November 2015 THE MAIN SHEET Monthly Newsletter of The Yacht Club of Hilton Head Island In memory of Rich Wastler 99 HELMSMAN WAY HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC 29928 (843) 785-9244
BRIDGE Commodore Michael Roe mjr10649@yahoo.com Commodore s Comments by Michael Roe Vice Commodore John Lang langjc4@gmail.com Rear Commodore Michael Gilroy Mikeegilroy@gmail.com Treasurer Barry Moore wbm28774@gmail.com Secretary MaryAnne MacAlarney merimacccsr@aol.com Past Commodore Norman Shotz Normshotz@gmail.com BOARD OF STEWARDS Class of 2015 Ernie Ahr Carol Kedrowsky Don Robbins Class of 2016 George Cohen Sonny Compher Lee Hildebrant Class of 2017 Marek Belka Hap Todd Anne Landis It is w ith heav y heart we mourn the passing of Richard Wastler another of our long time club members. Rich spent endless hours working at the club making sure that the environment we all enjoy - and sometimes take for granted - was kept beautiful. His smiling face and generous spirit will be missed. Ernie Ahr, Carol K e d r o w s k y a n d D o n Robbins will also be missed as their terms on the Board of Stewards came to an end on October 30th when the membership voted in the Class of 2018 - Ray Faust, Candi Hough and Deb Pepe. I want to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing members for their service and valuable guidance over the past three years and welcome the incoming members. In addition to the new members of the Board yo u r n e w B r i d g e w a s electe d at the Annual Meeting. Taking the helm on November 14th at the Change of Watch will be: John Lang Commodore Mike Gilroy Vice Commodore Cecil Viverette Rear Commodore Barry Moore Treasurer Linda Sheets Secretary Michael Roe Past Commodore I would like to thank all members of the Bridge, Board of Stewards and the C o m m itte e s fo r t h e i r support during the past year without which all that has been accomplishe d w o u l d h a v e b e e n impossible. Thank you!
Nauti Ladies Report by Frances Viverette First of all, I would like to express my appreciation to the other Nauti Ladies for allowing me to be your President over the past year. It has been a pleasure serving in this capacity. You are, indeed, the most hard working, enthusiastic group. I know the other members of the Yacht Club appreciate all of you being The Heartbeat of the Yacht Club! Our Nauti Ladies Christmas Party will be held on Tuesday, December 8, 2015. It will again be at Charlie s L Etoile Verte, 8 New Orleans Road. We will begin with cocktails at 11:30 AM. Lunch will be served at 12:00. We will each order off the menu, with separate checks. Thanks go to Linda Harris for making all the arrangements for this holiday happening! We will decorate the club for Christmas on Monday, November 30, at 10 AM. All hands on deck; and we could use some of the guys for the heavy lifting. Our Ships Store Christmas sale will be Friday, December 4 at 4PM and Saturday, December 5 from 11AM to 1 PM. Please come out and support the event. Our new meeting time will be the second Thursday in each month. Lunch will be at noon with the meeting to follow.
November 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 6:00-10:00 Rotary Club 3 4 Hackers Golf 5 6 6:00-10:00 Dinner 7 8 9 6:00-10:00 Rotary Club 10 11 Hackers Golf 12 12:00 Nauti Ladies Meeting 13 14 6:30 -??? Change of Watch 15 16 6:00-10:00 Rotary Club 17 18 Hackers Golf 19 20 6:00-10:00 Dinner 21 4:00-5:00 Board of Stewards Meeting 22 23 6:00-10:00 Rotary Club 24 25 Hackers Golf 26 Thanksgiving 27 28 29 30 10:00 Decorate Club for Christmas 6:00-10:00 Rotary Club
Food & Beverage Committee At the annual meeting Leslie Gilroy was voted in as the new Chairperson heading the Food and Beverage Committee. We all owe a debt of gratitude to the committee members - Kathe Golden, Anne Landis, Carole Moore, Kathy Todd and Merek Belka - who served us well during a the past year. Their dedication and service has gone long way towards improving the financial condition of the Club and putting our food service on solid ground. Attendance at our Friday dinner is up almost 20% and overall Food & Beverage showed a slight profit. Job well done! Change of Watch November 14, 2015 We have had a very enthusiastic response to the Change of Watch to be held on November 14th. All available seats have been reserved. We look forward to seeing you there. The party s no-host cocktail hour starts at 6:30 pm followed by dinner with wines and champagne provided by your hosts. We look forward to seeing you there.
MENUS for November November 6, 2015 6:00-7:00 Happy Hour Beef Stew Butternut Squash, Carrots, Potatoes and Roosted Corn November 13, 2015 CLOSED October 20, 2015 Member Price $25 6:00-7:00 Happy Hour Prime Rib Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes and November 27, 2015 TO BE DETERMINED Watch for your weekly Constant Contact reservation notice. Remember reservations help to save money. Please make your reservation by Thursday online. Chef Mick Connors at PerfectStormCatering@Hotmail.com or 843-415-1151
Bartenders for October November 6, 2015 Pat & Ron Hughes November 13, 2015 CLOSED November 20, 2015 Terri & Ernie Ahr November 27, 2015 Mary Anne & Sonny Compher
The Yacht Club of Hilton Head Annual Christmas Dinner will be held on Sunday, December 13th, with cocktails beginning at 6:00 and dinner following. This will be a festive, joyous,occasion with great food, potent drink, and an opportunity to share greetings with your fellow members. There will be no dinner on Friday, December 11th
Sailing/Regatta/BoatingActivities Committee Reports REGATTA WEEKEND WINNERS Rob Bender,Andrew Cooke and Billy Fink, Andrew Cooke and Billy Fink and their boat the Whirlwind wins the Island Packet Trophy! Cooke and Fink were the best racers for the two sailing races this past weekend. Regatta Weekend, presented by Harbour Town at the Sea Pines Resort and run by The Yacht Club of Hilton Head Island for the past 40 years, presented awards at a ceremony under the Liberty Oak in Harbour Town, the birthplace of the oldest sailing club on the Island. Calibogue Cup Winners Class A Spinnaker First Place Andrew Cooke on Whirlwind. Class B Non-Spinnaker Frist Place William Lawrenson on Serenity. Second Place Ed Lyons on Potcake Harbour Town Cup Winners Class A Spinnaker First Place Andrew Cooke on Whirlwind Second Place Mark Newman on Vortex Class B Non-Spinnaker First Place William Lawrenson on Serenity Second Place Ed Lyons on Potcake Second Place Amar Patel on Lady in Red.
CREW of ROEBOAT TAKES TOP HONORS AT SOUTH CAROLINA YACHT CLUB Marek Belka, Michael Roe, Jeff Drechsler and Ivan Puglisi ****Lock your boats and trailers!! **** A large trailer was stolen off our property. Also, check your boat owners insurance. Your trailer should be covered under it.
10 Phrases You Never Knew Came From Sailing by Deb Pepe A clean bill of health According to dictionary.com this phrase derives from the days when the crew of ocean going ships might be a little less than hygienic, so they needed to present a certificate, carried by a ship, attesting to the presence or absence of infectious diseases among the ship s crew and at the port from which it has come. Feeling Blue How often do you hear people talking about feeling blue or have the blues? An entire genre of music comes from this phrase. Who knew that came from the world of sailing? See-the-sea.org explains the popular phrase comes from a custom that was practiced when a ship lost its captain during a voyage. The ship would fly blue flags and have a blue band painted along her hull when she returned to port. Pipe down Parents have been screaming pipe down to their kids forever, but where d o e s t h a t a c t u a l l y c o m e f r o m? Apparently, Pipe Down was the last signal from the Bosun s pipe each day, which meant lights-out, quiet down, time to go to bed. Over a barrel We all know when someone has you over a barrel things aren t going well. This saying is used all the time these days to indicate being severely compromised, but it began in the most literal way. Sailor crew would sometimes be punished for their misgivings and that involved being tied over a cannon barrel and whipped. It s no wonder that one stuck around. Yikes. Toe the line Perhaps you ve been at work and your boss has scowled at you and said, toe the line, or you re gone. If this has happened to you, we are sorry, that sounds like a horrible work environment. But, if you were wondering about the origins of his demand, it s an old naval expression that refers to a ship s crew who would be called to gather and form a line with their toes all touching a given seam (or line) of the deck planking. By and Large Folks say this one all the time to refer to the big picture. By and large, ASA is the most awesome organization in existence something like that. This term got started on a sailboat with the word by meaning into the wind and large meaning off the wind. So sailors would say: By and large this ship handles quite nicely. Loose cannon Everyone has known a few people who are loose cannons unpredictable and d a n g e r o u s o n s o m e l e v e l. N o t surprisingly the term comes from when a ship s cannon would come loose from it s lashing. The big dangerous thing would be sliding all over the place making for some uncomfortable time on deck trying to get that bad boy back in its spot. A square meal People often talk about getting three square meals a day what the hell is a square meal? It s actually quite simple the wooden plates back in the days of tall ships were square. Hand over fist These days this phrase usually refers to making a bunch of money, although it can refer to anything happening fast and in abundance. It comes from a more literal origin sailors would be tugging at lines as fast as they could, hand over fist, to trim sheets and raise sails. Son of a gun It s amazing that this phrase has lasted so long. Back in the day, as you might imagine, sailors were often less than virtuous and every once in a while a lady friend of a crewman might give birth to a child on the ship. A good spot for this sort of thing was between the guns on the gun deck. Now let s say this little rascal i s n t c l a i m e d b y a n y o f t h e aforementioned sleazy sailors, this little grommet would sometimes be called a son of a gun.
Ship s Store Yacht Club of Hilton Head Island presents their Annual Holiday Sale Friday, December 4th 4 pm until 8 pm Nautical and Sea related Costume Jewelry Christmas Ornaments and Decorations Homemade Food & Saturday December 5th 11 am until 1 pm Public Invited Clothing 99 Helmsman Way (Palmetto Bay area), Hilton Head Island, SC 29938
Members in the News John Shkor Honored Hilton Head Island Mayor David Bennett will host his semi-annual "Honored Islander Award" dinner at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 at Hudson's Seafood House on the Docks on Squire Pope Road. The honored islanders include John Shkor, Luther Strayer III, Loretta Warden, Tim Drake and Logan Fettes, who were presented with their awards before Town Council in July and September.
Regatta Weekend brings Lowcountry boat lovers together We have a dedicated group of sailing lovers who race for the fun of it, but of course, we all have our competitive streaks, said Regatta Weekend chairman Jim Landis. It has been a great way for so many islanders to meet each other, but we also open up the race to the public, because we very much want to share our passion and help create a new generation of boating diehards. The races start and finish between Harbour Town and Haig Point. Each regatta is a series of three to four races that are 30 to 45 minutes long along a 1- to 2-mile course set up in either a cigar-shaped constant circle or a triangular buoyed course. The races are scored using a performance handicap rating formula. While golf handicaps measure each golfer s performance against the others, the regatta handicap measures each boat s characteristics against the others. It equals out boat size, number of sails and a twopropeller versus a three-propeller boat. That way, a Harbor 20 (footer) can be scored against a 42-foot Catalina that obviously has more power but also more weight to carry, Landis said. The scoring system helps create a level playing field. Then it becomes all about the abilities of the sailor. This year is the 45th anniversary of the Harbour Town Cup, first held in 1970 by the Hilton Head Sailing Club, a group that met under the Liberty Oak in Harbour Town. Over time, the club has widened its charter beyond sailing to including power boat owners and all friends of boating. The group s clubhouse and grounds are located in the Palmetto Bay complex. The Harbour Town Cup trophy was donated by Sea Pines and has historically been awarded to the fastest boat in handicap-adjusted time of all the fleets competing. The Calibogue Cup was started in 1971 and awards two trophies each year, one for Class A and one for Class B. Class A is for boats flying spinnakers and Class B consists of those not equipped with spinnakers. Landis said the event typically draws around 20 to 25 boats from Savannah to Charleston. Many of the competitors are racing in the island waters throughout the year: The Regatta Weekend is the culmination of roughly 10 to 12 races held throughout the year by various plantation boating clubs that all join under the Yacht Club of Hilton Head Island umbrella. We ll get a group of Flying Scots that will race against each other, a group of Harbor 20s out of the South Carolina Yacht Club that will battle each other, and then there s the Catalina 42s and Bonitos that will typically launch together, Landis said. It s quite a variety of boat styles and racing styles. It s a lot of fun to be racing but we are really hoping that fans will join in. They are beautiful vessels, and it s quite exciting to watch the races unfold. The best viewing is from the docks at Harbour Town, where yacht club members will be on hand to help newcomers learn about the boats and the traditions of regatta racing. Regatta participation has been on the rise after a downturn in the sport in the early 2000s. While many might think that yachting is for older generations, Landis said that it s truly a lifetime activity. It s something I picked up in the middle of my career as a means to relax after a stressful week, said Landis, a retired international banker with Citibank who first began sailing while living in Puerto Rico. Living by the sea, it s just a natural activity. We have members who picked it up in their 20s and are going strong into their 80s. Once you get hooked to sailing, it s something few ever want to let go. Regatta Weekend races begin at noon Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, with the awards and closing ceremony held under the Liberty Oak late Sunday afternoon. For more information, call 843-671-6536 or visit www.yachtclubhh.org.