August 2019 Volume XCV Number 8 Bullship El Toro States IRF Report Tennis Fleet August • September 2019 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 AUGUST st 1 Friday Music 6:30p El Toro NAs ORF Shorthanded El Toro NAs Small Boat Race 6p El Toro NAs Family BBQ El Toro Luau 5p Locker 5-7p Locker 5-7p 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Locker 10a-Noon Small Boat Race 6p Deckhands UD 6p CG #14 UD 6:30p Bulkhead Race 6p El Toro NAs Family BBQ Yoga UD 5p; 6p CG #17 LH 6:30p Cribbage/Bridge 6:30p Locker 5-7p Locker 5-7p 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 STATEHOOD DAY Locker 10a-Noon Ladies Tennis 8a Joe Cochran Memorial Bulkhead Race 6p 3rd Friday Music 6:30p Race – Registration Class Boat I Mooring UD 6p Small Boat Race 6p 11-11:30am Yoga UD 5p; 6p Cribbage/Bridge 6:30p Locker 5-7p Family BBQ Locker 5-7p 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Small Boat Race 6p Locker 10a-Noon F & P UD 6:30p Bulkhead Race 6p Family BBQ IRF D1 Membership UD 6p Fleet Ops UD 6p Cribbage/Bridge 6:30p Locker 5-7p Locker 5-7p 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Locker 10a-Noon BOD UD 6:30p “Games” hosted by the Bulkhead Race 6p Class Boat J Yoga UD 5p; 6p Deckhands - BUNCO Locker 5-7p SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SEPTEMBER 1st Friday Music 6:30p Labor Day Deckhands UD 6p CG #14 UD 6:30p Laser States (HLA #7) Bulkhead Race 6p Small Boat Race 6p Locker 10a-Noon CG #17 LH 6:30p Yoga UD- 5p-6p Cribbage/Bridge 6:30p Locker 5-7p Family BBQ 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Locker 10a-Noon Bulkhead Race 6p State Keelboat Mooring UD 6p Small Boat Race 6p Laser States (HLA #7) Newcomers Pupu Yoga UD 5p- 6p Cribbage/Bridge 6:30p Locker 5-7p Family BBQ 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Locker 10a-Noon Bulkhead Race 6p 3rd Friday Music 6:30p Ladies Tennis Membership UD 6p Fleet Ops UD 6p F & P UD 6:30p State Keelboat Locker 5-7p Small Boat Race 6p ORF Waimea Bay Cribbage/Bridge 6:30p Family BBQ 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Locker 10a-Noon Mahjong 6:30p LAST Bulkhead Race 6p BOD UD 6:30P Small Boat Race 6p ORF Waimea Bay Yoga UD 5p-6p Cribbage/Bridge 6:30 Locker 5-7p Family BBQ 29 30 Locker 10a-Noon Yoga UD 5p- 6p RED = KYC Meeting BLUE = KYC Event / Racing GREEN = Deckhands Locker Eleven year old Makani Andrews wins Junior Bullship 2019 - More on pgs 10& 11 Photo: Kenneth Fitzgerald Case 2 COMMODORE VICE REAR Ralph Foulger COMMODORE COMMODORE Mike Van Woerkom Pete Stokka Aloha Members, Summer sailing I hope everyone classes are winding My first involvement has been enjoying their down and kids will be with Kaneohe Yacht summer and getting getting ready to go back Club occurred back in some time in for to school, so try and the sixties. At that time relaxation. Its crazy to enjoy the last few days there was a very different think school is starting off out on the water and down at the club before atmosphere at the club and within the community. for some in a week or two. the school year routine begins. This past month Families were a cohesive force participating as a I want to quickly thank Bill Riddle for has been active at the club with the 1st and 3rd single unit in the various activities at the club. another successful Riddle Regatta. This is Fridays, the 4th of July activities (Thanks to Over time, as happens within a developing always a fun event and this year didn’t Shaun and Jeremy for the pop-up BBQ), and and prospering democracy, the stringent dictates disappoint. There were many amazing plenty of wind and racing throughout the month. of society tend to erode and become less stringent costumes and creative ones that made it hard We hosted the Kalakaua Cup races at KYC and less regulated. Such is the case at KYC. for the judges to narrow down the winners. The again this year, which is an exciting event to be When I was a young single parent raising my amazing thing was that Bill announced that this part of given the history. The Cup was first daughter, there was barely a moment when my was the 26th year for the event! That is some presented to King David Kalakaua on July 4th daughter was not within my reach, much less serious commitment and deserves a big 1889 and is the second oldest sailing trophy in within my view. Mahalo!! the world next to the America's Cup. We honor My experience nowadays is that families I also want to thank all those who helped in the tradition of racing for this cup on the 4th of arrive at the club and immediately break off into the G Pier dock box work party. The team was July weekend every year. This year there was a the parents and their friends in one area and the so fast that the work was done and everyone left tie for the winner between KYC’s RV Aloha and children and their friends off in their areas. I’m not before we could even serve them lunch. Talk WYC’s Boomerang with Boomerang winning saying this a bad thing, I’m just pointing out the about some efficient members. The Pier is the cup with the tie breaker. differences in society today as from years ago. really coming along and looking great. We also had an exciting IRF Wahine race Because of these differences in the way families For all the sailors out there please mark this month that included great wind, photo interact, the more senior members of the club who your calendars for August 17. This is the finishes and tight battles with a big showing of were raised in different times under different annual Joe Cochran Memorial ALS Sail. We the J80 fleet. Leah Ford won the Wahine race on standards have a tendency to be less tolerant of are looking to get more boats out on the bay this the J24, Cash Flow. The next day the racing the carefree approach to dealing with children that year and raise some more money for the Local continued with the annual Riddle Regatta, we see nowadays. ALS Chapter. This year we have some which was a success and always a fun themed At KYC particularly, this carefree approach amazing art to raffle after the race as well. Last event. tends to produce a more highly charged year we had about 11 boats. I would love to see We are moving into El Toro season at KYC atmosphere where the liability to the club is at least 15-18 boats. The format of the race will with El Toro States and the Bullship at the end increased significantly. Children three and four be a bulkhead style start where you can buy of July and the El Toro North Americans hosted years old down on the floating dock by down your start time or add time to a at KYC at the beginning of August. You will be themselves, unattended, roughhousing at the pool competitor's if that’s the way you play! Every seeing quite a bit of El Toro action over the next with little parental guidance, skateboarding in the dollar counts. few days as well as some visiting sailors from parking lot in and out among the vehicles puts the Some of you may have received that call California. Another big event coming on 17 club at risk. you have been waiting for over 10 years for a August is the Joe Cochran Memorial race and Add to the fact that the club went for a period slip. The call that there is a slip available. I am fundraiser. The funds raised at this event all go of time without a manager to curtail some of the happy to say that the Mooring Committee has to the local ALS chapter. I encourage you to loosening of the normal and expected behavior of been working very hard this year to clean up come out and support this event. members, we now have a situation that presents records, make more space, and enforce the The Board was able to finalize and publish challenges to the viability of KYC. Mooring Regulations. All this work has led to the updated version of the pool rules this past As Commodore and a member of the Board, 16 slips coming available and are currently month. The rules are written to focus on the I am asking parents to take a look at your family being assigned if not done already when you enjoyment and safety of the members. I would situation, rein in the behavior of your children if read this. A friendly reminder to all KYC slip like to ask you all to help remind each other of need be, so that other members are not disrupted, holders to use your boat and make sure you these rules at the club. When you see an offended, splashed or battered by soccer balls on properly document the moves. The list is still infraction, respectfully remind the responsible the lawn and such.