2001 CCWA Activities Schedule 
Jan 15  Monthly Meeting at the home of Chip & Diane Biery  Details on page 10
Jan 28  Full Moon Bonfire, Mustang Island
Feb 19  Monthly Meeting at the home of Hal & Nancy Hamilton
Feb 27  Full Moon Bonfire, Mustang Island
Mar 19 Monthly Meeting at the home of Dick & Arleen Ward
Mar 28 Full Moon Bonfire, Mustang Island

Editor's Puffs:   by Roy Tansill
     Another New Years has passed and once again its time to pay your dues.  Unlike past years when I would threaten to cut off newsletter service to those who hadn’t paid, this year you won’t receive your February issue if you haven’t paid by the end of this month.  Its not personal, I really don’t enjoy not sending you your newsletter but the belt tightening is mandatory and we can’t afford to be mailing newsletters to folks who are not keeping up their end of the bargain.  If you have a big hand written ‘X’ on your mailing label, then according to our secretary/treasurer, you haven’t renewed your membership.  The necessary information is right at the bottom of page 4- fill it out,  write the check (we’ll accept cash with a valid photo ID) and mail it off .  We have a lot of work to do and not a lot of time to get it all done.  If you look at our Events Schedule for the new year you’ll notice its rather void of content.  Take a look at the Executive committee info.... its looking rather empty at the moment.  The CCWA is well into a major transition, and there seems to be a vacuum near the top.  The club has been around long enough that helping to operate it has passed through many hands.  We have reached a point where maybe some of the long time members should seriously consider stepping up again.  We need some leadership help and experience certainly does not disqualify you. 
     Don McCormick is back from his second trip to China... and ready for his third.  He has found a job there teaching English and is learning Chinese.  He urged me to check out his newest web site (www.beautiful-china.net). Take a look at the site; see what has Don so enthralled with 21st Century China. 
     The local iwindsurf.com had a rough December but it wasn’t their equipment that failed- it was the local phone lines that knocked Laguna Shores out for several days (Wally had paid the phone bill).  And this note is posted on their site: “Due to difficulty in finding a suitable new location for the sensor at San Luis Pass, we are considering re-locating the equipment elsewhere in Texas. If you know of a popular sailing site where wind speed and direction data, (as well as barometric pressure and air temperature), would be useful, please email texas@iwindsurf.com with information. The equipment will go to the most suitable location.” 

ReDeck How to:
Allright! Yer starin at yer board it’s dry, and you’re in a place that you can do this without your wife goin ballistic. You’ve got all the stuff there too and yer itchin to get started. 
Try not to get too freaked. "You can do this Homey. Just take it slow and easy." 
Begin at the beginning… 
Remove the footstraps. Unless you’ve got additional footstrap screws you should be careful not to strip the screw heads when backing the screws out. Put the screws where you can find em later
Tape off all the parts of your board that you don’t want to get goop on or sand down.  That includes taping:
a) the rails Note: follow the line that exists for the deck grip. Let the tape be double wide on the rails because you want drippings to fall on the ground, not wrap around to the bottom of the board. 
b) the foot pads if you want to be extra careful you can completely cover them but it’s probably not necessary 
c) any and all vent plugs.  After you’ve got yer stick lookin all protected you can break out the sandpaper.
Some people don’t sand off the remaining deck grip but I like to start with a clean slate. It’s sorta tricky cause you don’t want to start grindin off the top of the board cause it might be particularly ugly with blotchy "no paint" spots, so just take off enough to get the old grip "kinda" smoothed off. 
a) use 100 grit sandpaper or higher. You don’t want to grind gouges in your deck. 
b) don’t sand off the tape 
c) wipe all the dust off the deck with a clean cloth sprinkled with acetone You want all the dust on your deck to be history.  Be sure to have a window or two open when dealing with this stuff. In fact, take a moment to think about what’s coming up next by getting some fresh air…. 
Welcome back to the jobsite! As you know, the "gooping" part is next. This stuff goes off quick. So, when you’ve got it all mixed up you want to have had all the other stuff like your gritting medium all dialed and ready to go. 
a) get the "grit" ready first 
b) put on your dust mask 
c) get the grit medium in the shaker. I say "medium" cause some people use:
acrylic deck dust or refined sugar or salt.
As I said earlier, the only thing I recommend is the acrylic deck dust cause it doesn’t dissolve in the water and therefore makes a "grittier" surface.
When you’re confident that the grit is ready at a moments notice you can move on to... 
Mixing the goop… 
            a) follow the directions that come with the product to the letter. Unless specified otherwise, it should be equal parts
         of A and B.  Make about 4-6 ounces or epoxy resign
 b) Thin the mixture with about 20% acetone 
Getting the goop on the board… 
 a) Spread the mixture out quickly. You don’t want it to go off while yer working. You can get the goo on quick by pouring directly on the deck and brushing it all over quickly. Do it a section at as time. Say, the aft, then the middle then the tip section. It’s really important to check that you have the goo everywhere. Remember, missing spots will mean there will be no grip there. 
 b) don’t spread the goo on real thick. In fact, you may wanna kinda press it out thin with your brush strokes. Let the gunk fall to the floor freely. The idea is to have the smallest amount of goo that will hold the grit on your board. Less weight, yeah?
"Shake Rattle and Roll" 
 a) Immediately after getting the goo on you want to get the grit on. One of the most common problems is not getting the grit on before the goo goes off. Don’t let that dweeby thing be your problem. You can check the deck goo on a small spot with your gloved finger. Make sure it’s still at least gummy. If it’s already hard yer gonna have problems. (*see The Fix below) 
 b) Shake the grit on in an even, spread out pattern. If you’ve got the goo the exact thin, yet tacky, workable form then this part could be done by a monkey. Just be sure to get some grit everywhere. (I’m assuming yer a good boy (girl)and have your dust mask on) 
 c) to sorta spread out the grit on the board you can blow the dust around with a cardboard piece by fanning it or shake the board by grabbing it by the rail or maybe come up with another clever way. Again, you’ll have got the grit on, made sure it’s everywhere before the goo on the deck goes off.
Clean up and bail 
 a) Don’t be messing around with touching it here and there cause it makes ugly spots on your board. You know the term, "gettin air?" Yeah, well do that! 
 b) After about a half hour you can come back and carefully pull off the tape. It still may be wet but it should be not totally hard. You may want to use gloves again as you don’t want any junk on your hands. Chuck that stuff in the rubbish and bail again. 
 c) Now, don’t come back till tomorrow.
That’s it! 
 a) The deck is totally dry and you’ve got excess grit on the board. Put your mask back on and flip the board upside down. Most of the excess dust will fall to the floor. If you wanna be slick you can run a hose on your deck to really get an idea of what it’s gonna be like. 
 b) You can now go out and sand your feet off in the water. That is, unless you somehow screwed up……
If it ain’t right…. 
 a) *There’s places where there ain’t no grit. 
 b) Don’t freak, it can be easily fixed. Get a can of NAPA or other quality, clear acrylic enamel. Spray that stuff on where it’s bare and quickly shake on some deck grit. Frankly, some people use this technique to do the whole board. You’ll find that there’s a certain amount of "enough spray but not too much" on the bare spots that works. Be sure to wear all your protective stuff.
I certainly hope this works for you. I tried it myself just the way I’m describing it. I made all the mistakes too. Let me know how it works out will ya?
Aloha
Tim Orden

Ed’ Note   The article was lifted from a website:   http://www.maui.net/~mauiwind/MWR/rd/redeck/reeck3/  When asked for permission to reprint his article, the author responded with the following short blurb and his permission to reprint his work 
   “Tim Orden is marooned on Maui with only himself to blame.  He will drink with 
     anyone, for any reason.  If you find yourself on Maui, at the beach, staring at an aging, 
     long haired, kinda Filipino windsurfer,.... ask him if he'd like to go out for a beer. If he 
     says, "let's go", you just met the author.” 

From one of our New Mexico members
New Mexico Update - Silt, Endangered Species, Drought, & Politics
     For years, the New Mexico Windsurfing Association [NMWA] has lusted over a potential windsurfing site, Jemez Canyon Reservoir. Being the closest lake to the majority of New Mexico's windsurfers population in Albuquerque, and geographically located to take advantage of the prevailing wind direction,  Jemez would be a prime windsurfing/small boat sailing location. However,  past Native American tribal governments have never allowed public access to the lake [since the era of windsurfing], which sits on the Pueblo of Jemez.  The NMWA has lobbied the tribal government numerous times, because tribal chiefs and their council are elected annually, to no avail.
     As a result, of both a region wide drought for the past few years and complex politics between numerous local, state, federal, and tribal agencies [great potential for Hollywood to make a 'China Town-II'], Jemez now sits empty. The lack of water is the result of lapsed siltation agreements along with regulations and remediation efforts to impact endangered species [Silvery Minnow for one]. Ironically, Jemez Canyon has become a muddy killer of migratory birds that become stuck in the drying, muddy, lake-bottom sediments.
     Unless there is a noticeable political climate change and the Southwest has bountiful precipitation for the next few years, it looks like Jemez will stay empty [more than likely, for at least the next two years] and efforts to windsurf there remain moot.
Barry Ritchey NMWA  (and CCWA too)

Electric Newsletter?
Times are changing and as the Commodore has made it rather clear that our bank account is getting slim while our income is also dropping, it seems necessary to cut costs wherever possible.  One of the largest drains on the club’s finances is the newsletter.  Despite cutting corners, the average newsletter costs the club about $150 for each issue.  Very little of that cost is offset by add revenue and the price of paper, printing, and stamps have gone up rather dramatically over the years.  One solution to this dilemma is to make the newsletter available in a printable electronic format which would arrive on your PC rather than via the mail.  It would mean a bit more work for me each month but after the initial setup hassles, it probably won’t take me any longer than it does now if you deduct half of the time I spend labeling, stamping and stapling.  It would be a voluntary thing and those who really want their copy to arrive as it always has via the US Mail will be able to continue in that fashion.  If half of the membership would agree to the newer e-mailed version, the savings would certainly help the club’s coffers.  The only differences between the e-mail and regular US Mail versions would be that the e-mail version would offer color photos rather than the printed version’s black and white shots and the e-mail would arrive sooner than the fastest mailman could deliver it.  If you don’t have a computer or simply hate to use the one you have, this is obviously not an option.  If you do have a PC and don’t view it as the enemy, would you be willing to give it a try ?  We will discuss this at the January meeting and at some point poll the entire membership.  Let me know what you think of the idea.

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