June 2021 Volume XCVII Number 6
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June 2021 Volume XCVII Number 6 Oysters at KYC IRF Fleet Racing Energy Observer June • July 2021 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY New Office Hours 1 2 3 4 B All meetings to NOW OPEN JUNE Deckhands Meeting 6p Thurs Night Adult Dinner follow current 7 DAYAYS A WEEK CG #14 6:30p (RSVP please) COVID-19 9AM TO 4PM CG #17 6:30p Location TBD Location TBD guidelines. (Lunch break 12:30-1pm) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Sunday Brunch Wednesday Prime Rib Thurs Night Adult Dinner (RSVP please) Mooring 6p Special -RSVP Please (RSVP please) F & P 6:30p 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Sunday Brunch 3rd Friday (RSVP please) Membership 6p Fleet Ops 5p Wednesday Prime Rib Thurs Night Adult Dinner KYC SWAWAP MEET Special -RSVP Please (RSVP please) “JENNA” 9AM - NOON 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Wednesday Prime Rib Thurs Night Adult Dinner BOD 6p Special -RSVP Please (RSVP please) Sunday Brunch (RSVP please) 27 28 29 30 Sunday Brunch 1st and 3rd Friday (RSVP please) Wednesday Prime Rib reservrvations taken Special -RSVP Please no sooner than one week prior. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAAWY EDNESDAY TFRIDHURSDAY AY SATURDAY 1 2 3 JULLYY All meetings to KYC OFFICE st rd follow current 1 and 3 Friday OPEN DAILLYY reservations taken no TThhurs Night Adult Dinner “MIKE PIRANAH” COVID-19 9AM- 4PM (RSVP please) guidelines. sooner than one week (Lunch break 12:30-1pm) prior 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Deckhands Meeting 6p CG #14 6:30p Location TBD Thurs Night Adult Dinner CG #17 6:30p Wednesday Prime Rib (RSVP please) Location TBD Special -RSVP Please Sunday Brunch (RSVP please) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Sunday Brunch F & P 6:30p rd (RSVP please) Mooring 6p Thurs Night Adult Dinner 3 Friday Wednesday Prime Rib (RSVP please) “BRIAN KEITH” Special -RSVP Please 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Sunday Brunch (RSVP please) Membership 6p Fleet Ops 5p Wednesday Prime Rib Thurs Night Adult Dinner Special -RSVP Please (RSVP please) On the cover: UH Sailors Sam Patton & Devon Stapleton out for a beautiful sail. Photo by: Jesse Andrews 2 COMMODORE VICE REAR Pete Stokka COMMODORE COMMODORE Aloha KYC, Susie Jannuzzi Bill Atherton There’s been some Aloha KYC friends and Aloha KYC Members changes since last month in family! Time is starting to fly regards to the rules, we can Welcome to June, a by! We are even closer to now be outdoors without time to share summer getting back to normal. masks, which has been freedom, graduation, The BBQ grills are open, great since we have mostly vacations, no school, the galley is staffed up and outdoor spaces and things regatta breezes and great ready to go. The Lipton feel much closer to normal. sunsets! Aren’t we lucky? June brings the Lipton Cup and Summer Circuit is literally around the We still need to stay to groups no larger than 10, so Cup and Summer Circuit races, both hosted by corner. Come on down and enjoy the festivities. The please continue to monitor yourselves in regards to the KYC. While we can not quite party as in the past, Waiahole Ditch Band will be playing after the restrictions that remain. restrictions are starting to lift and may allow us a Saturday Summer Circuit races. It should be a great June is here, school is done and I can see chance to celebrate together again soon. weekend of fun in the sun. everyone is ready for summer, even the weather has Meanwhile, our chef, Petri, and his staff and Please welcome Diana as she takes over the been feeling like summer lately. We went to a few servers continue to provide excellent eating reins in the Galley. Many of you may know her from graduation get togethers this past month and it made experiences. You really couldn’t ask for a better Mid Pac CC and we are fortunate to have her. me realize how fast the kids are growing up. Two of environment to share a meal with friends and family. Once again a reminder to respect your fellow our Junior Commodores graduated this year, our Be sure to leave a comment card about your members and staff and don’t forget the No Wake current 2021 Junior Commodore Morgan Vodzak and experience dining with us. Or, you could bring your Zone coming in and out. past 2016 Junior Commodore Malia Johnson. We own meal and use our reopened grills to picnic at only have a few more years before that happens in the club. Between the food, gracious bar service and Hope to see you down at the club! our house and the live action I come home to every ambiance, you are set for a perfect evening. day will most likely slow down and we will have to On another note, let me share a few club initiatives. Aloha, learn to shift gears. The club’s green team led by Andy Bates and Bill Since it is now summer, I hope you all have Morgan Vodzak, have amassed a troop of volunteer signed up for sailing classes as I know they are filling adoptive parents to assist with caring for our up quick. I believe Jesse is also offering a Wing incoming oyster project. Introduced and guided by Foiling class this summer, which is something new Waterkeepers INC. More info will follow as the and a pretty exciting sport to get into. oysters arrive and are housed in their respective We have some exciting races coming up this cages. Another green initiative, support for electric month, we have the Lipton Cup happening on 5-6 vehicle refueling, was received with less enthusiasm June. Kaneohe Yacht Club is defending the Cup with from club patrons and will be put on hold. our multi-year champion, Yellow Dragon. Let’s keep You might have also noticed that our the trend going and keep the cup at KYC! Come out Deckhands Locker is open for business again on and cheer on the team. Thursday evenings from 5 to 7 and on Sunday The following week we will have the biggest mornings from 10 to 12. You are encouraged to stay racing event in the state happening, Summer Circuit, tuned for some great deals that will just "pop up”. on 11-13 June with three days of battle on the race The Mooring Committee, with the concurrence course. This event is fun as it’s a bit different than of the Board of Directors, supported approval for showing up for only one race day. KYC members’ use of personal watercraft (PWC) The crew needs to maintain the endurance to launch and recovery from KYC docks. Approval is race for three days in a row whic often proves limited to only 4 stroke watercraft of the seated challenging after getting banged up all day in a boat variety. PWC operators must be licensed and attend and then several cocktails at the bar after. Thanks to KYC watercraft training and the boat must be state Rick Osborne for putting this event together, Kim licensed, insured and registered with KYC. Ickler for doing PRO as well as the sponsors that help There is always something fun happening at make it all happen. the best yacht club in Hawaii—KYC! As far as our fishing adventures, we did get offshore again this month and did find a spot that gave See you around the club! us some motivation. We had a hit and Torik was able to Susie fight for about 30 seconds before it came off. We are quite certain we had our first Ono hookup. We were looking to get out again over Memorial Day weekend as the conditions looked ideal, but we had some motor problems and will have to try again in a few weeks. The Fishing Fleet is starting up and taking registrations again. I hope to see several families sign up and compete in some KYC fishing tournaments this year. One last thing I wanted to mention is the visitors we have here for 10 days from France. They are on their way to Tokyo. The 100’ x 40’ catamaran you see either anchored by the south channel or tied at the end of G Pier is called Energy Observer and is a renewable energy project. We are hoping to engage with them for some educational opportunities and learn how we can be more ‘green’ at KYC. A video of their project is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xdXqNGqBag Aloha, Pete 3 JUNIOR DIRECTOR Jesse Andrews We are excited to start summer sailing this year. I appreciate all the kids and parents that have helped us get through such a challenging year but we are getting back to some normal activities now with competitions allowed starting June 1st! We still have the gathering limitation of 10 so our classes are limited to 9. We have three classes in the morning and three in the afternoon to choose from and most have already filled up. We hope that the restrictions will loosen more over the summer so we can offer larger classes to accommodate more kids. We have a great group of instructors coming this summer. We have the two UH starting varsity skippers Bastien Rasse and Owen Lahr splitting the summer with Bastien here in June and Owen in July after he sails the US Youth Match Race Champs. We also have Kahala Furukawa coming back as well as Conner McCrillis and Trey Summers who are transplants from San DIego and great sailors and coaches as well.