Luff Letter. Navigating This Issue- Knoxville, TN. January Meet The 2017 CYC Board. Notes from the Luff Letter Editor

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1 Knoxville, TN Luff Letter January 2017 Navigating This Issue- Meet The 2017 CYC Board Message from 1st Vice Commodore Photo Submission To Website CYC Winter Gathering U S Sailing Championships Schedule January Birthdays Notes from the Luff Letter Editor News From The Harbormaster Important Bits and Pieces Boats / Items For Sale Secretary s Report PLUS MORE! Latitude: 35º N Longitude: 84º W

2 Meet Your CYC Board for 2017! Commodore Neil Quigley (865) / Commodore@concordyachtclub.org Harbormaster Clubhouse Coordinator Audit Committee Nominating Committee Planning Committee Training Fleet Committee UT Agreement 1st Vice Commodore Mark Van Doren (865) / 1stvc@concordyachtclub.org Invitational Regattas / DIYRA Club Property Use Assignments Race Committee UT Agreement 2nd Vice Commodore Rodney Meryweather (865) / 2ndvc@concordyachtclub.org Club Regattas Race Committee Fleet Liaison Rear Commodore Vic Tyler (865) / rearcommodore@concordyachtclub.org Facility Construction Facility Maintenance January 2017 No

3 Meet Your CYC Board for 2017! Secretary Dan Tankersley (865) / secretary@concordyachtclub.org Membership Luff Letter Yearbook Library Web Site By-Laws Treasurer Charles Sheets (865) / treasurer@concordyachtclub.org Invoicing/Collection Maintain Books/Pay Vendors File Taxes Assistant Treasurer David Valone (865) / David_Valone1@hotmail.com Invoicing/Collection Maintain Books/Pay Vendors File Taxes CONCORD YACHT CLUB January 2017 No

4 Meet Your CYC Board for 2017! Members At Large Education John Swindeman (865) / jswindem@bellsouth.net CSC Liaison Education Social Catherine Trapp (865) / social@concordyachtclub.org Social Events Housekeeping Telephone Committee Public Relations Women Who Sail Facebook To all of you Lady Sailors out there (sorry guys!), check out this Facebook group- about/ This is what they are about- This group is a place for women who love boats to come together and connect. Some of us live on boats and some of us want to. Some of us know a LOT about boats, some know not much at all. We are single; we are married; we have kids; we are retired. No matter who we are, this is a place to share respectful, supportive discourse. With thousands of members, please keep posts shared to the group relevant to the boating community of women. The group currently has over 10,000 members worldwide, and for women ONLY. January 2017 No

5 Mark Van Doren Ahoy Sailboat Racers, If you are a CYC member and participate in racing at the club, then this message is for you. I m Mark Van Doren, the newly elected 1st Vice-Commodore, and I want to figure out how to improve our racing program so that it best suits our active sailboat racers. I am convinced that listening to the competitors is the key to better racing and more participation, which should contribute to closer camaraderie among all club members. Towards that end, I am scheduling a meeting for active racers to be held at CYC at 6:30 pm on January 5th. Everything will be on the table. Bring your ideas. A lack of inputs will indicate satisfaction with the program in its current state and few changes will be made. Some topics for discussion include: Evaluation of the current racing format, or in other words, are we happy with having more club regattas and no Dinghy Series or High Water Series (HWS) for keelboats? How s this worked out? Do we need to make any changes? I d greatly appreciate your feedback, positive or negative. Is there enough interest to warrant bringing back the Dinghy Series or the HWS? If so, what changes should be made from the previous formats? Rather than scheduling races on one evening every week, perhaps every other week would be better so that we avoid spreading out our racing population over too many dates and focus our racers on fewer dates, hopefully resulting in better attended, higher quality races. Maybe Thursday evenings are better than Wednesdays? Maybe a weekend format similar the one that the LWS uses would work best? Maybe we should ditch the idea of having a summer series and go with two separate series, one for spring and another for fall so we ll have more wind? What about including weekend regattas in series scoring? Maybe schedule dinghy and keelboat series races simultaneously, perhaps with different starts, maybe not? However, this would be a disadvantage to members who want to race both dinghies and keelboats. This would make it easier to schedule race committees. Cont d January 2017 No

6 Is there a better way of selecting race committee members? How can we best facilitate cross flow between CYC racing and other segments of the club or related organizations such as the Fun Sailors Group, sail camp graduates, adult learn to sail graduates, Sea Scouts, UT sailing and high school sailing programs? The goal would be to expand the racing population and grow camaraderie. I would love to see high school, college and Sea Scout teams mixing it up with the rest of us old folks in our series races and weekend regattas. These points are a few of the things that have been on my mind as I ponder the direction of CYC s racing program. I m sure that many of you have other ideas and I look forward to hearing them. Please attend the meeting at 6:30 on January 5th if you can. If you will not be able to attend or if you have thoughts that you d rather not share in a public forum, please them to me at my personal address: navigator0177@gmail.com. Put CYC Racing Comments in the subject line. A lack of participation will result in continuation of the status quo. Thank You, Mark Van Doren CYC 1st Vice-Commodore CYC Website Photo Submission! Thanks to Tom Sayres, the first photos were received on our new website feature SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOS, under the Member section!!!! Here s what Tom submitted: Niece Katie Caroline Sayres (from Germantown), now a freshman UT student joined Uncle Tom Sayres in the LWS race on Sunday November 20, 2016 on Stephanie and Tom's 21' little Spirit. Not only was this Katie's first time in a race, it was her first time on a sailboat, and she loved it! By the last mark of the second race, Katie took over in the low wind conditions and did a great job of rounding the mark at the helm, without incident. Fun Sailor's Group now has a new member. Remember, you too can upload photos to the website- Members, Submit Your Photos. On The Cover Celebrating New Year s Eve in Sydney Harbour, Australia! January 2017 No

7 CYC Winter Gathering Catherine Trapp The Holidays are over! It s a New Year! Now, let s have some fun! The CYC Winter Gathering festivities will be held on Saturday, January 21st! Social hour begins at 6 PM, and then dine on an Italian buffet featuring Meat and Veggie Lasagna, with accompaniments, starting at 7 PM! Adults $16, Children $5. A-L bring Appetizers; M-Z bring Desserts. And, after dinner, enjoy the smooth sounds of Left Foot Dave! AND, to have some major fun, there will be a Boat Tote contest!! What? Yes, a Boat Tote! Fill a tote with those I simply cannot do without these items for an overnight boating trip. No matter how quirky! Compete against your fellow CYCers for the most creative must-haves in your tote! So, your Boat Tote can be as magical, or as fundamental, as the imagination allows. Or as the need is met! Also that night, CYC will be sponsoring a Career Fair, where members can sign up for 2017 Work Hoursbe it Facility (like normal work parties), Racing or Social work hours. Mark Van Doren, Vic Tyler and I will be on hand with sign up stations for these work hours. And speaking of signing up for Work Hours, we need help to insure this event is as awesome and fun as we plan! There are several areas where help is needed! So, contact me at social@concordyachtclub.org if you would like to help! Thanks, Catherine! Save The Date CYC Winter Gathering January 21, 2017 Rocky Top Regatta April 29 & 30, 2017 Admiral Farragut May 6 & Memorial Day Regatta & Shrimp Peel May 29, th of July Regatta July 4, 2017 January 2017 No

8 The following information was provided by Tom Hudson. Thanks, Tom!!! For more information, click here to go to the website for US Sailing. January 2017 No

9 January Birthday Wishes To: Amelia Fuentes Daughter of Miguel & Ni Fuentes Gregory Payne Gus Floodquist John Stone Johnny Ballatin Meghann Borden Lauren Ballatin Hi all! Just in case you didn t realize it, all website URLs and addresses found in the Luff Letter are hyperlinks. So, to access that site or send an , all you have to do is click on the link. The links are usually in blue and underlined. Sometimes the link displays the actual URL or ; sometimes it will display the word here. Either way, it will take you to the same place! No need to write it down! No need to copy and paste! If you have any difficulties in utilizing the hyperlinks, let me know, and I can try to help in trouble-shooting. January 2017 No

10 NEWS FROM THE HARBORMASTER Neil Quigley, Interim Harbormaster Storage of dinghies on A-Frame racks - $10/month (6 months/yr) The A-frame dinghy storage racks are the only assignable storage space for which the club has not consistently charged a fee for use: slips, moorings, trailer spaces, dry racks and storage lockers are all rented to members, but not the A-Frame racks. Therefore, in the interest of fairness, because they use club resources to build and maintain, and because the County has determined that the A-frame racks are taxable rental space, the Board voted on 13-Dec to begin charging for A-frame storage space in The charge will be the same as for Dry Racks: $10/month per boat (but this charge will only be collected for the 6 'warm' months of the year, May- October, which is also when the lake level is up) i.e., $60 per year. Since this change may prompt some members to make alternate storage plans at home, members will have until the end of January to remove their boat(s) if they don't want to be assessed this new charge. At the end of January, the Harbormaster will document which non-training fleet boats are still on the racks, and will ask the Treasurer to send invoices to A-frame users. Finally, if you want to apply to use one of the vacant A-frame shelves, please do so via the on-line storage request page on our website (click here). Sincerely, CYC Board and Harbormaster January 2017 No

11 Ponder This.. Do sailors' sunglasses have to be seeworthy? Is a leak in the back of a boat a stern warning? If swimming is good for your shape, then why do whales look that way? Daffynition- Clew: 1) Evidence leading to recovery of a missing sail. 2) Indication from the skipper as to what he might do next. 3) What a new sailor often doesn't have any of. Humorous Boating Quote- Here, in Miami, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform comical maneuvers such a forgetting to set their parking brakes and having their cars roll down the ramp and disappear, burbling gaily, below the surface. ~ Dave Barry (Dave Barry Talks Back) January 2017 No

12 Important Bits and Pieces 2017 Annual Dues Reminder! WORK CARDS The Annual Dues/Harbor Billing Invoices were ed/mailed at the end of November. Please review your invoice for accuracy. The 1 st quarterly payment is due on 12/31/16. If you did not receive your invoice, or have a question about it, please treasurer@concordyachtclub.org or call Marj Marcinelli at It is time to review and update your Contact Information!!! Now that a current evergreen roster of all CYC members is available on the CYC website, we are asking all members to access the roster, verify their information and report any changes. To access the roster: 1. Go to the CYC website Click on Members, Member Log-In 3. Enter Password 4. Click on Directory, under Resources 5. The document will open 6. Click on the worksheet tab at the bottom titled - All CYC 7. Verify Name(s), Phone Number(s), (s), Address Report any changes to - Secretary@concordyachtclub.org January 2017 No

13 NEW STUFF 1981 Gibson Wallbanger II Houseboat $50,000 Or Reasonable Best Offer For more pictures and detailed information, click here Contact Andy Reeves at or Sabre 28 CATALINA 22 $14,000 Or reasonable best offer She s a Screamer Contact Andy Reeves at andyrpops@gmail.com or Swing Keel 2009 Tohatsu Motor Pop up coach roof Racing genoa and 3 other jibs/genoa Well maintained and ready to sail Accessories Great boat for a new sailor or by those who are moving up from dinghy sailing. $4,500 Contact: Carol Rech at:carolrech1@gmail.com January 2017 No

14 The following items, as seen in previous Luff Letters, are still for sale. If you would like more information on any of these items, just click on the link, and you will be taken to the Luff Letter in which it appeared O Day Mariner- $975 obo- click here- Page Helms 27 - $4990 click here Page Hunter $4000 OBO click here Page 13 * * Boat will be located elsewhere effective 1/1/ Chrysler Mutineer 15 - $1000 click here Page McGregor - DISCOUNTED! $ click here Page 14 3 Step Ladder - $40 - click here Page 14 WANTED Old Sails - click here Page 12 January 2017 No

15 Dan Tankersley NEW MEMBERS December No New Members STATUS CHANGE - December Membership transferred from Scott & Melissa Fortson to Will Fortson as Young Active RESIGNATIONS - December Charlie Kite Robert & Christina Bonner Ted Piehl & Bonnie Vanwicklin Barb Blocksma-Arnold John & Renee Guarino Ralph & Dieta Campbell FloLee Barnes Current Active Membership Count: 199 Active-150, Young Active-12, Senior-23, Associate-3, Student-0 Membership Openings: 31 Honorary-11, Inactive-30 Board Meetings: 2nd Tuesday of Every Month CYC Clubhouse 7PM (Members Welcome) BOARD MEMBERS Commodore Neil Quigley Commodore@concordyachtclub.org 1st Vice Commodore Mark Van Doren 1stvc@concordyachtclub.org 2nd Vice Commodore Rodney Meryweather 2ndvc@concordyachtclub.org Rear Commodore Vic Tyler rearcommodore@concordyachtclub.org Secretary Dan Tankersley Secretary@concordyachtclub.org Treasurer Charles Sheets Treasurer@concordyachtclub.org Assistant Treasurer David Valone David_Valone1@hotmail.com MEMBERS AT LARGE Education John Swindeman jswindem@bellsouth.net Social Catherine Trapp social@concordyachtclub.org CONTACTS Luff Letter Lauren Ballatin lauren.ballatin.174@gmail.com Clubhouse Reservation Gail Benefield reservations@concordyachtclub.org Harbormaster VACANT Harbormaster@concordyachtclub.org Calling Committee Joy McMaugh-Payne goingdublin@msn.com January 2017 No