March - Half Moon Bay Yacht Club

March 2006
Volume XXIX
No. 3
MARCH EVENTS
• Saturday, March 4, 4:00 p.m.,
Tuscan Marinade Crab Feed
• Sunday, March
OSCAR Party
• Sunday,
March
Leadership Conference
5,
4:00
5,
p.m.,
• Saturday, March 25, 3:00 p.m.,
General Membership Meeting
PICYA
• Sunday, March 26, 2:00 p.m.,
Private Party
• Tuesday, March 7, 6:00 p.m., Board
of Directors Meeting
• Saturday, March 11, 10:00 a.m.,
Event Planning Committee Meeting
• Sunday, March
Racing Series
12,
• Sunday, March 19, Sailing Sunday
HMBYC
• Friday, March 17, 6:00 p.m., Saint
Patrick’ Day
• Every 3rd Saturday, 10-2pm (3/18)
Scrap booking Circle at the Club.
Contact Cynthia Ramseyer 726.4860 or
2blackcats@comcast.net
• FUTURE Event: Mark your calendars
NOW for the fabulous Memorial Day Party
and invite all of your friends and relatives. The
flyer with all of the details is included in this
newsletter. Let’s make this fundraiser a huge
success and have a great time, too!
• Sunday, March 19, 2:00 p.m.,
Membership Drive Open House
Clip to Celebrate Your March Birthday!
HMBYC Birthday Drink coupon – Member’s March Birthday
The Watch Officer will provide you with a birthday drink of your choice!
Member Name: ________________________
Birthday: ________________________
Date: _______
Watch Officer’s Signature:
AHOY! March 2006
FROM THE HELM
VALENTINE’S DINNER
Love was in the air…….
Spring is just around the corner!
Awash in romantic hues of red, pink and mauve,
our Yacht Club was transformed into a romantic
bistro for the annual Valentine’s Dinner held on
Saturday, February 11th. Fresh flowers, white table
cloths, candles and other heart shaped accent pieces
provided the transformation. The sold out crowd
dined on Steak Diane or Salmon Buerre Blanc
prepared by Special Events Catering. Although no
stories of “grand passion” were shared, everyone had
a great time. A special thanks goes to Georgia
Ysselstein for planning the decorations and to the
volunteers who carried out Georgia’s vision. The
volunteers were Kay Burns, Cynthis Ramseyer,
Karen Hampton, Phyllis Smith, Sirje Bewley and
Barb Dinnsen.
By the time you read this, we will have
had a busy beginning to March. The Tuscan
Crab Fest on Saturday, March 4th and the
Academy Awards Night on Sunday, March
5th. Coming up this month is an Open
House to the public on Sunday, March 19th
and our first General Membership meeting
of the year on Saturday, March 25th at 3:00
p.m. Please plan to attend and stay for the
potluck after the meeting. Bring a dish to
share and the Club will have steak and
chicken for a small cost.
Our biggest events, Memorial Day, Labor
Day and Pumpkin Festival will be here
before we know it. This wonderful club is
run totally by it’s members and we need all
of you to make these big events work.
Please take a look at your calendars now and
set time aside to help where you can.
NEW MEMBERS
We would like welcome the following new
members who recently joined our Yacht Club.
Please seek them out and introduce yourselves.
Frank and Silvia Casey
Martha Tingle and Mark McDonnell
Abigayle Fenn
Suzanne Girot
If we all work together, we might even
find it’s fun! See you at the Club!
-
Kay Burns, Commodore
KAY BURNS, GRI, CRS
Realtor
“The Right Choice”
650-712-0651
kay@kayburns.com
www.kayburns.com
RE/MAX Dolphin
Real Estate
Half Moon Bay
Kay donates 10% of her commissions for all referrals
and transactions that close escrow with HMBYC
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UPCOMING EVENTS
LIGHTS…CAMERAS…OSCARS…
TUSCAN MARINADE CRAB FEED
SUNDAY, MARCH 5
On Saturday, March 4th the Half Moon Bay
Yacht Club will be having its annual Crab Feed
Fundraiser, but this year the crab will be prepared
Tuscan style with a fabulous garlic and herb
marinade. Please invite family, friends, and
colleagues as we need to sell 100 dinners. In
addition to the crab, we will serve salad, garlic
bread and dessert for $35 per person. The fun
begins at 4:00 p.m. with a no-host bar, and then
dinner at 5:00 p.m.
Directed by Veronica Ciari and Phyllis Smith
Produced by the Party Princess Group
Starring YOU! among the Glitterati
Put on your Tiara and OSCAR de la Renta (knock-off),
prepare your OSCAR acceptance speech, and bring an
OSCAR hors d’oeuvre to share at the HMBYC on
Sunday, March 5th. The champagne and hot chocolate
will be flowing. Red carpet festivities will begin at
4:00 p.m. with a private screening of the Award
Winning Sundance Festival Animated Short, “Fumi
and the Bad Luck Foot”. So deck yourself up and join
the fun (Hollywood Chic attire not required). With any
luck we will have a new surround system installed on
our Big Screen, so we will actually be able to hear the
acceptance speeches. See you there!
Get your tickets NOW by emailing
hmbyccrab@hmbyc.org get your check or cash to
Cynthia Ramseyer. Cynthia can be contacted at:
Cynthia Ramseyer
1150 Cabrillo Highway
Half Moon Bay, CA. 94019
650-726- 4860
MEMBERSHIP OPEN HOUSE
Please mark your calendars for Sunday, March 19th
from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for the first new member
drive of the year. We are looking for many volunteers
to make this day a great success. We need members to
greet, inform, and entertain our prospective members.
In addition, we are looking for volunteers to help
provide refreshments by bringing appetizers. Please
email Claudia Linhares at mentalfloss46@aol.com to
volunteer to bring a snack, and Marie Parfitt-Pattie at
mppattie@support.ucsf.edu for volunteering your time.
Watch for advertisements in the HMB Review starting
in March, and an article about the Club written by
Michelle Harris to appear in the March 15th issue of the
Review. Encourage your friends and acquaintances to
come and see what a great place we have in the Half
Moon Bay Yacht Club!
The proceeds from this fund raiser will get our
docks back in the water sooner than later! So
come on down! Bring your friends have a good
time while supporting the cause! Think of how
cute you and your friends will look in “crab
motive” bibs while getting down and dirty with
the cracked crab. YUMMMMM
HMBYC Ship’s Store
Lots of Great Apparel
Special Orders Available
Contact Mimi 728-9544
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Catered TGIF Meals
Special Events Catering continues to cater the Friday night dinners. Patti Schwarz and her team make
wonderful dinners for approximately $15 per person. As of this publication date, the TGIF menus for March
were not available.
Watch Telltales for the weekly TGIF offerings. Also, check Telltales and the Web Calendar for member
prepared meals which might be offered on Saturdays or Sundays
For those members that want to cook meals for the club on a Saturday or Sunday, please send an email to
calendar@hmbyc.org with the date that you would like to cook!!
Join your Yacht Club friends and guests for a scrumptious meal at the Yacht Club. Enjoy a great meal,
support the caterer and enjoy good conversation and usually a great bonfire!
CHECK YOUR SAILING KNOWLEDGE
Just for fun, test your knowledge of nautical terms. Match the correct term with the
description on the left.
1. Side away from wind
2. Body of ship
3. Depth of the hull between the waterline and
and bottom of the keel
4. Vertical supporting tool
5. Ropes and chains for moving sail
6. Cloth to catch the wind
7. Spar attached to the foot of a sail
8. Horizontal or angled length of wood to which
head of sail is attached.
9. Left side as you are facing front
10. Structural piece rising from the keel to
give the hull its shape
11. Alternative name for spar
12. Make a zigzag course into the wind
13. Bunching a sail against its spar and lashing
it out of the way
14. Windy side
15. Right side as you are facing front
a. tacke
b. boom
c. starboard
d. yard
e. spar
f. mast
g. hull
h. sail
i. winward
j. draft
k. rigging
l. leeward
m. frame
n. port
o. furl
Answers: 1. l 2.g 3.j 4.f 5.k 6.h 7.b 8.e 9.n 10.m 11.d 12.a 13.o 14.i 15.c
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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
The first General Membership meeting is going to be held on Saturday, March 25th at 3:00 p.m. Please
mark your calendars to make sure you attend this meeting. This is your opportunity to find out what
issues are coming up this year for the Club. In particular, the status of the new building and what needs
to happen to make that a reality. This is truly an “all hands” meeting and everyone is encouraged to
attend and have your voice heard.
Mavericks 2006 – The Best Seats In The House!
By Neil Hooper
Watching the Mavericks Surf Competition from the land is exciting. Being out on the water looking the
monster in the eye is another thing again.
This year several HMBYC members dropped everything on February 7th and picked their way through seas
large enough to be breaking across the marked channel to reach the viewing area.
On the keelboating front Neal Wehtje’s Megistus gave Carol Smith and friends the best seats in the house,
while Urs Williman went solo in Attitude. At the other end of the scale Adam Quest and friend made it out in
a rubber inflatable (and promptly boarded Megistus), while Neil Hooper, Marcus Choy and friends paddled
out in their sea kayaks.
There’s no dropping anchor and putting your feet up out here. You’re mixing it with a mass of other craft:
big party boats, photographer launches, personal watercraft and bobbing surfers, all continually maneuvering
to stay on station within spitting distance of the mighty face itself without overstepping the buoy-marked
safety line or unwittingly drifting into the breaks at Sail Rock.
Imagine the Safeway lot on Saturday morning with tour buses, cars and bicycles all circling together, no
fixed parking bays, and everyone looking off to one side. Kudos to the cat-herders of the Harbor Patrol who
managed to keep this huge, distracted group in safe waters with good grace all round.
The view down the tube of Mavericks is indeed spectacular, as one would expect, but what many of us
remember is the unique sound close-up, a sharp, crackling boom as thousands of tons water smash down,
huge volumes of air are crushed, and the mixture explodes back out from itself.
That, and we remember we are so small, the ocean so powerful.
On the lower tide, the return leg seemed even livelier than the journey out, with the #3 buoy taking
occasional hits of white water. Many vessels gave it a wide berth to the south and took an inshore route back
to the jaws.Good move!!
An exciting day on the water, and we are privileged to have had a view few may enjoy. And, indeed, it is not
a trip for the inexperienced. But is it dangerous? Let’s just say I feel a lot safer on the shoulder of Mavericks
than clinging halfway up the crumbling rock face at Pillar Point!
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Pictures by Neal Wehtje and Marcus Choy
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Watch Officer & Hospitality Schedule
APRIL
MARCH
Day
Date
Watch Officer
Hospitality
Email
Phone
Michelle Harris
isaacbickerstaff@mac.com
728-3940
Barbara Kelly
kellyinmontara@comcast.net
728-3750
Sabrina Brennan & Aimee
Luthring
Sabrina@dfm.com
728-2867
yopish@aol.com
728-3188
sabrina@dfm.com
728-2867
Fri
3
Sat
4
Jim Muth
Dick & Tami Schubert
(2-6)
Terry Ramseyer (6-10_
Sun
5
Phyllis Smith
Fri
10
Marie Parfitt-Pattie
Sat
11
Ron Headrick
Sun
12
Ken McNutt
Fri
17
Gary Naman
Sat
18
Jim Stretch
Sun
19
Ron Milio
Fri
24
Paul Minoletti
Sat
25
Mimi Wisnom
Sun
26
Bob Reilly
Fri
31
Kay Burns
Sat
1
Beverly Ambrose
Sun
2
Neil Hooper
Fri
7
Gary Naman
Sat
8
Jim Muth
Sun
9
Dick & Tami Schubert
Fri
14
Rich Symmons
Sat
15
Dan Bodmann
Sun
16
Kelly Pike
Fri
21
Charlie Quest
Sat
22
Neal Wehtje
Sun
23
Terri Lahey
Fri
28
Sat
29
Kay Burns
Mike Madden and Barb
Dinnsen
Sun
30
Ara Croce
Don & Sue Zuroski
Sirje Bewley
Richard Hector
Sabrina Brennan & Aimee
Luthring
Mike Bannen
Don Hillard
Watch Officer and Hospitality rotations are subject to change: Please double check the roster in Tell Tales.
Contact calendar@hmbyc.org if necessary to reschedule your shift. It helps if you negotiate your own trade. Thank
you for your cooperation!
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Board of Directors
Kay Burns, Commodore
Kelly Pike, Vice Comm.
Terri Lahey, Rear Comm.
Terry Ramseyer, Treasurer
Neal Wehtje, Facilities
Barbara Dinnsen, Secretary
Charlie Quest, Director-at-Large
Gary Naman, Port Captain
Marie Parfitt-Pattie, Membership
Member Watch Officers
kay@kayburns.com
kpike@coastside.net
lahey@slac.stanford.edu
2blackcats@comcast.net
nealwehtje@comcast.net
barbara_dinnsen@msn.com
mail@drquest.com
gary@gan-trans.com
mppattie@support.ucsf.edu
726-2897
712-0452
726-2474
726-4860
726-1011
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728-5193
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563-9003
Other Contacts:
Boatyard Manager: Ken McNutt: kmcnutt@sbcglobal.net or 712-0515
Bar Manager: Todd Wright: barmanager@hmbyc.org or 728-8838
Quartermaster: Mimi Wisnom: hartestone@aol.com or 728-9544
Race Director & PICYA Rep: Terri Lahey: lahey@slac.stanford.edu
YRA Representative: Dave Haskin: dmhaskin@stanfordalumni.org
Tell Tales Editor: Gayle Pietras: gayle@gaylepietras.com
Newsletter: Barbara Dinnsen: barbara_dinnsen@msn.com
Bookkeeper: Karen Tobin: hmbyc@astreet.com
Club Calendar & Schedule: calendar@hmbyc.org
Dan Bodmann
Veronica Ciari
Ara Croce
Neil Hooper
Ken McNutt
Ron Milio
Paul Minoletti
Jim Muth
Bob Reilly
Peggy Ruse
728-7084
Dick & Tami Schubert 510-523-2641
Carol Smith/Jeff Hume 726-0966
Phyllis Smith
728-8838
Jim Stretch
726-7388
Rich Symmons
712-0461
Kevin Wasbauer
743-1389
Mimi Wisnom
728-8544
Beverly Ambrose
712-8001
Mike Madden
728-5399
Ron Headrick
728-7117
Normal Clubhouse Hours:
Office Hours:
Friday, 6-11pm
Saturday, 2pm-7pm
Sunday, 2pm-7pm
Club Phone & Messages: 728-2120
Wednesday & Friday: 8:30am – 11:30am
Tuesday & Thursday: 1pm – 5pm
Office Email: hmbyc@astreet.com
Fax: 728-1947
www.hmbyc.org
Half Moon Bay Yacht Club
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PO Box 52
El Granada, CA, 94018
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