December 2020
We’re having a Boat Parade! Boca Ciega Yacht Club presents its 35th Annual Lighted Christmas Boat Parade
Saturday, December 12, 2020 Parade Starts at 6:30 PM Entry Fee: Two (or more) new unwrapped children’s presents OR a check made out to “Operation Santa”, the City of Gulfport’s annual toy drive.
Learn more and register at www.sailbcyc.org/ChristmasBoatParade Boats assemble in Boca Ciega Bay at 6:00 pm. Parade begins at 6:30 pm. Social distancing and other safety protocols will be observed.
More details inside on page 13 Commodore’s Corner Submitted by Cathy Talisman, 2020 BCYC Commodore 2020 Flag Officers Hello Everyone, Commodore Cathy Talisman Hoping that all is well for everybody. Vice Commodore The discussion about the lease has been tabled until December Roger Gilmore 1, 2020 because of COVID-19 concerns. The city meeting will be held at the Catherine Hickman Theater (physically and virtually) Rear Commodore which is a more practical venue for larger numbers of attend- Jenn Buckley ees and social distancing. Let’s show up at this meeting and Secretary demonstrate that BCYC and the city have a long relationship Lisa Glaser that BCYC would like to continue. Treasurer In the spirit of Christmas, we are having our traditional boat Lezlee Kramer parade on December 14, 2020. Even if it is modest, please Assistant Treasurer decorate your boat and dust off your Holiday outfits for the Marty Southard occasion. It is also a time to give and be gracious. We are do- ing the toy drives. We have three decorated boxes at the club. Fleet Captain Whenever and if you can, please drop some. It will pick up by James Masson the Gulfport City police for distribution on 12/14/2020. Board of Directors I would like to thank all of you who kept supporting our club Board Members 2019-2020 this year, all committee chairs, the flag officers and board mem- Beth Berkobein bers. Doug Fuller Thanks to Jim Masson for using his boat Calypso as the Com- Ruth Peterson mittee Boat for the club races; Don Rogers Susan McQuillan for all the wonderful cruises and Full Moon Board Members 2020-2021 cruises; Frank Damico Barbara Meyer and Paula Shur for the Spring and Fall Rhumb Harold Small Runners racing series; Gary Rhoads Mark Rother for maintaining our Capris. Barb Meyer Jenn Buckley for keeping the club together by setting up and Immediate Past Commodore monitoring our Zoom meetings. Nick Southard The Lease Committee for meeting and coming up with sugges- Flag Officer, Board and other BCYC member phone numbers and email tions for the city. addresses available to club members Last but not least, thanks to Marty Southard and his committee at www.sailbcyc.org for putting together a safe and workable schedule to re-open Windword Newsletter published monthly. Submissions deadline Wednesday following the club. Unfortunately, the numbers are against us for the mo- the Monthly General Meeting. ment. But, we are all keeping our hopes up. Email submissions to Jen Rogers: [email protected] At the end of the year, I will pass the Commodore flag to Roger Boca Ciega Yacht Club & Anchorage Gilmore. I wish him all the best. Let’s support him. 4600 Tifton Drive South • Gulfport, FL 33711 727-321-7295 I am sending my best wishes for the Holidays and for a healthy, Mailing address for ALL payments by check: Boca Ciega Yacht Club serene 2021, full of joy and laughter. PO Box 530848 | St. Petersburg FL 33747
View this newsletter in full color online at www.sailbcyc.org 2 Bob White...... December 4 Stacy Goodrich ...... December 5 December Birthdays Elizabeth Hixon...... December 5 Meg Banitch...... December 6 John McLeod...... December 14 Deborah Smith...... December 7 Dan Chesnut...... December 17 Denise Cornwell...... December 8 Paul Stiffler...... December 18 Rick Ogorek...... December 9 Bill Dunlap...... December 19 Corinne O'Donnell...... December 10 Dick Risk...... December 21 Pat Donnelly...... December 11 Paula Shur...... December 21 Matt Maloy...... December 11 Mary Crawford...... December 22 Bubba Gleaton...... December 12 Frank Damico...... December 22 Michele Porter...... December 13 Cheri Glaser...... December 22 Beth Berkobein...... December 24 Tom Buckley...... December 25 Carol Rye...... December 25 Monika Schuler...... December 25 Barbara Meyer...... December 26 Dave Collings...... December 26 Lee Nell...... December 28 AJ Pope...... December 29
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BCYC Merchandise for Sale THE BCYC STORE IS OPEN! Support BCYC and Look Good Too! CONTACT BETH TO SEE THE NEW BCYC GEAR AVAILABLE. Our display case at the club gives you a sampling of items from our ever-changing inventory. They are available for purchase at monthly club meetings and at some work days and club events.
Please email Beth Berkobein at merchandising@ sailbcyc.org, and she will try to accommodate your schedule within reason.
We accept cash or checks only. Checks to be made payable to BCYC. Thank you and smooth sailing!
SEE PAGE 9 FOR MORE HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS!
View this newsletter in full color online at www.sailbcyc.org 3 Thanks to Our Photographers! The most popular part of the Windword each month is the club photos, candid and otherwise. We want to thank all of you shutterbugs out there who send us such great material. This newsletter wouldn’t be the same without you. This month’s contributors are: Mike Cook, Lloyd Mason, Susan McQuillan, Bob Bedinghaus, Beth Berkobein, Barb Meyer, Jen Rogers and Cathy Talisman. Thanks to you all!
Do you have any marine related items you want to purchase, trade or sell? Take a step up from the club bulletin Free Marine Classifieds board. Email [email protected]
FOR SALE: 1983 S2 11.0A 36’. New bottom paint 2019; Mack sails (furling genoa 150); Running rigging 1 yr. old; Universal/ Kubota 32hp diesel engine, 2000 hrs; custom bimini hard top; New Dometic propane stovetop; New Alpicool 40qt. freezer; New 45 lb. Mantus anchor, bow roller and New Lofrans Cayman Wind- lass; Mermaid 16,000 btu air con/heat; New head; New Standard Horizon AIS GPS VHF radio with cockpit mic; Garmin 740; many other extras. $38,000 Lori & John Russo cell: (850) 508-6832, [email protected]. FOR SALE: 1997 Sunfish and galvanized trailer. Full Sunbrella boat cover, good sail with sail cover, spare rudder, spare trailer tire/wheel, paddle. $ 950.00 Contact Pat Nolan [email protected] cell – 206-902-6054
SAILS FOR SALE: Catalina 355 sails. 2013 made by Doyle. 135% jib with blue UV cover $150. Roller main with vertical battens $100. Both come with sail bags. Ken Shur, cell: 727-460-8837, [email protected] WANTED Looking for a 15 lb (approx) Danforth anchor, electric motor and rowing oars for an Avon dingy, and a used dock box. Please contact Elizabeth Hendricks at 727-999-0900 or [email protected] FOR SALE: Mystic; 1971 Morgan 27’. Boat is in great shape for its age! Electric start outboard (Mercury 9.9). Many Sails and lots of extras included. Asking 3600.00 OBO. Will consider all reasonable offers! See Mystic in the BCYC basin, slip B22. Contact: Denis Sousa at [email protected] or 305-900-8524 Greg Sousa at [email protected] or 305-923-9183
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Submit payment to: BCYC Treasurer, PO Box 530848, St Petersburg, FL 33747 Checks made payable to: BCYC Questions or ad specs: Call Lee Nell at 215-518-7671 or email [email protected] Submit artwork (PDF preferred) to: Jennifer Rogers, [email protected]
4 Note: for the safety of everyone, non-waterfront scheduled activities and club functions will be cancelled until further notice. Some meetings will be held virtually and registration will be required . Please check web site calendar for updates and conditions. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday December 2020 1 2 3 4 5 5:30 PM BCYC - Virtual Happy Hour
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Christmas Boat Virtual Board 5:30 PM Meeting 7:00 BCYC - Virtual Parade pm Happy Hour 6:00PM in the Bay 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 5:30 PM Windword BCYC - Virtual Deadline Happy Hour
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27 28 29 30 31 4 PM December Sunset/Full Moon Sail Out Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday January 2021 1 2
Cruise TBD
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Virtual Board Cruise TBD Meeting 7:00 pm
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17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Windword Deadline
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To avoid scheduling conflicts, please contact Secretary Lisa Glaser for calendar updates. Email: [email protected] 5 We still need photos from July new members David & Kristina Bowles, Bill & Karen Dunlap, Dairo Negrini and Justin & Kristin Ruzinok, August new provisional Welcome! members Cody & Kristi Deuter and Bruce & Janet November Provisional Members Kreutzer, and September new provisional member Josh Warden. We want to meet you! Roger & Margaret Daisley Gulfport, FL We need your photo! [email protected] Please send to Boat: None [email protected] and we will print it in the January issue. Thanks!
Dawn Fisher & Cathy Kaiser [email protected] Gulfport, FL Boat: 20' JTC Pontoon
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Support our advertisers. Tell them you saw them in the Windword! 6 webinar to start things off. The program is called "Ask Rhumb Runner Report Dave" and will focus on racing rules and the 2021 Submitted by Barb Meyer, RR Captain changes. Participants will have the opportunity to A recent flurry of racing has made up for the slow fall send in questions and some groups are sending video series. It started with the Capri Championship Re- to Dave for analysis. gatta on November 14th and 15th. Two days of nice There will be an additional 3 webinars dealing with weather with some healthy competition made for a racing tactics. fun weekend. Representing RR’s: Stacy Dochoda, Paula The dates are tentatively set for January and the fee is Shur, Janet Kreutzer, Pat Nolan, Dianne Benedetti, and based on the number of attendees. A survey showed Suzanne Boohar. Look for results and pictures in this overwhelming response from the women’s clubs, so I issue. suspect it will be reasonably priced. I hope that some Next was the Florida Women's Sailing Association of the RR’s can attend. (FWSA) Championship Regatta held on November 17th The RR Winter/Spring racing season starts on January at the St. Petersburg Sailing Center. Heavy air made it 10th and with the new year comes refreshed hope. a challenge but 3 races were completed and all made it back to shore. The hope that struggles are left behind and we can once again share what binds us together, the love of sailing. After all, when everything is stripped away, isn’t that what it’s all about? Wishing each of you a wonderous holiday season and prosperous New Year! Sail fast, live slow, and never be afraid to get your butt wet!
Congratulations to the Rhumb Runner team for placing second in the Ideal 18: Pat Nolan, Pam Nolan, and Meg Bantich in the Spinnaker Class. This is the first time the RR's have placed in this regatta and it's not going to be the last! On our last race day competitors dwindled down to 3 Capris. I can’t justify having more RC members than racers on the water. I knew that monthly club races have had low attendance since COVID and the limited activities at the club. James agreed to add the 3 boats and took advantage of some of the RR RC crew too. The day was a win, win for all. A good way to end the season. The FWSA is sponsoring Dave Perry who will present several programs in 2021. Where it stands now is that there will be a 90 minute
7 BCYC Basin After Tropical Storm Eta Directory Update Time! It's almost time to start working on the 2021 directory. All information in the directory is exported directly from Wild Apricot, so go online NOW and check that yours is correct. It is easy to make updates to your profile. Just sign in to the members portion of www.sailbcyc.org and click the View profile link in the lower left corner below the navigation bar. On the next page click the Edit profile box at the top and update your information. That's it! You may update your profile anytime as needed. Don't have your photo in the directory? Want to update the one that is there? Send your new photo to [email protected] and we will update your Wild Apricot photo too.
Photos by Mike Cook
8 Don't Know What to Get that Hard to Shop For Person on your List? How about some BCYC Gear?
Contact Beth Berkobein at [email protected] to fill your stockings with goodies!
Mia just can't decide which one she likes best.
9 Cruising November 2020 finally able to get it started. In the meantime, Bob Be- dinghaus dove in the water to go ashore to get sunset Submitted by ‘Cruisin’ Susan McQuillan photos. He was patiently waiting for us all to get to November 14th was our last monthly Club Cruise for 2020, which was to Beer Can Island. 3 boats and crew headed out for the adventure across Tampa Bay. The weather was perfect…maybe not for hoisting sails as we were heading into the wind both days, but great for chilling on the beach and sleeping.
shore. Finally, a little after dark, we all got ashore, made a great fire and shared great food. Shrimp was compli- ments of BCYC. One oops was when Guy had his brand new, very ex- pensive oil lantern in the cockpit, which was lit by the way, fell overboard. The next morning, Captain Sandbar ‘ubered’ us to shore, we walked the island, checking everything out. Captain We got our new dinghy over to the boat ramp, put Sandbar the outboard on and tried to start it, all to no avail. We went back bought it used and it was running when we bought it, to The but it sat around for a while and, apparently, needed Rachel and some TLC. After a friend came by to help, as he has dove down knowledge of this motor, and still could not get it and found started, we abandoned the project, locked the out- the lantern, board and dinghy up and headed out knowing that except the Guy O’Connor would ‘uber’ us back and forth to the deflec- island. tor, which seems to be difficult in finding a replacement. Kudos to Captain Sandbar!! Beer Can Island has suffered a lot of damage from this year’s storms. They have built a large stage and have a temporary bar, while building a new one. Lots of excit- ing things are in the works at the Island. If you have not been there in a while, take a cruise over and check it out! Remember, the next ‘Beaver’ full moon sail out will be on Monday, November 30th, with sunset at 5:35pm and moon rising at 5:56pm. Please let me know if you go out and if you have any stowaways. Once we were all anchored, Guy tried to get his motor As always, keep checking Trending Now and the white running, all to no avail. He and Captain Sandbar tried board in clubhouse for updates. and tried, but no go. After letting it set a while, he was Happy Cruising!
10 More cruise photos next page>>
11 November Cruise to Beer Can Island Continued from previous page
12 2021 Flag Officers: Nominating Committee Report Commodore: Roger Gilmore Submitted by Tom Buckley, Committee Chair Vice Commodore: Jenn Buckley At BCYC’s General Membership Meeting on November Rear Commodore: John McLeod 20th, 2020 a motion was made that the below slate of Secretary: Jonathan Cornwell Officers and Board Members nominated by the Nomi- Fleet Captain: Bill Morse nating Committee be noted as having been “elected by Additionally, the nominating committee presented acclamation” as there had been no nominations from Nina Berkheiser as candidate for Treasurer, she was also the floor at either the September or October General elected by acclamation. Membership Meetings. The current Commodore, Cathy Talisman, will automati- 2021 – 2022 Board Directors: cally move into the Past Commodore role. Meg Banitch At the writing of this article, the nominating committee is Stacy Dochoda considering candidates for Assistant Treasurer. John Meyer The Nominating Committee wishes to thanks the many Scott Sharlow wonderful, active members who were willing to serve as an Officer or as a Board Member for 2021.
guests, and extended family to donate to Operation Christmas Boat Parade Santa. Toys may be dropped off at the clubhouse (boxes Each year, BCYC members and members of the gen- will be available 11/10 and on). eral public come together to spread holiday joy by This year, BCYC is going to turn the tables and award decking the hulls and heading out on Boca Ciega Bay each boat a gift certificate to one of our many 2019 to parade the BCYC way! sponsors. BCYC appreciates all our past sponsors and it Boats will begin to gather in the bay around 6:00 pm. is our honor to return the favor by supporting them. Ev- At 6:30 pm, the Gulfport Police boat will call the boats eryone is a winner at this event and no boat goes home together to line up, and will then lead the parade. We empty handed. We would love it if you would help us to start at the Gulfport Municipal Marina and pass by the continue to support these sponsors when doing your BCYC clubhouse on our way out into the bay. Next we 2020 holiday shopping! head to Gulfport's Williams Pier and the beach, pass- Post Parade Party: The decision was made to CANCEL ing by the Gulfport Casino. We make our way through the post parade party. This is for many reasons, all of the communities of Town Shores, Skimmers Point, which are due to the necessity of maintaining social Pelican Bay, past the Pasadena Yacht & Country Club, distancing and other safety protocols. We know this is then to the Pasadena Golf Club Estates where holiday disappointing but we take safety seriously. parties wait for us to pass by. Then we will head back to our slips. Important Info for Members: This year, we will be ask- ing members and invited guests who wish to view the But it's about more than fun and merriment! Partici- parade from BCYC to wear a mask AND to social dis- pants need only a simple fee to enter - two (or more!) tance from others (6-foot rule). This is to protect us all. unwrapped toys for Operation Santa. Operation San- The kitchen will be off-limits and no food will be set out. ta, coordinated by the Gulfport Police Department, You may still bring food for yourselves but we are not collects toys for the children of Gulfport whose holi- encouraging the sharing of food. days would not be as cheerful without the generosity of the community. Boca Ciega Yacht Club is proud to Somehow, we will still find a way to sing BCYC's legend- have been part of Operation Santa for 20 years! ary rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas, possibly at a future Happy Hour! 2020 has been an especially hard year on everyone and this year, due to Covid-19, we have to do things a Learn more and register at: little differently. BCYC is encouraging all its members, https://sailbcyc.org/ChristmasBoatParade
13 2020 Capri Challenge November 14-15
First Place Second Place Third Place Stacy and EJ Dochoda Paula Shur and Janet Kreutzer Pat Nolan and Pam Nolan
14 More Capri Challenge photos next page >> 15 Capri Challenge, continued from previous page
More Capri Challenge photos at https://sailbcyc.org/Gallery
16 November PHRF Racing Submitted by Cathy Talisman You never know what is going to happening when you go on the water. We had the committee boat ready, the safety boat ready and the sailboats ready. Jim Masson was ready to take out Calypso (the commit- tee boat) when we started talking to Roger Daisley of Gulfport, who just joined the club Friday night with his wife Margaret. He hopped on Calypso and worked the race with Jim. Pretty cool for being so new to the club. Roger is looking for a boat instructor to be able to sail the Capris. Well, the motor on our new safety boat decided not to cooperate. Start, stop, start stop. In the meantime, we hailed Mark Rother sailing out of the channel to come in the basin to pick the markers for the race. He picked three markers which obviously took a lot on room on his Impulse 21. Mark and John did set the marks. With the help of Richard Walters, the damn thing started running. Here we go, finally leav- ing the basin and joining the race which had started. We bubbled around and watch the racers. The first race had wind and no wind and wind again. There was enough of a breeze to have three races. Awesome. Mark Rother and John Russo raced on Godzilla; Dave Roberts and crew sailed on Legacy, they even set up a spinnaker for one race; we had four capris with Pat and her husband Martin, Dianne Benedetti and Suzanne Boohar, Kathy Maechtle and Meg Banitch and Stan Yefi- mov. See you on the water. Cathy
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