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Windmill Class Association, Inc. Jouster

Winter 2015

2014 WINDMILL NATIONALS HOOVER, OH PHOTO THANKS TO JULIE COLEMAN WINDMILLCLASS.COM

Windmill Class Business By Sandy Sponar

Directors as our new Treasurer. Lance is a Professor of Business Management at We hope this finds everyone doing well Washington College in Chestertown, in the New Year and surviving the cold MD. He teaches accounting and and snow. In the past few months, a lot auditing. In addition to teaching, Lance of business has been happening in the has over 35 years of experience in Windmill Class Association, Inc. corporate accounting firms. Welcome Pat Huntley To comply with the presidential change Thank-you Sue for letting him take on The Windmill class Johannsen hull # 5703 our class renewed the paperwork for the this role and help our Windmill Class was sold to Pat Huntley. Pat and his wife state of Maryland Articles for Tax continue to grow. Janet will be happy additions to our Windmill Exemption, our MD Department ID# Family. Their background includes sailing in D06127773. Our Non-Profit Federal New Fiberglass Hulls being built: many other classes. They also hope to start a Employer ID number is ID# 47-2704921. new Windmill fleet at their home port of Erie, Our Maryland state and federal tax A beautiful Stars and Stripes Blue PA. filings for 2014 have been completed Johannsen hull #5705 was designed and and filed. commissioned by Chris and Nancy Demler. New business: We want to thank Dee Dee Plessner for all of her past hard The WCA, Inc. also contracted with Mark work. Dee Dee resigned as our Treasurer Johannsen to build a new White class because of other business obligations boat #5704. Both boats should be and we wish her the best. She will completed by early March. continue to be an active Windmiller and If you’re interested in building a new hull race against all comers to Florida. contact Ralph Sponar and Mark Lance Williams volunteered and was Johannsen. Hulls must be built in groups unanimously approved by our Board of of two or more. Lance Williams and Sue Caswell WINDMILL CLASS ASSOCIATION, INC. JOUSTER | Issue # 2

Meet the District Commodores

The southern fleet is really lucky to have Colin owns two windmills. His hull some diverse sailing talent. Several of numbers are #5252 and #4481. our members have other boats some of which include the 505, Flying Dutchman, Day Sailor, Star, and various other awesome sail boats. Along with that and our year-round sailing some even crew on big boats with different clubs. To top that off we even share race committee duty with several clubs which there are many of in this sailing rich environment. The talent goes beyond racing skills, 4 members of our fleet Southern District 1: Florida work for North Sails including one of our Fleet #1 Clearwater most recent Nationals champion Ethan Bixby. Ethan has held seminars on By Commodore Colin Browning Windmill boat rigging, sail trim and

technique with on the water instruction. I first discovered the Windmill back in He’s one of our fleet’s most valuable Mid-Atlantic District 3: NC, VA, 2008 while sailing in a Sunday race out assets. WVA, DC, MD and Delaware of Davis Island Yacht club. It was a light Fleet #82 Rock Hall, MD air day about 4 knots of wind, we were Florida is home to the new Windmill By Commodore Dyer Harris on a downwind leg with the jib poled out builder Mark Johansen. Please check As a kid I was somehow wired to prefer when a Windmill easily sailed past us. It these boats out in the pictures on the boats and sailing over more traditional was Antolin Rivera sailing single handed class website. My ultimate goal is to sports, even though my father could not on his boat named Lady Lane. I thought have a yacht club with deep pockets swim. But a high school teacher and wow, that’s a really cool little boat that I order 5 of these to get the local kids Sailing Club advisor taught me how to could sail single handed in light air or I addicted to sailing. That would continue build, repair, and sail them. The school could sail it with my at the time, 14 year the Windmill tradition and get other fleet included a Windmill, several Snipes, old daughter, the perfect bonding time. clubs interested. The youth is our and a lightning; a gift of Ted Turner. I have never stopped loving boats. I like future. That’s why I volunteer my boat to many was terrorized by second year That’s what’s so cool about the sail in the Junior Nationals. Junior algebra. I barely survived. About the Windmiller’s, everybody helps Nationals is the day which I can totally same time in the sailing club, the advisor everybody out. The Windmill Fleet is like relax on my boat and enjoy seeing the loaned me a yachting magazine in which a family that extends through the U.S. I thrill on the face of a youth sailor. there was an article purporting to really enjoy doing regattas out of state Hopefully while making a lasting describe the physics of how sailboats and having my sailing buddies joining us impression and gaining a fleet member worked. Alas, I could not understand the math. here in Florida from other states. The and future Windmill family member. My best part is having our northern friends home is always open to out of state I was determined to figure it out. So come here in the winter when we can sailors who would like to stay here for determined that I broke out of my share our awesome weather, while regattas, I have 2 spare rooms and a sophomoric funk. I realized I could to do those that didn’t get to come here are spare boat. We have some awesome math if I tried, and that carried me through engineering school at shoveling snow off their driveways. parties amongst our fleet. See ya soon! Vanderbilt. Then advanced degrees; WINDMILL CLASS ASSOCIATION, INC. JOUSTER | Issue # 3

studying fluid dynamics of course, still searching for the sailboat answer, and a career in engineering at DuPont. For the last ten years, I have been running my own engineering consulting company.

Also I teach engineering as an adjunct at Villanova and University of Delaware. So I’m up to my eyeballs in math every day. Do I understand the physics of sailing now? No, I still can’t figure it out. But neither can anyone else that I know of. I just enjoy it as much now as then, even New England District 4: PA, Mid-Western District 5: OH, IL, more with my wife Carol as crew. NY, NJ, CT, RI, MA, NH, VT IN, KY, MI and Missouri and Maine Along the way I sailed a Snipe in Fleet #60 Hoover, OH Chattanooga and South Carolina. Then Fleet #21 Great South Bay NY when DuPont moved me to Delaware, I Fleet # 16 Kansas City left the Snipe behind. I bought a well- used Windmill from a school near By Commodore Jack Cartland By Commodore Craig Tovell Urbana, VA, for my son John and I to I have been sailing a Windmill for the last sail. We sailed it with a little pickup Windmill Fleet #60 will be hosting the 10 years in local, regional, and national group in the shallow northern reaches of longest running Windmill Class racing events. Locally, the Massabesic the Bay, and also towed it to several Association annual event “The Mid- Yacht Club; located in Auburn, NH, is the Nationals. I discovered the Rock Hall Westerns” at Hoover Reservoir on May home of 6 Windmillers who race weekly Yacht Club when Allen Chauvenet; who 30-31, 2015. Please sign up online and the host of the annual MYC Regatta, knew of it from boyhood, suggested www.windmillclass.com and contact which also serves as the Windmill holding the 1999 Nationals there. myself [email protected] for out-of- Northern Regatta. Windmillers who came looked around town housing. We encourage our the big lawn and said, “If this is a yacht I am always interested in getting more Kansas compatriots Skikne, Durand, and club, where are the boats?” But what a boats to the starting line, so feel free to Wood to join us. As always, it will be a place to sail! The best on the Eastern drop me a line anytime you need help to good regatta with great food. Shore that I know of even if 75 miles get out and sail. The MYC also conducts from Wilmington. My Windmill Like most everyone in the class our a learn-to-sail program; on and off the immediately became resident. In the District goal is to improve turnout and water, which has helped new sailors find following years sailing grew back at the build our base fleet. In preparing to host their sea legs and grown our fleet. If RHYC, led by several new members in the 2014 North Americans at Hoover we interested, please visit addition to me who were avid sailors. tuned fleet boats to get them to event http://www.mycsailing.com/documents/ Along the way I was Fleet Captain, then caliber, exhibited when Mike and Dixie learntosail/2015%20LTS%20flyer.pdf Vice Commodore, then Commodore. Mickelson almost pulled off a bullet in We hosted the Windmill Nationals Race 5 for a 3rd place out of 36 teams As several times over those years, and here an observation, teams that put effort we are again. Welcome! into upgrades like John and Allie Coleman as well as Tim and Nate Bachman are climbing up the nationals ladder rungs.

Our fleet tinkering imbued camaraderie and created parity resulting in our fleet trading off leaders in club races throughout the season – something not Jack Cartland races hull number #2117. seen in years and is inspiring. That in itself is success, however not good enough.

We’re are also focusing on improving Dyer Harris sails out of Rock Hall Yacht competition by attracting veteran Club. His sail windmill’s number #5400. dinghy sailors. Especially family sailors WINDMILL CLASS ASSOCIATION, INC. JOUSTER | Issue # 4

and juniors where the simple handling of a Windmill is attractive – not requiring a The Boom spinnaker. Fleet #60 has been fortunate to have some new members and interest for 2015. Within our fleet we have two Stops Here 505 veterans where one of the boats is an all lady college team. Our diehards the Fergusons, Himmelsbachs, and Bachmans are regular racers too.

Another spin-off from the North Americans is gaining three high-end boats and racers mainly thanks to the efforts of Lon Ethington recruiting JY15 Western District 8: California chap Pat and Janet Huntley who recently and Nevada purchased a new boat and are rigging as the snow falls. Chris and Nancy Demler By Ralph Sponar also purchased a new boat. This also By Commodore Darrell Sorensen frees up their boat hull #5045 for so Cam I have been racing outboard boats since The 2015 Windmill Challenge: and Fiancé Melanie to join us in 1961. While living in Eugene, Oregon I Columbus. In keeping up with the  Visit the class website to see all the worked with Joe Price where I learned Joneses, I picked up a McGlaughlin when changes that Alan Taylor has most of what I know about designing taking our daughter back to college for a made. and building race boats. hull upgrade.  Remember to pay your dues by In 1980 I relocated to Chowchilla, CA and writing a check to Windmill Class Old #4200 will become a fleet boat or opened Sorensen Woodcraft, Association, Inc. and mail it to trainer for Hoover guest participation specializing in race boat kits and custom Allen Chauvenet. Your dues go a which has worked well for the local MC built boats. In 2009 after restoring a very long way to funding Scow fleet having a “hot spare” boat. Windmill class sailboat I started racing improvements and promotion for Interlake racer Mark Presley and son sailboats and sold Wooden Windmill the class. James will be joining us as well. I Sailboat kits and plans.  While many of you are probably personally had a great time training with snowed in, use this time to make 5 different crew last year and for the first While I no longer build kits since moving plans for the upcoming sailing time in 24 years raced in the North to Merced, CA in 2014, I still offer plans. season to attend a new regatta. Americans my wife Cindy. You can make some new sailing I race in in the beautiful California waters friends and experiences that we The basic tenet as an individual sailor, at the Lake Yosemite Regatta and have can talk about at the upcoming fleet, or district is that Buddying Up pays been supporting the junior’s movement nationals. dividends. Be sure to sign up for the getting involved in Windmills. I also  Share the love of sailing a windmill 2015 Nationals at Rock Hall YC on July spearheaded the Classic Wooden with someone new. Hopefully, 24-26 – and double deck with someone Windmill division that will be at they will become a future windmill for a fun, rustic vacation about an hour Nationals this year. Another proposal, owner like yourself. from Annapolis east on the Delmarva to increase Windmill participation is a  This season make sure to dust off Peninsula. form of “High-Point” standings that is your old and new boats for Larry done in powerboat racing and other Craig currently owns two boats. He has Christian to measure. sailboat classes. been racing hull #4200 for years. He  Got an idea for making the class was the 2013 National Champion in even better? Contact your district Fishing Bay, VA. commodore, class official, or myself to share your idea so we can act on your suggestions. WINDMILL CLASS ASSOCIATION, INC. JOUSTER | Issue # 5

Mid-Winters 14-15 March

Signing up for the Mid-Winters that will be held at Clearwater Community Sailing Center is easy on regatta Kudos to network. The sailing talent pool is deep, so come out and challenge past Have you had enough of the snow, ice Allie Nationals winners. and cold weather? Make plans to travel Coleman to Florida where the sun is shining on beautiful sandy beaches and as each wave gently kisses the shore you hear If you haven’t been hibernating this someone calling your name. winter under all this snow you may have

noticed that the Windmill Class has branched out into social media. Allie put If that doesn’t work into your schedule, in a lot of work as our new Public then make plans to attend Sarasota Relations manager by creating some awesome videos to promote the One Design Regatta the next Northern Southern Regatta and the weekend. More boats will be available Nationals for 2015. You can find her for charter. videos on the class website or on our new Facebook group by searching People walk around with a smile on Windmill Class Association in Facebook their face because they know the only or going to the link here: white stuff they have to touch will be https://www.facebook.com/groups/6355 sunscreen. The Saturday night dinner is 02716564409/ a great shrimp boil and Michelob Light is Come out and sail where the dolphins their sponsor for the event this year. and birds frolic around your boat and have nothing but big smiles on their faces as they slide past.

Are you ready to see something other than white mounds piled up higher than your head? How about green and blue and that yellow orb somebody calls the sun. Is your boat stuck under feet of snow? Make a few calls, book a flight to get some sunshine on your face and feel the sand between your toes.

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UPCOMING WINDMILL 2015 Windmill Nationals July EVENTS 23 – 26 at Rock Hall Yacht  March 14-15 Windmill Midwinter Club Championships, Clearwater Community Sailing Center, FL

 March 21-22 Sarasota Sailing Squadron’s One Design Regatta, Sarasota, FL

 April 18-19 Camellia Cup Regatta Folsom Lake, CA

 May 16-17 Lake Yosemite Regatta Merced, CA

 May 16-17 Northern-Southern Regatta Prince Gallitzin State Park, Glendale Lake, PA

You are invited to attend the  May 30-31 Midwestern District Annual Windmill Nationals Event Championship Hoover Sailing Club, that will be held the week of 20 Westerville, OH  June 6-7 July 2015. We are planning lots of Go the Gold Regatta GCYC Scotts Flat Lake, CA fun activities, dinners and evening tournaments.  June 19 RHYC Down the River Race Rock Hall, MD Rock Hall Yacht Club, Web page:  June 20-21 Rockhallyachtclub.org Mid-Atlantic Championship and RHYC One Design Rock Hall, MD

The club is located at:  July 23 Windmill Junior Nationals 22759 McKinleyville Rd. Rock Hall, MD

Rock Hall, MD 21661 Phone 410-639-2182  July 24-26 Windmill Nationals Championship Regatta Rock Hall, MD

 August 8-9 76th Annual One Design Fishing Bay Deltaville, VA