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the November 2006 POR T L A N D YA CHT CLUB MONTHL Y Vol. 56 No. 11 Pirate Party & Pig Roast PAGE 2 | The Portlight | 11.06 COMMODORE’S COMMENTS Fall is a time for Thanksgiving! and we are in the final phases of redesigning the gions. To find out more, sign up for the casual Bar, Flag Room, and potentially a Lounge Area three hours of learning, sampling, and having a s daylight savings in the North end of the Ballroom. The House fun time! A time becomes a re- & Grounds Committee is actively working cent memory, Fall is a time toward getting this underway. They’ve done • With so much on the November schedule, we to be thankful for the great an exceptional job of getting the dining room only could fit in oneCookout on Nov 10th. Be fun we’ve shared at the Club updated. sure to bring the whole gang. Our movie mas- throughout this past Spring ters won’t let you down! The following cookout and Summer. Again, I want I didn’t know PYC had so many Pirates, but in on December 1st will also feature Hollywood’s to thank everyone who has late September over 120 members and guests best! contributed to making 2006 such a spectacular enjoyed our Entertainment Committee’s Pi- year both on the water and off. rates Party an’ Pig Roast. The pictures on the • Stan Borys and the “Last Act Repertory The- front cover only show half the fun of the eve- atre Group” promise a hilarious night at my Our Moorage Upgrade Committee has com- ning! Many thanks to Frank Tillman for or- expense during the upcoming Commodore’s pleted a study of the pilings in our moorage. ganizing the pig cooking party (truly the best Roast. What did Diane and I do to justify this The Board recently approved funding the first ever) and to Berkeley and Carole Smith for or- humiliation??? group to be replaced with steel pilings. This ganizing the booty hunt on the Island. Several replacement process will continue for the next members brought their children and everyone • If you suddenly realize you did not get enough few years until all the pilings are state of the art had an exciting time! cruising during Summer, pack your heater and steel. join other PYC members Thanksgiving week- Bob Martin wasn’t to be outdone as he put to- end for the “non – official”Left Over Cruise to Meanwhile, the Finance Committee has been gether our annual Beacon Rock Cruise. I’m the Outstation. No dockmaster, no schedule, tasked with looking into all funding options to not sure what Bob did differently this year, just a fun time for all! expedite upgrades to our moorage – replacing but we set several records for participation: al- the existing docks with cement docks. most 40 club boats (16 sail boats) with over • PYC’s 98th Annual Meeting is Monday, No- 90 members who enjoyed perfect weather, Bob vember 27th. Included in this important meet- The Bar area of the Club gets substantial use Sudlow’s famous crawdads, wonderful New ing are the election of your 2007 Officers and York steak dinner, and great merriment cel- Trustees, a financial update, Committee Re- ebrating at least two birthdays. ports and a presentation of the 2007 proposed budget by Vice Commodore Heather Adams. The renovation of the Dining Room by the Members will also get to select the 2006 winner House and Grounds Committee is virtually of the “Boner’s Award” from a potentially long completed. The 120 members and guests who list of nominees. Another traditional award, the PORTLIGHT attended PYC’s Salmon Feed not only enjoyed the Larry Barber Trophy, will be awarded to the published monthly by the John LeDoux’s tasty fresh Chinook salmon “Outstanding PYC Member of 2006”. with all the trimmings, but the new ambiance PORTLAND YACHT CLUB of the dining room. John’s motto throughout • Invitations are going out soon to PYC’s La- 1241 NE Marine Drive the planning and execution of the event was the dies’ Holiday Dinner on Dec 6th, entitled Portland, Oregon 97211 KISS principle (Keep It Simple and Straight- “Christmas Memories.” This is an event that P: 503.285.1922 | F: 503.283.4960 forward) and it paid off extremely well! always sells out quickly so please make your res- ervations early! Email: [email protected] Our Portlight Editors, at the suggestion of EDITORS Ander’s Printers, switched to printing our Port- • Speaking of the Holidays, Thanksgiving week- Skip and Mary Ann Nitchie light on recycled paper the last two months. end is always a great weekend to decorate your The quality is still top notch! boat or boathouse for the Holidays. We’ll again PHOTOGRAPHERS have prizes for the best decorated as we “Light Stan Borys Looking ahead at November’s Mix: Up PYC For The Holidays”. Frank Tillman • Don’t put your Hawaiian shirt away yet as Fair Winds and Following Seas! OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES it is almost mandatory garb for OCSA’s Beach Commodore Doug Foster (sail) Party, culminating the 2006 sailing season Vice Commodore Heather Adams (power) with a fabulous evening complete with live Doug Foster Secretary/Treasurer Berkeley Smith (sail) music and a silent auction. Sailors really know Commodore Rear Commodore Bill Chevalier (power) how to party! S/V Monkey Bar Trustee Year 2 Walt Witchard (sail) • November 5th brings a different twist to past Trustee Year 1 Eric Gazow (power) wine tasting events – instead of visiting the lo- Trustee Year 2 Tom Brusco (sail) cal vineyards, we are bringing an Italian wine Trustee Year 1 Mike Stansell (power) expert to PYC. Italy produces a wide variety Trustee Year 1 Roger Jorgensen (power) of wines besides Chianti in their 20 distinct re- PAGE 3 | The Portlight | 11.06 MANAGER’S REPORT November 4 Finance Committee Meets November 5 Wine Tasting don’t know if all of November 8, 15, 22 & 29 Men’s Golf I you have heard yet, November 10 Portlight Deadline but our Office Manager Shan- November 10 Movie and Cookout non Thayne has moved back November 11 OCSA Awards Banquet to North Carolina to be near November 15 Board Meeting her family. She has worked November 16 Bridge Club here since 2002 and has been November 17 Commodore’s Roast instrumental in organizing and November 18 LRP Meeting running the office in a manner that literally November 19-26 Club House Closed—Thanksgiving & Floor Refinishing changed our landscape. Before Shannon came, November 24, 25 & 26 Leftover Cruise it took two employees to do her job. She not November 27 Annual Meeting—All Members only possessed excellent skills, but also came to December 1 Movie & Cookout work with a great attitude and a sense of humor. December 6 & 13 Men’s Golf I will miss her skills as well as her friendship. I December 6 Ladies’ Holiday Dinner know that we all wish her the best of luck in her December 10 Children’s Christmas Party future endeavors. December 10 Portlight Deadline Now I would like to introduce you to Julie Rea- Lunch November 4, 11 & 18 & December 2 & 9 gan. She has been hired to take over Shannon’s No Lunch November 25 job so please stop by and introduce yourselves to her. She has been training for three weeks with Shannon and will be an asset to our team. We MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY! have also hired Ron Sexton to assist Terry on the docks and with our maintenance. Ron recently COMMODORE’S REMINDERS 24-Hour Event Reservation Line 503.735.0632 Online Reservations www.portlandyc.com moved here from Tennessee. We are expecting great things from Ron. Our Friday night happy hours are really taking off. If you haven’t joined us yet, please give us C RYA N OT E S KEEP IN TOUCH a try. It’s a great way to relax after the work week. RYA has a website; www.crya.us. It Mike and I are cruising. includes the Christmas Ship sched- C Please address mail to: ule, meeting dates and other perti- Fred nent information. Mike McDonald and/or Ann Elliot 146,000 Boaters Educational Cards have been 411 Walnut Street #3577 issued to date. Green Cove Springs, FL 32043 The O’Laughlin’s will be passing out children’s PFD’s again at the January Portland Boat Show. Our email address on the boat for text only There were 16 boating related deaths in the documents (NO forwarded 2006 season of which 11 were not wearing life documents or pictures) is: Christmas Ships jackets. Only 3 involved motorized vessels. [email protected] will pass the club twice. A portion of the lower dock at Sand Island We are having a ball! We are going to is damaged and unusable. The cause is not known. Campbell River (Vancouver Island) tomor- row, and from there, we’ll begin our trip There is now a smaller fireboat located in south to Victoria where we’ll moor our boat Friday, December 7 Hayden Bay for quick access to the river. It was and winter over at the Coast Hotel Marina donated by City Council. with a view of the Empress Hotel. We will The 2007 Opening Day Theme will be “Cen- be visiting Portland in November to pick up a car that we’ll drive north for the win- & tennial Celebration”. Friday, December 15 ter. We will definitely stop by the club to Ken Kudrna & Larry Justice say “hi” and reconnect with friends. CRYA Delegates Ann Elliot PAGE 4 | The Portlight | 11.06 FIRST ANNUAL FALL PYC GOLF SCRAMBLE PAGE 5 | The Portlight | 11.06 P Y C R O C K S riday the 13th turned out to be a Light Up PYC for the Holidays F lucky day for our PYC Auction.