January-February 2009 MACATAWA BAY

January-February 2009 www.mbyc.com

MACATAWA BAY YACHT CLUB • 2157 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE • MACATAWA, MI 49434 • 616-335-58151 COMMODORE’S REPORT As I am writing this, it’s staff for finishing 2008 strongly “in the black.” As reported hard to visualize summer in at the fall shareholder’s meeting, last year began slowly, however Macatawa. We’ve had three with a lot of “hustle” and careful cost controls, the club begins times our “normal” snow 2009 in a strong financial position. Looking ahead, our new fall, and currently we’re in slips have “permanent” assignments, and we’ve been able to a blizzard that’s forecast to accommodate a number of members who have been on the extend through the slip waiting list, so we have a “full house” going into the season. Holidays. However, your Bridge and Board are So with all this going on, you’re probably wondering what confident that winter will I’ve been contributing… Well, as you read this, the 2009 pass, and have been spending a significant amount of time social schedule is also posted on the Webscoop. Drafting the planning and preparing for the 2009 season. schedule has been an interesting exercise. We really do have a lot going on! And while the emphasis is definitely on having Congratulations to Commodore John Donnelly and his team fun, it’s “important” fun that creates our unique membership for creating an exciting schedule of sailing events for 2009! experience. Check out the schedule, and please consider Check out our schedule on the web at www.mbyc.com, and helping out with one or more of our events. make plans to be involved next summer. Over a number of years and a number of events, I constantly hear from visitors Additionally, I’ve been working on some longer-range issues that we have one of the finest racing venues in the country. relative to our membership. Analysis of the distribution of Our facility makes sailing easy, our conditions are challenging, ages of our current members indicates a strong concentration and the quality of our race management program compares in the 45 – 55 and 55 -65 age groups. While there are a favorably with literally any event in the country. Over the number of reasons for this, including the effect of the “baby past several years your race committee has made a commitment boom”, it points out our need to look ahead 10 years and to quality racing with the theory that “if we build it, they will develop the next generation of “active” members. Developing come…” Well, it’s built. So please take a look at the schedule actively engaged members in the intermediate and junior and make a plan to take advantage of our sailing programs categories will provide the level of active members that will be during 2009. needed to provide for the long term stability of the Club. We’re currently looking at the most effective ways to introduce Commodore Bob DeJong has been at work fine tuning the the value of membership to a “younger” group. Stay tuned operational side of the club (Dock and Grounds, House) to for more on this as 2009 unfolds. improve the overall value of the member experience. Bob is building on his experience in 2008 and I’m pleased that we’re We’ve got an exciting year planned. Anne and I look forward able to have his continuity in the guidance of these critical to seeing you at our Club! aspects of our club. Speaking of 2008, congratulations to Commodore Brown, Manager Marilyn Baker, and our club Roger Gamache

Front Cover Photo New Board Member Appointed This month’s wintry club photos for the cover At a time when filling an “unexpired term” is often fraught were taken by Anne Gamache, Tom Slanec, with controversy, please extend congratulations and thanks to and jb. Thank you to all for answering the call Jack Knoblauch for his willingness to undertake the remainder to walk out to the docks in the snow and get of John Donnelly’s term on the Board of Directors. Jack and some snowy pictures. The Wind Scoop’s front his wife Linda co-own Capricious, and are active sailors, race cover needs entries for future issues. Please committee members, and part of the Nauti Shop crew. email your quality photos to Wind Scoop edi- Thank you Jack! rg tor Jon Bontekoe at: [email protected]

2 MMM acatawa Bayayay MBJA Youth Sailing News Happy 2009 to all! We will be doing a few shifts with our MBJA Learn to Sail and Learn to Race classes in the 2009 season. Please stay tuned to the MBYC website later this month for more details. Because of the success and energy created by last summer, we will also be expanding the West Michigan Youth Sailing Association to include more teams and potentially bigger regattas. It looks YYY acht Club to be an exciting summer for everyone! Congratulations to Caroline Sisson, who has been busy competing Optis in MBYC Flag Officers Florida. At the Naples Cup in November, she finished 47th out of 90 in the Opti Commodore Roger Gamache Green Fleet. In early December, she competed in Vice Commodore Bob DeJong the JO Regatta at the US Sailing Center at Jensen Rear Commodore John Donnelly Beach. She finished 30th out of 50. Coming up in Board of Directors January, Caroline will participate in the O’Pen Bic Immediate Past Commodore Miami regatta. BEST OF LUCK, CAROLINE! Paul Brown We would love to share racing news of our other Treasurer Larry D’Haem junior sailors in this column as well. Please pass along Secretary Michael Hill information to Marie for next month’s issue. Director Beth Egge See you on the water… one of these days! Director Jack Knoblauch Marie Mell Director Tom Slanec Director Lisa Ruoff Director Joel Krissoff Director Mitchell Padnos Director David Sligh, Jr. Judge Advocate JD Stone Management General Manager Marilyn Baker Executive Chef Jim Ruehle Outside Manager Douglas Knapp **** Wind Scoop Editor Jon Bontekoe Web Scoop Bob Standish www.mbyc.com MBYC 2009 Logbook is in pre- Caroline Sisson sailing her Opti at press production: There is still time the Jensen Beach JO Regatta held to send in a new picture for the in Florida this Fall. Photo by Steve Sisson. 2009 Logbook. (Email pictures to editor Jon Bontekoe or mail a glossy Holiday Orange Bowl Regatta to the club office.) Too many mem- Several MBYC youth members will be nual Orange Bowl International Youth ber photos are at least five years old traveling to Miami for the Orange Bowl Regatta based at the Coral Reef Yacht and we desperately want to replace Regatta. Alex Kiss, Alex Post, and Club in Miami, Fla. on December 27- them with more recent photos. And Mitchell Kiss will be sailing in the Laser 30, 2008. The Orange Bowl Regatta is so many members are missing in Radial Fleet. In the Club 420 class Louis the culminating event of the USA Jun- Padnos is sailing with crew Ben Spector, ior Olympic Sailing season. This regatta the photo section. Family photos and Morgan Kiss with crew Laura is the largest youth sailing regatta in the with kids are fine but must include McKenna. Graham Post will be sailing country, with racing held on Biscayne parents. with the Optimist Green Fleet. A record Bay, featuring fleet racing on four breaking fleet of over 700 junior sailors courses for Club 420, Laser, Laser Ra- from 24 countries and 26 U.S. states and dial, Laser 4.7 and Optimist classes. territories will convene for the 32nd an- Results were not available at press time. 3 Sailing the Greek Islands in November: Sailing season Another sailing adventure by Lisa Ruoff Enter the Blue Cup regatta, an annual race in Greece in the Argosaronic Gulf, A during the first week of November-- MBYC members Lisa & Bill Ruoff, Bob Nepstad, Paula Mutrynowski, and their regular race crew Douglas VanderKam shared a Beneteau charter and a two week vacation in Greece to experience it all.

Approximately fifty Beneteau yachts from the Vernicos Yachts fleet, with crews from many different countries participate every year in this event. The ever-growing spirit of this race is the mixture of competition and sportsmanship with cocktails, dancing and partying at every port of call. Every island visited has a special welcome for the participants with receptions, parties and prizes for each day’s racing. Can devoted Dufour and C another fine young Greek man who and just lovely. We load the groceries and & C owners survive a race/cruise on a brings us to a ware house of sorts to pick wine and Ouzo (it was all delivered!) and Beneteau? Add Greece, perpetual out what we want for “drinking” the next then walk about the docks checking out sunshine, 52 sailboats and crews from 10 week. the other boats and crew. We say hello to different countries, wine and Ouzo… we the other sailors and ask about the will survive! After five days in Santorini Ouzo, wine, more wine, perhaps we will agenda. The folks next to us are a lovely and three days in Athens seeing the sites, need some bottled water. It is all labeled group of Swiss men on a sister ship. This the five of us set forth to Alimos Marina with our boat name “Felicity” and they was a repeat event for them. We are to southwest of Athens to get on our boat. tell us it will be delivered to the boat. I spend the night on the boat at the Marina pay and off we go in yet another car with and then sail/motor 30 miles to the What an organization Vernicos Yacht another fine young Greek man “to the starting venue on Sunday. We will follow Charters is! We arrive by taxi and are met grocery store”. We wander through this them. at the car by a fine young Greek man with very lovely gourmet store and fill the requests to move our luggage to their basket with yummy foods. We spot some After a great dinner that night at “Jimmy office and Bill and Bob to go check in. other sailors so we follow them and see and the Fish” for lobster spaghetti, Ouzo Paula, Douglas and I are whisked to a car. what they are picking: toilet paper, paper and wine, we head back to the boat to Feeling confident, we hop in, not really towels … maybe we should ask them so get a good nights sleep. We do learn that knowing why. We’re told we are being we strike up a conversation. They are the boats in the charter fleet tend to build taken to a shop to purchase from Ireland and have done this race up barnacles and we can get an ice scraper liquids…hmmm… so off with yet before and fill us in on the shopping for and jump in to scrape the barnacles off food program. Seems we will need more the hull if we would like the boat to “go tzatziki, more lunch meats, more wine, faster”. At the same time Bill is inquiring B olives, cheese, bread, salad stuff, coffee. about holding tanks and water and we Wow, we filled a shopping cart, giggled a learn that the boats here have no holding lot and had the time of our life, and we tanks. It’s overboard discharge. OK who were only two hours into it! wants to go in and scrape barnacles? No takers! That’s ok, we will sail slow. Yet another fine young Greek man (see a trend here?) whisks us and our 20 bags We are not even 12 hours into our of groceries into yet another car and we adventure! Our delivery to the starting return to the Marina to see what Bill and venue in Epidavros was, as deliveries go, Bob are up to. Felicity is a 2003 Oceanis pretty typical, 30 knots on the nose! No 473.3 with four cabins and three heads kidding. It should be a great race with all 4 n does not have to end when the snow begins to fly

of this wind! Our first experience with and bars; Soupia, which offered nothing stern-in Med-mooring went pretty well. much other than shopping, easy med- Bill at the helm, Bob at the windlass and mooring, great sites, and great bars; and Lisa, Paula and Douglas with stern lines then the final venue, Porto Heli where and fenders. Success! tied up and ready the final ceremony and banquet were for the party. (Suffice it to say not all the held. Three of the four nights were D med-mooring experiences went as well). fabulously catered meals with wine and Our kickoff dinner was just fabulous, dancing and even fireworks one night! cloth napkins, actual wine glasses, wine Our second night we were greeted at the on the table, and a phenomenal feast of pier with two more bottles of wine. It Greece photos by Lisa and Bill Ruoff. Greek food. Each boat and crew were was a good thing as our supply was A Rounding a mark introduced and then music and Greek already getting low. We are proud to say B Sailing into Poros Harbor dancing into the wee hours of the night. that, after 2 races we were tied for C Regatta welcome port D Doug Lisa, and Paula staying afloat. We learned, over the next 5 days, that second! Perhaps I should tell you that the racing was secondary to eating, drinking whole fleet was tied for second as only and dancing. Note to self… we will need one boat was able to finish before the rest Three MBYC 7.9’s competed in to buy more wine and Ouzo. of the fleet was timed out. There was not the National Championship on a lot of wind for the other races as several Percy Priest Lake outside of So off to the start, our Oceanis looking were even cancelled. We finished only two Nashville, TN. Doug Padnos’s K2, as slick and race savvy as any 15+ ton races and were careful to calculate time the Bergman’s Second Wind, and sailboat can look. Little did we know that so that when we couldn’t finish in the Scott Derby’s S’macd competed our 2003 boat was the oldest boat in the time allotment we could turn on the old in the 7.9 National Championship fleet. Who would have thought a 2003 iron genny and get into port to explore. on October 22nd thru the 25th in boat is old? A racing yacht she was not! We won many of “those races”. breezy conditions. Spike & Brad Our competition you ask? They were in Boston won the eight race event Beneteau 40.7’s ; Oceanis 40’s even a Although there was not a whole lot of convincingly with K2 placing Beneteau 57… You get the point, we were wind and what little wind we had was third and Second Wind closely not in a competitive boat, quite a lovely not enough to move a 15+ ton Oceanis behind in fourth. boat, but NOT competitive. As point- across Greek waters, the crew of Felicity to-point race starts go it was yet again had one fabulous time. The scenery along typical conditions. NO WIND! And so the way was just delightful. Meeting so it goes in yacht racing. many wonderful people from so many different countries and forging new The race stops included: Methena, a geo relationships along the way was reason thermal area in Greece with sulfur baths enough for the trip. Perhaps you all will and royal spas; Poros Island, a lovely and meet some of the Hungarian crew next quaint island with yummy restaurants year at Mac Bay!!

Photo above: Jeff & Doug Padnos’ K2 (432) and Don & Jean Bergman’s Second Wind (507) charge off the starting line at the recent S2 7.9 National Championship Regatta in Tennessee.

5 REAR COMMODORE’S REPORT The 2009 race program at keep our boats right side up...With hearts racing and muscles MBYC will be a busy one. exploding we stayed focused one boat length at a time in sailing We will have our standard downwind in 35 knots. It was scary, but such a rush.. I was five MBYC offshore feeling pretty good about surviving and finishing until a Saturday races: May 23, monster wave broke right on top of me. After capsizing a June 6, July 11 and 25, and couple of times, a safety boat told me it was best if I sailed in August 29. We also expect taking a dreaded DNC. I still had fun hydroplaning to the more out of town sailors to jetty. Upon reaching the dock Kiersten showed me her main come to MBYC to race that was shredded near the foot. We felt it necessary to give than in any year of our her a hard time for her blond moment, all in good fun! We 100+ year history. We will had a blast meeting girls from all over the country and look be hosting the following regattas: Laser Great Lakes (June 13/ forward to representing BCYC again in this regatta. It was an 14), Catalina Rendezvous (July 11/12), West Michigan Youth amazing experience and we were very proud to have been part Champs (August 1), Commodore’s Cup (August 8/9), 420 of it.” North Americans (August 13-16), M20 Nationals (August 21- 23), Farr 40 Great Lakes (August 29/30) and the S2 7.9 It would appear that Chloe McDonald has a bright future not Nationals (September 17-19). We have a great sailing venue only as a sailor, but also as a writer. We look forward to hosting and sailors from around the Great Lakes and beyond are many other sailors this summer, and I hope that they will be looking forward to visiting us this very busy upcoming able to share exciting and positive tales back at their home summer. clubs about racing at MBYC.

A new fleet is starting at MBYC - the Melges 20, a new boat John Donnelly (pictured at right). We expect at least six M20s to hit our starting line this summer. A fleet organizational meeting took place at MBYC on November 22 and a number of new and prospective owners got a look at the boat. The only thing that prevented people taking a sail in the boat were temperatures in the 30’s and winds in the 20’s. The not-so-easy to please editor of Sailing Anarchy had a ride recently on the M20 off Melges 20 of Fort Lauderdale and gave it a very favorable review “The boat (M20) feels very high performance to drive up and down. The bow penetrates the waves very well upwind and I did not notice the bow wanting to bury downwind. The ergonomics of the cockpit are spot on. It has a big boat feel. My guess is the Viper and M20 will thrive as the sport of sailing finally decides to modernize the equipment it uses.”

MBYC hosted the U.S. Junior Women’s Single-Handed Championship regatta in August. In the September, 2008 Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club (near Newport Beach, California) newsletter, there was an article titled “BCYC Girls Take On Lake Michigan”. It is about two BCYC sailors, Chloe and Kiersten McDonald, and their participation in the USJWS regatta at MBYC with an emphasis on the windy Thursday afternoon. I would like to share some quotes written by Chloe McDonald from the article: “We got back on the race course Thursday afternoon, but the wind had gone CRAZY! Sailing a Laser in those winds is the greatest feeling in the world. Kiersten and I are really aren’t that big, so it was difficult to 6 Life Lines (Assembled by Melanie Aves to help members track member John and Melanie Aves welcomed 3 new grandbabies in news of interest to many. Please submit entries to Melanie at 2008, one from each of their daughters, Pirrie, Amy and [email protected]) Alison. The total count is now 7!

Jon and Shae Kobs’ son Jon Kobs IV married Andrea Members wishing to read about or correspond with Peter Cartmill on October 18 in Menomonie, Wisconsin. The Kok following his recent surgery may visit the blog: http:// couple lives in Boise, Idaho. www.carepages.com/carepages/peterkok You may have to create a temporary user name to view entries.

7 Special Dates: Friday, Jan 23: Winter Blues Party 6:00 - 10:30 Friday Feb 20: Mardi Gras Party 6:00 - 10:30 Friday, March 13: St. Patrick’s Day Party 6:00 - 10:30 Saturday, March 28: Basic Race Management Seminar 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Wednesdays in April: Learn to Race Seminars 7:00 - 9:30

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18 19 20 21 22 Winter Blues Party 23 24 6:00 - 10:30 PM Limited menu 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Strictly Sail Strictly Sail Strictly Sail Chicago Chicago Chicago 1 2345 6 7 FEBRUARY 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 Windscoop 17 18 19 Mardi Gras Party 20 21 Grand Rapids Grand Rapids 6:00 - 10:30 PM Grand Rapids Copy Due Boat Show Boat Show Limited menu Boat Show 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

8 May 2009 www.mbyc.com

MACATAWA BAY YACHT CLUB • 2157 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE • MACATAWA, MI 49434 • 616-335-5815

1 COMMODORE’S REPORT Be on the lookout! As we commitment for Wednesday nights, and the availability of begin the new season and adult sailing lessons. Whatever their interest, be open to spend more time around helping the “stranger” get involved with our club. our club, be on the lookout for “strangers” visiting our I’ve consciously practiced these habits over the past year. By club. We’ve all seen them meeting “strangers” I found a young man who was in town before. They’re people who for a summer internship at Hope. He was a member of the drive in hesitantly, not University of Wisconsin varsity sailing team, and really quite sure where to park. appreciated being introduced to a member who needed crew When they get out of their for the summer. In another instance, I met a young man who car, they don’t seem to had just taken a job in the area, and he ended up joining our know where they’re going, or seem to wander around our club and joining a member’s crew. Being aware, prepared and property with no apparent purpose. “Strangers” appear more helpful, assisted these “strangers” in becoming active members on sunny weekend afternoons, but can appear at any time, so of our community. it’s important to be prepared. On a separate, but related, topic. I’ve been thinking about Be prepared! When approaching “strangers” remember to what might happen at our club if each member committed to smile. Be ready to offer a friendly “Hello!” and introduce introducing one new member to our club during 2009. Now yourself. Usually, after as simple introduction, “strangers” will I know that many of you reading this are immediately thinking offer an introduction and explain why they stopped by. “membership doubles and things get crowded.” But, in fact, However, if you meet a particularly reluctant “stranger” be a number of our activities would benefit from an increase in prepared to say “I don’t believe I’ve had a chance to meet you participation. Compared to our own history, none of our before…” One of two things happens at this point, both of fleets currently have the participation that we saw in the 110 which are good. Either the “stranger” turns out to be a fellow or Ensign fleets of the 1960’s. Additional members make member, or, they are, in fact a “stranger,” which leads to the resources available for renewal and improvement of club assets. next step, an opportunity to be helpful by sharing a bit about And, additional members will soften the “demographic shock” our club and our activities. that all organizations are facing as the “boomers” age.

Be helpful! “Strangers” stopping by our club are at least mildly So as we begin a new season, be on the lookout for interested in learning more about our sport. They may not opportunities both “on campus” and in your daily life to help know much about yacht clubs (except that we are likely to be introduce our club to potential new members. Be prepared “snooty”) and they most probably know very little about our to describe the benefits of membership, and be helpful as they club. So don’t hesitate to ask some friendly questions (e.g. begin to explore how MBYC should be a part of their lives. “Where else have you sailed?), and provide them with some See you at our club! general information about our club. Good examples of that information would include our “Everyone Goes Sailing” Roger Gamache

Commodore Roger Gamache Vice Commodore Bob DeJong Director Mitchell Padnos Rear Commodore John Donnelly Director David Sligh, Jr. MMM acatawa Bayayay Board of Directors Judge Advocate JD Stone Immediate Past Commodore Management Paul Brown General Manager Marilyn Baker Treasurer Larry D’Haem Executive Chef Jim Ruehle Secretary Michael Hill Dining Room Manager Irena Miller Director Beth Egge Outside Manager Douglas Knapp YYY acht Club Director Jack Knoblauch **** Director Tom Slanec Wind Scoop Editor Jon Bontekoe Director Lisa Ruoff Web Scoop Bob Standish Director Joel Krissoff www.mbyc.com 2 What’s Happening at the Yacht Club?

The US Coast Guard Auxiliary will be conducting Vessel Safety inspections at the yacht club on Saturday May 30, starting about 11:00 AM. With four officers of the CGA there should be plenty of time to inspect the boats of all who are interestred. These safety inspections check that the basics of boating are up-to-date and current on your boat. Tickets for non-compliance are NOT given. Inspections help you see what you may have neglected. The CGI looks at all the things the US Coast Guard would inspect if they pulled you over on the water. They will check flare dates, operating lights, safety equipment, polution warning stickers, and documentation. Their safety check sticker prominently displayed on your boat is like a seal of good boating practices on your vessel. All MBYC boat owners are encouraged to participate. 3 MBYC 2009 Social Calendar Cut off this page and hang it on the Frig’

May 2009 August 2009 10 May Sunday...... Mother’s Day Brunch 8 August Saturday...... Commodore’s Roast Party 23 May Saturday...... Music Under the Tent 9 August Sunday...... Family Carnival 23 May Saturday...... MBJYC Hobo Bon Fire 9 August Sunday...... Scavenger Hunt 25 May Monday...... Memorial Day Breakfast 22 August Saturday...... VanderLeek Cup Party 25 May Monday...... Blessing of the Fleet All members invited 29 May Friday...... Stock Holders’ Meeting 28 August Friday...... Stock Holders’ Meeting 30 May Saturday...... Coast Guard Auxillary 29 August Saturday...... Commodores’ Ball Inspections Memorial Weekend in Bold September 2009 5 Sept Saturday...... End of Summer Blast Party June 2009 6 Sept Sunday...... MBJYC Hobo Bon Fire 6 June Saturday...... Summer Kick-off Party 7 Sept Monday...... Labor Day Breakfast (formerly the “New Member Party’) 7 Sept Monday...... Junior Sailing Awards & 13 June Saturday...... Regatta Party MBJYC Elections 20 June Saturday.....Dueling Hors d’oeuvres Party 13 September Sunday...... Rendezvous (formerly the ‘East Meets West Dock Party’) 19 September Saturday...... Whine Party 21 June Sunday..Father’s Day Fishing Tournament Labor Day Weekend in Bold 21 June Sunday...... Fathers’ Day Cookout 27 June Saturday...... MBJY C Bowling Party October 2009 28 June Sunday...... Mini Rendezvous 17 October Saturday...... Sailing Awards and Change of Watch Dinner July 2009 30 October Friday...... Halloween Party 4 July Saturday...... Golf Tournament 4 July Saturday...... July 4 Picnic December 2009 4 July Saturday...... MBJYC Ice Cream Social 13 December Sunday...... Holiday Brunch 11 July Saturday...... MBYC Rock N’ Roll Party and 18 December Friday....Holiday Cocktail Party Happy Daze Catalina Party 25 July Saturday...... MBJA Fund Raiser Dinner 26 July Sunday...... Family Pool Party and MBJYC Pool Olympics July 4 Weekend in Bold

MBYC 2009 Social Calendar

4 Change the BATHROOM codes? After all these years? How ARE we going to remember? Yes - following an executive decision by docks manager Doug Knapp and encouraged by the Flags, MBYC has a new code for the bathrooms:

see Doug MBYC Nauti Shop presents: Shhhh! Don’t tell unauthorized persons. THE “TEAM 1 NEWPORT/MBYC Stockholders Meeting Merchandise Gear Online” The Nauti Shop is proud to expand our available merchandise. FRIDAY, MAY 29TH 5:45PM Team 1 Newport will now provide their sailing gear products for (Note time change!) all members with the Macatawa Bay Yacht Club logo and burgee. You can access our exclusive MBYC website at MBYC.COM or at Eat at the Club afterwords!!! the Team 1 Newport website www.team1newport.com under Make your dinner Reservations “MERCHANDISE GEAR”. Sailing jackets by Henri Lloyd, Patagonia Pullovers and more. The price on our “exclusive website” includes the burgee logo with the words Macatawa Bay Yacht Club. When you order items from Team One Newport with the MBYC logo the yacht club receives a 15% royalty fee. When ordering if you have any questions about your order: email – Front Cover Photo [email protected] or call 1.800.847.4327 and ask MBYC sailors love to sail fast and for the Sales Department. they love to sail something new. Or if you want to order anything on the website outside our On the cover we see John Arendshorst sailing the latest ad- “exclusive website” with the MBYC logo, just add $10.00 to the dition to the MBYC sailing fleet, price of the items and MBYC will receive the 15% royalty fee. To one of the brand new Melges 20s. And he’s sailing with friends Adam order anything other than what is on our website, you must call the Hollerbach, and George Peet on Sales Department directly 1.800.847.4327. a cold April weekend, delivery day Or if you find something on the website that you want to order for for the first three M20 boats with three more ordered and delivery your whole crew or family, please call Annie Gamache’s cell phone promised. With Laser racing at 1-616-836-3861 or email me at [email protected]. Special started already, Peter Schwarz doing some ice boat sailing in March, Discounts available on larger orders. and now a new small and very fast We will still have our great merchandise for sale right at the Yacht Melges, MBYC builds its reputation Club starting Spring Fling Friday nite – April 24th! for great sailing. It must be almost summer. Photo by Tovi Kiss. Please THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PAST AND FUTURE submit your MBYC photos to Wind BUSINESS Scoop editor Jon Bontekoe ([email protected]) We’re always looking for great cover photos. 5 Mid-Winter St Patrick’s Day and Mardi Gras Celebra

A Christine Drew & Pat Fox & at the St. Pat’s party.

B Spring TenKley, Jim & Anne Stuursma celebrate St. Pat’s.

C Mardi Gras table decoration.

D Nate Bryant, Cleo Venhuizen, June & Dick Walker celebrating a total of C 189 years of MBYC membership!

E Peter Julius brought a bunch of H Don Thinschmidt, Bob Standish, Tom friends to the St. Pat’s party. Slanec & Jack Knoblauch went stag on St. Pat’s day. F Jack Grates & Bill Malane wearing F jewels at the Mardi Gras Party. St. Pat’s photos by Annie Gamache. Mardi Gras by Tom Slanec. 6 ations at the club

THINGS ABOUT OUR WEBSITE YOU MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN Did you know: D · That current and past Wind Scoops can be retrieved on-line? · That you can order your MBYC logo clothing, foul weather gear, etc. directly on line with direct shipping to your address? · That you can also order on line MBYC logo clothing WITH your boat/ cottage or other personal name? · That you can get real time pictures of the water/weather conditions of the Holland Channel from a webcam on-line? · That you can get real time weather/wind/wave/water temperature reports of locations throughout Lake Michigan on –line? · That at no charge you can advertise your boat or equipment on MBYC’s own WebScoop? · That you can advertise your company on MBYC’s WebScoop at very nominal expense? · That you can see photographs of yourself or your family or your friends at recent Yacht Club social events on MBYC’s WebScoop? · That when you cannot find the last issue of your hard copy of the Wind Scoop, you can get all the same information at MBYC.COM on the social E calendar and highlights of the next scheduled events? · That you can RSVP to club events directly from the online event flyer? · That you can get the entire club racing schedule and the latest NOR’s, enrollment information and race results online? · That you can post your need for crew or your availability to crew on the club’s message board? (This is a great way for you Wednesday night racers and racer “wannabes” to get connected!) · That you can get the latest information on sailing lessons for adults and children on line? · That, as an accommodation to your guests, you can find maps to the club and information on area hotels/motels and local restaurants on line?

If you could not answer “YES” to all of these questions, then you may want to spend a few minutes exploring the volumes of information and services that are available to you on our ever-growing MBYC.COM website. And when you see how accommodating and convenient all of this information is made available at your fingertips, please be sure to give Bob Standish (“Brigadoon” in Slip 28) a HUGE thank you for the uncountable hours of time that he donates to the Club in setting up and maintaining our WebScoop. This is a huge gift to our Club. Thank you, Robert, from all of us!! Bob DeJong 7 VICE COMMODORE’S REPORT As I write this report on the When you receive your 2009 Logbook, please confirm the weekend of Easter and accuracy of the information about yourself, your family and Passover Celebrations, your boat. If there are any inaccuracies, please inform Marilyn West Michigan is blessed while you are thinking of it. Marilyn and Jon work very hard with gorgeous blue skies to include the most updated information that you provide to and lots of sunshine. And the Club, but it can only be as good as the information you even with temperatures provide. hovering around 50 degrees, I know that many Update your Email Addresses of our members and friends If you do not receive emails from the Club regarding special are preparing their boats for events, it is almost certainly because you have not provided launching within the next your current email address. Past-Commodore Paul Brown few weeks!! Happy Boating Season!! implemented email “blasts” last year in a continuing effort to remind our members of events, and any other news or Dining Room Manager information that could not wait until the next Wind Scoop. Welcome to Irena Miller, MBYC’s new Dining Room This is a list that you want to be on! Just call the Club or Manager! Irena began assisting our General Manager on email [email protected] and your email address will be March 30. She comes to us with extraordinary experience updated. Some spouses and significant others have observed having worked for the Holland Country Club for thirty years. that emails do not always reach the social director of those As she puts it, “I started out as a server, and ended up as households. This is easily resolved: supply BOTH email banquet coordinator and assistant to the general manager.” addresses! We have every expectation that Irena will be of tremendous assistance to Marilyn and Jim, and we are very pleased that MBYC House Rules she has joined our Club’s team! When you receive your new 2009 Logbook, please take a minute to review the MBYC House Rules located on page Missing Your Wind Scoop? #88 and the Docks and Ground Rules immediately following. Approximately forty of you did not receive your March/April While most of these are common courtesy, others will remind Wind Scoop. We know that because they were returned to us how we have agreed to treat each other and conduct the Club as undeliverable. We suspect that most were returned ourselves at our Yacht Club. because of “forwarding addresses” for temporary seasonal mailing. But because the Wind Scoop is sent “Standard Rate” The only significant change: these rules implement the to save significant mailing costs, the mailing is not “forwarded” shareholder decision of last year that all of our buildings are as would be first class mail. Each copy returned to the Club now smoke-free. costs $1.08. So each of you could help put a dent in our $6000.00 annual postage costs by letting us know to which Private Parties and Memberships address to send your Club newsletter. Let us know also Remember to encourage your friends and family to consider whether you would like different addresses used at certain using our facilities for their special celebrations—weddings, times of the year. We are working on building a better database birthdays, engagements, or just office celebrations. Our staff to serve our members, and we can change your mailing address receives rave reviews from those who decide to host their at specified times. functions at MBYC and it helps to moderate pressure on dues increases. 2009 Logbook Our Logbook editor, Jon Bontekoe, will complete editing and Also remember to inform your boating friends that we have compiling the 2009 Logbook soon. We expect that it will be no waiting list for slips, and that now would be a PERFECT mailed within about two weeks. Because it costs $3.50 more time to join. In fact, it is a great time to join this great club to mail these first class, we send them by standard rate. If we even if one did not have a boat! We eagerly anticipate seeing do not have your current mailing address, your Logbook will the slips filled and the Clubhouse busy! See you soon. be returned to the Club - another good reason to make sure the Club has your current mailing address. Please remember Bob DeJong to pick it up on your first visit but also let Marilyn know your current mailing address. 8 Chicago Yacht Club Challenge: Looking for Fast MAC Race Boats! For the 101st edition of the Chicago do well, but folks who are in “the back Yacht Club “Race to Mackinac”, there’s of the pack” will play an equally DRYSAIL PARKING NOTE a new twist – Yacht Clubs are competing important role in our success. There will for “team trophies”. Every club that has be trophies for the first three places For those of you who use our east 5 or more entries may enter. MBYC has (which would make a nice addition to parking lot for parking your one-design already registered, based upon our past our trophy case.) At MBYC we have a sailing yacht, your dingy, your run-about number of entries. Each yacht registered history of success in this race. The over- or any other craft, PLEASE NOTE: like from MBYC will be scored. Scoring is all winner in 3 of the past 6 years has most years, every craft will have an basically the average of the club’s been an MBYC boat. We’ll keep you assigned parking space. The space will divisional finishes. This means that it’s posted on our results this year! rg be assigned by our outdoor manager, not only important that our fleet leaders Doug Knapp, upon your supplying our Did You Know... Club office with your signed contract. Doug will then affix a 2009 sticker to · You CAN reward great service! your trailer. TRAILERS WITHOUT Our bar and food servers share the 18% tips on your bills. If you A 2009 STICKER THAT REMAIN just Loved the service you received, let your server know by ON CLUB PREMISES FOR MORE adding an additional tip to your bill that goes directly and only to THAN ONE WEEK WILL BE your server. REMOVED. The owner will end up ·You CAN reserve a table on Wednesday nights! paying a towing and storage charge to o Call 335-5815 at least an hour in advance of your arrival and retrieve the item. a table will be reserved for you in the Dining Room. Look for your boat name on a Flag on one of the tables in the Dining We know that this may sound draconian, Room. (Buoy room tables remain “first come-first serve.”) and we wish that this were not necessary. But last year’s experience in trying to · You CAN help MBYC be Green! collect drysail fees makes these steps o All items placed in the trash and dumpster are sorted and necessary. Thank you for your recycled by CHEF CONTAINER. This includes all Styrofoam cups and containers! understanding and for your cooperation. Bob DeJong

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As can be seen in the accompanying chart prepared by Bob Standish, current water levels (red) are about 3/4 foot higher than a year ago (orange), and 1/2 foot higher than in 2007 (light blue). The creek still causes problems in our small boat area with the large amount of runoff again this year. The photo by Annie Gamache, shows Roger standing on dry ground forward of the small boat dock. 9 REAR COMMODORE’S REPORT

Racing has already started APRIL RACE SEMINARS at MBYC as the Laser Spring series is underway. Commodore Gamache led a number of very successful race It has been a very busy seminars on Wednesday evenings in April. Roger promised spring: an “open kimono” presentation and he delivered. The centerpoint of Roger’s discussion was North U materials, but he also described many of the techniques that he has successfully used in his long career of racing. Thanks again, Roger! RACE MANAGEMENT SEMINAR MBYC LASER FLEET The best thing a race committee can normally hope for is that nobody talks about them. When a race goes off without Our local Laser fleet, led by Fleet Captain JP del Solar problems, the sailors love to rehash the race. When things do Goldsmith, will see a great deal of activity this year. MBYC not go smoothly, the RC is the center of attention. The RC is will be hosting the Laser Great Lakes (full and radial) on June usually the underappreciated cog in the racing wheel. Smooth 13/14. This will be our first regional Laser event. Some great race management can take place, and it requires a well trained sailors will be coming to town to mix it up with our sailors, so and experienced RC. It starts with training. we expect some exciting racing. If you do not have a Laser of your own to race, please come out to the Big Lake to lend A highly informative USSailing race management seminar was some support to the home team. held at Anchorage Yacht Club on March 28. The instructors - Andy Kiener (Chicago YC, regional race officer) and Peter MBYC ETCHELLS FLEET Blacklock (Muskegon YC) - were excellent. There were 18 participants including members of Charlevoix YC, Boyne City The participation in our Etchells fleet has been like the stock YC, Grand Rapids YC, and Edgewater YC (Cleveland). Six market: great numbers a few years ago, but pretty weak of MBYC members took the training: Janet and Steve Magennis, late. Have we hit bottom and is there a recovery in sight? Linda Knoblauch, Paul Brown, JD Stone and myself. Fleet Captain Mitch Padnos thinks we have. With the able assistance of Tracy Brand, deals are being cut and arms are We all learned a great deal about the rules governing race being twisted. While no one is promising an Etchells bull management, the need for extensive communications on the market - alright, maybe Tracy is, activity in 2009 should be water (did you know that many RCs use cell phones to up. communicate with each other to avoid eavesdropping from competitors and judges?), the need for extensive equipment DANI GAMACHE (flags, ground tackle etc) and back-up systems eg whistles if horns do not work. Dani is nearing the end of her very successful career on the college racing circuit. Dani is a senior at SUNY Maritime in Most participants took a test at the end of the day. The test is NYC. Dani crewed in the college national championships last a requirement for moving up the race management ladder. year in Newport and we wish her much success in her last few weeks of college racing. Roger and Anne went east to see Dani Jack Knoblauch and Diane Rodenhouse (Anchorage YC) race in late March in Boston. organized this very successful event. Thanks again, Jack! John Donnelly

Wireless Internet at the Club: showed access by members only. See Marilyn if Wireless at the club should be up and running by you need the WEP password/access number. early May. The SSID will remain MBYC08 unless we Computers connected last year will not need to see abuses. Monitoring on weekends last summer be updated. 10 “Hey Buddy! Can you ‘spare’ a Laptop?” MBJA Sailing Lessons Begin June 15 With the internet going to “devices” and Welcome spring! Just around the corner old site! You will find it much more “laptop” computers giving way to is the beginning of our 28th season of interactive and useful! Not only will you “notebooks,” it’s possible that somewhere youth sailing instruction. be able to register online (YES!) and read in our membership there is a forlorn, about the happenings, but there is a neglected, “surplus” laptop. Your Race Leading our teaching and racing staff is photo gallery that will be updated Committee would like to give your recent MSU grad Casey Ray, a veteran weekly! laptop a renewed purpose, serving on of 420 collegiate racing and former Recovery. Speed and memory aren’t director of the St. Joseph Junior We will be hosting Black River Public important (insert joke about race Foundation. He competed at Michigan School for their spring term starting May committee here), but a USB port is State University and was Commodore 11. There will be middle and high school required. Windows office suite would his senior year. We welcome his students learning to sail optis and 420’s. be nice, but not essential. The purpose experience and leadership to our staff. Take a moment to greet Casey and Shari of this donation is to assist the Race He has a number of travel regattas lined if you are at Committee in delivering “real time” up for our racers and is looking forward the club event scoring to our Club website. to renewing Team Mac! Shari during the Imagine being able to come back to the MacDonald returns for her fourth year day. dock and checking your results as you of instructing. She is a junior at the dock. This is a common amenity at University of Michigan and was an active Registration many national events, and we’d like to part of the MBJA sailing and racing has already add this service to our race program. If program while a youth in Holland. Hope begun for our you have a candidate, please contact Jack grad former collegiate sailor Marc Palma summer Knoblauch at [email protected]. will also be returning as our Adult Sailing classes which instructor. These three will be our core begin June 15. Please check out the Ice Boating Last Winter instructors. We are very fortunate to have revised class guidelines on the Peter Schwarz provided the WS editor such great experience on our staff! registration link as well. with some shots of what sailors do in the winter on “hard water”. They were CHECK OUT OUR NEW WEBSITE! Looking forward to seeing you on the taken at Muskegon Yacht Club on Webmaster Ben Harkema has revised our water! Marie Mell Saturday March 1, 2009. The yellow boat as well as several others are owned Adult Sailing Lessons and being sailed by MBYC member Jon Looking for a little adventure this summer? Want to learn to sail or refine your Gronberg. Peter sat as passenger. skills with other adults? We have revamped our adult sailing lessons! They will be “Incidentally,” Peter writes, “the yellow offered on Tuesday evenings from 5:30-8:30 in a 4 week session. The first session boat and the “stern-steerer” (last picture) runs June 16 to July 7. Session 2 is July 14 to August 4. Take a look at the NEW! were both built locally in the 1930’s by MBJA sailing website and the adult sailing lessons link for more information. Don’t former MBYC members Carl worry! We’ll update our photo gallery with photos from your class as well! Marc Harrington and Chris Smith Palma returns as lead adult instructor and is looking forward to teaching you how respectively. to sail “double handed” on JY-15’s! mm

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1 COMMODORE’S REPORT Maybe it is caused by our Nights.” Here’s how it works: show up at the club dressed late Spring, but it seems like appropriately for sailing (soft sole shoes, appropriate jacket or Summer just got here and foulies, and your favorite life jacket). Seek out myself (Tyrant the sailing season is just at the end of the West Pier) or Jack Knoblauch (Capricious at racing along. I sincerely the end of the East pier) and indicate you’d like a ride, and hope that you’ve gotten we’ll find someone in fleet who could use an extra hand. No some time out on the water, experience required. Races take approximately 60 – 90 and that you’ve got more minutes. The only risk is that you’ll have a great time, and planned for the coming want to come again next week! month. One great reason to get out on the water will Finally, plan to get the most out of your membership by be to watch the Laser Great actively participating in our 4th of July Celebrations. The Lakes Championships on June 13 and 14. This event will schedule of events actually starts with the Mini Rendezvous bring Olympic quality sailing to MBYC and, with a little on Sunday, June 28. Then on Saturday, July 4th we have our breeze, the boats are exciting to watch! After watching the Golf Tournament off the front lawn of the club, followed by racing, plan to come back to the club and mingle with the our Picnic, finishing with the Macatawa Fireworks and a Junior sailors. We have a special dinner offering including live music Yacht Club Ice Cream Social (the Junior’s plan is to party for members and racers on Saturday night. The awards after the adults “crash” after the day’s activity…). On Sunday ceremony on Sunday will also be an opportunity to meet and we have the 2nd Annual Ladies Offshore race. Last year we interact with some of the best sailors in the country. had more prospective skippers than we had crew, so interested ladies should contact Marie Mell or Linda Knoblauch for more Speaking of “getting out,” keep in mind that JY 15 fleet will information. be racing on Friday nights this year. Don’t have a JY 15? Consider chartering a boat from the MBJA at a nominal cost. A final note. One review of my last column indicated that it Unsure of your abilities in a small boat? The MBJA has several was “cheezy, ridiculous, and stupid.” And that was from a sessions of adult lessons available for those of us that need our family member I’m still supporting. So in case my point was skills “updated”. The JY 15 program is a great opportunity to missed due to bad rhetoric: clubs do better when the get involved with some fun, low intensity (unless you’re membership is growing. Membership grows because members leading…) sailing with a great group of people. Contact Marie are open and enthusiastic when they talk to people about their Mell or Mike Stewart for more information. club. So, who do you know who would enjoy being a member of our club? What should you (we) do this summer to make Another way to “get out” is to hitch a ride for a Wednesday that happen? And please let me know if I can help this process. night race. While the competition on Wednesday nights can get serious, the overall point to “beer can racing” has always See you at our Club! been to have a fun evening. In that spirit, we have, for several years, had a policy of “Everybody Goes Sailing on Wednesday Roger Gamache

3 An Arendshorst tale of a new perspective of Fort Sumter and the best way to get really fresh bay shrimp in Charleston. This past April, I again had the opportunity first start was very good, until we snagged baggage (me) and an opportunity for me to to visit Charleston, South Carolina, an the anchor line of the pin-end committee not sail the remainder of 3 legs with these historic American city, pivotal during the boat with our keel. Our second race was folks. Civil War years and today a proud better, until we snagged a lobster-pot line representative of its citizens’ feelings of place with our keel. The third race was somewhat I jumped off the boat, and started swimming and home. The city has beauty, charm, better, but we got “pounced” regardless. for the committee boat, waving every few mystery and hospitality and sits on its grand strokes, assured that they would see me and peninsula surrounded by low-country Our fourth race was going quite well - we respond quickly. Quickly, and surprisingly villages, rivers, marshes, fairways and the were motivated to improve! With good boat to me, I became aware that I was very coastal wonders of Charleston Bay. In this speed and tactics, we rounded the weather fatigued, and that the large committee boat bay, the Charleston Race Week commenced. mark, in the first group, in a building breeze, was not observing or interested in my The three-day regatta of sport boats and set the kite and rocketed away, avoiding the situation. I was surprised at how the cold larger PHRF divisions, was superbly run and up-coming fleet of Vipers. Our first jibe to water and the neutral-buoyancy floatation supervised by a great race committee. We clear our air was in a bit of a puff, and we made things so challenging. I waved at had a ball with the variety of sailing rounded up crisply. I decided that standing another up-coming Viper, as I was now conditions, the well-organized off-shore and up in the tilted craft was a good idea in my positioned in a very busy starboard layline. on-shore activities, the most convenient and quest to get the main sheet under control, I was grateful that helmsman John Porter comfortable accommodations, good music, and that is the last thought I had prior to from Savannah noticed me. His crew and new friends. Even before we’d sailed one doing a back-flip off our boat into the bay. grabbed me by the arms and legs. After leg of a race, we’d pretty much all agreed When I looked up, without the glasses I was ingesting most of the Bay, several shrimp, we’d be back. wearing when I disembarked, I blurrily saw and who-knows-what in this rescue effort, our boat quite a distance downwind. At least I was transferred to the low and open I had elected not to wear foul weather gear transom of my second Viper of the day. John or boots in this day of 60 F air, 25 knots said no one was leaving his boat under any breeze, and 65 F water. I had worn deck circumstances. That was reassuring to me, shoes, shorts, and a buoyancy-neutral float- sitting as I was, heaving and gasping. jacket. (Fine, and better than a usual margin of safety for a licensed Red Cross Waterfront I finished the race with John and his Safety Instructor level swimmer, as I was. I competent crew and was picked up by our like water, and swim rather well. Spitz, support boat after the completion of this Phelps, and Seals excluded, I can hold my last race of the day. I took a long, hot shower own in water. after thanking and talking with the various crews I had sailed with that day. Each Viper After a short while, I could see minimal crew received a form of redress by the R.C. Michel Kiss’ boat with crew John recognizable response from my team’s Arendshorst, Morgan Kiss, and JP del distant, small, blurry craft. They were I recollect these rare experiences on request Solar Goldsmith. Photo by Tovi Kiss. frantically “crashing the boat”, pointing out of the Wind Scoop editor. I do not relish the MOB, and coming back for me as reliving them. To any one, young or old, I recommend reviewing these 10 safety The first day of racing brought breeze efficiently as they were able. As this process observations, most of which are familiar to building to 25 knots in the lulls. (The next seemed to me to be taking a considerable all. two days were more moderate and “usual”). amount of time, I considered alternative Currents and tides, a worry of us sweet- transportation. A Viper, in our division, on 1. Pay attention to and over-estimate water sailors, were minor considerations in its way to the starboard layline saw me the potential hostility of water conditions, the windy, flat, choppy waters. Our team, waving, and deftly popped me into their especially water temperature. It can cripple we had decided, was the most scientific and boat. The rescue was remarkable: the quickly and without much warning. fun at the same time, amongst the 6 boats efficiency of recovery was a product of 2. Fatigue from a long hard day of in our new fleet at the inaugural event of taking me from their windward side, and racing adds to the complexity of a situation. the Melges 20s in the US. Our Melges 20 grabbing me by the life-vest, rather than by 3. PFD – wear one appropriate for the crew consisted of our helmsman and owner, the hands or feet, as I used those appendages conditions Michael Kiss, his daughter Alex, the multi- to get on board helped along with their 4. Jump in a pool and swim 50-100 talented pro-sailing instructor JP del Solar lifting strength. Upon getting to the yards in what you would wear in “foul Goldsmith and me. In the course of the first starboard layline, surprisingly, the Viper weather gear” conditions. It may make you day of sailing four races, we had amassed crew asked if I would like to get off, and be re-think what you would like be wearing what we thought was the life experience of picked up by the nearby windward-mark when you fall overboard. anyone in blunders and mal-events. Our committee boat. I thought the suggestion was one of keen interest in jettisoning extra Continued on Page 4 ------> 4 Zenda: we have a problem DOWN THE RACE COURSE The scene: The spring fling party. Sun is still up (hooray!). People are at the DATES TO REMEMBER bar, and in the dining room. Mike Kiss PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND has his new Melges 20 out, and it’s blowing 10-15 from the Southwest with some big gusts sweeping eastward down Fri July 3rd - Sun July 5th the lake. Mike has sailed east past the 4TH JULY club several times with the spinnaker up, WEEKEND PICNIC on a full plane. Spray is flying off the stern, and the sheriff would have been Saturday, July 11th chasing him for violating the speed limit (big time). Well, during one of the 50’s Party & spinnaker runs down the lake, all of a Catalina Rendezvous sudden Jack Knoblauch notices something strange (it initially looks like they have wiped out, and capsized the company replaced the mast at no cost boat). Upon further inspection, it and has since reinforced the masts of all appears that the rig has collapsed after the Melges 20s with a sleeve. the bow tried to act like a submarine and stopping the boat on a dime. Matt Thank you Matt for the pictures and the Eldean happened to be out “touring” in tow! his Tiara, and helped Mike back to the club. Mike reported that the Melges Front Cover Photo The Saturday of Memorial Day weekend featured the first racing for Optis and kids. Our cover photo features Ali Swets running the line just before the start of the second race. Photo by editor jb. Please submit your MBYC events photos to Wind Scoop editor Jon Bontekoe ([email protected]) We’re always looking for great cover photos.

Arendshorst continued. Instructors Casey Ray and Shari MacDonald and a crew of 5. Never go into the water on a race high school helpers are anxiously awaiting June 15 and the course voluntarily. beginning of session one. Thanks to the generosity of many, 6. Look at the Chi-Mac regulations we have 7 new Optis this summer! We can’t wait to get them for safety procedures when racing, especially in the water and racing! We have three regattas scheduled applicable to night and evening sailing or with the West Michigan Youth Sailing Association in July adverse conditions. and August. The last one will be hosted by MBYC on Saturday 7. Practice and communicate Man August 1. We look forward to great participation from our Overboard Routines. They really do make club as we defend our championship title! things easier. Grab folks in the water by the clothes/PFD, not by the arms and legs. We have a new website! Check it out! It has information on the staff, schedules, maps, 8. Learn to like shrimp at high speed. WMYSA and MBYC links, and more. Also, once the summer becomes active, we will 9. Remember that redress by the race committee is uniformly and generously also be updating the photos on a weekly basis. Stay up on the great fun we’re having on applied to those who help those in distress. the water! Want to get involved as an adult? We have learn-to-sail classes for you too. This 10. Be aware, and be eager to lend a year we will be doing four week sessions on Tuesday evenings beginning June 16. Check hand to anyone you see in distress at any out the website for more information and to register. time. Sailing is life. By John Arendshorst See you on the water! Marie Mell 5 Memorial Day - A great Weekend

6 Memorial weekend was blessed with great cool weather, lots of picnics and cookouts, a sun-filled Blessing of the Fleet, although strong wind conditions moved many boaters to accept their boat’s blessing at the dock along with the VanTols pictured. Of special note was the return to MBYC of Bill & Judy Stellin with their boat Jay Walker. They have cruised Europe and the Caribbean for nine years and visited about 32 countries. Their boat is pictured, flying flags representing each place visited. Pictures by Jon & Mary Bontekoe.

7 Tales from the Race course: A Short Thirty Years Ago... This month is the 30th Anniversary of the 42 Sleeping Bear. I seem to recall at least one course. As with all Northwest breezes, there MBYC yacht Aries after finishing first overall C&C 61, Ranger sailed by the Welsh family are puffs that came through, and in the peak in the Queen’s Cup sailed from Milwaukee from Spring Lake, a Frers 53 Encounter from of the puffs, we noticed that some boats were South Shore Yacht Club to Macatawa Bay Milwaukee, and a converted 12 meter even having problems controlling their Yacht Club. Heritage, from Chicago. But our most biggest genoas. Onboard Aries we quickly important foe was a near sister-ship, Agape, understood our problem. Under these The year is 1979. Bill Tripp, a long-time owned by Terry Kohler from Sturgeon Bay. conditions the larger boats in our fleet would MBYC sailor, had purchased the 41’ Aries Terry had spent the prior summer competing quickly move away from us based on their after her original owner had failed to qualify to be the Bayview Yacht Club defender for much longer water lines (in the case of the for the Admiral’s Cup team in 1978. Aries the Canada’s Cup (currently on display at 12 meter, a 25’ difference giving them a 3-4 was a “state of the art” Ron Holland design MBYC). After an entire summer of sailing, knot speed advantage). However, we did optimized for medium distance racing. he won the honor to defend, only to be swept have a couple of advantages. First, we were Typical of boats of that era, she was heavy by Stuart Green’s Evergreen. Needless to say, stiffer, and had a hull that was optimized for (roughly 2x the displacement of a Farr 40), Terry had “something to prove” and believed heavier air. Second, the big wheel gave our and had “pinched” ends (narrow bow and that he had a clear advantage over Bill in boat helmsman a lot more control than many stern, flaring to considerable beam – think optimization and experience. Both were boats of the day. Third, we had a small, water melon seed). But unlike many designs owners of successful corporations and weren’t “bullet proof” spinnaker designed for just of the time Aries was stiff, and had enough afraid of a hefty wager. So, Tripp and Kohler these conditions. So the plan evolved that rudder to be manageable in higher winds and struck a wager that a “case of booze” would we would start to the right of the main fleet, power reaching conditions. No expense had be the prize to the best boat. pop the kite, and try to sail as high as been spared in putting the boat together. She possible. Our hope was that we would be had a 3 spreader Stearns rig with hydraulics The Friday of the race dawned overcast with able to generate enough speed to “hook a on the backstay, headstay, baby stay, and intermittent showers. The crew spent most tow” off the quarter wake of one of bigger vang. Oversized winches made adjustments of the day recuperating from the crew dinner competitors and hang on to it for period of and sail changes easy. The boat had a flush at Karl Ratzsch’s the prior evening. As we time. deck, slightly “bubbled” so that the began to prepare to leave the dock, the wind windward deck was level and easy to work was picking up from the north west with a Every once in a while a plan “comes on when the boat heeled. The electronics line of dark grey clouds that promised a wet, together.” We started well, hoisted the kite, package was state of the art including B&G windy, bumpy ride across the lake. Bill was keeping the #3 up to help keep the bow sailing instruments (their competitive in a particularly foul mood because Anne “down”. We found a “tow” from the C&C advantage was that they actually worked) and Bryant had not understood how the jib sheets 61 for about 30 minutes, until a big puff a new navigational device, a Trimble Loran, had been hung on the stern rail, and by knocked us down and they slipped ahead. that actually read out in Lat/Long. From untying one, had managed to drop the other After that one broach, we got the boat sorted the dock her most obvious features were her one into the drink, whereupon it sunk out, back in balance and roared off into the ‘huge’ 60" steering wheel which stretched immediately. Luckily, Aries was well night, with hands on the spinnaker sheet, completely across the back of the cockpit, equipped with spares, so after a few “words mainsheet, and vang, and rotating helmsmen and a very distinctive dark blue hull with a of encouragement” from our skipper we every hour. As night fell, we could see Agape “rainbow” graphic, which became the motif completed rigging and headed out. Getting struggling to hold their biggest genoa several for Perrigo Trucks for more than 20 years Aries off the dock was always an adventure. miles astern and about a mile north of our (Bill was CEO of Perrigo at this time). One of the less effective features of her design course. was the hydraulic drive system, which had Our crew for this race was a mixture of folks the advantage of putting the propeller on the Over the course of the night the breeze began from MBYC. Joining Bill from prior boats aft edge of the keel, significantly reducing to clock. Our navigator, John Getz (who were long time friends Bob Hayes and Royal drag, but had the distinct disadvantage of was thoroughly enjoying playing with Klein. Bruce Van Dyke and John Getz had reducing the thrust available. Imagine Trimble), indicated that we were now sailing sailed together on John’s Blitz and were maneuvering a heavy 41’ boat with a 5 hp consistently low of course, and were about a currently between boats. Rick Kraai, Steve outboard. But, with some work, we got off mile south of the “track”. So we dropped Kubicka, and Anne Bryant were active sailors the dock, paint intact, and headed out to the kite, headed up to course, but really didn’t at that time. I was invited along as the “guest the course. like the drop in speed. After a little fiddling, expert” in my role as a representative of Hood we set the genoa staysail underneath the #3 Sailmakers in the Midwest. The scratch sheet Class A was the last to start. Watching the and, finding a great groove, continued placed us in the bottom of Class A. Memory smaller boats start we saw that with a roaring through the night. Later in the fades a bit here, but I know that we were building Northwest wind, a few stalwarts in evening the wind continued to clock and racing against John Neadeau’s C&C 52 each class hoisted spinnakers, only to broach Windancer, and Midge Ver Plank’s Petersen uncontrollably or be forced to sail well below Continued on Page 7 8 VICE COMMODORE’S REPORT Memorial Day Weekend, summer time picnics. Remember that almost all of the items 2009 is now history—but sold through the Nauti-Shop have a very minimal mark-up what a great weekend to from our actual cost of goods sold. And don’t forget the on- jumpstart the summer!! It line shopping of MBYC-logo garments available for you at was great to reunite with Team One by way of “What’s New” at your MBYC.com friends that we don’t often website. see in the “off-season,” of celebrating the return of Thanks to Dock and Grounds Committee (Dave Sligh “Jr.”, several of our voyagers, of chair) and Doug Knapp for directing the patching of the celebrating the healing of parking lot, and for coordinating the leveling of the sidewalks friends who have had around the Club that were starting to look more like hills and challenging medical issues valleys. Tripping on the sidewalks was conspicuously absent over the winter, and, yes, of mourning the loss of several of It is a credit to our staff to hear our returning members report our members who have left us with many good memories. For that the “Club looks fantastic!” Thanks in part to rising lake those who were able to dine at the Club on Friday evening, levels and through accommodation by our dredging contractor, you know that it was a very busy evening for our staff! Imagine we were able to hold our dredging expenses to under $5000.00. receiving 36 RSVP’s to your party, but having 196 guests show up at the front door. That’s exactly what our staff had to deal And one final reminder: if you have a one-design, a dingy, a with. While we know that plans can be very uncertain during trailer, or anything else occupying a dry-sail slip, and you have summer evenings, to the extent you are able to do so, please not signed a contract, please do not be surprised or upset when call or email your reservations. It helps our staff to better it has been moved off-site and you have to pay towing and plan for adequate staffing of servers and support crew for Jim storage charges to retrieve the item. While most of our so that each of you can experience the kind of service you members have made the necessary arrangements, there are still want to see. Thank you. those of you who have forgotten or overlooked this important piece of business. Thank you for taking care of it right away Nauti-Shop has experienced brisk sales already this season. and helping to avoid unnecessary unpleasant consequences. Some items have already sold out. If you have not seen the fun variety of clothing selected by Anne Gamache and Linda Our General Manager reports that business was more brisk Knoblauch, take the time to do so! You won’t be disappointed! this Memorial Day weekend than the same corresponding (And be sure to thank Anne and Linda for all the time and weekend last year. The Club is off to the start of a great season! work in ordering, displaying and selling MBYC products!) Enjoy it! Among the new items available for purchase this year are MBYC’s coffee—specially roasted and blended for our Club Bob DeJong — and even our serving napkins—a great addition to your

Tales from the Race Course...continued moderate, so eventually we changed to our the race committee it became clear that we has clocked fully into the northeast and that Heavy #1 genoa slightly eased, sailed on, handily saved our time on the bigger boats. smaller boats were hard on the wind in much pointed directly at the finish line. We confirmed that Sleeping Bear and Agape lighter conditions. Gradually the time ran had not finished, and we began to enjoy the out for the smaller boats, and Aries was As daylight emerged Holland appeared on thought that we have won class A (and that confirmed the overall winner of the race. our bow, which was reassuring. Not so “case of booze”). Approximately an hour reassuring, is that there were no other boats later, our sister ship Agape, hit the dock. That day ended with Tripp sponsoring a in sight. Hopeful that this was actually a Kohler, always a great competitor came over victory dinner for the crew at MBYC. I left good thing, we pressed on to the finish line to congratulate Tripp, and asked directions MBYC at the end of that weekend impressed across the mouth of the channel (a practice to the nearest liquor store (Bernecker’s). with the quality of the sailing, the hospitality that the Coast Guard has since prohibited). Shortly later, Kohler returned with the case, of the club, and not suspecting where this Sails down, we motored into the club. and the crew of Aries began a celebration on experience would eventually lead. But that’s Coming into the club we saw the rigs of the the front lawn of the club that lasted well a story for another time…. “big boats”, but no sign of Agape or Sleeping into the afternoon. As time went on, it Roger Gamache Bear. After tying up and checking in with became clear that with daylight, the breeze 9 REAR COMMODORE’S REPORT Racing activity at MBYC August. Our local M20 teams will be travelling to Muskegon, moved into full swing in Detroit and Chicago this season for races. They also have a May. The first Laser race in busy schedule of local racing. the Spring Sunday series was held on May 3 and had A NEW TROPHY: THE RUDY VEDOVELL AND DON seven racers exchanging HILLEBRANDS ANNUAL BLUE WATER CRUISING leads in a number of closely AWARD contested races. The first Wednesday evening race Rudy Vedovell has a passion for sailing. Rudy has been a was held in light air on MBYC member since the 1960s and he spans the racing and Lake Mac on May 6 due to cruising worlds. He has a distinguished record of racing no air on Lake Michigan. Two M24s and two M20s moved achievements and extensive cruising experience around the out to significant leads on the rest of the fleet. globe. Rudy has donated to MBYC a new trophy that is aimed at recognizing our members who have taken long distance M20 AND M32 CLINIC ON MAY 9 cruises.

MBYC hosted a great on the water clinic for M20 and M32 The award will be given each year at October Awards banquet. racers on May 9. A number of well known coaches/tacticians It will be presented to the club member who has taken the were involved with the M32 fleet: Scott Nixon, Harry longest cruise - sail or power - in the twelve month period Melges, Wally Cross and Tac Boston. Winds were forecast ending on August 31 of that year. The cruise does not need to to be in the 30s and the fleet wisely chose to stay on Lake either start or end at MBYC in that twelve month period. Mac. The RC was busy resetting starting and windward There will likely be a minimum distance required (eg 1000 marks as the wind clocked from SW to W to NW to N. nautical miles). Club members who want to be considered The crews were busy as the legs were short. Near the end of for the prize should submit info about their cruise to the Rear the morning, the forecasted high winds finally arrived and Commodore by September 15. it was exciting for spectators to watch leeward mark roundings. The leeward mark gate was finally set 30-40 yards Retroactive awards back to 1995 will also be given. We are off the south shore of Lake Mac near the Tiara compound. granting the first award to Rudy Vedovell and Don Hillebrands There was no margin for error for the three M32s as they for their 15000 nauical mile cruise that ended in New Zealand barrelled in with chutes up to the leeward gate just off the in 1995. If you have a past cruise (post-1995) that you want shore in 20kt breezes. The M32 class is considering MBYC to have considered, please email me info at as the location for its 2010 Great Lakes championship. [email protected]. If you have any questions about the trophy, please also email me. The M20 fleet had six boats take part in the clinic. Mike Kiss, John Arendshorst, and the Post boat with Jeff Padnos The new trophy will be displayed at MBYC in the near future. at the helm all took part. They were joined by Eric Wynsma from Grand Rapids and two Detroit area teams. As the breeze The club extends its gratitude to Rudy and Suzy Vedovell for built, it became apparent that there is a large premium for being great, longstanding members and for their creativity skilled boat handling, particularly downwind, in this exciting and generosity in starting this annual award. class. There is a lot of enthusiasm in the new fleet as they gear up for the first M20 Nationals to be held at MBYC in John Donnelly Island Goats Sailing Society speakers, each of whom related one or organization’s Annual Dinner on April Elects J Kunze Commodore two of their favorite Mac stories. Others 25, and will serve a two-year term. The MBYC was well-represented at in the group included Past President of IGSS is an organization for those who the Chicago Yacht Club Mac Stories US Sailing, Janet Baxter, a third have competed in 25 or more Chicago night on March 6, which honored the generation goat. to Mackinac races. Currently, MBYC 50th anniversary of the IGSS. Dave Sligh MBYC member, Jack Kunze, was has more active IGSS members than any and Jack Kunze were two of the eight elected Commodore of the Island Goats yacht Club outside the Chicago area. Sailing Society (IGSS) at the 10 Memorial Weekend featured kids at the hobo bonfire, racing, & serving breakfast

Kids photos by Pam Koch and Jon Bontekoe.

11 Main Events in June

June 6: Summer Launch/New Members Party June 14: Laser Regatta June 20: Dueling Hors d’oeuvres June 21: Father’s Day Fishing Tournament J U N E 2 0 0 9

Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Race Events 1 2 3 4 5 MBYC #2 6 Social Events Bayshore PHRF #2 Melges 20/JY 15 2009 Summer Private Parties Summer Series Laser Racing Racing Launch Party 7 8 9 10 11 12 Laser Great 13 Lakes Racing Bayshore Melges 20/JY 15 South Haven Invite Summer Series Laser Racing Racing Regatta Party Laser Great 14 15 16 17 18 Chicago Nood 19 Chicago Nood 20 Lakes Racing Windscoop Bayshore Laser Racing Melges 20/JY 15 Dueling Hors South Haven Invite Copy Due Summer Series Opti Racing Racing d’oeuvres Party 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Father’s Day MBJYC Fishing Tourna- Bowling Party ment & Cookout Tripp Memorial Opti Racing Queens Cup Queens Cup 28 29 30 Fourth Mini of July! Rendezvous Picnic 12 July 2009 www.mbyc.com

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1 COMMODORETo provide a’ compellingS REPORT program with great instructor Stockholders meetings are, resources, we need a suitable number of kids. Instructor wages by-and-large, peaceful are a fixed cost (i.e. they are paid by the hour, whether they affairs. In fact, as teach one kid or 15). One of the problems the community Commodore, there is a instruction aspect of the MBJA was designed to solve was this strong tendency to hope problem of scale. By including community kids we lower the that the meeting goes cost of instruction for member kids, and make more “according to script” and instructional programs available. Now I understand that class that you can escape to the size is a critical determinant in the quality of instruction, and dining room (and bar) that the MBJA has, at times, not delivered instruction at the without having to engage level that some (including me) would find acceptable. in any “heavy lifting.” Our However, the simple economic/demographic facts are that an Spring 2009 Stockholders “exclusively club member” program would significantly meeting followed “the script” so well that it might be possible increase the per student cost of the program. It has been the to overlook the one piece of new business that was presented long-held policy of the MBJA to pay all operating expenses by club-member and Director of Macatawa Bay Junior (including instructor salaries and maintenance) from Association, Steve Sisson. Steve made a presentation regarding participant fees, and to hold those fees to a “break even” level. the work of the MBJA and their current need for an infusion MBYC has not had to assume the direct costs of providing of capital. His proposal for raising the capital was, essentially, junior sailing instruction for over 25 years. This is not to say that MBYC make an institutional commitment to providing that MBYC hasn’t incurred expenses related to the MBJA. It capital on an ongoing basis to the MBJA. Some good is fashionable in a corner of the bar to allege that “this club discussion ensued, and the Flag received his report for further doesn’t support junior sailing.” As a Commodore who has consideration. And, in the spirit of continuing that discussion, been involved in organizing and approving over $25,000 of I’d like to offer the following analysis. dredging in our “small boat basin” over the past 3 years, I don’t think that argument is valid. While the club doesn’t But first, I offer a disclaimer. The “institutional memory” of account for MBJA occupancy costs, there are both “hard” our Club is amazingly short, so I am constantly surprised to and “soft” expenses that our club incurs by the MBJA being a find club members who are unaware of my involvement with tenant. Now, I’m not suggesting that these expenses aren’t the junior sailing and the MBJA from 1983 through 1997. highly beneficial to our club, but simply mentioning that “no During most of those years, Anne Gamache served as Treasurer support” isn’t a valid observation. of the organization, and I provided oversight and leadership for the development of the program. During that time we And so we come to the question of capital. Unfortunately, participated in the growth of our program and observed the sailing is a “capital intensive” sport. The “required” equipment growth of highly structured, nationally-oriented junior sailing is expensive, and, quite frankly, a barrier to “introductory programs at a number of clubs. The following is based upon experimentation.” The ski industry learned a long time ago our years of participation and observation of junior sailing. that if they had to sell skis, boots, bindings, poles and suitable clothing, the number of people trying skiing would be I believe that the long-term vitality of MBYC rests in a pro- insufficient to support growth. Their solution? Equipment active program that recruits and retains younger sailors. The rental programs that makes modern equipment, in good case for this is difficult to directly quantify, in part because condition, available for people “exploring” whether this sport the true impact of underfunding junior sailing won’t be felt fits their needs and interests. At the MBJA, we have until years later, when the next generation of “core members” introductory and intermediate level equipment available to fails to emerge. Critically, if that happens, it will take yet encourage introductory exploration and skill building. The another generation to rebuild the “pipeline” that leads from funding for this equipment has been provided through Travis Aiken winners to future board members and flag occasional donations of boats (for resale) and cash, as well as officers. During our discussion, some members asked for a occasional “capital fund drives”. The last large capital drive direct correlation between community kids in MBJA and new was the “Perfect Storm” campaign led by Jeff Elhart in the members acquired. And, while that might be one measure of early part of this decade. Within the past year, approximately immediate success, I’d suggest a much more telling metric of $15,000 was raised during a dinner at the club. the value of our junior program is to stand in our Commodore’s room and count off the number of flag officers Steve’s insight is that we need to embrace a model of capital who were introduced to our way of life through a junior sailing formation that creates a stream of capital, so that the fleet can program. be managed in a pro-active and more cost-effective manner. Continued on Page 3 -----> 2 MMM acatawa Bayayay July 4 Weekend Friday, July 3: Melges 20 & JY Racing VanAndel Fireworks on the Beach YYY acht Club Saturday July 4: Commodore Roger Gamache Vice Commodore Bob DeJong 9 AM Golf Tournament on the Lawn Rear Commodore John Donnelly 6:00 - 8:30 July 4 Picnic at the club with Board of Directors ribs, chicken, shrimp, hot dogs, cob Immediate Past Commodore: Paul Brown corn, etc Treasurer Larry D’Haem Secretary Michael Hill Cost: $15.00. Children: $8.00 (+ tax/tip) Director Beth Egge After dinner starting 7:00: MBJYC Ice Director Jack Knoblauch Director Tom Slanec Cream Social. $5.00 adults, $3.00 kids. Director Lisa Ruoff Fireworks at Kollen Park Director Joel Krissoff Director Mitchell Padnos Director David Sligh, Jr. Sunday July 5 Judge Advocate JD Stone Laser/Opti Patriots Race Management Ladies PHRF Race General Manager Marilyn Baker Executive Chef Jim Ruehle Dining Room Manager Irena Miller Outside Manager Douglas Knapp **** Wind Scoop Editor Jon Bontekoe What’s Happening at the Web Scoop Bob Standish www.mbyc.com Yacht Club? Commodore’s Report continued His estimate is that $15,000 per year would allow for regular replacement of Saturday, July 11 equipment while it still had some market value, reducing the overall cost of capital MBYC 50’s Party combined with Catalina and increasing the overall quality of the Rendezvous Party. Buffet: $16.00 + tax/tip fleet. Steve’s proposal was direct, and Entertaining under the Tent: Peter Trappen simple: $50.00 of every member’s dues would be allocated for a contribution to the MBJA capital account. Needless to Sunday July 26 say, the proposal met with “some Family Pool Party and MBJYC Pool Olympics resistance”. From my point of view, the fundamental logic of underlying Steve’s proposal is sound, but the funding These “investors in the club’s future” can the team.” I look forward to hearing mechanism should be improved in the receive suitable recognition, and receive your thoughts! following way: if we need $15,000 / year the individual income tax benefits that See you at our Club. then I suggest that 30 members (having come from a donation to a IRC section both the motivation and means) pledge 501 c 3 charitable educational Roger Gamache a $500.00 / year donation over the next institution. So far, I’ve gotten 10 years to the MBJA capital fund. commitments from 2 members to “join 3 Fathers’ Day Fishing Tournament successful despite the storm

Fishing Tournament pictures by Paul Brown & jb. 4 June 6 featured the second MBYC PHRF race of the season. Bottom photo shows the three Melges 20’s sailing close in a line. Photos by Tom Slanec and Doug Slade.

June 6 Saturday Racing PHRF #2 5 VICE COMMODORE’S REPORT When you receive this dining experience and fill out the cards. Let us know what you edition of the Wind Scoop, like, and how things could be improved for you. You are Father’s Day and summer reminded that there is a comment card box on the bar side of solstice of 2009 will be in the door leading into the dining room so that you can share the history books. And we’ll your comments anonymously. be staring in the face of Fourth of July weekend The Club appears to have weathered the Friday, June 19 storm with all of its celebration. with a minimum of damage—certainly compared with many How quickly summer finds of our Holland neighbors! Our roof is missing a few shingles its way to mid-way when it and it appears that we may have some erosion occurring under feels as if it has just begun! the lawn near the sidewalk close to Eldean’s property line. Over We are reminded to make sail while the sun shines—to borrow all, for sixty mile an hour straight line winds and seven to from an old farmer’s proverb. eight inches of rain in less that twenty four hours, we faired quite well. The cost of repairs should be modest. While the weather has been cooler than normal by more than just a few degrees (where is that global warming??!!), activity A conservation reminder: our supply of hot water is not endless. at the Yacht Club has been brisk. Our dining room sales are Some of our kids seem to like standing under the warm pool higher than the same time last year. Our General Manager, showers and do so for a very long time, and occasionally walk Dining Room Manager and Executive Chef continue to work away leaving the showers running. Parents, would you please hard to provide fine dining at affordable prices, and our help monitor this? Not only is this good conservation of water membership seems to be recognizing these opportunities. and natural gas, it also helps to assure that there will be adequate (Remember to make reservations to help accommodate your hot water for those using the showers for bathing. Thank you plans.) for your cooperation on this.

If you have not already noticed, you will soon see that the Please keep us informed of anything that requires our attention. House Committee has revised the Comment Cards. Your And enjoy the summer—just as hard as you can! Bridge and Board, with the support and cooperation of our Staff, look for your input on how we can better meet your Bob DeJong expectations. So please take a moment at the end of your Did You Know... Down the Race Course Boats: health! In lieu of chips or Saturday, August 8th • You CAN get assistance French fries, you may substitute COMMODORE’s ROAST docking your boat at the club? a fruit cup or side salad. Sunday, August 9th • Radio in on Channel 9 ! Our FAMILY CARNIVAL dock staff will assist you with Pool Saturday, August 22nd — dock lines as you come in. • You CAN help with safety VANDERLEEK CUP & Please allow 10 minutes for at the pool! REGATTA PARTY them to get to your slip. include • Signing in when you arrive Saturday, August 29th — in your message your slip # and helps our Dock Staff and COMMODORE’s BALL if you are in the East or West Lifeguards keep us and our Bay. club a safer place. There is a Cover photo taken by Doug Slade dur- sheet at each entrance where ing MBYC’s June 6 PHRF racing. Pic- Dining you can sign in so that our tured is Willie J, Doug Petter’s 43’ boat • You CAN eat healthy at lifeguards know who is in the sailing on a spinnaker run. Please submit MBYC! pool area. photos to Wind Scool editor Jon • Jim Ruhle and our club Bontekoe at: [email protected] management care about our From MBYC House Committee 6 Past Commodores’ Annual Phil Ragains, John Stevenson, Herb Eldean, Sam Martin, Charlie Luncheon (pictured left to right): Seymore Padnos, Robert Sligh, Clark Sligh III, Rod VanTol, Rudy Vedovell, Paul Brown, Jack Smith, Jack Siebers, Weersing, Steve Ratliff, Kevin Dolle, Rick Kraii. INTERNATIONAL TEAM BUILDING AT MBYC Member Gregg VandenBosch was into Lake Michigan—reaching on the relationships with your team, I would confronted with a challenge of hosting puffs of an easterly breeze on Tuesday, highly encourage you to consider MBYC fifteen international business travelers June 17. Returning to the docks at 8:00 for your needs. If you’re not sure whom from the United Kingdom, Italy, p.m. one of the sailors observed, “no sun to contact to arrange a fleet, you could Germany, Spain, and Australia with a or sunset tonight, but then no rain or start with anyone on the Bridge. I was dozen “locals.” Gregg’s employer, flies either.” amazed by the willingness of our club Dematic (f/k/a Rapistan), was bringing members to show off our location, our conveyor teams from all over the globe With excellent planning and even better passion for sailing, and our hospitality. I to Grand Rapids for three days of execution, executive chef, Jim Ruehle also found the cooperation of the staff product release. Gregg’s goals were and his team, and Irena Miller and her overwhelmingly positive. Marilyn, Jim, threefold: provide an evening of team served each guest her/his selection and their team exceeded my expectations relaxation, provide an opportunity to of beef filet, tuna, specially prepared and their attention to details was develop relationships among business chicken dishes and other great selections impressive!” colleagues who would be working while the bar served its usual great together around the world, and show off selection of cocktails and wine or beer. The next time you are considering a some of the prettiest parts of West Gregg reports that for the rest of the venue for a business meeting or Michigan. So Gregg called on fellow business conference, he continued to entertainment, you would serve your club member sailors and the Club staff receive compliments about the great business colleagues well by making for the solution to his challenge. hospitality and friendliness served with arrangements at your favorite Yacht fine food and drink. He and his business Club. In fact, virtually every special Answering the call for assistance, Rod colleagues considered the evening a huge occasion hosted by our Yacht Club and Annie Van Tol, Bob and Janet success. results in unsolicited compliments about Standish, Bill and Lisa Ruoff, John and the food, service and location. Is there Linda Stephenson, and father-in-law In reflecting on the evening, Gregg anything better anywhere in the area? Bob DeJong made their sailboats reports: “If you’re looking for a unique by Bob DeJong available for a pleasant evening cruise venue to both entertain and build strong 7 Dueling Hors d’oeuvres or East Meets West: The food was great! East Meets West took on a new twist this summer as we expanded to include all of the club in this traditional coming together of the docks. Members from the “pool” crowd, as well as racers and dry dock boaters, joined in for Dueling Hors d’ Oeuvres under the tent. With around 50 members attending, it was nice to see the camaraderie and competitive spirit over all of the interesting and great tasting appetizers. The judges had a hard time picking as they claimed everything was great. But prizes were eventually awarded to: Jeanne Marie Rifkin best presentation, Michael Nagelkirk most unique, Tom DeRoseau best overall, Lenore D’Haem best taste, and Janet Magennis ease of preparation. Below we print the winners’ recipes direct from their computerized cookbooks. by Janet Standish

Raspberry Cheese Surprise (DeRoseau): 1 C shredded cheddar cheese, 1 C shredded cojack cheese, 1 C mayonnaise, ½ C chopped green onions, 2 C chopped pecans. Mix and form into a flattened cheese ball. Cover with raspberry preserves, top with fresh raspberries and pecans. Serve with Crackers

Grilled cream cheese (D’Haem) On a sheet of aluminum foil, place one stick of Neufchatel cream cheese. Top with 2- 3 tbs of pesto, 1/3 c. chopped tomatoes, sundried tomatoes to taste, and 1/3 C shredded five cheese blend. Place on grill and cover with a lid. Heat until cheese on top is melted (or simply use a microwave dish). Serve with Triscuits.

Breadsticks (Rifkin): 1 box Skinny Italian Breadsticks, Vegetable Cream Cheese: Blend in food processor: ½ red pepper, ¼ red onion, 3 sprigs fresh basil, 1 carrot, 1 glove garlic. Stir in: ½ tsp. Tabasco sauce, 3 – 8oz pkg. cream cheese, 1 lb thin prosciutto, 25 green olives, 25 peppadew (red African peppers cut in half). Assembly: spread one end of breadstick with vegetable cream cheese, roll on slice of prosciutto around cream cheese, put an olive or a peppadew on the end, and chill. Baked Brie (Magennis): Preps in just five minutes. Use a ready piecrust or puff pastry or a can of crescent rolls (unseparated). 1 Pillsbury Ready Crust (or store brand) brought to room temp, 1 round or wedge of Brie cheese, 1 cup cherry preserves (or other fruit preserves), ¼ cup brown sugar, ¼ cup maple syrup, dried Michigan cherries if desired – one/two handfuls. Use a quiche pan or pie plate and spray with cooking spray. Open and lay out the pie crust. Place Brie round or wedge on top of pastry. Spread preserves on Brie, add dried fruit if desired. Fold crust up around Brie and pucker the top. Drizzle maple syrup over top and place brown sugar on top. Bake at 350º for 30 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before serving. Serve with crackers or tart apple slices. Tuna Nicoise Ficelles (Nagelkirk): 3 large eggs, 2 tbp red wine vinegar, 5 tbp xtra virg olive oil, 6 flat anchovy,chopped, 2 tbp capers, drained, 1 med shallot, minced, Kosher salt & fresh gd pepper, 12 oz chunk white tuna, drained & flaked, 2-24 inch thin baguettes, 1 small red leaf lettuce, 10 oz plum tomatoes, quartered & oven roasted, 3/4 cp oil-cured black olives, pitted & chopped. 1. Place eggs in med pan cool water & simmer 10 min. Drain & cool. Peel & thinly slice. Set aside. 2. Place vinegar in small stainless steel bowl. Slowly whisk oil. Add anchovies, capers, shallots. Season w/salt & pepper. Add tuna & toss. 3. Split baguette lengthwise without cutting through. Fold loaves open. Arrange lettuce along the inside. Spoon tuna mix evenly onto lettuce, top w/egg slices, tomatoes, olives. Close baugettes & cut into twelve 2-in sandwiches. For roasted tomatoes: 1. Quarter tomatoes. Toss w/ 1 tbsp olive oil. Add salt & pepper. 2. Place on parchment paper on flat baking pan. 3. Roast 1 to 1-1/2hr at 275. Photos by Annie VanTol 8 The Winners

The Food

The Judges

9 New Member Party launches the summer with friendly smiles for new faces

F A Larry & Lenore D’Haem with new members Justin & Kristen Salava. B New member Gina Attee (red name tag) talks with Nick Honor, Coreen Slanec and Judy Stellin. C Bill and Lisa Ruoff talk with Steve & Nancy Steketee. D Nate Bryan with granddaughters Lauren Brand & Dani Gamache. E Coreen & Tom Slanec with grand- son Andrew. G John Stevenson, MaryJane & Paul Schoenherr with Lenore D’Haem D Photos by Annie VanTol 10 110 Fleet Racing In front of the Club on a Blue Sky Day

110 photos by Mary Bontekoe.

11 REAR COMMODORE’S REPORT

LASER GREAT LAKES have access to a JY, please join in the fun Friday evening. CHAMPIONSHIP: A Without Jan and Mike’s extensive efforts, the portion of Lake GREAT SUCCESS! Mac in front of MBYC would be quiet this summer on Friday evenings. Thanks go to Jan and Mike for the JY 15 renaissance! MBYC hosted its first regatta of the season on M20 FLEET: ENTHUSIASTIC ROAD WARRIORS! June 13/14 and a big thanks is given to Laser Mike Kiss, John Arendshorst, and Erik Post are enthusiastic fleet captain JP Del Solar new owners of the M20. Starting in early April, MBYC has Goldsmith! JP did a been the venue for a lot of M20 activity: practices, Wednesday tremendous amount of night racing, as well as our offshore Saturday series. Mike, work prior to the event and John, Erik and their crews are rapidly moving down the it paid off. JP focussed on one on one marketing of the event learning curve and a lot of tuning info is being exchanged and sailors from as far as Toronto, Texas and California traveled amongst the three teams. The three teams are also travelling to MBYC to compete. Top national youth sailors such as Laser to compete with other regional teams taking part in regattas Full rig competitor Colin Smith and Laser Radial competitor already at Muskegon Yacht Club and twice at Bayview/ Annie Haeger took part. The race committee led by Barb Crescent Yacht Clubs in Detroit. All this activity is leading Gamache and including Commodore Roger Gamache and up to the first ever M20 Nationals to be held at MBYC: August Doug Slade did a great job in light and shify conditions on 21-23. both Lake Michigan and Lake Macatawa. Two races were held Saturday on the Big Lake and three on Sunday on Lake Mac. CONGRATULATIONS TO DANI GAMACHE: 46 sailors took part with 32 in the Full rig including JP, Mike COLLEGIATE ALL-AMERICAN! Kiss, Steve Sisson and Don Bergman and 14 in the Radial rig including Sam Padnos (1st), Mitchell Kiss (2nd), Alex Post, Rona Sisson was the first MBYC sailor to win college All- and Armaan Dandavati. Surplus funds from the regatta will American honors. She did so representing Stanford University go to building a stronger MBYC Laser fleet. as a crew in 1984 and 1986. Dani Gamache is the second MBYC sailor to win college All-American honors. Dani MBYC JY 15 FLEET: A RENAISSANCE! competed for SUNY Maritime (NYC) in the 2009 college national championships in early June in San Francisco and at JY 15 activity declined in 2007 and 2008 and many believed the conclusion of that event the 2009 All-Americans were that the fleet was dead. Fleet captains Jan and Mike Stewart announced. Eight women skippers won AA honors along with disagreed. They did a lot of marketing of the fleet during the 20 women crew - including Dani. Congratulations to Dani winter and enthusiasm for Friday night racing has returned for her great college racing career! with 10 JYs taking part in the first evening of racing. This is a John Donnelly greater number of racers than has been seen for years! If you

2010 Logbook Family Photo Service

MBYC volunteer photographers club events or just when you are available almost anytime to happen to be here. You can call take a new family or individual one up to make arrangements photo for the Logbook. Your flag or just ask them if you happen officers would love to have all to see them at the club. Volun- families pictured in the 2010 teering to take your picture are Logbook member photo sec- Annie VanTol, Doug Slade, Ed Laser fleet of 46 boats crosses the tion. Photographers are willing to Kita, or editor Jon Bontekoe. start line in the June 13-14 Great take photos anywhere on club We’ll even email you a copy of Lakes Laser Championship Regatta held at MBYC. property or on your boat, during the picture! Photo by Tovi Kiss. 12 MBYC Commodores’ daughters make successful sailors! Dani Gamache elected College All-American St. Francis Yacht Club in The Inter-collegiate Sailing Association schools. Upon graduation she received a San Francisco honors of North American has selected Danielle 3rd Mates License with unlimited Morgan Kiss Gamache ‘All American’, a major tonnage. She is currently hoping to start National Sailing Award, as a result of her a career on the ocean and ship out on a success during the national sailing ocean tanker or container freighter. Morgan Kiss’ sailing partner Laura championships in May and for her McKenna of the St. Francis Yacht Club successful college sailing career. Dani has Dani, whose father is MBYC in San Francisco was recently featured in just completed a 4-year BS in Commodore Roger Gamache, started her their news letter. McKenna, having Oceanography and Meterology at SUNY sailing experience in the MBJA lessons finished high school, is ready to attend th Maritime College in The Bronx, New program. After completing 8 grade she Boston College and join their top ranked York. Dani elected to attend SUNY raced on Jack Knoblauch’s ‘Capricious’ sailing team, and has one more goal for Maritime because of its high-level sailing and was invited by Bob Hughes to crew her junior sailing career. With her program and her interest in studying at a on ‘Heartbreaker’, then a 1D35 and later younger partner from MBYC, Morgan Maritime college. She was on the sailing when he moved his racing program into Kiss, their goal was to be the US team all four years and completed her the Farr 40. Dani participated in one of representative team in the 420 world college racing career participating with the earlier Canada’s Cup regattas on sailing championships. Their preparation the SUNY team at the National Heartbreaker, but was not able to for the world championships includes Championship Regatta. In her senior year participate while in college. She credits summer travel to regattas and training in she sailed as crew in both team racing and her ‘big boat’ experiences with giving her Europe and Brazil. The following on the co-ed team. Both Dani and her a feel ‘for how well the boat is sailing’ paragraphs regarding Morgan and Laura skipper Todd Hawkins were given the All that lead to her success at the college level. are taken from the St. Francis newsletter: American award. In both divisions she It was not until college that Dani became represented SUNY Maritime at the heavily involved in small-boat sailing, “After a couple of championship seasons Regional and National Championships, where competition is sailed on Flying sailing with her Chicago-based”… sailing against top-sailing teams from Juniors and 420’s. The Nationals took partner who “aged out of youth Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, place in San Francisco. They were hosted competition … Laura still yearned for a Boston College, and other top sailing by Stanford University and the St. Francis shot to represent the US at the prestigious Yacht Club and were sailed on FJ’s. Roger ISAF Youth World Champtiopnships. and Annie Gamache flew out to San Another Midwest connection paired Francisco to watch her last college races. Laura with 15 year old sailing prodigy jb Morgan Kiss from Holland, Michigan. Pictured below: Morgan Kiss Pictured below: Dani Gamache Laura’s extensive crewing experience combined with the raw talent of Kiss (a nationally ranked Opti sailor) were a quick match for success.

“After being named to the US Sailing Team under-18 development team, the pair sought out the coaching services of Dave Dellenbaugh (of America’s Cup fame) and quickly rose to the top of the 420 fleet. At the ISAF qualifiers in Long Beach in December, Kiss and Mckenna bested the other teams from across the country to give them the berth to represent Team USA at the Youth Worlds in Buzios, Brazil in July.” jb

13 Another June ‘storm of the century’ dumps 8” of rain on Macatawa. Mac the Sailor gets to go to sea again, cars have to wade down the street, lights do out during dinner, the creek overflows with water & debri and sewage systems overwhelmed again.

Photos by jb. Lights out in the club photo by Lance Baker. 14 VanderLeek Cup MBJA lesson season up and running: a report Hospice Regatta from director Marie Mell August 22, 2009 Hard to believe that we are already into your calendar for the final event of the our second session of sailing lessons this West Michigan Youth Sailing Open to the public - Come & summer! The kids (and the staff!) have Association season. MBYC will be bring your friends really been enjoying their time on the hosting five yacht clubs from West rd • To race– FUN comfort cruisers water. We still have spots available in 3 Michigan and help will be needed in th class (no tech sails) & 4 sessions. Let your friends know refreshments, race committee (including boats!), awards, and general assistance. • AND to race competitive classes what a hidden treasure we have! You do NOT need to be a member to take Even if you are • For ice cream social after the classes. Come down or check the action available for races in the photo gallery on our NEW only 1 or 2 • For dinner - pig roast buffet website (www.mbja.org) ! hours, we will & auction, awards & have a role for • Music by Peter Trappen Don’t forget about the adult learn to sail you. We will Honor the memory of past classes Tuesdays as well. This year, we also need commodore Paul VanderLeek changed the format to a four week, committee and support Hospice of Holland Tuesdays only format. Classes s run from boats for race patients in need 5:30-8:30. The second session begins committee. July 14 and there is plenty of room still Contact Marie if you are available to www.mbyc.com for event details, available! It’s not too late to sign up! help. NOR & entry form Independence Day races will be Sunday Thanks for all of your support this July 5. Juniors, come out for club racing summer! See you on the water! in your 420. Opti or Laser! We’re looking to finish off the holiday weekend Marie Mell with a BANG! (and to show our club how super the future looks in sailing! Pictured below is the first MBJA afternoon sailing class with instructors and Are you interested in helping with a director Marie Mell on the floating Opti dock ready for the first lesson in rigging youth regatta? Put Saturday August 1 on and safety. Photo by jb

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15 Main Events in July Sat July 4 Picnic & Ice Cream Social Sat July 11 50’s Party (with Catalina) Sun July 26 Family Pool Party & Olympics J U L Y 2 0 0 9

Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Race Events 1 2 3 Golf Tournament 4 Social Events Melges 20/JY15 July 4 Picnic Laser & Opti VanAndel Private Parties MBJYC Ice Cream Social Racing Fireworks Kollen Park Fireworks 5 6 7 8 9 10 MBYC #3 11 Laser & Opti Bayshore Melges 20/JY15 PHRF #3 Patriot Race Laser & Opti Summer Series Racing Rock ‘n Roll Party Ladies Offshore Race Racing Catalina Rendez.. Catalina Rendezvous 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Bayshore Laser Racing Chicago Mac Catalina Rendezvous Summer Series Opti Racing 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Port Huron-Mac Bayshore Windscoop Laser & Opti Melges 20/JY 15 Race Summer Series Copy Due Racing Racing MBYC PHRF #4 26 27 28 29 30 31 MBJYC Pool Bayshore Laser & Opti Melges 20/JY 15 Olympics Summer Series Racing Racing Family Pool Party 16 August 2009 www.mbyc.com

MACATAWA BAY YACHT CLUB • 2157 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE • MACATAWA, MI 49434 • 616-335-5815 1 COMMODORE’S REPORT I am writing immediately discussion is to improve operating efficiency while at the same prior to the Chicago- time improving the quality of our members’ experience. There Mackinac Race and before is clear consensus that our current system is inadequate. There our July Board of Directors is less consensus on how to address the problem, although a meeting. By the time suitable solution is emerging. As always, the amount and you’re reading this, both of timing of the funding for this project remains a concern. A those events will have related issue under discussion is explicit formalization of occurred and you’ll have policies regarding member privacy. This becomes a critical the benefit of knowing how issue as we gather member information into a single data base, it all turned out. But and enhance the ability to use that information. We are without that knowledge, working on By-Laws, policies, and procedures to protect the here’s some highlights for August. privacy of all members.

Carpe Diem (“seize the day”). The MBYC season builds to a Another source of concern/discussion is a more stable solution crescendo in August. Our sailing program includes the West for the eastern side of our riparian boundary. A second “storm Michigan Youth Sailing Association Championships, of the century” has threatened our access to our small boat Commodore’s Cup, the Club 420 North American harbor. We are working through a number of ideas, evaluating Championships, the Vanderleek/Hospice Regatta, and the first each against considerations of cost and feasibility. A final national Melges 20 regatta (with participants from as far away project has been evaluating the feasibility/cost of converting as Italy). There’s a “whole lot of sailing going on” at MBYC. the primary restrooms in the clubhouse to “barrier free.” As Make sure you take some time to participate or spectate. On the demographics of our general population (and our the social calendar, the month begins with the “Commodore’s membership) ages, the issue of access becomes progressively Roast” at poolside, and ends with the Commodore’s Ball, a more critical to our club. The forward planning committee is long celebrated tradition honoring our past commodores. researching the optimum solution to this challenge. Of course, Check out the specific events, dates, and times in this the amount and timing of the expenditure becomes an Windscoop and at our website. important consideration for our continued financial security.

Meanwhile… Your Board has been working on a number of Overall, it’s been a busy year, and it’s going to be even more projects this year which are moving along toward completion. busy in August. Hope I see you at our club! One project has been to evaluate our current club information management “system” consisting of accounting, membership Roger Gamache data, and club communication systems. The goal of the

An island fit for the birds has formed in the East Bay just outside the creek where, despite increases in water depths, the sand deposits are limiting access to the small boat docks. Dredging will in all prob- ability have to be planned for next spring. Photo by jb

2 M acatawa Bay ON DECK FOR FOR AUGUST 2009

Y acht Club Saturday, August 8th COMMORDORES’s Cup and Commodore Roger Gamache Vice Commodore Bob DeJong “All Club” COMMODORE’s ROAST Rear Commodore John Donnelly Board of Directors th Immediate Past Commodore: Paul Brown Sunday, August 9 Treasurer Larry D’Haem Secretary Michael Hill FAMILY CARNIVAL Director Beth Egge Director Jack Knoblauch Director Tom Slanec Thursday, August 13th to Sunday August 16th Director Lisa Ruoff Director Joel Krissoff 420 NATIONALS Director Mitchell Padnos Director David Sligh, Jr. nd Judge Advocate JD Stone Saturday, August 22 Management VANDERLEEK CUP AND “All Club” General Manager Marilyn Baker Executive Chef Jim Ruehle REGATTA PARTY Dining Room Manager Irena Miller Outside Manager Douglas Knapp MELGES 20 NATIONALS **** Wind Scoop Editor Jon Bontekoe th Web Scoop Bob Standish Friday, August 28 www.mbyc.com STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING

Saturday, August 29th ATTENTION WINGS FANS!! (not as in hockey) COMMODORES’ BALL Friday, September 4th to September 7th Executive Chef Jim Ruehle knows that we have many wings fans here at the LABOR WEEKEND Club. But Jim has received a few mixed signals about your preference of this Saturday Nite– End of Summer Blast year’s model versus last year’s. We know that we cannot serve everyone’s preferred Monday – Labor Day Breakfast style, but Jim will “net” the model receiving the most votes. So call or email the Club ([email protected]) voting for the 2008 or 2009 style. She/he who LOOK FOR EMAIL BLAST AND FLYERS for FURTHER voteth not, complaineth not. (Famous INFORMATION FOR EACH EVENT!!! ancient maxim—attributed to ancient Greece) 3 July 4 Breakfast, Golf, FireeW Works & Fun

4 Did You Know...

• You CAN help shape the food and bar service at the club? · We are always striving for continual improvement so please fill out the comment card presented with your bill when you are dining at the club. You can return it with your bill or place it in the suggestion box at the doorway between dining room and bar area. • You CAN learn to sail? · Go to MBYC.COM and click on Sailing schools and then MBJA sailing schools. You will immediately be connected to http:// www.mbja.org/ Click on sailing lessons 2009 and you can sign up! If you have an interest in sailing on a boat for the Wednesday night races you can also contact our Commodore Roger Gamache at [email protected]. • You CAN get food and drinks at the pool or at your boat? · There is a portable phone at the sign-in sheet by the pool. Just pick it up, dial the club’s number (located conveniently on the food order form by the phone) and place your order. To help facilitate delivery, inform our staff where you are located. Using your cell phone, you can also order from your boat! Please be understanding if all of our staff are busy serving other guests and members inside that you may be asked to pick up your order.

July 4 Photos by Doug Slade, Annie Van Tol, Jon Bontekoe 5 VICE COMMODORE’S REPORT As I write this, we are Remember that our bar is willing to stock your favorite wine quickly approaching the and liquor if it is not already carried in stock. So please end of July. So quickly the remember that if our bar does not have your favorite bourbon, summer flies by. But by all vodka, gin or other drink, you only need to let our bartenders reports, and in spite of the know, and it will be ordered. Thank you for your constructive weather providing some of comments on your dining comment cards. This feedback is the coolest July days in used by our general manager, dining room manager and master recorded history and in chef in helping to respond to your needs and desires. Keep spite of a less than them coming. flourishing economy, your Club is doing well. Our DOCK AND GROUNDS: sales are at or above last year, We continue to explore needs and costs for additional dredging and we have seen more inquiries for membership information that may be required as a result of our seemingly now-annual than many of us can recall for many years. one hundred year rains. We want to accommodate our junior sailors while using our resources frugally. There are no other HOUSE COMMITTEE: known significant expenses on the horizon for this year—at Marilyn reports that our dining sales for June are up least none that are planned. While we try to minimize approximately 15 percent over last year. You may recall that unpleasant surprises, we cannot eliminate them. Commodore Gamache extended invitations of reciprocity for dining to our neighboring yacht clubs, and our boating friends SUGGESTIONS? at those clubs have been taking advantage of our dining services. Please let us know your thoughts on how we can better serve We are happy to accommodate them, and the additional our members. Sometimes these are little things. For example, revenue is good for our bottom line. As many of you know, so someone noticed that we had a number of nice chairs stacked much of our dining related expense is fixed, such that the more by the swimming pool for those extra busy days, and suggested dinners and cocktails we serve, the better we can spread those that they might be better utilized under the tent. As the expenses. weekend morning “brain trust” can attest, the chairs were relocated under the tent within two days of the suggestion. It Over all our beverage sales are about the same as last year: beer was a little thing, but it made things nicer. and wine sales are up over last year for June, but liquor sales were down correspondingly. Most of our members know by Hint: The Commodores’ Ball will be here before you know it. now that our wine markups are very modest in comparison This event has become THE EVENT of the year as Jim shows with markups by most restaurants. Our beer selection includes off his and his team’s talents in creating dishes for extraordinary mostly premium beer with local on- tap favorites like Oberon dining. I am guessing that this event sells out this year: so get and Founders. Marilyn and Jim continue to work hard to your reservations in early; and please do not be upset with our deliver good value for our members, and our restaurant and staff if you call last minute and there is no more room available. bar prices reflect that. And your comments indicate your Thanks for your understanding. appreciation. Bob DeJong Custom Painted Crystal MBYC Wine Glasses Through special arrangements with Leena Sullivan of Grand Rapids, MBYC members can now order custom painted wine glasses featuring our club burgee, Big Red, and/or the name of your boat or cottage. Samples of the art work are located in the Nauti-Shop display case along with order forms. Price: $28.50 each. Allow three to four weeks for delivery. 6 The Bergmans won the grueling Annual MBYC Independence Day Wooden Canoe Race on Lake Macatawa against much younger competition. After the first heat other potential competitors bowed out. Photos by Annie Van Tol.

MBYC.COM RE-DISIGNED

Thanks to the continued work of Bob Standish, our newly designed website now has a section for “members only,” new links including “Sailflow” and a new home page. In order to help restrict certain information to our members, our site now allows members only to access certain parts of the site. Each member will be allowed free registration as another benefit of Club membership. Be sure to allow twenty four hours (or so) for approval of your registration to confirm that only members are allowed to register.

Many of our members have discovered already that our website is a fast and convenient way to confirm dates and times for the next social event as well as race schedules. Nearly everything you want to know about MBYC can be found with just a few clicks on your computer. If you haven’t already done so, you will want to include this site among your “favorites” list. 7 July 5 Ladies PHRF features 3 MBYC racers Three boats participated in the July 5 Ladies PHRF race (second annual!). Ca- pricious captained by Linda Knoblauch took first over all in the three races, Sec- ond Wind (AKA Winch Wenches) steered by Jean Bergman placed second, and Hot for Teacher under Marie Mell placed third. All three boats raced Spin- naker division. There were no boats entered in the JAM division. Race chair Jack Knoblauch would love to have more boats participate - come on ladies - show your skills!

Small pictures in center show the three crews at the awards ceremony or on the boat. There were even a few spec- tator boats! Pictures by Doug Slade, Grant Chaney, Joe Bonadies, & Jack Knoblauch.

Roast Commodore Gamache at the Commodore’s Roast Saturday Evening, August 8, 2009 In a casual pool-side post-race party complete with grilled fun-food, poolside bar. 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Join with Commodore’s Cup racing crews and MBYC club members. Open microphone to get in your digs.

8 9 MBYC’s own Saturday PHRF racing has come to be a time for the Melges Fleets to shine as M-20s, M-24s, and M-32s compete regularly in addition, of course, to any and all PHRF boats. And of course The Wednesday night Bayshore Summer Series brings out upwards of 50 boats from around the Holland area and features both Spinnaker and JAM sections with different starts for various boat sizes. There is always room for more boats to participate and joining up is easy. Just check out the racing section of the club website at mbyc.com or Bayshore’s website at bayshoreyachtclub.org.

COMMODORES’ BALL Saturday evening, August 29, 2009 Reservations Required Be sure to reserve early to assure a place for you at the highlight of the club’s social year. And dance the night away!

10 Racing photos submitted by Doug Slade and Tom Sanec.

Sat PHRF Racing & Wed Bayshore Series

11 REAR COMMODORE’S REPORT MACKINAC: GO WEST, balance of the boats from the Turbo class and the lead GL YOUNG MAN 70s. Zoom finished just after 11pm on Monday and the next boat in her class did not finish until nine hours later. She was Horace Greeley, the 19th the 9th boat to cross the finish line - beating one turbo and century newspaperman, five GL70s - and was the overall winner of the Chicago- had this straightforward Mackinac Trophy division. advice: “Go west, young man.” Henry David A number of MBYC boats competed in the race: Windquest, Thoreau,another great Tyrant, Heatbreaker, Willie J, Sufficient Reason, Gauntlet 19th century American, (also doing the Super Mac), and Whitecap. Two of those boats talked about “marching to had corrected time finishes in the top three of their sections: the beat of a different Doug Petter and his Willie J crew were 3rd in section 2 and drummer.” All this advice benefited those who followed it in 4th overall in the Chicago-Mackinac trophy division while the 2009 Chicago- Mackinac race. Don Thinschmidt and his Tyrant crew, including Commodore Gamache, were 2nd in section 1 and 15th overall. In the last few years, the installation of GPS transponder Both of these boats followed the normal route along the devices in 80% of the Mac race boats has been a great addition Michigan shore and simply outsailed their competition. for those on shore who want to follow the race and those Congratulations to all MBYC sailors who competed in the competitors who want to reconstruct what worked well and race!" what did not. JUNE RACE HIGHLIGHTS Over 300 boats competed in the 2009 race. All but two (at least of those who had GPS devices) followed the general track The Chicago NOOD was held June 19-21. It started with of heading NNE to the Michigan shore. Two boats marched strong thunderstorms Friday morning, which delayed racing, to a different drummer and went NW to the Wisconsin shore. and ended with a number of MBYC sailors posting strong The two boats were Flash Gordon 5, a Farr 40 from Chicago results. In PHRF-2 two Melges 32s from MBYC finished in YC and Zoom, a Farr 395 also from Chicago YC the top three: Doug DeVos 1st and Ted Etheridge 3rd. Two MBYC S2 7.9s also finished in the top three: Jeff/Doug Padnos Late Sunday afternoon when nearly all the fleet was drifting 1st and Peter Schwarz 3rd. Sam Padnos was 3rd in the Etchells along the shore between Pentwater and Ludington, fifty miles fleet. to the west,Flash Gordon and Zoom were moving in sight of the Wisconsin shore with great pressure north of Sheboygan. The Queen's Cup was held June 25/6. Doug DeVos and Late Sunday Zoom peeled off the Wisconsin shore and headed Windquest finished first in PHRF-1 and 1st overall. Tom with strong pressure towards Fox and Beaver Islands. Flash Slanec and the Talaria crew were victorious in PHRF-10. Gordon stayed along the Door Peninsula heading towards Manistique, Michigan in the UP. She ran into light air Monday The Laser Radial North American championships were held afternoon and lost much of her lead. June 26-29 at the Buffalo Canoe Club on Lake Erie. Mitchell Kiss finished a very stong 5th in a fleet of 121 Laser Radials. At 10:30am on Monday Zoom, after passing north of the The winner of the event was Lisa Ross from Canada who Manitous, was just east of South Fox Island and moving with sailed the Laser Radial for her country in the 2008 Olympics. good pressure 30 miles ahead of her nearest competitor in section 3 and 50 miles ahead of the bulk of section 3 who MELGES 24s were in light air off of Frankfort. Zoom had taken a great circle route to Grays Reef - a route at least 30 miles longer The MBYC M24s were out on the Big Lake in full force for than that sailed by the other 300+ boats , but she had sailed it the July 11 offshore races - congratulations to fleet captain with much better pressure. Darren Lance! Four M24s were on the line and it was the largest turnout ever for M24s at MBYC. Three races were Windquest finished at 3:15pm on Monday. Zoom, the Farr sailed and the weekend winner was decided in the last race 395 and lead boat from section 3, passed through the Grays with Merrill Tutton beating Jack Vandenberg by a foot. We Reef channel around 7pm on Monday together with the Continued on Page 13 ------> 12 Catalina sailors came to MBYC for their yearly rendezvous, complete with a Friday Shrimp Boil, Saturday 50’s party and dance, and Sunday boating skills tests. Several MBYC members joined the Catalina Group in their 50’s fun Saturday night. Photos by Annie Van Tol

Photo above: Wind Scoop photographer John Stephenson caught this photo of Windquest at Gray’s Reef. Donnelly continued hope to see this many M24s out for every MBYC Saturday regatta!

MORGAN KISS REPRESENTS USA AT YOUTH WORLD CHAMPS IN DOWN THE RACE COURSE BRAZIL

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) holds an annual youth world sail- Sunday, September 13th ing championship. There are seven RENDEVOUS classes: ( Intl.420 boys, Intl. 420 girls, Laser Radial boys , Laser Radial girls, Saturday, September 19th Hobie 16, windsurfer boys, and windsurfer girls. Each country can send WHINE PARTY one team for each class. Morgan Kiss and Laura Mckenna (California) won a quali- Thursday September 17th to September 20th fying regatta in January and were the USA 7.9 NATIONALS team at the youth world champs in the Intl. 420 girls. Morgan and Laura had a Saturday, October 19th very strong regatta and were third overall going into the the final race. Their final AWARDS DINNER and finish was 5th out of 24 teams. The teams ahead of them were: Brazil 1st, Italy 2nd, CHANGE OF WATCH Singapore 3rd and New Zealand 4th. This was the best result for any USA Friday, October 30th team! John Donnelly HALLOWEEN PARTY 13 MBYC small boat racing happens every week

The Wind Scoop cover photo was taken VANDERLEEK CUP AWARDS & BUFFET by Joe Bonadies during MBYC’s July 5 Ladies PHRF racing. Pictured is Jean Saturday, August 22, 2009 at 6:00 PM Bergman’s Second Wind, renamed Pig Roast $25.00 adults, $10.00 children 3-10. ‘Winch Wenches’ for the day’s special Adult price includes tax, tip, and $10.00 donation to event.Two additional boats, Capricious and Hot for Teacher participated in the Holland Hospice. all-ladies annual race. See pages 8-9 for Music by Peter Trappen more Ladies PHRF pictres. Please sub- Everyone is invite, not just racers! mit your club photos to Wind Scoop RSVP by August 17 editor Jon Bontekoe at: (616-335-5815 or cluboffice @mbyc.com [email protected] 14 MBJA Report Lasers and Optis photos by Doug It has been a great summer so far at our their finishes at the Detroit Junior Slade & jb. Junior Olympics winners sailing school! Our students have been Olympics July 18 & 19. Graham photo by Marie Mell excited about being on the water and finished 2nd in the Opti White and have been learning so much about safety, Anthony finished 2nd in the Opti Red boat handling, on the water strategies divisions. In the Laser Radials, Alex and having lots of fun in the many finished 1st, while Jay finished 2nd in the varying conditions during the month of Laser division. At the second WMYSA July. We’ve had many success stories, regatta, we had three of the top 10 Opti including kids who were hesitant about finishers. Congrats to first place Alex being in an Opti and out on the water Brown, third at the beginning of their session, and by place Casey the end of the session asking their parents Tutton and to sign them up for MORE! Kudos to ninth place our instructors Casey, Shari and Jon, as Natalie well as our helpers Genni, Alex, Jay, Lexi Brown. Ryan and Anthony for their excitement and Tutton and love of sailing that they are sharing with Michael the kids. It is obvious that we have a core Calistri group of kids coming up that are going finished to be good sailors and racers in the second in the 420 fleet. WAY TO GO Midwest in the very near future! TEAM MAC!

At this writing, we have been busy with Looking ahead to October, we are proud the West Michigan Youth Sailing to again be hosting the Junior Olympics Association regattas and are on track to October 10 & 11 with some of the best defend our 1st place title on Saturday of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and August 1 here at Mac Bay. Clubs from Wisconsin junior sailors. Come join the Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Saugatuck, fun! Contact Steve Sisson or Marie if you Spring Lake and St. Joe will be here are available to help with race committee, giving us their best challenge! We would safety, hospitality, registration or to let love to have you come out and support us borrow your boat for the weekend! us and be part of the awards ceremony We will need some larger power boats following under the MBYC tent. to help in Lake Michigan.

Congratulations to Graham Post, See you on the water! Marie Mell Caroline Sisson, DJ Litts, Anthony Norris, Jay Mitchell and Alex Post for MBYC team winners.

15 Main Events in August August 8 Commodore’s Roast Party August 9 Family Carnival August 22 VanderLeek Party August 28 Stock Holders Meeting August 29 Commodores’ Ball A U G U S T 2 0 0 9 Sun.Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Race Events West Michigan 1 Social Events Youth Championship Private Parties Harbor Springs

2 3 4 5 6 7 Commodore’s8 Harbor Springs Bayshore Laser & Opti Melges 20/JY15 Roast Party Regatta Summer Series Racing Racing Commodore’s Cup Family Carnival 9 Laser & Opti 10 11 12 13 Verve Cup 14 Verve Cup 15 Scavenger Hunt Racing MBJYC Bayshore Chicago Chicago Summer Series Commodore’s Cup 420 Nationals 420 Nationals 420 Nationals 16 17 18 19 20 21 VanderLeek 22 Verve Cup Hospice Regatta Bayshore Chicago Windscoop Laser & Opti VanderLeek Party Summer Series Racing 420 Nationals Copy Due Melges 20 Nationals Melges 20 Nationals 23 24 25 26 27Stock Holders 28 29 Meeting Bayshore Laser & Opti Melges 20/JY 15 MBYC Series #5 Summer Series Racing Melges 20 Nationals Racing Commodores’ Ball 30 31

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MACATAWA BAY YACHT CLUB • 2157 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE • MACATAWA, MI 49434 • 616-335-5815

MACATAWA BAY YACHT CLUB • 2157 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE • MACATAWA, MI 49434 • 616-335-5815 1 COMMODORE’S REPORT Our club is a truly amazing caring stewardship. Mike Hill “re-upped” after 3 years on group of people. If you our Board to help keep the Board organized and “on-task” as think about our annual our Secretary. cycle, the first 90 days of the year we’re in Your Board of Directors: A special thank you to all of our “hibernation.” Many of Board members: Dave Sligh, Jr, Lisa Ruoff, Tom Slanec, Jack our members are physically Knoblauch, Mitch Padnos, Joel Krissoff and Beth Egge. Board (and for the most part, participation this year involved extra meetings and extra work. “mentally”) removed from We’ve spent the year focused on the future of the club, and the club. In the next 90 members will begin to see some of our results in the coming days, we shake off the months. torpor of the winter and begin to see signs of activity at the club. During this period Event Sponsors: Our club is all about events. Sailing events. our challenge is meeting the needs of “early bird” members Social Events. Kid’s Events. The following members made with restricted staff and resources. sure that an ambitious schedule took place in fine fashion: Michelle Dolle, Mary Jo DeJong, Jay Mitchell, Jack The next 90 days “hit” with the force of a Lake Michigan line Knoblauch, Linda Knoblauch, Martha Walker, Pat Walker, squall. House and Restaurant, Pool, Docks and Grounds, Banba Donnelly, Crystal Helbing, Annie VanTol, Janet Racing, Junior Sailing, Social Events and Junior Yacht Club Standish, Bob Standish, Mitch Padnos, Karen Padnos, Dave are all working at, or above, capacity. After the squall abates, Sligh Jr., Rachel Sligh, Mike Hill, Colleen Hill, Jim Lilly, Sara we enter the final 90 days of the year, scaling down the club Garlow-Lilly, Gwen Post, Rod Schmidt, Joanne Schmidt, Tom while meeting the needs of the members still present, and Slanec, Coreen Slanec, Nancy Andreano, Larry Andreano, preparing the club for the winter and the start of the next Mike Kiss, Tovi Kiss, Steve Sisson, Larry D’Haem, Lenore season. D’Haem, Janet Magennis, Steve Magennis, JD Stone, Dick Becker, Dave Sligh Sr. As your Commodore, I’ve been able to watch this entire process for 3 seasons, and have now experienced being at the Club Communications: Our club’s “central nervous system” helm during the height of the “summer squall”. I’m proud of is our Wind Scoop and Webscoop. I was recently approached the job that our club has done this year, and thankful for the by another club asking “who have you hired to do your efforts that all members of our “crew” have put into making newsletter and website?” They were amazed that these this a great year. At the risk of overlooking someone, I’d like professional publications were produced in-house, by to make special notice of the following contributors. volunteers. Congratulations and tremendous thanks to Jon Bontekoe and Bob Standish for their special contribution to Professional Staff: Marilyn Baker, Jim Ruehle, Doug Knapp, the life of our club. Irena Miller, Lance Baker, and their teams have the difficult job of anticipating member’s needs, wants, and delights while In closing, please help me recognize the contribution of Anne all the while reacting to sudden changes in plans (Storm of Gamache to the life of our club. Not only has Anne the Century? No problem! Extra participants for an event? contributed directly through her work in the Nauti Shop, No problem!) In fact, “no problem” seemed to be the theme Social Committee, and as the author of our email “blasts”, of the summer. flyers and table tents, but as many of you may know, she’s also needed to pick up a number of my duties in our business, to Flag Officers: You are not Commodore alone. Paul Brown, make time available for me to “play Commodore”. The old Bob DeJong and John Donnelly have been constantly axiom of “behind every successful man…” was never more available, responsible for their respective areas, and more true than in my case. importantly, providing good counsel along the way. I also need to recognize Past Commodores David Sligh and John Fall is a great time of year at our club – I look forward to Stephenson for their continued council and encouragement. seeing you at our Club! Larry D’Haem has performed as Treasurer with grace and Roger Gamache 2 MMM acatawa Bayayay Friday, September 4th to September 7th LABOR DAY WEEKEND Saturday Nite– End of Summer Blast for the Family 5:00-8:00pm YYY acht Club Sunday –

Commodore Roger Gamache MBYC Jr. Yacht – Hobo Bon Fire Vice Commodore Bob DeJong Rear Commodore John Donnelly Monday – Board of Directors Our Traditional Labor Day Breakfast 8:00 -10:00 AM Immediate Past Commodore: Paul Brown Treasurer Larry D’Haem Junior Sailing Awards Immediately after! Secretary Michael Hill Director Beth Egge Director Jack Knoblauch Sunday, September 13th Director Tom Slanec Director Lisa Ruoff THE RENDEVOUS Director Joel Krissoff Director Mitchell Padnos Join the fun down in Pine Creek Bay (3:00 - 6:00 pm) Director David Sligh, Jr. Hosted by our new 2009 – 2010 Judge Advocate JD Stone Management Commodore Robert De Jong General Manager Marilyn Baker and Commodorable Mary Jo De Jong. Executive Chef Jim Ruehle Dining Room Manager Irena Miller Bring an appetizer to pass Outside Manager Douglas Knapp **** Wind Scoop Editor Jon Bontekoe Saturday, September 19th Web Scoop Bob Standish WHINE PARTY www.mbyc.com Thursday September 17th to September 20th 7.9 NATIONALS

DOWN THE RACE COURSE Saturday, October 17th AWARDS DINNER and CHANGE OF WATCH Friday, October 30th FAMILY HALLOWEEN PARTY Sunday, December 13th HOLIDAY BRUNCH Friday, December 18th ALL MEMBER HOLIDAY

COCKTAIL PARTY Rod & Jo Schmidt hosting

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M20 from Italy

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4 Drumbeat & Capricious VanderLeek sailed in big reaching winds, rain, & dark skies The third annual VanderLeek Cup Hospice Regatta was held on Saturday, August 22 under what could be best described as a typical October day. With 6 to 8 foot waves on Lake Michigan, the Race Committee wisely set up a course on Lake Macatawa. The course took the fleet east 3.5 miles to the R-14 can and back to the start/finish line in front of the Club. Of the twenty boats entered fifteen took on the challenging conditions of continuous wind shifts and velocity changes.

The top three finishers in each division were: Spinnaker 1: 1. Drumbeat (Etheridge). 2. Delta (Dalton DeVos). 3. Capricious (Knoblauch). Spinnaker 2: 1. Hot Tamale. 2. Second Wind (Bergman). 3. Hot Tuna (Louis Padnos). Jib & Main: 1. Kaboom. 2. Shillelagh (Malone). Comfort Cruisers: 1. Talaria (Slanec). 2. Bearly Movin’ (Rouff). 3. Seranata (DeJong).

The crew of the overall winner in the Spinnaker Division, Drumbeat, will be invited to compete in the Hospice Regatta’s National Championship next M20 June in Rochester, New York. New this year are trophies awarded to skippers and crews that contributed additional funds to Hospice. Scored separately, corrected times were adjusted 1.5 seconds per mile The VanderLeek and Melges 20 for every $100 donated. The winners are: Regattas were sailed on the 1: Drumbeat, Hot Tamale, Shillelagh, same day in very blustery and Talaria. Once again a special thank-you cloudy conditions. The Melges goes to Barb Gamache and her race 20s were sailed on the big lake committee, David Sligh Sr., mark set but the friendly VanderLeek Re- boat and Jack Knoblauch, registration gatta stuck to Lake Mac. Our and scoring. Thank-you too to all the pictures show the dark skies, skippers, crews, individuals and misty views, and challenging businesses that contributed over $15,000 sailing experienced by both re- to the Hospice of Holland Tulip Tree gattas. All photos were taken by Fund. From all reports and smiles a great cooperative professional pho- time was had by all competitors. We can tographers: Scott Diamond DeVos’ Melges only wonder what next year’s weather (Melges), Cliff Williams and An- 32 will bring……..Snow? Tom Slanec gela Lynch (VdLeek). 5 Family Carnival & Pool Olympics - Two great summer days of fun!

6 Pool Olympics & Carnival Pictures by Dan Mitchell & Jon Bontekoe 7 Commodore’s Cup Sufficient Reason

Hiestand’s Gauntlet

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Capricious 8 MBJA report Our summer season ended Friday August 7 after a HIGHLY successful season. Congratulations and many thanks to our instructors and helpers Casey Ray, Shari MacDonald, Jonathon Kladder, Genni Perry, Alex Post, Jay Mitchell, Lexi Petter, and Anthony Norris for your daily hard work and for sharing your love of sailing with the future sailors of our club. Despite a slow start in attendance, we finished with strong numbers in the last two sessions, including our biggest 4th session in recent memory. We look to 2010, and continue growing our program. Drumbeat We hosted the second annual West Michigan Youth Sailing Association (WMYSA) Championship regatta on Saturday August 1, during one of our semi- frequent rainstorm and 25 + mph wind days of the summer. Although we stayed on Lake Mac, we were only able to get two races in on the three courses because of the high, shifty winds. On shore, we had tired kids with huge, happy smiles. I am so proud of our Team Mac, who won the season team competition for the second year in a row. Check out our BEAUTIFUL crystal trophy in the club trophy case! MBJA fleet winners were Graham Post (Opti), Jay Mitchell (Laser) and Michael Calistri & Ryan Tutton (420’s). Way to go! Thinschmidt’s We also had steady participation in our adult Tyrant & Fleet learn to sail JY-15 classes on Tuesday nights. Next year we will be adding a Learn to Race MBYC volunteer photographers session as well to enhance our adult racing program. are available almost anytime to take a new family or individual Looking ahead to October, we will be photo for the Logbook. Your flag hosting the Junior Olympic Regatta on officers would love to have all October 10 & 11. Weather permitting, we families pictured in the 2010 will be using Lake Michigan for the Laser, Logbook member photo sec- 420 and Opti Red/White/Blue and Lake tion. Photographers are willing to Mac for the Opti Green course. We will take photos anywhere on club need volunteers for race and safety committees, as well as help with registration. The Wind Scoop cover photo was taken property or on your boat, during Do you have a power boat that we could by Doug Slade during MBYC’s August club events or just when you use for the weekend? Maybe you would be 8 Commodore’s Cup regatta. Pictured happen to be here. You can call interested in driving it for a race committee is Ted Ethridge’s Melges 32 Drumbeat one up to make arrangements member? We will make sure that lunch is reaching at the windward mark in strong or just ask them if you happen provided for you. Please let Marie or Steve windy conditions and closely pursued by to see them at the club. Volun- know if you (and/or your boat) are available! Tyrant. Your Wind Scoop is always look- teering to take your picture are We greatly appreciate all of your help! Many thanks to all of the parents, families and ing for photos taken by members. Please Annie VanTol, Doug Slade, Ed friends that have supported our program submit your club photos to Wind Scoop Kita, or editor Jon Bontekoe. We’ll even email you a copy of this summer! editor Jon Bontekoe at: See you on the water! Marie Mell [email protected] the picture! 9 REAR COMMODORE’S REPORT The summer racing season M20 NATIONALS is ending with a crescendo of activity for MBYC The first Melges 20 Nationals were held at MBYC from August sailors. Here are the 21-23. An unususal weather system led to high winds and highlights. cool temps for the outset of the regatta. Thursday saw a few crews head to Lake Michigan for practice, but high winds COMMODORE’S CUP saw a boat break its rudder in Lake Michigan. Friday was to be the first day of racing, but winds were above the class ceiling Saturday’s racing was of 23 kts, so racing was canceled. Saturday was windy with scrubbed due to morning steep waves, and three races took place. Sunday was very light thunderstorms, but it was and one race was completed. Eric Wynsma from Grand Rapids a beautiful and breezy day for racing on Sunday and two races YC finished first with JP Del Solar Goldsmith and Wally Cross were completed in all three classes. The top three finishers in as crew. Marc Hollerbach from Bayview YC was second and large boat PHRF were: Capricious, Drumbeat and Gauntlet. John Arendshorst was the top MBYC boat with Eric Ash and The top three finishers in small boat PHRF were: Second Dani Gamache as crew. Two teams from Italy competed and Wind, and Muskegon YC boats Trim and Rampage. Three a few local teams hope to travel next year to race M20s in MYC boats were in the top three in the S2 9.1 class. Overall Italy. The new fleet is off to a great start and next year’s nationals winners for the Commodore’s Cup trophy were Capricious will be held on Lake Geneva. and Second Wind. VANDERLEEK CUP 420 NORTH AMERICAN’S High winds kept the charity fundraiser Vanderleek Cup racers Fifty-six teams from all over North America converged on off of Lake Michigan on August 22, but a successful race was MBYC in mid-August for four days of exciting and close held on Lake Mac. The fleet of 15 boats raced to Kollen Park competition. Racers from as far as California, Florida, and and back with gusty winds and rain squalls. Drumbeat Nova Scotia took part in our first ever major 420 event. The (Etheridge) was the top boat in Spin 1, the 7.9 Hot Tamale weather was outstanding - sunny with moderate breezes - and (Vanderveen) was first in Spi 2, Kaboom (O’Keefe) won Main three races were completed on each of the four race days. The and Jib, while Talaria (Slanec) was victorious in Comfort top five finishers were: 1st Taylor Canfield (Boston College/ Cruiser. Congrats to the Slanecs for leading the organizing 2009 Sailing honorable mention All-American), 2nd Marlena effort again this year! Fauer (New York City), 3rd Deidre Lambert (Portland, Maine), 4th Shone Bowman (San Diego), 5th Connor Brady MBYC YOUTH : WORLD COMPETITION SAILORS (Hilton Head, SC). Five MBYC boats took part with top finishers Sam Padnos in 16th and Alex Post 22nd. A special A number of MBYC sailors have been traveling and competing thanks is owed to Mitch and Karen Padnos who led the against the best in Europe and Japan this summer. Mitchell organizing committee for the regatta. MBYC received a great Kiss and Alex Post competed in the Laser Radial Youth World deal of positive feedback from competitors and parents. Championship in Japan in early August. Mitchell qualified for the gold fleet and Alex finished near the top of the silver LAKE MICHIGAN PHRF RACING fleet. Louis Padnos and Morgan Kiss have been competing against the top Intl 420 sailors in races in Italy and Hungary The Verve Cup regatta was held in Chicago in mid-August. since late July. In the European Youth Champs, Louis qualified Standout results by MBYC boats were achieved by the two for the gold fleet while Morgan finished 1st in the silver fleet. DeVos M32s which finished 1st and 2nd in PHRF 3. The The Norris family moved to the Phoenix area three years ago, Clipper Cup is held also in mid-August and is a race across but they have returned during the summer and have remained Lake Michigan from Muskegon to Port Washington. Rod Van active MBYC members. The stay in the desert has not hurt Tol and Bill Ruoff were divisional winners while Rod was the the sailing expertise of Phillip Norris. He finished 5th of 61 overall winner. Congratulations to all who participated! In in the highly competitive Laser Radial fleet at the Buzzard’s the July Hook Race from Racine Wisconsin to Sturgeon Bay, Bay regatta in early August. Steve Magennis’ Alchemist took 3rd in its division, and 13th overall. John Donnelly 10 420 National Regatta

420 Photos by Doug Slade and www.layline.photoreflect.com See & buy online - Layline pho- professional Scott Diamond of [email protected] tos of Melges 20 and 420 regat- Layline Photography 773-368-3094 tas. 11 MBYC Post-it Note Main Events in September Sept 5 End of Summer Blast Sept 6 MBJYC Hobo Bon Fire Sept 7 MBJYC Breakfast & Elections Sept 13 Rendezvous Sept 19 Whine Party SSEPTEMBER E P T E M B E R 2009 Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Race Events 1 2 3 4 Governor’s Cup5 Social Events M20/JY 15 End of Summer Private Parties Racing Blast Party Laser/Opti 6 Labor Day 7 8 9 10 11 12 Governor’s Cup MBJYC Breakfast Bayshore MBJYC Hobo MBJYC Elections Fall Series Anchorage Cup Bon Fire Junior Sailing Awards 13 14 15 16 17 18 S2 7.9 19 Nationals Bayshore Summer’s End S2 7.9 Nationals S2 7.9 Nationals Rendezvous Fall Series Whine Party 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Windscoop Bayshore Bayshore Frostbite Copy Due Fall Series & Awards 27 28 29 30 31

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MACATAWA BAY YACHT CLUB • 2157 SOUTH SHORE DRIVE • MACATAWA, MI 49434 • 616-335-5815 1 COMMODORE’S REPORT It is with some sadness that the next 10 years. Who will replace members who retire and I’m writing my last column. relocate? One opportunity could be to increase recruitment Writing for the Wind Scoop of younger members through a focus on sailing smaller boats. was one of the surprises of We already have a number of advantages in executing this my past 3 years. What strategy. We are blessed with a very versatile location, offering started as a bit of chore has both lake and “blue water” sailing. We have a substantial drysail become an opportunity area, well equipped with launching ramps and hoists. that I approach with However, there are a couple of “pieces” missing. anticipation each month. And, I’ve been encouraged First, we need to devote management time and talent to this by the positive feedback issue. We once were a club where volunteers mowed the grass. I’ve received over the years. However, as the size and complexity of the task grew, it made Thank you all for your comments and friendly corrections. sense to have some professional assistance. The same thing is true for our sailing program. It appears that we’ve taken the For my last column, I’d like to comment on two apparently program to the logical limits of a purely volunteer organization. unrelated topics. My first topic relates to the role of A properly designed and compensated “sailing manager” Commodore. One of the aspects of our Club that I’ve come position would allow our volunteer-members more time to to appreciate is the diversity of interests represented by our participate in events with somewhat less time spent in critical, members. Each of us has a specific set of reasons for choosing time consuming administrative functions. However, the role MBYC. For some, it is the availability of the pool. For others, of “sailing manager” doesn’t make sense for a “90 day” club. it is the availability of attractive, secure dockage. For some members, it is our restaurant and social schedule. For other Second, we would need to have a location that could offer members, it’s our active racing schedule. Personally, my reason sailing 7-8 months per year. Small boats, sailed with is that we race sailboats. As I’ve thought about this, without appropriate clothing, are sailed in similar venues from April our active racing program, my passion for sailboat racing would through November. Our barrier is that our facility is not have taken me (and my family) to some other club. That organized to support this type of activity. To make this activity having been said, the process of becoming Commodore causes attractive, we’d need to have proper locker room facilities to one to set aside your personal interests and become a leader put on, take off, and store gear. And, it would assume that for the entire Club. As Commodore, I’ve been called on to the club would be open (at an appropriate scale and cost) to solve problems for all aspects our Club. Many times the issue support the social, après sailing activity. is balancing one aspect of Club life against another. It’s a challenging job, and I’ve found Stephen Covey’s admonition The result of a thoughtful development of our remaining “Seek first to Understand” very useful in the process. I hope “fallow” asset would be a vibrant, attractive club that would that one of the contributions that I’ve made to life of our club be a magnet for sailors throughout Western Michigan. is that each member feels that their particular interests have been seriously considered during the past year. In conclusion, I realize that the analysis above will not immediately appeal to a number of our member segments. My second topic relates to the future of the Club. We have a However, I invite you to “think like a Commodore” and join challenge, and a related opportunity. The future challenge me in the next step in the development of our club. for our Club is the continual aging of our membership. To be fair, this is a problem facing all clubs, churches, and other See you at the Club! social institutions. However, the demographic shift caused Roger Gamache by an aging “boomer” group will be the ongoing challenge in

Calling all MBYC Melges 20 Sailors: sist the 110 Class and your Club run a first class Your recent National Championship event was event. I would appreciate an initial indication of significantly supported by 5 sailors from the 110 your support by October 17. It just seems that if Class. Those sailors now need your help to run each class understands that its both give and their 2010 National Championship in August. take, we'll have a much easier time generating Please consider how you and your fleet can as- race management staff. rg 2 M acatawa Bay

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Commodore Roger Gamache Vice Commodore Bob DeJong Rear Commodore John Donnelly Board of Directors Immediate Past Commodore: Paul Brown Treasurer Larry D’Haem Secretary Michael Hill Director Beth Egge Director Jack Knoblauch Director Tom Slanec Director Lisa Ruoff Director Joel Krissoff Director Mitchell Padnos Director David Sligh, Jr. Judge Advocate JD Stone Management General Manager Marilyn Baker Executive Chef Jim Ruehle Dining Room Manager Irena Miller Outside Manager Douglas Knapp **** Wind Scoop Editor Jon Bontekoe Web Scoop Bob Standish www.mbyc.com

Cover Photo The photo on the cover this month Mackinac Race Yacht Club Challenge REMINDER TO MEMBERS shows Tom Slanec’s Talaria sailing to a FOR CHANGE OF ADDRESS first place division win in the Anchor- For the first time in the history of the Members who have two addresses age Cup. Photo by professional photog- Chicago to Mackinac Race, there was an should inform the club when they rapher Paige Beard. Please submit pho- opportunity for clubs who have 5 or move to an alternate home. We save tos to Wind Scoop editor Jon Bontekoe more entries into the race to compete a lot of money sending the Wind ([email protected]). The Wind for “Best Club” status. Points for each Scoop with ‘standard’ class mail, but Scoop is always looking and hoping for club were determined by averaging the member photo submission by email, the post office will not forward mail divisional placing of each of the boats with less than first class postage. CD, thumbdrive, etc. racing for a specific club. This year, 12 Please send your updated address to clubs competed. The winning club was the Grand Traverse Bay Yacht Club. the club and/or to MBYC came in 5th, tied with Milwaukee [email protected]. Tell us Yacht Club. Congratulations to our your alternate address and which Mackinac Race sailors! dates mail should be sent there. 3 VICE COMMODORE’S REPORT By the time you read this (Puffin) Van Dyke. Dredging issues were handled efficiently report, most of the boat and economically –even with our second annual “one hundred slips will have been year” flood; and our parking lot was patched to give us a few emptied, the boats hauled, more years of service. and final winterization of boats and cottages well Annie Gamache and Linda Knoblauch handled the Nauti under way, if not Shop responsibilities of ordering, displaying, promoting, and completed. But what a selling with great dedication. While still in the trial stages, September it has been!! Nauti Shop added direct on-line shopping with MBYC logo- Record setting consecutive wear with Line One. (You early bird Christmas shoppers days of sunshine, summer should remember this when you begin Christmas shopping!— like temperatures, and great great gift ideas from the convenience of your own computer. cool sleeping nights. It almost makes up for the eleven Remember it is linked from mbyc.com.) consecutive Saturdays with measurable rain this summer. And, as most of you know, the folks who really make it all It is difficult to believe that this is already my last report as come together are our General Manager, Marilyn Baker, Vice-Commodore. But that seems to be a common theme Executive Chef Jim Ruehle, Irena Miller, Restaurant Manager, for those who have accepted the opportunity to serve the Club and Doug Knapp, Dock and Grounds Manager and their in one capacity or another. Frequently, past commodores will respective teams. encourage me to enjoy the experience as much as one can because before you know it, one is past-commodore. I know Thank you to each of you for making this a “job” where the that Commodore Gamache can vouch for that. time flies.

But the sweet message underneath this fleeting time syndrome Between this report and the next report, another change of is this: serving the Club is a lot more enjoyable than it is watch will have occurred and I will begin trying to fill the work. And it is all of you who make the experience such a shoes of those who have served so well as Commodore over joy!! I have already had two years of teaming up with a great so many years. I only have to walk around the Commodore’s board and bridge and with great committees. room to look at my predecessors to be awed, if not a bit intimidated. But my confidence comes from all of you who You should know that your house committee was well served have been so generous and supportive in offering your support this year by Co-chair Lisa Ruoff and my wife, Mary Jo, and for 2010—our 111th Anniversary. So thank you, fellow their members, Michelle Dolle, Maggie Greydanus, Mary Jane members, in making this yacht club THE place to be. Schoenherr, and Rod Van Tol. Coordinating and supporting our General Manager and Executive Chef with ideas, I look forward to working with our new Rear-Commodore suggestions and feedback, the House Committee has helped Jack Knoblaugh new Treasurer Tom Stanley, and other new to identify and share your ideas on how to provide great board members Eric Ash, Scott Bernecker, Robert Malone, member value. Robert Standish, as well as Vice Commodore John Donnelly, and returning board members Beth Egge, Lisa Ruoff and Tom You should also know that Docks and Grounds Committee Slanec. also ably handled by Chairperson David A. Sligh (Jr.) and his committee Rod Schmidt, Peter Schwarz, and Catharine Bob DeJong

Pictures Opposite: A Annie VanTol, Karen Nagelkirk, Jack Kunze. B Bill Ruoff, Rod VanTol, Annie VanTol, Paul & Mary Jane Schoenherr C Janet & Steve Magennis, Jo Schmidt, Kathy Cusimano, Janet & Bob Standish. D Clark Weersing & Cotter Tharin.

4 Whine Party mourns the end of summer with too much joy and some wine. Lots of friends wearing name tags without needing them shows MBYC’s reaching out to new friends and old. Oh - there were great hors d’oeuvres too. Photos by Ed Kita.

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SEPTEMBER BOARD MEETING HIGHLIGHTS On September 21, 2009, chairing his Reports received: Financial report years, the loan will be nearly paid off at final meeting as Commodore, Roger showing increased restaurant and bar sales the end of the next term. Gamache welcomed incoming members over last year and a fine job of our General of the board (noted in Vice Commodore’s Manager and Executive Chef holding on The board approved a contract with Bill report), and thanked outgoing Treasurer costs. Banquet reports on two September Monhollon Builders, Inc. to upgrade the Larry D’Haem and members Joel weddings resulting in high accolades for House bathrooms to barrier free for Krissoff, Mitchell Padnos, and Dave extraordinary food and service. $11,608 with work to be completed over Sligh. Thanking Immediate Past the winter. Approved two new Commodore Paul Brown, it was noted Actions taken: The Board approved a member applications: Andy and Amy that one of Paul’s children was four years new five year mortgage in the amount of Dailey, and Ronalynn Sisson. Gave old when Paul came to the Board and she $349,275 at 6.7% fixed interest with conditional approval for adding link from is now in the sixth grade—a confirmation Bank of Holland that continues to Webscoop to Hunter Ratliff’s website of many years of service to the Club. amortize at about the same rate as we have used for his Olympic campaign (see Rear been reducing our loan balance. Without Commodore’s report). rdj additional borrowing over the next five 5 A Commodores’ Ball

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Commodores’ Ball 2009 We must have had a great time at this year’s Ball. Largest attendance ever, at least in Marilyn’s memory, $3000 worth of wine consumed, and smiles on everyone’s faces. Photos by Annie VanTol, Ed Kita, Jon Bontekoe, Lisa Ruoff, and Lance Baker. A Former commodores and spouses B 2009 ice sculpture C Commodore Roger Gamache, Annie Gamache, their guests Bayshore YC Commodore Cyndie Hartman and James Hartman. D Helen Ash, Claudia Scharlow, Josie D Cheney, Karen Padnos, Kathy Keegin 6 E F

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E Clark & Shirley Weersing, Jack & Helen Smith. F Don & Barbara Thinschmidt. G Ben Jangula, Seymour Padnos, Kathy Day, & Suzy Vedovel H Commodore Kathy Getz, Mary Devries, Commodore John Getz, Bob Hayes, Kathy Tripp, Charlie Devries. J Commodore Roger Gamache welcomes us all. K Dotty McManus, Annie VanTol, & H Brian McManus. L Bob Nepstad, Jack Kunze, Paula Mutrynowski. 7 S2 7.9 Nationals

A note on photography raphers Scott Diamond, Cliff Williams, An- This edition of the Wind Scoop again fea- gela Lynch, and Paige Beard of E tures great pictures thanks to MBYC’s many ImagesByPaige.com (including this months supporting photographers. Our greatest cover). Many members have complimented appeciation goes to Doug Slade whose con- your Wind Scoop editor but it’s really the stant presence on his markset boat Tatoo with photographers who deserve your thanks. jb camera in hand has supplied us with hun- A Second Wind (Bergmans) dreds of pictures for two years now. His pho- B Scott Derby’s first place finisher tos dominate the S2 regatta photos on this SMAC’D. page as well as dozens of picture stories in C Spike Bostons crew with Gamache many issues again this year. But MBYC’s X 2. 2009 photo coverage also featured regattas C Mike Sewart’s Scirroco leads a spin run. with professional photographers out on the D Doug & Jeff Padnos’ K2. water. All of these pros made their photos E Doug Slade works his magic with available at no cost to your club’s publica- the wind and with a new camera. tions. Many thanks to professional photog- 8 Anchorage Cup

Anchorage Cup results The Anchorage Cup, after a nearly wind- ond Wind (Bergman) took second in less start for the first two divisions, was their respective divisions, with Tyrant sailed in perfect temperatures and per- (Thinschmidt) taking a third. Overall fect 7 to 12 knot winds out of the North- Willie J placed second in fleet. jb west allowing spinnaker runs throughout Top photo on this page showing the the whole race. It is a straight-line race wide range of Anchorage Cup spinna- from Grand Haven to Holland raced the kers taken by Paige Beard sailing with Saturday after Labor Day. MBYC racers her sister Lisa Ruoff on Bealy Movin’. Be- participated in large numbers and won low right is MBYC spinnaker participant many top honors. Tom Slanec’s Talaria Ben Jangula on Premier Cru. (Photo by took first in the Spin 5 division. Willie J Paige). Steve Magennis’ Alchimist flies its spinnaker, and on the bottom a spin (Petter), Alchemist (Magennis), and Sec- run, both photographed by Tom Slanec. 9 Pine Creek Bay Rendezvous and End of

10 Summer Bash top off 2 big weekends

Photos by Jon Bontekoe except top left by Ed Kita. 11 Labor Day Weekend: Kids’ Bon Fire,

Photos by Dan Mitchell & Jon Bontekoe 12 Breakfast and Sailing Awards

Youth Sailing Awards & Junior Olympics report As the summer winds down, we are headed Travis Aiken Award for overall sailing into one of our biggest events of the year… competition, improvement and promotion the Junior Olympic Regatta, to be hosted by of our sport. They join the company of some our club October 10 and 11. Hopefully this of our club’s greatest adult sailors, and not wonderful fall weather will hold and will be surprisingly many of which have taken on as great for our junior sailors! If we haven’t leadership roles at MBYC, including already contacted you and you are interested Commodore. CONGRATULATIONS to in helping, please get in touch with Marie these two outstanding youths! Mell or Steve Sisson. The more adults, the better! Many congratulations to Matthew If you have an extra space in your garage or Greydanus and Caroline Sisson! At the storage area, we are looking for space for summer awards program Labor Day some of our power boats and JY-15’s and weekend these two enthusiastic junior sailors 420’s for the winter. Please let us know if received two of the highest club honors you are able to donate some space to help us available. Matthew received the save storage costs. Commodore’s Award for Good Sportsmanship and Caroline received the See you on the water! Marie Mell.

13 REAR COMMODORE’S REPORT Hunter is competing in an Olympic class - the 470, and his S2 7.9 NATIONALS goal is to represent the US in either the 2012 or 2016 Olympics. The 470 is a specialist boat drawing primarily sailors While the interest in some pursuing Olympic spots. Thus the competition is high, but fleets rises and falls, the the number of competitors in the US is limited. The highest activity of the 7.9 class has level of racing occurs each summer in Europe. Hunter’s crew/ remained strong at MBYC partner in the campaign is Chris Williams from Chicago. since racing started in 1982. The Nationals were Hunter and Chris finished tied for second with Brendan Kopp held at MBYC from - previously a top 420 sailor -in a six boat fleet at the 470 September 17-19 this year. Atlantic Coast Championships in Connecticut in August. The The glorious weather that winner of this event was Erin Maxwell and Isabelle Kinsolving began at the beginning of the month continued through the - 2008 470 Women’s World Champs. regatta with sunny skies and light to moderate winds. MBYC provided 6 of the 23 boats with skippers Jeff/Doug Padnos, A major stumbling block for most Olympic campaigns is Don/Jean Bergman, Peter Schwarz, Mike Stewart, Scott Derby fundraising. Travelling to regattas and utilizing coaches, and Eric Bert. paricularly overseas, requires a substantial budget. Hunter is pursuing help for his campaign. You can learn more about Jeff and Doug Padnos opened with two bullets in Thursday the Hunter and Chris campaign by visiting their website: racing with long time class champion Spike Boston from Sarnia www.RWin470.org. Yacht Club second in both races. Commodore Gamache and daughter Dani were onboard with Spike. Friday’s races saw Good luck to Hunter and Chris from your friends at MBYC! some big wind shifts upwind and Jeff/Doug scored an 8 and 5 while Spike scored a 15 and 1. Thus the stage was set for a THANKS TO OUR VOLUNTEERS Saturday showdown when a throw-out would kick-in if two more races were completed. A great season of racing is coming to a close. There has been a long list of volunteers who have made this season possible. I Jeff and Doug won Saturday’s first race giving them three would like to recognize the most active ones. bullets in five races. Spike was third. Going into the regatta’s last race, after a throw-out, Jeff and Doug had eight points We are very fortunate to have an outstanding PRO - Barb and Spike also had eight. As long as they finished in the top Gamache - to orchestrate our race committee efforts. She third of the fleet, whoever beat the other would win - match brings a high level of knowledge and expertise to our racing. race conditions. Spike finished 4th and Jeff/Doug were 5th. Doug Slade did yeoman’s service with windward marksetting and wind checking all year. JD Stone provided extensive pinset Spike Boston is the 2009 S2 7.9 national champ, Jeff/Doug and judging support. Jack and Linda Knoblauch, when not Padnos finished second, Paul LaTour from Nashville was 3rd racing Capricious, were always available for support on and Don/Jean Bergman were 4th. Recovery and organizing the RC tools onshore. Bill Vandenberg, Roger Gamache, Charlie Mawby, Janet Congratulations to regatta chair Scott Derby and all the Magennis, Dick Becker filled in numerous times. volunteers who made this another great sailing and social event in this very active year at MBYC. Thanks very much to all who made this a great year for racing at MBYC! HUNTER RATLIFF OLYMPIC CAMPAIGN John Donnelly Hunter Ratliff has a passion for high performance sailboat racing. Hunter, age 25, is the son of Steve (1996 Commodore) and Kathy Ratliff. Hunter is the head sailing coach at Lake Forest Sailing. 14 Wed nite racing

There is a lot of beauty when you’re on a race boat in the fall. Tom VanTol, Mary Bontekoe, and pro photographer Mark O’Brien found opportunities for great sunsets. Thanks for submitting them. 15 Club Social Events MBYC Post-it Note Saturday, October 17: Change of Watch/ Sailing Awards Dinner Friday, Oct 30: Halloween Party

Sunday December 13: Holiday Brunch Friday, December 18: Holiday Cocktail Party OOC C TTOBER O B E R 2009 Sun.Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Race Events 1 2 3 Social Events Private Parties 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Junior Olympics Laser Fall Series Regatta 11 12 13 14 15 16 Change of Watch 17 & Sailing Awards Junior Olympics Dinner. Regatta Reservations Required 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Windscoop Laser Fall Series Copy Due 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Laser Fall Series Halloween Party 16