We want to wish Joan Marie VanGasken a speedy recovery after her surgery this past week, we are thinking about you.

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1 Dates to Remember April 7 Spring Series 1 14 Spring Series 2 29 May 1 Day at the Museum Cruise (Tacoma) Spring Regatta 28 Spring Series 3 May 5 Spring Series 4 12 Spring Series Memorial Day Cruise June 2 Summer Series 1 7 Mid-Sound Sailing Social Cruise Commodore s Corner Carol Jones, Commodore The Barnacle Well spring has finally arrived. With that we kicked off our first cruise of the season; Crab feed at Blake Island. The weather didn t cooperate very well this year, but everyone still had a great time. Big thanks to our hosts Tim and Caroline McShane for putting on a great event. Lots of fun games and of course the crab was great and the potluck dishes everyone brought made dinner a real feast. I also wanted to thank Dean and Shelley Conti for hosting happy hour on their beautiful new boat Friday night. I think we set a record of 26 people on their boat inside and out. Now that it is officially spring, that means the first race of the Spring Series will be Thursday April 7 th beginning at 6:30pm. Hope to see a lot of boats out there. These races are always good practice for Swiftsure. We want to wish Joan Marie VanGasken a speedy recovery after her surgery this past week, we are thinking about you. The Mid Sound Sailing Social event is coming along nicely. We will be holding the event every Tuesday in June beginning June 7 th. Once again the event will benefit the Des Moines Food bank. More information will be provided during the next couple of months. Our next cruise is in Tacoma at the Dock Street Marina on April 29 th through May 1 st. Jim and Vicki Carey have all kind of fun things planned. This is a great spot for a club cruise. Many of the museums are within walking distance of the marina as well as great restaurants and pubs. If you can t bring your boat, there is plenty of parking nearby so that you can still participate. See you on the water

2 Social Committee Janet Sisson Joan Marie Van Gasken Co-Chairs This month Fisheries has arranged to have Dave Wilhite, who is a very knowledgeable sailor, speak at our meeting on April 12. He will be speaking on Know Your Ropes and welcomes any questions. Join us at Angelos in Burien at 6 PM for social and dinner, followed by the program at 7 PM. Racing News Andy Norton, Race Fleet Captain Paul Goforth, Assisting Steve Sisson, Duwamish Head Race Officer Race Committees for 2016 Racers et al, it is time to throw your hat in the ring to serve as 2016 race committee for club series, the remaining Windjammer race, and the Commodore s trophy. Don t worry should you feel you need training, we will set you up with that. Please check the chart on the next page and send your choice to pandrewnorton@comcast.net

3 RACE NAME (1. Name of Event) SPRING SERIES 1 SPRING SERIES 2 SPRING REGATTA SPRING SERIES 3 SPRING SERIES 4 SPRING SERIES 5 SUMMER SERIES 1 RACE DATE April 7,2016 April 14, 2016 April 23-24, 2016 April 28, 2016 May 5, 2016 May 12, 2016 June 2, 2016 DATE SUBMITTED TRACKING NO. SUBMITTED BY (21. Name) RACE COMMITTEE (17. Person in Charge) SUMMER SERIES 2 June 9, 2016 SUMMER SERIES 3 June 16, 2016 SUMMER SERIES 4 June 23, 2016 SUMMER SERIES 5 June 30, 2016 FALL SERIES 1 September 8, 2016 COMMODORE S TROPHY FALL SERIES day 1 September 10, 2016 September 24, 2016 FALL SERIES day 2 October 1, 2016 WINTER SERIES day 1 WINTER SERIES day 2 DUWAMISH HEAD 2017 (SSS #2) November 5, 2016 November 19, 2016 January 7, 2016 Gordon Kells- Murphy Andy Norton (Tent.)

4 Cruising News Ray and Debra Valpey, Chair 2016 CRUISE SEASON UPDATES Please mark your calendars and watch both the Barnacle and the Website for additional updates and important sign up details. April 29-May 1 (date correction!), "Fun in Tacoma Cruise" at Dock Street Marina, Careys and Hansens are our hosts. May 27-30, "Memorial Day Cruise" at Port Orchard. Valpeys are our hosts. June 10-12, "Beer Tasting and Flag Flying Cruise" in Gig Harbor's at Arrabella's. Jones are our hosts. No July cruises are scheduled as we have no available hosts. Please contact Debra or Ray, Cruise Co-Chairs if you are interested in hosting a cruise in July. There are no scheduled cruises in August, but you are all encouraged to let each other know if you would like to organize impromptu cruises. Sept 16-18, "Sleep 'n Creep" at Dockton on Vashon. Danhour and Wheirs are our hosts. October 21-23, "Octoberfest and German Opera Cruise", location TBD, (most likely Arrabella's or LongBranch). Spohns and Valpeys are our hosts. Now let's check our batteries, de-moldify our iceboxes, and fill our tanks. Let's go Cruising! Questions? Comments? Contact Ray or Debra Valpey, Cruise Co-Chairs (home), (Ray Cell), (Debra cell) or rayvalpey@gmail.com or debravalpey@comcast.net

5 2016 Crabfeed March 12-13th What would the Crabfeed be without strong prevailing wind and rain? Cruisers had to wait for that WOW-Window Of Weather-to make the trip to Blake. Once there, with all tied securely to the docks, we could begin to relax. We followed the weather forecast to plan for an early departure home on Sunday-even earlier because the clocks sprung forward (is sprung a word? Yes! ). Happy to report cruisers made it back to port before the storm hit. Cruisers rendezvoused on Equus for happy hour on Friday. Incredibly, we all fit on the boat! The Ranger reminded us that the raccoons were out and about, grubbing onshore and the docks. Luckily we did not have late night visitors. Geese and deer were abundant. You had to mind your step and clean your shoes before getting on the boats. On Saturday, cruisers gathered for the games, Crabjack, like 21, Tangram Relay and Assembly, collecting shapes and assembling all 7 shapes into a form and Irish Wordfind. Before the games could begin, Lake Blake in the shelter had to be drained. Several Drainage Engineers took the challenge to reroute the drain from the shelter, and sweep the Lake dry, thank you! The wind was chilly, so the roaring fire in the shelter fire pit kept us warm and smelling like a campfire the next day. Thanks to all who contributed the wood, and there was leftovers for future users of the shelter. The games began with Crabjack, a game of 21. Players competed for tokens, those with the most tokens for the Round advanced. Interestingly, at one table all players beat the dealer with hands of 21, in the same hand! First Round winners, Daniel Downhour, Dennis Hansen, Tom Spohn, and Ray Valpey advanced. Round 2 winners, Ray and Daniel played for the Championship. Congratulations Ray, Crabjack Champion! The rules were a little loose, but all in all, there was some tough competition. The second game, Tangram Relay and Assembly, teams of two participated collecting the 7 shapes, then putting the shapes into the designated forms. Debra Valpey, shared the story of Tangram with the group, a vase shattered into 7 pieces, and rather than put the vase back together, the pieces were put together to make other shapes. Teams were challenged with creating a square. Daniel Downhour and Kim Carroll, were first to put the shapes together into a square. The game got harder, when teams were asked to make a bunny and

6 duck-without the outline form. You can imagine how many different bunnies and ducks were put together! Next time an outline will be provided. Enough of that, teams went on to make their own unique versions of crabs from the shapes. Irish Wordfind game sheets were passed out to cruisers, who had to find 41 words related to Ireland, and name the 4 rivers of Ireland embedded in the game. The words appear - horizontally, vertically, diagonally, forward and backward. Heather Conti found all 41 words and 2 of the rivers in 25 minutes! The next highest number of words found was 28-a three way tie between Joy Clifford, Emmelie Stewart, and Kim Carroll. The 4 rivers were Poddle, Liffey, Shannon and Carey. The Tabletop theme was Spring Forward, each display was described by the designers/creators, then voted by applause-there were no envelopes from the judges. Ingrid Hansen s Springtime display took the top prize; Debra Valpey s Salish Sea Spring was a close second. Other displays included Crab Angst -crab leg into/out of a wine bottle, An Eclipse of Solar Powered Lights, TTPYC Blake Island Race 2 nd Place Mug with seashells and candle. Thanks to all for making them for the tables and sharing. We had 12 boats attending Allez, Brigadoon, Daybreak, Equus, Kingfisher, Rhumb Runner, Sloe Tango, Stella Maris, Tapawingo, Too Fat to Fly, Viva!! and Yikes II. Four legged crew included Tunie and Molly. The potluck dishes were excellent, as usual. Special thanks to all who played the games, supplied the wood and built the fire, helped set up and clean up, and pack out the garbage. You really make the cruises a success! Ben Stewart promptly helped dock the boats, which was greatly appreciated. Jean Spohn helped us reduce our garbage footprint by collecting compostables. The crab from the Fish Peddler, formerly Johnny s was very tasty too. Thanks again! Cruisers loosened dock lines early on Sunday (even earlier because we changed the clocks forward) to beat the impending storm home. We were happy to watch the white caps from our living room, Sunday afternoon, knowing that cruisers made it to their home ports.

7 A DAY AT THE MUSEUM and WHISKEY & CHOWDER EVENT This year s cruise to Tacoma will be the last weekend in April. APRIL 29-MAY 1 ST. We have reserved 10 slips at Dock Street Marina but you have to call and make your reservations individually. The phone number is (253) Please make your reservations early as they only hold the slips until April 14th. See last months Barnacle for info on getting the Murray Morgan bridge opened if your mast is more than 64 feet. There will be a crossword puzzle involving words associated with Tacoma and the cruise to work on during the day as you enjoy the museums and downtown. Bring your cowboy hat and or boots to wear to the potluck and the Hootenanny afterward. (With enough whiskey everyone can sing!) We will be learning some cowboy standards in keeping with The Northwest Cowboys in Art exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum. (Some of the words may have been changed to reflect our sailing roots). The potluck on Saturday will be a Whiskey and Chowder event. It would be helpful if you let me know whether you plan to bring a crockpot of chowder, a salad or a dessert. Everything else will be provided for the Saturday meal. Please me at jvcarey2@msn.com or call or text me at to let me know you are coming and whether you can bring a crockpot of chowder, salad, or dessert. Also please bring your favorite whiskey for Tasting. This could just be a couple of airline size bottles if you wish. We will have tasting shot glasses. Special Treat: Janet will have the Ships Store at the cruise at Dock Street. She will have the TTPYC decals and burgees for sale.

8 Membership News Doug and Sharon Andrews, Chairs Samantha, The Sea Dog, Assisting Welcome aboard to new Three Tree Point Yacht Club members Roger and Laura Collier. They are residents of Burien, WA and they are going to be moving their 39 foot steel hull, SV Liahona from B.C. to the South Park marina on April 11th through April 16th. We wish them a great trip down and look forward to meeting them soon. New Three Tree Point Yacht Club members Greg Rogers and Wally in their 1984 Catalina 22, at the Des Moines Marina D dock. Greg splits his time between Des Moines and his permanent residence of Prescott, AZ. He has also purchased a Catalina 30, so he will be selling the Cat 22 in the picture, for those who may be interested. TTPYC Sick Bay: As Carol mentioned, Joan Van Gasken had surgery and is recuperating. Marilyn Jones also had surgery and is on the mend. If you have news you want to share with members (think new grandchildren, addresses, boats, jobs, retirements, trips and/ or great photos of a trip, etc.) Just let us know. your announcement to Kristie & Don, the Barnacle editors, K6352@aol.com and Doug & Sharon membership chairs at doug@highlandmistltd.com. Let s keep in touch!

9 MARKET PLACE This is a section for the benefit of our members. If you have something boat related to sell or trade, just send the info on to Kristie at K6352@aol.com and we will place it in this new section each month. Remember this is for members only! I would like to sell my K-Light Feathercraft folding kayak: 12 Feathercraft folding kayak: K Light model. Used only twice. Weighs about 35 pounds and fits in its backpack. Easy to store on your boat. $450 Contact Ingrid and Dennis Hansen EXTRAS! Fisheries Discount Update Tom Hubbard: For online security reasons, Fisheries Supply has made some major changes to our TTPYC account. To continue receiving club discounted pricing, you will need to create an individual account by follow the directions below. To activate your account please login to The following steps only need to be done the first time you sign up. After that the pricing is automatic when you login to FisheriesSupply.com or shop in the store. When on the club page Click on the Start Here button which will take you to the login page on our website. Chose the option below that describes your account status and whether or not you have shopped online before. Option 1 Login (Have an account and an online address and password ) Click on Start Here Click on Login Enter and password and then Sign In Next it will take you back to the Three Tree Point Yacht Club Screen where you will enter the promo code TTPYC69.

10 Option 2 Link My (Have an account but no online address and password ) Click on Start Here Click on Link my to an existing account Fill out name, address etc. and then click on Submit Next it will take you back to the Three Tree Point Yacht Club Screen where you will enter the promo code TTPYC69. Option 3 Register as a New User (New account and have never registered at Fisheries Supply for an account before) Click on Start Here Click on Register as a New User Fill out name, address etc. and then click on Submit Next it will take you back to the Three Tree Point Yacht Club where you will enter the promo code TTPYC69. This Screen indicates you were successful in signing up for the Three Tree Point Yacht Club Pricing.

11 Des Moines Marina Association Update Ben Stewart, TTPYC and DMMA Board Member The past year was a very good and productive year for the DMMA. Three Tree Point Yacht Club was a big part of the success we had shaping the marina polices and the marina budgets. Both organizations were a huge part of adding an additional $300,000 to the marina's capital expenditures fund. On a personal note, I am so impressed by the number of active TTPYC members that attend and help with the DMMA's meetings and positions. Whether it was the December Marina Appreciation Night, the January Des Moines Marina District Stakeholders meeting or our April and October General Membership meetings, I am very proud of the attendance and support that our club gives to the DMMA. I always enjoy pointing this out to my fellow DMMA board members. Thanks so much. Many of you are aware that the City of Des Moines has a PAID PARKING proposal currently being reviewed by the city council. The DMMA has submitted a position statement to the Des Moines Marina and the City of Des Moines. Our current position is to control the south marina parking lot, but not to implement a paid parking system. Basically, we want the lot to be closed from dusk (or 10:00 PM) until dawn to non-marina related traffic, but left open to the public during the day. Marina tenants would have 24 hour access to the south parking lot. The general public would still have free access to the south parking lot during day time hours. Our next DMMA general membership meeting is April 13, 2016, at 7:00 PM. The location is the Des Moines Activity Center on 216th. If you have any questions about the south marina paid parking proposal, please come and ask questions. We will also be voting on our current DMMA Board and collecting our annual membership dues ($25). If you cannot make it to the meeting please mail your DMMA payment directly to DMMA; P.O. Box 98337; Des Moines WA Below is the DMMA calendar for 2016 and the new member application form.

12 DMMA 2016 Calendar (Update as of March) January 8 Meet with City (Michael Matthias/Joe Dusenbury) on plans for Marina Stakeholder Meeting 13 DMMA Monthly Meeting Standard agenda 27 DMMA & DMYC host Marina Stakeholder Meeting: City s Marina Floor Development Plan February 10 DMMA Monthly Meeting Standard agenda March 9 DMMA Monthly Meeting Standard agenda & review Dock Talk newsletter 20 Dock Talk submitted to Marina for inclusion in tenants April billing distribution April 13 Annual DMMA General Meeting All members and tenants invited. Election of officers May (Opening Day of Boating Season: In Seattle on the 7 th ; in the South Sound -Des Moines- on the 14 th ) 11 DMMA Monthly Meeting Standard agenda & review Dock Talk newsletter June 8 DMMA Monthly Meeting Standard agenda & review Dock Talk newsletter 20 Dock Talk submitted to Marina for inclusion in tenants July billing distribution July (4 th of July Marina Fireworks display. 22 nd 24 th Waterland weekend Classic Boats/Cars and Parade) 13 DMMA Monthly Meeting Standard agenda August No DMMA Monthly Meeting September 14 DMMA Monthly Meeting - Standard agenda & preview of City/Marina budget for Dock Talk submitted to Marina for inclusion in tenants December billing distribution

13 October 12 Fall DMMA General Meeting all members and tenants invited. Standard agenda and preview of City/Marina budget November 9 DMMA Monthly Meeting Standard agenda & Review Dock Talk newsletter. Review progress with City/Marina budget. Preview of proposed moorage rate change for 2017 December No DMMA Monthly Meeting?? Marina Tenant Appreciation Night at the Public Docks with Lighted Boat contest Become a member of your marina association for only $25. Proceeds support tenants marina concerns. Membership Application Name Address City State Zip Phone Phone Boat Name Dock/slip or shed # Signature Please mail application and check to: Des Moines Marina Association Annual dues: $25 PO Box Amount enclosed Des Moines, WA 98198

14 Des Moines Yacht Club Opening of the South Sound Boating and Yachting Season Saturday May 14, 2016 Public Service Displays are from 11:00am-2:00pm Opening Ceremony: 2:00pm BYOB social hour: 4:00pm Dinner and dance: 5:00pm, casual dress $25.00 per person. Please RSVP by May 1, Please call Checks are to be made payable to: DMYC P.O. Box Des Moines, WA Come Join Us!

15 Website information I m not sure how many folks realize that member Nicholas Wood is our volunteer webmaster. Over the last few years, he has really upgraded the look of our site. He is working on other upgrades as well. However, it has been hard to get information to him, so.. if you need to contact him about the website or give him information to be posted, please him at webmaster@ttpyc.org. And of course if you have something for the Barnacle, Kristie at K6352@aol.com.

16 Officers for Three Tree Point Yacht Club Commodore Carol Jones Vice Commodore Dave Clifford Secretary Joy Clifford Treasurer Shelley Conti Race Fleet Captain Andy Norton Assistant Race Fleet Nick Fannin Past Race Fleet Captain Steve Sisson Past Commodore Don Brame Trustees: Jim Carey, Dan Downhour, Chuck Hendrick Ben Stewart, Debra Valpey Appointed Officers Cruise Fleet Captain : Ray and Debra Valpey Social : Janet Sisson/Joan Marie Van Gasken Webmaster: Nick Wood Membership: Doug and Sharon Andrews Barnacle Editor: Kristie Brame Historian: Kersten Hubbard Records and Roster: Tom and Kersten Hubbard Ship s Store: Janet Sisson PHRF Ratings: Mark Harang and Kathryn Brunette