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THE STILLWATER COVE’ER June-July 2020 Commodore’s Log Ahoy! I hope that this message finds you staying healthy and safe during these times. We find ourselves in a routine now…adjusting to our new normal. We have come a long way, but we aren’t done yet. Please maintain your protocols of staying at home, sanitizing, hand washing, wearing masks, and 6-foot social distancing. It will pay off and we will have a safer environment as a reward. Stay the course and give the Coronavirus a wide berth! SYC Goes Zoom! Since our last newsletter, I can report that SYC has Like the rest of the world, our SYC Board meetings are now cancelled our Youth Watersports Program. On the conducted on Zoom during this pandemic. Rear plus side, the instructors and interns will be put to Commodore Peter Hanlon and Webmaster Lebon work doing some light Pier/Boat maintenance. We Abercrombie get the prize for best virtual background. want to be ready when the recreational boat ban is lifted by our Governor and the Beach Club is open! As you can see, not all of us have learned where the preference button is to “touch up" our appearance. Stay Also, those instructors/interns will be helpful if we tuned as we continue to technologically evolve! True are able start our Adult Sailing Program this confessions: we miss our in-person lunch meetings and our summer. All June social events are cancelled, with friendly Beach Club wait staff! July through October on hold. We find that we are no different than other Yacht Clubs…everybody is on hold. The Coronavirus has taken the wind out of Potluck Pier BBQs our sails. (All BBQs are 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Stillwater Pier) Our SYC Board of Directors has been hard at work with new internal policies relating to our • Sunday, June 14 - CANCELLED “New Hires” (instructors and interns mentioned • Sunday, July 19 above) and Coronavirus-related procedures. We Sunday, August 23 directors have entered the 21st Century with our • meetings conducted by Zoom. It is a whole new • Saturday, September 12 world! • Sunday, October 18 Please check our website sycpb.org to stay informed. It is a great website with tons of Commodore's Log (continued from p. 1) Message from the Vice Commodore by Denise Foderaro information and lots of pictures from past years’ parties, pier bbqs, and many more special times! Do not hesitate to contact me with questions or comments. Wishing you Fair Winds and Following Seas…Be Well-- Commodore Judy Furman On the Drawing Board Introducing SYC’s first signature ladies scarf! Our most artistic members have submitted two choice designs for our review. WHAT-A-BURGER! Even though our Bingo Burger Event was cancelled in early April due to the Covid shut down, SYC members Graham and Elliot Cash put their chef hats on to create THE winning burger entry: Beef and salmon burgers with pickles, tomatoes, onions, avocado, onion rings, and arugula on a brioche bun!!! We hope to open soon so we can feature their creations at an upcoming event. The boys win lunch at the club featuring their culinary creation - after which we “toss them in the pool” - a long standing SYC tradition. LONGING FOR DERBY DAYS: Chairpersons Becky Kendall and Renae Fjugstad put away their Derby Scarf #1: A rectangular design by member Charles props and decor after our May event was cancelled. But Carter features our fleet, the pier, and the Bixby Bridge it didn’t stop them from posing in their Kentucky Downs in painterly hues of sky blue and green, with red trim. hats and enjoying a “Talk Derby to Me" Mint Julep with a Scarf #2: An ample promise and toast to reschedule this event for 36” square designed by September 5, 2020. Discussions are underway with the member Fila Evanson Beach Club to make this a reality! w i t h a r t i s t i c collaboration from C o m m o d o r e s J u d y Furman, Kay Sullivan, and First Lady Terry Baldwin. Its nautical motif sports a golden braid with red and white stripes framed in navy blue and SYC green trim. Contact [email protected] for a straw poll of your preference/feedback so we can progress to next steps. 2 Message From the Rear Commodore By Peter Hanlon Greetings from the Rear Commodore. Although we are feeling disappointed right now, it's important to remember that we are all in this together. Stillwater Yacht Club’s ability to engage in activities is directly related to state and local regulatory guidance. Unfortunately, we are currently in limbo regarding any specific start dates for our season. Our Board of Directors is actively engaging in ways to hit the ground running when we get the green light and it is safe to do so. We are keeping a close eye on the evolving state and county requirements and guidance. On a positive note, we are maintaining our sailing instructors' employment status as we felt that would be the right thing to do, and there is plenty of work to be done. Before we can put any of the boats in the water, maintenance will be necessary -- rigging repairs, painting, waxing, and work on and around the pier. We are also hoping that we will be able to offer adult sailing at some point this summer, as well as other water sports like kayaking. Keeping the instructors employed allows us to engage their assistance as soon as those activities are allowed. As we abide by the state and county requirements, there will be some changes beyond our control. It’s going to take understanding, a lot of patience, and help from each and every one of you to keep us safe, healthy, and strong. Stay tuned for the latest updates on our reopening status, procedures, and restrictions. Also, I’ll be reaching out to any and all volunteers to assist us as we get closer… We are all in this together. Meet Our SYC Summer Instructors and Interns Bradley Schoch - Head Instructor Caila Devlin - Lead Instructor Bradley Schoch became head instructor From a young age all the way of the Stillwater Yacht Club Youth Water through high school, Caila sailed Sports program in the summer of 2018. out of Encinal Yacht Club in He started sailing at Huntington Alameda, Ca. In 2016, Caila was Harbour Yacht Club in Southern lucky enough to get the chance to California. He brings nearly 20 years' compete in Estonia in the Zoom 8 experience as a coach and instructor at World Championships. She has the high school, college, and yacht club been coaching beginner sailing all levels. As a collegiate sailor, he competed the way up to race teams for the on the varsity level at CSUMB while also running varsity past five years, and she is now captain of the CSUMB cross country and playing club water polo. He attended sailing team. graduate school at both CSUMB and Harvard University. He holds a US Sailing Level 3 Coach Certification and was Elliot Cash - Intern Instructor Vice President of Board College Sailing in California. Brad Elliot Cash has been very engaged continues to stay active with the sport of sailing by with the Stillwater Yacht Club. participating in local regattas and coaching Stevenson's High Through the years, Elliot has School Sailing Team. He currently works at US Sailing in the worked his way through the SYC Education Department as the Senior Instructional Designer, Youth Sailing Program by initially working on a variety of projects such as developing online participating as a camper, then learning opportunities and digital publications. ser ving as a volunteer and becoming a sailing instructor. Talia Cohen-Fette - Intern Instructor Elliot has extensive sailing experience through the Talia Cohen-Fette grew up sailing SYC Youth Sailing Program, SYC Thursday Night Optimists and 420s at Mantoloking Yacht Sailing, crewing for various racing events, and Club in New Jersey. She holds a US skippering for the Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club Sailing Level 1 instructor certificate and Sailing Team. has competed in regattas on the East Coast. She is excited to join Stillwater Elliot’s love of watersports includes sailing, scuba Yacht Club this summer and help in any diving, surfing, and water polo. Elliot plays water polo way that she can. for Carmel High School. 3 Monterey Bay Aquarium Activities All of these are featured on MBA's newly redesigned By Marlene Martin website home page, so they’re easy to access: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/ While you are enjoying the Aquarium, remember that since it is closed, it can’t offset its ongoing expenses with admissions money. It still pays many staff to care for the plants, animals, website, and webcams. See their website for information on how to donate, or if you are not a member, this is a wonderful time to join. We can help the Aquarium educate and entertain us. Regatta Schedule We are all spending more time hard ashore than we MPYC Commodore’s Regatta June 20 & 21 would like, as we try to entertain ourselves without This event has been CANCELLED. The Stillwater Pier is our usual scintillating SYC activities. However, we are closed and will not be reopened until the Beach Club fortunate to have the help of stellar neighbors like the opens, by order of the Monterey County Health Monterey Bay Aquarium. MBA was founded by a family Department phased Covid 19 Reopening Procedures. who believes people will value and care for our oceans if they better understand the wonders on, Santanarama & Shields Regatta August 8 & 9 under, and around the waves.