AUSTIN YACHT ClUB JULY/ALJGUST 1991 AUSTIN YACHT CLUB 5906 BEACON DRIVE LAKE TRAVIS AYC OFFICERS COMMODORE ....................... Gail Bernstein VICE-COMMODORE ......•............ Dave Wahlberg SECRETARY ........................ Vicki Bremer TREASURER ........... ............... Roy Smith RACE COMMANDER ....................... Ray Shull BLDGS & GRNDS COMMANDER .......... Howard Shirey FLEET COMMANDER .....•........... Dave Henderson PAST COMMODORE ...... ............... Terry Meyers SAIL TRAINING COMMANDER ........... Barbara Hawn AYC FLEET CAPTAINS CAPRI 14.2 ..................... ..... Bob Jones CATALINA 22 ........................... Bi 11 Word CENTERBOARD HANDICAP ............... Fred Stearns CORONADO 15 ........ The Bingamans & The Lackeys ENSIGN ................................ Bi 11 Hawk 420's ...............•.. ...... Ravi Subramanian J-22 ............................. Debra Phillips J-24 ............................ Kirk Livingston KEEL HANDICAP ................. Mary Lynn Painton A-FLEET ........................ Mike Mayfield B-FLEET . .. Rick Sharp C-FLEET . .. John Vance D-FLEET . .. Ty Johnson E-FLEET ............................ Dieter Roy F-FLEET ............................ Mike Allen LASER . .. Fred Schroth ONE-DESIGN ......................... Eric Nelson SOUTH COAST 21 ................ Mary Marcia Mott SUNFISH ...................... Shirley Slaughter ( COVER PHOTO COURTESY OF TY JOHNSON -- Turnback Canyon Regatta, May 25, 1991 -- After a tough day of drifting around on Lake Travis, the saLilors rafted up in the cove at the K-Bar Ranch. The photo was t:aken with a 20mm lens from the very tip-top of Bob Tesch's J-29 AVALANCHE. BUSINESS OFFICE ... 266-1336 CLUBHOUSE .•. 266-1897 FAX ... 266-9804 .JULV/AIUGUST 1991 1 From the Commodore .... AYC is right in the middle of a busy summer schedule. The results of a lot of time spent by our standing committees, club volunteers, and hard working staff are obvious. Our 1991 training program has had something for everyone. We completed a very successful adult race clinic program, held a USYRU instructors course, and put on a complete junior sailing summer program including three weeks of day camp and four weeks of overnight camp. The two pre!-camp day clinics were designed to get our very young kids feeling comfortable in a sailboat. Plans for ladies' sailing camp are well underway and it will be next weekend. Our adult learn to sail clinic is scheduled for August. We truly covered all ages with various stages of sail training. Our youngest student was four, but I won't tell the at~e of our oldest student! Buildings and Grounds Committee has been busy installing new grills, renovating Cabins 2 and 3, and working with the neighborhood oak wilt committee. In addition to these 1991 projects, they have been spending a great deal of time studying some longer term issues. Erosion on the point is getting more sever and there is not a quick simple answer. The B&G Committee is putting together a multi-year plan to preserve the point and its vegetation. They are also studying and defining a plan for our boat work area. Programs like these produce visible results slowly and must be completed in stages, but having the initial overall plan is very important so that there is continuity from year to year. AYC hosts six major regattas every ye3ar: Spring, Centerboard, Turnback, Governor's Cup, Junior Roadrunner, and Fall. Our regatta chairpeople, their committees, and our staff put in lots of time planning and prnducing these events. Turnback Canyon hosted 65 AYC racers and 127 non-AYC race3rs. We split Governor's Cup Regatta into a Centerboard Weekend with 46 A YC racers and 69 non-AYC racers and a Keel Weekend with 62 AYC racers and 16 non-AYC racers. In order to help improve regatta participation, this year the board approved several format changes. Now it is time to review our overall regatta program. Is it serving the needs of our members? Is it providing the right opportunity for prospective new members to race at AYC? Is our trend to smaller more specialized regattas better or should we eliminate some for fewer larger regattas? I will be forming a reg1atta research committee to look into these and other regatta issues. If you would like to service on the committee please let me know. Otherwise just be ready to give us your opinions and suggestions. We want to hear from you whether you raced or not. For those of you who raced, what did you like and will ·you be back? If you did not race, we want to know why and what it would take to get you out for future regattas. I'll close on a safety note. Please, keep track of your children while they are at the club. We want them to enjoy being at the club and learning to sail, after all they are our next generation of dues paying members, but we also want them to be safe. You would not leave your kids unattended at home, please don't leave them unattended at the club. See you at the club or on the race course ..... 2 FROM THE EDITOR TELL TA,L~-- ~TAF:_f_ COMMODORE ................ Gail Bernstein MANAGING ED ITOR ....... Vicki Bremer ABOVE & BEYOND EDITOR Stephanie Roy PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITOR Ty .Johnson SPEC IAL_ CONTRIBUTORS_ Gail Bernstein, Ray Shull, Ty Johnson, Dennis Awbrey, Lanelle Montgomery, Jim Caston, Bob Pillmore, Lee Vaughan, Howard Shirey, Vic Manning, Ted Smith, Char l ene Allan FLEET CONTRIBUTORS Gail & Mike Mayfield, Rick Sharp, Bay Peterson, Ty Johnson, Michael Wellman, Dan O'Donnt~l 1, Steve Brown, Bruce Foster, Bob Freeman, Claudia Foster, Fred Schroth, Bob Jones From the Commodore ... .. .............................. page 2 Above & Beyond ............ ...... ..... .............. page 4 Caroline's Croft is Dedicated ..... .................. page 4 Summer Series Race Results ...... ............. ...... page 5 From the Bui 1dings & Grounds Commander ........... .. page 6 1991 Turnback Canyon Regatta Race Results ............ page 7 A Rea 1 Life Sea Adventure .... ................ .. .... page 8 1991 Governor's Cup Reg at ta Race Results ............. page 1 0 Cat Sheet ....... ... ... .......... ............. .. .. page 1 1 AYC Adult Learn to Sail Clinic ....................... page 1 2 Race Commander ' s Report ....................... ... .... page 14 Lakesai lors Take on TORC Race Week ............. ..... page 1 5 Family Day ... ... .. ......... ................... .. page 1 8 LTCA's Overnight Navigational Race .... .. .. .......... page 1 9 PHRF Handicap Report .......................... ...... page 20 Singlehanded Championship ...................... .... .. page 2 1 Rick Sharp Cha llenge Series . ............ ......... page 22 FLEET TALK ...... ......... ............................ Keel F l eet A .... .. .................. ..... .. .... .. page 23 Keel F 1 eet B ....................................... page 24 Keel Fleet C .. .. .. .......... ....................... page 24 Kee 1 F 1 eet D ..... .. ... .... ......... .. ...... .. page 25 J-24 F l eet .. ........ ....................... .... page 26 J-22 Fleet ........ ....................... .. ....... page 27 E11sign Fleet ......... .. .... .. ..... ............ page 28 South Coast 21 Fleet . ........... ............... ... page 29 Sunfish Fleet ..... .... .............. ... ... .. .. page 29 C- 15 Fleet ... ............ .......... ... ... .. page 30 Laser Fleet .... ... .... ................... ... .... .. page 31 Capri 14. 2 F 1 eet ..... .... ...... ... .. .............. page 32 3 Abo v <2.- & 13 <2.-Y o n..<l~ by Stephanie Roy Congratulations to MARGARET RICE NANCY WOODWARD of Novell Inc. for her promotion to Assistant recently won "1ntrapreneur of Superintendent at the Leander the Year" awarded by local Independent School District . business leaders to recognize those who have made significant Fisher Controls International contributions to their own promoted BOB PILLMORE to Manager companies and the Austin busi­ of Projects for the Food, Phar­ ness climate. This annual event maceutical, and Chemical Indus­ is sponsored locally by Dell try and DIETER ROY to Manager of Computer Corp. and the Au..o.t..i.n Projects for Pulp and Paper, B~-<.n..U-6 Jo (Vl.na,.t. • Metals and Mining, and Cogeneration Industries. Con­ The Central Texas Mutual Housing gratulations, guys! Association, which has launched the purchase of about 500 The Town Lake Chapter of the apartment and duplex units in American Business Women's Asso­ the past two years to provide ciation (ABWA) has named PAT housing for families that earn MANNING their Woman of the Year . up to 80% of the median income This honor is given to a woman in the Austin area, is headed by based on her work e xperience, our own SUE ANN CROUSE . Sue Ann education, and volunteer efforts is also presi dent of the Texas at the local c hapter of the ABWA Women's Polit i cal Caucus in and the community . Congratula­ addition to her full-time job as tions , Pat! e xecutive director of Keep Texas Beautiful. No wonder we don't BEST WISHES to the newlyweds - ­ see her at the club as much as CURTIS TARPLEY and CYNTHIA who we'd like! tied the knot in June. Cynthia is the owner of Salon 620 in Lakeway . If you can catch ******************************** Curtis on the Sunfish course (but you have to move fast!), be sure to tell him what a lucky guy he is to have such a beauti­ ful wife. For those of you who may have glanced at the July 8 issue of S poJLU !~.tAa..te..d, you may Ccu.o~L~e·~ C~o4~ L~ VedL­ have noticed a familiar name, ca..t.ed • • by La.n..e..U.e.. Mon.t..gom(l..Jf.y DOUG KERN, in the "Faces in the Crowd" section featuring a