Volume 39 Issue 9 September 2006 Commodore’s Corner

And so my fellow members, way to Honduras. If you participate in a regatta at what do the names Vladimir pass inspector Hortensia no. Buccaneer Yacht Club on Kudryavtsev, Sergey No- 1 in Tegucigalpa, you Oct 21-22. Indeed, if we voletsky and Alexandr Kikot- will return to in can assemble a crew of Khordokovsky have in com- a few weeks time, only to be Fish aficionados, there is mon? Well, you could start by sold off by Fr**t of the L**m the expectation PYC will asking our Sail Campers Mar- as ladies underwear". The be assigned one of these shall & Nicholas David, cries of "Oh, gross!" said it graceful, time-less old la- Brady and Thomas Barclay, all. dies. All interested, please Avery contact Sollber- Billy ger, Ross for Kevin an audi- Harcher tion. and Which James reminds Ernst who me and can read- most of ily explain, you these gen- probably ial gents know of Russian al- origin are the Cap- tain, Chief Officer and Chief Engineer of the ready, Billy has kindly

good ship "Seaboard Ex- agreed to fill the void plorer II" and escorted our A suggestion to some of you [more like jump into the lads on a guided tour of the "more mature" sailors. Come abyss!] and replace Orhan cargo control room, engine on out on a Sunday after- on the Board in the capac- room and of course the navi- noon and join in the new ity of "One-design chair". gation bridge. Instrumentation "Small " informal Everybody knows of panels reminiscent of "Starship regattas. You could be as- Billy's sailing accomplish- September 2006 Enterprise" and the wondrous signed a Laser, a Sunfish, ments so...... talk about a sounds of diesel engine driven or if you are lucky like me, a natural fit! generators, combined output 420. You may sense some

exceeding 1,000 stiffness and walk with an KVA, supporting great gantry unusual gait for a few days By the time you read this, cranes "tossing" 30 ton loads but the rewards coming from Spartan Building Corp in and out of the bowels of this "Yea, I can still do it!" should have thrust 200+ floating behemoth. are well worth the effort. If pilings into the outer skin

PONTCHARTRAIN YACHT CLUB you can beat some of "the of our poor old, long suffer- Highlights of the kids" then, so much the bet- ing Mother Earth and the tour? [1] Joining the crew for a ter. Appreciative thanks to dream of a new clubhouse, lunch of borsch and "some sort Bob Hodges and Suzana will become a reality. Roll of spaghetti like thing" [2] sit- Williams for spearheading on April 21 2007! ting in the Captain's raised this fabulous addition to our

chair [3] radar targeting river sailing programs. traffic. A distant 10th was my Yours aye analogy, "Just imagine guys, you are 500 lb bales of cotton, On the subject of maturity, Kelvin this van is a 40 ft. shipping we have been invited by the The Chart container and you are on your Fish Class Association to From The Vice Commodore - Janie Eshleman

September 2nd through the 4th marks the weekend of the 87th Sir Thomas Lipton Challenge Regatta, which will be held at Bay- Waveland Yacht Club. However, since devastated some 17 clubs in the GYA and was therefore not held in 2005, I suppose this will be the 86th event! I was asked to give a brief history of the Liptons for the benefit of our newer members, and therefore offer same, with information gleaned from the race results from 1920-1999, compiled by Commo- dore Joseph Alfonso of Gulfport YC, and from The History of Southern Yacht Club, by Mrs. J. Gilbert “Flo” Scheib, who was also Secretary-Treasurer of the GYA for GYA. Our club purchased its first Scot in hun- many years. 1968 and fielded our first Lipton team in dreds of 1969-Don, Jim, and Joan King; Phil and sailors

Jayne Lambke; Don Hayes, Jack Chestnut, and The Lipton trophy was given to Southern Dirk Van Duyn,and Tom Wagner. The specta- Yacht Club by Sir Thomas Lipton in 1919 regatta was held less than two weeks after tors to recognize the competition between Hurricane Camille destroyed the Gulf gather- Southern and Pensacola Yacht Club, which Coast. PYC finished dead last, overall, ing for a was sailed in Fish Class sloops. In 1920, and did not compete again until 3 day these two clubs, along with Biloxi, Bay- 1973. From 1973-1988, PYC moved up week- Waveland, Mobile, and Houston yacht through the Lipton fleet and consistently end of clubs, reorganized the Southern Gulf Coast finished as one of the top five clubs. In racing Yachting Association, (originated in 1901) 1989, we finished in FIRST PLACE out of and as the Gulf Yachting Association, to pro- a fleet of 24 – with team members Hank parties, mote inter-club racing in club-owned Saurage, Tom Baker, Karen Lorenz, Herb catching boats. As additional clubs joined the Sumrall, David Bolyard, Sr., Rusty up with GYA, more events were added to the rac- Weaver, Billy Ross, Steven Choate, and old ing calendar- Sugar Bowl (1934); Sugar Janet Miller-Schmidt (current GYA Com- friends Bowl Race of Champions (1936); Knost modore). Our team today still holds its and (1938); and Junior Liptons (1941) to name place in the top tier, and for the fifth con- making a few. In 1941, the GYA purchased the secutive year since 2002 has attended new Auguste Capdevielle Memorial trophy, to every single Capdevielle event on the ones. Some consider it to be the highlight of be presented to the club with the (then) schedule (a minimum of only 8 races is the sailing season, bringing together top skip- highest number of points in GYA spon- required), making PYC the only club in pers and crews from the GYA clubs. Take a sored events (a low point scoring system is GYA history to do so. The sailors dedi- ride to the coast to cheer on PYC’s team-I currently used). Today, there are 33 GYA cated to this pursuit forfeit their weekends believe we’re just a fraction away from first member clubs from Houston to St. Peters- and family time to be the “road warriors” place in the series – and a Lipton win could burg, whose racers compete in 16 inter- for our club, and are to be commended for move us closer to that goal. Our teams have club competitions held at different venues their expertise, abilities, and willingness to worked hard over the last 37 years and de- within the system. The official club boat represent PYC, not to mention good serve your support. Hope to see you all at of the GYA is currently the Flying Scot, sportsmanship, for which we received an BWYC! which replaced the Fish Class boats in award during the 2004 Liptons.

1969.

Janie Eshleman

The Lipton Cup Challenge, being the old- GYA Coordinator Owning a Scot is one of the pre-requisites est competition within the Capdevielle for any club interested in joining the Series, is also the most well-attended, with 9/1/06

VOLUME 39 ISSUE 9 Page 2 [email protected] - Bill Ross

I would like to thank the board for gatta. Crewing for the skippers were The Lipton regatta will be held on La- the opportunity to fill the remaining Ryan Ross, Ashley Ross, Eva Con- bor Day weekend at BWYC so come term left by Orhan. There has been nor, and Wesley Howden. Great job over and support your team. guys. Our new team is already prac- a lot of activity this past month. We will need a lot of help at the back- ticing for next year. Great job guys. The Sunday afternoon racing has to-school regatta on Sept 9-10 so please been a lot of fun. There has been a The ladies Knost Championship contact myself or Leigh Wanless . lot of participation from both adults on Aug 12-13 was held in and juniors. If you haven’t been out Pass Christian. feel free to drop by and sail or help out with running the races. Representing were Susan Danielson, Phyllis Danielson, The Jr. Lipton regatta was held and Celeste Thorson skipper- July 29-30 at SYC. Pontchartrain ing with Julie Bolyard, Terri had won this event for the past two Hamilton, Eva Connor, and years. Skippering were David Bol- Ashley Ross crewing. They yard Jr. , Ryan Hamilton, and had tough conditions from Collin Ross. There was great com- light to heavy winds and petition this year with a great battle sailed to an eighth place over- with SYC but came up just shy at all. the end to finish second in the re- [email protected] - Suzana Williams

Sunday races have been a success. Every- one is having fun and learning. Thanks to all of you who are helping and racing! There are two scheduled races for Septem- ber, Monday September 4th and Sunday September 24th. Come out and join us. September 9 & 10 is Back to School Re- gatta, come out and sail, help or just watch, about 50 boats participate and it promises to be a fun event.

Attention JUNIOR SAILORS: Please take a few minutes fill out our questionnaire and mail back in the envelope provided. Thanks!

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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3 4 Pot luck/ 5 6 Buffalo 7 8 9 Back To pic-nic and Wings & Potato School Regatta Small boat Salad races

10 Back To 11 12 13 14 15 Cheap 16 School Regatta Food Friday

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 RIB COOK OFF

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Mark your calendars - PYC FISHING RODEO - OCTOBER 14 & 15 2006

Page 4 THE CHART SEPTEMBER 2006 Lets Be Social - Bridget Jarvis

First let me give a big thank you to those who More details available later. Bridget Jarvis continually pitch in to make our “social life” [email protected] so enjoyable. As I am writing this article, we are all preparing for tonight’s Caribe party. In October the big event will be the Lobster Hot off the press!! Thank you to the Sollberger family, Boil – on Saturday, October 14! Marianne Lipscomb, Erin Powell, Janie The Caribe party was a roaring We’ll serve up 2 lb. lobsters with all the fix- Eshleman, Becky and Eva Deano, Jenny Success … and Cecelia and Dick and Judy Jones. ins’ for fair market value. Thanks again to all of my

Helpers: We have plenty of activities to keep us busy throughout the Fall. Marianne Lipscomb Dick and Judi Jones September 4th – Labor Day – potluck, picnic, Stefanie and Vaughan Sollberger maybe some games and small boat races. Erin Powell Janie Eshleman th Sept. 6 – Wednesday – Buffalo wings and Becky Deano potato salad $2.00 Jenny O’Hara

Susan O’Hara September 9th & 10th – Back-to-School Re- gatta, Burger Babes (for your dining pleas- ure) th Our wonderful Jrs. who helped: On Saturday, November 11 , we’re thinking and a Silent Auction (to benefit our trav- about a pig roast/potluck dinner. Our chefs Eva Conner will prepare the pork and you bring all of the side dishes. Ashley Ross Cecelia Palermo I hope to see you all at some – if not all – of these events!! And our dedicated staff: Staci Brent Paul !

eling sailing teams). So far we have a 4 night vacation trip to North Carolina, art, wine basket, duffel bags and jewelry to bid on!

September 15th – Cheap food Friday

September 20th – Wednesday –TBD

September 23th – 2nd Annual PYC Rib Cookoff!! – All of you awesome rib cookers can bring it on and the rest of us will judge!

Page 5 THE CHART SEPTEMBER 2006 [email protected] - Joel Lindsey

for each class, job in both hosting the 2) Upgrading social activi- Sails ties and in 3) Bottom Jobs coordinating the regatta. A 4) Tuning/ re- total of seven placing the races were standing and PYC 3RD IN THE GYA ANNUAL held in mod- running rigging. CHALLENGE CUP REGATTA!! erate-to- 5) Selecting crew and heavy winds, The PYC racing team of four boats trav- the club with eled to Pensacola in late June to compete practicing the lowest in the Annual "GYA Challenge Cup Re- 6) Working out the lo- over all com- gatta" .PYC competed against nine other gistics for the crew, to, bined score yacht clubs and came home with the 3rd at, and from Pensacola; winning. (1st place over-all trophy! Congratulations to: 7) Delivering the boats & 2nd went to Sapphire (2nd place: Class "A": Mark Pen- Palermo, David & Julie Bolyard, Mark Oswald, David Grafftin, Steve Jones, Kyle & Elliot Bowser Beer Goggles (3rd place: Class "B": Jeff Lindheim, Sam Vasquez, DJ Bolyard, Susan Danielson, Kurt Adler Esprit De Vie (1st place: Class "C": Ge- rald Kuehler, Billy Ross, Chuck Thomas, Larry Ruthven, Bob Reedy, David Cheshire, Tom Halbert, Dan Ramsey The Bear (6th place: Class "D": Steven & Caron Choate, Scott St Julian, Jeff Waters, John Trygg sacola Beach & Southern Yacht Clubs to/from Pensacola (thanks again Chuck (59 points each), with PYC coming in 3rd There are four PHRF classes in this re- & Howard) gatta and each club is allowed to enter ( 66.5 points). one boat in each class. Several months During the regatta our PYC scat boat This was an exciting and very competi- prior to the regatta an organizational team, David Bolyard & John Ernst, pro- tive regatta with the opportunity to sail team of Joel Lindsey, Billy Ross and vided beer, ice, water, & storage for un- against the best yachtsmen in the Gulf David Bolyard began planning for the needed sails & equipment and support Coast. event. Preparation included: staff/crew as (frequently) needed. This years regatta was hosted by the Pensacola 1) Club "sail -offs" to select the best boat Yacht Club and they did a magnificent

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VOLUME 39 ISSUE 9 Page 7 2006 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Commodore Kelvin Troughton - [email protected] More Club Contacts Vice-Commodore Emailing and email list Jane Eshleman - [email protected] Georgia Young Rear-Commodore [email protected] PONTCHARTRAIN YACHT CLUB Jay Conner - [email protected] Webmaster & The Chart House & Grounds Suzana Williams 1501 Lakeshore Drive P.O. Box 633 Dennis Ledet - [email protected] [email protected] Mandeville, LA 70470 Social Victoria Class Phone: 985-626-3192 Bridget Jarvis - [email protected] Hew Hamilton E-mail: [email protected] Administrative Manager: Stacie Palazzo Juniors [email protected] Suzana Williams - [email protected] One Design Share The Wind Bill Ross - [email protected]

Membership K. Vaughan Sollberger Jr.- [email protected]

Race We’re on the WEB Joel Lindsey - [email protected] www.pontyc.org

PHRF Friday Night Series

September 15,22 & 29 October 6, 13, 20

Skipper's meeting at 1800 hrs

Race Starts at 1900 hrs

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