Fall 2013.pub - Hudson Cove Yacht Club

The Yardarm
Newsletter for The Hudson Cove Yacht Club
Fall 2013
Commodore’s Message
Hi All,
The wonderful fall season is here. The leaves are beautiful.
Most of us have hauled or are in the process of hauling our
boats. It seems as if I was just thinking about commissioning!!
In any event, we will continue to have interesting events to
take us through the winter and into springtime.
Marc Goldzweig,
Commodore
I am sorry that Gail and I were not able to attend the election dinner at Madeleine’s Petit Paris; but, we understand it was
fun. Outgoing members of the board provided valuable service
to the club and will continue to do so in other capacities. I am
excited to work with the new Board of Governors. Future
events will include our upcoming holiday party, educational
seminars, and events to be announced. I am always interested
in ideas for club events so please email me with yours as they
may be of interest to all members. Please continue to check
our website www.hudsoncove.com to see these and other events
on our calendar.
Holiday Party
Saturday, December 7,
7 PM
Marina Conference Center
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Marc Goldzweig,
Stu Finn, and
Yacht Clubbers showed up with
big appetites and good spirits
for the Labor Day Barbecue.
Tom DiLauro
Five Happy Sailors Home From
the Sea...
...And One More
Just Happy to Be Home!
Carol Finn
Jacky Dawson and
Brenda Edwards
Dan and Karen Kinsley
John and Jane Nielsen
Bob Garabedian
and Myrna Lurie
Rob Eldridge and
Pat Martino
David and Karolyn Hutto
Jon and Bobbie Potaki
Nancy and Roy DeVries
Charlotte and Steve Pendleton
Brenda and
John Edwards
Gloria and Al Shapiro,
Chuck and Eileen Manley,
Herb and Gina Dietrich
Rich and Cathy Thabit
Mike, Carolyn, and Louie Pflueger
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You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll beg for more! Here’s how
it all started for twenty of our HC Yacht Clubbers.
Jeff and Linda Anders “Sleep Walking”
Jeff has been boating all his life. His first boat was an
all-wood 1958 Thompson. It took him six months to strip
it down and refinish it… All on his own. Linda actually
bought their first boat together, a Bayliner handyman’s
special. Next came a 27-ft. Maxim, then their Mainship.
The only bad parts of
boating according to
Linda… ”Paying for gas
and docking on very
windy days.”
Chuck and Patsy Booth “Prelude”
“I was about 12 when my father saw an ad for a build-yourown-boat kit, a Luger 14-ft. fiberglass runabout.... ‘A
few evenings of work for a lifetime of pleasure.’ Those
few evenings turned into many months. Our house
smelled like a horse from all the fiberglass work. Eventually we launched it in the Hudson with a used Scott 40-HP motor.
There wasn’t one outing that went off without that engine failing
to start, conking out; or, if by some miracle it did start, racing at
full speed in neutral. I inherited the Luger when the Scott finally
blew up; Scotty is now backfill at the Jersey shore. My next boat
was a 17-ft. Boston Whaler, followed by a 17-ft. Mark Twain, a
25-ft. Crownline, and now a 35-ft. Silverton. We named this one
“Prelude.” The idea was it would be a forerunner to a 42-ft.
Silverton; but, Patsy says anything bigger than this and I’ll be
boating with a new wife. My favorite part of boating is a nice
cruise on a smooth day, watching a great sunset. Patsy
was never a boater and just goes along for the fun of
bottom painting, polishing, docking, and all those other
special times together. She says people at the marinas
always know her name because I yell it so often. Her
favorite part of boating is cocktails on the bridge.”
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Jerry and Rita
Cohen
Jerry credits “Herbert” with getting him into sailing. Herbert was an
“On The Wing”
town. They carpooled together in the 80’s. “Herbert had a 27-ft.
industrial engineer who worked with Jerry at General Foods in TarryC&C, a nice little boat which he handled very well. And we would,
once or twice a summer, sail to work … In Tarrytown.
So the first time we went, we waited for high tide
and got in and someone from Herbert’s work group
Frid
a
picked us up. At the time, he was a senior engineer,
y!!!
so someone who worked under him would transport
everyone. Eventually, we had what was called ‘Early
Fridays’… Starting at
noon and sailing supposedly until 9 PM, although we rarely went that late. Rita became a sailor when I bought a boat. I absolutely love the concept of sailing… The
idea of having the wind push you, how the
sails work… It is very, very nice!”
Chris and Erica
Conway
“Patronus”
Erica says she was always a sailor, it just took her awhile to realize it.
She took her first boat ride at 11 weeks old. Her parents were power
boaters and Erica, wearing a big orange lifejacket, cruised along in a
cockpit playpen on their Pacemaker. Eventually they moved onto their
boat full time, then upgraded to a 1965 wood Chris Craft. It was a
high school science teacher who introduced Erica to sailing. He asked
her to fill in as crew for a Wednesday night race. As long as she knew
port from starboard she was welcome aboard. Two hours into the race
and Erica was hooked. “They couldn’t get me off the boat...” Chris
started sailing as a young boy. He did the Transatlantic
Race ,the Fastnet, and Cowes Week all before he was 22.
The two were on the sailing team in college racing 427
dinghies for Cornell. Erica took a break when their
children were born; but, two years ago, they bought a
Beneteau 473, packed up the offspring, and spent 14
months sailing the east coast of the US, the eastern
Caribbean, and the Bahamas. To get ready, Chris
“took an intensive diesel engine repair and maintenance course, researched every possible piece of equipment from bow
to stern, and pored over the charts from Maine to Grenada.” Erica is
thrilled that her children love sailing as much as their parents with
“8500 nautical miles under their own lifejackets.”
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Herb And Gina Dietrich
Cowabunga dude!
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“How we got into (and out of) boating: In 1970
when Gina and I were married, I was a surfer,
and 30 lbs trimmer. After almost simultaneously knocking Gina out and drowning her while
teaching her how to surf, it was clear to me that going forward it was going to be either Gina or the surfboard. A decision was made, let's buy a boat since we love the water. Back
then all we could afford was a Sunfish on a trailer, and so we
sailed the Great South Bay of LI. The Sunfish followed us
when we moved to MA and then ME, at which time we wanted
something a little bigger and more stable such as an Alberg
Typhoon. With two children on the scene, our priorities
changed. Because the ocean in ME is freezing all year except
for two weeks at the beginning of August, we decided to move
back to NY and settle in Rockland County. In 1986, the itch
to get back into boating re-appeared and we bought the Typhoon, then an Ericson 28, then an Ericson 34, and finally a
Passport 40, which we sold in 2012 after sailing her for almost 12 years on LI Sound. We are still into boating - just
other friends’ boats (when we are invited). FYI, the surfboard stands in our garage to this day.”
Sailing was always something Stu wanted to
do “even though I knew nothing about it!”
About five years ago he saw a sailboat on
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craigslist and checked sailing off his bucket
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list. Stu calls Carol “… a good sport. She’s
in it for the long haul.” As for Carol, she
loves to shop and “boating gave me something else to shop for. Sometimes I get
carried away. I bought several sets of
dishes because they were so cute and nautical; but, ended up using paper plates so I don’t have to wash them.” Their favorite
things about boating “the great people we’ve met
and the friendships we’ve made.” And
Carol adds “At the end of a sail, just
hanging out on the boat and watching
a beautiful sunset, with cocktail in
hand, makes all the effort worth it.”
Stu and Carol Finn
“Melita”
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For Eddie and Debby, it started about 30 years ago with a drive
along the Hudson in Piermont and a Snark for sale on a front lawn.
They spent $200 for 15 years of “a lot of fun” sailing on local lakes, in bays, and on the ocean. Eddie
sold the Snark in 2004; but, two years later, with
retirement beckoning, he took a sailing course at
Croton, and then purchased a 1986 Catalina 27,
traded up to a 295 Hunter, followed two years later
by a new 2009 Hunter 38. They’ve been enjoying
“fair winds and following seas” ever since. One highlight, a 2010 sail to Bermuda on “Seas the Day 3” with three other
Haverstrawians (the wives opted to fly). Debby calls herself a
“sailor by marriage; otherwise I never, ever would have been one.”
She suffers from severe seasickness; but, wristbands and Bonine
keep her on an even keel. According to Eddie “She’s a great first
mate. She’s the wind beneath my sail.”
Marc and Gail
Goldzweig
“It’s About Time”
Eddie and Debby
Frank
“Seas The Day 3”
Marc started sailing in summer camp. His
father had always wanted a sailboat; but,
never bought one. “I never did anything
about it until about ten years ago when I
bought my first sailboat, a Catalina Capri
22. It was a great day sailor.” That’s
when Gail realized how much she enjoyed
the sailing life. “Gail and I decided we wanted something with
more cruising capability and moved up to a Beneteau 281. It was
a great boat for several years; but, we needed/wanted something a little more comfortable and moved up once
again to a Beneteau 36.” Marc wasn’t always a confirmed sailor. When he was about 13, he bought plans
to build a small one-person hydroplane powered by a
10-HP motor. The plans said it could be built easily
and cheaply. Not exactly true in either
case. As it turned out, the engine
wasn’t included. “But it was a
great father-son project.”
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It was Eileen’s Uncle Logan who started it all. He built and
raced a Controversy 27 in Buzzards Bay, MA. He
laid the keel in Maine then shipped it to his home
and housed the hull in a chicken coop while he finished the work. Eileen’s father carved an eagle for
the stern. Eileen was about 17 at the time and
dating Chuck. Uncle Logan took one look at Chuck and
decided “a strong young man” like that would be just
the fella he needed to crew for his Saturday races.
“I’ll have him back in time to take you to dinner!” That
was the “Yankee Too” and that’s how Chuck became a
sailor. Eileen says she just went along for the ride.
They’ve had two boats on the Hudson… A Northstar 25
and Cloudspin. At home on the lake they’ve sailed a
Comet, a 470 Olympic Class, and now a Sunfish, and a
sailing dinghy. “Sailing is all about the quiet, and moving
with the wind and a need to be very flexible about where you are going” says Eileen. “And the social times, in the evenings when you exchange ‘tall tales’, are very precious.”
Chuck and Eileen Manley “Cloudspin”
Al and Gloria Shapiro
“Purrfect Sunset”
Al and Gloria started off with a sail canoe at City Island in the
late ‘50’s, moved up to a racing catamaran, then to “Quest”, a
tri-maran. About 15 years ago, rather than scrap her, they decided to ship Quest to Hope Town, The Bahamas for “as long as
the old girl lasted.” She’s still going strong, racing every other
Wednesday during the season. Al’s only concern…”We need
more room on the shelf for all
the glasses she’s won.” Their
current boat is a Catalac 30, the
“Purrfect Sunset.” It was their
daughter, Leslie, who came up
with the name, a play on their
boat’s CATalac origin and their
continuing search for an ideal
day’s end. Al says Gloria’s has always loved sailing except for
the time her hairdo was drenched just before a wedding.
Thanks to all who contributed to this cruise down memory lane. And especially
to Eileen Manley who came up with the idea.
Photos are courtesy of: Chuck Booth, Linda Anders, Debby Frank, and Erica Conway.