signed and takes effect
1 April 2005. Enforcement Officers can now ticket offenders instead of
issuing a summary conviction. Officers will however now be required to carry two ticket
books, one for B.C. and a bilingual one for federal offences. Records of
offences and tickets issued will be kept by ICBC. Implementation of
this act in Ontario has reduced Enforcement Officers' time
per offence from 8 hours to 18 minutes. An http document (3.)
contains additional information.
A draft of new Operator Competency Regulations will be available by
June of this year. People attempting to acquire their PCOC from “pay if
you pass” providers at events like boat shows will be limited will be
limited to one challenge
test per day.
Re the proposal suggesting that commercial canoe/kayak operators use
small vessel life jackets as opposed to PFDs, nothing will change until
Dec. 2006 when the new Canada Shipping Act 2000 comes into effect.
After that the only change will be if a guide/instructor should paddle
one or more clients in the same boat then that boat will be considered
to be a passenger carrying vessel and both guide and client(s) will be
required to wear S.V.L.J.s. Whilst on this subject, Transport Canada is
reviewing the whole of the life jacket, PFD, cruiser suit, immersion
suit scenario with the idea of upgrading the present standards. So
there will be changes forthcoming.
Disposal of out of date flares is still a problem and is being looked
into by Canadian Coast Guard/Transport Canada.
There is a new Safe Boating
Guide (4.) available dated 01/2005, now issued by
Transport Canada; however changes are minor and there will be no
significant alterations until a new one is issued after December 2006.
(Editor's note - link is to a page last updated 2004-11-04 so this may
not include the minor changes in the January 2005 issue.)
Those of you using Telus cell phones while boating should know that if
you wish to contact CCG on *16 and you are unable to make contact then
try #16. This is for Telus customers only. Roger’s/Cantel is still on
*16.
Last but far from least I received a letter from CPS HQ in February to
say that I passed my Recognized Examiners Course and can now continue
to instruct the Maritime Radio Course including the DSC/GMDSS upgrade.
Lt. Tony Merry,
Officer-at-Large
TRAINING NEWS
Interested in what was taught
the past year? Here's a list of courses taught and the numbers of
students in each class.
TRAINING STATISTICS
FROM MAY 2004 THROUGH APRIL 2005
Course
Name
|
Registered
|
Dropout
|
Pass
|
Fail
|
DNW
|
Still
to
write
|
VHF Galiano May 2004
|
6
|
0
|
6
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
VHF CRD Victoria May 2004
|
4
|
0
|
4
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Boat Pro (Grade 8 class) May 2004
|
12
|
0
|
12
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
VHF Pender August
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Boating - Pender
|
15
|
0
|
12
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
Boating - Galiano
|
6
|
1
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Piloting
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Advanced Piloting
|
2
|
0
|
?
|
?
|
0
|
1
|
Fundamentals of Weather
|
5
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Global Weather
|
4
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
PCOC as part of
Boating Class
|
14 Pender
5 Galiano
|
0
5
|
14
0
|
0
0
|
0
0
|
0
0
|
Maritime Radio Sept 2004
|
7
|
0
|
7
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Maritime Radio Feb 2005 Full
course
|
5
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
DSC Upgrade Feb & March 2005
|
21
|
0
|
21
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Instructor Training
|
5
|
0
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
Maritime Radio full course
April 23 & 30
|
7
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
7
|
DSC Upgrade April 30
|
4
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
TOTALS
|
125
|
1
|
105
|
3
|
2
|
14
|
Lt/C Marti
Tilley, Training Officer
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY TO FRANK SYMES!
Longtime member
Frank Symes celebrated his 90th birthday on April 16th. A card signed
by the Bridge members was presented to him at the Annual General
Meeting on Friday April 15th. Thanks to Keith Lacey's chauffeuring
service, Frank is able to attend several Squadron events each year.
NOTICE OF
2005
ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING, VANCOUVER ISLAND SOUTH DISTRICT
To: The members of Vancouver Island South District, Canadian Power
& Sail Squadrons
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
TAKE NOTICE that the Annual General Meeting of Vancouver Island South
District will be held at the Holiday Inn Victoria, 3020 Blanchard
Street, Victoria, BC on Saturday May 14, 2005 for the purposes of:
(a) receiving and, if thought fit, approving the
Reports of the Officers of the District;
(b) receiving and, if thought fit, approving the
Financial Statements of the District for the twelve-month period ending
March 31, 2005 and the Report of the District Auditor thereon;
(c) electing the Officers of the District;
(d) appointing the District Auditor;
(e) considering such
further
and other business as may properly come before the Meeting.
The Report
of the District Nominating Committee is attached
to,
and forms part of this Notice. (See
VISD web site, (5.)
members page for the full report.) Under Regulation 12.1, any
further
nominations
must be made by way of a petition, in writing, signed by not less than
5 members of this District who shall confirm the consent of their
nominee
to stand for election. The petition must be filed with the District
Secretary
not less than 2 days prior to the date of this Meeting.
DATED this 10th day of March 2005
Original signed by
D/Lt Henry Frew P,
District
Secretary
NDI/CANADIAN HYDROGRAPHIC SERVICE CONTRACT TERMINATED
Nautical Data International
(NDI) was the contractor supplying digital nautical data to Canadian
Hydrographic Services of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. DFO has
terminated the contract effective February
4, 2005. NDI was "the sole worldwide distributor of the official
Canadian electronic navigation charts and other digital nautical
information under a under a multi-year agreement with the Government of
Canada. In partnership with the Canadian Hydrographic Service, NDI has
successfully developed a comprehensive digital cartography database
comprised of thousands of nautical charts and other marine information
covering navigable Canadian waters and coastal zones." (From an NDI
news release (6.) issued January 9, 2005)
Among the products produced by NDI were digital nautical charts.
Canadian Power Squadron Stores will continue to stock their products
until they can no longer be replaced.
OUR SQUADRON PUBLICIZED IN PROMOTO
PROMOTO
is a bulletin for all
officers of CPS containing information on public relations, membership,
training education and news from CPS. It is published 3 times a year
and is mailed to all officers of the Pender Island Power and Sail
Squadron. I was asked by the Bridge to
submit a short article
about the successful strategy of mailing invitations to attend the
Christmas potluck dinner to all members in CPS for 10 or more years. Because attendance at the potluck was up considerably, the Bridge thought the idea of mailed invitations and
recognition might interest other squadrons. The
article has been published in the Spring 2005 issue.
PROMOTO can be viewed in
Members Moorings on the CPS Web site.
Lt Fran Rose, Electronic Newsletter Editor
PHOTO GALLERY
Executive Officer Nick Samsom took the two photos on the left while
Chief Proctor Bob
Rose snapped the top right picture. A crew member from one of the Victoria Harbour
Ferries used Nick's
camera for the group photo taken at West Bay Marina in Esquimalt.
|
|
Lt. Tony Merry, Officer-at-Large and Keith Lacey have been CPS members for over 30 years. They
are pictured at the Christmas party, standing behind the prestigious
Kaptain Krunch award.
|
Boating class graduates Julie
Lywood, Erik Thingsted, Christa Grace-Warrick, and Amanda Griesbach
joining the Squadron following their boating and PCOC exams.
|
|
|
|
Julie Lywood and Chief Proctor Bob Rose pictured
aboard one of the Victoria Harbour Ferries vessels, charting during the
student cruise.
|
R/C Tony Merry, TO Marti
Tilley, A J Matrick, Julie Lywood, Bunny Wilks, Executive Officer Nick
Samsom, Brent Dormaar, Christa Grace-Warrick, Bob Rose and Larry Meek
after their successful Victoria Harbour Ferries cruise.
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FOOTNOTES
1.
http://www.cps-ecp.ca/english/index.html
2.
http://www.harbourferry.com/
3.
http://www.cablelan.net/frose/contrav.html
4.
http://www.tc.gc.ca/BoatingSafety/sbg-gsn/menu.htm
5. http://www.visd.org/
6.
http://www.digitalocean.ca/DigitalOceanE-Store/jan09_2005.asp
7.
http://www.cablelan.net/frose/privacy.html
Pender Island
Power
and Sail Squadron Personal Information Policy
(7.)
Editor: Lt Fran Rose
(S)
Phone: 629-2060 E-Mail: frose at cablelan dot net
URL:
http://www.cablelan.net/frose/PIPS.html
