VENETIAN DAYS at the DYC Hawaiian Luau August 4th - August 11th, 2012 Saturday, August 4th 3 pm: Off the Dock Sail Race. Boats will be able to fly any sail so come down and watch all the colorful spinnakers racing in front of the Club Lighting of the Docks - All docks, including Green dock put on their best light display Sunday, August 5th 9:30 - 11:30 am: Dock Breakfast served on the Boardwalk 9:30 am Sea Gulls Book Sale 1 pm: Fleet Review Friday, August 10th 7 - 10 pm: Junior Venetian with Dinner and Dancing by the Pool 7 pm - 10 pm: Dock Gift Baskets & Silent Auction on display in the Starboard Haven Lounge 8 - 11 pm: Patio Entertainment - Merlin Saturday, August 11th 9 - 5 pm Craft Show on The Boardwalk 2 - 4 pm: Kids Crafts & Games at the Outdoor Pool & Patio 3:30 - 4 pm: Kids Competition Judging at the Outdoor Pool & Patio 3 - 6 pm: Craig Lamm Boat Ride with donations going to the Ladies Locker Room Project 5 - 7 pm: Special Drinks on the Docks. Come enjoy what each dock has created! 5 - 7 pm: Best Hawaiian Costume, Best Parrot/Dock Entrance, Drum Beating Contest 5 - 9 pm: Authentic BBQ of the Hawaiian Tropics 8 - 11 pm: Dining & Dancing with Dr. Swift Band on the Outdoor Patio 10 pm: Announcements & Awards programs, adaptive sailing instructor (coaching physically challenged FROM THE COMMODORE sailors), and is still coaching a number of yacht racing campaigns. His COM. BRYAN BARLOW sailing resume includes experience on boats from an 8' ft dingy to 60' ft Open Class Multihull and 80' Maxi Yachts. Most recently Jim com- Swim Team peted in and won the Chicago to Mackinac Race in July. Equipment Congratulations to our 93 DYC Swim Team members for winning 6 and coach boat needs have already been identified, and an impressive out of 6 swim meets this season. The DYC Swim Team won the lower Jr. Sailing program is being developed for the remainder of 2012 and league division this year and will be honored and presented with the for 2013. As with any successful committee or club-within-the-club at first place trophy at the MICSA finals. All of the Club members are very DYC, volunteers and helping hands are always welcome. proud of you! Fantastic job! Membership Increases Gold Cup Race DYC membership is on a roll this year. As you may recall at the start of Picture perfect weather was on tap once again for our Gold Cup the fiscal year, the board set a strategic goal of attaining 500 Active / Hydroplane Race Weekend. We had great racing all filled with deck to Active Boating members by 9/30/12. At the August 25th board meeting, deck battles for first and second place and several flips. The blow overs General Manager Paul Hughes and Membership Director Jim certainly made for an action packed show for the race fans, fortunately Neumann announced that we have officially reached 505 Active / no one was hurt. All three Commodores were in the pits for the final Active Boating members. Our total membership count for all categories heat and then over to the Air National Guard stage for the awards cer- has reached 791 and is continuing to climb. The next target is 900 emony. DYC was the presenting race sponsor for the Gold Cup Race members. again this year. You will be very pleased to know that we had very large Venetian Party-Saturday August 11th and significant Detroit Yacht Club signage in several strategic places The theme for Venetian Night this year is Hawaiian Luau so be ready throughout the pits, the grand stand seating area and all over the to Limbo in your island costume and try some Tropical Beverages. awards stage. Everyone in the audience knew that it was DYC that sig- Executive Chef Ken has some excellent tropical food planned for us nificantly helped save this historic boat race again this year. We certain- too. First Lady Linda and I look forward to seeing you at the party! ly didn't do it alone, and we had a lot help. Detroit Yacht Club was the Sincerely, driving force behind having a race and not having the race this year. In Bryan Barlow, Com. 2012 ~ Third Generation DYC Member addition to all of the fun and craziness that takes place at the Club on race weekend, it's a large source of revenue for us as well. Our overall numbers were up again this year with food and beverage, catering and FROM THE VICE COMMODORE wrist band sales in excess of $244,000. This is an increase of over 12% from our 2011 revenues. Again, thank you to the Gold Cup Fund COM. SCOTT ALLEN Raising Committee, including all of the other volunteer committees and Wow, what a busy summer at this great Club individuals that donated their time to make it a truly memorable and of ours. successful race weekend. I would especially like that thank all of the Take a look at the new lockers in the center DYC employees inside and outside of the clubhouse who worked their area of the ladies locker room. They provide a tails off, in the extreme heat, to make this another perfect race weekend great, classy club look with a drastic improve- for all of our members and their guests. You are all the best! ment. Roofs are being repaired, Craig I'll have one "On Tap" please! Homicz has improved the gravel road to the Speaking of "On Tap" specials, thanks goes out to Active Boating mem- boat launch ramp and the new doors are in at ber Dan Lemanske, owner of the Village Grill Restaurant in Grosse the Bitter End. The combination of Staff and Pointe, for his hard work and donation. DYC now has the best tapped Member involvement is amazing! beer around with a brand new, custom fabricated, beer cooler located The Gold Cup weekend was perfect. at the Starboard Haven bar. In the past, our tapped beer lines ran quite Weather, racing, parties and all could not a distance from the kitchen to the bar creating wasted beer, added costs have been better. And the weekend following was the Quake on the and sometimes a less than desirable flavor. Today, with our new deliv- Lake and the DYC sponsored GNH41, driven by Cal Phipps, won the ery system and the beer kegs located right at the bar, we have zero UIM World Championship! waste and the freshest best tasting beer around with a wide assortment The House Committee is currently working to modify some of our of local micro brewery brands on tap. The taste is remarkably better and House rules so that they fit better with current times while also support- so are the profit margins, even on a taller pour. In addition, we now have ing the Staff with stronger efforts to enforce the rules we have. It is a tapped beer at the outdoor pool Tiki Bar which offers a better taste and natural occurrence for new members to not be completely familiar with fewer cans to clean up after a busy day. Remember to thank Dan when all of the rules (and thank goodness, we have lots of new members… you see him around the Club. almost 100 more than we had on October 1 of last year!!!). I simply ask Office Furniture that all members read and understand the House and Dock rules Active Members David and Sandra Smith have decided to retire from because they are designed to help us all get along better. They are their very successful resort travel business and start really enjoying important and our Management Staff and Board of Directors are more time together. The question they had was what to do with a busi- required to enforce them. ness full of nice office furniture? The answer they arrived at was to Our DYC Foundation has been approved by the IRS as a tax exempt donate most of it to DYC. Thank you for the office furniture donations. 501(c)3 charity and can accept tax deductible contributions to help to Thank you to Connie Howe, owner of Two Men and a Truck, who had preserve our historic building. The first cash donation was recently our new office furniture delivered at no charge. received as a memorial to our deceased member and friend, Joe Tate. Junior Sailing Program - Moving Forward I encourage anyone who feels the call to also contribute in memory of Exciting news for the DYC Jr. Sailing Program! There is a renewed Joe or anyone else. The DYC Foundation is a separate entity with its interest in making our Jr. Sailing program "Best In Class" once again. A own Board of Directors and a purpose that will grow to help our Club Junior Sailing Committee (Board) will be formed with DYC parent mem- in many ways. You will be hearing more about this important initiative. bers, including DYC Membership Director Jim Neumann, who are now Your feedback and support is appreciated.The Management and tasked with having program oversight from a DYC management per- Board actually read your emails and listen to your complaints and com- spective. He will work in conjunction with the Jr. Sailing Committee pliments. Our General Manager, Commodores and the Board all have Chair, DYC member Paul Lee. Jim Neumann is an ISAF Category III an "open door policy" and we welcome your ideas. It takes all of our yacht racer. He was a US Sailing Certified Instructor and Head eyes, ears and willingness to get involved to attain the level of quality Instructor as well as the Director of Sailing at North Star Sail Club in and consistency that we all expect from OUR Club.