BWYC Family and Friends

THIS BLOG IS A GREAT TOOL TO COMMUNICATE IDEAS, EVENTS, AND ANY USEFUL OR UNUSEFUL INFORMATION.

Please use it!
Not all of us have email or have everyone's email.

Yes I meant yell in the most nicest way!
Clinton

WE NEED HELP TO GET #7 & #9 CLEAN BY THIS WEEKEND. CONTACT ME AT 228.342.1207, OR JUST SHOW UP AND DO IT. THANKS, BERNIE.

Is anybody going to sail?

I am still happy to put together a Challenge Cup team for BWYC, which I believe would be the Club's first attempt at the regatta. However, I need help and input. I can work on getting boats, with help, but need to know the level of commitment from our membership. For those who are not familliar with the regatta, 50% of the crew on each of the 4 boats must be a member of the Club which they represent, including the skipper.
I have spoken with a few people, but would like to know the general interest level. The regatta will be held at Pensacola YC this year since Gulfport YC can't host, and will be the weekend before the 4th of July. If you are interested, and would like to get involed/help out, please contact me so that I can talk with our Commodore.

Cheers,
Riess
504-812-3551

At the Dogwood (FYC)...11 Sunfish participated in the 8 races. Tom Whitehurst and Kevin Northop duked it for first and second. Clinton Edwards was third.

Next weekend is Wet-n-Cool (JUNIORS) at FYC. Good time to use those 420s.

BWYC Opening Regatta....I need help...Anybody have a RC boat I can borrow?
Does the club whaler run?

Please contact if you want to assistant.

Thanks
Clinton

MANAGER’S MOMENTS

by Brenda Graybeal


As I write this article, it is a week or so prior to our Opening Regatta and Review of the Fleet. I sincerely hope that we have good weather and a good turn out to what is being called the “formal” opening of the Bay-Waveland Yacht Club. Crews are busy cleaning and raking the old club grounds. We are getting ready to install gravel walkways and preparing to sow grass seeds, and the installer is putting up the fence around the pool.

Plans are still being formulated but we are planning on having sailing camp this summer. Cindy Stieffel Cady has volunteered to coordinate and oversee the program, and will be here as soon as school is out for the summer. Tentative plans are to have three sessions starting on Tuesday, May 30th, following basically the same format as in the past. Look for information with details elsewhere in the Jib Sheet

Membership response has been very positive for this year, what with so many of our members affected by the hurricane. Out of approximately 462 members, we have only had seventeen resignations, plus ten members have changed their status to non-resident. As of Friday, March 17th, seventy-two percent of members had paid their dues or been set up on the installment plan to pay. We do have a number of members that have not sent us a change of address and are having their mail returned with no forwarding address. Only time will tell if these folks will advise us so we can get their invoices to them, or if they will fall by the membership wayside. It’s tough to contact them – if they’re not getting their invoice, they’re not getting the Jib Sheet either.

Make plans to attend the Review of the Fleet. All the boat owners (who still have boats!) are going to try to make a good showing and put boats in the water for the review. Come cheer them on and enjoy grillards and grits with us! Ya’ll come!

We had a blue 18 ft sailboat on a trailer at the Yacht Club before Katrina. We found the boat in several pieces a few blocks inland, but we never found the trailer. If anyone has seen an EZ Load trailer with expired MS tags and a BWYC sticker on it, it belongs to Brian Carson. Since we have no real need for it, we could probably donate it if it ever turns up. 985-781-3298

Fairhope YC is hosting the Dogwood this weekend. All fleets are invited.
Okay...juniors....bring one or two of those 420s. Buc YC is sending 420s.

The Sunfish will have big presence too!

Clinton

Richard, please contact me with your mailing address and phone number. Thanks, Brenda

Way to go Jackson. I know you'll make us proud.

Looks like Marc and Marcus Eagan did it again.

Congrats...

Riess that would be great if you could bring the boat. The next regatta is on the 8th and 9th of April in Jackson.

The last 420 is still at SYC. Could someone please pick it up? I'm pretty confident that SYC would loan a trailer to deliver it.

I'm booked everyweekend for the month. Bishop has my flatbed trailer til Sunday, 3/19.

Need help.....we don't need OUR boat sitting on the ground at SYC!

Thanks
Clinton

Cindy's cell number is 713-397-5033
They are out of the states right now, but I know she has her cell. Hope that helps.

We had a call last night about sailing camp and were told to call Cindy Stieffel in Houston about it. Unfortunately, the number that was given is out of service. If anyone knows how to contact Cindy Stieffel, can you please post it or call me? Brian Carson 985-781-3298 or 985-774-9558. THANKS!!

Last week when the bad weather was coming in, I ran out to the SYC dry storage and secured Red Rocket to the trailer. I also grabbed the new racing sails, which were in the boat, because I didn't want them to get wet or sit in a wet boat. Currently I have them at my house in the a/c.
When is the boat planning to leave for Gilliland Regatta in Jackson?
Also - Chris Clement gave me the 4 new 420 jibs which were back ordered.
I plan to make a trip over to the Bay this week, so if the red boat needs to head back that way I am happy to do it.

Cheers,
Riess

Todd and Anne Edwards competed in the International Sunfish Masters this past weekend. The event was hosted by Davis Island Yacht Club. Todd finished first overall and Anne was eighth. Next weekend, they will be participating in the Sunfish Midwinters. 68 boats competed in the International Masters.

Congrats!!!!

(copied and pasted from Jackson and Rene various emails)

"Riess, we need a huge favor. Do you think you could go back to the loft (North Sails) and cut us some spinnaker sheets and jib sheets? We don?t have any." Riess managed to get back to the sail loft and make us some sheets so we could sail the regatta, we all owe him a big thank you. That was the first of our obstacles Friday night that David Blouin and I had to overcome in order to sail the next day. Next we spent almost three hours on the phone trying to secure a third person to crew with us on Saturday. Finally we managed to talk Forrest Richards from Southern Yacht Club into filling in the empty spot after convincing her to rush to the club (or what?s left of SYC) after taking her senior pictures Saturday morning.

The next day I arrived at the club only to find that David had woken up at 6:30 that morning to go step the mast and rig the boat almost completely before I got there (thanks David!). Now, if we could only find a watch. Forrest magically appeared with one on her wrist all ready to go and we were set and ready to sail.

The wind was blowing out of the North East close to around 13 knots and slowly diminishing. On the way out to the course David volunteered to skipper the first race. We knew there would be three races that day, and due to the new capdeville format (five races instead of only three), two of the three skippers could skipper two races each. We decided that whoever finished better in their race would skipper the third and final race of the day.

David approached the starting line on port tack towards the heavily favored pin end and tacked under Benz Faget of New Orleans Yacht Club, strategically stealing his "hole" on the starting line. We accelerated and were the only boat on the line. From there we played the shifts upwind on the left side of the first leg and covered our competition almost never to look back (much like the Mike Chapoton philosophy to racing). We held on to the number one position all the way around the course only to have a mild scare towards the end of second, and last downwind leg by Pontchartrain Yacht Club. We finished first by about four boat lengths.

Now I was up to skipper the second race. The start of the second race was a little more eventful with many other boats crowding the pin end of the line. Again we approached the line on port tacking under Southern Yacht Club. After a close encounter with SYC, we pushed the over the line so they had to re-start the race and NOYC was the only boat between us and the pin at the start. We managed to roll over the top of NOYC and in their attempt to tack out from under our bad air they misjudged their tack and slammed into the stern quarter of our boat (Don?t worry Bernie, the boat is fine. I swear.) They took their penalty and did a 720 degree turn. From there we played the shifts up the left side of the course again rounding the top mark first, followed next by PYC again. Once again we held on to the lead all the way around the course and finished first.

Now we had a dilemma. David and I tied. So who was to skipper the third and final race of the day was still up in the air. After both of us not having a solid argument for why either of us should steer the next race, I won a quick game of "rock, paper, scissors" to keep the tiller in my hand (sorry David).

By the start of the next race the breeze had almost completely shut off. Typical Lake Pontchartrain. The start of this race was a complete mess. SYC was the only boat on the line and also directly at the pin. We failed to lay the pin end and tacked over to port only to take two massive ducks behind PYC and Jackson Yacht Club. Luckily neither PYC or JYC managed to lay the pin either and they tacked off of our hip. From there we began slowly drifting in the general direction of the weather mark. The new and light breeze managed to find its way to us first, the PYC right behind us. SYC had tacked a few times and went too far left to get the most out of the new breeze. After those first few puffs, we were both considerably ahead of the rest of the fleet. Once again we rounded the windward mark in first place. The next downwind leg the race committee shortened the course so that we would be finishing down wind, instead of going around the course once more like we had in the previous races. Once again the wind gods decided to hit the off switch for a little bit and we sat there, barely with the spinnaker full. The next puff filled in from behind and PYC slowly started making their way towards us. Once the wind arrived to where we were, PYC was riding the front edge of the puff and managed to squeeze over the top of us carried by the momentum that we didn?t have yet because they got the puff first. They unfortunately pulled ahead far enough so that we couldn?t try and pin them out pass the layline of the finish. We gybed for the finish, shortly followed by PYC and we finished second by a few boat lengths.

After a scare from the race committee by almost attempting a fourth race in the oh-so-great, light and lumpy conditions on Lake Pontchartrain, they finally decided to send us in. Thank God. After the three races we had a total of four points (1-1-2). PYC had finished the races with a 2-2-1 which gave them five points. We had a one point lead, and it was up to Zak Fanberg, his wife Sarah, and Rene Dupaquier to finish out the regatta on Sunday.


Zak with Beau and I finished 3rd in the fourth race causing a tie with Pont.YC going into the last race. Zak finished 2nd, and Pont.YC 4th or 5th in the Fifth race, winning the series for BWYC.

**The next regatta is teh Pat Gilland at Jackson Yacht Club; if you are interested in sailing this regatta please email me at marcus@eaganins.com

Can someone give me Mike Haas' address.

Betsy

The date for the Ladies Auxiliary meeting has changed from March 15th (Wednesday) to March 22nd (the following Wednesday). The board meets at 6:00 p.m. and the general meeting is at 6:30 p.m.

Please make an effort to attend. The club is now up and running and everyone is so excited about having a place to come, relax and socialize with their friends and neighbors. We need you ladies to get involved with upcoming events and show our visitors that our building might be gone but we can still let our hospitality shine.

Clinton, John Worrell called and has retrieved my SeaDoo trailer from his daughter's debris. It has two flats, but seems to be otherwise OK. The SeaDoo itself is either MIA or KIA. Anyway, the trailer is on my property. If you want it, I'll donate to the Club. It's license is current and I have the title.

I also have the trailer to my 14' skiff (skiff is KIA) at Joe De's. Same deal. It has some damage, but may be of use.
- Chapoton

Clinton - call me about the last BWYC 420 @ SYC...need to get it out of there and I may be able to help. Also, Chris Clement is going to drop off the 4 jibs which were back-ordered so I will have them.

Riess
504-812-3551

Hey um I need to track down the Sears Judges Trophy, I know it survived and last I heard it was at Randy SantaCruz's office if anybody who knows where it is and could be so kind as to help me out... Thanks
Gary Taylor 228 342 1511
CofCsalein@aol.com

BWYC wins Mardi Gras Regatta! Skippers were David Blouin, Jackson Benvenutti, and Zak Fanberg. Well done gang!

In the Sunfish Fleet...BWYC sweeps 1,2,3. The Edwards clan of Todd, Anne, and Clinton finished 1,2,3. Todd and Anne are participating in Sunfish Midwinters in 2 weeks and Todd in Sunfish International Masters next weekend.

Brian Carson is interested in being a Jr. Counselor for Sailing Camp. Please call us if you are able to get the camp going. 985-781-3298 (home)or 985 774-9558 (Brian's cell).

Wednesday night, Gary Taylor, John Hadden and I, drove to SYC to start collecting the four boats. We collected everything, but three (3) hulls.

WE NEED HELP IN GETTING THE REMAINING HULLS BACK TO THE BAY!!!!!

If you are going to Mardi Gras regatta this weekend have a trailer that can carry a boat, please contact me. Most of the juniors are going to a regatta this weekend in Texas and I need help!

This is the weekend to get the boats. There will be plenty of help around to load the boats.

Thanks
Clinton

You are invited to join you BWYC friends and neighbors at the Club on Sunday, March 5th at 5:30 p.m. for a "grill your own". Barbara Imbornone will bring a big bowl of potato salad and you bring what you want to cook. Of course, Theresa and I will be serving your favorite libations, so come on down.

WE NOW HAVE THE NEW DECK FURNITURE FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT , SO COME ON DOWN, TRY IT OUT AND ENJOY OUR BEAUTIFUL VIEW.