GOLD COUNTRY YACHT CLUB NEWSLETTER a little dinghy 2000 http://www.nccn.net/~gcyc October, 2000 Volume 19, Number 10 Commodore’s Corner CALENDAR OF EVENTS This month's General Meeting will be held at Larry & Lena's Pizza Parlor at October th the entrance to Alta Sierra on Alta 6-8 - Fleetweek SF Bay Cruise th Sierra Drive. They have a separate 7-8 – IYC Women's Sailing Seminar th dining room for approximately 40-50 11 - General Meeting at Larry &Lena's people so there's plenty of room for Pizza Parlor th everyone. So, please come and enjoy. 15 - *Race #12 Special thanks to Jerry Lewis for all the November emails he sent out about the Olympics. th I'm sure everyone who got them really 6 - PICYA Meeting-Encinal YC 7th - BOD Meeting enjoyed them. At Our Helm th 8 - General Meeting - w/Election Speaking of emails, Pat Lund, our club Tuscany Garden secretary, has put together our Club Commodore 25th -26th -Cold Turkey Cruise – TBA email list into an email group. If we Wayne Buti 273-7819 don't have yours, let her know. It Vice Commodore December makes it very handy for sending out last th Hugh Talman 272-2344 9 Awards/Christmas Party minute changes or corrections. Saves a 31st - GCYC New Year's Cruise – TBA lot of phone calls! Please check your Secretary emails. If anyone needs to get a message out to club members, just Pat Lund 273-4532 contact Pat. The Next General Meeting Treasurer Doug Epperson 273-3551 Wednesday October 11, 2000 I'd like to welcome aboard out new 6:00 PM Eat, 7 PM Meet members, Don & Sue Wight and Frank Race Chairman At Larry & Lena's Pizza & Grill & Lisa Nim. Both of these couples are joining us this weekend for the Don Hare (916) 774-6610 Women's Sailing Seminar and the Fleet Week Festivities. Both these activities Cruise Director will be over by the time you get this. Lynn Buchanan 272-6105 At this time it looks like quite a contingent will be down the hill for the Newsletter Editor weekend. We'll give a report at the Barry Karr 432-9448 meeting on how it went. Remember, [email protected] Fax 432-5081 this is "cruising points!" Port Captain We have the last race of the season Mark Jones 265-3811 coming up on October 15th at Scotts Flat Lake. You can still launch and Publicity/Membership retrieve as long as you stay in the Ron Kent 272-8199 middle of the ramp. We pulled the Club's Capri off the lake last week and (All area codes 530 there are still 2 sections of concrete unless otherwise noted) ramp left as of this writing. There are no docks to stand on - so you get to We had some great effort put forth with Thanks to Mike Bringolf and our Port swim a little. The water is still warm! our trailer project. In five days of a Captain, Mark Jones, for getting the All of you with perpetual Club trophies couple of hours each day, we managed barge to it's winter home. please dust them off and turn them in to get one complete trailer assembled by the November meeting. Dale - this and ready for use. The team of Jeremy This month's meeting is very important. means you can take the Toilet Seat Gicker, Kent Bennett, Don Samuelson, Nominations for our slate of officers for Award out of it's place of honor in your Don Wight, Ron Kent, Jerry Lewis, next year will one of the key items. closet. All trophies need to be turned Hugh Talman, Jeff Lund, and Doug Remember, nominations may be made into Hugh. Epperson displayed a myriad of talents from the floor for all offices. - grinding, welding, sawing, assembling See you at the meeting! A "Well Done!" goes to Kent Bennett - in no time we actually had a piece of for organizing our most successful Flea functional equipment! (One down, one ===== Market so far. For everyone who to go!) There is no way we can ever Yo Ho Ho donated their "fleas", they were worth thank the Eppersons enough for their And Away I go more than double of any of our continued patience and support (and --Wayne. previous "fleas." We did real well. storage space!) for all of our club activities. Jeremy - Capri #2 might be on the horizon sooner than you Scuttlebutt from the Poop Deck… think! Scuttlebutt….. Hosting the winter home for the GCYC does run a risk - If anyone drove down Highway 20 last week, they would seems like every time we think we have a spot, the CLOSED have seen this funny looking brown thing setting off to the sign goes up - permanently! Ie. The Bewery, the Northridge side at the corner of Highway 20 and 49 - it had some letters - hope this isn't an indicator! on the side (GCYC). Always grease those bearings, boys! These happen to come off something like a relic Model A - a Jeff & Pat Lund - is there a story we haven't heard? Why are little difficult to replace, Thanks guys! you working on the bottom of your boat? You just had it painted last year. Paul Butts is quite the politician - he managed to corral both Don Eagle and Bob May into helping him get his boat off Mike Bringoff is keeping his boat at Oroville, and would like Scotts Flat - wonder who went swimming? to let other members know there are slips available if anyone would like to winter there with him. Contact Mike for details. Pau Hana mysteriously appeared in Ballena Bay this week - Jeremy went down last weekend with his boat. is there a Samuelson about? Glad to see (hear) that Don is back on his feet. Seems the private P.I. Traveler's Insurance company has watching our illustrious Commodore also caught Joanne th Despite a blue cheek, Dale "Diesel" Buchanan has Montgomery's 4 of July fashion statement on tape - this one successfully installed a new fuel tank in Dulcinea - you ask is down for posterity! him, I'm not going to tell! Remember "Scully Scuttlebutt" has eyes and ears Seems Jerry Lewis is doing a little schmoosing of his own - everywhere!!!! still needs a crew to help get another trailer ready. Watch out 2 Olympic Sailing Submitted by Jerry Lewis SYDNEY -- As sailors scurried about the Rushcutter's Bay marina de-rigging boats and packing their gear, it was time to assess what had transpired over the past two weeks. Great Britain topped the standings with five medals, including three gold and two silvers. It was the Brits biggest gold medal haul since they won four in 1908. In all, 15 countries shared the 33 medals up for grabs. Australia and the U.S. tied for second with four medals apiece. There were plenty of firsts during the regatta. Austria earned its first-ever sailing gold medal when Roman Hagara and Hans Steinacher won the Tornado class. Not Captain Kent welcomes guests aboard satisfied with one, men's Mistral sailor Christoph Sieber On the maiden voyage of the Blue Dolphin added another. Finland won its first gold in 20 years when ThomasJohanson and Jyrki Jarvi won the debutante 49er Beth & Chris Set Sail with Captain Stelby…. class. Beth and Chris Buti vacationed in Maui this summer. During Great Britain's sailors, however, stole the show, particularly their stay, they ate a wonderful home cooked meal at Kent in the single-handed classes. Gold medalists included Ben and Kris Stelby's one evening. Ainslie (Lasers), Shirley Robertson (Europe) and Ian Percy (Finn). Two other crews – Ian Walker and Mark Covell (Star), and Ian Barker and Simon Hiscocks (49er) -- won silver medals. Australia won two golds in the double- handed 470 classes, with Jenny Armstrong and Belinda Stowell in the women's division and Tom King and Mark Turnbull in the men's. The host nation also won one silver with Darren Bundock and John Forbes (Tornado), and one bronze with Michael Blackburn (Laser). The Aussie team was helped by a substantial increase in government funding across all sports. Later that weekend, they also got to be a part of Kent's maiden voyage on the Blue Dolphin Snorkel Trip. This was The U.S. recovered partially from its 1996 slump when it Kent's first official time as Captain of the ship. They sailed won only two bronze medals as host nation after medaling on the Catamaran over to Molokini Crater (where the waves nine times in 10 classes at Barcelona in 1992. The U.S. won were actually too large to snorkel in, due to the tropical storm one gold medal when Mark Reynolds and Magnus Liljedahl coming in) and then to Turtle Town. fought back to win the Star class. Like the Aussies, American crews won two silvers in the double-handed 470 Chris even got to take the helm at one point (we're not sure if classes, with J.J. Isler and Pease Glaser in the women's the other passenger's were too keen on this, but oh well!) division and Paul Foerster and Bob Merrick in the men's. Kent and Kris were great hosts and Beth and Chris had a Jonathan and Charlie McKee won a bronze in the 49er. great time, both aboard the Blue Dolphin and at the Stelby's beautiful house. Fifteen nations shared the medals available from 11 sailing events. In 1996, 22 nations won medals from 10 events.