Volume 34/No. 1 May 2020 From the Helm —the Commodore’s Corner by Lou Levine People somemes would ask me what I intended to do with pe missible fo us to open the clubhouse and allow boats in the my me ae I e e. My stock answe always was that I d ysail a ea. Most ecently, I was advised that the ta get date would do nothing eve y day. I would sleep late, d ink a lot of is sll Eune 1, but sll subFect to change in eithe di econ. co&ee, su f the web, have lunch, nap, listen to the ste eo (do So unl the lock down o de is lied and we a e all back at people do that anymo e o is that a 20 th centu y thing)), have the lake again, stay home and stay safeG suppe , watch TV, stay up late, go to bed, and then do the same thing the ne,t day, ad infinitum . And I was .uite se ious when I said that. /ife as a pe manent sp ing b eak f om school seemed like the shiniest of golden yea s. 0ut then eality came knocking. The lock1down and .ua an1 ne necessitated by the 2ovid113 pandemic has caused me to take a ve y ha d look at my e ement st ategy. Ma ch 20 was the last day of wo k in my o4ce. Since then I have been 6wo king emotely7. 0ut it8s not going well. 0efo e the .ua anne, the key to my icy calm composu e was that I had been able to build a wall between wo k and not1wo k. The th ee1mile commute to my o4ce was a spaal 0e lin 9all, sepa ang the b ight balmy ela,aon of home f om the g i:y g imy East 0e lin of downtown Sy acuse whe e I a:empted to sc atch out a living. Even though we have been hunke ed down in ou homes, And it wo ked p e:y well fo a long me. 9hen I got suited Mothe Ea th is at wo k showing he new sp ing beauty. 9ith up (lite ally) to go to the o4ce, my best game face got loaded that comes cleaning up the Howe beds f om the winte too. I fought the fight, did what needed to be done. And then I weathe . Ee& and Tess I eedman and I got pe mission f om went home, put the suit and the game face back in the closet, the 2ounty Pa ks to go in a couple di&e ent days to do some c acked open a bee (these days mo e f e.uently Almaden wo k. Ee& and Tess t immed some plants and weeded much of 2abe net Sauvignon in the 51lite bo,), and wande ed safely the f ont ga dens. A huge thank you to them. I cleaned up the and swily ac oss the bo de s of the ealm of Mo pheus. Howe s a ound the buoys and hostas and t immed the spi ea 0ut the .ua anne is like 1383 all ove again. The e is no bushes. Io now, we a e ok with the ga dens, but they will mo e spaal 0e lin 9all, heaven and hell a e now unified. need wo k once we a e able to open. 9e will see about mulch Home is wo k and wo k is home, the e is no telling whe e one when the me comes. ends and the othe sta ts. It is ve y di4cult to wo k at home 9e need about 314 mo e people to help with the ga dens. ae spending so many yea s t aining myself to believe that I Many hands make light wo k. I know we a e all busy in the neve have to wo k at home. Mo eove , the e a e a lot of dis1 summe but a few mo e people would lighten the load fo t acons at home, most of which contain a lot of calo ies and/ eve yone involved. Please conside voluntee ing. o alcohol. Notwithstanding the amount of me I spend in the house, I am doing even less housekeeping than I did befo e the .ua anne. Acco dingly, ad infinitum has tu ned into ad nauseum. To ce tain e,tent, technology has p ovided some social dis1 t acon. I have done Zoom a numbe of mes with family and f iends. He b fi,ed us up with a 9ebe, connecon so we can do AB2 boa d meengs emotely (which, although p accal and ve y much app eciated, doesn8t eally compensate fo AB2Ms fi st buds on P ai ie missing the made f om sc atch piCCas we got when we did the Smoke, Geum t iHo um, boa d meengs at 0ev8s houseDoh well). photog aphed on Ap il I have been on the phone a numbe of mes with the 2oun1 14, 2020 by Ee& I eedman Jen G ieg Memo ial Rhododen1 ty Pa ks 2ommissione and the Ha bo maste to find out when d on in bloom May 5. (Photo by the ma ina will open fo pe mit holde s and when it will be Ga y Jlink) Page 2 Dining Out at the Club In at Home OYC Eats By Tess Freedman OYC Eats, a newly formed winter acvity to e,plo e new es1 tau ants togethe with AB2 f iends, held th ee successful events this winte : 9e a e all dining 6in7 nowDcooking at home o o 1 Eanua y 14, 0 unch, 9olf8s Nen, Sy acuse de ing fo cu bside o home delive y, and the e is no Ieb ua y 2, Supe bowl Pa ty at The Reef, Memphis, NB indicaon that 6Nining Aut at the 2lub7 will occu any Ma ch 10, Ninne 0u&et at Indian G ill, 2amillus me soon. To t y to stay connected with AB2 f iends, Thanks to Pete Ji: and Holly Ioset fo o ganiCing this new we held a Vi tual Hot Stove Pa ty on May 3. Eighteen winte acvity fo AB2. membe s had a g eat me vising using Zoom (with o without video), including p ospecve membe s 0a ba a OYC HISTORY BYTE by Garry Klink and Nave J ause. Tess and Ee& I eedman gave a p e1 sentaon of thei t ip th ough the Panama 2anal on Ieb1 Many of you have seen the Thistle T ophy in the club. ua y 11. 9e hope to do a Zoom gathe ing again soon. This is the sto y of that sho t1lived Heet. I eceived a .ue1 9e welcome new membe Eohn /ischak, f om East y f om a Spence Pet, who had bought Thistle 283 and Sy acuse, a sailo who has a boat slip on 01wall, and e1 was told that it was once owned by a 2ommodo e of tu ning membe s Anondaga Bacht 2lub, and he wanted to know mo e. 0y Paul and 2h isne T anchell, /ive pool looking th ough the old minutes, I was able to dete mine esidents who have that in late 1347 ou boa d and 2ommodo e Geo ge H. eFoined the club Sanbo n decided that ou Snipe and /ightning Ileets following a few we e in decline. He wanted to e,plo e whethe the e yea s of wo k acvi1 was a Single Ileet that the sailo s could move into. In es out of the a ea. 1345 the Thistle 2lass was bo n. The designe s (Nouglass Paul sails the and Mc2leod) we e w i:en to. They w ote back with Hunte 22. info maon on the boat and on how to sta t a Ileet. They suggested that the boa d take in a Thistle Rega:a. OYC Emergency Procedure Under Development AB2 Sailo s visited 6Au o a7 (anyone know what B2 was By Herb Schrayshuen the e in 1347)) to see the Thistles in a Rega:a. Tom This Spring your Board has been developing an Emer- Thu low ( 2ommodo e 1344145, possible owne of gency Procedure to give club members guidance so that they may assist with on-the- water and on-land emergen- P283)) o ganiCed AB28s Thistle Ileet on May 23, 1348. cies related to club and other acvies. In the cou se of The e we e 7 membe s. Tom Thu low also w ote the the development we lea ned that 31111 is the p ima y deed of gi fo the t ophy and ac.ui ed it (built it him1 way to obtain medical help fo incidents. Ane evelaon self)). Athe 2lub membe winne s of the 6Annual7 t o1 was that the add ess of the club used by 31111 is not phy include: Non 9hitney, Geo ge /ewis and Ne, Ed1 what you might think (Sycamo e St eet). The 31111 sys1 ga ton. 0y 1352 the Heet was tem uses anothe add ess fo the club building, 41 East disbanded. Snipes and /ight1 Sho e N ive. This is impo tant to know if you a e com1 nings came back into favo with municang with a 31111 dispatche du ing an eme gency the AB2 sailo s.