Eabd 1877 www.rochesteryc.co April • 2007 m A New Look For RYC n addition to the upstairs dining room, another exciting remodeling project has taken place at the IClub. New signs have been installed at the entry gates and doors, new placemats are in use in the dining room, and new coasters have been introduced in the bar. The banner of the Log and the website have been changed, and new window decals for your car and boat are available for purchase. Over the next few months, all the Club materials will be changed to incorporate our revised logo. Like the Club DVD premiered at the Grand Re-opening of the upstairs dining room, our logo is part of an effort to raise awareness and influence the public perception of our Club. It is a valuable marketing tool and we felt the revision should address the following issues: • CONTINUITY: The Club has a long history and the burgee has been associated with the Club since its beginning. For that reason, we felt it was important to continue to utilize the burgee as our logo. • IDENTITY: Presented alone, our burgee has no meaning to the general public. So a key requirement was Ingham Is One of World’s Top Finishers to incorporate our name into the design. We also wanted RYC’s Mike Ingham just finished the 2007 J/24 Worlds in to establish a signature typeface, so that our name would Puerta Vallarta taking second place, missing only the appear in the same typeface on all our materials. defending Worlds Champ Mauricio Santa Cruz of Brazil. • STYLE: The best logos reflect the qualities of the Mike and fellow RYC members Ernie Ferullo and Bobby companies and their products. The Rochester Yacht Club Bryant, along with master boat builder exstraordinaire, Curt is a well-established premium product. We wanted the Barnes, and friend Jon Faudre had a great regatta, finishing design to convey these qualities, as well as the friendliness and accessibility of the Club. (continued on page 2…) in front of 69 boats. Reid Stava Measures Up! From February 28 through March 10, conformance to class rules.” As Chair of RYC member Reid Stava was in Puerto the US Technical Committee, Reid is also Vallarta, Mexico for the J/24 World a member of the International Technical Championships–but not to race, rather, to Committee, and has been for about 12 measure. “All boats are measured as if years! they'd never been measured before. There “My principal interest is measuring sails, are about 25 items such as mast position, although I've measured all the J/24 boats keel, sails, etc. The purpose is to validate in the US – 1,500 boats in 12 years!” (continued on page 2…) 5555 St. Paul Boulevard • Rochester, New York 14617 • 585-342-5511 2 Commodore’sDear Members, Message countless hours to make sure this dining room project gets completed on schedule. I am writing this before its completion, but I hope the onset of spring finds you all well there is no doubt in my mind that it will be done on time. I extend and preparing for a very busy season of my sincere thanks to all who have lent a hand in this project. activities. Your Club staff and its many volunteers have been going full force, One of the main things that bring a club and its members together planning for the upcoming summer events. I is the camaraderie that comes from running a top notch regatta and hope that we, as a Board, have been doing our doing it right. This summer's IFDS Disabled Worlds may be one part in keeping you updated as to what is of the biggest regattas the Club will host. Not only will the three going on and what is coming up. I know that Lin and the rest of courses on the lake be a challenge, but the on-shore logistics will be the RYC staff have been making huge efforts to get everyone's even bigger. Just think about getting 150-200 disabled sailors down current email address so that we are better able to keep you to water level, into their boats, and off the dock. The planning of informed. over 300 meals for 10 consecutive days will present another challenge in itself. Our staff and volunteers will have their work cut You may notice in this issue of the Log our first use of the updated out from them, but this is what sets our Club apart from the rest. RYC logo. It really has not changed much but it is a little more up Whether you are a sailor, a power boater, a cruiser, a resident to date. Thanks to Notch Miyake and everyone else on the PR member, a student member or a trial member, I would urge you to Committee for their hard work on this endeavor. get involved with your Club. It's a great time to be a member! As I begin to learn how to try and do this “commodore” thing, it If you have comments or concerns call me at 721-2653 or write to really hits home that the key to this volunteer job is really the other me at [email protected]. volunteers who make this all come together. I have stated before, there is no “I” in the words yacht club. It's our Club and we all have That's all from me this month. I hope you all stay warm! to work together to make it that much better. Most of you would See you around the Club! be amazed to see the group of people who have been working Skip Shumway, Commodore RYC’s New Look (continued from front…) MEMBERSHIP REPORT RYC Membership as of March 15, 2007 • CONSISTENCY: There have been many interpretations of the Resident 407 Scott Blodgett (Resident) burgee over the years. As a result, the overall presentation of our name Non-Resident 106 Proposer: Brian Graves and logo has been confusing and conveyed many different messages. Associate 12 Seconder: John Doyle Any logo must be used consistently to be effective, so we are asking Surviving Spouse 24 Status Changes: everyone to use only the official formats for all Club materials. Privileges 5 To Resident: Templates are available on the Club website or by contacting me. Duane Beckett (Associate) Honorary 21 • FREQUENCY: To be effective, our logo must have the widest Ancient Mariner 50 Kristo Miettinen (Military Leave of Absence) distribution possible and we must take every opportunity to display it. Leave of Absence 30 Decals and coasters with the revised logo are available now. Other Student 24 To Military Leave of Absence: regalia items will be available soon. A new informational brochure Craig Miller (Resident) RJYC56 displaying our logo will be produced and distributed to key community Military Leave 2 To Leave of Absence: organizations. Ready for Election Kevin Maggio (Resident) The final design, by Club member Linda Summers, is simple and Eric Basset (Resident-legacy) To Resignation: elegant. The fluttering burgee conveys movement and activity Ready to Post David Montrallo (Ancient compared to a static burgee. The signature typeface is modern and Mariner) Wilma Darling (Associate) informal. And the dateline explicitly recognizes our long history. I David Castle (Non-Resident) Proposer: Steven Walther think you will agree that she did a great job designing a logo we can all Seconder: Robert Spatola Mark Dailey (Non Resident) Kurt Sertl (Resident) be proud to display. – Notch Miyake Reid Stava Measures Up (continued from front…) Having had a J/24 himself promoted an interest in measuring and unfortunately, traveled alone as he did to Mexico a few weeks requirements in order to be accepted for world qualifying events. ago. His wife, Jane, had accompanied Reid once, and soon to retire “In the late 80s, the J/24 International Class Association decided to from teaching, will again be his able assistant. “She's very organized, impose a weight restriction. So I got involved with the Rochester capable, and a natural.” boats and eventually was asked to join the US Technical Committee “The World Championships in Mexico were absolutely unbelievable! as a class measurer.” He became US Technical Committee Chair in Because of high class qualification measurers, there was a daily boat 1995, overseeing about 40 to 50 measurers. inspection on random boats over a 10 day period. We caught a few A typical year means attending about three to five major regattas–the boats whose crew had misinterpretations, so we serve as coaches and North Americans, National, District, and Great Lakes interpreters on how a boat should be equipped versus acting as boat Championships. Reid also serves as an International Measurer and so police. When I used to race on Bateau Blanc, I'd hear measurers say, has attended the World’s Championship in Chile, the Pan American ‘You can't do this! You can't race!’ with no corrective coaching… Games in the Dominican Republic, and in 2006 measured boats in acting like boat police rather than as an assessor offering a service to two World's… Melbourne, Australia and Weymouth, England. the regatta.” Thus, Reid became a measurer. Until his retirement from Xerox in 2006, Reid used vacation time – Kate Karshick 3 RYC BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING March 15, 2007 The Women's Association will organize an Rick Sullivan also reported that the The meeting was brought to order in the RYC boat tour in late spring, according to upcoming Stolze match race series held in upstairs dining room, giving everyone who Mary Lynn Miraglia, RYCWA Vice Buffalo and the Richardson Trophy held attended the opportunity to view the work President.