September 4, 2011 | Arizona Yacht Club Monthly Magazine

September 2011 – Compass things. If you’ve ever thought, “I’m not ready to race.”, check out the Points “Green Fleet” to find out more about ways to get out on the water on a regular basis, to join in the fun but to set aside some September 4, 2011 4:30 pm of the the “intensity” Green Fleets will be forming at BOTH Lake Pleasant or Tempe Town Lake. CLICK HERE for the PDF Version And for the more competitive among us, or those of us that want Get yer boat ready! Get yer crew figer’d out! It’s TIME…for AYC to be, we also will have Introduction to Racing Class this month 2011-12 Racing Season Opening Day. New to racing? Check out to help move you up the finishing place ladder. the “Racer’s Meet and Greet” party 9÷9÷2011, or join the new “Green Fleet” for a good excuse to sail without pressure to WIN! Need crew? Want to crew? Check out the “Racer’s Party” next Friday 9/9. 1) Commodore’s Corner – Let the Games Begin! The power boats start winterizing after Labor Day…we start 2) Dating Game-Sept. 9th! Get Your Crew for 2011-12 ! This is OUR TIME of year! 3) 2011-12 Opening Day – Get Your Game On! Emory Heisler 4) New to Racing? Check Out the Green Fleet! Commodore

5) Welcome New Members! p.s. How about those new membership cards, eh? Tap Brenda Shears, Roger Butterwick and Mike Ferring on the shoulder to 6) Kinninikinick Kampout with AYC, TSC and LSC! say “Thanks!” for the nice work they did organizing and creating 7) Get Your Sailing Kicks on Route 66 – BNAC 2011 our new AYC Membership Cards! Racing Party – Get New Fleet of the Month – Buccaneer 18 Crew! Find a Ride! 9) 2011 Heatstroke Series Final Scores September 4, 2011 4:28 pm 10) For Sale! Want Ads!

Commodore’s Corner – September 2011

September 4, 2011 4:29 pm

Come out and show how you operate BETWEEN THE SHEETS!

Join us UP-town and meet the racing gang at McKormick and Schmicks on Camelback Rd. AYC will have run of a little side room and be free to mingle with the landlubbers as needed over the rest of the place. ## REMEMBER to BRING YOUR PARKING TICKET for VALIDATION!! ##

We will have PRIZES and FOOD, and I may let you have a bite of my nachos (if you are nice). September is here and we hope the last days of super hot weather have passed by for 2011. And that makes it time to look Who’s invited? forward to 2011 FALL SERIES! - Rookie crew who want to find a ride, - Seasoned salts who want to shop their wares to the highest Racing for many of us isn’t as much about the big pressure to win bidder as it is about having a scheduled time to get out and spend some - Maniacal Malevolent Skippers looking to fill a hole in their times with some of our best friends doing one of our favorite

1 motley crew - – — – — – — – — – — – — – — – — - - Peeps looking to see what all this racing thing is about (read = GET READY!!!! The approch of Opening Day brings a bunch of Green Fleet) excellent memories over the past 9 years I have been privileged - Sailors looking to promote our fine sport among the land-locked to attend. The butterflies start gathering early as the high temps masses. start to descend ever closer to the double digits ( and always 10 - YOU!! degrees cooler on the water).

Prize #1 Best Crew Resume! Never one to be leading the fleet, so that pressure is not a factor. Prize #2 Best Skipper Presentation – (hope to have a projector The excitement of competition, building teamwork, and hanging and computer) out with my sailing buddies who understand the want to be Prize #3 Most inspiring story of “worst for first” (crew or around the water, fiberglass, and squeezing every erg of power skipper) out of a panel of strings covered with saran wrap, it is what feeds Prize #4 Most representatives of ANY fleet (my discretion) our other soul.

Even if you are set for boat and crew – git yer keel out here and September 24 and 25, 2011 will be the 53rd opening day of your Party like a ! There is a AMC Movie Theatre next door, little sailing club in the desert. As always, there will be people shopping across the street. Make a night of it with your buddies, painting, sanding, drilling, and pounding out in the parking lot at significant other, or both!! dawn. There will be the sound of new sails crinkling in the breeze as they are hanked on the first time, the smell of new fiberglass Also sounds like a good time for a: FLEET MEETING - (some from repairs and some from fresh from the mold boats), Buccaneers, PHRF, SPIN, Catalina 22, Thistles, Merits, and bright sunlight reflected from freshly washed and waxed Portsmouth, – YOU COULD BE A WINNER 40 year old hulls. As the start time approaches, some yahoo Google Map of Location - 2575 E Camelback Road, Phoenix, thinking it would be funny, pulls the string on the only cannon AZ 85016 allowed in the fleet – and the race to the launch ramp begins.

Michael Parker Then the parade to the starting line, with some returning to the Cruising Captain (aka AYC Party Manager!) dock to pickup the sheets left on the back seat and to throw [email protected], complaint line = 602.273.1341) Dave Rawstrom a tow line so he can start the first race on time today. The sound of the first horn signalling the start of our proud tradition begins the quest – not to win it all – for most – Opening Day 2011 – Order but rather to meet some more lowly goals for the season. Your Shirts Now! #1 NO fiberglass damage #2 No DFLs (depending on your upbringing – “Dead Freaking September 4, 2011 4:27 pm Last” for me) #3 My crew will someday want to sail with me again

Now for the High Level Details: - 9AM: the USCGA will be available for COURTESY inspections with a sticker for passing (better them than to get AzGFD courtesy inspection that gives you a signed certificate for NOT passing). - 10AM: FIRE THE CANNONS! Official opening of 2011-12 season - 5pm: Dinner will be following racing. It is always a great food, beautiful scenery, and good friends. Race recaps from the Race Committee and race strategy from those skippers who where successful, and those not so much. - 6pm: Prizes awarded during dinner for some random and completely arbitrary reason that I don’t even know yet.

REGISTER NOW on the web now and set your calendar those sailing days enjoying the great outdoors, or spend them mowing the lawn, painting the bathroom, or heaven forbid – sleeping in till noon….

Michael Parker AYC Cruising Captain OPENING DAY T-SHIRTS! ORDER IN ADVANCE or BE LEFT OUT! Get your sporty, stylish and slightly plagiarised tee shirt proclaiming your support of this Eco-Friendly sport. $15 per shirt – $17 for XXL – PRE ORDER BEFORE SEPT 9 – or no shirt for U…a small qty will be there for purchase. Do not need to pre-pay – just email [email protected] size, mens or womans style, and qty of each BEFORE 9÷10÷2011.

2 Green Fleet – What’s That? Welcome New Members!

September 4, 2011 4:26 pm September 4, 2011 4:25 pm

A great new “class” of members have joined AYC in recent months, from High Schoolers to Power Boaters (are we on our way to creating a “Power Squadron?”).

Christina Andaloro joins us following a year with the Arizona Sailing Foundation High School Sailing Club. She is now a freshman in college, but started taking official lessons 6 years ago in Cape Cod MA. She looks forward to attaining instructor level certification and contributing to AYC through Club equipment maintenance, racing, and social activities.

Shawn Cook took the SSR class and loved it. He is a Mesa resident, is a sailor, and has been spending a lot of time down at the lake. He is interested in Club equipment maintenance and assisting with racing activities.

Luke Marino is a Freshman at Washington High School and has been sailing for about 5 years – most recently through the High Learn Sailing at Any Age! School Sailing Club and before that racing in Opti’s. In the last 2 High School championships his boat was 2nd place! His dad The Green Fleet is for new or “Less Serious” racers! also sails. He is continuing to take sailing classes, is interested in Are you new to sailing or racing? Are you trying to build racing and cruising, and looks forward to achieving instructor a new crew to campaign next year? Are you crew that wants level certification. some experience before stepping up to the big leagues? Do you Mary and Jeff Miller: The Millers split their time between like to go sail with friends but want a little less pressure? Is the Scottsdale and the White Mountains. Mary is a long-time real most important thing on your boat your snacks? estate broker in Snowflake, and Jeff works in Phoenix for APS Then the green fleet is for you! For those who don’t know me, four days a week. They’ve had a decades-long interest in sailing, I’m Rob Gibbs. I’m a US Sailing Certified Small Boat Instructor, having owned a very small sailboat in 1979, but only recently got a dinghie racer, a father of 2 and a husband of 1, and a guy who, a little more serious about the sport by traveling to Marina del up to this point, went sailing with his buddies and left the family Rey with two of their adult children to obtain a Basic Keelboat at home. Now that the kids are bigger and the wife is willing, Certification in May of this year. They’re looking forward to we’ve got a bigger boat and “have fun and learn something” gaining more experience and knowledge as time/schedules allow attitude. — hopefully with retirement figured in there somewhere! — and appreciate the opportunity to be part of this club. Together with Emory Heisler (at TTL) our goal with the Green Fleet is to lower the barriers to entry to the sport we have come Cooper Miller: Cooper, 25, now has his ASA Basic Keelboat to love. What that means to you is up to you! If you have kids and Certification and is looking forward to sailing involvement with resisted racing with the family, no more excuses! If you want the AYC members, with a special interest in crewing for more opportunity to get out and practice in a safe, monitored experienced sailors. He recently graduated from the U of A in environment without the pressure of racing, here’s your chance! Mathematics with an emphasis in Probability and Statistics and is pursuing a new career even as he also splits his time between We’ll get together on Sat mornings (if you want) and the White Mountains and Scottsdale, assisting with the family introduce/review sailing concepts like Points of Sail & Trim. We’ll real estate business as a licensed agent. He’s a long-time go over the Rules of the Road, how to start, what the course snowboard instructor, as well, and welcomes any interested folks chart is here and what it might be somewhere else. If you have up to Sunrise Ski Park this winter! Cooper is also an avid specific questions or topics you want covered, let me know! mountain biker. Also, if you are crew and would like to secure a spot on one of Jim Murphy, a Scottsdale resident, is interested in racing and in the boats, please let me know. There are some open positions helping with AYC social events. Jim has been sailing “all his life.” I know of right now and there might be more as the season And his son Garrison has taken the High School Sailing class. goes on. Randy, Tara, and Elliot Odman: The Odmans have extensive My email is [email protected]. For more information, boating experience, but are new to sailing, thanks to the interest check out the Green Fleet Page or just come sail with us! of son Elliot. Elliot sails in the high school program and just purchased his first boat, a , this winter. They are Mesa residents and interested in helping with new member support and racing.

3 Richard, Noami, and Lincoln Strand: Dick, a retired Radiologist, And they’re off! Yee Old Exploder is packed and trailers are has recently rejoined the AYC. His family consists of his wife stacked. On to Route 66: Desert, pine trees, high desert plains Noami, a son Nick who lives in NYC; daughter Natalie, living in and we are there. Route 66. Did we get some kicks? No! What Santa Monica; and an eight-year-old son Lincoln. Dick shares the did we get? following: “A few friends and I are just finishing the restoration Painted Desert, nothing, storms, nothing, New Mexico. More of a 40 ft 1949 Matthew’s wooden motor yacht, the Euphrates, storms, more nothing, Texas. Nothing, 200 foot tall cross, trailer and will be keeping her in Newport Beach. She is a beautiful old flat, nothing, Oklahoma. Sunrise over the one tree in OK. boat and should be capable of coastal cruising, Catalina Island etc. I am an occasional sailor and was a member of the Arizona Yacht Club many years ago. And speaking of reciprocity, in 1988, I went over to watch the America’s Cup Race. The evening of the final race, I went to the San Diego Yacht Club, and using my Arizona Yacht Club membership card, got in and attended the victory celebration. I ended up sitting with Dennis Conner’s mother!”

WELCOME ABOARD!!

Brenda Shears Roger Butterwick AYC Membership Directors Oklahoma City, toll booths, nothing, toll booths, nothing,Missouri. Fireworks Superstore, Adult Bookstores, Buccaneer Championships – -flattened Joplin, nothing, Girls-Girls-Girls, nothing, St. Louis. Mississippi River, Illinois, corn, corn, corn, Chicago. Hotel, Route 66 Odyssey toll booths, toll booths, KENOSHA! That’s it in a nutshell.

September 4, 2011 4:24 pm

It was the first time for all of us to visit Kenosha Wisconsin, first time in Dave’s lifetime setting foot in the state and his 3rd time Dave Rawstrom, Rob Gibbs and Emory Heisler journeyed sailing on lake Michigan, loved the waves! 30 hours straight-through from AZ to Chicago in a 2000 “Exploder” for Buccaneer 18 North American Championships in KYC and Kenosha downtown have great small town character, Kenosha, WI. Not to worry, Dave, Rob and Emory are still cool shops (especially for tuxedos), ice cream, good restaurants friends. (mmm… german food) , a real 24 hour Diner, free museum with mammoths, electric trolley ride, and this year a destination T-minus 5 days to BNAC: Thanks to Nickel’s Boats stackable regatta. trailer design we stack 4 Bucc’s on 2 trailers. Thank you TTL passer by helpers for extra hands!

4 ingredients. Truly an effective tonic. Buccaneers celebrated with Food, fun, hot tub, and a slide that ejects into the bushes. We have a buccaneer member who owns a real lighthouse, cool!!!

Burgee Exchange

Monday’s welcome dinner of Brats and Beer was followed by the fastest national membership meeting ever, and was paired with a separate crew party that improved crew morale and left a few sleeping it off in the parking lot. Ed & Shannon Montaño

Racing had everything you could ask for, good predictable winds, Our hosts Ed and Shannon are a serious “power couple,” time between races for siesta, swimming, chicken toss, water hospitality, organization, mix-ology expertise, Puerto Rican gun battle royale, and competitive group races. sandals, and charm. Thanks for a incredibly fun visit to your home town. And then, back to Route 66 and 35 more straight-through hours in the Exploder for Dave and Emory. The return run took a slight detour through Kansas, accompanied by an eclectic mix of power ballads on the iPod.

A typical mixture of great breeze, too much breeze, no breeze was combined with equally varied flat water, wind chop on 4 ft. swells, and lazy doldrum filled swells as well.

The RC/PRO had some challenges and reminded us about just how good we’ve got it in AYC racing. The Buccaneer Class Association learned some lessons and the PRO and racers figured After 65 hours on the road together, even better friends. out the local traditions. RC will be fantastic next time we visit. ARRRR!! (hold the “gh”)

Dave Rawstrom, #5205, “Red Fish, Blue Fish” Emory Heisler, #5239, “Erin Morgan” Kinnikinick – 2011 “Escape to Pine Mountain”

September 4, 2011 4:23 pm

Kevin & Big Dave (aka Maltbie-Brown)

Surprise guests arrived Thursday, Maltbie and Brown BNAC 1 winners. They won BNAC #1 in a borrowed boat but sailed Dave Rawstrom’s boat for their visit this year.

Blind Squirrel party: John welcomed us pirates to his home, really! Blind Squirrel’s combine vodka, Coors light and mystery

5 in the cool shade around the fire pit.

Members of Lake Pleasant Sailing Club, Arizona Yacht Club, and Tucson Sailing club were all strewn about the gentle slope in all sizes of tents, camp trailers, and vans. Ahhh, such a heart warming – cool weather – sight!

A few hearty sailors who took a stack of Lasers to the lake for some afternoon sailing while most others took a nice nap. The winds must have been perfect, since one of the sailors related that he had never gone so fast in a laser before. It’s amazing what a “Fresh” breeze and no hills to funnel the wind can do for you. Later in the afternoon, while relaxing and getting to know some of our TSC and LPSC brethren, our attention was drawn to the table where piles of shish kebabs, pots of corn, and plates of veggies and sides where being dropped from campers all around. Dinner was imminent. And from the looks of things, it was going to be an amazing feast. Off to camp, we brought out offering, including another table to pile the overflowing food (and adult beverages).

And it was an amazing feast. Of course, my kids only ate the hot dogs and way too many sm’ores cooked over the sensible and warming campfire, but that is OK, more kabobs for me.

All – in – all, about 60 people made up the campout this year. Perhaps it was a light turnout for the annual event. But it was For more about 2011 Kinnikinick check out this story from the fun, and we got to meet some very friendly people who were Tucson Sailing Club. They and Lake Pleasant Sailing Club joined there to have a good time in the peace and quiet – and coolness – this year’s AYC annual campout in the woods, the Kinnikinick of the not so distant forest. I have always had to move mountains weekend, and Peter Burgard snapped some pictures and wrote to make it to the mountains, but once I get there, the people, the some words and published them in the club’s newsletter. Click peace, and the separation of all things buzzing and chirping HEREfor the TSC Aug 2011 Windbreaker newsletter. always make it worth the effort.

Kinnikinick Kampout 2011 Cruising Captain – Mike Parker Fleet of the Month – The 2011 “Escape to Pine Mountain” was a huge event for my Buccaneer 18 family. It was our first scheduled opportunity to escape the heat, the traffic, and the playstation in the valley of the SUN. Not that September 4, 2011 4:22 pm the event as a whole was so huge, but getting my kids away from the TV was virtually miraculous. Many obstacles had to be overcome. Things like sudden onset of a ailment requiring proximity to a bathroom, to queasy carsick feelings of the back row passengers in a SUV crammed with six people, camping gear, chairs, outdoor games, and a midsized dog. All of it resolved with patience, no schedule, and the first potty stop at 6500 feet and 80 degree sunshine.

We arrived as scheduled – Saturday sometime. There where already some adventurous and practiced campers setup in the area with sailing burghy and race signalling their territory and that we where in the right place. Paper plates guiding the way to the fresh and clean porta-potties spaced out around some shady and pine needle covered tent spots. We picked up a mooring… i mean, a camp spot upwind of the potty, and the kids took off into the woods like oil dripped on water. No video games, music players, or fighting over computer time… it was just about heaven.

After unloading the gear and making lunch – amazing how the kids will wander back just as you are finishing food prep – we were joined by helpful (and hungry) kids from the already established camps. Tents setup, camp gear stowed, we set off to mingle with the others already playing horse shoes and relaxing

6 2011 Heat Stroke Final Scores

September 4, 2011 4:21 pm

Here are the results of the 2011 Heat Stroke series scores, with throw-outs. Congratulations!

Oddly, participation dropped off as the mercury rose. By the time we reached the dreaded dog daze of August, there were just two or three boats on the race course and often as many people on race committee.

Congratulations to all the stalwarts who braved heat exhaustion to go sailing and to the fleet winners:

Emory Heisler, Buccaneer; Mike & Maryellen Ferring, C14; Mike Bernard, Laser; Clay Poulson, Portsmouth (in whatever he happened to bring to the lake that day). Buccaneer Fleet For Sale! Wanted! Classified ARRRRR!!!! The pirates of AYC! The Buccaneer 18 fleet is the only one-design fleet that gives you a three-sail boat (main, jib Ads and spinnaker) and the option to sail with fleets at both Tempe Town Lake and Lake Pleasant. The Buccs also make regular September 4, 2011 4:20 pm excursions to join other Buccs in San Diego (March, August), To place an ad, contact Web Master Long Beach (May, November) and elsewhere around the country.

There are over 20 Buccaneer 18s in Arizona, and half of those racing, so whether you’re a new recruit or “salty dog” we have lots of sailors to compete with at your level so you can improve your sailing and have a great time doing it.

To learn more about getting a Buccaneer 18 or crewing on one, contact one of the pirates listed below or see the National Bucc Siteor the Yahoo! group. The AYC Buccaneer fleet is ready to offer lots of help for anyone who would like to join the raiding party.

Buccaneer Harken One-Design Deck Layout FOR SALE: For Sale: Tack Tick Micro Compass, a great racing Buccaneer Fleet Captain: Steve Brown tool. This standalone, solar-powered gadget is not only a precise Western Region Buccaneer Class Rep: Emory Heisler digital compass, but also offers race start countdown and wind shift reading, giving you a quick measure of whether you’ve been headed or lifted off median wind direction without doing any math. $500 new. Used $250. Mike Ferring: [email protected] or 602.241.7123. (09÷2011)

FOR SALE: Roller Furler – Need a roller furler for your jib? I have available a Harken Mark II-0. Luff is 35′ can be adjusted 10″ or so, or remove a section of the foil to shorten. One of the foil connectors is broken. I have a new connector. The forestay wire will have to be removed/replaced to fix or to shorten the furler. I’ll make you a great deal. Call or e-mail me. Chuck Sears

7 – 602–978-2543 [email protected] (08÷2011) For Sale: Hutchins ComPac 16. $4,500.00 Beautiful 16′ . Perfrect for beginning sailors or old salts ready to downsize.

Includes main, jib, trailer, 2hp Johnson outboard, many little extras. Cockpit seats 4 adults easily. 2 berths. Can be seen in Ft. Hills. Contact John Birkemo (480) 717 4012. (6÷2011)

To place an ad, contact WEBMASTER

FOR SALE: 18 foot Javelin O’Day. Trailer raises manually like a dump truck to simplify launching. This day sailor is rigged for solo sailing. Jib has a roller furler. All rigging upgraded. Stern needs some maintenance. $600 or best offer. Flagstaff. Are you considering participating in the Kinnikinick Kampout? It would be a great time to take a look at this boat. Call Terry at 928−699−1138 or e-mail me at [email protected] (07÷2011) WANTED: I am looking for a late model used Catalina 14.2 daysailor or equivalent, in reasonably good condition w/a trailer. Please call Bob @ 602−788−1218 or email me at [email protected] (08÷2011)

FOR SALE: Martin 242 Team Gravity: Proven winner on the lakes and off-shore, five-year PHRF Spin Champion, fleet second place Coastal Cup (San Fran to Santa Barbra.) Carbon mast, carbon spinnaker pole, 3.5 Nissan outboard, Vang Master, all Harkin blocks and cleats, running rigging arranged for super-fast sail changes and the best sail handling, spectra backstay with kicker. Garage full of sails, off-shore racing equipment. Two-axel Aros trailer set up for ramp launching, stepping mast to stand rig. $10,000 Rick Johnson 602−762−9797 (7/2011)

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Arizona Yacht Club Officers and Contacts Advertise in the Commodore Emory Heisler Compass Points and Vice Commodore Philip Freedman on the Rear Commodore Mike Ferring ArizonaYachtClub.org AYC Racing Fleet Captain Trey Harlow website! Cruising Captain Mike Parker Email Treasurer Tony Chapman Web@ArizonaYachtCl Two-Year Junior Staff Commodore Joe Motil ub.org for more One-Year Senior Staff Commodore Greg Jackson information. Secretary Cindy Pillote Membership Brenda Shears Membership Roger Butterwick Compass Points Editor & Advertising Rob Gibbs ArizonaYachtClub.Com Web Guy Rob Gibbs Arizona Sailing Foundation President John Mayall