A message from our President:
Hal Sanderson
President’s Message
Fall 2009
I think that the proper word would be “Overwhelming” to describe my feelings at this time over the activities of this chapter during this boating season.
We began with a great time on the MS Mt. Washington for our “Spring Romp” to get the season going and there are a few pictures of this event later on in this publication.
Our 35th Annual Boat Show was a huge success from all reports. We always find some improvement opportunities and will pass them along to the next show committee. We had a fantastic array of different boats that seemed to appear this time. We had them ALL from the neat old lakers to the cruisers and then the mahogany’s and in keeping with the trends we also welcomed some real nice classic glass boats. A recent review of Eric Sojka’s many photo’s of the show produced pictures of boats that I did not even get so see. Our docks were very busy by the time I decided to get out there and see what was there. Sorry I missed some but we will attempt to publish as many photos that we have space for in this issue of Cutwater.
Please accept my sincere thanks to all who contributed so liberally of their time and effort to make this event the success that it deserves to be. I am sure that the founders of our chapter would be proud of our accomplishments over the years. I am also very sure that we gave our spectators some great memories to take home with them. Our committee people did their absolute best to keep things moving and I want all of you to know that I personally was “Overwhelmed” by your kind assistance and loyal support. Thanks again to our sponsors and advertisers for their support too. We appreciate all that you do for our cause.
Your board of directors have been busy working on our future charitable support and a recently formed 501c3 Task Force is in place to research and define our role as we become affiliated with ACBS International under their
umbrella program. Our future plans with the chapter continue to focus on making our events more affordable and several suggestions have been presented that look attractive at this time. “We are working on it!”
Please review our schedule of events for the rest of the season and let us know if you can attend. Our Fall Boat and Car Rendezvous will be held in Wolfeboro at the Town Docks on September 27th. And notices of this have already gone out to our mailing list. A copy of this is also included in this issue. Past President, Phil Spencer is chairman of this event and he has been hard at work preparing for this one. Please give him a call if you wish to help him out. Our Fall Foliage Tour of Lake Winnipesaukee will be held on October 11th with a nice trip around the lake to have brunch. If you want to do the same thing that I plan to do. You could meet the gang somewhere along the route rather than go to Wolfeboro for the start. Lots of folks do this and complete some of the trip but maybe not all. Especially if it is a nice day you don’t want to miss this sight. It was fun last year.
Our Chapter Annual meeting is scheduled for Sunday, Oct 26th and this year we are trying something new. Along with a gala meal and our usual business and election of officers we will also have invited guest speakers and we will present a slide show of the past seasons events on wide screen projection. You may wish to come just to see yourself and your boat along with some very entertaining speakers on our Lake history. See the attached announcement and send in your reservation as soon as possible. We have to meet a guarantee with the Puritan Conference Center by October 10th.
The nominating committee is proposing the following slate of officers and directors for the coming year:
President – Geraldine Prusko
Vice Pres. – Bob Morrissey
Treasurer - John Burk
Secretary – Kathy Coco
Director – Bill John
Director - Charlie Train
Director – Bill Ferry
Director – Joe Williams
Please join with us and thank the past officers and directors for their contribution to our chapter and welcome the new ones. It should be a fun time before we have to put our boats away for another season and say thanks for all that we have enjoyed this year.
By the way, As of the annual meeting my tour of duty as your President will end and I will be passing that responsibility on to Gerri Prusko . I sincerely hope you will continue to support her in this experience as you have me. My watch is over and I will be on liberty call but you can be sure I will have new duties with the chapter to keep me busy.
Still Overwhelmed, but it was a great tour of duty, thanks to all.
Hal Sanderson