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May 2008 Volume XXXI No. 5
MAY EVENTS
• Friday, May 2. TGIF Dinner (Charlie Quest makes soup and Chinese Chicken Salad).
• Saturday, May 3. Events Committee meets at 10:00 a.m. at the Club. Commodore’s Cup. Dinner & Movie Nite.
• Sunday, May 4. Commodore’s Cup. Farewell Party for Ron and Kristin Milio
• Tuesday, May 6. Sailing Committee meeting 7:00-9:00 p.m.
• Friday, May 9. TGIF Dinner.
• Saturday, May 10. Volunteer Watch Officer and Hospitality Training 10 a.m. Lunch to follow. Dinner & Movie Nite.
• Sunday, May 11. Mother’s Day. Call Mom.
• Tuesday, May 13. Board of Director’s meeting. 6:00 p.m.
• Friday, May 16. TGIF Dinner. California Cruising Clippers Sail-in. Terry R. Cooks!
• Saturday, May 17. 30th ANNIVERSARY PARTY for HMBYC. Reservations required.
• Sunday, May 18. Relax.
• Friday, May 23. TGIF Dinner.
• Saturday, May 24. Scrapbooking 10 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Dinner & Movie Night.
• Sunday, May 25. Memorial Day Party?
• Monday, May 26. Memorial Day Observed.
• Friday, May 30. TGIF Dinner
• Saturday, May 31. Relax
• Sunday, June 1. Relax
GO TO: www.hmbyc.org and click on Calendar to see all of the events scheduled for the year
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Crew getting ready to set sail. The new Ferry worked! Bobbing about on La Boheme.
AHOY! MAY 2008
FROM THE HELM
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"
— Robin Williams
The Cal 20’s are back from the winter inner harbor storage and the new ferry has made it‘s debut to great reviews. Not a bad a start for the ‘08 season. Opening day had beautiful weather and the event was launched by a fleet of “used” commodores and the Harbor Patrol. There was even a live mermaid in attendance to the delight of all the children, including some of the older AARP kids. Sailing with members has restarted on Sundays. It is great to see our colored sails scooting around harbor. Get checked out on a boat. Please contact Neal Wehtjie for details. May 3 and 4th are the dates for our local spring regatta, the Commodore’s Cup. Cal 20’s and C15’s will be sailing and should you have a desire to watch from the spacious committee boat or play in the water contact myself or Charlie Quest while there are still openings for either day.
See you at the club. —Kelly
On Board This question comes up about every six months. Who can come to the board meetings? The answer is; the meeting is open to any member. The board asks that if you wish to make a presentation try to discuss it with a board member first. Also, it is good idea to distribute information by e-mail before the meeting. If you contact Peggy Ruse or me we will add you to the evening’s agenda and give you a time slot. The meeting runs from 6:00pm to ~9pm on the 2nd Tuesday of the month.
The April Board meeting was mainly a status update. The board checks to make sure that spring and summer activities like club reservations, sail-ins, regattas, birthdays, and such are not congesting the calendar. So far the calendar looks ok. There is a concern that available volunteers for watch and hospitality is down. The port captain has new recruits to train after the BVI trip. That should start to improve the situation. However we are close to having some weekend days without coverage. Please see Suzy Pinkerton for more information on helping with Watch or Hospitality.
Building Update We are close. The building department has let us know that we can pick up our permit contingent on obtaining the sewer permit. Coincidently, we just received the estimate from the Granada Sewer District for obtaining a permit and it was very high. We are in the process of exploring the basis of the estimate with the GSD engineer and possibly revising our sewer request if necessary.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Friday, 4th of July: BYOM (bring your
own meat) and a dish to share and be on the best spot on the Coastside for the Fireworks!
Sunday, 31st August: Just like Easter,
Labor Day weekend comes really early this year!
Friday, 31st October: Halloween on a
Friday? The possibilities are endless….
Saturday, 15th November: Commodore’s
Ball and Change of Watch Dinner Dance at Mullins, Half Moon Bay Golf Links.
Half Moon Bay Yacht Club Newsletter
HMBYC'S 30th ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION &SPRING
FLING: Saturday, May 17th
Please mark your calendar and plan to attend a very fun and special event at the HMB Yacht Club. May 2008 is the 30th Anniversary of our Club! We are celebrating this event with a Spring Fling Dinner & Dance. Come down for cocktails, a great dinner by Guest Chef Phyllis Smith and dancing to the rock & roll tunes of local band, "Blame it on the Dog". We hope to have a lot of photos and of course, many old stories chronicling the past 30 years.
Schedule of events for Saturday, May 17th Cocktails 4:00 p.m. Dinner 5:30 p.m. Speech & Presentation 7:00 p.m. Dancing 7:15 to 10:15 p.m.
MENU
Appetizers: Mushroom and Goat Cheese Toasts,
Manchego Cheese & Fig Jam Toasts
Spinach Salad with Apple, Bacon & Avocado
Pork Loin with Apple and Cranberry Stuffing
Asparagus Vinaigrette
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Special Anniversary Cake
The cost for dinner & dancing is
$25.00 per person. Reservations required,
Please make your reservation with and mail your
check to:
Barbara Dinnsen.
Phone: 728-5399
Email: [email protected]
Mail: P.O. Box 370970 Montara, CA 94037
TGIF MENU MAY 2008
by Special Event Catering
Dinner served at 7:00 p.m.
Friday, May 2. Charlie Quest makes soup and Chinese Chicken Salad. $10 per person.
Friday, May 9. STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS w/ rice pilaf and glazed carrots, garden salad, roll& butter. Friday May 16. Rock the Block in HMB!!! California Cruising Clippers Sail-in. Dinner will be a Terry Ramseyer “$10 special.”
Friday May 23. "A NIGHT IN CROATIA" CHAVAPAI (Senada’s Greek version of beef gyros) served w/ onions and sour cream on fresh pita, fried crumpti, and salad.
Friday May 30. SPAGHETTI w/MEATBALLS & SAUSAGE BOURGANAISE antipasta, Caesar salad, garlic bread. All $15 meals served with Chef’s Choice Dessert
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Have you ever wondered where the Club’s dish towels, bar towels, table cloths and aprons go when they have been used and soiled? They go home with Mimi Wisnom, who launders, dries and folds all these necessary items and returns them clean and ready to be used again. Not to mention the lovely do-over of the Women’s Room color and décor. Thanks a load, Mimi!
AHOY! MAY 2008
SATURDAY MOVIE NITES: All Movies Start at 8:00pm–or Dark Time
Movie Nite Dinners served at 7:00pm
• All meals served with green salad
May 3rd: Down Periscope: (1996)
Bumbling Navy lieutenant Tom Dodge (Kelsey Grammer) has been given one last chance to clean up his record. But Admiral Graham, his nemesis, assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a submarine that can barely keep afloat. To add insult to injury, the Stingray is to be the enemy flagship in the upcoming war games … and to make matters even worse, Dodge's crew is a band of idiots even more incompetent that he is! Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton…
Dinner: TBD, see Tell Tales for Details $10.00
May 10th: The Harder they Come (1972) A
poor Jamaican tries to make it with a hit record but finds that his record will only be played if he signs away his rights. He turns to dealing marijuana and runs afoul of the law. As an underground fugitive, he becomes a political hero. An outstanding reggae soundtrack. Starring: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley
Guest Hosts: Joe & Lisa Pistacchio
Dinner: TBD, see Tell Tales for Details $10.00
May 17th: NO MOVIE
HMBYC Anniversary Party
May 24th: The Black Swan (1942) Seas
Ablaze...with black villainy, with fiery romance, with breathless deeds of daring...in the roaring era of Love, Gold and Adventure! Starring: Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Anthony Quinn
BLACK SWAN APPRECIATION DAY –
FREE RIDES ON THE BLACK SWAN!
Movie Host: Liz Allison Dinner: TBD, see Tell Tales for Details $10.00
May 31st: Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
(1989) Fedora and whip at the ready, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) sets off accompanied by none other than his father, Henry (Sean Connery). The Drs. Jones head to the cradle of civilization on a perilous hunt for the Holy Grail, which is also being sought after by the Nazis. No one is what they seem in this rousing adventure Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, River Phoenix.
Dinner: TBD, see Tell Tales for Details $10.00
Half Moon Bay Yacht Club Newsletter
VENUS ENVY OFFICIALLY NAMED
AND BACK IN THE WATER! By Peggy Ruse
After several months in the club’s boatyard for maintenance, Venus Envy is back in the water—her green sails flying and her newly clean, painted bottom helping her to continue in her role of a lovely, swift goddess of the sea (at least our local harbor and sea)! Venus Envy is part of the club’s Cal 20 program and is dedicated to the Womensail group. Venus’s sponsors are Terri Lahey, Jenna Kinghorn, Peggy Ruse and Karen Hampton. She was relaunched the day before our opening day in April on a cold, windy morning with great help from John Powell and Andy Geiser along with some of the women from Womensail. With some drama (Peggy Ruse fell in the icy waters and brought back safely to land under Jenna Kinghorn’s direction and care), she was masterfully sailed back (red warning flags flying for the harbor) to the club under the command of Terri Lahey and Karen Hampton. She was ready for opening day and sailed proudly around the harbor after the official naming ceremony and congratulations to Suzy Pinkerton and Bob Cantillo as winners of the naming contest! Thank you to so many people for putting time and effort into repairs and, particularly, to Jenna Kinghorn, John Powell and others from Womensail. Special thanks to Sue Prichard for hand-painting Venus’s name on her stern and Clarke Simm for the financial backing for the bow work.
Peggy Ruse, Karen Hampton, Sue Prichard and Maureen
Grimm. Sue provided the artistic painting of “Venus Envy”
on the stern.
The women in Womensail: Suzy Pinkerton, Connie Malach,
Karen Hampton, Peggy Ruse, Terri Lahey, Maureen Grimm.
Staff Commodore Ed Davis in the middle of all that feminine
skill!
Presenting Suzy Pinkerton and Bob Cantillo with a bottle of
champagne for submitting the winning name in last year’s
contest. Below: Venus Envy goes for a spin.
AHOY! MAY 2008
HMBYC’s OPENING DAY ON THE BAY
Despite the initially scary rainfall on the morning of Sunday, April 6, the skies did clear by noon in time for a parade of boats, a wonderful all-you-can-eat taco bar luncheon, and tunes and hula hoop dancing on the beach to the Mermen. It was a great day!
A Gaggle of Used Commodores surround the Mystery
Mermaid of the Day (aka Patti Schwartz of Special Event
Catering and a really good sport!)
Mike Day and crew make headway in their Cal 20.
Opening day 2008 honored the crew of the Pillar Point
Harbormaster, who were thrilled to show off their new boat.
HMBYC CRUISES THE BVI’s You just have to love a country about the size of the Bay Area that sports heavenly weather, warm waters, fair breezes, one (soon to be two) traffic light, and way too many beach bars that make splendid Painkillers and Bushwhackers for thirsty sailors. HMBYC fielded a fleet of six boats (28 people) for the second HMBYC Cruise-out to the British Virgin Islands April 12-27, 2008. And there is talk of returning for the Christmas-New Year’s holidays 2009-2010.
Party on Dick and Tami Schubert’s boat on April 16th. Everybody
astern on the ‘Martha R.’ for this photo op.
Well, almost everybody – Dick Schubert, Cynthia Ramseyer and
Ingrid Desilvestre were in a dinghy to take the picture.
Charlie Quest with Cynthia Jones of Harris’s Place on Jost Van
Dyke, HMBYC’s favorite secluded Little Harbor.
Half Moon Bay Yacht Club Newsletter
HMBYC Winterfest
Reaches New Heights The second annual HMBYC Winterfest was a smash success enjoyed by over 30 Yacht Club members and their friends. Over the course of four mostly sunny days with mild temperatures, participants enjoyed a variety of winter sports and social get-togethers in and around South Lake Tahoe. We had downhill skiers at Heavenly, Kirkwood and Sierra-at-Tahoe over the long weekend. We also had a contingent enjoy snowshoeing and cross-country skiing along the lake shore. On Friday evening, Yacht Club members could be spotted drinking and dining at both the Christiana Inn near Heavenly and lakeside at the Edgewood Tahoe Restaurant just over the Nevada border. Saturday evening brought everyone together at the Ambrosi/Morrell ski chalet in the Tahoe Tyrol neighborhood for a big après-après-ski party. While some people returned home on Sunday, the fun continued on Monday with up to seven of us skiing together on the lightly-populated slopes of Heavenly—you gotta love skiing Tahoe on the weekdays! Judging by the abundance of smiles over the weekend, we would venture to say that next year's Winterfest will be even bigger and better!
Enjoying a bluebird day at Heavenly (l to r: Steve Smith,
Terry Lahey, John Powell, Charlie Quest, Kelli & Dan
Ambrosi, Wes Brykailo)
Yacht Club members wining and dining at the
Ambrosi/Morrell chalet in Tahoe Tyrol
EASTER BRUNCH WELL ATTENDED
Easter Sunday on March 23 turned out to be a glorious spring day and the Club was hopping with hungry members who came to enjoy a wonderful collaboratively prepared brunch menu that included Champagne Drinks (Maureen Grimm and Ofer Amir) , Phyllis Smith’s Goat Cheese and Artichoke Strata and Spinach Salad with Strawberries, Barb Walt’s Turkey and Pork Sausages, Kay Burns’s Home Made Bread and Melon. Since the turn out was larger than anticipated (that's why those advance reservations are so critical!) it was fortunate that there was some of John Connors's Eggplant Parmesean to serve - a total of 59 brunches were served. Able kitchen assistance was graciously provided by Mimi Wisnom.
AHOY! MAY 2008
Come join us as volunteers
Stand your Watch
Show your other members some Hospitality
Come one, come all
Join in the Gang & make this place your own!
Next Hospitality & Watch Officer Training:
Saturday, May 10, 2008
10:00am – 12:00pm
followed by Lunch R.S.V.P. : [email protected]
KAY BURNS, GRI, CRS Realtor “The Right Choice” 650-712-0651
[email protected] www.kayburns.com
RE/MAX Dolphin Real Estate Half Moon Bay, CA
Kay donates 10% of her commission
for all referrals and transactions that close escrow
that come from HMBYC members.
Half Moon Bay Yacht Club Newsletter
Watch Officer & Hospitality Schedule
Friday: 6:00-11:00 p.m. Saturday: 2-7, 7-11 p.m. Sunday: 2:00-7:00 p.m.
Month Day Date Watch Officer Hospitality Event
May Fri 2 Charlie Quest Reinhard Joelli & Lauren Eisele
May Sat 3 John Connors (2-7) Spencer Nassar (7-11)
Leon Smith (6-10) Movie Nite: “Down Periscope”
May Sun 4 Ara Croce
May Fri 9 Clay & Danise Conrad Wolfgang Priebe & Mary McKinstry
May Sat 10 Jim Stretch (2-7) Suzy Pinkerton (7-11)
Yvonne Lorvan (6-10) Movie Nite: “The Harder They
Come”
May Sun 11 Neil Hooper & Cecily Hatchitt
May Fri 16 Dan Bodman David Moyce (6-10)
May Sat 17 Lou Michetti & Deb Kessler (2-7)
HMBYC 30th Anniversary Party
May Sun 18 Phyllis Smith
May Fri 23 Kelly Pike Karin Lichter (6-10)
May Sat 24 M. Parfitt-Pattie (2-7) VOLUNTEER (7-11)
John Simons & Judith Modlen (6-10)
Movie Nite: “Black Swan”
May Sun 25 Martha Tingle
May Mon 26 VOLUNTEER (2-7) Memorial Day Observed
May Fri 30 Terri Lahey Liz Allison (6-10)
May Sat 31 Rich Symmons (2-7) VOLUNTEER (7-11)
Eileen Bowden (6-10) Movie Nite: “Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade” June Sun 1 Cynthia Ramseyer
Opening Day on the Bay, April 6, 2008 starring the Cal 20 fleet. Photos by Cynthia Ramseyer
AHOY! MAY 2008
Board of Directors e-mail Phone Member Watch Officers
Commodore Kelly Pike [email protected] 712-0452 Dan Bodman 726-4123
Vice Commodore Terri Lahey [email protected] 726-2474 Kay Burns 996-5217
Rear Commodore Neal Wehtje [email protected] 726-1011
Treasurer Lisa King [email protected] 712-0649 C&D Conrad 712-8611
Secretary Peggy Ruse [email protected] 465-2664 Maureen Grimm 726-4515
Membership S. Breslin [email protected] 728-9590 Lou Michetti 726-9488
Facilities Larry Miller [email protected] 712-1155 M. Parfitt-Pattie 563-9003
Port Captain Suzy Pinkerton [email protected] 728-3361 Suzy Pinkerton 728-3361
Director-at-Large Martha Tingle [email protected] 726-0742 Charlie Quest 728-5193
Other Contact Information (all area codes (650) unless otherwise indicated) Cynthia Ramseyer 726-4860
Boatyard Manager Vacant [email protected] Terry Ramseyer 726-4860
Bar Manager Bob Cantillo [email protected] 728-3361 Bob Reilly 712-1822
Quartermaster Mimi Wisnom [email protected] 728-9544 Peggy Ruse 728-7084
Racing & PICYA Charlie Quest [email protected] 728-5193 D&T Schubert 510-523-2641
YRA Rep. Dave Haskin [email protected] 728-7132 Carol Smith 726-0966
Tell Tales Editor Kelli Ambrosi [email protected] 726-4523 Phyllis Smith 728-8838
AHOY! Newsletter C. Ramseyer [email protected] 726-4860 Jim Stretch 726-7388
Bookkeeper Karen Tobin [email protected] 728-2120 Rich Symmons 712-0461
Calendar [email protected] Barb Walt
WO Scheduling Martha Tingle [email protected] 726-0742 All Board Members
Normal Clubhouse Hours: Office Hours: Random
Friday, 6-11pm Office Email: [email protected] Saturday, 2pm-7pm Office Phone: (650) 728-2120 Sunday, 2pm-7pm Office Fax: (650) 728-1947
Club Phone & Messages: (650) 728-2120
www.hmbyc.org
Half Moon Bay Yacht Club
214 Princeton Avenue
PO Box 52
El Granada, CA, 94018
MAY 2008 AHOY! Newsletter