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Greetings From Your Marina Manager
Welcome to the first edition of Sheraton
Harbor Island Marina’s new monthly e-mail newsletter. By
using this modern medium, we will be able to keep you posted on
marina happenings and important notices you’ll want to
have on a timely basis.
While we’re at it, we’ll be
including lots of information in each e-mail newsletter that
will make your marina experiences more interesting, fun and
enjoyable. In this issue, for example, we’ve researched
the restaurants on San Diego bay where you can dock and dine,
and we’ve got a whole slew of interesting new topics in
progress for future editions.
The e-mail newsletter is of course free,
but to make sure we know you want to receive it monthly, we
need you to visit www.BlueSkynews.com and follow the easy
instructions to subscribe. If you would, please take a minute
to sign-up now.
There are many other hidden benefits to
having an e-mail newsletter that we know you’ll
appreciate as time goes by; not the least of which is that it
affords you the convenient opportunity to communicate with your
marina team. For example, I hope you’ll send me an e-mail
and let us know what you’d like to see in future e-mail
newsletters.
Thanks – Read on - and we hope to
see you at the marina soon.
Eric Holle – Sheraton Harbor Island
Marina Manager
When is The Sheraton Marina Summer
Barbecue?
On the July 8th 2006, Plan to be here for
all the fun, great food, and good company. We were going to
hire Jimmy Buffet for entertainment and Emeril as the chef, but
after looking at the budget, we’re thinking more along
the lines of a guy with a kazoo and the cook from one of the
yacht clubs. More info to follow.
It’s That Time of Year Again –
Two Boat Shows Are ‘A-Comin’!
Yep, That’s right -
we’re hosting Southern California Marina
Association’s annual Boat Show on Thursday through
Sunday, July 20-23, 2006, and the weekend after that
we’re hosting the Brunswick Boat Group Dealer Show. So
between the two shows, with setup, move-in and move-out, the
docks will be tied up continuously from July 13th through
August 3rd.
The SCMA show is open from 12 noon
– 8:00 p.m. on Thursday and Friday; from, 10:00 a.m.
– 8:00 p.m. on Saturday; and from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00
p.m. on Sunday. The show is open to the public – Adult
admission is $10.00; children are admitted free. For complete
information about this boat show, please visit www.scma.com.
The Brunswick show the following weekend
is not open to the public – it’s for dealers only.
As usual, we’re here to assist you
if your boat needs to be moved for the shows, or if you
can’t be here during the setup periods, we’ll move
you’re boat for you as long as it’s operational.
(Remember, non-operational boats will be move at your expense).
Also, please don’t forget to remove
barbecues, plants, beached whales, etc. from the fingers not
later than July 16th. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
Dock Boxes and the Coast Guard –
Don’t Get Fined!
The Coast Guard has announced that they
will be inspecting all dock boxes in San Diego marinas for
hazardous and environmentally unsafe materials. We are trying
to obtain some more specifics from the Coast Guard about what
qualifies as a hazardous or environmentally unsafe substance,
but using common
Rock’ n Roll Marathon Might
Rock’ n Roll Your Nerves
The Rock’ n Roll Marathon can be a
lot of fun – unless you’re trying to get from A to
B in your car. Be aware that the 9th Annual Rock’ n Roll
Marathon, a 26.2 mile run, will be held on Sunday, June 4th.
This event draws as many as 20,000 participants, with many
thousands more fun seekers enjoying 40 live bands along the
route. This year, there will also be a “Spirit on the
Course” competition, with 40 local high school cheer
squads encouraging runners to the finish. For complete
information about the marathon, visit www.rnrmarathon.com.
The bottom line for the marina, of
course, is that many roads will be closed during the marathon,
including some freeway on and off ramps, so there will be many
traffic delays and some cases where “you can’t get
there from here”. The majority of the road
closures, with the exception of the start and finish areas will
be between 5:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. South-bound highway 163 will
be closed to traffic from I-805 to downtown from 2:00 a.m.
until noon. All other major freeways throughout San Diego will
be open on race day, including I-5, I-8, I-805, and
Northbound 163, however, delays can be expected on I-5, I-8,
and in the Mission Bay, downtown and Mission Valley areas
during peak marathon finishing times, especially between 10:00
a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (South-bound I-5, between Sea World
Drive/Tecolote and downtown, and I-8 between Friars Road and
I-5 will be congested; avoid these areas if possible).
Hey – I have a brain storm! If
you’re coming to the marina that weekend, why not get
here on Saturday night!
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We’d like to share your experience
with our readers on this page as it develops.
From the Poop Deck
Madeline
Editor,
Poop Deck
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Harbor Island boaters got a cute pet?
Well, cough up a photo and e-mail it to me. If I like it, I
might give the furry thing some ink in the next newsletter.
Same goes for boat names. I think there
should be a “Minister of Stupid Boat Names” but I
really like clever boat names, so fork over a photo of yours
and I might give you’se some ink on that too.
Editor’s Note: We try hard to control Madeline, but she’s
just a little crusty around the corners. Seriously, please
e-mail your pet or boat name photo to madeline@BlueSkynews.com and we’ll make sure she treats you
good.
Dear Flo Tilla
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My wife and I have a power boat which we
pretty much just use on weekends to relax and unwind on the
water. The problem is that all of our sail boat neighbors have
all these great stories about "how they almost died going
to ......". I wish we power boat people had some great
stories to tell too!
Sincerely,
Feeling
Insignificant
Dear Insignificant
Next time tell your hanky-popper friends
this one. "There I was, sitting on the back deck having a
Bombay Sapphire Gin & Tonic when from down in the salon, I
heard a scream. 'We're out of tonic', my wife shrieked. So I
quickly ran to our third refrigerator, and there on the bottom
shelf was a six-pack of tonic!" Another disaster averted.
Regards,
Flo Tilla
Have a question you’d like Flo Tilla
to answer?
What's That Smell?
A BlueSkyNews.com boat maintenance alert
If your boat has a bit of that rotten-egg
aroma, it may or may not be what you think it is. It could be
that your battery charger is overcharging your batteries.
Through gradual corrosion, just plain age
and even sometimes due to a faulty battery, a battery charger
can begin to fail and overcharge some or all of the batteries
in your system. This is also a potential fire hazard if let go
too long.
Other telltale symptoms besides that
sulfuric smell include having to fill battery cells more often
than usual or batteries that are too hot to touch.
Did You Know?
The Hotel Del Coronado was the first
hotel in the world to boast of completely electric lighting.
Thomas Edison himself inspected the steam generator used to
power this accomplishment. Architect James Reid, however, was a
man to hedge his bets. Gas lines were installed to each room
and the electrical wiring was run though them. In this way,
should the electrical system fail, they could resort to the
known technology of gas lamps. Some of this original wiring was
in place as late as 1965.
We can only be grateful that they did not
have to resort to the backup plan. Electricity running through
wiring that is inside formerly used gas pipes installed in a
wooden hotel—frightening thought.
-Clifton Oliver
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