THE ANCHORLINE Harbor Island Yacht Club October 2018 Volume 51 Number 7 GREATER NASHVILLE S OLDEST YACHTING MONTHLY In This Issue COMMODORE S COMMENTS A night with Jeff Johnstone of J-Boats Sail Camp Report Low Country Boil and raft up New Members Quarterly Meeting and Fall Work Day Dock Slip and Mooring Waiting List McDougal Notice of Race Iron Skillet Regatta results Lots A Lasers results Photo bytim Parshall
COMMODORE S COMMENTS Although the summer months have provided us with activities like a record setting Sail Camp, social gatherings, and many more good wind days than I can remember in summers past, Fall at HIYC is packed full of great events and tradition. By the time you read this we will have already started our Fall racing season with the Iron Skillet Regatta and will have completed one of our signature events, Lots-A-Lasers where seasoned and novice battle the unpredictable winds of our venue for a weekend of sailing and gathering. Put two major events at HIYC on your calendar for October 6. Fall Clean Up/Work Day is an opportunity for our volunteer club to pitch in a keep our grounds, house, dock, and harbor in ship shape condition. A list of projects will be furnished by each Chair and lunch will be served at noon. Later in the evening on October 6 we will gather for our Fall Quarterly Meeting. Potluck begins at 5:00 with our business meeting starting at 6:00. You will hear reports from your board, committees, and special project chair. We will also recieve the report from our nominating committee for our new officers to begin in 2019. October concludes with two weekends of racing. The McDougall Cruiser and Dingy weekends are typically classic HIYC racing and social events named in honor of John McDougall, one of the principals in HIYC history. November is a special month with the Arnold Nye Regatta on November 10, followed that evening by the annual Lobster Boil ( reservations are limited and required) On the 17 we will honor Fred Beesley by catching the crisp winds of the Beesley 50K Regatta and there are plans underway to mark his 50 years of service as Treasurer. Thanksgiving is the traditional time around the table with our family. The first weekend in December ushers in the last race of the year, the Flotsam Jetsam on December 1. Trophies from past regattas will be awarded. We will also gather that afternoon to decorate our Clubhouse for the Christmas season. Your board will be cooking and serving the December 9 Christmas Brunch as we complete our year of service. Check our calendar, plug in the dates you can attend, volunteer your service, and join your HIYC sailing community this fall on the lake. Gene
AN EVENING WITH JEFF JOHNSTONE Every sailor at one time or another has sailed on a J/ something. Meet the man behind the boats. Great news! Mark you calendars for Wednesday evening November 7th at the HIYC Clubhouse, exact time TBD. Jeff Johnstone, President of J Boats, will joining us for a free lecture on the history of J Boats and the evolution of new J boat design. Following the presentation, Jeff will welcome questions from the group. Steve LeMay from J Boats Southwest- the new J Boat dealer for Tennessee is the sponsor and will provide complimentary drinks. We hope to see you all for an informative presentation. This is open to all sailors. *** Dock Slip and Mooring Waiting List ***
Iron Skillet 2018 With spectacular sailing conditions,wind from the north blowing a steady 7-13 MPH, Pro Dave Brandon set a 6 mile course with a start off Harbor Island, a weather mark off Lindsley s Light and a leeward mark just past Drake s Creek. Class sailed just one lap while the rest of the fleet sailed two laps. Thanks to Dave, Nelson Miles, Tim Parshall, and Don Kaufman for their Race Management. Small but on time! Brock Short in a Harbor 20 leads the A & B fleets across the starting line
Iron Skillet 2018 In tight action at the leeward mark, Paul Latour leads Greg Theriot The B Fleet converges on the leeward mark With Pam Vague at the helm 007 closes with Anne Beesley just yards from the mark With inside position, Anne hold 007 off as Steve Vague taks the helm for the final weather leg.
Tom and Vicki Hines New Members Tom and Vicki Hines both grew up in Nashville and graduated from the University of Tennessee. They have been married since 1988 and have two daughters, Macey, a graduate of Cumberland University s Nursing School, and Emily, a sophomore at MTSU. Tom has worked at Wilson Bank and Trust for 23 years and Vicki has worked as a school librarian at Coles Ferry Elementary School for 9 years. They were members of HIYC over 20 years ago and are looking forward to sailing again and being members of the club. Peter and Audrey Fleming Hello, we are the Fleming Family! We are a family of three Peter, from a small town in Australia, Audrey, from Knoxville, and Beckett, from right here in Nashville. Peter and Audrey met in Architecture school when Peter left the Austrailian football ground of Melbourne to punt for Auburn University. They reconnected years after graduating while working in New York City, and the rest is history! Peter works as a designer, painter, custom-design furniture maker, an all out renaissance man. Audrey left the practice of architecture for the best job ever Beckett s mama, earning certification for early childhood Montessori teaching, while doing countless loads of laundry. Beckett is now 9 1/2 and loves all things mechanical, non-fiction research, designing and building robots, kayaking and sailing. After a magical summer of learning how to sail, we have followed his heart to HIYC and look forward to spending many happy moments among you. Thank you for welcoming us aboard! Low Country Boil and Raft up are a big success! Special thanks to Cindy Lovelace and her team for putting on a wonderful Low Country Boil It was grab and go! as participants took their meals out on the water for a beautiful sunset party that included swimming, rafting, and a whole lot of socializing!
It s fall and cool weather is headed our way! Now is the time to get your HIYC wearables for the fall/winter racing season. the Harbor Island Yacht Club Online Ship Store is your shopping answer.
Member spotlight: Bill Killebrew Exhibition Announcement Norm Diamond & Bill Killebrew September 15 October 27 Nashville based artist Bill Killebrew introduces a new sequence of oil paintings on diverse surfaces in his second solo show at Cumberland Gallery. Within this body of work, Killebrew touches upon a wide range of subjects: landscapes, interiors and still life s, with or without figures, intimate or widelyknown places. However, his paintings are always depictions of the artist s immediate surroundings. His choice of subject is not guided by an abstract concept but rather by a quality of light or a distinguishing spatial feature that captures his eye a method he has held onto during his 40 plus year career. It is these small and beautiful moments of daily life, mundane but not self-evident, that form the poetry of his work: to stop, observe and capture the extraordinariness of ordinary events. When looking closely, these moments can teach us about life s dynamic undercurrents: observe a crowd and you discover relationships, observe a room and you discover a lifestyle. The artist elaborates: The painting becomes significant through the establishment and release of tensions and energies, in the material. Within this series, the viewer sees a society at work: a quiet neighborhood, a vibrant party, or an intimate family moment. Born and raised in the South, Killebrew values the ideas of community, coexistence, and joined experiences and so recreates these highly specific yet universally shared moments: the story might be a common story. Hence, the artist depicts spaces with a formal approach balancing between loose realism and expressionism rendering just enough to hint a narrative but leaving sufficient room for individual interpretation. This inbetween approach is also noticeable in his use of material: oil paint is applied on un-gessoed panel, linen or canvas, allowing the underlying surface to play a role in the image. This to the extent that the concept of non-finito comes to mind when wood grains are treated as marks and part of the painterly process. Bill Killebrew earned his BFA in painting and printmaking from Middle Tennessee State University in 1975. Since then, his works has been shown throughout the Southeast including a solo exhibition at the Parthenon Museum. Collections include Music City Center, Tennessee State Museum, The Tennessean, Mint Museum, and Nashville s Historic Courthouse. In 2013, Killebrew was honored with the Delta Award by the Arkansas Arts Center. They Discussed It At Length (2017), oil on canvas, 29" x 43 1/2"
The McDougall Regattas: October 16 Cruiser Regatta October 27 & 28 Open Class Regatta Each fall we honor John McDougall with two regattas one for cruising boats and a second regatta for one design classes. John McDougall was a man who purchased the land and built the causeway for what would become Harbor Island. It was his vision that created the island community of Harbor Island as Old Hickory Lake was being filled. The first regatta was held in 1968. John McDougall passed in 1991, but it is fitting that we honor the memory of this visionary and avid sailor to whom we owe so much! An abbreviated version of the Notice of Race follows below. For the official version of the Notices of Race and for complete sailing instructions please go to www.hiyc.org Click on Racing then Fall Regattas, McDougall and please download and print a full set of sailing instructions for each event. October typically brings great weather and freshening breezes which gives us some of our finest race days so go to the website and register for these regattas, gather your crew and plan on joining us for these two exciting events.
Lotsa Lasers Regatta 2018 30 years ago Australian Laser sailor John Sykes took a weekend break from his fellowship training in interventional radiology at UAB in Birmingham to sail at HIYC in Lotsa Lasers. So fond were his memories of the fall colors around the lake, the fireplace in the clubhouse and the hospitality that he planned a return trip to the US to coincide with Lotsa Lasers, packing his sail and his mainsheet and boom vang for the trip! So while his wife Ann read a book by the fireplace John sailed SECONd CHILdHOOd to a series of second place finishes in Saturday s fresh northerly breeze, comfortable in the 15 knots common on his home waters off the coast of Adelaide. But those winds, and especially the gusts to 20 knots, were a challenge for those of us still learning to tame a Laser downwind! For the eight who had the weight and the experience, the racing Saturday was great and close. John Coolidge put on a clinic with respect to vang sheeting upwind and smooth mark roundings at the leeward gate in the first three races and Dave Young came back from a two-year hiatus to win the fourth by a couple of boatlengths. There were some notable efforts Saturday that deserve mention. Addison Jones graduated from the Opti class to sail in his first Laser regatta and like Jenna Rehm (also sailing in her first regatta), chose a full rig, hiked as effectively as humanly possible, discovered what overpowered feels like but also felt the thrill of going really really fast until physics and fatigue dictated the prudent choice to call it a day to remember and sail home. His grandfather Ralph made a valiant effort to go out once more to the lake at the age of 83 but was not able to depower his main with enough outhaul. Williiam Hofmeister refused to allow a bad back to hold him back and was consistently at the front of the pack. Denis Colby won the dreaded MOP (Middle of the Pack) Award once again and Bill Killebrew the Bookend Award. Ania Gorska captured the offset mark which made for a spectacular tango! Sunday s rain sent us packing after breakfast, with N over A flags flying from the committee boat at the dock. Thanks to Nolan Richards, Zyg Durski, Julie Bollinger, Peter Bennet, Jim Milliman, Katie Dietzer and Sue Miller for their indefatigable support and remarkable attention to detail on the race committee; to the safety and rescue boat team of Todd and Ella McBee who were as busy as they could be; to Dan Haskell for driving his photo boat to the right spots for Andy Griswold s great action shots (Pictures are up at: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tnkhxnkm1v3wkjks9); to Bob Carlton for helping with registration; to Paul Latour for sharing his nimble Scout which served as the weather mark boat, to Greg Theriot for preparing the club boats; to Chandler Owen for pressure washing the docks; to Michael Underwood for preparing dinner and to all those who helped out in the kitchen and as always to HIYC s support of this traditional weekend of Laser racing. Smooth sailing, Bruce Richards PRO and Regatta Organizer
Kitchen Crew: Michael Underwood, Julie Bollinger, Nolan Richards Dockmaster: Chandler Owen Photographer: Andy Griswold Registration: Bob Carlton and Nolan Richards Monogramming of "Buffs" by Southern Textile and Sculptures by Claire Categories J=junior, C=clydesdale, F=featherweight, L=Lady, AM=apprentice master (35-44), M=master (45-54), CLUB=club boat, GM=grandmaster (55-64), GGM=great grand master (65+) FT=first timer OLYMPIAN (85+)
Sea Scout News During June and July five of our Sea Scouts work as staff at Boxwell Boy Scout camp which is 12 miles up river from HIYC. As a result these five Scouts were not present when we held capsize recovery training with the Flying Junior sailboats earlier in the summer. It was a beautiful Thursday evening with a temperature of 80 degrees and winds from the South at 8-10 knots. This was Will and Nathaniel s first meeting after leaving Boxwell for the summer. And they were excited. They were also the first to get their boat rigged and sailing. And Yes within three or four minutes they flipped. ( So glad they emptied their pockets before heading out.) A Flying Junior is fairly easy to right after capsizing. If you have had the proper training. And thus we watched as this untrained crew worked against each other trying to right the boat. All the while turning turtle and moving closer and closer to the end of the C dock. But with some coaching by Brian Laidlaw from one of the Boston Whalers they managed to right the boat and get back in and then spend another 45 minutes sailing around the harbor. Nathaniel had never taken a lot of interest in learning how a sailboat works but very much enjoyed crewing. This experience has changed that attitude and he is now actively pursuing greater knowledge of how to properly skipper a sailboat. A couple of weeks later with the skill levels of our Scouts improving we decided to set up a small triangle course and attempt to actually run a race. There were nine Scouts sailing that evening. The wind was fairly light but the Scouts had decided to have three on board each of the boats. At this point we were considering Sam to be our best skipper and Nathaniel the one with the least skills. As is typical with beginning sailors no one was at the line when the starting gun went off. But it soon became clear that this race was not going like Brian and I had expected. Eli, Sam s Brother took first. Nathaniel took second and Sam never even finished that race. Race two was similar except that Nathaniel took first, Eli second and Sam third. It was getting late but we had a tie for first and this needed to be resolved. Race three Nathaniel took first, Sam second and Eli third. Thus the Scout that we expected to be in the back was in the front. Pretty cool. And Sam has been working real hard to improve his sailing skills since that race. At the next meeting we had winds of 12-15 and I was very concerned that we might have multiple boats flipping. But I am glad to report that all four boats went out and no one flipped. And all had a great time. Additionally if you go to West Marine in Hermitage you might see Sam and Eli Slater there as they are now working for Rachel at that store. Yeah pretty cool. Andy Griswold
Brock Short represents HIYC at the Montana Cup Three members of Harbor Island Yacht Club sailed in the 2018 Montana Cup Regatta, which was held August 4 and 5 on Flathead Lake near Somers, Montana. Brock Short skippered his Beneteau First Twenty, Benny Hana, along with his wife, Jane Short, and Konstantin Costa Tchernoushenko. Brock and Jane traveled from Big Sky, Montana, where they live in the summer, and Costa drove from Nashville, Tennessee for the event. Tyler Grupe of Big Sky, Montana and Hebgen Lake Yacht Club also crewed for the race. The Montana Cup is Montana s largest and oldest regatta, having been held since 1978. It is sponsored by the North Flathead Yacht Club (NFYC), which was established in 1975. The lake itself is incredibly beautiful and interesting. It is the largest natural fresh water lake in the United States West of the Mississippi River, over thirty miles long and sixteen miles wide, with an average depth of one hundred sixty five feet. One of the cleanest lakes in the world for its size, it is nestled in the Rocky Mountain chain. It is bordered by the Mission Mountains to the East and the Salish Mountains to the West. It sits only thirty miles from Glacier National Park and less than one hundred miles from the Canadian border. The summer winds on Flathead Lake are driven by thermals that show up early in the morning, often dying by afternoon. Thus the first race began by 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and 7:30 a.m. on Sunday. This year s Cup was well attended, with twenty two boats competing in four fleets. The A and A+ fleets included some very fast boats, such as a Melges 24, a Henderson 30 (crew of 9), and a J-90 (with a skipper near 90 years old). The B Fleet consisted of J-24 s and other fast boats, including a Schock Harbor 25 sailed by its designer and builder, Tom Schock. Tom s father Bill began designing and building boats out of Newport Beach, California over seventy years ago. Tom continued the business, building over 13,000 sailboats ranging from 13 to 55 feet in length, until selling the company in 2015 to retire to the Flathead Lake area. The Harbor Island team sailed in the largest fleet, which combined both C and D fleets. Their fleet consisted of a total of eight boats: two Schock Harbor 20 s, a Catalina 25, two San Juan 21 s, a Hunter 30, their boat, and a smaller Portsmouth rated skiff. One of their competitors trailered all the way from Tucson, Arizona. Over two days competitors sailed a total of nine races. The total on-water time exceeded fourteen hours. Competition was stiff, with many races decided by less than two feet between three boats. The HIYC team struggled in the light to moderate air Saturday morning, but as the breeze stiffened briefly in the afternoon, they began to sail better. In the most exciting race they came in under spinnaker towards the finish line with a Harbor 20 and a San Juan 21 both barely ahead, fifteen feet apart. They managed to cover first one, then the other, and slip their bow between the two for a onefoot victory. It was one of the most exciting and miraculous finishes in this year s Cup, about as rare as hitting a 6-10 split in bowling. At the end of the day, after five races, Benny Hana was tied for fourth. Sunday brought stronger winds (12-14), and the heavy air skills developed from sailing on Hebgen Lake, along with enough crew weight, came through. They sailed better up-wind, and they smoked the fleet with their spinnaker work sailing down-wind, posting two firsts out of four races. Costa s bow work was incredible. Tyler Grupe looked like a one-man gang, trimming sails, raising and lowering the keel, doing whatever it took to sail just a little bit faster. Jane was equally nimble, trimming the spinnaker to accelerate the boat past the competition. Brock stayed calm, even when they were almost run over by a much larger vessel at full speed, steering the HIYC entry to its best showing ever in the Montana Cup. The whole crew sailed like a true team. They moved up in their fleet to capture third place, their first trophy out of two tries in the Montana Cup. At the end of the day, they were all glad they had made the effort to attend and compete. The members of NFYC were helpful and very friendly. The facilities and the lake were magnificent. The side trips into Glacier National Park to drive the Going-to-the-Sun Highway, hike from Logan s Pass to Hidden Lakes, and hike to Avalanche Lake were opportunities of a lifetime. The Saturday night dinner and party at the yacht club was fantastic. Brock said It was truly worth all the effort that went into the preparation, travel, rigging and de-rigging, practice, racing, and camaraderie. I would like to thank my crew (Jane, Tyler, and Costa) immensely for all their hard work, patience, and skills that made this possible. Respectfully Submitted Brock Short
Montana Cup 2018 Brock, Jane, and Konstantin Driving to weather Benny Hana (dark hull) Benny Hana on the wind
Around the club. B-Dock proves once again that you don t need the social committee to plan every party at HIYC! This grassroots event is a great example of our sailing community coming together for an evening of fun and friendship. Now let s see what the other docks can do to match this party! New member Ashley Evans has wasted no time in getting involved at Harbor Island. First she assisted with the Y-Flyer National Championship Regatta and created an outstanding poster to showcase the event. Next she bought a boat from Ray Marley, and is clearly taking advantage of the social opportunities that sailing can offer! The lesson here, don t wait on the sidelines plunge in, get involved, make friends and grow the HIYC sailing community.! Are you missing your car keys? Do you know someone who is missing their keys? These were found in the board room about the time of the Y-Flyer Nationals. If you have any idea who might have left these behind, let us know so that we can send them back to their owner, who by now is likely tired of walking to work!
Important Notice Saturday October 6: 8AM 12:00 Fall Work Day. Committee Chairs and Dock Admirals will have projects ready for volunteers. Noon: Lunch Provided 5:00 6:00 Pot Luck Dinner 6:00 7:00 Fall Quarterly Business Meeting We are a volunteer club and we need your help to keep the club house, grounds, docks, and club boats in good shape. Please put on you work clothes and gloves and come ready to work! Please plan on coming back to HIYC for a 5:00 Pot Luck Dinner flowed by our Fall Quarterly Business Meeting. This is a most important event as the 2019 slate of officers will be presented. If you are unable to attend the meeting, we still need your proxy to secure a quorum to conduct business. Please fill out the Proxy Form below, sign and date it and take a picture of the signed form with your phone and email the form to HIYC Secretary Don Kaufman at Kaufmandj@sbcglobal.net : Proxy HIYC Quarterly Meeting: October 6, 2018 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 September 30, 2017 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. Quarterly Meeting Signed date
Harbor Island Yacht Club PO Box 8117 Hermitage, TN Harbor Island Yacht Club Located on Old Hickory Lake Visit us On-line at www.hiyc.org 2018 Officers Commodore Gene Lovelace Vice Commdore Bob Carlton Secretary Don Kaufman Treasurer Fred Beesley Rear Commodore Randall Butler Senior Governor Brian Smokler Governor Dan Haskell Junior Governor Jim McCann TO: Photography contributed by Andy Griswold, Tim Parshall, Cindy Lovelace, Don Kaufman, Ashley Evans, Brock and Jane Short Schedule of Events October 2018 02 Tue Board Meeting 06 Sat Fall Work Day Pot Luck dinner Quarterly Business Meeting November 2018 04 Sun Daylight Savings Time Ends 06 Tue Board Meeting 07 Wed A evening with Jeff Johnstone of J Boats 10 Sat Arnold Nye Regatta 13 Sat McDougall Cruiser Regatta 27 Sat 28 Sun McDougall Open Regatta 10 Sat Lobster Boil 17 Sat Beesley 50K Regatta 22 Thu Thanksgiving Day Sea Scouts meet every Thursday at 6:00 PM December 2018 01 Sat Flotsam / Jetsam Regatta 04 Tue Board Meeting 09 Sun Christmas Brunch 25 Tue Christmas Day