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1 May 2013
May 2013 MELBOURNE YACHT CLUB
TELL-TALE http://www.melbourneyachtclub.com Officers and Board
Commodore Page Proffitt 321-806-0303 Vice Commodore/House Lynde
Edwards 321-704-1413 Rear Commodore/Bar & Kitchen Pamela Worth
321-501-7336 Secretary Missy Waschka 321-727-8469 Treasurer Eric
Stord 321-757-0202 Directors Entertainment John Martin/Gail Oliver
806-9770 Docks Ross Herbert 321-757-9231 Fleet Tom Knowlton
321-773-9212 Membership Jim Lacy 321-728-0389 Sailing Education
Suzanne Dunphy 770-330-6701
INDEX
BULLETIN BOARD ...............................11
CALENDAR...........................................8 COMMODORE’S
LOG.............................2 DOCK
NOTES.......................................4 ENTERTAINMENT
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FLEET..................................................4 GROG
LOCKER.....................................2 HOUSE
................................................2 INLET CHART
.....................................12 MEMBERSHIP
.......................................5 PHOTOS
......................................10, 11 SAILING EDUCATION
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Newsletter Editors Layout/Historian Ross Herbert 321-757-9231
Layout Dean White 321-775-3207 Layout Rochelle Yates
321-544-3764
TELL-TALE with color photos: Newsletter Archives
Bar – Large mass of sand or earth, formed by the surge of the
sea. They are mostly found at the entrances of great rivers or
havens, and often ren-der navigation extremely dangerous, but
confer tranquility once inside. Gee, that sounds like the Bar at
the MYC!
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2 May 2013
Commodore’s Log Commodore Page is out cruising and having a
great time this month. We will hear from him next month.
Page Proffitt / Commodore
House I am still gathering quotes and input on our 2013 project
list from our committee, in addition to general club maintenance.
We will start scheduling small projects soon and sub-committee
meetings to ad-dress the biggies and provide numbers for the
10-year plan that Treasurer Eric Stord is spearheading.
Our committee also updated the “Club Usage” policy and forms and
they will be in the new di-rectory as well as on the website. No
policy changes, just updates to bring the written documents in-line
with what we are actually doing.
Thanks for making notes on the clip board in the kitchen to let
me know when something needs attention or repair.
Lynde Edwards / Vice Commodore / House
Grog Locker We introduced a new House Wine, “Foxhorn Shiraz”,
$2.50 a glass. Drink Specials of the Month: “Sailors Coconut Rum
Slurpee”, and “Mt. Gay Black Bar-rel Rum” (310th Anniversary), $3
each. Wednesday lunches have been at a standstill for April. We had
some members interested in preparing a lunch, but not sure how to
go about it. If you think you might be interested in helping with a
lunch, there will be a meeting Tuesday, May 14th @ 6pm here at MYC.
I’d like to thank Jack and Jacki Leahy for the delicious “Shrimp
and Chicken Alfredo”, they prepared for the Small Boat Dine In, and
Jeff and Debbie McGregor for the scrumptious “Taco Bar” for Big
Boat TGIF. Thanks to Mel and Mary Ford, our Bartenders for the May
General Meeting. The Bartenders for June’s Gen-eral Meeting will be
Doug and Pamela Worth. Remember, hotdogs are available every TGIF
and Sunday. The Bar will start Burn-Its every 2nd Friday with the
Birthdays, and a Dine In on the 4th Friday of the month. A flier
will be sent out to remind you. I’d like to thank our Bartenders
Melanie, Chris and Kathy; you make MYC a special place to be with
Family and Friends.
The Bar took in $2998 in chit and Non-member sales.
The Bar took in $4,289 in chit sales (Commodore’s Ball and Low
Country Boil), plus lunches and food, for a $4,623 total.
Pamela Worth / Rear Commodore / Bar & Kitchen
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3 May 2013
Fleet April was a busy month. Lynde warned me about that! The
Spring Regatta weather was great for both Small Boat and Big Boat,
although some would have liked a little more wind for the small
boats. There was plenty of racing
for everyone and MYC hosted two great parties, thanks to
Commodore Page Proffitt and Dean White. The Sunfish held their
Regional Regatta in conjunction with ours. Dick Tilman was first
overall and Dave Silverman was third. For the Big Boat, we had more
wind to make the racing more challenging. This year the J-24 fleet
was the dominated by Paul Anstey on Apache. Dick Tilman and Chris
Gates were second and third. In PHRF A, the winds favored Airbourne
but Jerry Ross and Phil Scalise put in a good showing. For PHRF B,
Dave Nesbitt scored bullets in every race. Jack Clark, on Caribe,
had all second place finishes. A special thanks to our PROs, PC Jim
Henry and PC Pat Lambert, for their excellent work. Finally,
MYC/PCYC hosted an ocean race from Port Canaveral. After two days
of racing Phil Scalise’s San-tarella pulled out the win followed
closely by Dave Nesbitt on Epic. Phil Spletter on Shifting Gears
and Dean & Patti White on Jazz were second and third. The first
day started off with light winds and then the wind dropped to zero.
Not many folks enjoyed bobbing around in the ocean waiting for the
wind to pick up. Several people were seen leaning over the rail
looking for some wind or something to keep the boat from aimlessly
drifting in the rollers. Since both races were reverse handicapped,
the later starting boats could not even see the boats that started
first.
From John Martin: Commodore Page & Claudia Proffitt and Gail
Oliver & John Martin are anchored near Marathon. Jack Clark and
his brother-in-law Jack are holed up at Gilberts avoiding severe
weather. They sailed thru huge storms when they left Miami. We saw
storms around us today but managed to only get rained on.
From Mike Henry: We had a fantastic time, beautiful weather,
with only a brief light rain on Saturday. Otherwise great
tempera-tures and fine cruising. Gathering in Vero Beach the
cruisers enjoyed early afternoon cocktails, specialty drinks
(Lunchboxes) and snacks aboard Sea Owl. We had a total of 11
cruisers dingy in for a delicious dinner at the Riverside Café on
Saturday night. Beautiful cool evening, full moon, no bugs, and
great sleeping weather. Sun-day morning the gang gathered on aft
deck and sun deck where they enjoyed a fine breakfast prepared by
the hosts, Paty & Mike Henry with much help from the rest of
the crew. We then savored the fine weather just re-laxing, messing
about on boats and swapping boating adventures for the rest of the
morning. Departed VB around 1:00 PM enjoying a nice cruise home.
Participating cruisers were Mike & Paty Henry, Mike & Dee
Wil-son, John & Judy Drawe, and Rachelle Ross aboard Sea Owl,
Chris & Sue Reynolds aboard Dreadnought, and Paul Lindenberg
& Carol Mairs aboard Forever. We all declared that a great time
was had by all. Sorry you could not join us.
In May and June we continue the Dragon Point races. These races
are for the racers as well as cruisers. If you want to give the
cruising class a try, let me know.
Tom Knowlton / Fleet
Tabs and Box Tops Challenge The Entertainment Committee of MYC
is challenging the membership to fill, fill, and keep on filling
the containers which have been placed in the bar area.
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4 May 2013
Entertainment Our May “Birthday Celebration” was held on May
10th at TGIF with a selection of pies.
The Seafood Raft Up will be held on Saturday night May 25th.
Please RSVP for res-ervations to Gail Oliver via e-mail
[email protected] or sign up at the bar. Con-tact PC Del Wiese
via e-mail [email protected] or call (321) 773-4884 to volunteer.
So that no one has to do too much, we need the following volunteers
for preparation of the raft up food. Following are some details of
the assignments:
Cocktail Sauce – Last year we offered only medium hot. This year
in addition to medium, we’d like to offer “more” hot and “less”
hot. This person will figure out how to make this happen.
Cole Slaw/Potato Salad/crackers – I will define quantities; this
person will buy and bring to the club.
Dessert- This person will define what to buy and buy it. I will
define the budget.
Containers/Packaging, includes utensils/napkins – This person
will make sure we have the right containers and miscellaneous item
on hand. I will define the sizes of containers needed.
Seafood – I will take care of defining and buying the
seafood.
Reservations/meal checks (for Jan to bill) – Gail has
volunteered to take care of this one.
Preparation help – need two people to come to the club the
afternoon of 25 May to help with food preparation.
There will be a meeting for Tuesday 7 May at 6 pm at the MYC
club house for volunteer planning for the Sea-food Raft Up. If you
have any interest, please attend. Attendance is not a commitment,
we will ask for commit-ments once people understand what they are
committing to do.
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Dock Notes April was a quiet month on the docks. The following
is the month’s list of activities:
1. I am planning a dock committee meeting for mid-May.
2. There has been some movement of slip assignments. Kiane has
relinquished her slip and Fine Finish has requested a deeper
slip.
3. Grant Ball and Al Waschka built a galvanic tester and checked
out the West dock from Nice Pear to Fair Winds. They found no power
problems and have concluded the wiring on the West dock is in good
shape. The problem with MAJJAK II’s zinc has been attributed to a
bad zinc.
4. I have started measuring the dock planks to determine the
number of board feet necessary to re-deck the docks.
5. I have identified a list of ten potential derelict boats to
discuss with the Dock Committee before mailing let-ters to their
owners.
6. I am reviewing the Dock Bylaws/Rules/Policies.
Once these changes have been identified and the modified text
written, I plan to hold a Slip renter’s meeting to discuss
them.
7. I want to thank Jack Bibb for reattaching the Dinghy Dock
rub-rail for a second time, replacing the poor choice of screws
that I provided him for the first attempt.
Ross Herbert / Dockmaster
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5 May 2013
Membership At the May Membership meeting we accepted two new
couples as members. They are Jim & Carol Roulston and George
Nippell & Nancy Martin. Please welcome them. Also, please
welcome our new provisional members Joe & Shirley Jung who will
be voted upon for membership at our June meeting. Please read their
bio:
“Shirley and I are retired; I from a variety of State and
Federal Government jobs and Shirley from the Rochester Public
Schools. We purchased our home in Melbourne in May 2010. We spend
some portion of the summer at our former home in Canandaigua, New
York where we are members of the Canandaigua Yacht Club. CYC is
open from April to October. We attend the social functions and have
served on the Committee Boat for Sunday morning races. I raced my
Catalina on Wednesday evenings. I sold my boat last September.
As a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, I am an instructor of
the American Boater Safety Course, a Crew Member and a Vessel
Examiner.
In addition to sailing and reading, Shirley and I engage in
shooting sports, enjoy performances of the Brevard Symphony
Orchestra, shows at the King Center and other Brevard venues. My
retirement hobby is archeology. I have traveled to Israel and
Jordan several times on archeological digs.
Shirley and I have attended TGIF at Melbourne Yacht Club on
March 23 and April 12. I have always felt a de-gree of camaraderie
at the yacht club.”
Other membership news is that Diane Gabik has changed her
membership status from Resident to Non Resi-dent upon her move back
to New Orleans.
Also Charles & Vera Kiessling have resigned their membership
due to Charles’ failing eyesight which is re-stricting his
activities.
The by-law changes pertaining to Membership were approved at the
May meeting. Now that they have been approved, the Membership
Committee members will start going to the human resources
departments of local companies with a MYC packet containing the MYC
brochure, a cover letter explaining the membership applica-tion
process as stated in the by-laws and membership applications, as
well as other materials pertaining to the club such as Sailing
Class brochures. If the Junior Resident category of membership
works as intended, we will be able to attract some young
professionals.
As stated elsewhere in the newsletter, there will be a Memorial
Service for Ty Harris here at the yacht club on May 18th at 11:00
AM.
A huge thank you goes out to Wendy & Bob Hughes. They took
upon themselves the job of updating the data-base. As you know
Wendy has called all of you to update and verify your information.
And Bob has entered all the data and made sure all the data is
entered in a uniform manner. This took them at probably a minimum
of 80 hours. Wendy and Bob, we can’t thank you enough!
All is well with membership and will hopefully get even better
with our new ‘Junior Resident’ category.
Currently membership stands at:
Resident: 157 Non Resident: 20 Corinthian: 11 Honorary: 12
Total: 200
Jim Lacy / Membership Director
If tin whistles are made out of tin, what are fog horns made of?
If swimming is good for your shape, then why do whales look that
way? If white wine goes with fish, shouldn't white grapes go with
sushi? Some Navy rockets go into space, which we all know is a big
vacuum. So tell me, who changes the bag? Speaking of space, if
athletes get athlete's foot does that mean astronauts get
mistletoe?
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6 May 2013
Sailing Education The adult sailing classes start May 9th. I
have eight officially registered students with several phone calls
to interested parties so I believe we will at least be close to
filling all 12 slots. I have the new sailing books in hand and am
working on updating the class syllabus to reflect the new book. I
also bought a couple of reference books to support the adult
classes, the youth classes, and upcoming seminars.
I don’t currently have any youth officially registered but have
had many conversations with parents of prospec-tive students. The
Youth Class starts July 13th. Craig Rastello (the youth instructor)
and I have been in discus-sions about the youth class. The Fall
Adult Class starts Sept. 5th.
I am still working on volunteers for the classes. For the first
adult class I need one more keel boat (preferably a J-24) and a
couple more instructor volunteers. For the remaining classes, I am
looking for volunteers to help rig and launch the boats for every
class. I will also be looking for volunteers for a couple of
classes to get in the boats with the adult students.
I am putting the final touches on a Race Committee Cheat Sheet.
I envision that the cheat sheet will help those learning to do RC,
especially those learning through doing on the Small Boat Sundays.
They will be laminated and will appear in the Key Largo and the
annex.
We, also, voted on the bylaw change that was mentioned at the
meeting last month; posted in the Tell-Tale and on the MYC website;
and discussed at this month’s meeting. The basis of the change was
to align the bylaws to the current activities of the club. The vote
passed to accept the change to Article 7, Section 8 to read:
The Sailing Education Committee shall be responsible not only
for the operation of adult and youth sailing education but also
maintenance of the fleet of small boats owned by the Club and used
to conduct the sailing classes. It shall also be responsible for
any budgets necessary to conduct these activities. This Committee
shall consist of a member of the Board of Directors (the Sailing
Education Director), who shall be the chairman and at least two
other members.
Suzanne Dunphy / Youth & Sailing Education Director
“And on the eighth day God created roller furling, and He saw
that it was good." So be-gins the Book of Jib, a little known book
in the Bible, in which God cast His gaze down from the heavens and
beheld the labors of the many sailors as they raised and
lowered
and, with great difficulty, flaked their headsails, always in a
grassy area which was supposed to be free of the droppings left by
the dogs of Hell but never was found to be so. "God then took pity
on the humble workers of the foredeck and inspired His prophets
Harken, Schaefer, Hood, and Profurl." To these He gave insight so
that they might develop a device that would lessen the burden. For
many years did the men of the sea rejoice at their newfound
inno-vation. But soon they forgot that the miracle of roller
furling was a gift from God and instead began to believe it of
their own making. They added automatic motors, and applied it to
the mainsail as well, which constituted a breech of ancient law,
the manual hoisting and lowering of the mainsail being a sacrament.
They furled sails hither and yon, inside the mast or the boom,
trying to hide the shameful practice from the eyes of God. God,
being then displeased with the arrogance of man, jammed the furling
units, leaving the sails exposed to the gales, which tore at them
and made the sailors cry and gnash their teeth. The sailors brought
down their tattered rags from aloft, and with heads hung low did
take them to
(Continued on page 7)
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7 May 2013
The Tabs and Box Tops for Education Challenge is picking up
speed. Please remember to save your tabs and Box Tops and deposit
them into the containers located near the bar. Let’s support our
schools.
Upcoming events for June: A Luau, complete with a whole pig and
dancers is planned for Saturday night June 15th – details to
fol-low.
Father’s Day Burn-it – a joint project with Fleet –
(Entertainment) and Races (Fleet) will be held on Sunday June 16th
- details to follow.
Remember to get involved in “Your Club” - MYC is made up of
volunteers and your ideas and assistance are needed to make our
club run smoothly.
Respectfully submitted John Martin-Gail Oliver / Entertainment
Director
(Entertainment—Continued from page 4)
the sail maker, whose prices soared higher than the stars in the
firmament. And with a mighty shout their checking accounts were
laid to waste. The sailors did then beseech redemption. "From this
day forward we shall flake our mainsails and mizzens about the boom
like men!" And God saw that it was good.
(Joke—Continued from page 6)
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8 May 2013
Mid-May 2013-June 2013
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
12
Mother’s Day Brunch
Bar Opens at 2PM
13 14
Art group 10am
15
Lunch 11:30am
16 17
TGIF Bar opens at 5:00
18
Ty Harris Memorial 11am—2pm
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Small Boat Bar Opens at 2PM
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21
Art group 10am
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Lunch 11:30am
23 24
Rum Race
TGIF Bar opens at 5:00
25
MYC Seafood Raft-up
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Bar Opens at 2PM
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Memorial Day
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Art group 10am
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Lunch 11:30am
30 31
TGIF Bar opens at 5:00
June 1
Dragon Point CO-ED Race
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Small Boat Bar Opens at 2PM
3 4
Art group 10am
5 Lunch
11:30am
Membership Meeting
6 7
Rum Race
TGIF Bar opens at 5:00
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MYC/PCYC Ocean Race
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MYC/PCYC Ocean Race
10 11
Art group 10am
12
Lunch 11:30am
13 14
TGIF Bar opens at 5:00
15
Singlehander Race
Luau Party
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Father’s Day Race & Burn-it
Small Boat Bar Opens at 2PM
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Art group 10am
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Lunch 11:30am
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Rum Race
TGIF Bar opens at 5:00
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Bar Opens at 2PM
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Art group 10am
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Lunch 11:30am
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TGIF Bar opens at 5:00
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Dragon Point Women’s Race
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9 May 2013
Melbourne Yacht Club July 4th, 2013
Party
Menu BBQ Pork Ribs & Chicken
Hot Dogs, BBQ Bean, Coleslaw, Macaroni Salad, Brownies &
Watermelon Bar opens at 4:00 and dinner about 6:00
Watch fireworks from your boat or the club house Weather
Permitting
Cost: $10.00 Adults / $5 under 12
Reservations for dinner by June 30 Bob Hughes
321-220-7622 or [email protected] I will reply to all
reservation requests
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10 May 2013
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11 May 2013
Bulletin Board INVOICE REMINDER: Please remember to use (and
print clearly) the PRI-MARY MEMBER'S LAST NAME on all purchases;
Bar Checks, House Checks, Bosun Locker Checks, etc., including
membership number. Also, please include your membership number on
personal checks, so bookkeeping errors can be kept to a
minimum.
ARTISTS GATHERING Every Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM.
US Sailing Number MYC is a cooperating group member with Boat
US. The Group ID Number is GA80782Y and can be used to sign up for
half-price Boat US Memberships. This number expires on 28 February
2014.
The local Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering a boating safety
class, “About Boating Safely”, on Satur-day, June 1st. The class
includes information about boat handling, state and federal
regulations, and recommended safety equipment. Successful students
may qualify for boating education discounts, and will earn their
Florida State Boater Education ID Card. Cost for the class is $35,
with discounts for families, and includes lunch. If interested,
contact Public Education Staff Officer Grant Ball at
321-727-1500.
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12 May 2013
FIRST CLASS MAIL
MELBOURNE YACHT CLUB
1202 E. RIVER DR., MELBOURNE, FL 32901
MELBOURNE YACHT CLUB
1202 E. RIVER DR., MELBOURNE, FL 32901
The Tell Tale is the official newsletter of the Melbourne Yacht
Club. Deadline for sub-missions is the first Wednesday of the
month. All MYC members are encouraged to submit articles or notices
of interest to the Club.
May 25th Seafood Raft-up
June 9th MYC/PCYC Ocean Race
June 15th Luau Party
June 16th Father’s Day Race & Burn-it
July 4th Fourth of July Party
