a little dinghy Gold Country Yacht Club Soundings From The Poop-deck Vice Commodore Pierre Chatelain Remember!

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1 Gold Country Yacht Club a little dinghy Volume 25, Issue 5 Remember! The 25th annual Go for the Gold Regatta June 3 & June 4th Catalina 22 National Regatta June 17-22nd June This issue is dedicated to the 25th annual Go for the Gold Regatta. Enjoy the various perspectives, and photos. Above all, remember it is quite possibly the most visible activity presented by the Club to the community. It needs your support by volunteering in some capacity and it needs your participation to make it successful. Come join in the fun June 3rd & 4th. Call Pierre to volunteer or to reserve your dinner. Soundings From The Poop-deck Letters to the editor: Mike Hauser 749 Maltman Dr Grass Valley, CA Or send to: mike@gvblueprint.com Inside this issue: Soundings Jeff Lund Vice Commodore Chatelain 1 DON T FORGET THE MEETING THIS MONTH WILL BE AT THE CLUB HOUSE AT THE LAKE MAY 31st. I am excited about this year s Go for the Gold Regatta. Last night at the Board of Directors meeting it was reported that we now have over 40 boats registered and it looks like we may have as many as 60. That means that we ve got our work cut out for us. If you haven t signed up to help out please make sure that you do that at our meeting on Wednesday night. The competition should be exciting and from what I hear the winds have been favorable for a great race. Be sure to buy your tickets for the dinner on Saturday night. We are going to have a Caribbean theme this year with live music so we can dance into the night while enjoying the evening with friends. Let s tell the regatta committee what a great job they are doing, thanks Pierre, Mike, Jean, Pat & Bill. As you know we will be hosting the Catalina 22 Nationals this year and I have heard that we have had enough registered boats to pass the break even point, that s good new. Let s make sure to offer support to the planning team so that they will have a successful event too. Lynn, Dale, Tish, Wayne and Don the club appreciates your hard work as well as all the others who have been involved. Let us know how we can help. See ya at the regatta! Vice Commodore Pierre Chatelain Port Captain Membership Cruising Treasurer Bif Barf Sports Reporter Training More Racing Sign ups Minutes 9 If you have volunteered for the Regatta, YOU NEED TO BE at the next Club meeting. During the meeting, we will go through assignments based on what you have volunteered to do. This is the time for final questions and answers. Also, the Club is still IN NEED of: An additional Safety/Ferry Boat (a photographer will be on board) One person to help Hugh Talman with the Saturday night BBQ One person to help with Sunday Breakfast no cooking (Coffee, muffins, etc ) Four people to do the Sunday Lunch BBQ (Hot dogs, etc ) simple cooking. Out of the 76 positions required to make the Regatta a great event, the ones listed above are the only ones open. CONGRATULATIONS on pulling a great effort of volunteering and dedication to the Club and the sports of sailing!!

2 PAGE 2...A LITTLE DINGHY VOLUME 25 ISSUE 5 At Our Helm Commodore Jeff Lund jeff@sierranetworks.com Vice Commodore Pierre Chatelain pierrechatelain@comcast.net Secretary Jean Hauser lakeshore@gvblueprint.com Treasurer Jean Cutshall jean.cutshall@thomson.net Cruise Chairmen Gary Wade gawade1@earthlink.net Port Captain s Corner - Port Captain Dave Cowell Things are getting hectic around the ol clubhouse as we get ready for the GFTG regatta. Only this year we have TWO regattas in two weeks so there s a lot of anxiety going about. I m hoping to have the barge project completed this weekend. Small glitches have held us up but not direly so. I hate being a brinkman. A word of warning to all trailer sailors: Check that trailer out for the summer! I took the opportunity to go over the bearings and brakes of my C-22 trailer and was surprised to find one brake completely down to the metal. I know it wasn t more than two seasons since checking it last too. I recall a friend s woeful tale of last summer s salmon trip to Ft. Bragg being consumed by replacing a trailer axle and we ve all seen those boats along the highway propped up on blocks with a wheel missing. Murphy s Law states the probability of a bearing failure goes up in direct proportion to the distance to a repair facility. Nuffsed. My final request is for some handyman to volunteer to assist in making a couple of dollies for the Sunfish. The recent course change by the board will make them a hot item this summer and Lynn has suggested we need a better dolly to transport them from the clubhouse to the water. There re some good models in the catalogs, which run $400 and up. I feel we can better that by a couple of hundred with a little ingenuity and elbow grease but could use a little help on this one. The project won t start until after the regattas. Publicity/Membership Dave Bloch dave@sierrabusiness.net Port Captain Dave Cowell Membership/Publicity - Chairperson Dave Bloch Take a look at these just-scanned photos of Go For The Gold Regattas going back more than ten years! You ll see a lot of people having a great time. So come on out and meet Club members, enjoy a great party, introduce prospective members to the Club, have a delicious dinner, all at Scotts Flat Lake. david.cowell@sbcglobal.net Race Chairman Jerry Lewis jml@usamedia.tv Newsletter Editors Mike Hauser mike@gvblueprint.com Junior Sailing Lynn Buchanan sailynn@comcast.net

3 Cruising News Cruise Chairman-Gary Wade Just a quick note to all you cruisers out there - feel free to join our other cruisers on the race course! The Go For The Gold Regatta is not just for the hardened, seasoned racers; those who normally cruise can also be superb racers! And, if racing is just not your cup of tea, be sure to turn out for the regatta and help your club make this 25th annual Go For The Gold the best regatta ever! See elsewhere in this special Regatta Edition newsletter for how to sign up to help - or race. Treasurer s Report Jean Cutshall In a little over one week is the 25 th Annual GO FOR THE GOLD REGATTA. As treasurer, I just want to encourage all of the members to come out and participate as this is a major fund raiser for the club. It also plans to be a lot of fun! All proceeds to go to benefit the club in many ways: the Junior Sailing program the Women s sailing seminar the weekly racing season keeping dues at a minimum Friendship Day Christmas party National Club memberships And this year, the Catalina 22 Nationals in our own lake! This event also gives us local recognition. Many local businesses and also sailing businesses in the Bay area look forward to helping us by sponsoring the Regatta in various ways. Let s all be out there to support the club and the long tradition of Sailing!

4 Bif Barf Sports Reporter... Lookeee here.just in time for this years 25th anniversary Go for the Gold Regatta. Man s Size Large Wet Suit - Defiance by Stearns $25.00 Only worn twice excellent condition Call Jean Cutshall or If the weather continues as it has this past weekend, you ll be the smart one..high, tight and dry. Odds & Ends. Lynn has the Junior sailing information ready to go. If you have a future G.F.T.G. regatta champ likely to be climbing the walls this Summer with NOTHING TO DO, get in touch with Lynn. Grandmas & Grandpas, Be a hero (ine).an excellent way to spell the parents. June 24th-29th The Club Sponsored Catalina 22 National Regatta happens at Scotts Flat Lake June 17th -22nd. The best racing is Class racing. Every boat s the same with only skill, local knowledge, and luck on the winners side. You re likely to see very tight, close racing all around the course. Since it s so tight there s also lots of yelling about rights and rules and lineage at every mark. Get a good seat or better yet help out and enjoy the racing. Bif has a C note riding on can t say...the FEDS you know.ears everywhere.. Training... Lynn Buchanan Twenty years ago my daughters were in the first GCYC Junior Sailing Program and participated as crew in numerous Go For The Gold Regattas. Of course their favorite part about the Go For the Gold Regatta was the BBQ not the sailing. Kelly, my youngest came back from New Mexico last year in June to help our club with putting 12 juniors through our program. She was quite the helper because I was still limited by my heart and new knees. I have a picture of Kelly standing next to me as I sat in a chair at the end of the dock watching the juniors take off from the marina in their Sunfish that year. I was thinking about the circle of life and maybe someday one of the juniors from the 2005 class would be back at the docks teaching others. So many of the juniors from our program have moved into sailing either on the club boats, their own boats or with their parent(s). Christopher Palmer races his Laser, Carly Talman has a Sunfish and cruises Scotts Flat Lake with her husband, Christopher (Kit) Cowell has a Buccaneer he skippers when he can get it away from his dad David. Cameron Lewis sails an El Toro he purchased from the club. There are many others and I have vivid memories and warm feeling when I see them on the water, especially at the Go For The Gold Regattas. Sailynn

5 Racing News Race Chairman-Jerry Lewis It's Gold Country Regatta time for the 25th time. This will mark my 17th GCYC Regatta, but the first that I will NOT be racing in it. Instead, I'm helping on the RC barge, inputting the scores into a laptop as boats cross the finish line. Hopefully we'll know the standings as the RC barge docks each afternoon (barring any protests that could alter the preliminary on-the-water results) with little or no waiting for the trophies after the last race. Since I'm not out wet sanding Kudzu with 400 grit sandpaper as usual each night the week before the regatta, I thought I'd share some ramblings about the Gold Country Regatta, aka "Go For The Gold." Yes, we are known for our gold nugget-themed awards - it really is gold country here ya know. Second, third (and in larger fleets) fourth place trophies are various sizes of gold pans decorated with chunks of imitation gold (you didn't really think we glued peanut-shell sized nuggets on those pans?). The higher the finish, the bigger the pan. But the real prize is the real gold in small glass vials in local artisan crafted oak chests given to the top finisher in each fleet. The last few years there have been 8 or 9 fleets. And we've been lucky enough to keep most of that gold in the foothills from whence it came! But watch out, this could be the year most of the gold leaves town! We may have more out of town boats than usual, as we are seeing many more early entries (or could it be the "free T shirt with early entry" working?). Or maybe the Catalina 22 fleet looking toward their Nationals here two weeks later?

6 We re Pleased to announce our notification of race for the 25th annual Go For the Gold Regatta The Gold Country Yacht Club has staged it s Go For the Gold Regatta on Beautiful Scotts Flat Lake every Spring for 24 years. The Regatta supports our Junior Sailing program, a community outreach program open to all young people in Nevada County and the surrounding areas. In 24 years we ve exposed hundreds of kids to the sport and joys of sailing. Scotts Flat Lake is located 10 minutes from Gold Country s cities Nevada City and Grass Valley. We stage the Regatta in June because the water is turning warm, the days have yet to get hot, the nights cool down pleasantly, and the breeze pipes up to 10 or so knots just before race time like clockwork! Come on up and stay the weekend at the local Scotts Flat Lake Camp grounds, one of our local Bed and Breakfasts, the Holbrooke Hotel or the National Hotel ( the longest continually operating hotels in California), or one of our many fine overnight accommodations. We ll offer some really good BBQ and libations, a great silent auction with lots of bargains, story telling and yarns of old, all to accompany some fine, fun, competitive racing. I personally extend an invitation to you and your fellow Club members to enjoy our hospitality and help us celebrate 25 years of the Go For the Gold Regatta. Oh, and did I mention the trophies? You know...go for the GOLD.

7 All Classes Invited! Entries limited to the first 100 boats. Class awards will be given to 5 or more boats of the same class. GOLD Prizes GOLD Awards GOLD! Go For the GOLD!! The Racing Rules of Sailing as prescribed by US Sailing shall apply and race committee results are considered final. Olympic circle course. No throw outs. Boat-for-boat scoring where Class rules apply; modified PHRF for open keel boats and Portsmouth Yardstick for open centerboards. Trophies presented based on number of boats in class. Schedule of Events Saturday, June 3rd 10:00 AM Skippers Meeting 11:00 AM Race #1 Starts Race #2 (after 1 st race) Race # 3 (after 2 nd race) 6:00 PM BBQ, Raffle, Story- telling Sunday, June 4 th 7:00 AM Continental Breakfast 11:00 AM Race #4 Starts Race #5 Starts (after 4 th race) Lunch, Scoring & Trophies follow racing Register Early! Each registration received prior to May 22nd will include a very collectable Go for the Gold 25 th anniversary Skipper s tee shirt at no additional cost. Entries received after May 22nd must include a $5.00 late fee and are not eligible for the free commemorative tee shirt. (Additional Tee Shirts may be purchased separately) Campground entrance fees and launching fees are not included. On-site registration at race headquarters in the Marina area (2 nd Gate) on Friday, June 2nd from 5-8 PM and Saturday morning June 3rd from 8-10 AM. Race packets with written sailing instructions will be distributed at registration check in. There will be three races on Saturday; BBQ, raffle, story-telling and nautical contests starting at 6 PM on Saturday. Sunday continental breakfast at 7:30 AM, two races and then immediately after the final race hot dogs and the awards presentation. Please detach and mail in the registration form in advance with your check to: Gold Country Yacht Club, P.O. Box 813, Grass Valley CA Questions? Call (530) Vice Commodore Pierre Chatelain

8 The Gold Country Yacht Club appreciates your participation. Proceeds from our Regatta have fostered our Junior Sailing Program,open to the community, for 25 years Go For The Gold Regatta Scotts Flat Lake, Nevada City CA June 3-4, 2006 Scotts Flat Lake Campground (530) Mooring Reservations at the Marina (530) Additional Forest Service Campgrounds nearby For information about the Regatta call (530) Or visit Nevada City/Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce (530) Detach and mail this portion. *Registrations received prior to May 22nd qualify for a Free Skippers Racing Tee Shirt! Additional crew Tee Shirts are available...sign up below GOLD COUNTRY REGATTA REGISTRATION FORM Gold Country Yacht Club, P.O. Box 813, Grass Valley CA Entry Fee $35 (non US sailing Name: members $40) - (Jr. $25) Additional Crew tee shirts Club: Phone: ( ) Enter total tees by size x T-Shirts $16 (1 free early Address entry tee) City: State: Zip: x Adult Dinner $12.50 Boat Class: Name: x Child Dinner $5 Sail #: x Cntl Breakfast $2 Multi Hull Rating # Go for the Gold previously (Y/N): x Raffle Tickets $1 Saturday Dinners: Late Registration $5 Beef Chicken Veggie Child s T-Shirt (enter quantities by size *1 free per early entry: S M L XL XXL Total Fees Enclosed I agree to waive all claims against GCYC and persons conducting the race from any injuries and or damages to myself, my crew, and or my boat and to abide by the US Sailing rules and race committee results. Signature of Skipper: Date: US Sailing # Parent or guardian (if minor): Expiration Date

9 Secretaries Report - Jean Hauser Gold Country Yacht Club May 2, 2006 Board Meeting PRESENT:Jeff Lund, Jean Cutshall, Jean Hauser, Mike Hauser, Dave Bloch, Pierre Chatelaine, Jerry Lewis, Lynn Buchanan, Dave Cowell, Bruce Cutshall ABSENT: Gary Wade The meeting was called to order at 7:02 p.m. SECRETARY: No Report TREASURER: Jean C. gave here treasurer s report. She asked the Board if we have a mooring ball for the barge. Dave C. said he would check with Peggy at NID regarding the status of the ball. Jean C. also reported that she is sending in memberships for 15 tous Sailing. She also announced that she was purchasing more burgees and that they were available for exchanges with other yacht clubs. COMMODORE: Jeff bought up the issue of budgets for the various sections of the yacht club. Jeff and Jean C. will try to set up budget lines for the entire club using the software that Jean C. has. Dale Buchanan is taking pictures of the club boats to include CF and VIN numbers for insurance purposes. There was further discussion regarding liability insurance for the club boats and Jeff asked that those persons who had questions could speak with him and he would call the insurance company to have those questions answered. VICE COMMODORE: The issue of the serving of beer and wine at the regatta came to the table again lively discussion followed. Lynn voiced her dissatisfaction with the fact that the club would be selling alcohol. Pierre reminded the Board that this issue had already been discussed by the Board and its approval was voted at an earlier meeting. Pierre also asked the Board if special recognition could be given to Hugh and Nicki Talman who are leaving the area and moving to Southern California. It was decided that old photos would be made into a collage, a cake and champagne would be served at the next general meeting. MEMBERSHIP: Dave B reported completion of the first draft of the membership handbook. Dave B. also took what is considered the most recent by-laws and rewrote them for insertion into the membership handbook. He passed out drafts of that and asked for the Board s input. Dave B. also showed the Board proofs of the GCYC brochure that he had prepared and asked for input on it. He was commended for a job well done. Copies should be made in color and black and white for disbursement to the public. RACE: Jerry reported that hopefully there will be racing this coming Sunday. CRUISE CHAIR: Not Available NEWSLETTER: The Editor asked for articles to be in on time. PORT CAPTAIN: Dave C. reported that Clean Up Day went very well. The area is looking very spiffy. Regarding the barge, the controls are almost done and waiting for installation. There were some motor problems, but they are being worked on and should be ironed out. JUNIOR SAILING: Lynn reported that Gordon Fellows mother had passed away and a condolence card was sent to him on behalf of the Board. She also reported that one of Don Hare s crew member was seriously injured in a boating accident during the Konocti Cup and safety issues were discussed. Lynn reported that she is getting inquiries regarding the Jr. Sailing Program and asked for assistance with getting the word out. The Board also discussed family relationships when applying to the program (grandchildren, nieces, nephews, etc.). The Women s sailing class was cancelled due to winter weather conditions. Lynn also thanked Jerry for fixing up the Jr. Sailing Web Page. NEW BUSINESS: Lynn reported that the Catalina 22 National Regatta had 8 boats confirmed and 8 boats that had committed but not paid. Everything else is looking good. The meeting was adjourned at 8:47 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Jean Hauser Secretary

10 June 2006 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat MAY July 2006 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat No General Meeting in the month of JUNE Go For The Gold Regatta June 3&4 Catalina 22 Nationals June Junior Sailing June 24, 29 July 4th General Meeting at the Lake Race 1 ATTENTION: OUR MEETINGS THIS MONTH WILL BE AT :Scotts Flat Lake May 31st -7:00pm. Meeting Members A-H bring a side dish...members I-Z bring a salad to share...everyone is responsible for their own main dish.! Gold Country Yacht Club P.O. Box 813 Grass Valley, CA Phone (530) jeff@sierranetworks.com We re on the Web! Look for us at -