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Vernon Yacht Club Pub. Mail Agreement No. 40650589 Return Undeliverable Canadian Mail to: Vernon Yacht Club 7919 Okanagan Landing Road Vernon, BC ,V1H 1H1 Delivery Address: February 2011 Features • Executive Reports; Minutes Summary Page 3-5 • VYC Sailing 101 Page 7 • Security Team Page 8 • Messing About in Boats Page 9 • AGM Minutes Continued Page 10 • Members’ Classified Page 11 • Cont. AGM Minutes Page 12 • Cont. AGM Minutes Page 13 • Cont. AGM Minutes Page 14 Photos by Rob Ladan • Members’ Wait List Page 15 • Cont. Members’ Wait List Page 16 • Vernon Power and Sail Squadron Page 17 Do you have ideas for Tiller Topics, do you have an • Dart Night Page 18 opinion you would like published? Tiller Topics grate- • January 2011 VYC Calendar Page 20 fully accepts your submissions. Please drop them off at the club or e-mail them to [email protected] Page 1 VYC - 2010—2011 Executive 7919 Okanagan Landing Road, Vernon, BC V1H 1H1 Name: Position: Home: Work: Cell: Tim Amy Commodore 542-6322 833-2444 833-2444 Mike Thomas Vice Commodore 545-8501 545-8501 549-0320 Lawrence Johnson Rear Commodore 260-8003 Rick Reichelt Staff Captain 558-5598 542-5550 309-2311 Bob Montguire Fleet Captain 545-8851 308-7879 Gary Pearson Treasurer 979-0359 717-5700 859-5800 Terri McLennan Secretary 549-5056 549-2558 307-7140 Jim Caldwell Past Commodore 260-5846 540-5846 Dean Myrfield (house & grounds) Director 1 Year 558-3636 549-5251 308-6904 Dave Atkins (By-laws) Director 1 Year 542-2668 550-0186 Dan Irvine (Docks) Director 1 Year 549-0119 549-4161 549-0119 Allen Dubeski (dir. at large) Director 2 Year 549-4531 545-9188 558-8478 Jerry Spelchan (membership) Director 2 Year 545-4564 549-0051 Craig Williams (Publicity) Director 2 Year 503-8993 558-1111 503-8993 Vernon Yacht Club phone number 545-5518 Tiller Topics’ Team to date: Vernon Yacht Club fax number 545-0388 Hanny Kooyman - Layout & Design Please leave a message if no one is there to answer your call. John Clark - Proof Reading All phone messages are followed up. Cees Kooyman - Mailing Terry Rudersdorfer - Website Allen Dubeski - Advertisement Vernon Yacht Club - Email Address: [email protected] Vernon Yacht Club - Website: www.vernonyachtclub.com Regular Contributors: Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 8:30 am until 2:00 pm. Dave Atkins -Messing about in Occasional changes to these hours will be posted on the office door. Boats Carol Craske -Valley Girls; Rac- ing; Sailing Lessons Important Notice to All Members : If you access the clubhouse with your Ron Heuman -Security Team key card and are confronted with the alarm going off while you are in- Dave Horsham -Sailing Fleet Dan Irvine -On the Water Front side , please follow this procedure: Re-swipe your card at either entrance. Kerry Richardson -Correspondent Then call the security company and identify yourself and have them cancel Patricia -Newcomer’s Point the alarm. The phone number is posted at both entrances. If you fail to do Rudersdorfer of View this, the club can be billed up to $150.00. Your cooperation is greatly ap- Doug Stewart -CPS News preciated. Executive members and * Submissions for Tiller Topics can be sent via e-mail to: many occasional writers and [email protected] photographers. **Deadline for submissions : the second week of each month. Page 2 Commodore's Report Tim Amy By popular request, the list of members waiting to be The Club’s assigned moorage is to be published in this news New Year’s Eve letter and at strategic times of the year. (page 15-16) Party was sold out Your three person Moorage Committee works hard and well organised to ensure that moorage is assigned fairly and sensi- by Fleet Captain bly. Rick and the many members it takes to Planning is already underway for the VYC Charity put this event to- Regatta, chaired this year by Dave Simpson. This gether. annual sailing event attracts 70 sailors from the Okanagan and some from out of Province, raising in While few of you are out boating at this time of year, excess of $20,000 which is donated to the Okanagan your Yacht Club is busy. Rachael is dealing with re- United Way. cording membership dues as they begin to come in, contracts and financing for the expansion are being The Club’s sailing fleet also provides basic sail train- fine tuned, the schedule of VYC events is being de- ing for 10-12 members and non members, usually in veloped and will be out to you ‘soon’! the Spring and as advertised on the web site. Long time member Jim Forster has kindly under- With the dock expansion the mast gantry will be re- taken to organize club photos into a record of club moved from the end of B dock, to be replaced with history, renovation of club house interior will continue perhaps an upgraded and stronger version on the with a sound absorbing vinyl applied to the walls, dolphins at the pump out dock. The design and engi- ‘soon’! neering of this gantry is a hot topic among the Club’s sailors this winter as they enjoy their evening Director Craig Williams is arranging a monthly boat- Ovaltine. I wonder what they will come up with ? ing article with local news media. If you have any boating related story or information which might be of Remember to renew your membership and moorage interest to the citizens of Vernon, please let Craig SOON, it is a very good deal. Spring and sunshine know. and boating season will be upon us soon. Tim of View Page 3 Rear Commodore’s Report Lawrence Johnson A Happy New Year to all . Not much to report As well we will be getting started on B dock this over the holiday month and I would like to thank everyone for their season. However, support. we are still moving forward with further Regards, renovations in the lounge. Lawrence Fleet Captain’s Report Bob Montguire I have placed as to what is required, we will start to assign moor- a copy of the moor- age for this year. age wait list in this issue. (page 15 Please don't phone the office looking for moor- &16) The list is up age. We will phone you if you are assigned moorage to date but the for 2011. moorage shown is for last year. As soon as we receive Bob Montguire enough intent forms to give us an idea Page 4 Staff Captain’s Report Rick Reichelt Happy New For those of you who attended the New Years Eve Party: Thanks for participating; it was a great night. Year to all of you. We are working on our events schedule for the year I look forward to a and will have it out soon. Lets hope Spring arrives great year at the soon. club. The renova- tions are really Rick looking good and we will continue with more improve- ments. Vernon Yacht Club Minutes Summary By Teri McLennan, secretary Jan.10, 2011 . • • Dock expansion expected to start in early 1) New full time member and (1) Assoc. February. member have joined. • • Will look at publishing the moorage wait list in Renovations are on-going. Come check out Newsletter. the changes! • Will have calendar of VYC events for 2011 . soon. Teri Page 5 Page 6 VYC’s Sailing 101 Don and Carol Craske’s ever popular Introduction to Sailing Lessons has been taken over by the ‘three Daves, and Jamie’. For a number of years Don and Carol’s program has been run each spring after the Boat Show and has provided a first sailing experience for many new sailors. The three Daves (and Jamie) will be putting to- gether a similar program for 2011, with details to follow. As in the past, the lessons will include both class- room and on-the-water sessions given by a number of VYC sailors. While the lesson topics are yet to be final- ized, some new ones might include: Dave and Craig’s ‘Voice projection and laughing at sea’; Jamie’s ‘Creative use of tuck tape’; Sandi and Debbie’s ‘Girls sailing around buoys’; Laurence’s ‘Proper use of sun- glasses at sea’; Bob and Ken’s ‘Right-of-way rules for anchored boats’; Bob’s ‘Bob around on boats’; Dave’s ‘wood wood and more wood’; Steve’s ‘Ten foot-itus’; Doug’s ‘Chaos theory’; and, Dave’s ‘Crew manage- ment and motivation for the single handed sailor’. These lessons are open to VYC members and non-members alike, so, if you or someone you know would like to experience sailing, please contact DaveS ( [email protected] ) (250-542-0053) for more information. Page 7 Tracks in the Snow Yacht Club has turned Okanagan Lake waters, the Secu- Security Team concept works, Our into a winter wonderland rity Team is preparing to gear up give the Team Leader, Ron Heu- with all the snow providing a white for Summer security posture. It is man, (558 1063) a call or speak blanket on boats stored on land anticipated that most Team mem- with the Deputy Team Leader, MJ and those still in moorage. One of bers will return for another season Watson, who is generally at the our intrepid security team mem- and, why not! It is a fun experi- Club on Friday evenings hosting bers used the new snow to follow ence to enjoy a calm early morn- the ever-popular “Friday Night Din- tracks around the boats on land to ing as nature wakes up in the ma- ners.” check that no villainous acts were rina or the laughter of the evening perpetrated.