F A D I N G S U M M E R D A Y S August 22 2012- Volume 2 Issue 37 Inside this issue: Labor Day menus 2 Happy Hour 4 Laser Sail off 5 Make reservations to join the Labor Day festivities Join us to bid Karen Tobin adieu at Happy Hour Wed/ Thursday Sunday sailing Weekend food service 6 7 Did You Know? 7 AC World Series 8 AC Primer 9 Labor Day plans 11 This & That 12 Details page 2 Details page 4 What s Happening This Week?? Adult Sailing 11 Our Supporters 14 HMBYC Flag Officers & Staff 15 Coastal Clean UP 16 Wednesday August 22 6-8pm~Wednesday night sailing page 6 Thursday August 23 5:30pm~ Womens sailing page 6 Friday August 24 5-7:30pm~Happy Hour yummy details page page 4 Saturday August 25th 5-10pm~Single-Handed Sailors Sail-In Saturday Sunday August 25,26 summer weekend foodservice, check page 7 Save These Dates Saturday & Sunday September 1&2~Labor Day Sail In check page 11 Saturday September 1 6-10pm~A Taste of Half Moon Bay page 2 Sunday September 2~Hoedown Showdown page 11 Monday September 3~Labor Day Laser Sail Off page 5 Saturday September 8 10am-12pm~Events Committee meeting page 12 Sunday September 9 1-6pm~Summer Family Fun Saturday September 15 9am012pm~ Coastal Clean up page 12
Page 2 Annual Labor Day Sail-In Celebration WELCOME TO HMBYC'S ANNUAL LABOR DAY SAIL-IN CELEBRATION Below is our dinner menus for Saturday & Sunday, September 1st & 2nd. If you are planning to attend, please make your reservations to commodore@hmbyc.org as soon as possible. Please note the choices you will need to specify for Sunday's dinner. Saturday, September 1st, at 6:00pm dinner will be prepared by our very own Member Guest Chef John Connors. He & his assistant chefs will be preparing a delicious meal fit for an Azorian Portuguese King. Dinner will consist of Corvo Island Bean Soup (beans w/cabbage & onions), Linguist Sausage Sandwiches (sandwich is optional, served w/peppers & onions), Azorean Rice (w/various veggies & spices) & Bacalao (potatoes w/salted cod, onions, olives & garlic) Price is $20 with prior reservation, & $25 at the door. Sunday, September 2nd dinner will be served at two sittings, with the first at 5:30pm & the second at 7:30pm. The meal will be catered by our friends at Spain's Carolina Barbeque, & Member Guest Chef de Somer. Dinner will consist of North Carolina Style Whole-Hog Pork BBQ (slow-cooked, smoked, & chopped pork), OR, Santa Maria Style BBQ (Beef Tri-Tip) Hushpuppies, North Carolina Style BBQ Potatoes, Southern Style Cole Slaw, Southern Louisiana Cob, Mamma Dz Green Beans & Fruit Cobbler Price is $25 with prior reservations, & $30 at the door (pending availability). When reserving, please specify your TIME & MEAT selections.
Page 3 Additional menus are Saturday, September 1 st at 1:00pm Member Guest Chef Mike Mann will be preparing Fresh Fish Tacos 1 for $3 or 2 for $5, & Oysters $2 each. Sunday, September 2 nd from 10:00am-2:00pm Member Guest Chef Liz Allison will be preparing an Ole Fashion Country Brunch including Biscuits & Gravy, Breakfast Meats, Hash Brown Potatoes, Eggs, Country Toast & Fruit; all for only $10 per person As an added note, Michael Ahern's Two Man Band will be playing on Saturday from 2:00-6:00pm, & Catie Chase & the Getaways on Sunday from 5:00-10:00pm. So, plan to put on your boots & hats and ya'all, come on down! Labor Day Planning Committee
page 4 JOIN US FOR A FAREWELL TO KAREN TOBIN After 11 years as the Club's Bookkeeper and Office Manager, Karen Tobin is leaving to pursue business interests in real estate. We want to recognize her many contributions to our Club and give her a warm send-off. You can help us do that by attending Friday's Happy Hour the 24th at 5:00pm, where we will be saying adieu to our colleague and friend, Karen. As always HH beverages from 5-7pm $3 beer, $4 wine and $5 liquor. Happy Hour is featuring Chef JoAnne who is preparing a special Kaluha Pig, BBQ Chicken & Hawaiian Mac Salad and Mini Pizzas for the Children. Price is $8 per plate & will be served from 5:00-7:30pm. A delicious cake is planned to bid our friend farewell. Please join us
Page 5 Board highlights continued from page 2 Are you one of our Sailors, who swoops in after a gusty wet sail, haven't had a bite all day &
Page 6 Wednesday Night Sailing 6-8pm Bring a coat! SUNDAY SKIP- PER PROGRAM Dave Slater and Lucy Gillis will be waiting for you 2-4pm Lets go sailing! Women Sailing Group sail this Thurday evening. Meet at the Club at 5:30pm Come and join us!
MEN FOR MOTHERS DAY Page 7 "SUMMER WEEKEND FOOD SERVICE" HMBYC features Chef de Somer bringing you food service on weekends with a tasty menu from $3-$8. Featured menu for August will include Meatball Sliders, Stuffed Baked Potato Halves, Meat & Veggie Tacos, Hummus & Veggies, Nachos, Assorted Soups & Sandwiches. For the rest of the month of August, Chef Denise's Cafe will be open as follows: Sunday, August 26th, 11am-6pm f you'd like your food ready when you arrive, just call Chef de Somer at 650-678-2283, & she will have it in hand at the galley door If you'd like your food ready when you arrive, just call Chef de Somer at 650-678-2283, & she will have it in hand at the galley door. Bon appetite, P.C. Nat After coming ashore it is really important to send the ferry back to the dock - to avoid it getting beached when the tide goes out! f you need a lanyard for your membership badge - there are now stocks of these at the Sign in Desk - help yourself Only Stand Up Paddle Boards and SUP's with "HMBYC" are available for general club use!
Page 8 A C World Series Since we went to press with our America 's Cup World Series feature in the current edition to Latitude 38, organizers have made some subtle changes. Below is an update on viewing options and scheduling with up-to-the-minute revisions. August 21-26 Schedule: Tuesday, August 21 Full practice race 1-3 p.m., opening ceremony and chance to meet the teams 4 p.m. Wednesday, August 22 Match racing qualifiers 1-4 p.m. Thursday & Friday, August 23 & 24 Two fleet races each day, starting at 2:10 p.m. and 3:05 p.m. Saturday, August 25 12:45 p.m. "fly-by" of AT&T Park; fleet races 2:10 p.m. and 3:05 p.m.; match racing semifinals starting at 3:50 p.m. and 3:55 p.m.; match racing final 4:20 p.m. Match race awards 20 minutes after conclusion of the final race, likely 5 p.m. Super Sunday, August 26 Pre-recorded broadcast of match racing 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Championship fleet race for series points 12:25-12:55 p.m. As the wind pumps up, Sunday racing concludes with yet-to-be announced celebrities take to the water in a pro-am regatta 1-2 p.m. (We can only imagine Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Joe Montana, MC Hammer, Laird Hamilton, and Olympic gold medalist Anna Tunnicliffe careening around that first windward turn.) Series prize giving and closing about 20 minutes after the end of this final race. Viewing Options: The regulated course area is bigger than the actual course boundaries. Buffer zones allow space for rescue and medic boats. Eight to 16 large sailboats (40-ft or greater) flying 20-ft by 10-ft forestay banners will be stake boats, forming the perimeter of the course area. Do not stray inside the course area! Follow the directions of smaller Zodiac-style boats flying A-Cup marshal flags and, of course, any Coast Guard or law enforcement vessels. Move swiftly if they say to do so. Those cats go fast. The area off Crissy Field is reserved for non-motorized craft smaller than 20 feet. Spectator boats will find space between Anita Rock and the Golden Gate South Tower, in deeper water north of the stake boats, and off Hyde Street Pier east of the finish line. Shoreside, view races from Crissy Field, the Marina Green and elsewhere along the waterfront. For other ticketed and free viewing options and maps see: tinyurl.com/acwssf-aug Official live on-the-water commentary is accessible via VHF Ch. 20. Most racing will be live streamed and archived via www.americascup.com or directly from www.youtube.com/americascup. Comcast Sportsnet will air selected races: August 23: 2-4 p.m. (live); 9-11 p.m. (taped) August 24: 2-4 p.m. (live); 9-11 p.m. (taped) August 25: 2-4 p.m. (live); 9:30-11:30 p.m. (taped) August 26: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. (live); 6:30-8 p.m. (taped) NBC nat'l pre-recorded broadcast Aug. 26, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Don't miss the ability to livestream user-controllable 3D animations of racing from Virtual Eye via www.americascup.com. If you see any porpoise, dolphin or whales while you are out, email Golden Gate Cetacean Research biologist Isidore Szczepaniak.
PAGE 9 2013 America s Cup Primer article in Cruising World Magazine What's the difference between the America 's Cup, the America 's Cup World Series, and the Louis Vuitton Cup? Herb McCormick breaks down the events, boats and major players in the 2013 America 's Cup. Web extra from our September 2012 issue by Herb McCormick In July, America s Cup racing returned to Newport, Rhode Island for the first time since 1983. That year, Australia II, the wing-keeled challenger designed by Ben Lexcen, defeated Liberty, the New York Yacht Club s defender skippered by Dennis Conner. This time around, the competition was conducted in 45-foot wing-sail catamarans, and the racing itself was not in fact for the America s Cup, but as part of a worldwide tour of regattas called the America s Cup World Series (see Newport s Cup Date in the July issue of CW). Confusing? Well, yes. To put things in context, here s a quick primer to the next actual America s Cup match the 34th since the original race in 1851 to be held aboard 72-foot catamarans in San Francisco Bay in September, 2013. What is the America s Cup World Series? The AC World Series was conceived for two reasons: to broaden interest in the America s Cup and to give prospective challengers the opportunity to become familiar with wing-sail mulithulls aboard identical 45-foot catamarans before designing and building the AC 72 cats that will be raced in San Francisco in 2013. The AC World Series first season concluded in Newport in July 2012. There will be four events two in San Francisco, one in Venice, and one in Naples leading up to the challenger s trials that begin on July 4, 2013. For more on the schedules, history, and entrants, visit the event s website (www.americascup.com) Who will defend the America s Cup? Oracle software founder Larry Ellison won the Cup and earned the right to defend it in February 2010. New Zealander Russell Coutts and skipper James Spithill, an Australian, lead Ellison s Oracle Team USA syndicate Who are the challengers? While eight teams participated in the World Series including squads representing Korea, France, and China there are three syndicates that are locks to race in San Francisco (the others are still searching for funds). The Challenger of Record is Sweden s Artemis Racing, skippered by the lone American helmsman in the group, Terry Hutchinson. Emirates Team New Zealand, and Italy s Luna Rossa, are the other confirmed challengers thus far, both of which are America s Cup veterans. What is the Louis Vuitton Cup? Since 1983, the series to decide who will challenge for the Cup has been sponsored by the luxury luggage and fashion brand Louis Vuitton, who awards their eponymous Cup to the winning syndicate. In Newport, LV Chairman and CEO Yves Carcelle an accomplished sailor in his own right who races a classic yawl called Runa IV spoke about his company s involvement: When we heard that monohulls would be replaced by catamarans for 2013, it was a bit of a shock.
Now with the AC 45s, we ve seen that multihulls are exciting, breathtaking, and dangerous. The question now is, what will the racing be like in the 72-footers? We are very proud that the first time they will be sailed in competition is at the beginning of the Louis Vuitton Cup. So what s the big deal with the AC 72 foot cats? As Carcelle says, especially with the stunning backdrop of the San Francisco skyline and the beauty of the Bay, the big cats should be a breathtaking spectacle. Sailed by 11-man crews, with wings that tower some 130-feet over the water, the boats will be capable of speeds over 40-knots. Unlike the one-design, identical AC 45s, the AC 72s will be designed independently and each should be radically different. Oracle, for example, has been testing prototypes with hydrofoils that lift both hulls out of the sea. As Conner once said, The America s Cup is really a design contest. The racing is how they keep score. The same should be true in San Francisco in 2013. What other innovations are in store? The mantra of Ellison s group is Bring the racing to the people. To do so, the competition will be held close to shore, as it was with the World Series events. That said, from a spectator s point of view, the television coverage might be even better. Oracle has hired accomplished sailor and navigator Stan Honey an Emmy winning computer genius who invented the yellow first-down marker for football telecasts, among other innovations to spearhead the TV effort, and the graphics technology he s created is truly revolutionary. So why should cruising sailors care about any of this? If you love sailing, these giant cats should provide plenty of thrills, and perhaps spills. And if it s really great, it might bring more kids and enthusiasts into our sport, which can t be a bad thing. Either way, here at CW, we can t wait to watch the powerful cats prowling on San Francisco Bay.
Labor Day Weekend 2012 At Half Moon Bay Yacht Club Join the fun at this year s HMBYC Labor Day Celebration! Friday, August 31 For early arrivals, we will open the bar at 3 PM Starting at 5 PM, we will be serving a tasty soup n sandwich combo Cost: $8 per person Saturday, September 1 Theme: A Taste of Half Moon Bay In the early days of Half Moon Bay, Portuguese fishermen pulled fresh fish and shellfish out of the surrounding waters every day. We celebrate that tradition with a daylong festival of local seafood. If you arrive on Friday night, join us for coffee and a free continental breakfast from 7 to 10 AM. For your comfort and convenience, our showers will open at 7 AM and will remain open all day. Our bar will open at 10 AM for Bloody Mary s and Mimosas as well as other beverages At 1 PM, join us for a delicious lunch featuring fresh oysters and fish tacos, a la carte;$10 per person What is an Azorian Portuguese Dinner? You will find out on Saturday night! 6 to 10 PM. $20 prepaid, $25 at the door per person. Sunday, September 2 Theme: Hoedown Showdown Even today, Half Moon Bay remains a vibrant agricultural and ranching community. We celebrate our country culture with a day of down-home food and music. Join us for coffee and a free continental breakfast from 7 to 10 AM. For your comfort and convenience, our showers will open at 7 AM and will remain open all day. Our bar will open at 10 AM for Bloody Mary s and Mimosas as well as other beverages. From 10 AM until 2 PM, we will be serving an old-fashioned country brunch. $10 per person Starting at 2 PM, we will offer free snacks and goodies And at 5 PM, we roll out the Hoedown celebration with a delicious BBQ dinner and all the fixin s! There will be two seatings: The first at 5:30 and the second at 7:30. $25 prepaid, $30 at the door. You will dance away the evening to the music of Catie Chase and the Getaways. If you have been to one of our previous Labor Day parties, you will definitely remember the music of this great local band! Monday, September 3 A light continental breakfast will be served, starting at 7 AM For more information, contact commodore@hmbyc.org or call us at 650-728-2120
Page 12 KEEP US INFORMED WHERE IS THE BURGEE? Where is the Burgee? The summer has arrived and before you leave to go on your exciting summer vacation, don t forget to pack your HMBYC Burgee. Why you ask? Because we would love for you to take a picture of you and your family with your burgee in an exciting place and post on our Facebook page. No telling where the burgee might end up. Moreover, the best photos posted on Facebook will be added to our Tell Tales Newsletter all throughout the summer. So join the Facebook fun and post your burgee picture when you get home. We hope to see you there soon!! Check us out on facebook https://www.facebook.com/halfmoonbayyachtclub KNIT HAPPENS suspend meeting temporarily For the next few months Knit Happens will not be meeting ~ A Coastside Fiber Artist Community of Knitters, Weavers, Crocheters, Spinners, & Stitchers. Bernie, Mo, Bonnie, Leann & other YC yarnies invite everyone who likes working with fiber to get together for conversation, sharing & show & tell! Contact: Leann Nassar at ibnassar@yahool.com or Bonnie Lemons at bonnie.lemons@gmail.com for Weekly & Monthly Events Continue... Every Third Thursday of the Month, 8:00pm~Dad s Night out Jim Stretch hosts Dad s Night Out, a chance for Dads to come together & celebrate fatherhood. Whether you are a new Dad looking to share your baby s first steps, or a veteran willing to share some wisdom, come on down.. & relax with the guys. We ll mingle about life, kids, work, sports or whatever. Contact: Jim Stretch at jc_stretch@yahoo.com. Every Fourth Thursday of the Month~ Women Sailing Group The HMBYC Women Sailing Group meets once a month on the fourth Thursday. In November, we meet at 6:30 on the Third Thursday because of Thanksgiving. We do not meet in December, but meet in January, February & March at 6:30 for sailing seminars. Women Sailing begins our meetings around 5:30 with only sailing! Afterward, the bar will be open and/or we go out to eat! Contact: Peggy Ruse at 650-465-2664 or pfruse@earthlink.net.
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PAGE 15 214 Princeton Avenue Princeton, CA 94019 (650)728-2120 www.hmbyc.org We are a Community of Friends Normal Clubhouse Hours: Friday, 6pm-11pm Saturday, 2pm-11pm Sunday, 2pm-7pm Office Hours: (Call) Office mail: office@hmbyc.org Office phone: 650.728.2120 Office fax: 650.728.1947 The information provided in this Newsletter is obtained from sources which the Editor believes to be reliable. However, the Editor has not independently verified or otherwise investigated all such information. Neither the Editor, nor any of their respective affiliates guarantees the accuracy or completeness of any such information. Commodore Ray Durazo commodore@hmbyc.org Vice Commodore Mike Mann vcommodore@hmbyc.org Rear Commodore John Connors rcommodore@hmbyc.org Directors Treasurer Terry Ramseyer Treasurer@hmbyc.org Secretary Laurie Dunston secretary@hmbyc.org Membership Lucy Gillies membership@hmbyc.org Facilities Doug Laughlin facilities@hmbyc.org Port Captain Natalie Sturm portcaptain@hmbyc.org Director-at-Large Terri Lahey directoratlarge@hmbyc.org Staff Members Bar Manager Kristi Durazo barmanager@hmbyc.org Events Co-Chair Denis & Margrit Pichou events@hmbyc.org Quartermaster Diedre O Connor qmaster@hmbyc.org Bookkeeper & Office Karen Tobin office@hmbyc.org PICYA Delegate Liz Allison picya@hmbyc.org Race Director Charlie Quest racing@hmbyc.org Sailing Chair Patrick Melley sailing@hmbyc.org Tell Tales Editor Laurie Dunston secretary@hmbyc.org Boatyard Manager Dave Morris boatyard@hmbyc.org Webmaster John Simons webmaster@hmbyc.org WO Scheduler Bernice Marshall woscheduling@hmbyc.org Women Sailing Chair Peggy Ruse womensailmanager@hmbyc.org Cal20 Fleet Co-Chair Dave Morris & Dave Slater keelboats@hmbyc.org C15 Fleet Charlie Quest c15s@hmbyc.org Cruise Out Leann Nassar cruiseouts@hmbyc.org
HMBYC will take part in September 15th Please join us for Clean Up at the Harbor: contact lauriedunston@yahoo.com/ or Liz Allison, chocho2479k@aol.com