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GTYC19 Member Handbook 051819 grand traverse yacht club 2019 New Member Handbook !2 Welcome to the Grand Traverse Yacht Club “The purpose of this Club shall be the promotion, protection and encouragement of boating for pleasure and sport, and to encourage the development and cultivation of good fellowship among its members.” The Grand Traverse Yacht Club is a community of like-minded individuals who for nearly 60 years have worked to build an active organization centered on a mutual enjoyment of boating and West Grand Traverse Bay. The hard work of past and current member volunteers has made possible the facilities and assets enjoyed by the Club today. In joining GTYC, we hope that you will make the commitment to involve yourself in our community and help us extend the health of the Club well into the future. This handbook is intended as an overall guide to the nature of our organization and the specifics of our Club culture. When we refer to the “Club” as capitalized, it regards the organization and membership as a whole. The “club” in lower case refers to the physical facility. We encourage all members to read and be familiar with our Club bylaws and policies, which can be found on our Club website. These documents contain the specific rules of our Club, as well as detailing the privileges and responsibilities that come with membership in our organization. Please feel free to bring questions about the Club to any of our serving officers and directors. !3 !4 Table of Contents 1. Club Contact Information, Pg. 7 2. 2019 Club Leadership Pg. 8 3. Club History, Pg. 9 4. The Membership of the Grand Traverse Yacht Club, Pg. 14 5. Club Life at GTYC, Pg 16 6. Club Leadership Structure, Pg. 21 7. The Responsibility to Volunteer, Pg. 24 8. Club Calendar, Pg. 25 9. Major Annual Club Awards, Pg. 27 10. Club Rentals, Pg 28 11. Parking, Pg. 29 12. Club Communications, Pg. 30 13. Club Waterfront, Pg. 32 Calendar of Club Events, Pg. 34 Parking Lot Diagram, Pg. 35 !5 !6 1. Contact Information Grand Traverse Yacht Club Physical Address: 13653 S. West Bay Shore Dr. Traverse City, Michigan, 49684 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 131 Traverse City, Michigan, 49685 Phone: 231-946-9779 Web: www.GTYC.org E-mail: [email protected] Affiliations — Grand Traverse Yacht Club is a member of: • US Sailing • Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation • Yachting Clubs of America • American Model Yachting Association !7 2. 2019 GTYC Flag Officers & Board of Directors Flag Officers - fl[email protected] Commodore Liz Zimmerman - [email protected] Vice Commodore Rob Lovell Rear Commodore Bill Babel Past Commodore Bob Clark Directors - [email protected] Geoff Harris Kim Bindschatel Petra Keuhnis Mark Clark Rich Core Verne Powell Treasurer - [email protected] Laura Brown Secretary - [email protected] Sam Bender Staff General Manager - Jordan Owen, [email protected] Service Manager - Chris Horvath, [email protected] !8 3. Club History After a generation without a waterfront club, a group of Traverse City sailors and boaters gathered in the fall of 1959 to recruit and organize the charter membership of the Grand Traverse Yacht Club for the summer of 1960. With 38 new member families enrolled by July 1, 1960, the inaugural season for the newly Club functioned out of a rented room at Darrow Marine, located on the property of what is now the Centrepointe building. From the first call for prospective members, the Club sought to draw together small boat sailors, cruising boat sailors, power boaters, and outboard motorboaters. The core of the membership would form around sailors active in the Lightning one design class and “cruising class” sailors, who raced larger keelboats scored by handicap. By the mid-60s, the May through September calendar took a familiar pattern of a mix of triangle races on the bay, destination races to Northport, Leland, Charlevoix, and Harbor Springs, and hosting local and regional one-design regattas. From the outset, Club leadership undertook active discussions about the establishment of a permanent club facility, with first efforts aimed at building a clubhouse on the grounds of Clinch Marina on the Traverse City Waterfront. Discussions broadened to consider building on the grounds of Darrow Marine. In early spring 1966, with plans set, a contractor retained, and a lease of property ready, the Club was on schedule to break ground at the Elmwood Township site. In May of that year, an alternative to the agreed plan arrived with the availability of the former MontaMower factory property near the intersection of West Bay Shore drive and Carter Road. The proposition, introduced by Gordon Cornwell, was quickly debated and a deal for a purchase from the Montague family on land contract was authorized by the membership for $35,000, funded by a private bond issue subscribed by club members. On the water, the “cruising class” of larger sailboats began racing a schedule of familiar events under a handicap system similar to the Cruising Class of America rule. By 1971, the Club switched to the International Offshore Rule during an era of active competition within the region and beyond. At that time a separate local fleet for smaller keelboats organized under the Midget Ocean !9 Racing Club rule. By the early 1980s, the Club transitioned to the Performance Handicap Rating Fleet formula, which is still used today. In small boats, the Lightning one design class remained active as a centerboard class from the Club’s founding until the late 1980s. By the mid-1970s, the singlehanded Laser dinghy gained popularity and developed an active fleet within the club which still contests the twice-a-year Babel Cup series. Among early activities developed by the club included a junior sailing program, which would continue in some form until 1994 when the member efforts provided the foundation on which the Traverse Area Community Sailing non-profit organization would be built. To this day GTYC continues to support TACS as a cooperating partner, hosting high school and youth programs during the sailing season. As the organizer of a junior program, GTYC owned a variety of sailing craft until the 1990s, including Optimist prams, Sunfish, Lasers, and Widgeon dinghies. By the early 1970s, the Club took ownership of a succession of small powerboats to support sailing programs and race committee operations. Currently, the Club is in possession of three support craft, the Targa 25 Unshine, the Wellcraft 17 Flying Ginni, and the 16’ Brig rigid inflatable. Members of GTYC have recorded a long history of achievement at the all levels of sailing, winning World, North American, and National championships in both salt and freshwaters. On Lake Michigan, GTYC has acquitted itself at the highest levels in the Chicago Yacht Club’s annual Race to Mackinac with multiple section wins and a team victory in the Point Betsie Yacht Club Challenge. On the recreational side, cruising sailors carry the GTYC burgee far and wide, from the Mediterranean to coastal waters of British Columbia and throughout the inland and intercoastal waterways. Our Club also has a long history as the host and organizer of major championship regattas at the North American, National, and regional levels. In 2014, GTYC was host to the US Sailing Chubb Junior National Championships, drawing young sailors from across the country for a week of racing on West Grand Traverse Bay. !10 By the mid-80s, club life expanded with the addition of regularly scheduled weeknight races, the acquisition of a club liquor license, and the hiring of a club manager. These developments helped shape much of what is recognizable in club life today. In April of 2008, the cinderblock structure of the GTYC clubhouse was struck by a fire that required a total replacement of the structure. Club leadership developed a plan in short order to rebuild on the same footprint a new design that combined much of the flavor of the original clubhouse with an expansion of resources and amenities. The new clubhouse was opened in May 2009 with the raising of Club colors on the same yardarm that was installed in 1966. The Clubhouse In 1966, GTYC acquired the former MontaMower factory on the West Grand Traverse Bay waterfront in Greilickville. from the Montague family where from 1921 to 1963 a patented model of push mowers had been manufactured for mail-order sales. The single-story cinderblock structure built in 1941 was the second factory on the site after a fire of leveled an original facility. The factory was four times the size of the current footprint of the present building, generally encompassing the full size of the current parking lot. The majority of the building was reduced and repurposed through hands-on volunteer work by members, pulling down much of the unsupported cinderblock building by hand. At that time, the waterfront sloped from the building to a rocky shore littered with industrial refuse from the factory. One of the first improvements was the installation of the flag mast, yardarm, and gaff which serves to this day. A sandy natural launch ramp was groomed at its current location and the first dock was improvised just to the south of the ramp. The building was gradually improved, with the furnishing of the kitchen, bar, and what was to be known as the Commodores Room. The layout of today’s clubhouse largely reflects that of the original club, with the exception of a small square courtyard which was at the center of the old factory building where today the great hall space enclosed the structure under the high ceiling. Modifications through the years included moving the main entrance from the !11 northwest corner of the building to the current location on the north side of the club.
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