APRIL 2021 SPRING HAS SPRUNG! CHARTER MEMBER GULF YACHTING ASSOCIATION MEMBER FLORIDA COUNCIL OF YACHT CLUBS APRIL 2021 (Stay updated through PYC e-mail notifications) 4th Easter Brunch 11:00 -2:00 ~ Reservations MAY 2021 Closed - Easter Egg Hunt at 12:30 9th Mother’s Day Brunch 11:00 -2:00 Limited Seating RSVP Soon 9th Crawfish Boil 14th PYC Blue Wahoos Event 6:30 10th Raft Up at PYC Watson Sailing Center 1st 125 to make reservations 13th FCA Chapter Dinner 5:00 15th Raft UP 18th PYC Blessing of the Fleet 18th Finance Committee 20th Finance Committee 19th PYC-Board Meeting- 6:00 pm Board Room 21st PYC Board Meeting – 6:00pm Board Room 20th PYC General Membership Meeting 24th Five Flags Regatta 21st FCA Chapter Sundowner Ceremony 22nd -27th Catalina 22 Nationals 24th -28th St. Pete to Pensacola Regatta 31st Memorial Day at the Club ~ RSVP 11-2 PM EVENT CANCELLATION POLICY: A 48-hour Event Cancellation/No Show Policy is in effect for all Club and Planned Events. Any cancellations made within “SPRING HAS SPRUNG” 48 hours of the event, or non-attendance at an event with a reservation, will be billed at full price. Event Reservations - [email protected] or 433-8804 ext. 109 FLAG OFFICERS TOM PACE .................................................................850-572-6727 Commodore .................................................commodore@pycfl.com DR. DAVID CHANDLER ..........................................850-554-0612 Vice Commodore ................................. [email protected] JAMES SIMKINS ........................................................850-449-7551 Rear Commodore ................................. [email protected] See you April 4th at the Easter Egg Hunt & buffet! ANDREW MCMILLAN .............................................850-982-3012 The Easter Bunny will be available for photos. Fleet Captain ...............................................fleetcaptain@pycfl.com Music by Clark & Company String Trio CYNTHIA CANNON ................................................850-384-0407 Secretary.......................................................... [email protected] TIM KANE................................................ b 434-2374 h 433-7316 Treasurer ......................................................... [email protected] NICOLE FERRY .........................................c 291-2325 h 453-1173 Commodore Emeritus [email protected] PYC MANAGEMENT JIM WARWICK .................................................... 433-8804 ex 104 General Manager [email protected] The Boys are Back in Town! SCOTT SEGERS ................................................... 433-8804 ex 102 Clubhouse Mgr/Events .......................................... [email protected] JENNIFER LANGHAM ........................................ 433-8804 ex 100 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Office Manager/Accounts Payable [email protected] BRIDGET HELM .............3 years ...................................808-227-6344 Webmaster [email protected] JEN SAMALA ...................................................................433-8804 JOHN ADAMS ...............3 years ...................................850-430-4781 Administrative Assistant ......................................... [email protected] [email protected] ANDREA VANDAL ............................................. 433-8804 ex 105 CLAIRE REES ..................2 years ...................................850-293-2450 Bar Manager ............................................................ [email protected] [email protected] JOHN REDFIELD .................................................. 433-8804 ex 109 STEVE COZART ............2 years ...................................850-384-7519 Food & Beverage Manager .................................... [email protected] [email protected] STEVEN GIFFORD .............................................. 433-8804 ex 107 DEAN KIRSCHNER .......1 year ....................................850-554-2177 Kitchen Manager [email protected] [email protected] GREG SPITZER .................................................... 433-8804 ex 108 DR. JOSH HACKEL .......1 year ....................................850-698-2516 Dockmaster ................................................DockMaster@pycfl.com [email protected] CÉSAR TRAVADO .................................................c 850-723-1278 ALAN MCMILLAN ........................................................850-457-6264 Sailing Director [email protected] PYC Satori Member [email protected] COMING NEXT MONTH: EXCERPTS FROM “RUDY BRAY – SPECIAL MEMBER SPOTLIGHT“ (JIB SHEET 2015) PAGE 2 | JIB SHEET Commodore’s Comments Tom Pace IT’S SPRING !!! Like many of you, I am a perpetual warm-weather person, absolutely love sunshine, saltwater, long hours of daylight and the seasonal winds that electrify a sailor’s time on the water. We are now into Daylight Savings Time, the last bits of chilly morning air, and a ramp up for our collective outdoor fun. Moving right along . Your Club continues to make strides in the ongoing repairs from storm damage, and your Dockmaster, our “I can-do-anything magician,“ Greg Spitzer, has overseen replacement and repairs of our pilings and docks, pool fencing, irrigation systems, roof and structural work, and the replacement of the torn roof above the junior building. That he does his remarkable job and saves your Club untold expense is one thing, but that he does so with such a professional end result is simply outstanding! The roof shingles are being redone, the building siding is in the works, and the new ballroom carpet absolutely looks fantastic. To compliment that new carpeting, your Board of Directors approved the purchase of new ballroom chairs. Our current ones are 15-years-old and, frankly, at neither a fit-nor-finish condition that is on par with the rest of our Club. It is important that members understand that some large expenses are being covered by the funds from insurance proceeds. The others are being paid for out of accounts that have accrued over the past year. Even during the Covid shutdown, the Club paid down a record amount of debt, and still added to our capital improvement account every month from operations and a small amount of our member dues. In fact, some of those accounts are in excess of historic levels, and the expenditure for new ballroom chairs will not put your Club into any financial challenge whatsoever. Your Treasurer Tim Kane, General Manager Jim Warwick, and Past Commodore Jim Reeves continue to do a masterful job in our financial matters. Our future is indeed very bright. On our sailing front . We are ramping up participation in light of the improving conditions surrounding the Covid virus. PYC shall remain conserva- tive in the practice of protecting members and staff and, as we host our local and national level regattas, we will not turn a careless attitude to any event we host. In an attempt to keep your Club’s air safe and healthy for members and staff, we are installing a new air-purification system in the kitchen. Designed by a local expert in air handling and airborne contaminants, this is a small rectangular device that moves air through a filtration system that kills 99.99% of airborne pathogens. PYC is one of the first to be able to utilize this technology, and GM Warwick believes that this is a prudent effort to guard against risk of infection from delivery personnel and from the myriad of activity most of us never see in the kitchen area. Keeping our staff healthier and safer positively affects our members as well. Sailing Director César Travado is seeing a huge upswing in Summer Sailing … from 25 sign-ups last year, (Pre-Covid) to over 80 for this summer, as of March! We will have a robust Summer Sailing Camp, and César continues to develop our younger sailors to be able to race and have fun with their Opti’s and into the larger boats for the older kids. Your Fleet Captain Andrew McMillan will be coordinating events ranging from our Junior Olympic event, which we hold every spring, to one-design and open PHRF events on Pensacola Bay. Socially . Well - we have some “WOW” coming our way!!!! Commodore Emeritus Nikki Ferry is teaming with Nancy Matthews of your Hospitality Committee to roll out fun events for members, guest regatta participants, and a combination of everyone across both sailing and traditional Club events. Also, as we keep mentioning . we hope to engage as many of our members as possible in the Labor Day Regatta at Southern YC in New Orleans. Soon we will have some detailed plans for your consideration, but if you have even a chance of joining in, it will prove to be a fantastic PYC experience. Join in as we take our brand on the road for a great time on and off the water! Please chime in with any questions or thoughts at any time . I am usually at the Club on a daily basis, and any of your Board Members will be happy to get as many members involved as may desire. We are headed to a great spring and summer and look forward to more participation as we improve past the worst of the virus concerns. Aloha, Tom PAGE 3 | JIB SHEET Vice Commodore’s Comments Dr. David Chandler PYC Membership The Pensacola Yacht Club continues to be an aquatic-focused venue to attract those interested in yachting and water activities. Our waiting list for March contained 66 candidates for membership. We are excited to announce that, on