September 2010
Social Corner
Ray & Debra Valpey
Social Co-Chairs
Annual Fall Membership Meeting (and Nautical Entertainment!)
Our annual business meeting will be on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at Angelo’s Ristorante at 601 SW 153rd St. in Burien. 6 PM dinner, 7 PM meeting.
Agenda: (1) nomination of officers, (2) bylaws proposal presentation, (3) streamlined roster update method explained and last, but not least (4) a multimedia presentation “Cruising the BVI’s”. See you there! Ray
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The MidSound Summer Social:I always say, I will try anything once, and twice if I like it. The annual TTPYC and Des Moines Marina MidSound Summer Social is completed. We must really like the MidSound Sailing Social event because we just completed the 5th one. We raised a significant amount of money for Hospitality House at almost $5,000, collected and donated more food; the equivalent of 4, 728 lbs. Furthermore, we had more cash from major donors in this year’s events.
We had 9 major sponsors: Cox Financial, Dave's Dive Service, North Sails, Ullman Sails, Doyle Sails, B&E meats, Emerald Cove Catering, Burien City Garage, and our partner The Des Moines Marina. We also partnered with the Poverty Bay Power Squadron this year. We tried a few new events this year- night with the Police and Firemen, bringing almost the entire Des Moines City leaders out one night, and some got their Poker Face, plus some other fun themes.
I want to thank the top three donors this year, Dave Klein, Tom Spohn and the crew of Andromeda, and Pat Water and the crew of Liberté, thank you for your generous donations.
Many in the club members helped get the event organized, prizes collected, notices posted, table set up and taken down, and spent hours creating posters, flyers, and sending out notices to the media, we could not have done it without each of you. I want to thank all those who helped me with ideas and suggestions to improve the event. Let me know what you think worked and what did not work for next year. We can all be proud of the achievement and the enormous good that will come from a few sailors working towards a better community; we have impacted thousands of lives in a small way, and given a few the miracle of a fresh start, by just getting together for a sail, and enjoying smiles and laughter among great friends.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be included. I'm sure next year will be even bigger, and better, and we might even have wind…..David Garman, Vice Commodore
Ship's Store
Carol Jones
Chair
Check Ship’s Store page on our website for products available to you.
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Race Corner
Tom Davis
Race
Fleet Captain
Shelley Conti
Assistant Race
Fleet Captain
AWK! Summer is almost over. Here it is September already. I hope you had a great summer on and off the water. I know a number of you were able to take extended cruises to explore and enjoy our beautiful water ways. I wasn’t lucky enough to take an extended cruise but I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time on the water sailing. I got to sail every Wednesday evening in Tacoma with the CYCT Windseekers, our Mid-Sound Summer Social on Thursday evenings (isn’t that a great event) and I got to finish it off by sailing one week with the kids in the new Des Moines Youth Sailing Program. What a blast! I certainly don’t want to forget that in the midst of all this we had a fun Double Handed Race in the middle of July.
There was a lot going on this summer but September seems to be the beginning of the second half of the racing season and the schedule can become full in a hurry. I’d like to take a look at what is coming up.
The Fall Series starts Thursday September 9th and then moves to the weekends of September 11th and 25th. Be sure to signup, the sooner the better. That way your score keeper can set the class breaks before the first race. You will find the registration here.
There is something new this year that actually started in June. It is The Commencement Bay Challenge Series. This is an attempt by our local area yacht clubs to get us competing with each other in our local area races. We have chosen the Commodore’s Trophy Race to be our sponsored race. The next race in the series is the Point Beals race sponsored by CYCT. We were only able to have one representative from our club in the first race and that was Bob and Laura Crews with their Catalina 30, Silver Breeze. They represented our club well with a first place in the no flying sail cruising class. I really would like to see this thing take off. See if you can fit it into your plans and let me know.
Commencement Bay Challenge Series 2010 Edition
Qualifying Race Events
| Summer Vashon |
June 19 |
TYC |
| Point Beals |
September 18 |
CYCT |
| Commodore Trophy |
October 2 |
TTPYC |
| Point Defiance |
October 30 |
CYCT |
| Lemans |
November 13 |
GHYC |
| + TYC Fall Race |
TBD – Sept? |
TYC |
The intent of this series is to bolster racing at each of the noted yacht clubs by actively soliciting their racing boats to travel to the other clubs and participate in racing here in the Commencement Bay area. We have chosen events that include buoy, short and middle distance races to give every competitor a feel for each of these types of races. In addition, the series will not cost an individual yacht any more than the entry fee for the individual race. It should be noted that this is the program for the Commencement Bay Challenge Cup for the year 2010
The last event that I want to mention is our annual Commodore’s Trophy Race and Clambake. This year it will be held on Saturday, October 2nd. As you can see from above, this race has taken on even more importance by being the third stop in the Commencement Bay Challenge. We will also present trophies for both the Fall Series and the Commodore’s Trophy Race at the party after racing. You can obtain the registration form here.
There’s lots of racing coming up. I hope to see you out there.
Tom Davis
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Vi-Maui 2010 announcement letter PDF
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Tom's Race Reports
Racing Schedule for 2010
Duwamish Head January 9
Windjammer Series January 16, 31 February 13 March 20
Spring Series April 1, 8, 15, 29 May 6
Spring Regatta April 24-25
Summer Series May 20 June 3, 10, 17, 24
Double-Handed July 17
Fall Series September 9, 11, 25
Commodore's Trophy October 3
Winter Series October 23 November 20
Southern Sound Series January 9, February 13, March 20, December 4
Please note that our series races will be PIYA Catagory III. You can obtain a copy of this by going to their web site www.ussailing.net/piya/ or linking here. This is a check list of the minimum equipment a boat should have for safe racing on Puget Sound. Basically for Catagory III it is very close to what the Coast Guard requirements are.
We hope to see more newcomers come out and race in the Performance Class which means Cruising Boats. You don’t need new high tech sails, a perfect bottom
or remove all that spare gear. Race NFS (No Spinnaker so crew size is small). Come out and meet your fellow sailors and have fun.
The Seattle Area racing calendar is completed. Our website has 2010 SARC schedule.
Please review the 2010 Race Book for Updated and New Details, Rules and Information. For a TPPYC Race Book, Click here
Entry fee: $30.00 for the series
Send the registration form and race fee to:
TTPYC Race Fleet
Attn:Registrar
P.O. Box 98700
Des Moines, WA 98198
Go to Racing for 2010 race related information.
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Historian’s Corner
Rose Edmiston
Cruise Corner
George & Daphne Thompson
Cruise Co-Chair
Final 2010 TTPYC Cruises-September brings the final two cruises of the season, both traditional favorites. On Labor Day weekend, Tom and Kersten Hubbard (Tiburon) host the cruise to Longbranch (see their flyer for details). Two weeks later Buzz and Tish Greenman (Prime Meridian), and Orv and Rose Edmiston (Cheers) will co-host the Sleep-n-Creep at Dockton.
Desolation Sound Cruise Report- Four TTPYC vessels, Andromeda, Prime Meridian, Sloe Tango, and Tracer, completed the 2010 Desolation Sound cruise. Everyone enjoyed the excellent weather, fine dining experiences, beautiful cruising venues, and even some sailing opportunities.
Participants met at the Point Hudson marina on July 24 for an easy crossing of the Juan de Fuca Strait the next morning, then anchored out at Deer Harbor for the night. After entering Canada at Bedwell Harbor the next morning, the flotilla anchored out at Montague Harbor for the night. The following day the group went through Dodd Narrows and tied up at the Port Authority Marina in Nanaimo. After carefully skirting the active Whisky/Gulf torpedo range the following morning, the group crossed the Strait of Georgia in fine weather and anchored for the night in Garden Bay, Pender Harbor. Heading north along Malaspina Strait the next day, the group dropped the hook for the night in the Copeland Islands.
In Desolation Sound the following day, the group anchored in Grace Harbor where the kayaks were deployed and crews went for a freshwater swim in a nearby lake. Everyone boarded Andromeda at happy hour to head down Okeover Inlet to the “Laughing Oyster” for dinner. Next morning the boats repositioned to Prideaux Haven for more kayaking and saltwater swimming in the 74 degree water. The following morning Andromeda and Sloe Tango proceeded directly to Walsh Cove, while Prime Meridian and Tracer spent the day in Pendrell Sound enjoying the 77 degree saltwater, while surrounded by snow-capped mountains, then rejoining the others for the night at Walsh Cove, at anchor.
The crews spent two nights on the hook at Walsh Cove kayaking, swimming and snorkeling in the clear warm saltwater. Then the group rounded the west side of West Redonda Island and entered the long, narrow Von Dunlop Inlet to anchor for the evening, after a few hikes over various trails to Squirrel Cove. For the first time in the trip, the sunset was hazy, from the smoke funneling down Toba Inlet from the forest fires near Whistler. In anticipation of a change in the weather, most of the group headed to Gorge Harbor Resort Marina on Cortes Island where the crews enjoyed the resort's swimming pool.
Prime Meridian, Andromeda and Sloe Tango returned via the mainland (Sunshine) coast, while Tracer crossed the Strait of Georgia to Comox, meeting up with Prime Meridian to anchor out in the Newcastle Island (Nanaimo) anchorage the next day. Several days later Andromeda and Sloe Tango met up with Tracer in Friday Harbor.
Along the way, the group met up with TTPYC vessels Rhumb Runner in Nanaimo, and Brigadoon in Friday Harbor and in Port Townsend. This was a fun cruise with well-prepared vessels and competent and companionable crews!
George Thompson
SEPTEMBER CRUISES Mark your calendars for September cruises:
Labor Day cruise to Long Branch will be hosted this year by Tom and Kersten Hubbard (Tiburon). Music, dance, and winery tour are planned again for this event. Friday Sept. 3rd - Monday Sept. 6th the club will sail down to Longbranch Marina on Friday September 3. No group slip reservations can be made for this weekend so, arrive early if you need room at the dock. All other boats raft off of each other in Filucy Bay. Cocktails from 6-7 Please bring an appetizer to share.
Saturday Morning: A light breakfast and juice will be provided at the dock. Please bring your own coffee or tea.
Saturday Afternoon: You’re free to explore the area. Winery tours can be arranged. Call for a shuttle to pick you up at the top of the Marina’s parking lot.
Saturday night: Dinner on your own.
Sunday Morning: Pot-Luck Breakfast on the dock 9:00 AM. Please bring something to share. Juice will be provided.
Please bring your own coffee or tea.
Sunday Afternoon: Participate in the first ever (we think) TTPYC SPAM Contest! First Place prizes will be awarded in three categories: Food dish • Art • Other
Sunday night: SPAM Contest Award Ceremony 6:00 - 6:03 Pot Luck Dinner at 6:15 – 7:30. Please bring a dish to share.
Monday Morning: A light breakfast and juice will be provided at the dock. Please bring your own coffee or tea.
Depart for home ports
The Longbranch Improvement Club will be featuring The Galaxies! Rock-n-Roll to the music of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Tickets can be purchased from the Marina Manager. He’ll be selling tickets at the marina.
R.S.V.P Tom & Kersten Hubbard Email Phone: 206.277.0661
Please include Your Name, Boat Name ,number planning to attend and number of cans of SPAM you need for the contest (SPAM will be provided.)Payment of $10.00 per boat to be made during the weekend to Tom or Kersten
September 18-19 SLEEP 'n CREEP
Are you ready for a family oriented cruise with games, potluck dinner, sing-along and S’mores? Are you ready for the famous pancake breakfast prepared and served our male cooks? The Head Creeps are the Edmistons, and the Greenmans assisted by the Sissons, the Game-I-Nators. Our schedule is as planned:
Saturday: Games to be announced, Potluck Dinner around 6 PM then gather around the campfire
Sunday: Pancake Breakfast on the dock, 9 AM with Brain Teaser Quiz.
Fee is $8 per boat. Things to bring: Wood for the campfire, Summer Cruising Stories and a photo or two of your summer cruise for the club album. Good walking shoes for our annual “tour de neighborhood gardens”. And, again, Wood for the campfire.
RSVP to ASAP. Email: Let me know the name of boat and how many are attending. or
mail registration to Rose Marie Edmiston
FOSS HARBOR MARINA, TACOMA, DISCOUNT
The manager of the Foss Harbor Marina, 821 Dock Street, Tacoma (Lori Natucci – 253-272-4404) has invited members of the Three Tree Point Yacht Club to use their facility at a 10% discount. The marina offers a picnic and BBQ area, a great view of Commencement Bay, full showers, laundry, and pumpout. The city of Tacoma has many fine dining and night life venues as well as the Glass Museum and Seaport Museum.
Blog for our cruisers: cruisingwithttpyc. This is a great way to communicate on a variety of topics related to cruising. Be it planning your next short overnight cruise or an extended one. For those wanting inspiration for simple yet nutritious meal, this can be a good place to share with your fellow club members. A section for boat maintenance will be included and hopefully expanded upon. Login:"cruising.ttpyc" Password:"cruise4fun"
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Photos taken of this cruise can be linked to from the Archive Album page.
Boating Tips” For your own PDF copy; click here.
Spring Cleaning: Cleaning Green tips from Practical Sailor May 2009
- General, non-abrasive cleaning of gelcoated surface and glass: 1:12 mixture of white vinegar and fresh water
- Copper cleaner: lemon juice and water
- General scouring powder: baking soda and freshwater paste, baking soda and vinegar paste, or baking soda and lemon juice paste, (do not use on Awlgrip or paint)
- Brass cleaner: Worcestershire sauce or ketchup. Let sit, then polish
- Mildew: paste of 1:1 mixture of lemon juice and salt (on surfaces that won’t be scratched by salt)
- Wood Polish: straight olive oil or almond oil, or those mixed with lemon juice.
Do you have any suggestions to clean green that are not listed? Please submit to me and I will add to the list.
Membership
Don & Kristie Brame
Membership Co-Chairs
It has been a great summer for membership! We have welcomed 5 new members; Bob & Kathy Miller, Doug & Sharon Andrews and Joan Marie! The MidSound Summer Social was a great opportunity for getting to know new boaters and encouraging them to join us. As each of you brought friends or encouraged others on your dock to participate, it gave them a chance to see the benefits of membership in TTPYC. And the good news is that we are still hoping to welcome a few other families that we met through the races!
Please help us by continuing to spread the word. Let Don or Kristie know if you need more cards and be sure to invite anyone you think might be interested to join us for our monthly social events. If you have other ideas for increasing membership, please share them with us. Contact Don Brame;
email or 206-818-4706.
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Committee Reports
Youth Sailing Program Committee
Shelley Conti
Assistant Race Fleet Captain & Youth Program Chair
Well the culmination of our committee happened this last month with the Des Moines Marina (with the help of TTPYC and the Poverty Bay Power and Sail Squadron) holding sailing lessons for kids 12 to 18. All the kids had a great time, some coming for more than one session. The teachers said it was the most fun they had all summer. I want to say a bunch of special thank you’s for people that really helped jump start this project. First; Tom Davis for talking to Jan Visser. Second, to Jan Visser for selling the marina the boats for a very reasonable price. Third, Joe Dusenbury for getting the funding and keeping the ball rolling. Fourth, the Power Squadron for accommodating us in the middle of summer, working around all of our vacations and getting our teachers certified. Fifth, Gene Ellison for stepping up to the plate and teaching the kids when he was not scheduled. Also thank you, all the teachers that took time out to teach the kids.
I can see that there needs to be more advertising done this coming year. We didn’t have any time to get a brochure together before school was out, and I can see that would be a great help to be able to get one out to the junior high and high schools before the end of school. Also, it would be nice to start a scholarship fund for the kids who cannot afford to pay the full cost of the lessons. Joe Dusenbury has repairs scheduled for the boats and is looking into new sails for next year. He is also working on teachers for next year, so I can see the role for our club to be more of an advisory and financial help. Although I am sure that our members will be down there next summer helping with the classes!
Shelley
WEEK TWO: "We Just finished our second week of lessons. This week Steve Foss and I had the pleasure of instructing the class with Joe Dusenbury running Harbor One and Mark Mannard helping the kids with any rigging problems and putting back rudders when they popped out. I have had a chance to do some adult instructing but haven't had a chance to work with teenage kids other than my own. I really didn't know what to expect but I found out that we had a wonderful group to learn with. These kids literally took to the boats like ducks on water. In four days on the water they advanced rapidly from making the boat go to being able to do multipule laps on a windward leeward course which included tacking to weather, broad reaching and gybing to a leeward mark. They were also able to do a man overboard drill and stop their boats at the "victum" and retreive it.
The weather was perfect starting with very light winds for the first day on the water and building to seven or eight knots for the next two nights and finishing with ten plus knots of wind that put the rail down on the beats to weather.
I hadn't had a chance to sail in these boats prior to the class but these Lidos are fun boats and really quite stable. And yes, I did get to spend a little time on the water playing until the kids kicked me off the boat.
I really want to thank the marina and especially Joe Dusenbury for stepping up and purchasing these four boats and I'd like to thank my fellow Three Tree Point volunteers with Shelley Conti heading our part of this project. They marina has been very geneous to the kids by opening the last week of class to all the kids that took the earlier classes.
Now it is time to get the word out to build the program for next year." Tom Davis
By-Laws Team
Debra Valpey
By-Laws Chair and Social Co-Chair
It’s been an intriguing, challenging and heart-warming adventure to be part of the Board Appointed By-Laws Review/Revision Team (Debra Valpey as chair, Kersten and Tom Hubbard, Steve and Janet Sisson, Tom Schacht, Tom and Jean Spohn, and Ray Valpey). We have concluded our work and are ready to present it to you, the membership, for your approval.
Generally speaking, we explored three areas of concern. Our first area was to make our by-laws more reflective of our Mission and Vision (i.e. Article one now emphasizes stewardship of our marine environment rather than exploitation, family and all-ages fun is specified, and junior members were changed from ages 12-16 to ages 18-21 to encourage young adults to become more involved, etc.) Another was to bring our by-laws into agreement on what we call our meetings and gatherings, and how we set up task forces (i.e. the Annual Business Meeting is distinguished from Change of Watch, the latter being a social celebration); confirming that commodore may assign task forces; clarifying that delinquent members MAY, rather than SHALL, be terminated, clarified that our location is variable, etc.). A third area was to make our language more inclusive (i.e. he becomes he/she and married couples become simply couples, etc.).
The current plan is to present the revised version to the Board at their August 31st meeting for their feedback, and if endorsed by the Board, then submit the comparative version (which includes both original and proposed changes) to the membership (1) by email, then (2) at the September 14 Membership Meeting, then (3) mail it along with the Ballot of officers for next year for your vote. This way the membership can review the changes without being rushed before being asked to vote.
Many changes were suggested, debated, and not adopted, and may be revisited at a later time. An example of this was the often debated question of whether or not to change Fleet Captain-Cruise to an elected position and whether to change the number of Board Members at large. Revising by-laws is a sensitive matter; changes should be proposed in respectful manner and with the health of the group at a given time in its history as the motivating force.
Yours with respect and affection, Debra Valpey, Chair on behalf of the By-Laws Team
Roster Update Team
Tom Hubbard
Chair
Reading Corner
In and Around Your Community
September 25, 9 AM registration, 10 AM Walk begins: Hospitality House "Walk for Women" Get your donation/registration form, leash your favorite family member and join this easy walk around Burien. The money you bring to this charity walk will help our efforts in giving homelessnes an end to women in our community. Go here for your registration/donation form.
Education Opportunities
TTPYC Members, Poverty Bay Sail and Power Squadron Advanced Classes 2010-2011
We have a great opportunity to take a course in Marine Electronics with Poverty Bay Sail & Power Squadron. This is one of the most interesting and useful elective courses: This course comes in three independent parts: read more on Education page.
Rick Edel can be contacted on 206-277-0925 or by email.
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Your board for 2010
BRIDGE OFFICERS
COMMODORE Pat Waters
VICE COMMODORE Dave Garmin
PAST COMMODORE Tom Spohn
TREASURER Caroline McShane
SECRETARY Steve Sisson
RACE FLEET CAPTAIN Tom Davis
Assistant RACE FLEET CAPTAIN Shelley Conti
TRUSTEES Liza Tewell, Marilyn Jones,
Steve Foss, Gene Ellison & Tom Hubbard
APPOINTED OFFICERS
CRUISE CHAIR/S George & Daphne Thompson
SOCIAL CHAIR Ray & Debra Valpey
MEMBERSHIP Don & Kristie Brame
HISTORIAN Rose Edmiston
SHIP’S STORE Carol Jones
WEBMASTER Sue Waters
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TTPYC Vision, Mission, Goals
Vision:
TTPYC is an affordable family boating club that promotes enjoyment, appreciation, and care of the waters of Puget Sound.
Mission:
Our mission is to create opportunities for,
- sharing adventure within a community of family and friends
- exploring our marine environment
Goals:
- Educate ourselves and others about marine stewardship.
- Increase membership.
- Acquire the use of a facility for education and social activities.
- Develop or support a community “Learn to Sail” Program.
- Establish monthly or bi-monthly educational/social gatherings.
Google Calendar.The calendar with our club's events is available for you to view. You will be receiving reminders, (granted a little primitive but it is working) now to invite and/or remind you of our events throughout the year. Those organizing and planning appreciate you taking the time to respond as to whether or not you plan on attending. Thank you, we are constantly trying to improve our communications effectiveness and efficiency. Sue
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Message from the Editor:
Please remember that this website has all articles within our newsletter, The Barnacle, as well as changes that are sent my way after and before publication each month.
PDF issues are always available by going to Archived Back Issues.
The Barnacle is published by the Three Tree Point Yacht Club every month but August.
Material for the Barnacle must be submitted by noon on the 1st of each month of publication to our Editor.
