The Lake Beulah Yacht Club Commodore—Frank Davenport Mainsheet Secretary—Steve Barth Vice Commodore—Chris Kubicek Treasurer—Dick Dow Rear Commodore—Vicki Bohl Member at Large- Don Stein —

House & Grounds— Past Commodore—

Frank Rappold Robert Klement Social—Peggy Krueger

May 23, 2014 Spring Issue #2 www. lbyc.us

way to Commodore’s Comments Pickerel ::: Lake or have a Trees have leaves, the grass is the activities are endless and it beer or green and temps have reached into is every weekend. It’s fun, but I just two and the 70’s, I guess summer is actually never have enough time. I’ve wanted putt on its way! I am always so excited to retrace our epic canoe trip to Pick- along this time of year for summer to start, erel Lake when I was just a young lad the to be back out on the water racing or many years ago but haven’t been shore- leisurely putting around the lake with able to find time to do that yet. There line checking out all the new con- friends checking out what’s new have even been summers past when struction going on this summer around the lake. It’s funny, though. I never went swimming all summer. In (rumor has it there is a fair amount of No matter how bad the winter or how my book that’s sacrilegious. And, for that going on), give me and Julie a excited I might be, there is always a those of you with kids, I can’t begin to call because we’re in! little sense of dread this time of year imagine what that’s like. It’s got to be as well. That’s because once Memo- crazy. But this year I’m going to try to rial Day hits it just gets so crazy – make time to enjoy our lake a little Frank Davenport regattas, parties, entertaining, the 4 th , more. So, if you want to paddle your

Summer is on its’ way and the “Slow Ride” is cruising again. “Slow Ride” belongs to Steve and Mary at the dock using 110v power and a charge Schmitendorf and moors at their pier in the will last about 10 hours. This unique boat is upper lake. On Sunday, May 18th, Steve and made in New Port Beach, California by Duffy. his daughter Sara and her husband Neil See- Yacht Club members John and Patti Noel also ger (they are new members of the LBYC) have this style boat. The cruiser will carry 10- went for a wonderful leisurely ride up the 12 passengers and is comfortable even in channel and into the big lake. Steve says that November as the flip-up flexible plastic side it reminds people of the Jungle Cruise boat. windows keep it nice and cozy. “Slow Ride” is The 21 foot boat is electric and runs on 16 just that. Maximum speed is 6 miles/hour. rechargeable golf cart batteries. It recharges by Carol Stein

SAVE THE DATE – 6:30 PM June 21, 2014 for the singular LBYC Theme Party of the Summer Season. Watch for emails!

The Opening Party is tomorrow, Saturday May 24th 6:00 pm It will be so good to see you again! Your pals will all be here. No reservations? Join us for a drink ! FROM THE SAILING COMMODORE

3) Slip loop through large center hole, height Many thanks to John Por- and back through U slot. of the cylin- ter for donating the winding der resulting in reels for our new buoys. They 4) Properly cinched winder can be less tilt and are a little different than the previous placed into water: WARNING: winder shorter wood winders. The pictures below must be attached to SIM because IT height. illustrate how to properly use the WILL SINK! (Sko has verified=.). winders & SIM cylinders. 5) Hold buoy above water and allow 1). We have four main parts to the ballast weight to pull SIM into water, 6) Success! SIM buoy system: mushroom anchor, sealing and inflating SIM buoy. The new SIM’s are very visible and winder, ballast weight, and SIM cylin- The more upright the cylinder when easy to transport in your PRO boat. der. placed into water, the taller the cylin- 2) After reaching the proper depth for der. Big breezes will tilt the cylinder, Chris Kubicek the anchor, form a loop in the ¼” line. releasing air and reducing the

Step #1 See ballast Step #2 Make a loop Step #3 Slip loop in Step #4 Put winder into Step #5 Hold buoy Step #6 Lower buoy ball at arrow. In the anchor line. center hole and U slot. the water. upright over the water. into the water. Socially Speaking

dogs, quesadillas, mini corn dogs, Jeff & Joslyn Opening Party - Tomorrow chicken bites... As with our adult serv- Hudson, Ann Night, Saturday, May 24th ings, no guarantees for any one Francene, Bill & night. If you know you’re bringing tots Patti Kercher Wednesday Night Cookouts to dinner and want to be sure there are Cookout 6 - July menu items available for them, give me 2nd begin May 28th - $6 a call ahead of time. Chairs Mark Also new - be on the lookout for our Baranowski & Children’s Menu Added (10 Drink of the Month coming in Jenny Piacenza, and under) - $4 June. Let’s mix things up in the bar Eric & Elaine and try something different. Of course, Rietz, Robert I hope you are signed up for tomor- all the old standbys will still be avail- Hudson, Andy & row night’s Opening Party! Getting able. Beer prices this summer will be Anne Muller, Vicki Clayton, Tim & back together, sharing winter stories, $3 for a 12 oz. serving - check for a Marie Le Roy sharing pre-season sailing adventures, couple new ‘on tap’ choices. Wine Trophy Dinner Party - August 30 th hoping for some warmth... all will be continues at $5 a glass as are the Chairs Glenn & Andrea McMurray, Ka- shared at the party. Saz’s food will mixed drinks for a single pour. Soda tie McMurray, Matt Haeger, Jason & add to the flavors of the night. remains a dollar. Have you tried a Bridgette Bonifield, Andrew Bohl, Dave What’s new this summer? For one cranberry splash? Just $1. Skotarzak, Ben Porter, Shawn & Katie thing, a children’s menu will be added Updated social assignments since Murphy, Mark Misch to our first cookout - Wednesday, May Yearbook Publication: If there have been any switches made 28th. Blond Barbeque will headline the Saturday Party - June 21 st but not shown above, please email me. adult menu. The children’s menu will Chairs Don & Carrie Francene, Jeff have a different ‘main dish.’ Price will Lippert, Brian Bellew & Jane Kiernan, Peggy Krueger be $4. Possible menu items will be hot Monty & Chris Mackey, Kent Haeger, [email protected]

LBYC and Lake Beulah Protective & Improvement Association members please volunteer to help at the Pancake Breakfast . Help for an hour in the morning to assist with the revenue this generates for the yacht club. This a collaboration between the Friends of the Mukwonago River and the LBPIA. Please contact Daniel Bach to offer your services for June 8th .at [email protected] See details on page 7 of this issue. Candace Porter What’s Happening at the LBYC

Fri 5-23 Fleet Meetings MC 6:30 Fri 5-30 Pro/Sig Meeting 6:30 X, O, L 7:30 Wed 6-4 Cookout after 6:00 C 8:30 Sun 6-8 Pancake Breakfast 8 -10am Sat 5-24 Safety Boat Class 3:00 Wed 6-11 Cookout after 6:00 Sat 5-24 Opening Party 6:00 Thurs 6-12 Youth Night #1 Sun 5-25 LBSS Registration 6:30 Tues 6-17 Sidestays’ Meeting 9:30 Wed 5-28 Cookout after 6:00

Cookout Cookout Cookout May 28th June 4th June 11th

Serving after 6:00 Serving after 6:00 Serving after 6:30

Blond BarBQ Iowa Maid-Rites Italian Beef & Fix’ns & Sides Sandwiches Hosts: Brown, Hudec, Hosts: Roble, K Haeger, Hosts: Algers, Dan Kle- Liebovich, Nissly, Ron Klement, Phillips, ment, Smalley, B. Hud- Carol Porter, Chris Porter son, Meller, D Skotarzak P Welscher,

knowledge at the LBSS Trivia Night Fundraiser LBSS News – on July 5. We scheduled this during the July 4 Teen Learn to Sail Offered by Al Haeger weekend so that visiting alums and family could Lake Beulah Sailing School is ready to go! We’ve sched- be there. Start getting your teams together. Re- uled the courses, hired our instructors, updated our equip- member – diversity is the key to success. ment, and planned our publicity. It’ll be great to see the We’re offering our one-week Learn to Sail (LTS) not kids out on the water again. Here are the highlights of our once, but twice, on July 7-10 and August 4-7, summer plans. using Optis. LTS is targeted at kids 6 – 11. Charles Higgins , a sailing coach at Old Dominion A new offering, Teen Learn to Sail in our Flying University (Steph Roble, alum) returns again as Scots is also scheduled for August 4 – 7. Contact guest head instructor for the first two weeks. Carrie Franzene (642-7647) for information. Charles did a great job last year helping our kids Our Adult Learn to Sail , in Flying Scots, begins June and instructors get off to a good start. 16 and runs for 8 weeks on Monday evenings, 6 Another Charles – Kutsch, that is – joins our in- – 7:30 pm. An incredible value at $150 per per- structor group of Kate (the great) Klement, Cul- son! Contact Al Haeger (642-7723) for more len Bar, Michael Barr, and Riley Schmidt. Their information. experience base is growing, and the kids like All of our programs are open to anyone, near and far. Let them. your friends, family and neighbors know about LBSS - the LBSS will again run the Beulah Opti Regatta on best bargain on the lake! June 23. Molly Barr and Nancy Schmidt have Everything you need is at www.lbssonline.org so click become pro’s at running this regatta, which is over, get your forms and send in with payment! always well-attended. You’re going to get one more chance to win fabulous You can also attend the prizes and impress everyone with your team’s LBSS Open House on May 25, at 5:30

Lunch Ladies Needed Kitchen Moms Needed for the X Boat Quad Regatta

LBSS Opti Regatta Monday June 30 and Monday, June 23rd 10am Tuesday July 1, 10:30 am

Easy Menu-Walking Tacos Cut fruit, build sandwiches and plate food. No hot ovens or sticky pans! Please contact Molly Barr Please let us know if you can come help us out, [email protected] Thank you for considering.

Nancy Schmidt Contact Kathy Kiernan or Dee Dee Birbaum [email protected] 642-9022 630-728-7500 or 252-893-1477 CLYC Spring Regatta Andy Burdick and Jimmy Gluek - to the last race of the event! In the final By Joe Sko put on a bit of a clinic to help every- analysis Jim Gluek won the title, with The 2014 Cedar Lake Mother’s one get tuned up. It was too windy to the 317 and then the 12 hot on his Day regatta was a “Porterific Event!” go sailing with the pros but they did a heels. Full results and some of Ben cut everyone a break and took great job talking everyone through Molly’s awesome pictures can be the weekend off, giving others a tuning and setup tips. From there we found at www.cscow.com. All in all a great rest of clan Porter showed up to fill in veteran Paul Reilly for an evening of event, and well worth travelling to the blanks. Dave and Katie and food and drink and sailor-bonding. next year – yes, Lippert/Franzene, Shawn were on the 17, John and Saturday we had nice looking at you, it would be a great Christine were both lacking crews so breezes in the am and went out and warm-up and test for your trailer! MC they joined forces on the 317, Anne got in three quick races before break- sailors also, they had a nice fleet of and Joe Sko sailed the 217 (and man- ing for lunch. The breezes were a bit MC’s and did a great job managing aged to keep the mast straight, one more squirrely in the afternoon and both courses so y’all should join for two on the year and on a winning we were only able to get two more in. Team Sumo next year and make the streak of one in the un-bent mast de- We retired ashore for some more trek! partment) while Andy and Luca and coaching from the Melges team - Mr. Ella Muller cheered from shore, and Gluek was out racing his C scow with Candace was on the race committee us, and Mr. Burdick was out all day in and picture duty and Molly Guehrer the coach boat taking pictures - and (John’s fiancé) was also on camera everyone picked up a few pointers work! In addition, Kent Haeger and from the experts. Next came a great Mike Greeson brought the B-12 to dinner at the CLYC of chicken and offset the lack of Davenports this ribs! weekend. Another fine Beulah show- Sunday dawned bright and ing! Many of us came Friday after- sunshiny and the fleet went out and noon as Melges sent down two of got in three more races. Beulah was their finest long-term representatives - well-represented at the top as the 317 Photo by Molly Guehrer had it rolling and Kent and Mike won Above John and Christine Porter take 2nd place September. In preparation for Worlds, the Upon graduation, she was hired by Chicago Stephanie Hudson Sets crew will compete in Sail for Gold in Wey- Yacht Club as Head Racing Coach where she mouth, England, the Nacra 17 European coached five high school sailing teams. Olympic Goals Championship (France), Kiel Week Ian Andrewes has a professional sailing by Jeff Hudson (Germany), and a host of other events and background and a passion for high perform- training camps. ance race boats. The 24-year-old was born On April 8, LBYC’s Stephanie Hudson and Recently, Stephanie purchased her first into a sailing family. His father, a Kiwi sail- her crew, Ian Andrewes, of Kailua, Hawaii, Nacra 17!!! Lightly used and less than a year maker and offshore racer, started Ian on the announced the formation of “ Odyssey Rac- old, she acquired “GBR 123”. They will pick it path to becoming a sailor and competitor at a ing” and their commitment to train and com- up in England before competing at the Sail for very young age. He became involved in junior Gold Regatta sailing, and participated in many offshore A family tradition as members of the races with his father and at the same time he Lake Beulah Yacht Club, Stephanie learned the science of sail shape as well as first sailed on her father’s C boat at age skills in sewing and sail repair. Currently, Ian 6 and later crewed for her Grandpa Bill races International Moths and distance / off- on his MC. Since age 8, she has shore on bigger boats including performance sailed many different boats including multi-hulls like the AC45s, SL33, & Marstrom Optimists, X Boat, MCs, Club 420, 32. He also sails on larger “Maxi” Boats. Ian I420, 470, FJ, 29erXX, Snipes, and has worked for BMW/Oracle (now Oracle even Laser Radials. After sailing an X Racing) and Core Builders as part of the build boat with Allison Kubicek, Stephanie team of USA-17 (aka DOGzilla) which went won the 2008 Club 420 North American on to win the America’s Cup. Championship, was named a Sailing For Ian, the RedBull Youth America’s World ’s Jobson Junior All-Star, and was Cup was the ultimate sailing opportunity, pete for a spot in the 2016 Olympic Games on awarded the Sportsmanship Award at the manning AC45’s. With initial funding coming board a new Olympic class, the Nacra 17. USSAILING Junior Women’s National Cham- out of his own personal savings, he built a Admittedly new to the coed Multihull fleet, the pionship. She later won the 2009 USSAILING team of his young and hungry sailing friends. team has earned attention after competing in Youth Double Handed Championship. Finishing fifth, Ian now wants to compete in just two international events. Stephanie and While competing for Boston College, the 2016 Summer Olympics. Follow them on Ian qualified to compete at the upcoming Stephanie was a member of the 2012 ICSA Facebook at: www.facebook.com/pages/ 2014 ISAF World Championship along with Women’s National Champions and in 2013 Odyssey-Racing/743795455643478 and on the US Sailing team in Santander, Spain in was named a Collegiate All-American skipper. the web at www.odysseyracing.org/. From the President Yearbook Find a full Schedule Busy, Busy ,Busy. In the last days of of Sidestays' May there is never enough time be- summer 2014 tween gardens, yards, piers, boats, let events inserted alone the routine of our regular lives. in your 2014 So this issue just has some reminders. LBYC Yearbook Don’t forget to Check out the Side- Come to the First Sidestays' event – stays' Shoppe at Tuesday, June 17 th the Opening Party and at 9:30 Brunch Wednesday Night Cookouts. 10:30 Membership Meeting Looking forward to seeing you there. Editor’s Note: The date listed for the meeting is incorrect in the Susan Clayton

SHOP THE SHOPPE New Shirts for Father's Day Chase the winter blues with a Many new itemsitems: New Lake Beulah Sweatshirts Sidestays'’ Broom. New Spring Dresses for the young CHECK OUT THE SALE TABLE! Many items reduced to sell. at heart

Save this date! August 23rd

The Commodore’s Ball Honoring Frank and Julie Davenport Photo left : It all started here for our Commodore! He is the kid with his legs over the side. Great form Frank!

SAVE THE DATE ––– 6:30 PM June 21, 2014 for The Singular LBYC Theme Party of the Summer Season

As of this writing, the theme is “Yet To 3rd Annual Pancake Breakfast Be Determined”. We have a talented team of committee members who are well pre- pared to dance on the tables and shoot out the lights. We’re planning a lively (yet afford- able) and entertaining event featuring vari- ous celebrity entertainers and nobility, guar- anteed to impress even the most skeptical and jaded partygoers of all ages and gen- ders. Proposed features include the de- but appearance of the Sidestays' March- ing Band Sportz Comedy Troupe (SMBSC), MC Trivia contest and a sur- prise appearance by Beyonce – but please don’t let this become public knowledge. The proposed menu will consist of tantalizing appetizers , recipes from the Clueless Gourmet Jimmie Buffet , and ex- otic liquid libation . Bring the folks, bring the kids, and bring the grandparents for the Best Yacht Club Theme Party of this Sea- son, GUARANTEED (if you don’t include Workday) All Ages and Families Invited Reasonable Costs Details to Follow via Email Brought to you by The Franzenes and Committee All LBYC Volunteers Appreciated—Contact Dan Bach

Lake Beulah Yacht Club P.O. Box 833 N9220 East Shore Drive East Troy, WI 53120

Mainsheet Advertising Boat Lift for Sale Policy - With Canopy Frame, 2500 lbs, M Mainsheet Delivery A Good Deal with lift motor. People Needed Shore Master, In great It’s once again time to confirm or Your Board of Directors has deter- condition recruit new Mainsheet delivery volun- mined that member ads will be free older vinyl top teers. Please email Asking $2500 [email protected] to sign up. the first time they appear in the Call Don Stein Delivery begins with the next Mainsheet, one ad per family, once 262-642-7721 issue. It’s easy. Thanks! a season.

Additional ads will be $10 per is- Editor’s Note: Wanted to Buy O.. sue and payment should be made Pontoon Boat payable to the LBYC and sent to 2005 or newer 20-25 ft. It will be 3 weeks until the editor Carol Stein when the ad is Motor: 50-90 H.P. June 13th Mainsheet. emailed. Removable top - Low hours.

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