Volume 84, Number 07 July 2012 Flying Dutchman Class Loves Santa Cruz! The Flying Dutchman class sailed their Na- • Only one boat sailed the entire regatta tional Championship over Memorial Day weekend. without capsizing! That boat skippered by We were expecting 20 boats but only 12 entered. The Paul Scoffin won the Nationals by a wide crews sailing these boats were outstanding people and margin. His throw-out was a second! Paul is our volunteers provided an outstanding SCYC wel- originally from New Zealand, but now resides come to them. in Orange Park, Florida. The racing featured winds that were high • Lin Robson a many times National Cham- even for a Santa Cruz spring. Friday it blew so hard pion from the St. Petersburg Yacht Club was that only seven boats started the first race and five second. the second with only two finishing! Saturday things • Tim Sayles, FD National President, from calmed down a bit and Sunday, even though quite Warrington, PA sailing with our Corinthian breezy, seemed downright mellow compared to the first Member, Matthias Kennerknecht was third. two days. • Our good friend, Buzz Ballenger was fourth. July 2012 Santa Cruz yaCht Club Spinnaker Sheet • Philippe Kahn got it going late in the event placing second in the last two races. for all volunteers and a wonderful tri tip din- • SCYC is very proud of Corinthians Evan Diola ner on Saturday night for FD sailors, regatta and Cory Dominguez who finished over half volunteers, and SCYC members who were the races. In one race their vang broke, but they fortunate enough to signup before reservations insisted on sailing on and finishing. were exhausted. • Nancy Woolf, a very new member, stepped Our teams worked great! forward and said, “I can do that” when a day • Fred Molnar is our Boat Park chair. His team or two before the regatta we decided to pro- assigned spaces to the boats in the Boat Park, vide continental breakfast on the first race day. managed the trailers and dollies, and launched That one was so successful that we decided and hauled the boats. He got lots of help from to provide breakfasts on the other two race Bob Barker, Jim Skinner, and Kevin Rooney. days. Magdalena Naef and Lois Van Buren • Kurt Hoffman is our Check In/Out chair. He handled days two and three, respectively. and Marilyn Comstock checked boats into and • Ed Moravick managed registration and meal out of the harbor, so we always knew which and shirt sales. boats were on the racecourse. In addition, they • Gene Sofen, Support Boat chair, ensured communicated with Fred’s team so dollies could we had all the support boats we needed and be staged for hauling boats out. staffed them with very competent crews • Tom Webster managed Host Services. His consisting of John Buchanan, Dave Kitchen, team of Judy Webster, Maureen Hill, Marilyn Ryan Gilliam, Rob Schuyler, Rachel Hoff- Comstock, and Jim Skinner provided lunches man, Michael Raabe, Van Tunstall, and Royce Fletcher. These volunteers got a real workout as we had lots of capsized boats! 2 July 2012 Santa Cruz yaCht Club Spinnaker Sheet The North Americans: • Preparations are well underway for the North • Beau Vrolyk, Principal Race Officer, got off Americans in August. The same teams will seven races under trying conditions, especially handle the North Americans with some people on day one. The race committee team consisted standing in for those who cannot work the of Magdalena Naef, Lois Van Buren, Kevin event. Rooney, Chris Hoffman, and Charlie Roskosz. • Fred Molnar and I will be out of town: Mike Gross chaired the only protest hearing. • Bob Barker is standing in for Fred as Boat • Bob Simpkins saved us on the last day of the Park chair. regatta by providing Xanthippe to serve as signal • Kevin Rooney is standing in for me as boat for SCORE, so we could continue to run the Regatta Manager. FD races from Onward and keep the two fleets separated. The Worlds: • Of course, things would not have gone nearly • With experience gained during the first two as well without the super support of Greg and events we will be well prepared for the Worlds Jennifer! when we will have a much larger fleet. • Although over 30 people are already signed As most of you know, we will also be hosting the on to volunteer, more are needed! Let me FD North Americans August 3rd through the 5th and know if you can help, and we will add you to the FD Worlds September 23rd through the 30th. For the list. the North Americans we again expect a fleet of about 12 • Dry Slip Renters who can move their boats boats, but we anticipate 50 to 60 boats for the Worlds out of the yard from September 20 through with entrants from Canada, Mexico, several European October 2 would be a REALLY big help. I countries, New Zealand, Australia, and the USA. Volun- know some of you have helped in the past by teers are using the first two events to gain experience and taking your boats home or to other venues for develop procedures in preparation for the Worlds when we will have a much larger fleet. 3 July 2012 Santa Cruz yaCht Club Spinnaker Sheet burning to the ground, sliding down the hill or caving in due to termites. We have a sewer line that flows with gravity, wiring that meets the building code, a new roof with operable skylights, fire sprinklers, a a couple of weeks. We hope to have sufficient gorgeous new tiled deck with a spectacular view of boats leave, so we can erect a large tent in front the Bay, ADA compliant bathrooms, additional storage of the Regatta Shed. space, new carpeting, a beautiful new barbecue, new sidewalks, outdoor lighting and a nice new front patio. SCYC is an amazing yacht club that is I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone blessed with wonderful sailing conditions, but more who helped with this project since it began in 2008 importantly with great people willing to volunteer their including my predecessors, Staff Commodores Bret time to organize and execute regattas with uncommon Gripenstraw, Lena Parker, Steve Niemann and Mi- competence and a welcoming spirit that even outshines chael Wood. We can all be proud of our new facility the sailing conditions. and we will all enjoy it for years to come. Now that we have (mostly) completed the Charlie Roskosz work, we will need to break our habit of parking on Event Chair Fourth Avenue. As part of our new use permit, we View from the Helm agreed with the city to park our cars at the harbor and respect our Fourth Avenue neighbors. So please, please, please park As I write this, we are in the final stages of at the Harbor below our clubhouse remodel! The tram has arrived and and encourage your should be operational by the time you read this. It crews to do the same. has been fascinating watching the workers put the Fourth Avenue park- tram together—sort of like an Erector set for adults! ing is discouraged Please mark your calendars for the July 7th Grand and with the tram Opening. We will have an open house, some (short) there is no reason to speeches, a ribbon cutting and a barbecue. The club- park there anymore. house looks great and the kids have already comman- Our new agreement deered the new room downstairs. On Wednesdays with the Harbor calls and on the weekends the kids just seem to gravitate for us to use the Har- there. Now we have to put some things down there bor’s existing parking for them to do. My informal poll of the kids found system. For those that a foosball table and a ping pong table are high on of you who have the list, along with an “Xbox 260”. If you have any boats in the Harbor of these items and would like to donate them to the or the dry storage kids, please contact me. yard, nothing will I don’t think we could have asked for a better change. For those outcome! The clubhouse is no longer in danger of 4 July 2012 Santa Cruz yaCht Club Spinnaker Sheet Upcoming SCYC Events Calendar Rib Cook-Off July 1 Cruise to Monterey July 1-4 Commodore Regatta members who do not have Harbor parking stickers we July 7 will be working out the details of our agreement with the Port District to make parking stickers available to you. Finally, for guests and crew who are not members Grand Opening we will arrange to make day parking passes available at July 7 nominal cost. I cannot emphasize enough how impor- tant it is to move the club’s working entrance to the Harbor side of our property and I thank you all for your Summer Multi-Hull cooperation in this matter. Enjoy the new clubhouse! July 14-15 Dave Emberson Commodore Monterey & Back Regatta July 20-22 Luau July 21 Santana 22 Nationals July 27-29 Insert caption here Photo by Staff Commodore Michael Wood 5 July 2012 Santa Cruz yaCht Club Spinnaker Sheet Our House Our yacht club workday really was a lot of fun and we got a tremendous amount of work accom- plished. I am always amazed at how much fun a work party can be. There was a lot of laughter, conversation and camaraderie. Everyone worked very hard until the beer was passed out. That was the end of the work.