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4628 June Clipper QCYC:May 2005 Clipper QueenC City Yacht ClubLIPPER120 Years June 2009 QCYC...MaintainingQCYC...Maintaining 120120 YearsYears ofof History!History! photo: Christopher Jared Amanda Karahanas and Laurence Concannon about to restore a piece of QCYC history! QCYC Info Q C Y C Board 2009 Commodore House Chair Communications Jim Thorndycraft Ken Owen Rosalind Ross [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vice Commodore Moorings Learn to Sail Pat Whetung Richard Hardy Terry Hofkirchner [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rear Commodore Grounds Yard Chair Graham Dougall Chris Borgal Steve Hills [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Fleet Captain Membership Jacqui Cook Past Commodore Gary Hoeg Tony Pitts [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer Planning Jacqui Cook Ron Mazza [email protected] [email protected] Secretary Entertainment Violet Couch Susan Veenhuizen [email protected] [email protected] Your Liability Insurance Jacqui Cook, Treasurer Recently, I was asked if other clubs ask their important requirement and some clubs have members (Senior and Dry Sail) to have liability significant ramifications for failing to provide proof insurance. So we did a little digging. Most of the of insurance. These ramifications include: no Photo credits this issue: clubs around us require their members to have $2 launching, no hauling and no racing. Bryan Bowen, June cover Christopher Jared, million of liability coverage. The list of clubs As I write this, a number of our members have not work party and Sail Past Ted Doyle, Keith requiring this type of insurance includes: Ashbridges provided proof of current insurance to the office. Aldridge, Pat Whetung, new members bbq Bay, Mimico, Etobicoke, Lakeshore, Cathedral Bluffs Nina Nakajima, Brad Hearn and belated Having adequate liability insurance is important. It and Port Credit. All of these clubs require their photo credit to Bryan Bowen for May protects you, it protects your fellow members and it members to provide to the club their insurance Clipper cover. protects your club. Please make sure the office has details each year. Many clubs consider this an very your insurance information today. Advertising The Clipper offers members and non- NORM’S 40TH CARIBBEAN BIRTHDAY, JUNE 20 members of QCYC a cost-effective way to reach an audience of avid sailors. Classified It’s Norm Paquette’s 40th Birthday Party - CARIBBEAN style! Ads Ads of 20 words or less are free for Everyone welcome. Pot-Luck Nibbles on the lawn around 6:30pm QCYC members. Ads should be submitted as (weather permitting). Enjoy dancing to JUNO winner Christopher digital files: Mac quark, eps, pdf, tiff, jpg (for tiff/jpg ensure 300 dpi if type, 200 dpi Plock around 8:30pm. Be sure to wear your “island shirts”! Email pictures). For information on placing ads for [email protected] for more information. The Clipper, please contact Rosalind Ross. Clipper and Webmaster Rates for Annual 1x Website Content Martin Snelgrove Business Card (6 issues) size (3.5 x 2”) Rosalind Ross [email protected] Member $120 $30 [email protected] Non-member $240 $60 Algonquin Island Te l 416.203.0929 Club Manager: Don Ferguson Queen City Yacht Club Box 401, Terminal A Fax 416.203.0931 E-mail [email protected] Toronto, ON M5W 1C2 Website www.qcyc.ca Restaurant 416.203.9007 2 Board Update/Features Vice Commodore Pat Whetung I have commended the board several times and still feel it isn’t often enough. I know that each Chair makes personal sacri- fices to serve the club in their capacity. It’s a worthwhile effort when we look around and see a full membership using the facilities and enjoying the club atmosphere. All is in place for another great operating season. Now that we’re in full swing with racing, events, Reverand Michael Marshall blesses the boats. Learn to Sail about to start and planned cruises, the bulk of our operating costs will be rolling in. In the next month, the board will be carefully scruti- All Welcome to the nizing the original budget and adjusting targets if needed. This June review is critical in monitoring Blessing of the Boats our finances. An Island event that has been celebrated for over Commodores of the attending clubs. It is a lovely I encourage you to check the calendar on the fifty years, the Blessing of the Boats will take place at event and a time for sailors to acknowledge their website regularly. We have breaking news and St Andrew-by-the-lake on Sunday June 21st at 11a.m. dependence on the elements with whom they partner events planned for your safety and entertainment. Shortly after WWII a group of Toronto Island in leisure, competition, and survival. We know we have something special at Queen yachtsmen inaugurated an annual thanksgiving The Reverend Michael Marshall who will be presiding City and it’s good to remind ourselves once in service on the Long Pond, Centre Island. Since 1984, is the priest-in-charge at St Andrew and is also the awhile. Remember to mark Saturday July 4th for when the island’s churches amalgamated into the Anglican chaplain at the Hospital for Sick Children. our Classical Queen City Celebrations marking relocated St. Andrew’s Church, the annual Blessing With a father who was a chaplain to seafarers and an our 120th anniversary. We need you to pass along of the Boats has been conducted by the lagoon to the older brother who is a retired captain in the Royal our invitation to revisit the past to appreciate what north of the church. The service offers an annual Navy, Michael has a particular interest in the safety we have today. Please spread the word that every- opportunity for all creeds to gather and give thanks and well-being of “those who go down to the sea in one is invited: past members, former Junior Club for our enjoyment of the Islands and the surrounding ships and occupy their business in deep waters.” participants and anyone who has been on staff. It’s waterways. Please mark your calendars for June 21st Following the service the annual “Strawberry Social” an afternoon gathering to honour our little club - and support a piece of living tradition. will take place with sandwiches, strawberry desserts, still looking good after 120 years. Every one who would like their boat blessed is and champagne all served outside with raffles, and invited to this inter-denominational service that auctions and much more. Tickets are available for the celebrates the joy of “simply messing about in boats.” Social and can be purchased ahead of time. Or, more seriously takes account of the wonderful experience of enjoyment on the water. You can tie up in the lagoon behind St Andrew at the church docks and the service is held outside. Music, singing, words NEW MEMBERS COMMUNICATIONS of prayer and thanksgiving, and the blessing with copious amounts of water will be undertaken by The NIGHT NEEDS... Reverend Michael Marshall ably assisted by the Saturday June 6 • a Clipper general editor Band and details to follow in the • web content editors the Quick Clipper 3 Features in those days (so the Fleet Captain had it relatively easy Gary). In the late thirties the City laid down wide sidewalks and installed power and water on Algonquin, as it came to be known. Homes were barged over from Hanlan’s Point and placed along Omaha and Seneca Avenues to clear the way for Airport improvements (portents of Porter). People were encouraged to build on Algonquin as there was a shortage of materials and serviced land in the City, due to the Second World War. So in 1942, when I was 6, Dad built our home at 3 Nottawa Avenue and Queen City Yacht Club literally became my backyard. MemoriesMemories ofof aa The view across the Bay at that time was dominated by the Royal York Hotel and the Canadian Imperial QueenQueen CityCity BilgeBilge BratBrat Bank of Commerce, all of which I could see from my by Al Rae Jr. bedroom window. But it was the waters of the Bay and the boats that sailed on them held my immediate Al Rae Jr., age 3 interest. I was a born “bilge brat”. I have a theory that we all create a mythology around IN THE BEGINNING: As a kid, I was ‘fore deck crew on Valhalla, when our own creation. There is some irony that QCYC is built on a man- weather permitted, but when I turned 10, Dad built My theory is that I was conceived aboard a Snipe by made island created by the Toronto Harbor me an eight foot “Sabot” pram (a forerunner to the nimble parents. This concept of a waterborne origin Commission while they were dredging the Bay to “Optimist”) and I’ve been lucky enough to have my seems most appropriate as I was born in 1936, under permit access by larger Lake boats. The very same own helm under me ever since. dredging that undermined our City side club. The the sign of Pisces and am the son of a legendary The “Sabot” pram was a wonderful trainer for young island was originally called Sunfish Island and was skipper known in every port on Lake Ontario. and old alike. While I kept mine at Q.C.Y.C., there home for a YMCA summer camp for many years. The was a fleet of 45 or 50 that sailed out of the “Cove That skipper was Al Rae. I’m Al Rae, jr. and proud exposed shoreline extended well into the Bay, some Fleet”, on Ward’s Island, tucked into a corner by the to be.
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