SEQUOIA SCOPE Sequoia Yacht Club Redwood City, CA
June 2009 Sequoia Yacht Club P.O. Box 5548 Redwood City, CA 94063-0548 First Class Mail Sequoia Yacht Club 2009 Roster 441 Seaport Court, Redwood City, CA 94063 (650) 361-9472 www.SequoiaYC.org Flag: On The Water Activities: This Month At A Glance Commodore Beer Can/Redwood Cup Capt. Petra Gilmore Richard Butts Vice Commodore Cruising Fleet Capt. 6/3 Wednesday Lunch 12:00 Byron Jacobs Terry Burley Rear Commodore Sailboat Fleet Capt. 6/5 Drop in Dinner 18:30 Joseph Curtis Jim Peterson Staff Commodore Power Fleet Capt. 6/12 Drop in Dinner 18:30 John Graves Sheila Jones 6/13 Cruise Out: San Francisco YC Secretary Micro Laser Capt. Sherry Warburton Steve Holmstrom 6/17 Wednesday Lunch 12:00 Treasurer Junior Sailing Program Marc Cohen Kate Humphreys 6/18 Mega Cruise: Leeward Islands Port Captain Eric Anderson David Pirrone House Activities: 6/20 Cruise In: Spinnaker YC Directors: Bar Manager 6/26- 6/28 Disney Train @ Port of Peter Blackmore Ron Brown John Draeget Breakfasts RWC Bob Eustace Larry Mayne Alex Huang Club Steward Note: Beer Can Racing and Dinner Robin Weber Lina Reynolds every Wednesday 17:00 Fred Wydler Drop In Dinners Byron Jacobs Key Functions: House Manager Accounts and Office Manager Sherry Smith Officer of the Day (OD) Joanne Wright Rental Manager Roster Dan Doud Risk Management Calendar Manager Dennis Lowe 6/5 Alex Huang John Graves Delegates: Social Chairperson Peter Nardini (PICYA) Kathy Harris 6/6 Herb Huber Larry Mayne (YRA) Swap Meet Manager 6/13 Robert Huggins Olivier Lauzeral (SBYRA) Mike Harris Fred Wydler (PICYA) Wednesday Lunch Prog. 6/14 Dan Humphreys Gaylord Van Dyne Membership Committee: George Carr Jerry Jones 6/20 Jim Humphries Nauti Girls & Buoys Ed Coopeland Deb Blackmore Ann McDonough 6/21 Not yet assigned Burgee & Trophy Monitor Rick Gilmore Peter Nardini 6/27 Don Inouye Webmasters: Engraver Ann McDonough Bob Stanfield 6/28 Byron Jacobs Sherry Warburton Haberdasher
Newsletter: Kristin Butler Deb Blackmore, Editor Oya Curtis, Ed. Asst. Email Sheila Jones, Photos articles to Jerry Jones, Circulation [email protected]. Cover photo by Kathryn Maxwell. Larry Mayne, Advertising Check out club activities at Robin Weber flying the spinnaker on Sheila Jones, Roster www.SequoiaYC.org Agave.
2 Commodore’s Report: Vice Commodore’s Report:
Petra Gilmore Byron Jacobs
Our club was founded in 1939. At that time, Americans It’s summertime and fun time at the Club! Kristin Butler were struggling with high unemployment, the frightening hosted a wonderful Floato de Mayo party on May 2nd with a news of an impending war in Europe, and an explosion of lively Margarita contest between Larry Mayne and Mr. Robin new technologies. Sound familiar? I’m sure that our founder Weber. Tom Keegan hosted our annual Mother’s Day Brunch members, like everyone living here on the Peninsula back again amid reports the ladies were nicely pampered. Many then, were trying to fi nd enjoyment in a stressful world. Th ey thanks to all the people that pitched in and helped make these wanted to create a little haven of peace where those who events great hits. enjoyed the water could take a break. And I’m glad that they th did it! Now, serving as Commodore seventy years later, I’m Coming up are the Past Commodore’s Dinner on May 30 , th th th proud to be overseeing the fi ne traditions they established for the Disney Train visit on June 26 -28 , and our July 4 the benefi t of us all. celebration on – you guessed it! Out Social Chair, Kathy Harris, is looking at the Disney Train visit as an opportunity Th e By-Laws Committee, to throw a party in June so keep visiting our web site to keep which consists of Steve updated on any changes there. And don’t forget that the th Holmstrom, Bill Stark July 4 BBQ is always accompanied by beautiful fi reworks and Mike Harris, has provided by the Port of Redwood City. amended their report and a A very special set of acknowledgements go to Steve Higgs and copy is in this Scope. We will Bar Houston. Steve fi xed the big oven that’s been leaking heat be having a Special Meeting since some of our very senior members were Corinthians. He within our June General also calibrated the vertical ovens and has been helping Lina Meeting to vote on it. Please get the galley ship shape. Bar Houston fi xed the fl ickering plan to attend. lights in the Oates Room and our public address and music Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Th ree Men in a Tub system that liked to hum along with our Commodore. I also ...Our Wise Founding Members? want to personally thank Petra Gilmore and all who helped her and Lina for the Drop In Dinner on May 8th while Jeanne Mega Cruisers will be off to the Leeward Islands starting and I were in Kansas City. And another thank you to Gaylord June 18th. We have 5 boats going with a crew total of 25. Van Dyne and his entire crew for pitching in and helping us St. Martin here we come! put on the DID on April 24th while Lina took some time off .
New members: Lisa Corsetti, Kathy Conte and Cathy Attendance has been light at our Friday Drop In Dinners and Moyer joined us in April and Dianne Herscher joined in May. we miss you! Th e food has been a hit with those attending so Please introduce yourself and welcome them into the Sequoia come on out and join us. Yacht Club family. May you have fair winds and following seas, Th e Nominating Committee is hard at work fi lling the open positions on our board. Ann McDonough is the chair of this committee. Please join me in thanking the committee and consider adding your voice to our board.
Sequoia YC is blessed to have so many active members. Members that plan, cook, joke, sail, work, laugh, repair, lead, support, and love. Th ank you for making the Club our boating home.
3 Special Report: By-Laws A Look to the Past By-Laws Amentments to be discussed at the June General Meeting: Section 4: Sustaining Member A Sustaining member may be any Peter Nardini, Senior member who has been a Senior member of the Club for a Club Historian & period of 15 years and has attained the age of 65 years. Th e class Past Commodore of Sustaining member may be awarded by the Board of Directors upon written request of the Senior member. Th e Sustaining member shall pay 50% of the annual dues and assessments and shall have all the rights and privileges of a Senior member. (On ______, 2009, this Section 4 was amended to increase the number of years from 10 Oh, to have been a fl y on the wall in the newly formed to 15 years. Sustaining Members on such date shall continue to be Sequoia Yacht club seventy years ago. Th e newly relocated Sustaining Members notwithstanding such Member has less than 15 Port of Redwood City had only been in place for two years years membership; provided all other requirements of membership and the peace and quiet among the sloughs would have continue to be satisfi ed.) made a fantastic retreat from the cares of the day in 1939. Or Article X would it? Imagine it, the founding members of SYC would Section 2: Nominees. Nominees for offi cers and directors shall be have been deluged with disturbing news from Europe that chosen from the ranks of Senior, Life and Sustaining members or year. Hitler invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia; refugees their respective spouses. Such members shall be in good standing fl ed the Nazi Holocaust. Winston Churchill was called back and have been a member for a minimum of one year before from semi-retirement to become Prime Minister. Th e terror taking offi ce. Candidates may be nominated and elected prior to of another devastating world war hung in the air as Franklin satisfying the one year membership requirement. D. Roosevelt steered America out of Th e Great Depression. Unemployment across the country hovered at 19% and a pall Article III of unending deprivation and hardship hung over the land. Section 109: Domestic Partner A Domestic Partner is defi ned It can’t have been a time for congenial chat over a beer at the as a person living in a cohabitative relationship with a member. A member’s Domestic Partner shall be identifi ed upon initial club, or could it? nomination for membership or by subsequent identifi cation (including changes) by formal written notifi cation from the member “How’s that brightwork comin’ along? to the Board of Directors accompanied by a “Statement of Financial “Oh, slow. You know how it is. Margaret’s always Responsibility for a Domestic Partner”. Th e privileges and duties naggin’ me to take her to the movies.” outlined below extend to the Domestic Partner of any member. “What’d’ya see? Th e member assumes responsibilities for any expenses or liabilities “Well, last month it was Th e Wizard of Oz. Tech-ni- incurred at the Club by that member’s Domestic Partner. Th is color. Th at Judy Garland’s quite a gal. responsibility continues as long as any expenses or liabilities are “John Wayne in Stagecoach. Now that’s the ticket. incurred by that Domestic Partner. “Gone With the Wind. Th at’s what she’ wants next. (a) Th e initiation fees and dues paid by a member shall entitle “Shame about Lou Gehrig. Big loss for the Yankees. the member’s Domestic Partner to the use of the Club facilities, “What’d’ya hear? as outlined by these bylaws and the Clubhouse Rules. A key card “He’s gotta quit. Nasty disease. Joltin’ Joe’ll come through to the clubhouse and a membership card shall be issued to the though. Both of ‘em will be in the Hall of Fame, wait and see. Domestic Partner. “I heard that baseball will be changed forever soon. (b) Th e Domestic Partner may not vote nor hold an elected offi ce. Some new invention at the World’s Fair called (c) Upon termination of the member’s association with the television or something. Club or the Partner, the Partner’s affi liation with the Club shall “It’ll never catch on. Radio’s the next best thing to bein’ at the cease, the membership card, the key card and any other keys to the stadium. Can’t wait ‘till I get it on the boat. Club shall be surrendered to the Club’s Membership Chairperson. “I heard that the Fed’s are still investigatin’ those prison guards who shot “Doc” Barker on Alcatraz. Section 910: Member’s Spouse or Domestic Partner Th e privileges “Anyone brave enough or stupid enough to try a homemade and duties outlined below extend to the spouse of all members. raft in those waters should be allowed off Th e Rock. A member’s spouse shall be identifi ed upon initial membership “Well, I’m more interested in that Howard Hughes. nomination or by subsequent identifi cation (including changes) Strange duck. He’s built another aeroplane he calls by formal written notifi cation from the member to the Board of a Boeing Strat-o-liner. Directors. (Continued on page 6, column 1.) ”Th at Sir Malcolm Campbell fella made it to 141 miles per hour on the water. “Damn. I’d be happy just to get out on the water. Well, once my brightwork’s fi nished… “You’re dreamin’. A real “Walter Mitty,” that’s who you are! 4 Social Events Reports
Kathy Harris Good of the Order: Social Chair LuAnne Graves
Th e Disney Train at Port of RWC Director Bob Eustace will be starting radiation soon, so please keep him and his wife, Charlotte, in your thoughts and Friday - Sunday, June 26-27 prayers.
As you all know by now, the Disney Christmas Train Byron and Jeanne Jacobs rushed to Kansas City to be by the is coming to the Port of Redwood City for three days side of Byron’s mother, who is ill. beginning Friday, June 26th. In addition to the 4-car train,
there will be a Disney 3-D theater where guests will get John and Linda Mattis have a new grandchild. Alice Mattis a sneak peak at the new version of “A Christmas Carol,” was born on Th ursday, April 2, 2009. She weighted 8 pounds starring Jim Carrey. For more details about the event, visit 5 ounces. Mother, Father and and big brother Finn are doing www.christmascaroltraintour.com. It’s an event that will draw well. thousands of visitors from the Peninsula and beyond, so we
are planning some special tie-in events at the club. Check on Dennis and Grace Lowe’s son, Jonathan, our SYC website for more details. is getting married in June. He and his Mark your calendars now for: bride, Tessa, will be married in Olympia, Washington on June 27th. It will be an Th e Port of Redwood City Fourth of July. outdoor ceremony at her grandfather’s house next to the sea. Relax at the club with family and friends enjoying All- Our daughter, Laura Graves, became engaged April 29th to American foods throughout Nick Smith of Newport Beach. Th ey are planning to wed the afternoon. Th en watch the sometime next summer. fi reworks from the best seat in the house...the clubhouse deck Richard Blackmore is back at home for the summer. He is or the cockpit of your own working on an internship in paleontology at Th e Children’s boat. Natural History Museum in Fremont. Younger brother, Rob, is staying on in Charleston, South Carolina taking classes and beer canning at the Charleston Yacht Club. Th e annual Island Time Party hosted by Steve and Laurie Holmstrom on Saturday, July 25. Th is annual event aims to get everyone in that sand-between- your-toes, blissed-out-on- tropical-cocktails sort of mood.
5 Reports Reports
Jerry Jones Membership Chair Jim Peterson Racing Fleet Captain
Please keep your membership information up to date by Saturday, April 18th, turned out to be a spectacular day email to [email protected] and copy to “SYC offi ce” for the fi rst annual Westpoint Marina Regatta! We had 14
6 For Nauti Girls & Buoys On-the-Water
Ann McDonough Terry Burley Cruising Fleet Captain
Sequoia Reads for June We have had some truly great cruising experiences so far this spring.... Most recently Treasure Island was wonderful, well What can fl oating debris teach us about the world’s planned and led.. Th is past week we sent 10 boats out to oceans? Find out from a new book by oceanographers Presidio Yacht Club.... A truly unique place set in Horseshoe Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano, Flotsametrics and Cove, nothing like it, right in the shadow of the Golden Gate. Some of our folks venture out... or at least planned to at this the Floating World. Please join us on June 1 at 19:00 to writing. discuss this entertaining autobiography by this resourceful oceanographer who fi gured out how to use fl otsam— fl oating What’s coming up next? June is a VERY busy month this year. trash—to uncover the movements of the world’s oceans. Th ere are TWO great opportunities to enjoy open water.
In the early 1990’s Ebbesmeyer, on a tip from his mother, Th e fi rst is a luxury destination in our own backyard: started recording the locations where hundreds of Nike shoes June 13-14 San Francisco YC/Tiburon. Larry Mayne is were washing up along the West Coast. Th e shoes had been hosting and leading this one. I don’t want to miss this one spilled from a container on a ship hit by a severe Pacifi c myself. Anyone who has been over to San Francisco Yacht storm a year earlier. From that fi rst, opportunistic attempt at Club...knows what a great visit this will be. Tiburon in the turning beachcombing into a science by retracing the shoes summer winds is a treat! Sign up soon. Larry will need good 2,000 mile trip, Ebbesmeyer has gone on to understand and numbers as early as he can get them. describe the detailed movements and order of the worlds oceans. Th e second is a Cruiser’s Paradise: Sequoia Reads for July June 18- July 2 Mega Cruise to the Leeward Islands. Th is trip has been a full year in the planning. We have a
On Th ursday, July 9 at 19:00 the Reader’s group will have number of our members who are headed east the Leeward a discussion of Don’t Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk Islands... old pirate territory in the day Arrrrr! No pirates who also wrote Th e Caine Mutiny, Marjorie Morningstar, now, though. Just beautiful cruising where you pretty much Th e Winds of War, and War and Remembrance, which if can see from island to island. Petra and her gang are leading you haven’t read, you surely saw the movies of. this. We wish them Fair winds and balmy seas. Let’s see what “Proofs of Passage” they can come up with (aside from empty Norman Paperman, a New York press agent, and his friend, sunscreen containers). Lester Atlas, leave the cold, but glamorous city, to look at a little Caribbean island hotel that Norman saw advertised in I wish us all Fair winds and even better seas... and can you feel the New Yorker Magazine. Norman, with Lester’s assistance, the Delta winds? buys the hotel and settles in to enjoy the Caribbean while sipping Planters Punch. Very quickly he begins to learn of the pitfalls that await the novice owner.
Don’t Stop the Carnival, published in 1965 by Doubleday & Company and later in paperback by Pocket Books 1966. It is available at the Campbell, Milpitas and Morgan Hill branches of the Santa Clara County Library and is available in paperback. Th e ISBN is 0-671-65678-3. Th ere is also a musical, written by Jimmy Buff ett, which I will bring. Join us on July 9th to discuss the joys of Caribbean life.
7 Photos by Byron Jacobs, Robin Weber, Sheila Jones & Lina Reynolds
Jeannie’s Mom from Boston, joins the fun at Floto de Mayo, and of course a Spanish Galleon Piñata, Ted & Kristin enjoying the party.
New member Diane Herscher brings Chicago souvenirs to friends at SYC 505’s screaming along at the Beer Can Races
Artistic rendition from the Beer Can Races by Lina Reynolds Metridium heading for the finish line at the Beer Cans
Introducing Nick & Robin Weber’s Web Tide, a Catalina 320: SYC joins in the christening and open boat at the guest dock.
8 More Photos
Iowa, Windancer and Melilani preparing for Beer Can on Wednesday May 20, 2009
Our Future, the Stanford Team Black Sheep
Merrits coming out of the channel Grace Kellie in the lead upwind 505 flying
Phil Meredith on a Hobie Cat Pizote Smokin J The nights winner Metridium
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