Port Ludlow Yacht Club

May, 2013 JIB SHEET

Commodore’s Column

by Brett Oemichen

THANKS TO ALL who pitched in to help give the Wreck Room its annual Spring clean-ing just in time for Opening Day. We extend our appreciation to Chris and Karen Hasha-gen and Sue Oemichen for coordinating the outside and inside work teams. Many thanks also to our friends at PLA: Debbie Wardrop, who arranged the coffee and pastries for our volunteers and Jim Kocker, who worked alongside us helping to complete our tasks. Most of all, a huge THANK YOU to all of our PLYC volunteers who contributed their

time and elbow grease to spiffing up the Wreck Room.

May is a big month for PLYC because on May 11, we celebrate Opening Day. 2013 is an important year for our club because we also celebrate our 40th anniversary, having

been incorporated on May 9, 1973. Be sure to check Port Captain Wade Crouch’s column for a re-cap of all the festivities. Wade has done an exceptional job of coordinating all of the moving parts associated with

Opening Day. Be sure to join us for the festivities!

In conjunction with Opening Day, we will also host our first Open House of the year beginning at noon at the Wreck Room. The purpose of the Open House is to offer an opportunity for prospective members to vis-it our club and for us to get to know them. If you know someone who is interested in joining PLYC, please invite them to Opening Day and our Open House on May 11. Look for notices about this event in the May issue of the Voice. Invitations will also be included in communications from the Port Ludlow Marina; thanks

to Kori Ward for her assistance in getting the word out.

The vitality and sustainability of an organization like PLYC is dependent upon recruiting new members who want to enjoy the benefits our club has to offer. Please help us with this important effort by bringing friends who may want to consider membership in PLYC. We have welcomed nine new members since the fourth quarter of 2012 and we have applications from two couples who will have their first reading at our

May board meeting.

COMING EVENTS

Check the PLYC Web site WR Page for May Events on Fridays and Saturdays

PLYC Board Meeting, Wednesday, May 1, 1500, Wreck Room

Scatchet Head Race, Saturday, May 4, 1030, Marina

Opening Day, Saturday, May 11, 1000, Marina & 1200 Open House at Wreck Room

May Cruise, May 16-18 to Kingston, Bremerton & Port Orchard

Thundermug Race, Saturday, May 25, 1030, Marina

PLYC Salmon Bake and Honolulu BBQ– June 8 -Wreck Room

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

C.S. Lewis

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You may have noticed that Peggy Kulm was away for much of April. She took some well-deserved time away from her PLYC duties to offer her time to new volunteer responsibilities with the Army Nurse Corps and Wounded Warriors program. We salute her devotion to our veterans and also thank her for serving our country during her career in the United States Army. Our sincere thanks to Beth Crouch, Sharon Lynch

and Jeanne Joseph, who have generously given their time filling in during Peggy’s absence.

As I write these words, Sue and I just returned from the Wake-up Cruise. We had some excitement on the way down as a submarine was being escorted out of Bangor just as we came by. Fourteen boats and four land cruiser couples enjoyed the voyage to Pleasant Harbor and Alderbrook. Look for pictures of the good

times elsewhere in this issue of the Jib Sheet.

We’re still looking to fill a few more committee boat slots to support our sailors in the PHRF program. Please check your calendar and sign up for an available space on the sign-up sheet near the registration

book at the Wreck Room.

Fleet Captain’s Column by Olav Pedersen

What a wonderful Wake Up Cruise to Pleasant Harbor and Alderbrook! For this time of the year, the weather we experienced could not have been much better. Heading back to Port Ludlow on April 18th, we were expecting a fairly windy front, but it never materi-alized. All cruisers were safely back by noon. Except for one vessel breakdown on day one of the cruise, which required a tow back to port, there were no major issues and we enjoyed the company of our fellow PLYC members. The cruise director’s article has

more highlights of the trip.

The May Cruise directors, June and Steve Antoine and Jamie and Bob Bima, report that the cruise will begin on Thursday, May 16 and end on Sunday, May 19. Ports of call will be Kingston, Bremerton, and Port Orchard. Hopefully, this close-to-home cruise will appeal to our members with limited time available and make land cruising to join the festivities appealing. There will be a group dinner at the Alehouse Restaurant in Kingston and at Amy’s on the Bay in Port Orchard. Look on the Web site for full de-

tails and the registration form.

Word from the June Cruise Directors is that everything’s a go for departing on Monday, June 10 and return-ing on the 18th with the theme being “Around Puget Sound.” Details of the trip will be posted on the PLYC Web site shortly. The Brunstads, Cathcarts and Weavers have put together a great nine day cruise from Port Ludlow to Olympia via Seattle and other points along the way. It will start with two nights at Seattle's large Shilshole Bay Marina, by beautiful Golden Gardens Park which includes an off-leash dog park. Then on to a PLYC cruiser favorite, Dock Street Marina on Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway, directly in front of the Mu-seum of Glass which is connected to the Washington State History Museum by the famed Chihuly Bridge of Glass. A group dinner at the historic The Swiss Restaurant and Pub will provide an opportunity to see their amazing Chihuly Venetian glass collection atop the bar. A tour of Tacoma's world famous LeMay Automobile Museum has been arranged. The next destination is Swantown Marina in Olympia with opportunities to walk to the Farmers Market, celebrate happy hour at Anthony's Restaurant, take a bus into downtown for shop-ping, and touring the capitol. Next is one night at another PLYC cruising favorite, the Longbranch Marina.

The last stop is Brownsville with a deli and Sweeny's country style meat store.

Please visit the Cruise Schedule section of our Web site at www.plyc.us on a regular basis and check for updates. Directors are still needed for the July Short cruise. If you or someone you know may be interest-

ed, please send me an email olavnp@yahoo.com or give me a call at 360-437-9998 or 713-907-3301 (cell).

Also, don’t put off getting your Vessel Safety Check completed!

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Port Captain’s Column by Wade Crouch

Opening Day is fast approaching: Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m. at the Marina!

The last opportunity to sign up is May 4. There are signup sheets in the Wreck Room and at both the Bay and Beach Clubs. You may also sign up at Training Day or email karen-hashagen@yahoo.com. This is a day of fun, pageantry, boating, food and drink to kick off our 2013 boating season. Those of you who went on the Wake-Up Cruise already have a head start. Signups have been good so far and we would love to see every club member participate. We will christen and recognize new boats, welcome back the snow birds and have a great parade in the bay. If you are planning to be in the parade or have a boat christened and didn’t indicate that on the signup sheet, please drop me a note at

cjsboatin2@yahoo.com so you can be on the list. The cost is $8 per person for the hamburger and brat-wurst BBQ with all the trimmings courtesy of Deanne Pedersen and her gang of volunteers. Boaters, please plan on being in the parade and invite a non-boating member to join you. This is the club’s 40th

anniversary year and we will kick it off on Opening Day. Hope to see you there for a great time.

On another note we will start the Watch Captain program on Memorial Day weekend. Watch captains are volunteers that meet and greet visiting boats and clubs throughout the summer months. Each watch cap-tain signs up for a week. Those who’ve volunteered say this is one of the most fun jobs to do! More on that next month, but be thinking about what week would work for you. And I’ll have a sign-up sheet at

Opening Day.

I look forward to seeing you at all the upcoming club activities. Have a great spring!

Sail Captain’s Column by John Neesz

On April 13 we kicked off our 2013 sailing season with the Sailors’ Preview meeting at the Beach Club. Our Handicap Fleet’s Ice Breaker race scheduled for the 23rd

was abandoned for weather and lack of enough entrants.

Meanwhile the Etchells Fleet has averaged three boats per Thursday throughout

April for their tune-up races.

In May we are all looking forward to warmer and sunnier days. The Etchells regular season Spring Series Races will be held throughout May with the first on Thursday May 2. Our Handicap Fleet will race on May 4 and 25th. We continue to have open-

ings for non-racers who would like to join us as Race Committee Boat Operators. Please call me at

437-9605 for information or to sign up as a race committee boat.

Wreck Room Highlights by Peggy Kulm, WR Events & Scheduling Coordinator

Three members celebrated their March birthdays and four in April at the WR, including our commodore. Be sure to see the photos in this edition. A special thanks to Beth Crouch, Sharon Lynch, and Jeanne Joseph, who stepped up as coordinators to fill my shoes during my absence in April, and to their able assistants, Dean Rienstra, Kathy Gag-er, Steph Tompson, and Judy Newell. While I was gone, the annual spring cleaning had a fantastic response from our members. Friday appetizers were extremely popular, particu-larly Chef Judy Newell's hot dogs, and the pot lucks are continuing to bring a small but

steady crowd.

May will continue with appetizers on Fridays and we will begin to see other yacht clubs and rendezvous in our marina. We are changing our pot lucks a bit. Saturday, May 4 will bring a Build Your Own Sandwich with sides and Saturday, May 25 will be Grilling on the Deck and celebrate those with May Birthdays. Re-serving your seat will be back in vogue to ensure we have enough food for all and there will be a small price per person charge, so look for the weekly reminders. Of course, the big event of the year, Opening

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Day, is on Saturday, May 11. Following the ceremony and boat parade, the WR will be open from noon until

closing for a BBQ and Open House. You don't want to miss it, so be sure to reserve your space.

A sneak peek at a June event: On Saturday, June 8, Teresa Forrest and her crew will be featuring a Salmon Bake and Honolulu BBQ featuring appetizers, a choice of grilled, fresh, wild-caught salmon or a BBQ chick-en quarter with Hawaiian sauce; South Seas rice pilaf, grilled veggies, tossed green salad, and Hawaiian rolls and butter, along with a terrific selection of delectable desserts. As a special treat, there will be a

few hula dancers giving a short performance as entertainment and music to dance by.

We added three new burgees to the WR this month: Port Townsend, Corinthian-Edmonds Yacht Clubs, and the Neuse Sailing Association, NC. To all of our "snow birds" who are beginning to return, please consider volunteering again. The WR always needs your talents. Many new members joined while you were enjoying

the sun in other places. Volunteer, give them a warm PLYC welcome, and get to know them.

These happy faces celebrated

their birthdays and enjoyed a free drink and cake in March

and April at the WR.

Port Townsend Yacht Club Burgee Exchange

Pictured are Olav Pedersen PLYC and Rich and Sandi Rezinas PTYC.

Wake Up Cruise A Big Hit! by Liz Healy

If we had placed an order for perfect weather, we could not have done better: Sunshine and blue skies every day, snow-capped Olympics to greet us as we cruised Hood Canal, and about a brief rain shower at

Alderbrook – enough to wash the salt off the boats.

We originally had 16 vessels signed up, but one dropped out a few days before, and another had an engine “issue” on the way down, which disabled it smack dab outside the sub base at Bangor. In a way, this was lucky for the cruisers, John and Sue Erickson, since the Coast Guard was right there to keep an eye on them as they waited in glassy seas and sunshine for Vessel Assist, and a tow back to Port Ludlow. The Er-

icksons, not to be dismayed for long, drove down to Alderbrook and joined in the fun there.

The rest of us arrived safely at Pleasant Harbor and its brand-new guest moorage docks. Pleasant Harbor is undergoing a fairly major renovation, which will be wonderful when it’s done probably in a few months. We were greeted by Diane Coleman, the outstanding marina manager, and her staff to help dock the

boats, and get us settled.

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That evening, we held a Chili Cook-Off Contest. We had five very different, excellent chilis with prizes go-ing to the top two: Daniel and Billie Land (with help from Wade Crouch) in first place and David Aho in sec-ond. After the contest when enough beer and wine had been imbibed, Sue Oemichen had a musical surprise for us. It’s a little known fact that Sue and another cruiser, Jim Colee, are famous kazoo artists. “Famous” and “artist” may be stretching it a bit, but that didn’t stop them from giving kazoos to everyone, including two unsuspecting strangers, and leading the group in renditions of Yankee Doodle Dandy, and some other tunes that I couldn’t quite figure out. It didn’t matter since most of us were laughing so hard we couldn’t

play anyway.

Next it was on to Alderbrook Resort where we enjoyed the amenities and specially priced drinks and food

that evening in the pub with another glorious cheese spread provided by Alderbrook.

Day two at Alderbrook, we met on the dock for Harold Brunstad’s dinghy safety presentation. Harold and Sheila have a well-stocked dinghy safety bag, which would cover nearly any problems they might encoun-ter. The presentation stressed that no matter how near or far you’re going in the dinghy, having the right

safety equipment and always wearing your PFD is critical.

That evening, we all met in the lobby of the lodge for a great wine tasting where cruisers brought a favor-ite bottle to share. This experience allowed us to learn about some wines we’d never had before, many of which were superb. Cruisers brought an array of appetizers, and books to exchange. We also had four land

cruising couples join us at Alderbrook to round out this swell party.

Wednesday, another beautiful day, had us cruising back to Pleasant Harbor for the final night and our tra-ditional pizza party. Peggy Kulm, our cruise co-director, and I figured we’d start off with two 16-inch piz-zas. We now know that was a big mistake with this group of pizza lovers. We eventually went through four more with an array of toppings to suit all tastes. With the contribution from the fleet captain’s budget, there was even money for ice cream for dessert. We enjoyed the last evening telling tales, and talking about the change in weather forecast for the next day. NOAA predicted small craft conditions with winds 15 to 25 knots. Harold Brunstad, however, stated that those conditions would not hit until after noon and he was right. Harold was a professional meteorologist so knows a thing or two about weather, and is more accurate than NOAA. Everyone arrived safely back in Port Ludlow before the winds picked up and the rain

hit.

A final note on this lovely cruise: We had several newer members and first-time club cruisers join us, which delighted me especially since the weather was perfect and the events Peggy, Gale, Harlen and I planned were relaxing, informative, and lots of fun. Thanks also go to Kathy Kubesh for designing the lovely wine labels for our sharing, and to Harold for the dinghy safety presentation and being our weather expert! And

thank you to all who joined the cruise by sea or land – we’re now officially awakened!

The Wake Up Cruise

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New Members – Welcome Aboard!

Ron Thomas and Kay Brownwood live in Windsor, CO, have a fifth-wheel in Palm Springs and a new home in Teal Lake Village where they plan to spend five months or more a year. They have a son and his family

(two grandchildren) in Sequim and look forward to seeing them more often.

Ron and Kay’s boat, Andiamo, a 32-foot Bayliner, is moored in Port Ludlow Marina. Ron has 20 years’ expe-rience boating in the ocean off the coast of Oregon and in Alaska. He’s also boated in lakes in Colorado and Wyoming and crabbed and fished as well. Kay is a lifetime member of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club experi-

enced in sailing and racing off the coast there.

Ron and Kay were sponsored for membership by Marilynne Gates and Diane Wilcox. Welcome aboard!

Some Highlights from the Cleaning Day Event at the Wreck Room

There is ALWAYS one bulb out!!

I’m just naturally a happy guy!

Sure beats using a scrub brush!!

Somebody turn up the heat. We’re

freezing in here.

Did you want to try some-

thing on?

I just need one more drop!

We found this and some other

surprises all the way in the

back.

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Be very careful where you AIM

that please. This is WAY more fun

than my day job.

I have always wanted one of

these.

I have been inhaling the con-

tents of this can.

They told me it was a fun job!

Sure we’re smiling! It finally quit raining on us!! Thanks, but I’m allergic to beans.

It’s the LAW! We get a five minute break

every couple of hours.

Body language. We’re done! Did you hear the one about the midget

that goes into a bar……….?

Those were seriously decent hamburgers. Now we are

ready for a nap. We’re DONE...and it was actually sorta fun.

Photo credits to Kathy Kubesh. Snarky captions, blame the editor.

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Highlights from the April 3 PLYC Board Meeting

Treasurer BJ Luce reported club assets of $253,879.

Commodore Brett Oemichen reviewed the 2013 first quarter budget status with the board. It was noted that the Ship’s Store excess inventory may be due to lack of visibility of the Store in the far corner of

the Wreck Room. The board discussed possible solutions.

Commodore Oemichen reported that on March 20 he submitted a nonprofit corporation filing to the WA

Secretary of State; awaiting the resultant invitation to renew the club’s liquor license.

Commodore Oemichen stated that the committee for the June BBQ has determined it’s more cost effec-tive to have the event at the Wreck Room instead of the Bay Club. There will be music and dancing

available.

Rear Commodore Steve Hall reported that Training Day preparation is proceeding on time. He did ex-

press concern over the number of sign–ups to date (34).

In Past Commodore Harold Brunstad’s absence, Commodore Oemichen stated that two member-at-large

positions are needed for the nomination committee and should be selected as soon as possible.

Fleet Captain Olav Pedersen reported that to date, the July Short cruise has no directors and may need

to be cancelled.

Fleet Captain Pedersen passed copies of Bill Whitney’s Anchoring Thoughts booklet around the table.

With Bill Whitney’s permission, the board will determine how the club uses this valuable resource.

Sail Captain John Neesz discussed the Etchell’s and Handicap Race schedules for the month and the pos-

sibility of a Sailor’s Fall Cruise that meets up with the September cruisers at various northern ports.

Port Captain Wade Crouch discussed the details of the Opening Day Ceremony and BBQ (May 11) and the

event activities are well established and on track.