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1 February 2017 February Calendar 4 (Sat) Garden Committee 8 to 10 am. 7 (Tue) NYC Meetings ~ Race Committee 5 to 6 pm BOD 6 to 8 pm 10 (Fri) Opening Day Party Prep 4:30 pm. Come and help set up tents, decorate, and set up the Clubhouse! 11 (Sat) Opening Day Race Series. 10 am. After the races come to the Clubhouse for our Champagne Picnic on the Lawn. Guests are always welcome! See page 2 poster for details. No RSVP needed. See you there! 14 (Tue) HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! 16 (Thur) Race #1, Glen Hontz Memorial Race Series. 5 pm start. Bonjolea II hosts. 18 (Sat) NYC Game Night 5:30 pm. Pot Luck Dinner. Hosted by Liz & Dick Olsen while Sea & Bill are traveling. All are welcome! See page 8 poster for details. 21 (Tue) KSA Board of Directors Meeting at 5 pm in Clubroom. 23 (Thur) Race #2, Glen Hontz Memorial Race Series. 5 pm start. Board of Directors* hosts. 25 (Sat) NYC Work Day 9 am to 3 pm. It s spring cleaning time! Come lend a hand! 25 (Sat) Deadline for submissions to the March Newsletter. Please be on time! February is a short month! Mahalo! * No, that s not the name of a boat. NYC Newsletter March Calendar 1 (Wed) Deadline to sign up for the CPR/ AED Class. Please contact Fleet Captain Shaun Lehman at sailingshaun@gmail.com. See page 6 for details. 2 (Thur) KSA Physics of Sailing. 3 pm to 4:20 pm. 2 (Thur) Race #3, Glen Hontz Memorial Race Series. 5 pm start. Fast Company hosts. 4 (Sat) Race #1, Skipper s Choice Offshore Race Series. 9 am Skippers meeting; 10 am self start. Skippers: finish times to Vice Commodore Kevin Arndt at ksarndt@live.com. Mahalo! 6 (Mon) Kaua`i Channel Race Planning Committee. 5 to 6 pm. Please come and help with planning our 2017 KCR! This is the largest NYC event of the year which generates funds that in turn helps keep membership dues down! This benefits all NYC members! All are welcome! 7 (Tue) & 9 (Thur) KSA Physics of Sailing. 3 to 4:20 pm. 9 (Thur) Race #4, Glen Hontz Memorial Race Series. 5 pm start. Kato hosts. 11 (Sat) CPR/AED Class. See the article on page 6 for more details. Contact Shaun Lehman at sailingshaun@gmail.com if more information is needed.

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3 14 (Tue) NYC Meetings ~ Race Committee 5 to 6 pm BOD 6 to 8 pm 16 (Thur) Race #5, Glen Hontz Memorial Race Series. 5 pm start. Lelele will host a St. Patrick s Day Dinner! 18 (Sat) NYC Game Night. 5:30 pm. Potluck Dinner. Hosted by Bill & Sea Peterson. All are welcome! 20 (Mon) KSA Leadership Kaua`i. 20 (Mon) to 24 (Fri) KSA Spring Sailing Camp. 7 am to 1 pm. For more information, please contact Shale Shore at kauaisailing@ gmail.com. 23 (Thur) Race #6, Glen Hontz Memorial Race Series. 5 pm start. O Zone hosts. 25 (Sat) Deadline for submissions to the April Newsletter. Please be on time. Mahalo! v v v Hours worked will be logged to receive $50 off 2018 dues for ten hours of service at Facility or Garden Committee Work Days or setup/cleanup for Party Events. Note: Dates/times subject to change, and event additions/ cancellations do occur on occasion; please check online website calendar at nawiliwiliyachtclub.org for accurate dates, times, and event details. For more information please contact Secretary Charlotte Ross at info@nawiliwiliyachtclub.org. Mahalo! Commodore s Letter Ushering in 2017 As we gathered for our first Board meeting, we were blessed to have Shaun Lehman and Janice Portillo join the team for Shaun is our new Fleet Captain, and Janice now runs the Ship s Store also known as the Chandlery. They ve hit the ground running with new strategic plans in publicity, and they also bring special CPR/1st Responder talent to the table! Read about a NYC-dedicated training class on page 6. Vice Commodore Kevin Arndt will join Commodore Fred Styer at the first HYRA meeting on O`ahu this month, where Kevin is on the agenda to clarify PHRF Handicap calculations for our Kaua`i Channel Race (KCR) on August 4th. We ll also have the chance to share Nawiliwili Yacht Club cheer with other HYRA yacht clubs and encourage them to join us for KCR celebrations this year. KCR Planning Committee meetings begin March 6th from 5 to 6 pm. Please join us! We need your talents and energy big time! Table 53 at the RumFire Po`ipū Beach Sheraton was a big hit for KSA in January, where all proceeds were donated to KSA. Speaking of KSA, please visit their website at There are a host of activities for both young and old, with Adult Learn to Sail classes soon to be offered! Contact Shale Shore at kauaisailing@gmail. com for details. Last but not least please be sure to renew your membership before February 1st. Our membership renewal process through the website makes it really easy! Look for a new Membership tab at the top that will guide your options. Does this website look familiar? nawiliwiliyachtclub.org/ Over the past year, members frequently called to ask questions about an upcoming event. Fortunately, we now say Check our website at nawiliwiliyachtclub.org. If you don t have a computer, or don t know how to access the internet, call me! We ll guide you to free access and will bring a bottle of wine to celebrate your entrance into the 21st Century! Charlotte Ross (Secretary) and John Ross (Webmaster) have created the most useful tool we have beyond the good ole corkscrew nawiliwiliyachtclub. org, where you can now plug in and be wellinformed club members. What a concept! And as a bonus, if you re active with our club or with a related Kaua`i organization, this can be a resource for publicity. Feel free to contact Charlotte or John with activities you d like posted. New Members Potluck Social Our annual New Members Potluck was held on Friday, January 20th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Again, the food and fellowship were fantastic! There were lots of great discussion and good cheer. Make Note: If we say Potluck, don t miss it! Big Mahalo goes out to Doug & Bonnie Tiffany for creating this wonderful event back in 2015, which now gives new members who joined within the previous 12 months a chance to meet the NYC Board members and ask questions about our club. This has become our break-out party for the New Year.

4 We re now all warmed up for our Opening Day Races and the Champagne Picnic on the Lawn. See you on the 11th! Burgee Exchange Tahoe Yacht Club founded many businesses and government programs, and taught entrepreneurship, grant funding, and business management at U of H, KCC. Ron & Vicki Solomon from Tahoe Yacht Club ( were our first visitors for Although our club was idle, we had a chance to show them around and talk story about their club activities on the lake. They were enchanted with our fine little setting in Nawiliwili Small Boat Harbour and promised to return when we re in full swing. Commodore Fred Styer Racing News Over the winter I ve seen a lot of work done on the race fleet with several boats hauled out, rigs inspected, and sails rinsed down and dried. I hope everyone is race-ready and set to compete because Saturday, February 11th at 10 am is the Opening Day Race Series and the beginning of the 2017 NYC racing season. We plan to have three races that day followed by the Champagne Picnic on the Lawn at the Clubhouse. We want the picnic to be a great party, so invite guests and visitors as we welcome in the 2017 race season. As you perform your pre-checks before the race, make sure that none of your safety equipment has expired, and you have the correct number and type of PFDs on board. Please make sure your RaceQs on your mobile device is up-todate and working. The Glen Hontz Memorial Series is a six-race series starting on Thursday, February 16th. This race series is in honor of Glen Hontz, a longtime member of the NYC, who The first Offshore Skippers Race will be on Saturday, March 4th. This is a great opportunity to take your racing skills out beyond the confines of the harbour and the frustrations of buoy rounding, and let your boats fly! We had three boats sail this race last year and all enjoyed whale and spinner dolphin sightings during the day. It s also a good time to make a plan for the night your boat is scheduled to host the postrace dinner. The host boat should contact NYC Secretary Charlotte Ross a few days before the race with the menu so she can send a pre-race letting everybody know what s for dinner. The guideline for the price of the meal to diners is $10 or less; special party dinners will be higher. The cost of the food will be reimbursed by the club, and the profits will be used for club expenses. Having said this, there s nothing like coming back to the club to boast about the perfect tack-to-cover maneuver over a cold libation and delicious food prepared by the other boat! Please contact me for your dinner concerns at ksarndt@live.com. This being a yacht club with a competitive fleet, everyone concentrates on sailing from point A to point B in the fastest way possible. But what happens when you get to point B? Latitude 38 recently posted a link to a free online cruising guide to the Hawaiian Islands that is very informative. The PDF is titled Noodle s Notes by Bill Leary and is available at 1fK2bdkFnQ08xczloNG8/view

5 2017 NYC HOST BOAT SCHEDULE OF COOKING - Jan. 27, 2017 FEBRUARY Boat Thurs 16 Glen Hontz Memorial Series 1/6 Bonjolea II Thurs 23 Glen Hontz Memorial Series 2/6 Costco MARCH Thurs 2 Glen Hontz Memorial Series 3/6 Fast Co. Thurs 9 Glen Hontz Memorial Series 4/6 Kato Thurs 16 Glen Hontz Memorial Series 5/6 Lelele St. Pat Thurs 23 Glen Hontz Memorial Series 6/6 OZone APRIL Thurs 6 Louie Abrams Memorial Rum Series 1/6 Papa a'u Thurs 13 Louie Abrams Memorial Rum Series 2/6 Speedy Thurs 20 Louie Abrams Memorial Rum Series 3/6 Trinity Thurs 27 Louie Abrams Memorial Rum Series 4/6 TBN MAY Thurs 4 Louie Abrams Memorial Rum Series 5/6 Windspan Thurs 11 Louie Abrams Memorial Rum Series 6/6 Bonjolea II Thurs 18 Junior Invitational Race Series 1/4 Costco Pizza JUNE Thurs 1 Junior Invitational Race Series 2/4 Fast Co. Thurs 8 Junior Invitational Race Series 3/4 Kato Thurs 15 Junior Invitational Race Series 4/4 Lelele Thurs 22 Horse & Pony Race Series 1/4 OZone JULY Thurs 6 Horse & Pony Race Series 2/4 Papa a'u Thurs 13 Horse & Pony Race Series 3/4 Speedy Thurs 20 Horse & Pony Race Series 4/4 Trinity Thurs 27 Wahine Race Series 1/4 Costco August Thurs 10 Wahine Race Series 2/4 Windspan Thurs 17 Wahine Race Series 3/4 Bonjolea II Thurs 24 Wahine Race Series 4/4 Costco September Thurs 7 Gene Wells Memorial Series 1/7 Fast Co. Thurs 14 Gene Wells Memorial Series 2/7 Kato Thurs 21 Gene Wells Memorial Series 3/7 Costco Thurs 28 Gene Wells Memorial Series 4/7 Tres Amigos October Thurs 5 Gene Wells Memorial Series 5/7 Papa a'u Thurs 12 Gene Wells Memorial Series 6/7 Speedy Thurs 19 Gene Wells Memorial Series 7/7 Trinity Thurs 26 Halloween Costume Race 1/1 OZone Make a plan for the night your boat is scheduled to host the post-race dinner. The host boat should contact Secretary Charlotte Ross a few days before the race with the menu so she can send a pre-race letting everybody know what s for dinner. The guideline for the price of the meal to diners is $10 or less; special party dinners will be higher. The cost of the food will be reimbursed by the club, and the profits will be used for club expenses. Note: If you need to trade dates with another boat, please inform Charlotte and Kevin Arndt. Mahalo!

6 Burgee Exchanges Commodore Fred Styer presenting the NYC Burgee for a burgee exchange to Gary & Lyne Fitzgibbon from Maple Bay YC, BC, Canada. Gary and Lyne own and race an Olson 30 and were impressed with how active the Olson 30 fleet is with NYC. Mahalo, Kevin Arndt, Rear Commodore Janice & Shaun Crewing on SPEEDY Jump Right In! Two of our new members have jumped right into participating in our club s inner workings. Shaun Lehman took up the job of Fleet Captain for Originally from Colorado, Shaun has lived on Kaua i for almost three years. He grew up near the mountains but loves the ocean which is what brought him to NYC with a desire to learn sailing. He also loves to paddle, swim, and scuba dive. Janice Portillo is now the Chandler taking care of the Ship s Store, bringing the same enthusiasm to the job that she does with everything. Janice has always loved the water, and hails from El Paso, TX. She loves sailing and can usually be seen on the foredeck of Speedy waving, smiling, and working hard! Also an avid paddler and diver like her kane Shaun, she is also a scuba instructor. Emergency CPR & AED Course The Nawilliwilli Yacht Club will be offering a CPR & AED Course to Club Members and their families at a discounted fee of $60 per person. Non members who wish to participate in the class will be charged $85. This includes course materials, a pocket CPR barrier, and CPR/AED certification. The class will be held Saturday, March 11th from 8:30 am to 12 Noon in the Clubroom. Deadline for registration for the class is Wednesday, March 1st and is limited to twenty participants. We request $20 for participant materials at registration. The AED course teaches the basic principles of CPR and how to deploy and use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in an emergency situation. This life saving device can increase a patient s chance of survival from a cardiac arrest by fifty percent. We are looking forward to seeing you at this valuable and rewarding course which will give you the skills and certification to help in an emergency! Please contact Shaun Lehman at sailingshaun@gmail.com or Janice Portillo at sailingjanice@gmail.com to sign up or if you have questions. Shaun Lehman & Janice Portillo Photos This Issue KSA ~ Shale Shore Bonjolea II in Offshore Race ~ Chris Jordan 2016 Racing & Party Season ~ Liz Olsen

7 Kaua`i Sailing Association Mahalo NYC Members! January was a very busy month for KSA, but first and foremost a huge Mahalo to everyone who dined at Table 53 in January! What an extraordinary fundraising opportunity for KSA. Mahalo for your support! Nippon Maru Tour On January 6th, 23 Sailors and supporters of KSA boarded the Nippon Maru for a tour. KSA was invited on board in recognition of the dinghy training they provided to the cadets of Nippon Maru in The Nippon Maru is the flagship for the Japan Maritime College with 168 persons on board. The visit was particularly special as the last time the boat was in port was Captain Tomoki accepted an NYC burgee from Ken Martinez and Shale Shore, and jokingly said he would fly it from the top of the main mast! The sailors also gave the crew a thank you card. After receiving the card the crew deemed them worthy of a special tour. KSA Visiting the Wheel House During Nippon Maru s January 9th departure, KSA dinghies sailed as tiny escort boats beside her to the lighthouse. It was an impressive sight with all 110 cadets in the rig waving white sailor caps and chanting in unison. Navigation Training KSA was lucky to have Suzie of the Maritime License Center who teaches captains courses on Kaua`i, Maui, and O`ahu with us on January 22nd. Suzie ran a morning program for the kids that included basic chart plotting such as ETA, set, drift, and course corrections. The kids also learned to go from compass to true and time speed distance calculations. Well done everyone! KSA with Suzie of Maritime Licence Center Shale Shore Kaua`i Sailing Association Executive Director KSA Climbing the Rig The sailors harnessed in and climbed the bowsprit, touched the figure head, used the sexton, and got to go up to the wheel house and see the course the sailors charted on the way over!

8 NYC GAME NIGHT FEBRUARY 18TH 5:30-9:00 POT LUCK MEMBERS, CHILDREN, AND GUESTS INVITED BRING A GAME IF YOU WISH NO HOST BAR

9 Kia ora (Maori for hello, be healthy) You may have heard Bill and I are heading down under in celebration of our 38th wedding anniversary and will not be at Game Night on Saturday, February 18th. Liz & Dick Olsen will be setting up and Cheryl Nickles will be leading the featured game of Taboo. Please help them out and if possible, come a little earlier to help Liz & Dick set out the tables. We will be thinking of you while eating dinner at the Larnach Castle in Dunedin. Have great time! See you in March. Kite wawe koutou (Maori for see you soon), Sea & Bill Peterson Advanced Quiz 96 Three boats are approaching the windward mark to be left to port.s, on star board tack, is slightly above the starboardtack layline, and hails Starboard! Two port-tack boats, PL and PW, are approaching just below the port-tack layline. PL, to leeward, does not hail PW for room to tack. PW tacks to star board, immediately followed by PL. Both boats tack in the zone and complete their tacks without interfering with S. PW then luffs sharply up to nearly head to wind to round the mark. PL and S luff sharply above a close-hauled course as well, to avoid contact. S protests. You are on the protest committee; how would you decide this? ANSWER TO QUIZ 96 PW and PL are both disqualified. S breaks no rules. PW breaks rule 18.3, Tack ing in the Zone, and PL breaks rule 18.2(a), Giving Mark-Room. As the boats approach the windward mark, both PL and PW are required to keep clear of S, under rule 10, On Opposite Tacks. Furthermore, S is not required to give PL or PW mark-room because the boats are on a beat to windward (see rule 18.1(a), Mark-Room: When Rule 18 Applies). However, because PL and PW are over lapped when they reach the zone, PL is required to give PW mark-room, under rule 18.2(b), Giving Mark-Room, which includes room for PW to tack when PW can fetch the mark (see the defintions Fetching and Mark-Room). When PL tacks, she is required to keep clear of S from the moment she passes head to wind until she is on a closehauled course, under rule 13, While Tacking. And when both PL and PW are past head to wind and neither is on a closehauled course yet, PW (the boat on the left) is required to keep clear of PL (the boat on the right) (see rule 13, While Tacking). After PL and PW com plete their tacks (reach a closehauled course) they become the right-of-way boat to boats to windward of them, under rule 11, On the Same Tack, Overlapped; but they are initially required to give boats to windward of them room to keep clear under rule 15, Acquiring Right of Way. Each windward boat, PL and S, keep clear. Up through position 2, PW, PL and S have complied with the rules. At position 2, because PL and PW pass head to wind in the zone and are fetching the mark, rule 18.3 applies between each of them and S; therefore rule 18.2 does not apply between them and S (see rule 18.3) meaning that S does not need to give PL and PW mark-room (she simply needs to keep clear of them under rule 11). Rule 18.3 does not apply between PL and PW because rule 18.3 only applies between boats that have been on opposite tacks before the port tack boat tacks (see rule 18.3). When PW tacks, rule 18.2(b) ceases to apply between PW and PL (see rule 18.2(d), Giving Mark-Room)). When PW and PL are both on starboard tack (position 2), they are overlapped and rule 18.2(a), Giving Mark-Room, applies. PL (the outside boat) is required to give mark-room to PW (the inside boat). At position 3, PW luffs (changes course) as needed to round the mark. PL luffs in response in order to keep clear of PW and to try to give her mark-room. S luffs in response in order to keep clear of PL. Because PW s and PL s luff causes S to sail above a close-hauled course to avoid contact, PW and PL each break rule However, when PW luffs, she is required to give PL room to keep clear, under rule 16.1, Changing Course. Room includes the space PL needs to comply with the rules of Part 2, which includes rule 18.3 (see the de finition Room). Because PW s course change compels PL to break rule 18.3, PW breaks rule 16.1, and PL is exonerated for breaking rule 18.3, under rule 64.1(a). But because PW could not sail to the mark without breaking rule 18.3, PL fails to give PW room to sail to the mark (see the definitions Room and Mark-Room) breaking rule 18.2(a). Because PW needs to luff to round the mark, she is sailing within the mark room she is entitled to from PW. Therefore she is exonerated for breaking rule 16.1, under rule _1 Exoneration. However, because PW is not entitled to mark-room from S, she is not exonerated under rule 21 for breaking rule Furthermore though she is sailing within the mark-room she is entitled to from PL, rule 21 does not include exoneration for breaking rule Finally, even though PW is entitled to mark-room, no boat compels PW to luff and break rule PW sail to the incorrect side of the mark. Therefore she is not entitled to exoneration under rule 64.1(a) either. (See World Sailing Case 133.) Answers to Dave Perry s 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes are based on The Racing Rules of Sailing for For a comprehensive explanation of the rules, read Dave Perry s Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing through 2016, which is available from US Sailing: 1 (800) or Permission to reprint this quiz for non-commercial use is granted by the author.

10 Scuttlebutt Scott Robeson was a club member that passed away late last year. His wife, Barbara Robeson (robesonb999@hawaii.rr.com), is anxious to sell Scott s 60 sailboat which is docked on our outside pier. AVALON has its own website where details are provided along with the latest price. For Sale Olsen 30 Partnership $5500 ~ 50% ownership. Included: Experienced partner and a great crew! Ready to race. Super fun and fast boat. Contact: NYC Notice of Race Offshore Skipper s Choice Saturdays: March 4 ~ April 8 ~ June 10 ~ October7 RULES: This series of races will be governed by the rules as defined in The Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). U.S. Sailing and HYRA prescriptions with NYC modifications will apply. ELIGIBILITY AND ENTRY: The races are open to the following classes: Monohull & Multihull with LOA over 21 (3 boats are required to make a class) & Open (Monohull & Multihull) combined if individual classes are not established in both). There is no entry fee and NYC membership not required. SKIPPERS MEETING: There will be a skippers meeting at 0900 hours at the picnic tables at the NYC Clubhouse to determine: The race course of the day How the race will start and end (no starter is scheduled) RACE SCHEDULE: Saturdays: March 4, April 8, June 10, October 7. The scheduled time of the warning signal for each race start is 1000 hours. SCORING: Skippers will report their finish times to Vice Commodore Kevin Arndt. The scores for these four races will be combined with the scores for the Nawiliwili-Hanalei-Nawiliwili Offshore races to constitute the ten-race (10) Offshore Series. Scoring will be Low Point using HYRA modifications and NYC Club Adjustment scoring system. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY: Competitors participate in the race entirely at their own risk. See rule 4, Decision to Race. The organizing authority will not accept any liability for material damage or personal injury or death sustained in conjunction with or prior to, during, or after the race. FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information please contact Vice Commodore Kevin Arndt (808) Come enjoy the view from our Clubroom!

11 Mahalo to All who helped make 2016 a Great Year!

12 2016 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Commodore Fred Styer Vice Commodore Kevin Arndt Rear Commodore Fleet Captain Shaun Port Captain Bill Peterson Secretary Charotte Ross Treasurer Dick Olsen Director Paula Saylor Director John Ross Past Commodore Ken Martinez STAFF COMMODORES on the Board of Directors Doug Tiffany Jim Saylor Doug Gibson Kaua`i Sailing Association Executive Director Shale Shore WHO YA GONNA CALL??? Clubhouse Use & Scheduling Bill Peterson Facility Development Jim Saylor Finance Committee Dick Olsen Silent Auction Jeff & Bev Jakus... Kaua`i Channel Race Kevin Arndt Landscape Carol Marsh Membership Paula Saylor Newsletter Editor Liz Olsen Bulletin Board Manager Liz Olsen Publicity Shaun Lehman Race Committee Kevin Arndt Sailing Program Shale Shore Boat Use Skills Test Shale Shore & Carl Andersson Sailing Instruction Carl Andersson Sailing Instruction Shale Shore Ship s Store Janice Portillo... sailingjanice@gmail.com Webmaster John Ross... jmr44n44@hawaii.rr.com Keiki Fishing Tournament KSA Fleet Maintenance Carl Andersson... carl-construction@hotmail.com We need chairs for the following committees, events, or activities: Fund Raising (Needed immediately!) Please contact Commodore Fred Styer if you are willing to help fstyer@hawaii.rr.com info@nawiliwiliyachtclub.org P. O. Box 3661, Līhu`e, Kaua`i, HI 96766