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NEWPORT HARBOR YACHT CLUB AUGUST 2010 Non-Calm Summer 2010 COMMODORE’S COLUMN D’Eliscu, who had the good fortune to been on a budget process that is preside over the frothy years of 2006- almost zero based, looking at every 08. S/C D’Eliscu was a lame duck at line item for possible savings or even the helm when the wheels came off elimination. The decisions are hard, the nation’s runaway money train. S/C since you can’t go far without running Crispin glided through 2009; everyone into sacred cows, better known was just figuring out they were around NHYC as Traditions. Many of participating in a train wreck. Now our special events are subsidized; the that we are stumbling around with the Club prints and mails an extraordinary train laying on its side and hissing, I amount of items, many of which can think of what it was like for S/C Leon be transmitted electronically. Each full Hessman and S/C Al Rogers who were time position has been reviewed. At Commodores in 1930 and 1931, the same time, our dedicated staff following the 1929 stock market crash. has not had a salary increase in The Club was much smaller then, and almost three years. Hundreds of items s the Commodore’s Cruise much more threatened. The initiation have been reviewed and contested, approaches heralding a great fee was $45 and the Club went with the ultimate question being Aweekend and the long light of without member applications for a asked: Can the number associated autumn upon my term, it occurs to long time. The Board apparently with this item be reduced without me that my view of the Club has abdicated and soon the members lessening the member experience? forever changed. The support from drafted Staff Commodores back into As long as members truly enjoy the members and the sheer fun of my high office. In 1932 S/C Albert Club and all it has to offer, NHYC will exalted and largely powerless Soiland was elected Commodore, 15 remain strong and vibrant. position has produced in me affection years after serving as our first When the world seems a little for the Club that will never diminish. Commodore in 1917. S/C Shirley wobbly it’s always good to glance On the flip side, hopefully the Meserve also did a second stint, 15 back at history. The NHYC history memory will fade of what I call NHYC years after his first term. History often book serves well here. In the depths sausage making, the business of repeats itself, and if this is the case of the Depression, the Club running a $5 million enterprise with here, S/C’s Russell, McCray, and Jones continued on, albeit at a reduced 650 owners. This effort is highlighted may want to start looking for three pace. Still, lunch was served on the from July to October when next year’s stars to sew on their sleeves. deck. Members raced and cruised. budget is produced. The process this Before such drastic measures are The Flight of the Snowbirds began, year has been exceptional. Your taken however, we must look at all Hook Beardslee won the Star Worlds Board and the Finance and Audit alternatives. Toward the end of the in 1934 and 35, and many members Committee are determined to keep Great Depression, the 1939 Board sailed in the 1934 and 36 Transpacs. costs controlled and still deliver considered raising dues and mooring So as NHYC sausage making exceptional member experiences. fees. Finding this politically untenable, continues, I am really looking forward 2010 has been challenging. For the they did what any enterprising Board to the Commodore’s Cruise. The first time in years, we have had would do. They embraced vice and water may not reach 70 at several months that have fallen short spent $600 (almost the Club’s entire Moonstone, but we will have a great of budget. Year-to-date, our bank balance) on three slot machines. time. A recession-busting budget will operating budget remains on the plus This proved wildly successful and be delivered by October. FYI, side, but barely. These are difficult saved the club from ruin, or at least despite the economic malaise and a times for clubs, and I give the members from a dues increase. I resurgence of the Anglers, Vice tremendous credit to our manager wonder if monetizing the domino Commodore Gordon told me recently Tom Gilbertson for balancing cost gang was considered, which would he has no intention of abdicating. containment with a high level of certainly work well today. There is no need just yet to draft Staff service to members. While vice is always appealing as Commodores into office. Reflecting on our present world, I revenue producer, your Board has think of my good friends Staff decided to stick with only spirits for Fair winds, Commodores Person, Garrison, and the time being. Instead, the focus has Brad Avery Cover photo by Maureen Madigan 2 MOONSTONE SUMMER T EN D AYS OF F UN by Mimi Hogan and Sue Warner • Don’t bother having your child get a college degree to secure their financial future. Simply have them start selling 12 volt batteries in Avalon – it’s a 200% mark up ! • There are three boat repair categories to remember on a checklist: we need to fix this immediately; we need to get lots of opinions, over beer, as to the urgency; save it for winter. • As a parent, if you are the first one to your bunk at night, there is no need to concern yourself with the sleeping arrangements of your adult children and their guests. • So, the thing about jumper cables – “Girls, there is potential danger here, don’t ever let these two handles touch, they can arc, they can spark, dangerous, red is positive, black is negative, be very careful”. Not a problem, not touchin’ ‘em, nope, not doin’ it! • Never trust “we have enough”. Check it yourself. • Why is it that we find so many half-empty water bottles and not one half-empty beer bottle? • Some things are just imponderable – the Bermuda Triangle and why the fresh water pumps run when you don’t want • Our Kindle says that a bison is a “humpback shaggy haired them to and won’t run when you do? wild ox”. This one looked pretty tame snuggled up next to the kayaks on the beach at Toyon. • The correct spelling is “m-a-c-e-r-a-t-o-r. Really. • Tuesday through Thursday in Moonstone should be declared • The best banana boats – bananas, chocolate chips, broken a “make up-free zone”. up graham crackers, mini-marshmallows, generous amounts of dark rum – in foil, on the grill. Heaven. • If you hear a “boat noise” in the middle of the night and feel the need to investigate, please refer to “number three” first. • In the shower – generator on (check), water heater on (check), fresh water pump not on – oops, I thought you • Vaseline can do many things – including fixing the seal on the turned it on. head. • Jay is great fun to visit with. Some of his interesting info – • Person #1 – Gosh, those girlfriends are such good sports to Bison and buffalo are the same thing and the ones left on the hike all the way to the top of the peak, across the ridge and island are the smaller versions. back down on the rope line with the guys. Leopard sharks absolutely will not bite you – unless you tick Person #2 – Yeah, I did a lot of that stuff too before he them off by grabbing their tails. proposed. He thinks that there are not pelicans around right now because of el nina and the scarcity of bait balls. When the Santa Catalina Island Goats were here, he actually used to find them in the trees eating the foliage. • If you hear a tiny voice calling you in the middle of the night, it could very well be one of your shipmates who has gone to the cockpit for some reason and locked herself out. • Do two half hitches make one full hitch? If not, why not? • What a beautiful sight – Sea Diamond anchored in the Cove! All NHYC women really, really should join the fun at the Maiden Voyage to Moonstone, October 1-3. Don’t be scared! You can do this! 3 RACING this practice session and turned around. I suspect the effects of the Neil Young Concert the night before may have had something to do with it. Soon after Phil bailed out, so did Scott, but not before taking a quick swim, leaving Erik and Robert to go and see if we could figure out how to survive in the big breeze. As the two of us arrived at Blunt Point, usually the windiest spot on the bay, we were flying. It was time to try a jybe or two. The jybe is possibly the most F INN N ORTH A MERICAN humbling move in the Finn as it requires The Finn has a control which allows several different components. First, you C HAMPIONSHIPS the skipper to control his destiny when must be strong; if you try to throw the going downwind in the big breeze. This by Robert Kinney main across and it does not wish to go, control is called the VANG. How one this usually spells doom as you have uses his Vang is what separates the men already turned the boat down. Second, As we prepare for the upcoming from the boys.

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