Category Archives: Ball Busters

SQUADRON DATE 052511… Read full article Cool at the Squadron this morning due to the strong southeast breeze, but it won’t last unfortunately. Wanda was the first to arrive with Stu Barnette being a close second. Stu along with Wally Merrill took on the job of rejoining a finger pier with the Wave

SQUADRON DATE 042711… Read full article The hottest day so far this year, however, it won’t be the last. Unfortunately, as it is after Easter, Ballbuster’s and extra workers were in short supply. Many of them have already begun to trek northward as in the Flight of the Snowbirds. Stu Barnette took the

SQUADRON DATE 032311… Read full article Another Florida spring day with cold temperatures early in the morning and warming up fast (getting hot). Wanda didn’t show up today as she worked the bar this weekend, usually by her self for the One-Design Midwinters and stayed home to rest, however, Stu Barnette early began

SQUADRON DATE 022311… Read full article Hot and getting hotter by the minute. We’re back to summer early. Our main job today was to clean up a huge mess created by the YSP sponsored Work Party on Saturday. They trimmed many Brazilian Peppers and other types of underbrush and after the Yard Trash

SQUADRON DATE 012611… Read full article I stopped at Sarasota Hardware on the way to the Squadron and picked up stainless 3” Lags so Alan Titcombe could attach a Fend-Off on the Aluminum floating docks. He was helped by me early and Larry MacMillian later. I also got ½ inch hardware cloth so

SQUADRON DATE 122210… Read full article Longest day of the year and very cold in the early morning but warming up so rapidly that Walter Wyatt and I could drink our coffee at the Main Dock Deck before 8 AM. Wanda was the first to arrive and was helped at the bar by

SQUADRON DATE 112410 Last Wednesday Work Party in November and the day before Thanksgiving. Fortunately a bunch of members showed up today with Ron & Don continuing the replacement of blocks and line at the BBQ with stainless blocks and new 1/8^{th… Read full article} inch line. As usual they did not

IN MEMORIUM… Read full article Few members of the present day Squadron will remember Don Wakeman who died in August in Maine aboard his yacht, Avatar of a heart attack. He was a naval engineer and yachtsman who participated in America cup defenses in 1964 and 1967. He sailed around the world on

SQUADRON DATE 092210… Read full article Still cool with the wind gusting out of the eastnortheast and really picking up just before noon. Alan Titcombe came back from his month up north and planted a monofilament line depository by the small launching ramp and helped me dispose of several Brazilian Peppers that I

SQUADRON DATE 082510… Read full article When I arrived at the Squadron about 7:30 AM carrying drip edge for the new shed I was met by Ron Biney carrying cardboard boxes out from the club. He said he came early to avoid school zones. Don St. Clair came next and helped Ron &