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The Hailer September 2020 Call for submissions "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is The Hailer is accepting In this issue submissions for articles, favorable." photographs, announcements, Annual corinthian - Lucius Annaeus Seneca and classified. If you have heritage cup regatta Welcome back! It’s been a something you would like to be while since we’ve published the included in the Hailer, send it to 2 Hailer, but we’re excited to be us by the 5th of each month. back. Here are a few more things In this issue, we’ll share the to remember this month: From the results of the annual Corinthian The next round of adult vice Commodore and Heritage Cup Regatta sailing classes begin on Oct. 3. 6 that happened over Labor Day We have one spot still available weekend and introduce you to at the time of writing. Register at the newest members to join the dcyc.org. club. new members The annual Pirates of the 8 You might have noticed the Corinthian Regatta begins Hailer has a new look. We also on Oct. 10. for competitors have a new email address. If ages 8-20 years. Don’t miss DocK electrical you would like to contact us, this event! To volunteer, you can email: contact Michele Ditmer at requirements [email protected]. [email protected] 12 club officers 14 flotsam & jetsam 15 Scuttlebutt 16 1 "Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." - Brooks Atkinson The Hailer September 2020 Corinthian & Heritage Cup Regatta Thanks for Paul Bell, the ITSails crew was having the Sea Stories Regatta Chairman, for his course designer on the boat efforts both on and off the race as navigator AND having a big By Paul Bell course to make this regatta a spotlight to find the marks. ITSails was heading up success! 1. I.T.Sails to the windward mark on the layline about 10 boat lengths Here are his comments on 2. Gray Wolf (DNF) the race results. behind Cyrano, when we 3. Siren (DNF) saw something floating in 4. Chupacabre (DNF) the water just 10 feet away, a red winch handle. We For the Labor Day distance were racing, and did not race we ran a course out to the want to lose precious time Pier 121 cut. Red/Green to the to retrieve it for the poor main span of the bridge, to the crew that lost it, so we sailed old dam cut, to a "tree mark" on on. Then, in the next race, the south side of the lake about it crossed our paths TWICE a mile north of the dam, to the more and we discussed the Pier 121 cut no wake buoy, predicament with floating clearing the "tree mark" again winch handles. and back home to DCYC. For the Corn Moon night The nice racing winch race... not much to say! handles are $100+ and sink Everyone who registered bailed like rocks, but the floating out (too much fun/heat/alcohol winches are under $50 and earlier that day) except for us. on sale for half that. So if a 3x J/24's jumped in to race (sail/ floating winch handle goes cruise) the course though! overboard, how much effort should we take to recover it? A temporary Mark "5" was dropped by the old spillway Do we let it go and say which gave us a nice long it was only $30, or do we course. We ran Red/Green- spend a couple hours in 4-12-5-12-3-Red/Green for a search and rescue mode to finish under a 3/4 moon. A special treat for us, four find it? Hobie 16s stayed to race Wind held the entire night at Then, by pure luck, after against us!! I told them our 8 knots or so, the stars were out we finished the final race fastest boat started at 11:00 so and it was a beautiful night. and were sailing back to if they would give him a 15min the marina, we saw it yet The key to victory for the 2 "Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." - Brooks Atkinson The Hailer September 2020 head start, it should be a close race. Sea Stories again!!! We ran a mock man overboard drill, furled the jib, turned the engine on, tacked and slowed our speed. Approaching the target upwind and slow, my tallest crew member (my For the Spring Beer Can father, John Bell) dangled Series, 14 races were raced himself over the rail with the in TOTAL! And up to 8 boats assistance of another two competed each week. It crew holding onto his belt Sure enough, the four was an amazing summer of and ankles. He was able to Hobies passed the keelboat racing during quarantine, very retrieve the winch handle fleet in the last couple legs of competitive and enjoyable successfully on the first try! the race. It was really cool to sailing in the evening after the see them flying by! heat of the day calls it quits. Quite fortunately, the handle was labeled as 1. I.T.Sails, with guest 1. I.T.Sails belonging to Cyrano and skipper John Shields 2. Avanti Dr. Hoppenstein! After 2. Chupacabre 3. War Machine we docked and waited for Cyrano to return, I presented 3. Avanti 4. Exocet 4. Smoke on the Water the recovered bounty to it’s The Beer Can Races is a rightful owner and his jaw 5. Shangri-La Wednesday night racing series dropped and eyes were open to anyone on any kind of astonished that his lost sailboat. tool had been returned. He exclaimed that he had never been able to recover a winch handle that slipped overboard before and was very appreciative that were had picked it up. 3 "Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." - Brooks Atkinson The Hailer September 2020 RAce results 4 "Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." - Brooks Atkinson The Hailer September 2020 RAce results 5 "Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." - Brooks Atkinson The Hailer September 2020 Speaking of volunteers, We are always looking for From the Vice we are a volunteer-driven club power boaters with mechanical Commodore and the more you put in, the expertise to assist with the more you will get out of your race and committee boats. experience with DCYC. We A huge shout out to David have numerous committees Patterson, Darrin Ditmer where you can contribute. and Dagny Boaz for getting Whether you are a social our race boats ready for our butterfly and want to help put recent Corinthian Heritage Cup together or host great social Regatta. It was no small task functions (during normal life and helped us to put on an conditions, of course) or if amazing event that was long you have a special talent to overdue. contribute to better enhance the HUGE THANK YOU to appearance and or function of Ed Henkle for your service the club. and expertise with the youth Welcome back, program this year, I know it has I am excited to contribute been challenging to manage to our fall edition of the DCYC the success of this program Hailer. I want to send a huge while adhering to very strict thank you to John Pherson for safety guidelines. pushing to make this happen Speaking of Regatta, Paul and getting great articles put Bell and Tim Johnson worked together from our members. together, with the help of many More importantly, I want to send volunteers, to put on one of great appreciation to John’s the best Regattas I’ve had the daughter Lindsey, who stepped pleasure of being a part of in up and volunteered to be our my brief history with the club. new Hailer editor. We would love to hear from our members for future content. A great example of the If you have something impact that volunteer expertise you would like to be included has around the club are the in the Hailer, you can submit beautiful crepe myrtle trees it to us at thehailerdcyc@ that Matt Cerralvo has taken gmail.com. Please submit personal ownership over, they your content by the 5th of look amazing. Thank you Matt each month. for all that you do. 6 "Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." - Brooks Atkinson The Hailer September 2020 Get involved Thank you to everyone for If you are interested in helping to keep our pool safe becoming more involved with and open. Please make sure the club please reach out to you never touch any of the our Rear Commodore John pool equipment or do anything Pherson at Rearcommodore@ to affect the functionality or DCYC.org. We are always operation of the pool. If you looking for great candidates have any questions please to help with Race, Social, reach out to Chris Dickey for Photography, Youth Programs, consult. Grounds, and Regattas. There are amazing opportunities and memories to make when you are involved in the success and continued development of the club. Thank you in advance for your help. Make it a great day. Don’t forget to say HELLO. We have POOL RULES over 30 new members who have joined in the past year. 1. Swimming is allowed in Our community is what makes swimsuits only. us great. Introduce yourself 2. Children under 14 years and get to know our family.