Official Publication of Windycrest Sailing Club/Keystone Lake, Oklahoma VOLUME 16 NUMBER 9, SEPTEMBER 2009 Rex and Allene Donley, Editors SEPTEMBER DECEMBER 27 .......................................................Fall Series #9-10 2.....................................................................Full Moon PRO Terry Rainey 7 ...............................................................BOG Meeting Sand Springs Community Center - 6:30 p.m. OCTOBER 12 ........................................Windycrest Holiday Party 4..........................................................Fall Series #11/2 PRO Mike Choquette 5 ...............................................................BOG Meeting Sand Springs Community Center - 6:30 p.m. 11...................................................Windword Deadline Annual Meeting and 17/18 ...........................................................WINDYCUP PRO Stephen Gent Oktoberfest 17...........................OKTOBERFEST - Annual Meeting 25.....................................................Winter Series #1/2 October 17, 2009 PRO Kenny Baggett Make your reservations now for the fun and 31 ..................................................................Halloween important event. See back cover and inside flyer NOVEMBER 1 ......................................................Winter Series #3-4 PRO - Grant Gerondale 12th Annual Cajun Turkey Fry 2 ...............................................................BOG Meeting Sand Springs Community Center - 6:30 p.m. November 7, 2009 2.....................................................................Full Moon 7...................................12th Annual Cajun Turkey Fry See Enclosed Flyer 8 ......................................................Winter Series #5-6 PRO Darrel Daniel 8 ....................................................Windword Deadline 11 ............................................................Veteran’s Day Windycrest Holiday Party 15 ....................................................Winter Series #7-8 PRO Matt Gillis December 12, 2009 26.............................................................Thanksgiving See Activities Captain Report for details Windword Page 2 BOARD OF GOVERNOR’S MEETING BOARD OF Windycrest Sailing Club month's newsletter are to be received OVERNORS Board of Governors Meeting by Wednesday this week. G Minutes 14 September 2009 (draft) Facilities Manager's Report: The COMMODORE JoAnn Chandler Army Corps of Engineers carried out 455-5278 The BOG convened at 6:46pm in the their annual inspection of the Club [email protected] Sand Springs Case Community facilities on August 21st noting only Center on September 14th, 2009. minor items needing attention and VICE COMMODORE Governors present were Tina Birch, Jo expressing numerous times what a Steve Elliott Ann Chandler, Allene Donley, Rex beautiful place Windycrest was. 749-9268 Donley, Steve Elliott, Stephen Gent, Treasurer's Report: The Profit and [email protected] Tucky Patz, and Tom Proctor. Loss statement was approved as stat - REAR COMMODORE Members present were Darline ed. David Briggs Hobock, Steve Horn, Mike Lang, and Activities Captain's Report: It is 742-0454 Jack Stewart. Guests Adam Wisneski expected that the holiday party costs [email protected] and Joe Trotter were also present. will to stay the same as last year or run Welcome: Jo Ann welcomed every - slightly lower, somewhere around $22- PAST COMMODORE Terry Dannar one. $25 per person. Tucky will meet with 245-8033 Adam Wisneski introduced himself Ti Amo's this month, nailing down the [email protected] stating that he only recently became menu and charges. interested in sailing. He bought a Fleet Captain's Report: Stephen SECRETARY used Force 5 and has taken it out on created a short Members' Survey Tina Birch the lake each weekend since pur - which he intends to pass out along 583-8462 chase, reading books along the way. with the Ballots at the Annual Meeting. [email protected] Adam would like to begin racing, crew - Responses received will guide new TREASURER ing and becoming involved with other business topics among the BOG in the Tom Proctor sailors. Joe Trotter introduced himself forthcoming year. 749-1181 stating that after a long hiatus, he was Webmaster's Report: None [email protected] returning to sailing. Joe and his wife received. bought Bob Ibanez' Catalina 22 and Rear Commodore's Report: None FLEET CAPTAIN Stephen Gent are thrilled to rekindle their love of sail - received; however, Stephen men - 918-260-5344 ing and have a place where their chil - tioned that the junior sailors enjoyed [email protected] dren can begin their sailing adven - much the extra TillerTimes. tures. Both applicants were approved Vice Commodore's Report: Steve ACTIVITIES CAPTAIN for Regular Membership; however, had nothing new to report. Kathleen Patz Adam decided to postpone joining until Past Commodore's Report: None 794-9033 the next fiscal year. The Board of received. [email protected] Governors welcomes Joe and his fam - Commodore's Report: JoAnn had W Wekiwa Road, Sand Springs. ily to Windycrest. nothing further to repot. Meeting adjourned at 8:45pm. Jo Ann initiated discussions cover - Old Business: None. ing various housekeeping topics. New business: None. Respectfully Submitted, Secretary's Report: The August The next Board of Governors meet - Christina L Birch, Secretary, minutes were approved as published. ing will be held October 5th at 6:30pm Windycrest Sailing Club Windword Editor: Articles for this in the Case Community Center, 1050 Windword Page 3 Windword Editor: Rex & Allene Donley FOR SALE: 1984 Capri 22 (918) 744-8656 FOR SALE Sailboat, trailer and outboard 1975 swing keel Catalina 22 w/ [email protected] motor trailer, main, jib, and genoa, Needs TLC $5,000 OBO and 8 hp 2 cycle outboard. $3000.00 Published at: Star Forms, Inc., View on C Dock slip 19 John Lissau 918-625-5571 Nuel Holman 3214 E. 21st, Tulsa, OK 74114 [email protected] 918/664-1071 (918) 744-1110 [email protected] FAX (918) 749-0598 FOR SALE 1974 Alcort Sunfish with If you get the answering [email protected] Trailer, $580 OBO. machine, state you are calling Call DAVID VANDYNE about the boat when you leave 622-1716 your name and number. Visit our website at www.windycrest.com You can e-mail information to the Board Members Frances Rowland via this webpage. When the Catalina 25/27 Fleet start - ed preparing the Labor Day Brunch this year, they felt a large void because Frances Rowland was not with them this year. After a short visit to the hospital in Classified Ads August, Frances passed away on (Members Only) No charge, August 20, 2009. Bill and Frances joined Windycrest but members must renew ad after in 1974. From the very beginning, both 2nd time it runs. were very active social and racing members being very competitive on their Catalina 25 for many years. Frances served as the Windword editor and made 2009 WINDWORD it a point to know everyone at Windycrest and welcomed all new members for a ADVERTISING RATES lot of years. For many, many years, you could find Bill and Frances at all Windycrest social Commercial/Display Ads and racing events. They were big supporters of the MS Regatta from the very $50 Full Page beginning. Frances made a special effort to always make an event fun with $30 1/2 Page something she would come up with. You could see her in her German dress at $15 1/4 Page the Oktoberfest, she did a Halloween and Christmas boat decorating contest and was always at the chili cook off in the theme dress for the Fleet. How many of WSC Member -Display Ads Windycrest members remember the small boxes she made and passed out that $25 Full Page contained Hershey kisses? $15 1/2 Page $7.50 1/4 Page Windword Page 4 HYLAS 44 LEAVES DRUMRIGHT On August 10,2009, Debbie and Jerry Brichacek’s Hylas 44 foot sailboat was rolled out of the shop on their ranch outside of Drumright. There was a 100 ton crane set up and waiting to lift the sailboat from it cradle and set it on a low boy truck for a trip south to Kemah, TX. Nine months ago the boat made the reverse trip from Kemah to Drumright and into the shop where Jerry, Debbie and many others with all kinds of skills transformed the boat from one that had gone through a hurricane surge and landed on it’s side in a parking lot about a block from it’s slip to a boat that looked and was equipped better than it was new off the show room floor. As the boat was lifted by the crane, the truck driver asked the crane operator how much weight he was lifting. He looked down at the gage and told him he had 30,000 tons in the air. It all went slowly and surely as the crane operator made sure everything was going well and the truck driver made sure the boat was made fast to the truck for the long trip to Kemah. From start to finish the whole process took about 7 hours. The boat left Drumright about 4:30pm that afternoon and final - ly got down to Kemah and in the water on Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Now that the boat is in the water, and in the same yacht club as it was during the hurricane, the final touches are being done to get new electronics hooked up, the mast inspected and updated before it is set and a series of motor and sailing in and around Galveston Bay to make sure the boat is ready for open water. Debbie and Jerry are hoping to leave sometime at the end of the year to meet up with friends that are cruising in and around the East coast. Once they meet up they can plan their next journey as they visit islands and enjoy sailing where the wind takes them. Windword Page 5 2008 FLEET CAPTAINS C O M M O D O R E ’ S R E P O R T For the second month in a row Windycrest has said good by to one of its long Keelboat Racing Fleet time members. Francis Rowland was always happy and lifted the spirits of Terry Rainey everyone. I will miss receiving the little box with a candy kiss inside that Francis 369-5493 gave out at the club events. [email protected] The MS Regatta was a big success. When we arrived at the lake it looked as if we were in for a day of no wind and rain.