THE ANCHORLINE Harbor Island Yacht Club September 2018 Volume 51 Number 6 GREATER NASHVILLE S OLDEST YACHTING MONTHLY COMMODORE S COMMENTS Y-Flyer National Championship Regatta Sail Camp Report July 4th New Members Dock Slip and Mooring Wating List Iron Skillet Regatta Notice of Race Lots A Lasers Notice of Race Sea Scout News In This Issue
COMMODORE S COMMENTS The summer months are typically light wind months at HIYC. Cindy and I took this opportunity to celebrate an 0 anniversary sailing for a week out of Camden Main. On a Sunday afternoon we boarded the Schooner Lewis R. French, America s oldest Windjammer. She was launched in 1871 as working vessel along the eastern coast until 1973 when she was refitted for passengers. The French is 65ft long, carries 3000 square feet of sail and no inboard engine. A yawl boat Greyhound, located at the stern, pushes the boat when necessary. Sailing her is much like sailing 150 years ago. It takes at least 10 crew (us) to raise and lower one sail and almost 10 minutes of muscle on the 4 person windlass to raise the 100 feet of chain and anchor. We navigated in the crisp mornings with the melody of a manual, bellowed fog horn and the lobster fisherman waving to us as they headed to work. All meals were prepared by our chef who cooked, from scratch, on a wooden stove in the small forward kitchen.. Since we went to bed around 9:00 each pm, I rose early each morning to watch him handcraft meals for the day. We ate and washed our dishes on the deck, protected by a canvas tarp when needed, stretched across her 19 foot beam. I share these words to you this month to follow back on my opening comments as I took the helm of HIYC earlier this year. At that meeting in January and in my first article as commodore, I expressed appreciation of all those who have gone before us. I gave thanks for the 58 commodores and hundreds of other volunteers who have made HIYC what she is today. And now, having crewed on a vessel which takes me even further back in history, I am thankful to those who have gone before us, sailing on the coast, as well as across the oceans, in vessels with the technology of one of our OPTI sail camp boats. Sailing is a sacred, restorative, and even a spiritual experience for most of us. To quote one of our HIYC founders, Cully Cobb. I learn something important almost every time I go out in my boat Thanks to all for making sailing possible at HIYC. Gene Lovelace HIYC Commodore
Burgee Exchange at Y-Flyer Nationals One of the wonderful traditions we are proud to continue, is the swapping of burgees with visitors from visiting yacht clubs. The burgees that we have received are displayed in the clubhouse. Commodore Lovelace was thrilled to be asked to exchange burgees with Angel Crowe who was representing the Louisville Sailing Club. Pictured are Angel Crowe, Regatta Co Chair Ray Marley, and Commodore Lovelace. Three of the 29 boats racing in the senior division were from fleet 12, with Angel sailing with 3rd place finisher Pat Passafiume and Patrick Crowe sailing with Neal Deaves. *** Dock Slip and Mooring Waiting List ***
Sail Camp 2018 Harbor Island Yacht Club played host to 140 campers at this year s sail camp! It was a sold-out season, and the kids had a great time. Clearly, they had fun, because we had a lot of returning campers each week. They received good instruction from a group of well-trained counselors, and best of all, they had lots of tiller time on the water. We got great feedback from both campers and families about their experience. We re now in the process of reviewing the positives for the summer, as well as looking at any areas in which we can improve for next year. Special thanks to HIYC member Laura Johnson for the excellent management she brought to the camp through Leadership Academy. And thank you to our cognizant adults who volunteered their time during the four weeks of camp. Already looking forward to 2019! Mary Ann Smokler HIYC/Nashville Sailing Foundation
4th of July Fireworks Photos : Andy Griswold Thanks to Brian Smokler and his entire team for putting on a wonderful day of events. From a boat parade, to Opti races, to a cookout followed by amazing fireworks it was truly a spectacular way to honor our independence!
New Members Hello, we are the Lehmann Family! Our family of four started when Brian and I met in Eastern North Carolina, pursuing degrees in medicine. I m now a pediatrician and Brian is a cancer researcher. Our love for the water started there as we frequented the local oyster dives and fishing holes. We relocated to the Nashville area in 2008 and have lived in Hendersonville for 10 years. We are proud parents of Josie, 8 and Ansel, 5. After 9½ years, we finally moved to a house on a cove off Old Hickory Lake. As fate would have it, we were given a Flying Scot that had been collecting weeds. Over the last 2 months, Brian and his dad have worked hard to restore her to her original glory. Now "Sweet Carolina" is ready to fly! Fate blew us one more kiss when we realized our homestead is directly across the lake from HIYC, and it all seems very meant to be. We are excited to become part of the HIYC community and for the opportunity to know all the sailors here! Thank you for including us! - Kevin Stack, Josie Robins, Ella, Sarah & Henry Stack We are so excited to be joining HIYC! We (Kevin and Josie) met in college. After moving around a lot (NY, CA, DC), we have lived in Nashville for eleven years and have three teenage children. Kevin is on the faculty at Vanderbilt Law School, and Josie is an elementary school administrator at the University School of Nashville. They live near Elmington Park, off Whitland Avenue, in West Nashville. Our eldest daughter, Ella, is just heading to her first year of college at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. Our middle child, Sarah (17), is in her senior year at boarding school in Andover, MA. Our son, Henry (13), is just starting eighth grade, and is our chief sailor. Kevin and Henry spent the first six months of 2018 in Sydney, Australia, where they caught the sailing bug. We loved sailing in Sydney Harbor and are really excited to get out on Lasers on Old Hickory. We are also looking for a Vanguard 15 as a family boat. We look forward to meeting you all! Ashley L. Evans Originally from Chicago, Ashley coached various sports growing up from Swimming / Life Guarding (15 years), to Rock Climbing and Snow Boarding, and has run 6 half-marathons. She was also a photographer / graphic designer for Major League Baseball. In the Fall of 2011, Ashley moved to Nashville, landing work in the music industry. After designing the brands, albums, and merchandise for over 200 emerging artists, she was Taylor Swift s first in-house graphic designer (1989). She started a music showcase, Spotlight615, the ONLY all original music show on Broadway. The show has featured over 300 original acts and has raised over $40,000 for St Jude Children s Research Hospital. Ashley got interested in sailing about 4 years ago (thanks to Ted Chapin), began participating in the Vanguard 15 fleet last summer, and now has her first sailboat (thanks to Ray Marley). Please say hello when you see her, share some wise sailor tales, tricks, advice. And let her know if you ever need crew!
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One Particular Harbor: The Y-Flyer 2018 National Championship Regatta Contributed by Elizabeth Eckert Passafiume The weekend of July 4, just two short weeks before the 2018 Y-Flyer Nationals was set to begin at HIYC, I sat in the boardroom behind an assembly line of sorts I had created. It was one of the hottest Saturdays of the summer, so I can t say I minded being in the air-conditioned clubhouse. I was hand stenciling about forty bags for the sailors - each one had a sail number on it. As I painted in the Y-2-7-5-7 (our number), it hit me that over a year of planning was about to become a reality... I was just one of many who spent months preparing our club to host a national regatta. Ray Marley and Anthony Passafiume, co-chairs of the event, spent countless hours with HIYC volunteers getting the logistics in order - finding lodging for our guests (special thanks to hosts Beth and John Marshall, Captain Jack, Dana and Paul Latour, Dave Hardesty, Dave Deforges), preparing the dinghy lot and clubhouse (Anthony, Ray, and Sam Anderson among many), and getting the Y-Flyer sailors pre-registered on the beautiful website created by our own Ashley Evans. The amount of work that goes into this sort of event is hard to believe, but it was a sight to see when sure enough, on Saturday July 7, cars pulling Y-Flyer trailers started rolling in. The first two days of the week were devoted to boat weighing and sail measuring, junior racing, and general camaraderie of the class and HIYC members. The beautiful Ania Gorska manned the registration table and welcomed each sailor on behalf of our club. Spirits were high despite what must have been record breaking temperatures. We had eight junior boats this year (a whopping sixteen juniors) - the most in recent memory thanks to some amazing Nashville juniors, a handful of Atlanta kids who came up for the week, and others from Illinois, Kentucky, and South Carolina.
The race committee, chaired by Ted Chapin and PRO Paul White, longtime Y-Flyer sailor and enthusiast, set out on Heaven, Ted s beautiful 44 foot boat, and got in several races for the juniors in less than ideal wind. Help on the safety and mark boats was provided by Anthony Passafiume, Clint Webb, Dave Hardesty, Andy Griswold, Joe Ballard and more. The juniors were fed by treasured HIYC volunteers Beth Marshall and Pam Vague, and soon developed into a tight knit group of friends and future leaders of the Y-Flyer Class. On Tuesday night, the adult portion of the regatta kicked off with a festive Welcome Aboard party in the clubhouse, where Lavon Hatcher prepared food and Gene and Cindy Lovelace welcomed everyone on behalf of the club to get the party started! I was honored to be the musical entertainment of the evening and was joined by my band in entertaining the crowd. I d be remiss not to mention sponsors Old Dominick, who provided delicious whiskey and vodka punches for the evening, and Yazoo Brewery, who provided the beer. As we musicians like to say, The more you drink, the better we sound! Wednesday was a disappointing day as we didn t have enough wind to race, but we sat around and drank coffee provided HIYC member Scott Howard s company Portside Java that is, until it was late enough to drink beer! Thursday would become our main racing day. The morning was slow, but sure enough the wind kicked in around noon and we got in four races over the course of the day - enough to ensure that we would crown a National Champion this year. Bryce Dryden, an Atlanta Yacht Club sailor, and his superstar crew, our own Mandy Hofmeister, came out on top for the day with several boats hot in pursuit. Friday s wind wasn t as good, so we headed out onto the water but came in before getting any races in. That evening s awards banquet was a beautiful event with emcee Ray Marley, Lavon and her volunteers preparing the food, and class members presenting the host of traditional awards that are passed around each year. Bryce and Mandy were crowned National Champions, and I narrowly escaped being awarded the Golden Sow for taking an accidental swim as we docked our boat on Thursday! After the hubbub ended and several of us sat around at the Tiki Hut that evening, exhausted and drained from the week, we did what sailors do. We hashed out every detail of every race - if only we d gone left instead of right in that second upwind leg, if only we d made that last mark rounding a little tighter - you all know the conversation well. Sometimes I think the analysis is just as important as the actual racing. article continues below...
As we basked in the glory of a regatta well-run and executed - thanks to the help of so many Y-Flyer Class and HIYC friends - we all devised our plans for winning the Nationals next year. And in a few more years, we hope to be able to host this time-honored tradition again. Of course we couldn t have done it without your time and support, so deep from the hearts and souls of the Y-Flyer Class: thank you, thank you, thank you. Elizabeth Eckert Passafiume Tight action at the mark: Ed Bigus (2744) rounds in close pursuit of Tony Passafiume (2670) and Amanda Hodges (2660)
Hitting the starting line at the gun! Bryce Dryden and Mandy Hofmeister
2018 Y-Flyer Class National Champions! National Champion Skipper Bryce Dryden and Crew Mandy Hofmeister
Sea Scout News Twenty Five years ago the HIYC board under the leadership of then commodore Mark Endicott approached my wife and me about the possibility of starting a Sea Scout Ship. This was to be part of the club s public outreach. Cathy and I were already involved in Boy Scouting and had been youth leaders at our church several years earlier. So working with youth was something we were already enjoying. I saw this as a wonderful opportunity to get out to the lake more often while continuing to work with youth. Little did I realize how much of a blessing this organization would be for me or imagine that 25 years later we would still be going strong. Saturday July 21 st we held a 25 year celebration of Sea Scout Ship 851. For that we had a pretty good turn out of current and prior Sea Scouts. That being around 30. And that day we were blessed with wonderful weather. The wind blowing at around 12-15 knots. And for some reason everyone wanted to go sailing. We used my Pearson 30 Makena, the Scout s Pearson 30 Triad and Drew and Katie Griswold s Pearson 33 Tilt'N'Hilton. And a few of the Scouts took one of the Flying Junior sailboats out as well. I think a total of 36 persons got to go sailing that afternoon. This was followed by a wonderful dinner and then presentations. I was pleased to recognize several of our leaders such as Brian Laidlaw, Randy White and Gail Beckman for their contributions over the years. And was overjoyed by the 25 year service award presented to me by the club. So what s next? By the sound of things they want to go sailing. So preping for the Sea Scout commodore s cup in Atlanta in late September will be keeping them busy for awhile. Andy Griswold
Sailing Instructions: Iron Skillet Regatta: A complete set of Sailing Instructions may be downloaded at www.hiyc.org/racing/iron-skillet Sailing instructions will also be available at Regatta Registration
Notice of Race : Lots-A-Lasers 2018
Lots-A-Lasers For Lots-A-Lasers sailing instructions: Please go to www.hiyc.org/racing/lotsa-lasers You may download a complete set of sailing instuctions. Sailing Instructions will also be available at registration Proxy HIYC Quarterly Meeting: September 29, 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, A&C photography. Thanks to Elizabeth Eckert Passafiume for her article One Particular Harbor, Mary Ann Smokler, Ashley Evans for her Y-Flyer Poster Schedule of Events September 2018 03 Wed Labor Day Holiday 04 Tue Board Meeting 15 Sat Iron Skillet Regatta 22 Sat 23 Sun Lots-A-Lasers 29 Sat Fall Clean up day & Lunch October 2018 02 Tue Board Meeting 13 Sat McDougall Cruiser Regatta 27 Sat 28 Sun Mcdougall Open Regatta 31 Wed Halloween 29 Sat- 1300 Quarterly Meeting Sea Scouts meet every Thursday at 6:00 PM