ANCHORLINE. Harbor Island Yacht Club THE GREATER NASHVILLE S OLDEST YACHTING MONTHLY. October 2014 Volume 47 Number 7

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1 THE ANCHORLINE Harbor Island Yacht Club GREATER NASHVILLE S OLDEST YACHTING MONTHLY October 2014 Volume 47 Number 7 See Page 9 for Lotsa Laser Results

2 Our Community Oriented Club HIYC is a valuable resource for the community as evidenced by many outreach efforts formal programs as well as initiatives with the authorities. Invitations from engaging Club Members to Come join us for a sail to the reluctant, but obliging, Sure, I ll take your 8 year old and his pals, for a celebratory birthday sail. To wit, Sea Scouts Cathy and Andy Griswold have devoted much of their adult lives to getting youngsters sailing. Hundreds of their Sea Scouts have sailed on most of the boats in the Club, from Sunfish and Lasers to the largest of the keel boats. Plus the Boxwood Regattas, trips to the Great lakes, the East Coast, Florida. Remember the Hospice Regatta Ceremony last year when they presented the colors? These kids understand sailing, the rules of the road, good seamanship and, most importantly, what it really means to be a member of HIYC and our sailing community. Sail Camp Twenty seven years ago, a young(er) Mandy Hofmeister and husband Capt. Hof launched Sail Camp then referred to as Miss Mandy s Sailing School. Over a thousand kids aged 7 to 15 have learned to sail, figured out how to make tie dyed tee shirts, overcome their fear of capsizing, mastered marlinspike skills and began to understand team work. Many of them progressed to become Counselors. Today, these young leaders are college students, or graduated on to become CPA s, attorneys, and scientists; moms and dads; HIYC Club Members. Productive and contributing volunteers in their communities. Hospice Regatta Under the leadership of Gene and Cindy Lovelace, the Club raised over $50,000 for our own community hospice program, one of the nation s first. Sure, Gene is a committed Alive Hospice executive; but, he didn t have to invest the hundreds of hours to make this event become a reality one that will happen again in 2015 and, no doubt, for many years to come. Safety on the Lake Those of us who have been up close and personal to the ridge of shallow stumps we now refer to as Brock s Rock (N36` ' W86` ') will delight in Fred Beesley s initiative on this issue. On August 1 Fred sent an appeal in the form of an eloquent 8 page letter to the Corp of Engineers, detailing ten (yes, 10!) of our Club Members encounters with this hazard to navigation. Their response? we will make an exception to our standard position on this issue and place two danger mark buoys to identify this hazard. Thank you for the active role that HIYC members play in promoting safe boating Clearly, the Corp is accommodating our Club in part because of our responsible stewardship of this wonderful natural resource. Lesser known stuff Two weeks ago, Joe Ballard and Commodore Brandon, along with other Club volunteers took a number of handicapped sailor-wannabes out for a sail. Greg Theriot has pulled and splashed dozens of Club member boats with no expectation of reciprocity. We always have almost more volunteers than we can assign on Club clean-up day. Many, many of our Club Members are active in local charities, from Jim Waller building shelves for St. Luke s, to Dave Desforges serving on the Nashville Sailing Foundation Board to John Robertson rescuing out of gas stink potters. There are too many acts of random kindness to report. Just know that this is a Club of volunteers. Be proud to be a Member. Sure, sometimes we get a little corny with our pomp and circumstance or chuckle at impassioned arguments about Quarterly Meeting protocols or annoyed by some of our edgier members. But this is who we are a Club of like-minded sailors who believe, each in their own way, in community.

3 We have reached the last quarter of the year and as we move into it we will find much activity on the calendar. The quarterly meeting is at the end of the week, when we will be electing officers for next year and our fall race schedule will begin after that with the McDougall Regattas. Then it s on to clean-up day in preparation for the Bluenose Regatta on the first and second of November. It will be Christmas before we know it. Last weekend under the direction of Joe Ballard, we took a group of handicap people sailing. I think there were five boats in all with about twenty people. I had three blind ladies on my boat and they really enjoyed themselves. The weather was perfect and the wind was just right for the event. As we would heel over they could reach down and put their hands in the water. When we past other boats I would tell them to wave and they got a big kick out of that. They were so appreciative of us taking them out but I think I got more out of it than they did. We should do more of those kinds of things. Under the efforts of Paul Latour, we had our annual inspection of our fire extinguishers last week, so you can feel comfortable that they are at the ready, if the need arises. Also, Harbormaster, Decho Iliev and George the Diver, along with a group of volunteers, replaced a lot of chain and shackles on the mooring balls and floating docks, upgrading the safety factors of those. Dana Latour, our Grounds Chair, is working on a plan to re-landscape the area in front of the clubhouse, which will include Irene s Garden and the area to the new C- Dock. Webmaster, Drew Griswold, has begun adding content to our new web-site and soon it will be available for our use. If you want to get a look at the work in progress, you can see it at And finally, we have had a sound system installed in the clubhouse. It was donated to the club by George Hedges of Shiloh Music in Mt. Juliet and we are thankful for that and look forward to trying it out at the quarterly meeting. Speaking of the quarterly meeting, don t forget the Chili Cook-off. You will find the rules printed in the Anchorline so bring your best effort. Also remember that former members Mike & Denniese Liles will be there to talk about their Great Loop adventure and their book Hero s Loop. Let s have a big crowd and put that sound system to work. As we go into the fall racing season, let s make every effort to get our boats and crews ready to race and get out on the water. Good Sailing! Dave Brandon

4 NEW YORK YACHT CLUB SWAN-42 QUALIFIER REGATTA Newport, Rhode Island September 2014 Reported by Paul Latour To be candid, it was a "really tough week" for the Music City Sailing Team (MCST) attending its first, maybe not its last, Swan-42 qualifier held the first week of September, 2014 in Newport, RI on Narragansett Bay. Translate that to "Did their best with the cards dealt in a new environment with strange tools, not finish in the money, yet feel good about it, win or loose". Hey, I feel good about the team and their effort! The sad news is that I won't be included next year on a Nashville Music City Team racing a Swans-42. Phooey, another bucket list wish that will await my next life! The venue was a jewel, host by the Newport chapter of the New York Yacht Club overlooking Narragansett Bay ( You can visualize the site: take our Cheekwood mansion, shrink the lawn down to eight acres (include a lily pond and green house), then locate it on a bay overlooking a thousand boats of every description as far as the eye can see. Often thought having excessively fussy rules and tradition, including a very pleasing forbiddance of phone calls on the property, but not texting nor photos, I found the NYYC members warm, classy, adventuresome and as reverse myopic as imaginable. The club's pride lives and breathes doing things large, including sailboat regattas, having moved on from the America's Cup loss to other adventures such as the Swan-42 class. The Swan-42 Regatta uses international one-design Swan-42 sloops meant for buoy competition. A clean uncomplicated deck, plain amenities sans bunking mean these boats were not designed for and are unsuitable for offshore competition (somehow I thought that a Swan could not be unsuitable for anything!). To attend the Swan-24 Regatta itself, done in the Newport area latter 2015, twenty two USA teams were invited to try to qualify by winning top positions at this weeks "Qualifying Regatta". The formidable economics likely screen away those incapable of amassing the talent and resources to participate at the top amateur level (no pros). Qualifying here was done by alternating between old-world Sonars and new-world J70s (the swap was done on-the-water by sandwiching a rib-boat between a J and a Sonar then the crews cross from one boat to the other). The sonars ( were tuned similarly if not quite the same using lightly used sails; all team boats were drawn at random. The J70's ( were brand new having unused sails. I confess that watching the J's compete was more exhilarating than the sonars only for their speed difference. On balance, I think the NYYC chose well in an effort to sort out the most accomplished teams. I understand that boats losing in some team hands were helmed victorious under others guidance. The Nashville Music City boys included Sean Clare, Mike Osborne, Anthony Passafiume and instigator Steve Lemay. I understand each person's main role was (approximately) as follows: Sean was the "driver", Mike the foredeck, Anthony the genoa trimmer, and Steve the tactician. They were supported by private contributions and cheered-on at the scene by four Nashvillian spectators; the delightful John & Beth Marshall, experienced John Robertson and me. We spectators were graciously motored about every day on a Swan-42 (it is to be raced in the finals next year). At the close of each day, we dined together and that was cool as we got recaps of the races. During the trials, Brad Dellenbaugh, motored about between the marks constantly voicing non-stop appraisal of unfolding strategies which we monitored by VHF. Noteworthy, he too was puzzled by harbor currents flowing south whether the tide-current was south or north! The competitors newest to the course had to figure the matter by trial-and-error having neither lobster pots nor other marks on the course to gauge by. Much of the time, sailing to the shallows paid off, unless it didn't pay off; sort-of! Multiple course photographers managed to station themselves consistently between our Swan and the competitors, and distracted us periodically with their drone, its camera aimed straight down the starting line every time. My photo-results were lousy.

5 The first day was marked by nil wind and one race, in significant current. Positioning was part luck of the draw but the shallows were preferred. Thursday was windless until noon so five races pushed through to crew fatigue. All favored the left-side shallows initially as the day before, even as the tide turned but then the sea-breeze favored the right deeper water, all found by trial-and-error. Friday presented winds 5-12 gusting to 20 mph. The planing J70's were in their element (Team MC stuck on the Sonars). The last day was fog-delayed but allowed five more races allowing throw-outs (details at images/pdf/2014_usqs/results/2014_usqs_results.pdf). The third day, we spectators witnessed eight 12-meters leave harbor (fully loaded with tourists) to sail against one another all over the bay. And we witnessed a very brief brisk some-other-world speed demonstration by a "Moth" sailboat which made all other craft on the bay appear to be standing-still. Talk about a head-jerker! Bing has outrageous photos of moths. The Qualifying event results reminded me of many Olympic events whereby the separation between first and last is often induced by the slightest nuances. Make no mistake: the qualifying sailors approached Olympic level exuding youth, enthusiasm, competitive sailing excellence, historical teamwork, tons of practice, and a lot of home support effort and money. Some arrived weeks ahead to practice, had on-the-water coaches, uniforms and long-term relationships among crew, familiarity with the boats and a pedigree of racing prowess. The MCST sailors were bedeviled by managing intense competition on the Sonar with which they had no prior experience and the J70 in light air, not their forte'. These guys were always competitive but being "close" at mark rounds wasn't close enough among these intense unforgiving equally-talented sailors. While taxed by shifty winds, hardware failure, wandering currents, abounding wind eddies and micro-shifts, high wind and low, seriously intense competitors having no grey hair originating from seriously intense competitive solvent sailboat clubs, the MCST contracted training program with budget constraints (by a factor numbering in the tens-of-thousands), plus absent on-the-water coaching, I express my admiration to the team for their solid best efforts, and salute their bravery, pride, skill, patience and persistence leading to heart-warming if less-than-stellar results

6 Sea Scout News The summer has left us and we now prepare for the darker days that are coming. We did however get to go for a short Thursday evening sail during our last meeting in September. We ll likely not get to sail again during a Thursday meeting until the spring. But the level of activity has not slowed down. We have several Scouts that will be assisting with the Lotsa Lasers regatta followed by an overnighter. Then the next weekend we will be showing off Sea Scouting to around nine thousand Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts at the semi-annual Boy Scout Jamboree at the Lebanon Fair grounds. Then there s the McDougall regatta. The weekend of October 18th several of our youth will be assisting with the annual Music and Molasses Festival at the Ellington Agricultural Center s Ag Museum followed by the Fall Clean-up day on the 25th. That will pretty well finish off October. Wow. We have lost over half of our members to college this year but have recently picked up about the same number of new Scouts. This is good and we are once again starting all over with skills development etc. And we again get to watch as they grow and become avid sailors. It s going to be another great year. Andy & Cathy Griswold Our guys in Newport

7 October 2014 Dock Slip & Mooring Waiting List A Dock B Dock C Dock Causeway Dock Temporary Slips Moorings Adm: Allen Mirse Adm: Dave Desforges Adm: Paul Latour Adm: Randall Butler Harbor Master: Decho Iliev Mbr since Name Mbr since Name Mbr since Name Mbr since Name Mbr since Name Mbr since Name 5/13/1971 Easterling 5/13/1971 Easterling 7/19/1990 Upchurch 5/13/1971 Easterling 5/7/2011 Pierce 10/22/1982 Cunningham 10/22/1982 Cunningham 10/3/2007 Grissom 10/22/1982 Cunningham 10/22/1982 Cunningham 7/19/1990 Upchurch 7/19/1990 Upchurch 3/17/2009 Powell 7/19/1990 Upchurch 08/ Campbell 7/16/1995 Smokler 8/13/1994 Campbell 7/6/2009 Potter 8/13/1994 Campbell 12/12/2006 O'Dell 10/12/1995 Osborne 7/16/1995 Smokler 6/15/2011 Holcomb 10/12/1995 Osborne 9/10/2007 Knapp 12/12/2006 O'Dell 12/12/2006 O'Dell 11/8/2011 Briggs 12/12/2006 O'Dell 10/3/2007 Grissom 9/10/2007 Knapp 9/10/2007 Knapp 2/7/2012 Patin 9/10/2007 Knapp 3/17/2009 Powell 10/3/2007 Grissom 10/3/2007 Grissom 4/10/2012 Barton 10/3/2007 Grissom 7/6/2009 Potter 12/1/2008 Eubanks 12/1/2008 Eubanks 7/11/2013 Miller 12/1/2008 Eubanks 9/13/2011 Grant 3/17/2009 Powell 3/17/2009 Powell 8/16/2013 Durski 3/17/2009 Powell 6/15/2011 Holcomb 4/26/2009 Carroll 4/26/2009 Carroll 11/23/2013 Hedges 4/26/2009 Carroll 11/8/2011 Briggs 7/6/2009 Potter 7/6/2009 Potter 7/6/2009 Potter 4/10/2012 Barton 4/20/2010 Netherton 4/20/2010 Netherton 4/20/2010 Netherton 7/11/2013 Miller 9/13/2011 Grant 9/13/2011 Grant 6/15/2011 Holcomb 8/16/2013 Durski 6/15/2011 Holcomb 6/15/2011 Holcomb 9/13/2011 Grant 11/8/2011 Briggs 11/8/2011 Briggs 11/8/2011 Briggs 11/23/2013 Hedges 4/10/2012 Barton 4/10/2012 Barton 4/10/2012 Barton 7/11/2013 Miller 7/11/2013 Miller 7/11/2013 Miller 8/16/2013 Durski 8/16/2013 Durski 8/16/2013 Durski 11/23/2013 Hedges 11/23/2013 Hedges 11/23/2013 Hedges Please send requests for changes to this list to the Rear- Commodore at rearcommodore@hiyc.org National V15 Sailing Event to be Hosted at Percy Priest For the first time Vanguard 15 Nationals is being hosted in Nashville. The V15 is a 15 foot, two person sailboat. The event will be the weekend of October 4th and 5th on Percy Priest Lake. The boats will launch out of Hamilton Creek Marina on Saturday and Sunday with a practice course set up on Friday night. We expect no fewer than thirty boats from all over the country. It is the V15 fleet's goal to get every boat in town out on the water and champion over talented out of town sailors from sailing strongholds in Chicago, Florida, and Annapolis. As with all regattas, the V15s are always looking for help; especially on the weekend of the event. If you are interested in helping at the registration table or on a mark boat, please contact Joey (joseph.groszek@gmail.com or ).

8 Club Member Survey The Board is interested in your member experience, thoughts on current policies and vision for our future. If you ve completed this on-line, thank you; if not, please take a moment, complete this questionnaire. 1. About when did you did you first join the Club? Year 2. When you joined, was this your first Yacht Club experience? Yes No 3. When you first joined, how much sailing experience did you have? Practically none Less than 5 years More than 10 years 4. Why did you join HIYC originally? (If you select more than one answer, please rank, 1 being most important, 5 the least) Racing was primary reason General sailing & racing when the urge hits Looking for a Club of like-minded individuals Didn t know much about HIYC, but it seemed right Need a place to slip your boat 5. In the past 12 months, have you attended a quarterly meeting? Yes No 6. In the past 12 months have you participated in a Club social event? None 1-3 times 4 or more times 7. In the past 12 months have you raced at HIYC None Please mail to: Marc Fortune 1026 Overton Lea Road Nashville or Scan and to: Marc@MarcFortune.com or HIYC.org. 1-3 times 4 or more times 8. In the past 12 months have you volunteered with the Club? Social Clean-up day Or, bring completed version to the Quarterly Meeting, Saturday. Race Committee Other 9. Regarding Club size: We need more members We re the right size We re getting too big 10. Do you believe a slip should be occupied if a Member very seldom uses his boat? Yes No Alternatively, you can complete this on-line at Should dogs be banned from the Club property? Yes No 12. On our dues structure, do you believe it's About right Too expensive Too cheap 13. Should the Club set minimum requirements for volunteer participation? Yes No 14. Please share with us what you feel is the best about our Club and where we need to improve 15. Two pieces of demographic info and we re done: What is your birth year? What is the zip code of your primary residence?

9 Recent Regatta Results Lotsa Lasers PLACE SKIPPER R1 R2 R3 R4 TOTAL 1 Mandy Hofmeister Jeff Gamey David Young Ted Chapin Duane Hatch Mike Osborne William Hofmeister Ania Gorska Alexander Lavelle Ray Marley Denis Colby Patrick Redmond Curtis Lovelace Brian Redmond Our humble PRO, Bruce Richards will yell at me for putting his picture here; but, it was just too Bruce. I couldn t help myself. Iron Skillet SKIPPER BOAT FLEET PHRF Hour Min Sec Elapsed Time Corrected Time Place Anne Beesley J-32 Spinnaker A Chuck Konesky C&C 99 A Jim Waller Tartan 28 B Drew Griswold Pearson B David Brandon Swiftsure 33 B Gene Lovelace Beneteau 32s5 B Rob Hemple Marshall 18 B 315 DNF 5 Gerry Levine Columbia 29 J Tom Gillingham S2 8.5 J Tim Naeser J-24 OD L John Collins Corsair F27 L L Hofmeister J-24 OD L Vandy J-24 OD L

10 Chili Cook-Off Rules and Time-lines: 1. The concoction should probably be called chili. No Holds Barred! Bring your best chili! BEANS / NO BEANS / VEGETARIAN/ YOUR CALL! RED / WHITE / BLUE / GREEN...As long as you call it chili! 2. Please mark or label your chili / pot / cornbread with a picture or number. NO NAMES PLEASE. 3. Entries will be submitted to Bill or Jackie Putnam, and accepted until 4:30:00 C.S.T. October 4, Judging will begin promptly at 4:31, and continue until 4:55 pm 4. Prize winning chili and cornbread will be designated at 5:00 pm as Dinner begins 5. Winning Chefs' Names will be announced at the quarterly meeting at 6 pm and prizes awarded to the Winner, Runner-up, and Honorable Mention! Impartial (so far) Judges will be there to Test, Taste, and Tell! Winners will be announced at the Quarterly Meeting to follow immediately after the dinner. If you are planning ahead to submit an entry for chili, cornbread, or both, please send an to Bill and Jackie Putnam (putnam@sprynet.com), and we will prepare for your entry! Also, OK to enter on day of event. Winning chefs will be invited to include their recipes in the Anchorline. See you Saturday October 4th! From The Wind in the Willows Nice? It's the ONLY thing,' said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. `Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING--absolute nothing- -half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing,' he went on dreamily: `messing--about--in--boats; messing----' `--about in boats--or WITH boats,' the Rat went on composedly, picking himself up with a pleasant laugh. `In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not. Downsizing sale: Walker Bay 8 Dinghy. Model Lightly used for 2 seasons. Stored under roof. Two oars. $175. Rollup Sport Dinghy. West Marine by Zodiac, RU-260, Model passengers. 8 6 L x 4 11 beam. 52 lb. Comes with custom Sunbrella storage and carrying case (by Mark Sunderland, a $300 value). Stored in a heated and cooled workshop. Used only once. A steal at $400. Grumman canoe. Aluminum. 15. Stored under roof. No dents. 2 oars included. $250. Excellent used condition. Mercury 3.3hp 2-stroke outboard motor with dolly/stand. Used once. Clean. Stored under roof. $275.

11 Quarterly Meeting is Saturday, October 4, 2014 If you are unable to attend, please send your signed proxy to: Marc Fortune Secretary, HIYC 1026 Overton Lea Road Nashville, TN Or scan it to or HIYC.org Proxy I, being an Active Member of Harbor Island Yacht Club, entitled to vote at the Quarterly Meeting, do hereby constitute and appoint as my proxy to attend said Quarterly meeting to be held on October 4, 2014, or the continuation or adjournment thereof, with full power to vote and act for me in my name, place and stead, to the same extent and with the same effect that I would have if personally present. Any proxy or proxies heretofore given to any person or persons whatsoever are hereby revoked. Signed Date

12 Marc Fortune 1026 Overton Lea Road Nashville, TN Harbor Island Yacht Club Located on Old Hickory Lake Visit us On-line at Officers Commodore David Brandon Vice Commodore Mike Osborne Secretary Marc Fortune Treasurer Fred Beesley Rear Commodore John Robertson Senior Governor Drew Griswold Governor Marcelo Perez Junior Governor Bill Putnam TO: Schedule of Events October 4 Chili Cook-off & Quarterly Meeting 5 Vanguard Nationals (at PPYC) McDougal Open PPYC 14 Board Meeting Mc Dougal Cruiser 25 Fall Clean-Up Day PPYC November 1 Fall Off PPYC 6 Full Beaver 1623 hours 8 Arnold Nye Regatta 10 Happy Birthday Day United States Marine Corps 11 Board Meeting 15 Beesley 50k 27 Thanksgiving