October 2025
October 2025
The Endless Summer regatta/extravaganza is upon us!
We have one more bite at the Summer apple this year, and it’s a big one! The weather forecast looks good, everything’s cued up thanks to the many volunteers and sponsors, there will be races, food and drink and general camaraderie and merriment all around. Festivities officially kick off this Friday night with a “wings on the beach” grilled chicken-wing feast, and Saturday’s itinerary is chock-full of racing, food and general fun, with a couple of races planned for Sunday morning followed by race results and trophy presentations in the early afternoon.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Ted Avellone
Commodore 2025
Shell Point Sailboard Club
Club Meeting - Tuesday, October 14, 2025 @ 7pm
District 850, 2662 Fleischman Way, Tallahassee, FL
Commodore's Comments
by Ted Avellone, Commodore 2025!
2025 Atlanta Fall Classic by Bob Graves
Even though I couldn’t sail in this event. I had a great time and cheered on the SPSC group that came. Once again, SPSC stepped up and provided all the food for Friday evening gathering of racers and early registration. Some great soup, chili, and Pilau.
SPSC folks racing were Joe Sisson in Open Unlimited, Ryne Least, Laura Least, and Chris Graves sailing in Sport (Atlanta does not have an Open limited fleet), and Jack May sailing in LT. Other SPSC folks were my lovely wife Sandy, Terry Graves, and Becky and Randy Armstrong.
On Saturday, three races were run before a lunch break of Publix hoagies and then two races after lunch. The winds were light and gusty. You could see some boards catch some wind and motor along. On one race, Joe started on a port tack and caught a nice breeze because he was able to cross in front of the entire fleet and maintained a very impressive lead throughout the race, only being beaten by a second by Valentina who was the overall winner for the weekend.
We missed some road warriors due to the Miami/FSU game being played on the same weekend but am impressed with the ones who came out. The weather was incredible, with some drizzle coming in Sunday around 4, but that did not dampen our after party at the campground as Randy, Becky, Sandy, Joe, Ryne, Laura, Cody, Rick, and myself huddle under Becky’s clam shelter, drank wonderful cocktails, and told stories that had all of us laughing and they’re stories that are not to be repeated.
This was the first year the Atlanta Fall Classic occurred before the Endless Summer which was confusing to some of us. We were a little disappointed the leaves had not started changing yet because usually they are very colorful. We are very happy the campground is now run by the county or else it would have been closed during the shutdown.
Here’s hoping more of you can make it next year and camp in a beautiful setting on the Lake. For those that mountain bike, Joe and I rode at Chicopee State Park where they have real mountains! They also have some great hiking trails that Tina, Sandy, Richard, and Chris trekked in one year.
SPSC Club Minutes, Tuesday, 9/9/2025
Place: District 850
The meeting was called to order at 7:01 pm with 21 present including long time members Don and Sharman!!
Minutes approved at 7:02
Commodore: Focused on the Endless Summer
Scribe: Thanked Bailey for his poetry and Commodore for article on Lake Hall
Purser: Read what Wright sent in for our board meeting. Ended last year with 101 members! We have a positive balance in our check book AFTER eliminating all property taxes. Paid our liability insurance..
Past Commodore: Wants to be a worker bee now that she’s off the board.
Board Member Vaughan Williams: Gave us a Rondall update with the discussion focusing on the font. It is looking good!
Discussion items
Endless Summer:
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Plea for sponsors and door prizes
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Needs someone to do breakfast
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Homestead working on shirt design
Beach work: Will Harms brough his weed trimmer down and trimmed things up!
Constitution: No changes for this year though Vaughan proposed changing the board quorum from 6 to 5 so there would be no ties in voting and Bob G suggested changing the dues due date to October 31 so that our elections are legitimate.
Election Results: (CNN predicts a win for the following with 100% of the vote counted)
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Commodore: Rick Upson
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Vice Commodore: Vaughan Williams
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Scribe: Bob Graves
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Purser: Wright Finney
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At Large Board: Ryne Least, Pia Lehtonen, Bailey Howard, Rachel Smart
Program: Short video of our September 2023 lesson at SP which had 5 of the 6 students join the club. We then saw a video of Tina, Rose, and Laura paddling a “boat” they made, along with Donna and Chris, from recycled material to compete in, and win, a race at thee FSU marine lab. We then saw some videos from Ted taken in the Bay of some reefs and the fish therein as well as some dolphin swimming alongside their boat.
Adjourned when all was said and done at 7:44
Upcoming Events:
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Atlanta Fall Classic, October 3, Chair: Chris Voith*
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Endless Summer Sailboard Classic, October 17, Chair: Ted Avellone
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Presnell’s Bayside Marina, November 9-16, Chair: None
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Christmas Party, December 13, Chair: Rick Upson
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Festivus, December 21 Chair: Vaughan Williams