Newcomers April 2019 Safety at Sea Volume XCV Number 4 Fleet Racing Tales of the Sea April • May 2019
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On the cover: Cal 20 Fleet racing in Classboat B March 3, 2019 Photo: Ken Fitzgerald Case 2 RCaOlpMh MFoOulDgeOr RE VICE REAR CMOikeM VManO WDoOeRrkEom PCeOteM SMtoOkkDa ORE Aloha Members, Spring is here! The March was another ‘G’ Pier renovations are warm weather and good month at KYC underway. Bellingham’s beautiful Hawaiian days with spring activities crews have arrived and are a reminder of how filling the calendar. We equipment staging is in lucky we are. It’s great had an excellent progress. to see the membership Newcomers' Pupu Questions have enjoying the club and all party that was very well emerged as to dock lines and such. Do I need to the boats participating in Classboat, IRF, and organized by the Deckhands and was a great remove them or will they be replaced? The safe even Thursday night races. I think there were opportunity to get to know and welcome answer is, remove them. Although the about 15 boats on the line last Thursday. newcomers to KYC. The bulkhead races every contractor has indicated that they will be I want to once again welcome all the new Thursday evening are off to a good season with replaced, if you want a guarantee, remove them members that I was fortunate enough to meet at a rotation for race committee at the end of the to be replaced by you when the slip is returned our last Newcomers' Pupu Party. It was a great dock with some excellent volunteers. Thanks to you. success and I welcome each and everyone of you to Lori Ford, the Deckhands, Dawn Hunt, Rose We had a wonderful turnout for the two all to KYC. The night was very nice and a big Jones and Anthony Burris for committing to work parties on Saturday and Sunday in mahalo to all the Deckhands for assisting and that rotation and Kai Andrade for serving as March. Mahalo to all of those volunteers, even putting on a great pupu party. These ladies do our emergency fill-in support. We’ve also had some new members who showed up to so much behind the scenes. Thanks again for all a great turnout at Classboat and IRF race days, demonstrate their commitment to the support! remember to contact Morgan Stephenson to fill volunteerism. I’m sure you all have noticed that we are in your PRO commitment for your boat this On another matter, since I have the “Bully well into the G-Pier renovations. All the season as we still have quite a few white spaces Pulpit”, I was at the Club for First Friday pre-construction environmental testing was where boats need to commit. recently where we had entertainment that was completed, and we started right on time. Thanks The entertainment at the club this spring well received. While the entertainment was in to all the members in the first phase of slips for has been excellent and I encourage everyone progress, however, there were footballs flying having your boats out on time as this has allowed to come out and enjoy these events. The 1st all around the lawn area, even intruding into us to get started right on time. If you are on and 3rd Friday’s have started and we have had the entertainer's area, kids running through the G-Pier, please stay tuned to the schedules put out some good entertainers coming out to KYC. I Long House, restrooms and generally running on when your slip needs to be vacated. This will didn’t make it but I heard the Saint Patrick’s rampant through the area. Parents need to read keep the project moving smoothly and therefore Day was a fun event and we are hoping to get the Rules and Regs of the Club. The activities will be completed on time. the band back again for next year. described above are in violation of the Club As mentioned before, I am working to clean The reason I missed the St. Patrick’s Day Rules and are disrespectful of those trying to up the area on the back side of the canal in the event was because I was in California at enjoy the Club or to provide a service to trailer storage area. The goal is to get the area Mission Bay Yacht Club attending the O’Pen members. Ball playing in or around the pool all cleaned up and actual storage stalls labeled Bic North American’s Un-regatta which was a area, which includes the lawn, is prohibited as and captured in our records. There may be an great experience. MBYC did a great job well as inflatable pool toys, roughhousing and opportunity to make more room for small boats hosting and O’Pen Bic set up all sorts of fun the like. The Club is not a babysitter and or more trailers. If you have anything stored activities for the Juniors. I was able to observe parents need to take control of your children back there, please let me or Andy Bates know as our sailing director "Coach Jesse" in action while they are on Club property. In addition, there are a few things back there that haven’t while he managed a dozen kids from Hawaii pets are only allowed to be leashed and to been identified yet. and prepared them to get on the line and sail traverse between car and boat. Lastly, I wanted to thank Kim Ickler and well. Our top Hawaii finishers were Makani I ask all Club members to assist Chuck Hawley for an amazing Safety at Sea Andrews in 4th and Michael Hochart in 5th for Management and the Board in helping to make Class. This class was held at KYC at the end of the Under 13 division and all of the Hawaii KYC a place that we can all enjoy. If you see March and was a big success. It wouldn’t have sailors finished within the top 40 of 96 entries. gross violations of the Rules, make a point of happened without a ton of hard work from both There is too much to say about this event but I directing offenders to review the Rules. Kim and Chuck. I was fortunate enough to clear wanted to point you to some info and a video Also, as a reminder, members are failing my schedule and participate in the class. At the about this event as we have been kicking to log-in their guests on the Guest Log. We end of the day I definitely had a different and around the idea of the possibility of hosting at don’t require this just to be bothersome, it is a better outlook at being prepared on the water. If KYC in 2021. Check out the video at the requirement of our liquor license. Every time a my recollection is correct, we had a total of 23 following link, with a serious talk from member brings a guest onto Club property that individuals who took the class. That was a great Coach around minute 3:19: is not registered on the Guest Log, it turnout and I know the class was well received https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=155-4sy jeopardizes our liquor license. Two other from those individuals. 5dM0 Results are found at: private clubs on Oahu were recently cited and https://www.regattatoolbox.com/eventDetails? or fined by the Liquor Commission for similar Aloha eventID=618D5mN6hF violations. Mike Van Woerkom While at MBYC I met the Vice We are fully into the sailing season with Commodore Bill Sweeney and told him I was lots of sailing activities in store from now until from KYC. He turned around wearing his the fall. Come on down and take part in the Kaneohe Yacht Club aloha shirt and said that activities. If you’re not a sailor and would like KYC is his favorite club to come visit. He told to get involved, come down on Thursday me about the great time they have when they evening for the bulkhead race. You can always come out for Pacific Cup and what a good job find a skipper that will invite you along for an KYC does to host the event. It’s fun to visit a mainland club and have them turn around and RC continued on page 5 3 O’pen Bic North American Championship By Michael Kai Hochart Hi this is Michael Kai! Last week, during Spring Break I went to Mission Bay Yacht Club in San Diego with the Kaneohe Yacht Club Junior Racing Team for the O’pen Bic North American Championships Un-Regatta. There were 10 of us from KYC at the regatta: Sage Andrews, Cameron Barra, Makani Andrews, Torik Stokka, Kama Vierra, Maka Vierra, Nico Perez, Mani Pahuatini, Kiley Freitas and me. Overall, there were almost 90 sailors competing in U13 and U17. The O’pen Bic North American Championships is an “un-regatta” which is something new and really Team Hawaii in Mission Bay fun compared to regular racing. The “un-regatta” includes a slalom course, which is a zigzag course with obstacles such as the “bridge of doom” and during the race you have to complete challenging maneuvers like “stand up for an entire leg, cap-size or 360 circles” before finishing the race. You learn a lot about boat handling and tactics at the “un-regatta” and the races are challenging and entertaining at the same time. Another fun and exciting part of the “un-regatta” is the freestyle event. During the freestyle event, all of the sailors get to perform tricks on their boats. The Hawaii team was awesome and both Mani and Kiley received awards for their freestyle moves. After the 1st day of racing, all of the sailors got to go to Belmont Amusement Park and ride the classic wooden roller coaster and lots of fun rides. After the 2nd day, there was a beach bbq for everyone. The conditions during the regatta ranged between 5 to 15 knots with sunny and warm weather which was good because being from Hawaii we were worried about the cold water. My favorite part of the regatta was that it wasn't super serious and we got to do a lot of fun things like stand up, 360’s, and capsizes. I also really liked Jesse Andrews in coach mode the challenge of the bridge of doom and slalom courses. Overall, our team sailed really well and everyone placed in the top 20! Thank you to all of the parents for supporting us and to Coach Jesse for all of the help and awesome coaching! Go KYC and Team Hawaii!
Results ● Under 13 division (38 boats) ○ 4th place Makani Andrews ○ 5th place Michael Kai Hochart ○ 7th place Kiley Freitas ○ 10th place Cameron Barra ○ 12th place Kamakana Vierra ○ 13th place Makamae Vierra
● Under 17 division (51 boats) ○ 15th place Torik Stokka ○ 16th place Nicolai Perez Cameron Barra, Torik Stokka, Mani Pahuatini, Makani Andrews ○ 17th place Sage Andrews ○ 19th place Mani Pahuatini
U13 Div., 38 boats on the line Photos: Pete Stokka 4 Hawaii kids did so great!! Mahalo to our KYC Volunteers
NORTH HOIST AREA WORK KYC MARKS & MARKERS PARTY, SATURDAY, MARCH 9 February 4, 2019 KYC Marks & Markers Committee volunteers braving KBay on another Our club enjoys some of the lowest dues of any similar club in the stormy winter day to survey buoy locations and conditions. Mahalo Ron State of Hawaii. We also are in better financial condition than nearly Dodini, Bob Palmer, Bill Leary, Clay Hutchinson and other dedicated any club in state. Both are due, in part, to the significant volunteer KYC members. efforts of our membership. KYC volunteers showed their love for our club once again on Saturday, March 9th when twenty three of them participated in a clean-up of the work area near the north hoist. Sixteen wooden sound barriers used to dampen noise generated during the annual winter big boat haul out were dismantled and put in storage, sand used to ballast the sound barriers was used to fill in low spots in the I-14 and trailer storage area at the south end of the club, and left over wooden forms from the construction of club mooring anchors were hauled to the dump. Many hands make light work, and that was the case for this work party. Wayne Reis and Commodore Ralph Foulger got a jump on the official 9AM start time, but the work was completed well before 11AM when the team transitioned to more typical weekend activities like Photos: Lori Lloyd relaxing in the clubhouse and heading for the sandbar. Mahalo to the team that made it happen including Bill Adams, Mike Barker, Andy Brittain, David Brown, James Clancey, Jim Cook, Ralph Foulger, Don Fowler, John Gross, Sime Gross, Bill Huntoon, Whiting Hyland, Wayne Jackson, Eric Jonsson, Mike Lee, Lori Lloyd, Mark Logan, Paul Meierdiercks, Bob Palmer, Wayne Reis, Charlie Stone, Iwalani Stone, and other dedicated KYC members I may have missed.
Bill Leary Haul Out Fleet Captain REAR COMMODORE continued from page 3 not only recognize our club but come back with multiple stories about good times at KYC. Thanks to all of you who welcome our visiting yachtsmen and give them that great impression of KYC. Coming up this month we have the Lipton Cup on April 6 and 7, come down and cheer on the Yellow Dragon team during the after party in the afternoons. Also on the 12th of April the Friday night Dinghy races begin for the season. These races are open to both kids and adults in any class of dinghy. Andy Bates does a great job organizing and running these races, so come down and get you and your kids out to win some KYC tickies! For the younger crowd, the Deckhands have the Keiki Easter party on April 20.
5 DECKHANDS Margaret Peebles President Newcomer’s Pupu Party Welcome New Members!
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The Newcomers' Pupu Party was held on Kathy & Chuck Joy Terri & Doug Holke March 10 in the longhouse. This is a great way to meet the new members and hear a little about them and their families. If you did not know, KYC members make the best pupu on the planet and so, as always, everyone was treated to a feast. Mahalo to Sherri Phillips for organizing the event and with the help of Bobbi Youngblood, the beautiful decorations. Mahalo to all the Deckhands who helped host the event. If you were not able to come, please join us next time. The Deckhands have joined the fun of the Thursday Night Bulkhead Races, as Race Committee. Every second Thursday of the Month join us for the start and finish of the race. I canʻt think of a more perfect place to sit and enjoy the beautiful boats of KYC. Linnea Brooks Amanda & Michael Syamken The Deckhands want to wish our very own Sally Bogert farewell and all the best wishes as she, Jef Snyder and their cat Squeaky pack up their container and move to Florida. Sally is the immediate past president of the Deckhands, as well as being honored as our Deckhand of the Year for 2018. We are excited for them as they start a new adventure but will miss them greatly. They have both been so active in the club. Come by First Friday on April 5 and share your aloha! One thing we know for sure, they will be back often to visit. Please join us in wishing them..... "Fair winds and following seas!" Aloha Sally and Jef!
KYC Keiki Easter Party Saturday April 20, 2019 10 am to Noon Amanda & Jackson Butler Paul Pollitt Games, Crafts, Petting Zoo & Refreshments Photos with the Easter Bunny
This event is for Members' Children & Grandchildren only please – no guests!
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the question with Merlin heeled over and the pole gyrating as the spinnaker repeatedly collapsed and filled. Instead, the after guy was released, and it ran out about forty feet until a knot at the end of it jammed in the guy block. We had put the knot in days earlier while on the other tack as a safety measure in case the port side sheet parted, and had neglected to take the knot out after jybing. Skip let the spinnaker halyard go, but it got a hockle in it causing it to jam in the turning block after running out about thirty feet. Now we were in real trouble. Merlin’s huge spinnaker was forty feet from the boat, was full, and the boat was lying on its side leaving our man overboard far behind. Skip grabbed a knife, cut the halyard, and the spinnaker dropped into the water to leeward of the boat. The crew rushed to that side of the boat to gather in the sail as we drifted over it. Merlin was moving sideways faster than we could pull the sail in so part of the spinnaker and a loop of sheet ended up tangled around the prop and rudder. Steve Doty pulled like a man possessed, tore the spinnaker off of the prop, and got it aboard. Once we had the kite contained, we shifted our attention to the huge free flying full hoist staysail that was also flogging on the bow. We are all taught that in a man overboard situation one crew member Merlin should be dedicated to pointing continuously and looking directly at the man overboard from the moment he goes in the water until he is recovered. MAN OVERBOARD Otherwise, it is simply too easy to lose sight of a person’s relatively small By Bill Leary head in large seas with no land on the horizon for a directional reference. That wasn’t going to work for us. Maxi sleds are purposely short handed in downwind distance races like Transpac to keep weight to a minimum, t was mid-afternoon on day seven of the 1987 Transpac race to Honolulu, and with one man overboard, and one man driving, that left seven crew to Iand things were going well. Merlin was in her element, surfing downwind deal with flogging downwind sails in twenty knots of wind. That would be on a building trade wind swell as she broad-reached on port tack headed tough on a boat half the size, and was out of the question on Merlin. It toward Molokai’s north shore, 300 miles away. It was blowing close to took all available hands to get the sails in so we could turn around. Bruce, twenty knots, and Merlin’s speed was peaking in the high teens as she who was still at the helm, kept an eye on Rick as best he could and took caught each swell that passed under her. We had clawed back twenty miles occasional rough compass bearings on his position. a day after finding ourselves eighty seven miles behind the leaders at roll We got the downwind sails on deck and under control and returned call on day three, and the crew was re-energized after learning that Merlin our attention to recovering Rick. I looked back, and he was nowhere to be was only seven miles behind the front runner, Pyewacket, at the morning seen. We had left him behind while dealing with the spinnaker and staysail roll call. We were back in the hunt, and I knew that our position north of and he had disappeared in the large seas. It was my job, as navigator, to find the fleet gave us good leverage on the competition if wind continued to him. clock as forecast. We didn’t have GPS or chart plotters back in 1987. Satnav had been I had just gone off watch, and was below making a sandwich when I in use for about five years, and the technology only gave you a position fix heard two hard foot stomps on the deck followed by the “twang” of the once every few hours. The Satnav receiver was not connected to the boat’s lifelines as a huge load on them was released. I knew instantly what had instruments and it wasn’t useful in computing a dead reckoning position. happened, and it was immediately confirmed by Bruce Burgess at the helm It was like old fashioned navigation with a chart, dividers, parallel rules, and yelling “Man Overboard!” sextant, with the Satnav unit taking the place of the sextant. There was no Bruce instinctively rounded the boat up as I came on deck, and there MOB button to hit that would help us navigate back to Rick. I had logged in the water just a boat length behind us was Rick Lowrey, swimming our DR position immediately after Rick went in the water, but that was of desperately towards Merlin and waving to us that he was not injured. He no use to us in finding him. We had to wing it. was right there, but it became clear very quickly that Merlin was making Bruce’s bearings gave us general direction toward Rick, but that leeway through the water faster than Rick, a former Navy Seal, could swim. heading was almost dead upwind, and we couldn’t point that high. I figured It hadn’t seemed that windy as we were sailing down wind. Merlin was he was about a third of a mile to windward of our position, so we headed probably averaging thirteen knots, and that dropped the apparent wind off on port tack for two and a half minutes sailing under mainsail alone, then down to near ten knots. But when Bruce laid her down, the apparent wind tacked to starboard. After a couple of minutes on starboard tack one of the increased as our speed dropped. We were sliding sideways through the crew spotted Rick on the surface ahead of us, waving. We pulled up to water, heeled over fifty degrees as each collapse of the spinnaker threatened him, luffed to a stop, threw him a line, and pulled him aboard. to tear the rig out of the boat. I think most of the crew, myself included, were in a state of mild shock We had a heaving line with a plastic donut at the end coiled on the after we recovered Rick. I thought we’d lost him. The only one who pushpit for just this situation. Skip Steveley did a good job of throwing it, clearly wasn’t in shock was Rick. After being pulled aboard he rushed but the twenty knots of wind blowing from the direction he was trying to below, returned immediately with a knife in his hand, and dove back toss the line prevented it from getting more than a fraction of the distance overboard holding a line. He had seen the sheets fouling the rudder and to Rick. went back in the water to clear them. I suppose it was his Seal training I was standing in the companionway, and instinctively reached up and that taught him not to panic and focus on solving the problem. It didn’t take eased the mainsheet. None of us realized it at the time, but this turned out him long to clear the lines from under the boat, and in less than a minute to be counterproductive, as it allowed Merlin’s bow to fall a few more we had him back aboard and Merlin aimed again for Honolulu. degrees off of the wind and she started to crab forward slowly, increasing The crew refocused on cleaning up the mess, running new sheets and the speed at which we were leaving Rick behind us. guys, and getting another spinnaker on deck. We got the kite set, and It became apparent to the eight of us left aboard Merlin that we weren’t Frederic Berg checked the stopwatch he had started when Rick first went going to recover Rick unless something changed quickly, and the decision overboard. Eighteen minutes had elapsed. was made to drop the spinnaker. Tripping the guy at the outer end of the Merlin was first to finish, and also won the Steve Newmark pole, the normal practice when the pole was forward like this, was out of Seamanship Trophy for her successful man overboard recovery. 8 !
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!)0 %5;;L%=;2312:%7;%/;A2%>1 27-4->1 7-;<% 1<:% 305 4;D 0% /;A% R;- <- ! 9 Kaneohe Yacht Club 3/3/19 Classboat B Results CAL 20 FLEET Andrew Meade Photos: Ken Fitzgerald-Case Cal 20 Fleet R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Place Andrew Meade 4141 10 1 The Cal 20 season has begun! Classboat B was the first regatta of the year after a stormy Jesse Andrews 1254 12 2 westerly forced a cancellation of Classboat A in Fuzz Foster 6323 14 3 February. Jeff Cruise 2435 14 4 Our first start of the year could not have Steve Thomas 3716 17 5 been in better sailing conditions: a sunny winter day with 10 to 16 knots from the north. Twelve Frederic Berg 7572 21 6 boats competed in very tight racing with the top Mike Bacon 5668 25 7 5 places finishing within 7 points of each other. Mick Meierdiercks 8810 7 33 8 Thanks to the Team Papio for supporting the Robin Fontenot 9 11 8 10 38 9 races and putting on a good competition. Our fleet's next race will be a special event, Dawson Jones 10 12 99 40 10 where fleet owners lend their boats to the Tim Roy 11 9 11 13 44 11 Wahine Series skippers on April 14. Steve Valentin 12 10 12 11 45 12 Our first Bay-of-Pigs race will be held on Thursday April 18. Never heard of this race Race Committee: Pete Stokka; Colby Curtis; Linnea Brooks Safety Boat: Ken Fitzgerald-Case; Jackson Butler before? Well, "Pigs" is the affectionate nickname for our portly little racing yacht, the Cal 20. Being that we race on a Bay, Bay-of-Pigs became the lighthearted nickname for when Cal 20s would participate en masse in the Thursday night Bulkhead races. The atmosphere of these races has become akin to KYC's Bullship, mixing fun and competition. This will be the first year that the fleet kick-off Bay-of-Pigs race will coincide with the actual anniversary of the Bay of Pigs, of 57 years ago. See you on the water! Andrew Fuzz Foster at the windward mark Lucky Bucket, Pilikia and Luka Classboat B 3/3/19 Photos: Ken Fitzgerald Case 10 An Old Sailor’s Story By Martin “Mac” McMorrow On March 23 the Kaneohe Yacht Club participated in some water safety drills including firing distress flares. My thoughts went back to 1960 when we sailed the USS Chadron (PC 564) into the Fiji Islands on a summer cruise. We tied up at an old wooden dock a little way from Suva and went ashore for liberty. One evening I got back and the duty section had pointed our movie camera onto the wall of a small shed on the dock. The Safety at Sea Seminar KYC Photos: Kim Ickler dock was super crowded with islanders watching one of our Hollywood movies (albeit a very old movie). It was kind of a “Hands Across The Sea” thing. That night we were getting underway and the Harbormaster (a British expat.) came aboard to pilot us out of the harbor. He told us that a Russian warship had been in the harbor the previous week and when they left they put on a pyrotechnic show that really dazzled the Friday Night Dinghy Fijians. He said the islanders were waiting to see what we, the greatest Navy on earth, were Series 2019 going to do when we left. When we said we Vice Commodore Mike Van Woerkom (center) By Andy Bates weren’t prepared to do anything he said he had in the pool during the life raft drill just received a shipment of distress flares 10 of Safety at Sea Seminar The Friday Night Dinghy Series starts which he had brought out in a box in his little Friday, April 12th and runs until September skiff. He said when we cleared the harbor he By Kim Ickler 27th this year. The racing starts at 6PM sharp would light a couple of them off while he was and ends at dusk, normally around 7:15. The near us thereby preventing any shame from The US Sailing Safety at Sea Seminar I-14 fleet runs the racing and keeps track of falling on the US Navy. the nightly and season scores. If you have any conducted here at KYC on Saturday, March 23, So, when the movie ended we cast off and questions contact Andy Bates through the 2019 was very successful. Twenty-three we milled around the harbor entrance while the office. Hawaii based sailors participated and old fellow lit the fuse on the first flare. The The races have 6 different classes of boats successfully completed the class work. US fuse didn’t stay lighted so he threw the flare in racing; Toppers, El Toros, Bics, Lasers, Lasers Sailing Safety at Sea Chairman, Chuck Radials, and 420s. the water to be sure it didn’t flare up while he Hawley, was the moderator. Support was If you want to use a club boat you must was lighting a second flare (which also fizzled provided by KYC members Steve Chamberlin, contact the KYC Sailing Master, Jesse out). Ultimately all ten flares were floating in Hill “Buzz’ Blackett, Mark Logan, Rick Andrews. He can be reached through the KYC the water as the folks on the dock stood Shema, Mike Broderick, and Tim Hudson; Office during the week. If you bring your from wondering what was happening. It was then Pearl Harbor YC member Doug Pasnik, another club boat make sure to drop the boat at that the “Can Do” Navy took charge. The Bobbie Martin of Liferaft and Marine Safety, the dingy dock and move the car and trailer to Captain (a lieutenant commander) ordered the the back parking areas. and Dr. Robert Donovan. The USCG gave ship’s gunner’s mate to “Man the three inch These races are for Junior sailors who backing and permission to the live flare deck gun and stand by to fire three star shells!” have a minimum of basic sailing skills, and demonstration, and MCBH, HPD and HFD Star shells are meant to light up the some experience with sailboat racing. Each were aware and in the loop at 911. battlefield and are very bright. They explode in person must be responsible enough to rig, The number one cause of death on the de-rig and care for the boats so they can be the air and the bright burning phosphorus drifts water is failure to wear PFDs which results in used the next day for Junior sailing classes!!! down slowly on little parachutes. drowning, and as recently as March 28, it Make plans to come down to the club at It is many years ago since we unleashed happened yet again off Kaaawa. Please wear 6PM on Fridays this summer to listen to the three rounds over the heads of the watching your PFD! music, watch the dingy racing, and eat islanders. However, although they may no On behalf of the participants, I want to wonderful Friday Night dinners----It’s a longer remember what the Russians did to thank the BoD, KYC's members and Shaun family affair at KYC. If you bring guests impress them, I do not believe they ever forgot don’t forget to remind them to swim in the and his team for the hearty support of this the American Navy and especially how fast pool, not off the bulkhead. event. they ran from the wooden dock when the gun roared, the shells exploded and the phosphorus burning parachutes drifted down. I assume we did not include the event in the ship’s log. Probably just a singe line — “Departed Suva Bay, no unusual occurrences.” Mac sends. 11 Boat Sail# Skipper R1 R2 R3 Total Final Pos Restraining Order 11 Andy Johnson 1 1 3 5 1 Mojito 678 Team Mojito 7 2 1 10 2 Yellow Dragon 87377 Jesse Andrews 2 5 5 12 3 Cash Flow 5079 Bob Ale 5 6 2 13 4 Joust 220 Rick Osborne 4 3 7 14 5 Papio 587 Pete Stokka 3 4 8 15 6 IRF Report, March 10, 2019 Pursuit 844David Nottage 6 7 4 17 7 by Andy Johnson Alohalani 547 Jeff Remily 11 8 6 25 8 Crusader 370 Bob Stephenson 9 9 9 27 9 The first race day of the IRF A series was windy, shifty and down Shaman 2 Victor Lozano 8 9 11 28 10 right crazy. The second day of the IRF A series was just plain windy. Rakali 158 Mark Andrade 10 11 10 31 11 A steady 15-20 plus breeze was the forecast and sure enough we saw RV Aloha 335 Ray Sanborn 13 10 9 32 12 that much. Everyone had a good time in our wonderful trade winds. Purple Flash 1865Rocky Young 121212 36 13 The fleet continued with the demolition theme of 2019 and saw more crashing. Yellow Dragon lost the outboard motor off their transom when it got clipped in a close encounter with another competitor and Crusader had to retire from racing when their boom was damaged in the first race. So now that Davey Jones' locker has a new/used motor it is clear that: YES, we all need more practice!! Restraining Order finally won a race day after 2 years in the fleet. Rounding out the top five were Mojito, Yellow Dragon, Cash Flow and Joust. Thank you to the race committee made up of PRO Tom Pochereva, Dick Perkins, Craig Fletcher and a few other castaways. As always thanks to Ken Fitzgerald-Case for all the awesome photos to document the great day we all had on the water. Restraining Order making waves Alohalani & Papio on the downwind run Starting line action Yellow Dragon no motor in this picture Photos: Ken Fitzgerald Case 12 Cash Flow at the weather mark TTeeeameaam maxemaxeymmamaxa xey 80 8-38 2-10 50 | www .K ail uaH omes.com | Ri ck M@bhhshawai i.com Lo cal f ath er -da ugh ter rea l es tate e xperts Ri ck an d Nan i Maxey (RA) RS -57 234 | RS -80 275 repr esen ng t wo g ene ra ons of K ailua ! BH HS H awai ’i Re alt y | R B-21 863 Upcoming Ka il ua List ing! Spaciou s Kailua home located on a pea ce ful cul -de -sac, whi ch ba cks up ag ai nst pres erva tion l and . T he 10,000 + sq ft l ot f eatu res 5 bedr ooms, 3.5 ba th roo ms , an e nclos ed ga rag e, and m uc h mor e! St ay t uned or call Team Max ey fo r mo re det ails. A N at ur e Enth usia st ’s Parad ise | 46 -348 Hol ol io St. Hai ku Pla ntation s | 4 Beds | 4 B aths | 1.065 acre s | $1 ,62 5,000 | ML S—20 19034 95 Star t yo ur h om e s earc h tod ay at Max ey Home sHaw aii.com Recipe Of Th e Mon th: Seafood Lin guin e By: Je nny Law son vi a allreci pes. com Ingre dient s Instr uct ions 2 (9 ounc e) packa ge s fr esh 1. Bring a la rge pot of light ly sal ted li nguine pa sta water to a b oil . Ad d pa sta, and c ook 1/4 c up but ter for 3 m inu te s, or un til al de nte; dr ain . 1 cl ov e garli c, ch op ped 2. Melt but te r i n a lar ge ski ll et ov er 1 cu p heavy cre am medium hea t. Sau te ga rlic unt il t en- 1/2 poun d i mitat ion c ra bmeat der. St ir in c re am , and c ook until thick ene d, a bout 5 minu tes. Ad d im- 1/2 poun d c ook ed sa lad shrimp itation crab, shrimp, Parmesan 1 cu p freshl y gr ate d Pa rmesan cheese , and sal t an d p eppe r. R edu ce che ese heat to lo w, and cook for 2 to 3 minut es , unt il hea te d through . sal t an d p eppe r to tas te 3. Tr an sfer coo ked lin gu ine to a ser vi ng 1 table sp oon chop ped f resh pl att er, an d top w it h sea foo d sauce. parsl ey Garnish wi th parsley . DToEnNleNi DISa rFneLllEET March was a great month for more winds and rain with the sun peeking out at times to allow the hardy players to get on the courts. One of those days was March 16 for the monthly round robin tournament. there was great participation with 21 players....7 men and 14 women! Fleet Captain Susie Jannuzzi announced the winners: First Place - Aaron Phillips and Greg Siok, tied, and Lynn Pease Second - John Gross and Linnea Brooks third - Richard Leclerc and Susie Jannuzzi Others playing were Kit Beuret, Jan Bodnius, Steve Brooks, Betsy Denzer, Jean Fernie, Laura Goddard, Sime Gross, Ko Isayama, Pam Isayama, Kathy Joy, Ayelish Kerber, Liz Meierdiercks, Sherri Phillips, and Cindy Siok. Susie also announced that there has been work on getting the South Court resurfaced and it is planned to be in the budget next year.....details to follow. Let's Talk! The ‘Luck of the Irish’ Potluck was amazing with at least five platters of corned beef along with cabbage and various kinds of potatoes. The salads, the roasted vegetables, including glazed carrots, soda bread, and desserts were contributed by over 40 members attending.....all delicious! The Irish music added to the atmosphere and there was even a tutorial for doing the Irish jig. The River Dance was exciting to watch on big screen but no one was able to try. However, we had some game ladies (not one male) who watched and practiced the Irish Jig and four brave and breathless lassies won the bottle of wine for demonstrating the dance. They were Cindy Siok, Diane Minsky, Linnea Broks and Francine Mendes. Way to go ladies. Thanks go to Sime Gross and Margaret Peebles for the festive St. Patrick’s Day decorations, to June Williams for taking care of the food donations, Wayne Jackson for assembling the tournament players, Greg Siok for seeding the players, and Lou Darnell for the videos and music. Sherri and that Durn Ball And speaking of music.....requests kept Lou busy until the bar closed us down after 10 o’clock, where we finished the evening singing ‘Hawaii Aloha’ and even though we didn’t know all the words it was great. April 13 will be the next event and more information as to theme and menu choice will be announced later. Plan on being there!!! Aaron with style! Richard Leclerc Diane and Harvey Minsky up close and personal Dining in Style Photos: Donlei Darnell John and Sime Gross No Men Needed 14 KANEOHE YACHT CLUB JUNIOR SAILING SUMMER 2019 Ses sio ns run Ju ne 3 - August 10 Classes ar e hel d Monday - Friday REG IS TR ATION INS TR UC TIONS : Mini mum age requi rement for al l cl asse s is 9. Reg ist ratio n is av ai lab le ONLINE on ly. Fo llow the si gn-up link prov ide d on the KYC web si te fou nd at: htt p://kan eo he yach tcl ub .com /web /pa ges/ sum mer A PARENT or LE GAL GUARDIAN must register the ir chi ld and el ec tron ica lly si gn the “Kan eo he Yach t Club Jr Activities Wai ver ” in or de r for pa rtici pa tion (the waiver will be emai led to you on ce pay men t is rec ei ved ). Multipl e sib ling s: Each chi ld m ust be ful ly reg ister ed an d pai d for ind ividu al ly. The sy st em will give you the op tion to register an othe r pa rtici pa nt after ea ch ch ild is pai d for . Class siz e is li mited an d on a first co me, first serv e basi s. Pay men t is requi red for class pl ace men t an d/or to be ad de d to a w ai tlist . CANCELL ATION / REFUN D P OLI CY : Class fee s are ful ly refun da bl e up to 7 day s prior to t he first da y of the sess ion . Can cel latio ns r ece ived aft er the refun d pe riod are NON-REFU NDABLE . A ful l refun d w ill be issue d for wai tlist ed pa rtici pa nts tha t do no t make it int o a cl ass . Fe es w ill NOT be pro rate d/r efun de d for missed cl ass t ime o f an y kind e.g. can cel latio n due t o ba d wea the r, chi ld il lne ss, fam ily trips , late registration or drop out, etc . SESSION D ATES : Session 1 : Ju ne 3 - Ju ne 7 Session 4 : Ju ly 8 - Ju ly 1 9 Session 2 : Ju ne 10 - Ju ne 21 Session 5 : Ju ly 2 2 - August 2 Session 3 : Ju ne 24 - Ju ly 5 (n o cla ss Ju ly 4 th ) Session 6 : August 5 - August 9 PRICING: Pric es are PER CL ASS / PER S ESSIO N CLASS TIME Session 1, 6 Session 2, 4, 5 Session 3 AM Beginnin g Topp er 9: 30 -12: 30 $165.00 $330.00 $297.00 PM Adv anc ed Topp er 1: 30 -4: 30 $165.00 $330.00 $297.00 Intr o to Sin gleh an ded 9:30 -12:30 $14 2.50 $28 5.00 $26 5.00 AM Rac ing 9: 30 -12: 30 $142.50 $285.00 $256.00 PM Rac ing 1: 30 -4: 30 $142.50 $285.00 $256.00 DIS COUN TS: Di sco unt eli gibili ty wil l b e ve ri fi ed. 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