July 2000 Monthly Newsletter From the Commodore Board of Directors Commodore Rob Wilson Im. Past Commodore Voldi Maki In the middle of June we hired a requisite for any plan that we would Vice Commodore Phil Spletter second caretaker. His name is present to the LCRA. The modifica- Secretary Gail Bernstein Chris Clark. If you have not yet met tions that are being con- Treasurer Becky Heston him I hope that you will make sidered include stretch- Race Commander Bob Harden the effort to do so. Initially ing the ramps, removing Buildings & Grounds Michael Stan Chris will be doing much material to restructure the Fleet Commander Doug Laws of the cleaning that we cove or creating a breakwa- Sail Training Brigitte Rochard had been contracting ter. These kinds of activities out and will begin to will be expensive and may learn as much as pos- require us to take out a AYC Staff sible about the loan, so active participa- General Manager Nancy Boulmay grounds and harbor so tion by the membership Office Manager Cynthia Eck he can help Tom and fill in in defining what we should do is Caretaker Tom Cunningham when Tom is away. very much desired. Chris Clark As most of you know, the lake level Finally, I think we should all ex- Austin Yacht Club continues to drop. It is now esti- press our thanks to the Harbor 5906 Beacon Drive mated by the LCRA that it could Committee, the staff and all of the Austin, Texas 78734-1428 reach 640’ at year’s end. If the wa- volunteers who designed, assem- Office: (512) 266-1336 ter gets low enough we may have bled and floated our two new Office FAX: (512) 266-9804 an opportunity to modify the harbor docks. They look great and are a Clubhouse: (512) 266-1897 and ramps. In preparation for this huge improvement over the docks kind of activity, at its last meeting that they replaced. the Board of Directors authorized a E-Mail & Web Site survey of the water front and www.austinyachtclub.org coves. This kind of survey is a pre- Rob [email protected] AYC Business Hours Tuesday - Friday 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Harbor News Regatta News by Doug Laws by Phil Spletter Saturday & Sunday 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Through the help of many volun- Thanks to the many volunteers teers Dock #3 was success- who worked hard to helped make Closed Mondays fully moved. Also, many Turnback Regatta a big success. thanks to the over 50 volun- Closed Club Holidays teers who turned out to as- New Year’s Day 1 January semble and launch the new Easter Sunday 23 April RC and Dock #6. A special Independence Day 4 July thanks to Greg Buck for Thanksgiving Day 23 November keeping everything running Shopping Day 24 November smoothly. This proves again — volunteers are who make this a great club. Thanks to all. Racing Scheduled Welcome Aboard By Voldi Maki July 5th ....................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing New Senior Members: 7th ..........................................KHF Beer Can Race · Roger Castenson has been sailing since 1967 in 8th & 9th ................................. Centerboard Regatta centerboard and then keel boats. He has been 12th ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing racing since 1982 on Cal 20’s and Cal 25’s at 14th ........................................KHF Beer Can Race several different clubs. He is currently crewing on 15th ..............................Summer Evening Series #1 a Cal 9.2. th 19 ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing · Spencer and Tami Duram have a Sunfish and 21st ........................................KHF Beer Can Race have raced in many of the Wednesday night 22nd .............................Summer Evening Series #2 races. They wish to join the club to be more ac- 26th ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing tive in the AYC Club events. 28th ........................................KHF Beer Can Race 29th ..............................Summer Evening Series #3 · John Halter has been racing at the club since 1975. His father was a previous Commodore. August John is now old enough to join the club and will 2nd ...................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing continue racing his Thistle. 4th ..........................................KHF Beer Can Race 5th ................................Summer Evening Series #4 New Associate Members: 9th ....................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing 11th ........................................KHF Beer Can Race · Umit Aytoc has been crewing at the club. He 12th ..............................Summer Evening Series #5 wishes to become a member so as to become a 16th ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing more active participant in racing events. 18th ........................................KHF Beer Can Race Senior Member Reinstatements: 20th .................................Indian Summer Series #1 · Mat and Dianne Bartlett have rejoined the club 23rd ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing Senior Members. 25th ........................................KHF Beer Can Race 27th .................................Indian Summer Series #2 · John and Mary Greening have moved back to 30th ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing the Austin area and have reinstated their mem- September bership. 1st ..........................................KHF Beer Can Race 6th ....................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing Leave of Absents: 8th ..........................................KHF Beer Can Race · Jeff Hart has been granted a one-year leave of 10th .................................Indian Summer Series #3 absence. 13th ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing 15th ........................................KHF Beer Can Race Resignations: 16th ......................................................Night Race · Claudia Foster has resigned because of a 17th .................................Indian Summer Series #4 change in marital status. She will continue to be 20th ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing a full member under John Bartlett who will main- 22nd .......................................KHF Beer Can Race tain any dry sail slips. 24th .................................Indian Summer Series #5 27th ..................... Wed. Night Sunfish/Laser Racing Membership Count th 29 ........................................KHF Beer Can Race Senior .................................................. 392 th 30 .............................. AYC Team Championships Associate ...............................................21 Junior .......................................................4 Leave of Absence .....................................5 Honorary ..................................................7 Life ........................................................21 Summer Evening Series RC Duty UT Sailing Team .....................................13 Total .................................................... 463 July 15th ..................Race 1 ....................... Keel Fleet B 22nd .................Race 2 ....................... Keel Fleet C 29th ..................Race 3 ....................... Keel Fleet D August AYC Swimming Pool Hours 5th ....................Race 4 .........................Catalina 22 Open: 1 PM Tuesday through 9 PM Sunday th 12 ..................Race 5 ................................ SC/21 Closed: 9 PM Sunday through 1 PM Tuesday Non-Member Launch Fees Rose is a Rose or Is It? What's in a name? That which we call With the lake dropping, many of the public boats ramps are no longer open. Please remember that a rose, by any other name would smell as the AYC boat ramp is intended for private use by sweet. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) AYC members and their guests. AYC members "Romeo and Juliet," II:2 must physically accompany each guest while launch- ing. If an AYC member is not present, the guest will Does the word, “yacht”, bother you? As defined in be charged the non-member launch fees. the Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, yacht means any of various relatively Non-Member Launch Fees: small ships for pleasure cruises, racing, etc. and Boat Length Launch Fee yachting means the action or sport of sailing in a Under 30 feet $ 50 yacht. 31 to 32 feet $100 When you think of a yacht club, do you think of blue 33 to 36 feet $150 blazers and power boats or do you think of AYC? To Over 36 feet Special Quote some yacht club translates into very formal and ex- pensive, while to others it means just a club with fa- cilities. Some think of a sailing club as a group of people without facilities sort of like your mother’s Adult Sailing Clinic bridge club. Almost everyone has a different point of view. The Sail Training Committee is plan- In a similar fashion to what US Sailing did in chang- ning an adult learn-to-sail clinic for ing it’s name, Pat Kimbrough thinks that we should September. change the name of our club from Austin Yacht Club Instructor: Ravi Subramanian to Austin Sailing Club. nd th Sounds easy enough, and of course it can be done, Dates: 2 & 9 September but it will take quite a bit of effort and expense. Is a Times: 1 to 5 PM name change worth that time and money? A by-laws Boats: Sunfish change, legal fees, banking changes, transferring ac- counts with our vendors, establishing a new credit Fees $50 Members record under the new name, new letterhead, new $60 Non-Members souvenirs, etc. If you, as a Senior Member of AYC, think the club A hamburger grill and pot-luck picnic are should take on this endeavor and expense, please e- planned for after the on-the-water training mail the office at [email protected]