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Member Road Trip Coming Soon! Destination: EAA Aviation Museum Date: Friday, March 23, 8-5:00 p.m. Cost: $39 per Member Reservations due by: March 2 Call the Museum: 920-743-5958 During last year’s Member Cruise to the historic town of Fayette aboard the Island Clipper, members requested more day trips to other museums and historic sites. Lynn Steiner, Member Road Trip volunteer, has planned a fun daytrip excursion to the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Aviation Museum for Friday, March 23. Members will board the motor coach beginning at 7:45 a.m. at the Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay for an 8:00 a.m. departure. Once at the Aviation Museum we will see a brief overview video and proceed on an hour-long guided tour. Then guests may explore independently the interactive areas, museum, and shop in the store. We’ll have lunch and then return to the Museum between 4:30-5:00 p.m. $39 per member cost includes roundtrip transportation; museum admission, video and guided tour; and a sandwich lunch. Reservations are limited to the first 54 members and are due by March 2. Call the Museum to make reservations 920-743-5958. Lynn Steiner has many other future Museum Member road trip ideas in mind for you!
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2011/2012 WINTER SPEAKER SERIES SCHEDULE The series gets underway Tuesday night, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. and will provide an excellent holiday shopping opportunity with the Museum's gift shop open for business and a book signing opportunity with the evening's featured speaker Richard Purinton. Purinton, who serves as the CEO for the family-run Washington Island Ferry Line, will present a program about life on Washington Island during the winter months. An award-winning author, Purinton's "Over and Back - A History of Transportation to Washington Island" earned an Award of Merit from the Wisconsin Historical Society after being released in 1991. In 2009 he authored "Words on Water - A Ferryman's Journal" and last year "Bridges Are Still News - Island Essays, Poems and Photos" was released. The next in the series will be on Thursday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. Ken Westcar will recount the repowering of the 1,000-ft. self-unloader Paul R. Tregurtha at Bay Shipbuilding. “The program will discuss how local expertise and an unwavering commitment to quality provided the vessel owners with a renewed asset that left the Sturgeon Bay yard on-time and on-budget and has since completed two full operating seasons with zero downtime while setting a precedent for future ship repowers in Sturgeon Bay,” explained Westcar. “There is also a short video showing how the new MaK engines can be equipped to run primarily on natural gas and therefore meet future exhaust emissions regulations without impairing ship efficiency and productivity.” Westcar has been with the Caterpillar marine dealer organization for nearly 45 years with initial experience coming from the United Kingdom’s North Sea oil and gas exploration and production. Over ensuing years he has worked with a wide variety of maritime interests in assisting them in their fleet modernization efforts. A member of the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineering, the Ontario resident assumed responsibility for the sale and application of Caterpillar’s MaK medium-speed diesel engines for the entire Great Lakes in 2004 and he and his team have executed many repowers of U.S. and Canadian flagged vessels. On Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. Gene Caldwell, Vice President and General Manager of Bay Shipbuilding Co., will present a program on current activities at the Sturgeon Bay shipyard. Caldwell will provide a general overview of work at the yard including some of the projects associated with the wintering fleet. He'll also discuss parent company Fincantieri's improvement projects at the yard as well as an update on the construction status of the deep water Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) for Tidewater Inc. Last fall, Bay Shipbuilding announced the beginning of construction of the 303-ft. PSV vessels which are used to ferry materials and personnel to offshore oil platforms and other offshore structures. 2012 is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, so Door County Maritime Museum Executive Director Bob Desh will present a program on the war's impact on the Great Lakes on Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m. The series concludes on Thursday, March 29 at 7 p.m. with a program by Bill Freyman about building a Pooduck Skiff. Last year's boat building class built one. All the Maritime Speaker Series programs begin at 7 p.m. at the Sturgeon Bay Museum. They are free of charge and open to the public with donations appreciated. For more information contact the Museum at 920-743-5958. Keep These Dates In Mind June 8, 9 & 10 August 4 & 5
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