Volume 40 Issue 6 US Junior Women’s Double-handed June 2007 Championship for the Ida Lewis Trophy

Ship to Shore Communica- tions-man the radio at the club. In addition, we will need t- shirt sellers, goody-bag stuffers, ticket takers, etc.

• Suzana Williams will be the official photographer for the event and will work with U.S. to upload photos to their website every day.

• Hew Hamilton will be the Boatyard & Dock man- ager for the 420s and re- lated equipment and will be working daily with the Vanguard rep, Josh Toso. I’m UPDATE - As we get closer to this • Power Boat Maintenance – sure he will need a hand or event ( Junior Women’s Double- check daily for minor repairs, re- two! handed Championship for the Ida fuel. Vaughan Sollberger and Lewis Trophy), more and more Chuck Wyllie will handle Cash Stewart Williams will head this members are stepping up to volun- Management/Sales. team. teer various services. I’ve men- Some of our members have tioned some of you below; please • Registration Desk-open Thurs- already signed up for various confirm availability with me by e- day, July 5 – Pat Ross & Karen activities (Snoann Jones, Barry mail Reisch. Pierce, Tom Quinlan, Mary ([email protected]). Patterson, Gail Ledet, Erin We will need help with the many • Information Desk/Message Powel, Nancy Wyllie, Gary activities associated with this 6 day Center – to be manned all day, Thorson, our Board, et al, but event although actual racing will each day. we will need as much assis- only take place on Sunday, July 8, tance as possible. Please con- Monday, July 9, and Tuesday, July • Menu Planning/Food Prep/ tact the coordinators directly if June 2007 10. Serving – Pat Brinks & Leigh you are available to help in

Wanless. their specific area, or contact • 420 Launching – help the com- the event chairs – Janet Miller- petitors get boats in/out of the water • HOUSING CHAPERONES – Schmidt janetmiller- 4 women per night for 6 nights to [email protected], and me, • Race Committee – needed for stay with the competitors at the [email protected], Sunday/Monday/Tuesday July 8-10. dorms in Fountainbleau State Park to indicate your interest. The PRO (Jim Tichenor) & Judges have been selected by U.S.Sailing. • Housing Coordinator-keep

PONTCHARTRAIN YACHT CLUB track of who is staying where, in- SPONSORSHIPS are available cluding judges, race officials, na- • Loaner Boats – we will need to – please call me for additional tional chairs, etc. borrow some small scats for safety information if your company boats (7), (which can double as would like to contribute cash coach boats), judge’s boats, specta- • Transportation – need large vehicles for airport runs on Thurs- or product in exchange for tor boats, pin end, set, and so event signage, program adver- on. Stewart Williams has arranged day, July 5 or as needed. Bev Toebben and Celeste Thorson are tisement, and local media ex- for a 42’ cabin cruiser to serve as a posure. spectator boat; Bill Evans also has coordinators. 4 boats or various size that he will Janie Eshleman • Scoring-to be done by U.S. loan to the club. Sailing (Chris Luppens); will need (985) 264-2727 The Chart assistance. Commodore’s Corner

By the time you read this, our new club- ready made window/door protectors] ommended by the tech. we will apply a house will be 99% complete; Spartan will special lubricant to the chain in order to have left the site and our noble volunteers b] transferring boats from dry storage reduce the "grinding" sound while lifting will continue on with the finishing work, hoist-side to club-side under heavy load. bridging the financial gap between the building we wanted and the one we could c] transporting our dinghies to higher and afford. safer ground SMALL WOODEN BOAT Sail Camp 1st session will be well under With respect to [c] if any of you are able Will whoever owns the 16" [approx.] red way and similar to all the other sessions, is to provide flatbed trailers and cars/trucks hulled, wooden and related equip- a total sell-out! with tow hitches, please notify Stacie as soon as possible and include best contact ment carefully lined up on the ground in “Ida Lewis” scheduled for July 5-11 is fast phone number[s] the north corner of the hoist yard, approaching and our team, Emily Winchell please contact Stacie. You have 30 days and Lela Sparkman, undergoing an inten- We hope to have the double-wide out be- from the date of this notice to respond, sive training regimen under the coaching fore mid-July, at least. after which the club will make arrange- of Archie and Brooke Morgan, Hew Ham- ments to dispose of your boat. ilton and Bob Hodges. It is truly remark- able, but even though “Team PontYC” is HOIST YARD CRANE waitlisted, everyone is contributing time The problem which caused the power cable and effort to prepare our 2 young ladies, in SAILOR'S UPDATE to slip under the travel car has been identi- the event they are able to participate and fied by the attending tech from Northshore A-Class North American Championship, do us proud.. Crane, while raised 17 ft in the air by a Annapolis, MD , Corsair Nationals, Pensa- man hoist rented from Coles. An expensive cola, FL, and Melges 24 Worlds, Santa operation. Cruz, CA. HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS PLAN A very large birds nest constructed by an The reports in this CHART issue have The Atlantic hurricane season starts offi- avian equivalent to Spartan had been submitted by Bob Hodges and Jeff cially, June 2 and peaks mid-July. slid over the cable and caused it to be lindheim. NOAA are predicting a "busier than nor- pushed Congratulations Bob, Suzana, Hew, mal season that could see as many as 5 under the Jeff, Susan, Max, David and Sam! major hurricanes forming". car. Yours aye Nola has a 15-20% "probability of peril" The bird and St Tammany, 5-10%. has flown Kelvin but our Attached is our Hurricane Plan for your crane is careful review, especially boat owners. fully As usual, we will need volunteers for: functional again. a] securing the new clubhouse [we have As rec-

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The months of April and May have been Current Applications for Resident Mem- motivate the others, because it helps us incredibly busy and productive, contrib- bership: all! If you would like to help out, please uting to a successful year thus far. Our contact anyone here! resident membership is currently at 205 Ricky Harrison of Lacombe members, and our overall membership Bill and Marsha Lane of Lacombe totals 299. Our Membership Committee has been at Roy and Colleen Hollyfield of Mande- a rapid pace to keep up with membership ville duties: Chuck Wyllie, Celeste Thorson, Our latest membership applications were Robert and Wendy Parker of Baton Phyllis Danielson, Bob Lipscomb, and accepted by the board of directors in- Rouge Tom Quinlan and we are all thankful to clude: have their help. If you have any ques- tions or suggestions, please contact any

Please remember that there is a lot of one of us. Dottie Williams of Mandeville work for us to do for the new club to get open and volunteer your time and assis- Stewart Williams of Mandeville tance if you can – it is greatly appreci- Rick and Julie Elliott of Mandeville ated. Thank you to all of the volunteers that have stepped up and let's be sure to Mary and Kevin Hunt of Mandeville Daniel Ramsey of Pascagoula, MS Donald and Cynthia Nash of Mandeville Ryann and Julie Callois of Abita Springs Steven and Leslie Keen of Metairie Andrew Winchell Junior Member of Covington Gail Untereiner of Slidell Hank and Kate Meyer of Mandeville Fiona Inglis of Mandeville Martin and Jodie Stott of Baton Rouge

Daniel Ramsey Stewart Williams

Dottie Williams Mary Hunt Kevin Hunt

Page 3 THE CHART JUNE 2007 Melges 24 World Championship May 3-12 - Jeff Lindheim Hey Guys Well as you can image this trip was a rol- lercoaster from the start. Max, David and I made the 40 hour haul across the county in an RV, dur- ing which we experienced hale and se- vere lighting in San Anto- nio, “dust tor- nados” in Arizona, and 60 knot winds coming down the mountain into know why but we did know that not hold your starting lane. California! Once we arrived at meant do a 720 now! So we took When the is pulled out to late Santa Cruz YC the work really down the and watched as 30 the keel will stall making the began, cleaning and waxing the boats planned by us. What a skipper put the bow down to boat, preparing it for the water. bummer. Come to find out later gain speed, but once speed is Before our first practice Satur- that it was for extreme pumping reached the competition is three day, the sails and boat had to be of the Main. (Lesson learned)! boats to weather and you are measured and weighed, all went We battled our way back and now sailing in bad air. With smoothly. We were all excited passed about fifteen boats. good tactics we sailed our way to finally leave the harbor sail in Race 2: Horrible start and then back to the top half of the fleet the Pacific Ocean. We had a could not get up to speed or and then gave it all back the last good practice on Saturday; Sun- point, because of bad air. We downwind leg by going inshore. day we raced two practice races learned quickly that the accelera- Race 4: A decent start with in 12 knots of breeze. Monday tion of the pros and the people some clean air windows that let was a well needed day off, in that have been sailing these us play the shifts on the right. which we relaxed, and discussed boats for a long time is hard to Stayed in the mid pack the our team strategy for the first match. whole race. I finally got dialed race. Race 3: We started next to one in to the wave patterns which Race 1: We were in the mid 20’s the top three pros but were created good point and speed when a Judge boat motors up to passed in the first 20 feet. Les- and allowed us to hold our lanes us waving a big yellow flag and son learned pull out your jib 10 longer. seconds before the start; if you Race 5: Good start, rounded the blowing a whistle. We did not th pull the jib out to early you can- first mark around 30 , headed

Page 4 THE CHART JUNE 2007 For complete information, photos, and updates, go to www.melgesracing.com

back downwind. Passing boats Race 8: Close to the same con- This regatta was quite a and surfing at speeds of 15 to 20 dition as Race 7. We sailed learning experience for each one knots on waves 10 to 12 ft high. well! of us, and as a team we found We were on the last downwind Race 9: This was the first race that sailing in the Pacific Ocean leg when we heard a big bang. on Saturday and the wind was is a whole new ballgame. We The backstay had broken and gusting to 35 knots at the start. (Team Tamarack, Beer Goggles) down came our newly purchased This race was basically survival are very fortune to have all the , causing us to drop out for mode. The main was full luff support from P.Y.C. members to the day. without boomvang and the jib sail in such a high level regatta Race 6: DNS due to no mast. was eased out about a foot. We across country. Many thanks, to had to limit our tacks because all of you who helped in fund- The race committee towed us to shore. We fig- ured that we would not find a mast to finish the regatta. Thank God we were wrong! The guys from Melges and Team Pegasus teams had a mast for sale. The next morn- ing started early, we ran all new halyards, shrouds, and stepped the mast. Once the boat was relaunched the race we could not rebuild speed. we raising, practice, and boat prepa- committee cleared us to sail in decided not to launch the kite ration. race 7. since we had already broken one See ya’ll around the club. mast. We passed 6 boats with Jeff, Max, Sam, David, Susan. Race 7: Great start, we held our just the jib. Boat control was the lane with the pros to weather single most important factor in mark. Our spinnaker sets and this race. Everyone on board takedown was outstanding. We had a good feeling of accom- finished in front of about 29 plishment, when we crossed the boats. finish line.

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VOLUME 40 ISSUE 6 Page 7 2007 Corsair National Championship - Bob Hodges

Class B against 12 other boats including 10 knot northwesterly. The breeze backed two more Sprint 750s, three F-24’s, and to the southwest and filled in at 14-16 Pensacola Yacht Club several F-28’s and F-27’s. knots for the third race and then built to April 22-26 2007 18-22 knots for the last race of the day

and the series.

The weather for the week offered a mixed

The Pontchartrain Yacht Club team of bag of conditions. Racing got started on Bob Hodges, Hew Hamilton, and Suzana Tuesday with three course races in a pic- Two time Olympic medalist Randy Williams competed in this event last ture perfect 12-14 knot seabreeze under Smyth of Fort Walton Beach not only month held out of Pensacola Yacht Club. warm sunny skies. A long distance race won the Ian Farrier overall championship Thirty tri- yachts and teams attended to the Pensacola sea buoy was held on trophy on his F-25C but also won PHRF from around the country including one Wednesday in a fickle 2-8 knot sea A. He was followed in second by Don team from . We had been sailing breeze and tide that rewarded bold moves Wigston also from Fort Walton Beach together since January in preparation for to find the best pressure and stay out of who won PHRF Class B sailing a Sprint this championship. adverse current. The third day was a wash 750. Third overall was taken by Steve as a storm front pushed through even Marsh of Fort Lauderdale who won the though the weather cleared by 3:00 PM. F-28R class. Our team sailed a great th nd The makeup of competitors had the fol- The race committee cancelled racing at series to follow in 4 overall and take 2 lowing classes, F-28R, Corsair 31, mixed noon for the day and we were disap- in PHRF Class B. We also won the PHRF A (PHRF rating of 30 or less) and pointed they did not take advantage of the Windcraft perpetual trophy for the top mixed PHRF B (PHRF rating above 30). excellent conditions that were available boat with all amateur crew (no sailing In addition, the PHRF corrected times of in the late afternoon. The final day on industry pros on board). Friday doubled up the schedule with the all teams were combined for the competi- tion for the title of overall national cham- first two course races in a very shifty 5- pion. We raced my Corsair Sprint 750 in

Page 8 THE CHART JUNE 2007 2007 A-Class North American Championship - Bob Hodges

The 2007 A-Class North American tic action pictures taken at the event, visit Championship was held last week at www.usaca.info. West River Sailing Club near Annapolis, MD. The club put on a fantastic event that was attended by 30 competitors. Day one had partly cloudy skies with east- northeasterly winds at 8-12 knots. Day two was grey and cool with 12-15 knot northeasterly winds. Day three had sunny skies with a shifty and cold 10-20 knot northerly.

Lars Guck of Bristol, RI continued his class domination winning all eleven races sailed over the three days. Phil Kinder, also from Bristol, finished second in the event. 2004 Olympic silver medalist Charlie Ogeltree from Houston Yacht Club rounded out the top three. Pontchartrain Yacht Club member Bob Hodges finished 8th overall.

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VOLUME 40 ISSUE 6 Page 9 Page 10 THE CHART JUNE 2007 VOLUME 40 ISSUE 6 Page 11 2007 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Commodore Kelvin Troughton - [email protected] More Club Contacts Vice-Commodore Emailing and email list Jane Eshleman - [email protected] Georgia Young Rear-Commodore [email protected] PONTCHARTRAIN YACHT CLUB Jay Conner - [email protected] Webmaster & The Chart House & Grounds Suzana Williams 1501 Lakeshore Drive Joel Lindsey - [email protected] P.O. Box 633 [email protected] Mandeville, LA 70470 Social Victoria Class Bridget Jarvis - [email protected] Phone: 985-626-3192 Hew Hamilton E-mail: [email protected] Juniors Administrative Manager: Stacie Palazzo [email protected] Suzana Williams - [email protected]

One Design Just Show Up! Bill Ross - [email protected]

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

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

JP1 Schedule June 6,10,13,17,24,27 School’s Out Regatta June 2nd & 3rd O’Pen Bic Demo June 2nd Ida Lewis July 5-11 PYC Friday Twilight Series Skippers Meeting 6pm Race starts at 7pm