Funny email
This one needs some explanation. I had the fortune to meet some really good instructors at SEA (like John Paul, Pei, Stephanie) however, there are some others. I received the following email this morning and burst out laughing due to the implication of shared blame among SEA members for gaining "a bad rap." I think the fellow who sent out the email is probably personally responsible for it. This is the guy who twice (TWICE!!!) purposely wrapped a string of dinghies under tow around a channel marker, on my first day in a class too set course directly at a moored boat and didn’t turn off until we were 3 feet from hitting (his explanation was that he wanted to show us how manouverable the boats were), sets up something called the Channel of Doom among the moored boats and expects students with 2 days of experience to avoid hitting things, and repeatedly boasts that he’s had his motorcycle license taken away 6 times in one state. A clear and responsible thinker this fellow is not, but he is who they have running the show. So, he sent the following email. I laughed.
Dear fellow Instructors,
There is something I need to tell you so I just will.
We are making a new policy as far as sailing through
the moorings, and that is "No students or novices are
to sail through the moorings". We are getting a bad
rap so we’re nipping this in the bud. But Johnathon
Ganz added "unless absolutely necessary". This also
includes all open sails.
Well that’s it. Thanks for listening. Wayne