September 2022 Newsletter I’m pouting. Did you know we’re not always Number One? Silver Gate Yacht Club actually uses their own facility for their own events - who woulda thunk? When we would have met in August, the room was full of gear for a huge swap meet that weekend. We tried for the following week, but they had their own thing planned, again. Half the board members were going to be gone anyway – so YOU might have been shanghaied into helping with the meeting. Close call! Rollie Lira tried to get us the small room at Portuguese Hall, but guess what? Stop me if you’ve heard this one - they use their own hall for their own events too! Thursday night – every Thursday night – is their biggest night. They use the entire facility for BINGO. So, we didn’t have an August meeting, but we’ll be at Silver Gate Yacht Club on Thursday, September 1st. Our time there starts at 6 PM, and the meeting begins promptly at 7 PM. You’re welcome to order meals and drinks in the bar upstairs, and you can have them downstairs. Our September speaker is our own Rick Beck. He’s the man to answer your questions about your boat’s electronics. It’s possible he will tell you things you don’t know about your boat, sight unseen! Arnie Seko is doing a great job finding us interesting speakers. He has them lined up through the end of this year, and ideas for the next. Silver Gate already knows they have things going in October and November and December. We can only submit requests one month ahead, because really, they shouldn’t have to plan their entire year ahead around us, right? We’ll be in Mission Valley in the really great community center Sharon Chelette reserved for us. You’re all welcome to bring your own food and drinks. The address and directions to this convenient central location, with parking, will go out to you all. Our December Holiday Party will be held there, too. Check out the announcement for Sept 24th’s Inshore Tournament, sponsored by Hookup Baits. John Chuckta can sign you up at the September 1st meeting, and Chad Gierlich will have somebody there with Hookup Baits. Come see who’s planning to fish; they just might have space for another person. Nonmember guests onboard? They’ll need to sign a club waiver before the tournament deadline. John will have them, or can email it, for them to fill out and return. John has another full-day charter scheduled for Saturday, October 22, on the Sea Watch, out of Seaforth Landing in Mission Bay. Our first charter on this same boat was very successful! This time he plans to sell slightly fewer spots, only 24, so get right in there and sign up. For club members who do not have a boat, our Charters give more of our members a chance to fish with their club friends, and to win prizes and the jack pot! The big winner on July’s Sea Watch charter was Gary Mouritzen. Talk about a happy camper! The raffle table has something spiffy in its future, something we haven’t seen in a long time, if ever. Somehow Tim Foote got a donation of THREE pricy Lowrance fish finders, suitable for a small boat or kayak. Show up with your mad money - you never know when one will be in the raffle. Improve your chances of winning (larger purchases of raffle tickets are discounted), and improve your odds of getting on the fish! We’ve been hearing from some Club Meeting September 1st, 2022 ** At Silver Gate Yacht Club ** 6:00 Happy Hour (food available upstairs, too) 7:00 Meeting 2 of our members that they don’t get our emails. Some membership forms are hard to read, and Tim Foote has contacted people to fix those. The bigger issue is caused by our members’ spam filters; please see Tim’s explanation. He’s been working diligently on this, and created an easy link you can use to reinstate yourself. If someone you know has mentioned that they’re not getting the emails, hook them up with this link to fix the problem.