<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText">Hi Matt, <br><br>Please pass on ht bad news if I don't have the v15 fleet list correct.<br><br>Neat stuff. The Air Museum at San Carlos Airport has quite a few photos of the island from the begining.<br><br>Bad News re: Thursday Nite. The Race Committee are both out of action and can not attend to duties. That is, we can not make it. Son John is off on long planned family business, which I expected. I did not expect that I would trip and mess up my achilles tendon this morning. Doctor says stay off it for a few days and I quite agree with her. I am trying to reach Paul Harris to enlist his aid but no word yet.<br><br>If some poor sailor is drafted, here are some details.<br>The Dauntless should be in the water. The Ollie box has a test and a on-off switch. Turn it on and it does the rest. More ground tackle line in V15 shed. Yellow is 15' and blue is 25'. <br><br>Suggest you give the drafted crew average points to make it a little easier to swallow.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>John H. Super (the older one)<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: Matthew Sessions <mcsessions@gmail.com>
<br>Sent: Jun 25, 2009 9:15 AM
<br>To: Vanguard 15 Fleet Email List <sfv15@myfleet.org>
<br>Subject: History of Treasure Island
<br><br>Vanguardians,<br><br>Great story here about the history of TI and Clipper Cove:<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.baycrossings.com/dispnews.asp?id=2181">http://www.baycrossings.com/dispnews.asp?id=2181</a><br><i><span><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><br>
<b>Only three buildings remain from this grand fair.<span style=""> </span>One
is the Administration Building that for many years housed a Treasure
Island museum and now is the home of the Treasure Island Development
Authority (TIDA).<span style=""> </span>Immediately after the
fair closed, though, the Administration Building served as the base of
operations for Pan American Airways Trans-Pacific service from San
Francisco to Manila, via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and
Guam. More recently, the building substituted for the Berlin airport in
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.<span style=""> </span></b></font></font></span></i>
<b><span><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><i><br><br>The other two surviving buildings are the large Art Deco buildings that can still be seen on the southeast corner of the island.<span style=""> </span>During the Exposition, they housed exhibits and then served as hangers for the flying boats used by PanAm.<span style=""> </span>Since the 1980s, these buildings have been used as sound stages for productions as diverse as TV�s </i><i>Nash Bridges and the films </i><i>Flubber and </i><i>The Matrix.</i><span style=""><i> </i><br>
<br></span></font></font></span><i><span><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">The small cove
between Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands (often used as an anchorage by
yachts) is commonly called Clipper Cove in honor of Pan Am's flying
boats, which used the cove as a taxiway.<span style=""> </span>It is interesting to note that the name Clipper Cove does not appear on any official chart.<span style=""> </span></font></font></span></i></b><br><br>We have 17 boats signed up at the moment so let's shoot for 20+! Even Team Method looks to be making their 2009 debut - time to break out the A Sails.<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://vanguard15.org/schedule/524">http://vanguard15.org/schedule/524</a> <br><br>See you tonight...<br>Matthew<br>
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