MAY 2018 BEACON

My second year as your Publications Director found me busy working to get your Roster finished in time. The pages used in the front of the book have been passed down from one Roster maker to another for some time and the copy/paste process in the pages was causing a LOT of trouble for me. Soooo this year I made all new pages for most of the government, First Mates and some other pages. I hope you like them. Best of all, I now have all the source files from which the .pdf files for the Roster come from. This will aid me and future Publications Directors for years to come. Feels good to be back in the Great Lakes State and the Sweet Water Seas, comforting to know I’m not on the menu when I’m in the water here. Transparent Burgee & Anchor along with any other images I have are available to any of you who make Flyers, Fan-Outs, or any other NCYC document where you may want an NCYC image on something other than a white background. Drop me an email to bearhooks@comcast.net and I’ll send the files to you for your own use. I finally got around to making an NCYC Burgee & Wheel Logo with a Transparent background, it’s on the Cover of this Beacon. This is a Logo that can be put on backgrounds that aren’t white and it’ll look good. For a visual, I made the cover of this Beacon with the old Burgee & Wheel shown here to the right so you can see the difference. Sadly, I didn’t get this done in time for this years Roster, it has the Transparent Burgee I made last year. This new

Blue Skies Following Seas, Ron