Grand Traverse Grand Traverse Yacht Club Yacht Club WATERLINES WATERLINES FROM THE HELM FROM THE HELM FROM THE HELM by Katie Horvath, Commodore WWW.GTYC.ORG June 2011 June 2011 June 2011 And we’re off! June begins our Summer Series It’s Wednesday Nights, Laser Tuesday Nights, Interlake Thursday Nights. We start things off with our first long distance race, the TC to Charle- voix Race June 4-5, which traditionally becomes a muse for sailing tales that make up the GTYC racing history lore. Even if you are not racing, it is fun to cruise via water or land to Charlevoix to meet the incoming racers for Saturday night chowder, fish sandwiches and fun at the local es- tablishments near the downtown marina. I'm pleased to announce the first ever Quantum® Freshwater Cup. This regatta series includes the signature regattas of the participating host yacht clubs: Boyne City Yacht Club Mark Mad- ness; Charlevoix Yacht Club Red Fox; Grand Traverse Yacht Club Invitational (aka “Hound Dog”); and Little Traverse Yacht Club Regatta (aka “Ugotta Regatta”). The collaboration be- tween the host yacht clubs has been a great experience and we truly hope to increase partici- pation in all of our regattas by creating this new series. Thank you to Quantum Sail Design Group for sponsoring the series. Please participate! The GTYC put this series together for all four clubs - please support your Club and race. Speaking of which, Boyne City’s Mark Madness is June 11-12 and the GTYC Hound Dog is June 17-19. Our invitational regatta is a great time for racers to host out of town competitors, and fun for our entire Club with the Friday night “Blow Boat” Gutter Regatta, Saturday night party (Spaghetti Jim is cooking up an Island Night and we will have live music on the lawn for your dancing pleasure), and Sunday afternoon awards ceremony. We’ll close out the month with the Interlake Regatta on June 24-26. June should be a great month and I look forward to seeing you on the water. Best regards, Katie Horvath Commodore
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Grand TraverseGrand Traverse
Yacht ClubYacht Club
WATERLINESWATERLINES
FROM THE HELMFROM THE HELMFROM THE HELM
by Katie Horvath,
Commodore
WWW.GTYC.ORG
June 2011June 2011June 2011 And we’re off! June begins our Summer Series It’s Wednesday Nights, Laser Tuesday Nights, Interlake Thursday Nights. We start things off with our first long distance race, the TC to Charle-voix Race June 4-5, which traditionally becomes a muse for sailing tales that make up the GTYC racing history lore. Even if you are not racing, it is fun to cruise via water or land to Charlevoix to meet the incoming racers for Saturday night chowder, fish sandwiches and fun at the local es-tablishments near the downtown marina. I'm pleased to announce the first ever Quantum® Freshwater Cup. This regatta series includes the signature regattas of the participating host yacht clubs: Boyne City Yacht Club Mark Mad-ness; Charlevoix Yacht Club Red Fox; Grand Traverse Yacht Club Invitational (aka “Hound Dog”); and Little Traverse Yacht Club Regatta (aka “Ugotta Regatta”). The collaboration be-tween the host yacht clubs has been a great experience and we truly hope to increase partici-pation in all of our regattas by creating this new series. Thank you to Quantum Sail Design Group for sponsoring the series. Please participate! The GTYC put this series together for all four clubs - please support your Club and race. Speaking of which, Boyne City’s Mark Madness is June 11-12 and the GTYC Hound Dog is June 17-19. Our invitational regatta is a great time for racers to host out of town competitors, and fun for our entire Club with the Friday night “Blow Boat” Gutter Regatta, Saturday night party (Spaghetti Jim is cooking up an Island Night and we will have live music on the lawn for your dancing pleasure), and Sunday afternoon awards ceremony. We’ll close out the month with the Interlake Regatta on June 24-26. June should be a great month and I look forward to seeing you on the water. Best regards, Katie Horvath Commodore
We had a great turnout of new members, sponsors, board members, committee chairmen, social and full members for the GTYC New Member Reception. Thanks to everyone who attended and thanks to Ian and the staff for the great food. Please welcome aboard the following new members: NEW MEMBER SPONSOR Thomas Booth Eric Lind Ed & Ingrid Brophy Rick & Cathy Newman Pete & Julie Comfort Jim Sorbie Philip & Barbara Ellis Bud Cline Jerry & Christina Fleis Steve Wyckoff Ron Fitzsimmons & Lori Watts Jay Kraft Nina Foster Rich & Sylvia Core Chris & Lauren Jeffries Brian Mohr Tracey Lev-Ary Karin Willman Matt Myers Forbes Husted Bryan & Lori Poirier Roy & Betsy Nichols Jarvis & Janet Post Mike & Carol Pomper Dave & Deb Prichard George Kobernus Joseph & Cathy Price Dave Terrell Hollie & Ron Fohloff Megan & James Bartley Deborah Smith Dev Trepp Ryan Valerio Jay Kraft Robert & Andrea Wilhelm Leanne Lindsay Mark & Kelly Yanick Rich Core Michael & Christine Zenn Greg Fisher
Come on out and join the fun for the regatta of the season for GTYC! Spinnaker, Jib and Main and a Cruising Class are featured in this year’s regatta. The weekend’s festivities kick off Friday night with the famous gutter boat regatta at the club. The Spin and JAM classes will race on Saturday and Sun-day with a couple of short course races on Saturday to tune up and then a longer distance buoy race up towards the island and back to a finish right off the club just in time for the dinner and party! Sun-day’s races will wrap up early in the afternoon so our out of town guests can get home at a decent hour. The Cruising Class will race on Saturday only with the first start of the morning. The course will be around the island (you pick the direction to round the island!) and then finish in front of the club. Cruis-ers this is your chance to collect some hardware AND have some fun! If you’re not racing then be sure to join the festivities Friday and Saturday night. For members who’ve wanted to get involved in club activities, we have plenty of volunteer needs to help with the regatta from manning the ticket counter to running the gutter boat regatta (very, very fun!). If you want to know more about racing, the party or volunteering, contact me at [email protected].
Jim Sorbie
GTYC Invitational “The Hound Dog” June 17GTYC Invitational “The Hound Dog” June 17GTYC Invitational “The Hound Dog” June 17---19!19!19!
Here’s another chance to get involved!
Planning for the US Sailing Area K Sear-Bemis-Smythe Qualifiers is coming along, but we need your help. The date of this event is July 5-9. This event is a qualifying event for junior sailors from the Mid-west region. There will be some great competition including some great local sailors participating. Winners of this regatta will go on to the national championship at Toms River Yacht Club on Aug 9 – 12. We need help with in the following areas:
Launching Retrieving Boats Serving meals Race Committee (on the water) Registration & Welcoming
You don’t have to be available for all four days of the event. We can use you for one day or even part of a day. If you’re interested in helping out drop me a note at [email protected] Thanks!
June 17, 18, 19
Hound dog regatta
Caribbean roast pork Roasted chicken Beans and rice Empanadas Yucca Plantains three ways Cassava root
'WET DREAM' WINS WORLDS Dream Team Wins IGFA Offshore World Championships May 13, 2011 - Cabo San Lucas, Mexico A global fraternity of anglers competed last month in the world's largest offshore tournament series finale in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where the Wet Dream Fishing Team of Islamorada cap-tured the 12th annual IGFA Offshore World Championship billfish tournament crown. GTYC members Jill and Kevin Clark have spent the last 8 winters fishing sailfish in the Florida Keys as part of the team. For the world's, Kevin Clark captained the team of Sam Worden, Hunter Bar-ron, Glen Miller and Frank Juliano of Islamorada to release 15 striped marlin and 2 sailfish over the four day event, edging out the team representing the Harbourside Marine Bahamas Rotary Tuna Classic by one fish. The Bahamian team also finished second in the 2010 main event, which is considered the Olympics of sportfishing. Worden (also of Traverse City) and Barron finished 4th and 5th, respectively, for top angler honors among the 280 participants, each releasing 7 billfish. To get to Cabo the team won the Islamorada Fishing Club's Captain's Cup sailfish tournament back in December. That tournament was one of 130 worldwide qualifying events, which sent 60 teams from 25 countries to the fer-tile fishing grounds found off the Baja California Sur, and flags from competing team's countries hung from the balconies at the host Finisterra Hotel. Teams competed from Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Angola, Senegal, Croatia, Italy, Panama, Tonga, S Africa, Kenya, Spain, Bermuda, Canada, Samoa, St. Lucia, Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, Mauritius, Cayman Islands, Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago. A team from Russia won their qualifying tournament in Cuba. While many billfish tournaments have six figure payouts, this International Game Fish Association event offered no prize money. "The tournament is meant to test the angler's skills on a level playing field. You compete for the pride of your country and bragging rights, not cash," said Mike Myatt, COO of the IGFA. "All teams in the tournament have to use 30 pound Hi-Catch Momoi line. Teams draw for boats and fish on a different charter boat each day, with different captains and mates, and each team was given ten live baits daily," noted Myatt. Dead baits and artificial lures were also allowed. While there was not a cash purse for this event, the winners did receive championship rings by Vanmark Jewelry, Geoffrey Smith sculpture trophies, Guy Harvey artwork, championship ap-parel by Hook & Tackle, Costa Del Mar sunglasses, Fin-Nor rod and reel combos, Momoi line and a Reactor Championship Diamond watch. The team also won a lifetime invitation to fish in future IGFA Offshore World Championships.
Nauti-ble Notes
Interlake Racing Interlake racing is starting Thurs, June 2 and will continue thursday evening until Labor Day. 1st warning at 6:pm. Visitors always welcome. Our ISCA regatta is June 25/26. Crew is usually needed. RC is always needed. Or just come on down and enjoy friends & family OD racing at its finest. Bob Sagan, [email protected].
Did you notice our beautiful trilliums? Liz Zimmerman donated and planted several more trillium at GTYC that have been rescued through the Leelanau Conservancy's Wildflower Rescue program. They get permission from land-owners before construction or driveway/road building to dig and preserve wildflowers from all over Leelanau County. Thank you, Liz!
Past Commodores’ Council The Past Commodores' Council will have its first official meeting on Friday, June 17, 1900 hrs at GTYC. The inaugural meeting on April 8 was attended by twelve past commodores. We determined that quarterly meetings would be held concurrent with the solstice and equinox events. All past commodores in good standing as Full Members of GTYC may attend. If any Past Commodores have items to be discussed, please contact Wes at [email protected].
Musings from “the Yard Guy” Members: Some things never change, here are some words of wisdom from the "Yard Guy" as quoted in the May 1995 issue of the Waterlines: " ...just to remind you, I don't do goose S#@%. ..it would really be nice if we just remember to never feed the geese at the club, except of course to your dog. Please always shoe them away, they are not welcome no matter how cute your four year old thinks that they are. just take your shoes off and walk barefoot across the front yard to see what I mean. I'd like to take this time to thank everyone who will help us out all summer long keeping our club looking its best. Please try to do your share, and pick up after yourself, and any guests who might not be so self-conscious about the appearance of our club. Please also try to remember that slavery was outlawed a few years back, except of course where your kids are concerned, so don't just trash the place and think that the yard guy, a board member or our club manager will pick it up, that's not what we're here to do for you. We've got more than enough to do to make this a great year. If you have some trash, and the bag inside the can Is full, or there Is no bag in the can. please give the club a minute or two of your time and change the bag. The dumpster is located at the back of the dinghy storage area, and new trash bags can be conveniently found in the kitchen. Thanks again for helping keep our club looking its best. YG"
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Next deadline is Monday, June 27, 2011. The Grand Traverse Yacht Club newsletter Waterlines is published monthly.
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Naut-ible Notes, continued
MHA Boat Auction - June 11
The 25th Annual Maritime Heritage Alliance Boat Auction/Fundraiser is June 11 and donations are still being sought- old dinghies, motors, boating gear, or unwanted/unused boats are wel-come! We will arrange pick-up and handle the paperwork. Proceeds from the Auction support the MHA’s Restoration Shop youth mentoring program and the SAIL Champion program for at-risk. Call 231-645-1625 for more info or click here, and thanks for supporting the MHA- dedicated to sharing the maritime history of the Great Lakes for 30 years.
LITTLE TRAVERSE YACHT CLUB REGATTA, JULY 29-31 Spring has arrived in Northern Michigan, the ice has left Little Traverse Bay, and the first boats have been brought out of winter storage. Sailing season is coming. We would love to have you and your club members take part in Little Traverse Yacht Club's Regatta, July 29-31 in Harbor Springs. Sponsored by Credit Suisse, this is a wonderful weekend beginning with one-design rac-ing on Friday followed by Saturday and Sunday racing on the bay. A pancake breakfast Satur-day and Sunday morning along with a complimentary buffet after racing takes place at the LTYC clubhouse. We have a requirement with the city of Harbor Springs to not exceed 88 boats so if you are thinking of joining us, and we hope that you do, check out our registration site at Regatta information at http://www.ltyc.org/sailing/regattas/. We hope to see you in July!
Kathie Breighner LTYC Vice Commodore 231-526-9422
GTYC Food Service Reminder Please remember that GTYC is a volunteer club with limited food service. We do not have staff available to bus tables, so please clean up after yourself and guests. Receptacles and silverware bins are located near the kitchen door, and glassware should be returned to the bar. Thank you!
