User Tools
Sidebar
This is an old revision of the document!
The BKCC meeting…..
Larry Goolsby
01/10/07 #2357
If you don't know what BKCC stands for, that's because you didn't
bother showing up for the meeting. This was the 'once in a blue moon'
meeting of the Bellingham Kayak and Canoe Club and in attendence was
Reivers, Larry B., Dale, David S., Susan B. and me. After Reivers and
I got done fighting over who got to sit next to Susan, we started the
meeting. We took a roll call and noticed that there was nobody in
attendence from Sudden Valley (go figure?). So the first topic up for
vote was whether or not Sudden Valley should be able to incorporate
and become their own little city. We unamoniously voted yes as long
as it was in Alabama. We also agreed that the name should be changed
to Suddenly Valley since YOU BASTARDS SUDDENLY FORGET HOW TO DRIVE
WHENEVER IT SNOWS! Please don't think that I am bitter because of the
low attendence. The second item up for vote was for new officers and
while the rest of the group was naming possible candidates, I crawled
under the table looking for just one more pretzel (service was a tad
slow) and when I sat back in my chair, I discovered that I had been
nominated and elected president in those 3 seconds that my back was
turned. I quickly named Reivers as my vice prez and convinced him of
his value to the office with a threat of using his beer glass as a
urinal if he didn't agree. The reward for becoming prez was being
awarded underwear that formerly belonged to David S. that had the
BKCC emblem on one side and yellow stains on the other. Susan wanted
to outfit me (another fantasy of mine) with a new uniform but the
voting membership shipwrecked her motion before it landed on the
table. Our next item up for discussion was a boathouse. Yes, a
boathouse. Half the table wanted it in Fairhaven and half the table
wanted it at Bloedel-Donovan. As your new president, I said “What the
Hell, why don't we go for both?” I was on my fourth beer and anything
was now possible. In reality, why don't we shoot for both? Fairhaven
Boatworks will loose their lease in 2010 and we could use a
kayak/outrigger/surfski facility on that corner of the bay. The
waterfront is going through some changes with the demise of Georgia-
Pacific and maybe we can get together and become one voice (with the
assistance of WAKE) for gaining a recreational human powered
watercraft facility. Meanwhile, maybe we could also get behind Duncan
Howat for creating a boathouse at Bloedel. If we join forces with the
native Americans (they have some federal funding) and we supply some
private funding, we can turn their Cyclone fence canoe cage into a
covered facility that we could all use. I could have a boat and
paddle reside at both boathouses. Then I wouldn't need to drive my
gas guzzling Stratolounger to the water each day and instead, I could
purchase a new little hybrid Moped and zip back and forth between
Fairhaven and Lake Whatcom. I could wear a sleeveless shirt that
emphasized my physique and one of those half helmets that resembled a
reject from a bowling ball factory. I would be a chick magnet. Women
would look at me like I was chocolate. So moving forward with this
boathouse thing, I decided that the color of the boathouse is to be
pink and anyone that disagrees with this notion CAN SHOW UP AT OUR
APRIL MEETING AND EXPRESS THEIR CONCERNS.
See you there….
Larry G.
