November 10th Saturday at around 10AM.

You know the Drill ! The List is long and the need is great! Come out and let’s get the Club ready for Winter. Please bring yard cleanup tools, like rakes, brooms, blowers or what have you. If you want to compete in the Chili Cook-off, make a batch of your best stuff and bring it. A Fabulous Trophy will go to the winner, I will be bringing chili with a secret ingredient this year (no, not goat). We will post the list of duty items here, when I get the information from our Yardmaster. Thanks and I hope we all have a good time and a productive day. The fun starts at 10am. Maybe bring some stuff that goes good with chili or a dessert like Rum baba or something.

Join us for the Pirates’ Plunder on Oct. 27.   Skippers meeting at 11:00 am with racing soon after  And, in the spirit of the Halloween season, we are encouraging members to let their inner pirate out to play  for the evening!  Pirate garb encouraged with best dressed getting a bottle of grog. Land-lubbers will walk the plank, into the icy cold Barren. Hope you’ll get your eye patch and peg-leg out and meet up with the other swashbucklers!  Dinner around 5:00 pm. We will provide meat and members can bring sides.

Friday October 12th … 6:00 PM Potluck, 7:00 PM Meeting .. Bring a side or Dessert! Discuss race Strategory for the Great Minnow

October 13th and 14th .. Saturday Breakfast at 9:30AM with asymmetrical pancakes by Leah.and mimosas. 10:30AM Skippers meeting with racing after, $25 race fee for skippers, $10 for crew and non racers. Dinner will be around 5pm. Troy is doing meats and Leah will have baked beans and slaw.. Please bring a dessert.. Live music on Saturday.. More later

Save the Date … the Fall Racing Season begins – Cooler and Breezier Conditions. Jerk Chicken meal – bring a side – Skippers meeting at 10am

September 14th Friday 6PM Dinner with Meeting after, then Movie Night Featuring Captain Ron’s Special Docking Tips .. https://youtu.be/8alNxLjCBJc

Leah’s making chicken fajitas and Rum punch!

Bring a Side or Dessert.

Please be sure and lock the gate when you leave .. you will need to spin the number off of the opening number to allow the padlock to lock. Several members have found the gate unlocked and open with no one around. The boat and motor you save may be your own

If you have sailed on Barren River Lake for a while, you have probably seen spider webs floating in the air across the Lake.  They are the same ones that get tangled up with your wind vane, causing it to malfunction. Where are those webs coming from? Spiders, of course.  But why?

If you think that they are just surplus webs that break away from trees and other objects, think again.  If you look at the webs carefully, you will find small spiders riding on them. So, were the spiders just spinning and got blown away?  Nope. The spiders were doing it intentionally to get around, to spread their species. Just like other plants and animals.

How far can they fly?  When Charles Darwin first observed them, the Beagle was 60 miles off the South American shore.  At that time, science was not advanced enough to figure out how they were flying except to assume that it was all due to the wind.  Recently, British scientists solved the mystery. It does not have anything to do with the wind. In fact, the spiders seem to prefer light wind or calm.  The Earth carries a negative charge. When the spiders spin their webs, the webs are also negative. And, as I am sure you know, two negatively charged objects repel each other.  So, when the spiders feel the Earth developing a strong negative charge, they begin to tingle. They begin to spin, and off they go. Whee!

Lee Huddleston  July 8, 2018