May 2009

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2008 Flag OfficersCommodore

Joe Sabella(727) 459-7790

Vice CommodoreJim Meyer

(727) 420-6153

Rear CommodoreJanet Terrell

(727) 742-4392

SecretaryCathy Talisman(813) 309-5264

TreasurerPaul Pittman

(727) 521-2494

Fleet CaptainJeff Reckson

(727) 459-6475

Board of Directors Board Members 2009 – 2010

Larry Fiorenza . . . . . . 727-492-1136Doug Fuller . . . . . . . . 727-866-7981Don Rogers . . . . . . . . 727-345-7544Nick Southard . . . . . . 727-550-8651

Board Members 2007 – 2009Phil Raia .........................727-398-1517Lisa Glaser ....................727-823-7702Jack Green ....................727-422-1195Dave Malone ................727-522-4125

Immediate Past CommodoreLinda Ray .......................727-538-3828

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Commodore’s Cornerby Joe and Candy Sabella, 2009 Commodore

BCYC E-Mail ListIf you would like to be added to the email list, please contactCarole Sharp, our Town Crier at seawind02@earthlink.net

Ports Unknown–the SeriesPart One-Cabo San Lucas

In addition to loving cruising on our little boat, theCommodore and I have been regularly "big boat" cruising forthe last twenty or so years with many family, friends and many

of club members. As a result we have exhausted all ends of theCaribbean, especially the east coast of Mexico and the Yucatan.We have danced in the conga line at Carlos and Charlie’s inCozumel, snorkeled at San Francisco Beach, hiked up the ruins atTulum, taken the long bus ride to Chitchen Itza, hiked in the rainforests and cave tubed in Belize. This year we intended to dosomething different and book a cruise in the Mediterranean, butafter seeing the cost of airfare to Europe, we booked a 10 daycruise out San Diego down to Baja California (our Mexican guideexplained they owned all of California once and just cuz we grin-gos took part of it, they were not changing the name) and up theSea of Cortez to mainland west coast Mexico. Each port wasnew and different and reminded us why we love to travel. Sinceour beloved Windword editors are always begging for articles,over the next few months, I plan to write a piece on each of theports we visited and hopefully giving you a feel for these new-to-us places, without embarrassing the commodore or our travelingcompanions Dave & Pam B. too much.

First, let’s do Cabo San Lucas. It was actually our last port but itwas among my favorites, so let’s start there anyway. My first tripto Mexico "bj" (before Joe) was to Cabo San Lucas in 1985. Iloved the sleepy little fishing village. There was one resort therethat had been built by Bing Crosby. Since then Cabo San Lucashas become an important vacation and spa destination, with agreat variety of resorts, mansions, condominiums and more thathave been built on the coast between San Lucas and San José delCabo. Somewhere along the line my resort must have been torndown because we never found it. So much for my dreams of wil-

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ing away the hours on that huge veranda overlook-ing the distinctive El Arco de Cabo San Lucas,known as "Land's End," the local landmark thatmarks the opening to Bahia San Lucas.

True to my memory though, the cruise ships stillanchored within the sheltered waters of Bahia SanLucas. Just to prove that cruising is cruising, ourship’s captain was gleefully gloating that he beat thePrincess and the Celebrity cruise ships to theanchorage and got the best spot, in the deepestwater, closest to the tender docks.. Reminded meof BCYC going to Moore’s for the weekend.

When I was here in 1985, it was a sleepy little covethat had one fishing pier. Now they have dug out anew inlet - -try getting away with that in the states- -and added a huge marina. The bay and surround-ing docks are alive with activity now. The harborwas surrounded by dozens of new restaurantshappy to supply cerveza, margaritas and nachos fora small fee. There were also scores of people onland selling tours, jewelry, clothes, hats, glassware - -you name it. On the water, they were buzzingaround on jet skis, parasailing, boating, and swim-ming. Of the numerous tours offered, there were anumber of small boats and charters to take you inand around the land’s end beach area for $12.00 aperson. Swimming, snorkeling, and kayak activitiesabound in the areas near El Arco known as Lover'sBeach. You can also find sea lions and whales in thebay and surrounding waters. Our guide explainedthat the surrounding waters have a very high saltcontent so they whales come to the Baja to mateand give birth.

Speaking of our guide–he is worthy of a mention - -for the ladies sake if nothing else. On this cruise,we decided to forgo the expensive tours offeredby the cruise ship and be a little more adventurous.After all we knew at least a dozen words ofSpanish between us so what’s to worry about. Withthat in mind, we planned to start with a land tourup the coast to the quaint little colonial town ofSan Jose Del Cabo when we got off the ship’s ten-der at about 8:00 a.m. Although my Spanish is limit-ed to ola and peso, my negotiating skills are fear-less, so I was sent ahead to make a deal. While Inegotitated with a dozen adorable little short fatMexican men, I heard Pam call out, "we’ll take theone in the fatigues." I looked up, the cherubicguides parted like the red sea for "Alex" a sevenfoot Antonio Banderas lookalike and soundalike.After we wiped my drool off his shirt, I pulled ittogether enough to negotiate a price–ahh who am Ikidding– we gave him what he asked for plus tip, hepiled us in his van with a nice Oregonian couplefrom the Princess ship. Fortunately, he turned outto have a lot more going for him than just beingeasy on the eyes and ears. (As Pam said, he couldread the phone book and it would sound great.)He was funny and very well informed about thecity - historically and currently. Plus, his wife, whoalso worked for the tour company, was constantlycalling him keeping him on the ball.

Alex the hottie guide pointed out the requisitestars’ homes high overlooking the ocean - -Madonna to Sammy Hagar and he pointed out theresorts that draw celebs including Jessica Alba,Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin,Tom Cruise, Kate Beckinsale, and many others. The

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Fleet Reportsubmitted by Jeff Reckson

The past few months have been smooth. Ourslip occupancy, both wet and dry, is surpris-ingly almost full. We have 1 wet slip, presently

on the books as a 35’ slip, available. This particularslip is a bit on the narrow side and requires a boatwith a beam at around 10’ or less. We are in theprocess of trying to convince Gulfport to reconsid-er the rate of that slip in as much as most 35’boats won’t fit in it.

We have 2 dry slips availableas of this writing. I havebeen advocating anadvertising cam-paign to letsailor’s in the areaknow of ouralmost unique facility that enablessailboats to bestored on trailers and

launched withouthaving to step the masts. I

plan to bring the subject up at the nextboard meeting as I feel we need an alternativecourse of action to help us having to pay for vacant

dry slips. Our sail school team, this year headed byBarbara Meyer, did a fantastic marketing job gettingthe word out and filling our spring sail school inspite of our “economic” issues. We all need to doall we can to get the word out on slips, both wetand dry, plus all the other wonderful benefits available at BCYC. If you love boating, you can’t get a bigger bang for the buck.

A word of caution. The walls on both sides of ourboat ramp are fragile and in need of a little beefingup. There’s been erosion where the East Side wallmeets the water. Please do not stand on this wall.Additionally, we have had a little problem with thehoist. Our chain guard broke off. I have been incontact with a “hoist company” to see how rapidlywe can get another chain guard shipped in.

If you have a dingy in the dingy rack please desig-nate your space on the rack so that when yourdingy is not in the rack, everyone will know that“your” spot is in fact, “YOUR SPOT”. Write yourname or your boat’s name… a red dot or some-thing. If you are keeping a dink at the dingy dock,make sure our Treasurer, Paul Pittman, knows aboutit so he can bill you accordingly.

2 8oz pkgs of cream cheese 4 eggs, mixing after each egg

1 can crushed pineapple 1 tsp. Vanilla

1 tsp sugar or sweetener dash of salt

Mix cream cheese with mixer until softened, adding pineapple juice until smooth.

Add vanilla, salt and sweetener. Mix. Then add one egg at a time, mixing between

each addition. Stir in pineapple. Pour mixture into a 9 1/2" glass deep dish pie

dish that has been coated with butter. Bake at 375 degrees for 35 minutes or

until entire pie looks baked. Cool on rack, cover with wrap & chill in refrigerator

before serving.

Pineapple Cheesecakesubmitted by Carole Sharp

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only one we saw was Dustin Hoffman. He seemedto be every where we went-but more on that later.

On the way to San Jose Del Cabo, we stopped atglass recycling plant where they made–whatelse–margarita glasses. It was fascinating. Headingup the coast we spotted several whales. Alexexplained that Cabo’s waters have a high salt con-tent that makes the whales more buoyant and aidsin making babies. Sounds fishy to me but again - -hecould read the phone book and it would soundgood. Unfortunately, while we were enjoying watch-ing the whales, they were spotted by a band of jetskiers who charged at them full speed and chasedthem off. Morons.

We have probably all done the coastal drive butthis terrain was so different. The Sea of Cortez wason one side and the Pacific on the other. The waterranged from aqua to BCYC burgee blue when thewater got deep. It was beautiful. Between the twobodies of water was a thin strip of land borderedby deserts and mountain ranges. It was all very,very dry and brown. Alex assured us if anything wasgreen, it was a golf course. There were, however,tons of huge cactus everywhere. In the median inSan Jose, Alex pointed out one cactus that wasreputed to be over 500 years old. Since San Josewas founded in 1730 that means the cactus was

two hundred years old when the Jesuit priestsshowed up. Impressive. If cactus could talk. Wellmaybe it does - -after visiting the shop offering freetequila samples, the Commodore was speakingsome kinda gibberish. We finished up our tour witha stop for a batería de baZos at a MacDonald’s andthen back to Cabo for– what else? Margaritas,cerveza and nachos.

Then we did what all good cruisers do when oneof the group starts pulling up anchor and headingout, we did the mad scramble to get dinghies up onthe davits, start the engines, pull up the anchor andhead out to sea. Our captain, having made it first tothe anchorage, seemed determined to leave it inrecord time. The Princess was scheduled to leave at1:00 and our ship at 2:30. The princess was lateleaving as their tenders were way overtaxed gettingtheir passengers back on time. Having gotten allour fellow passengers on board, our captain startedhis engines at 2:15 and by 2:30 was pulling upanchor leaving four of our tenders to chase ourboat out of the anchorage and be hauled out as wewere underway. I think our captain took his sea tri-als with "more-sail-Tony-Angel."

Next, La Paz, Loreto, the mountain trek to the SanJavier Mission and more about Dustin Hoffman.

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part 2 next month...

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Activities Director Reportsubmitted by Lisa Setser & Rose-Marie Seawall

Thank you to Janet and Todd for bringing back Cheeseburger in Paradise…The next couple of dinners are as fol-lows –

Date Theme HostsMay 05/16/09 Are You Smarter than a Commodore Dee & Andre LoweJune 6/20/09 Dock Party Lisa & LisaJuly 7/18/09 Christmas in July Sabellas & Brangicolli

(at the Sabella’s Condo)

The hosts generally provide the main course, and all who attend are requested to bring a side dish (plan on itserving at least 10), appetizer or dessert. Social Hour begin at 6pm with dinner at 7pm (PLEASE do not get intothe main meal until the hosts are ready). Please bring your own dishes and utensils to cut down on trash. Thehosts for these events plan for months and work hard to make the evening fun; your help at the end of the nightcleaning off your table and policing the clubhouse is greatly appreciated. Thank you all for your support and formaking our job a wonderful experience.

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Cruise to Dry Tortugassubmitted by Guy O’Connor

We’re up to 11 boats now going to the

Key West / Dry Tortugas cruise. (and

points in between)

If you have intentions of coming with and have not

informed our humble and lovable cruise director,

please do so at your earliest convenience.

mailto: guyoconnor@tampabay.rr.com

813-843-36991

Also, there will be a DT cruise meeting immediately

after the general meeting on 4/17 under the veran-

dah on the east side of the clubhouse.

This will be for general exchanges of ideas and

information.

There will be a 2nd captains meeting at 7pm 19:00

on Friday 5/1. This will be a last minute get togeth-

er, shoot the breeze, what did we forget, and lets

finish loading the boats, meeting prior to our

departure.

On Saturday, 5/2, I’d like us to get a reasonably

early start, say 09:00 – 10:00 as the first leg of the

trip will be about 11 hours to Venice. Actually, at 5

knots, we’ll cover the distance of 48 KM in about 9

½ hours, but I’ve budgeted 11 hours for SNAFU’s.

One note regarding the anchoring in Key West and

the DT’s.  The anchoring ground is not particularly

good in these areas. While we have planned to stay

at the Conch Harbor in Key West, some may wish

to anchor to save moolah. The ground in this area

is described as 1 to 2 feet of shallow coarse light-

weight coral sand over smooth rock. As such, it

might be best to have out 2 anchors / vessel off of

the bow with both anchors having the recommend-

ed 7:1 scope. Don’t forget to add your freeboard

to the depth of the water. All other locations have

nice thick smelly mud and sand that is pretty good

holding.

Also, I think the city marina at Key West is cheaper

than the Conch H. but has fewer facilities.

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St. Pete Pier circa 1936photo submitted by Jim Freeman

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It was a dark and stormy night. No kidding, it real-ly was. We were supposed to leave Saturday midday and sail overnight to Boca Grande. I went

down to the boat early Saturday morning to makesure everything was in place. The wind was blowingso hard I figured I would need help just getting myboat out of the slip. Captain Bob Trehe & Charlotteprovided just the help I needed getting the boat tothe T-dock. Thank you Bob & Charlotte. Conditionswere treacherous and deteriorating fast. Even ourleader, Tony Angel, was hesitant to leave the dock asconditions dictated “stay put”. Captain’s GuyO’Conner, Suzanne Furlani and myself basically wereawake most of the night waiting for the “green light”from Captain Tony Angel and wondering what to doif we got it. Captain Angel is known for, shall we say,aggressive sailing and may not have been intimidatedas much as a saner sailor might.

After a sleepless Saturday night, Sunday morning, at7:15am, with the wind still howling we left the safetyof the BCYC basin. The strangest thing happened.As we rounded out into Boca Ciega Bay, the winddropped to about 7 knots. No kidding. We had aneffortless motor sail out to structure C and acrossTampa Bay. We continued motorsailing (we were aday behind) all the way down to Longboat Key. Wedecided to go “outside” as the weather lookedgood. 1st mistake. The seas were still “up”. So “up”in fact my dinghy was knocked off the dinghy davits.

I think every one of the 4 boats on the trip hadsome sick crew. Like anything else, we got used tothe seas and an hour or two before sunset we re-entered the ICW via the Venice inlet.

Sunday night, at 10:15pm, we dropped anchor atCape Haze. Fifteen hours of sailing after a sleeplessnight had put us back on schedule. We were all soexhausted everyone crawled into their bunks andcrashed.

Early Monday Morning (very early)Day 2Captain Tony had issued orders for an early depar-ture. We had to be at Cayo Costa to meet a rangerwho was going to give us a prearranged tour. I wenton the tour and I must say it was terrific. It was awalking tour and our guide made it interesting andeducational. Afterwards, the “kids” were released togo play on the beach. Looking back, I really think theadults were the one’s who were released into aquiet, peaceful few hours. But soon, the “kids”returned. All the boats left Pelican Bay and headeddown to Useppa. Everyone (all 22) boarded“Seraphim” and headed over to Cabbage Keywhere we had a nice sit down dinner. After dinner,

Sea Scouts Spring Break Cruise submitted by Jeff Reckson SV/Panache

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BCYC Cruise to Dry Tortugas

Date Day Start from at 5 Kts Destination Amenities

4/17/2009 Fri. Cpt's meeting and general club meeting

5/1/2009 Fri. Cpt's meeting 7pm / load boats prepare to go Cpt s meeting 7pm

load boats prepare to go

5/2/2009 Sat BCYC 12 Hrs Venice Crows Nest Marina City Docks or anchor

5/3/2009 Sun Venice 7 Hrs Cayo Costa Anchor

5/4/2009 Mon Enjoy Cayo Costa for the day Pelican Bay Plovers Hole

5/5/2009 Tue Cayo Costa 11 Hrs Marco Island Marco Island Marina or anchor

5/6/2009 Wed Marco Island Depart 14:00

Marco Island Depart 14:00 17 Hrs

Key West Conch Harbor Marina

anchor

5/7/2009 Thu Arrive Key West about 10:00

5/8/2009 Fri Enjoy Key West for the day

5/9/2009 Sat Key West (leave early / no over-night) 12 Hrs Dry Tortugas Anchor

5/10/2009 Sun Enjoy DT's

5/11/2009 Mon Enjoy DT's

Enjoy DT

5/12/2009 Tue Dry Tortugas Depart 12:00 20 Hrs Marco Island

5/13/2009 Wed Arrive Marco Island about 8:00 Marco Island Marina or anchor

5/14/2009 Thu Marco Island 11 Hrs Cayo Costa Burnt Store or Millers or anchor

5/15/2009 Fri Cayo Costa 10 Hrs Sarasota Yacht Club Anchor & restaurants

5/16/2009 Sat Sarasota 6 Hrs BCYC / homeBCYC / home

Boats / Owners Marco Island Marina 239-642-2531

The Rachel Guy O'Connor Cathy Talisman Conch Harbor Marina 305-294-2933

Pilot Me Tim & Chantal Pierce

Ship of Fools Barb and Jim MeyeShip of Fools / Barb and Jim Meyer

Windchime Victor and Maria Giroff

2nd Love Bill Casey

Hooligan Carole Sharp & Larry Lynch

Xanadu Morgan 38 / Pam & David

Brangaccio

Panache Jeff Reckson & Charlotte

Mora

31 Pacific Seacraft Walter Donnelly May leave

5/8 and catch up with us.

Fantasy Bob & Lynda Calvillo May

leave 5/8 and catch up withus.

Casa Mia Larry Fiorenza and Anette

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back to our boats and back in the rack. Ahh…peace-ful sleep.

Day 3 Tuesday 6:00 amA loud horn broke the silence of an otherwisepeaceful setting waking all the scout boats as well asevery other boat in the anchorage. It was Tony andhis conch shell telling us it was time to get up. Aftercoffee and breakfast, we pulled anchor and headedup, and to the other end and opposite shore ofCharlotte Harbor for our destination,”Fisherman’sVillage”. Charlotte Harbor is a very large harbor…very large. Sailing was great. It took probably 6hours to make the trip to Fisherman’s Village. Forthose who haven’t been there, it’s very nice. Goodfacilities, pool and a shopping mall. I recommendseeing the place, but I would drive there. We all hada good time. Kids played in the pool and walked,shopped and ate in the mall. So did the adults.

Day 4 Wednesday After Sleeping InTony let us sleep in. The wind was back up. As weprepared to leave Fisherman’s Village some of usneeded fuel. The fuel dock could only handle oneboat at a time so after fueling we headed out, oneby one. Sailing was indeed spirited as we headed outto our next destination, an overnight anchoringbehind the Pink Elephant in Boca Grande. Abouthalfway back across Charlotte Harbor “Toga” over-heated and was towed the rest of the way byCaptain Guy O’Conner and the crew of “TheRachael”. Guy could only do about 3 knots whiletowing into stiff winds and seas, but none the lessarrived safely if not a little late at the anchorage.That’s when the fun began. “Toga”, powerless with aheating problem, presented a challenge gettinganchored and tied off in the stiff winds. Even with 2dingies in the water trying to help, she ended uptangled in both of Seraphim’s anchor lines. MikeMogavero, our scout advisor, ended up having to gointo the pitch back, ice cold water to untangle themess. What a hero. It seems like the ordeal took

several hours. I was the only adult aboardPANACHE and afterward I didn’t feel like cooking. Idingied my scouts to shore, pitched in $20, and hadthem go get pizza. They brought back the best pizzaI ever had tasted.

Thursday Morning Day 5Tony lent “Toga” his spare impeller, which fixed theoverheating problem. The wind was still “up”, and wepulled anchor and headed for Palm Island via theICW. Just before the Boca Grande swing bridge,Tony’s engine on Seraphim started sounding theoverheating alarm. His own impeller had gone backand he had just loaned out his spare. Tony was ableto sail through the bridge and all the way to themarina right into his slip. Palm Island Marina wassuch a pleasant surprise. Never had been there. Weall had a great time. We boarded a powerboat atdinnertime, which took us to Palm Island and haddinner. The restaurant was very good and moderate-ly priced. After dinner back to the marina and intothe pool.

Friday Morning Late Day 6Tony’s replacement impeller hasn’t arrived. Thedockmaster needs us out as other boats are ontheir way in. So, not wanting to, at 1:15 PM “TheRachael”, “PANACHE” & “Toga” left Seraphim at thedock and proceeded north along the ICW. A coupleof hours later we heard from Tony that he had got-ten his impeller and was on his way. With Tony 2hours behind we set our goal of making the anchor-age behind Marina Jack’s in Sarasota Bay. The threeof us got there before dark and rafted up. Not longafter that, Seraphim showed up and made it a 4 boatraft up. We ate and had a merry good time, gettingto sleep late.

Saturday Morning Day 7 (Last Day)After our final breakfast and morning coffee of thetrip, we raised anchor about 10AM and headedunder the big bridge in Sarasota Bay. Saturday was a

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very uneventful day. We passed East of Moore’ssometime around noon, entered Tampa Bay a littlewhile later, and a cheer went up aboard Panachewhen the Skyway Bridge came into view. We alltried sailing the last leg of the trip but the windswere not especially cooperative. Somewherearound 4:30 PM, after coming in at Pass a Grille, all4 boats passed through structure C. The scoutsgave Panache a washdown and cleaned and straight-ened down below. It was time to say goodbyeexcept everyone had left. The tiredness and exhaus-tion had waited until after we docked to set in.Somehow, someway, I made it home. I was as tiredas I’ve ever been. It was a good tired, a good feel-ing, a good trip.

IN CLOSINGMany thanks to Samantha Ring, who helped me onPanache from the start until we reachedFisherman’s Village (she had to leave early to getready for her trip to Africa). My crew of SeaScouts; Christa, Ryan, Costa, Mikey & Donald alongwith all the other Sea Scouts who participated.Also, my fellow adult crews; Tony & Gerry Angelaboard Seraphim, Guy O’Conner & Cathy Tallismanaboard The Rachael, Suzanne Furlani & MikeMogavero aboard Toga.

We all had a lot of fun and we all learned a littlemore about sailing. We had no serious injuries orsickness. The weather was at times great and attimes not so good. The food was always good.

Special thanks to Tony Angel for his planing, dedication, determination and leadership that madethis trip so special and complete.

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Rhumb Runners submitted by Lisa Glaser, Captain

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Rhumb Runners met on Saturday April 18th at

12:30. We had 6 Rhummies meet for lunch

an a meeting. It was decided we would sail 

twice a month on the third and forth Saturday of

each month. We would have 4 race series a year.

The first race will start in July so 

everyone can practice and get used to the boats

(not to mention the water will be warmer). After

the meeting we took out 5 sunfish out on a beauti-

ful day and learned how to rig the boats and prac-

ticed tacking and sail trim.

Our next meeting will be May 16th at noon.

Since joining BCYC, I've had the privilege to

serve as a committee member, a chairperson,

and flag officer, and for the most part loved

every moment. All have been wonderful learning

and growing experiences. But I have to say without

a doubt, chairing Sail School has been the most

challenging. That, or memories of my past club

responsibilities have softened with time; like child-

birth. What a whirl wind this has been for me.

Picture 32 students, the majority never having been

on a sail boat, each having a specific goal to achieve,

placed on boats with Captains of "multiple person-

alities", and sent out in heavy winds. My sprinkling

of gray hair has become wild curly stripes; distinc-

tion of service, I think not! One of my daughters

took great delight in pointing them out to me.

However, she was disappointed to learn that she

hadn't been the cause.

Enough kidding. Yes, the running of sail school is

time consuming, exhausting, and confusing at best,

but I had a delightful time. It was a true pleasure

getting to know the students although the time was

all too brief. One gentleman was vacationing from

Texas, another from Canada. A couple that lives in

Gulfport gave me the loveliest plant and a flag for

my boat that I didn't have to do anything wrong to

get! I met some really great local women whom I

look forward to sailing with in the future. We had

a student who had always wanted to learn to sail

and be on the water. Her daughter gave her the

class as a present. This courageous student has ter-

minal cancer, yet enjoyed every moment she was

afloat. The weather was not kind to this class, and I

applaud all the students for their perseverance and

determination.

As of this writing I'm struggling to complete make

up sessions. Presently, 31 students graduated and

9have checked out. We did have one gentleman

that decided sailing was not for him; go figure. I

can't imagine

him wanting

to miss

power dock-

ing, dancing

with the

mangroves,

visiting the

oysters, play-

ing bumper

boats, climb-

ing up the

safety boat

ladder, and

my favorite,

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taking a tour of the Gulfport Marina in light air on

a busy Sunday afternoon. How doooo you make

those boats go forward???? Not to fear, the stu-

dents did get to practice tacking, jibing, MOB, and

docking; you know, all those important skills.

What happened over the last five weeks, could not

have without volunteers. Larry Fiorenza may walk

about appearing to be in his own little world acting

like he doesn't hear you. Actually he is feverously

planning the next class curriculum and power point

graphics. The two angels over my shoulders were

Jennifer Rogers and Sue Smith. Thank you so much

for keeping me on track. Both their hubby's

deserve major kudos also for last minute repairs

and "OK, I'll do it's." Yes, Little Jimmy, thank you

too. Every launcher, retriever, Safety Boat Captain,

crew, Boat, Table, and Snack Captain are vital to the

success of sail school. I do especially want to thank

Bob Hall for the additional advertising he did,

including the lighted sign. I appreciated all the

rapid repairs Mark Rother made to the boats on a

weekly basis. He was very patient with me when

answering my many questions. The following," in no

particular order," are the many, many members

who helped make 2009 Adult Basic Sail School

happen: Ed and Leah Hunter, Julie Jacoby, Joe

Sabella, Bob Hall, Dave Brangaccio, Tom Carlin,

Jimmy Meyer, Larry Vance, Bill Morse, Dave

Henshaw, Steve Butcher, Lloyd Mason, Mike

Heckler, Samantha Ring, Tim Milnthorpe, Clement

Rambeau, MaryAnn Fagan, Glen and Louise Dobos,

John Budinsky, Steve Honour, Richard Hampson,

Mark Rother, Mark Block, Wendy Issac, Beth

Berkobin, Hal Feininger, Bob and Judy Trehy, Hal

Fessel, Mike Collins, Susan Setley, Andre' Lowe, Guy

O'Connor, Sue and Craig Smith, Dave Tarbox, Larry

Kye, Dave Lemke, Elaine and Pim Miranda, Lisa

Marlette, Gerri Angel, Mat Maloy, Jasmine Benjoya,

Emily Wagner, Henry Stewart, Mike O'Brien,

Jennifer and Don Rogers, Sherry Ogorek, Judy

Lipton, Miles Larson, Scott Whitworth, Frank

Downward, Bob Calvillo, Maria Giroffi, Chuck

Greenslade, Ron Regan, Larry Lynch, Roy Young, Phil

and Ursula Raia, Corinne O' Donnell, Rick Martin,

Sharon Noel, Jeff Grossman, Jean Levine, and Paul

Pittman.

See you this fall!

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Welcome New Members!submitted by Gerri Angel

Victor Silva M.D.Wife: Carolyn ( not pictured)5855 18th st North U-2 St. Petersburg FlPhone (727) 480-9813Boat: f-27 Trimaran, Corsair Name: Gladiator

Steve Russell & Janice Nagle509 Plaza Seville Ct. Treasure Island , FlPhone: (727) 366-4484Boat:Tayana 36Name: Sailacious

Bruce & Clint Stone2012 53rd St. S. Gulfport, FlPhone: (727) 457-0624Boat: 24 Bristol

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Vice Commodore Reportsubmitted by Jimmy Meyer

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The first quarter has come and gone. I havedone a line item review of expenses andexpenditures for the year to date, and am

happy to report that there were no unpleasant sur-prises. Collections were slightly above what waspredicted, but these were negated by some unbud-geted expenses. It seems that the hoist broke inthe middle of sail school, and had to be emergentlyrepaired. All in all, we are pretty much on trackwhere we should be financially at this point. I amdoing a monthly "mini audit" of the books, and willcontinue to do so.

One of my "campaign promises" was that therewould be no unbudgeted spending this year. I've

already broken this vow, but I can defend it! Aftera multi-year hiatus, the Rhumb Runners have reor-ganized, and asked for funds to repair/replace need-ed equipment. Since this is directly related to get-ting members on the water (we are a sailing club,after all), I voted in favor of the request. The newlyrevived group is now sailing our Sunfish fleet twiceeach month.

This brings us to our investment account. Likemany other investors, we have taken a beating inthe market over the past year. Our investmentadvisor at Edward Jones suggested we sell ourPutnam funds, and reinvest the money in a man-aged, fee based account. On the recommendationof the finance/investment committee, the Board ofDirectors approved this action. With some of ourmoney still in the traditional account, we will watchboth accounts to see which gives us a better yield,and then shift in that direction. Although no moneywas withdrawn from the account, the change gen-erated a tax loss which will carry forward and off-set some of our income taxes in the future.

Finally, as someone close to me once said; Liveslow, Sail fast, and get your butt wet!

Past Commodore’s Reportsubmitted by Linda Ray

Abig thanks goes out to Janet and Todd Terrellfor the cheeseburger in paradise party. Janetwas in, out, and about more than a barn cat,

while Todd never left his post as cheeseburger chef.Many people brought sides and the crowd had agood time. There was a costume contest. Afterdeliberations, the judges composed of LarryFiorenza, Annette Mason, Tim Stark, and JenniferTravis made their decisions. Best women's prizewent to me (and I did not pay them!), best man'sprize went to Lloyd Mason (no relation to the

judge!) and the award for best couple went to BillMyer and guest. Thanks to all that helped with theclean-up, as that is truly a big deal when the plan-ners are tired.

I assume that our Rear Commodore will coverwork day. I am equally certain that she will fail tomention the other days she showed up to continuethe clean up so that our club looks good forFunday! Nice job.

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A big t He did a great job! Thank-you to everyone w The next Sunday Fun Race will b The skippers meeting is at 10:00am with an 11:00am start. All club boats and guest boats are welcome t

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Paul Pittman 95.6 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0

2nd

Thursday’s Child 1378

Corinne O’Donnell

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3rd Fanta Sea 135

Robert Cavillo 94 3.0 4.0

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RACING RESULTS

Rank Boat SailNo HelmName USPN R1 R2 Total Nett

1st Nikki 44 Bruce Bingham 103.5 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0

2nd Sun sh Sun sh Dan Gross 97.7 2.0 2.0 4.0 4.0

3rd Phoenix 919 Ramone Torres 99 5.0 3.0 8.0 8.0

4th Sun sh 3228 Danette Szakaly 97.7 4.0 4.0 8.0 8.0

5th Catalina 16.5 1010 Don

Rogers 94.5 6.0 5.0 11.0 11.0

6th Seaduceme 683? Doug Fuller 90.1 3.0 10.0

DSQ 13.0 13.0

7th Irwin 23 18 Clement Rambeau 96.8 7.0 10.0

DSQ 17.0 17.0

8th Interlude 418 Bob Hart 89.6 8.0 10.0

DNF 18.0 18.0

9th Catalina 16.5 1007 Jim

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We had 12 boats come out to participate in the

Sunday Fun Race which kicked off the second

series of the year. A big thank-you goes to Steve

Honour for volunteering to run race committee.

He did a great job! Thank-you to everyone who

has participated thus far and it was good to see

some of the club 16.5’s out as well. The next

Sunday Fun Race will be on May 17th. The skippers

meeting is at 10:00am with an 11:00am start. All

club boats and guest boats are welcome to join.

On another note, the Tuesday Night One-Design

Racing Series has also started up again. We still

need more people to come out to fill boats on

Tuesday nights. The group meets at 5:30pm to

launch boats and we sail away from the dock

around 6:00pm. Club members are welcome to

race the Catalina 16.5’s as well as the club sunfish.

Any other one-design classes are also invited to

join.

See you out on the water

April Racing Reportsubmitted by Danette Szakaly

21www.sailbcyc.org

The next club cruise is May 2 & 3 to Twin

Dolphin Marina. The price is down to $1 / Ft.

for the month of May. As always, theres one

bag of ice / day, coupons galore, a nice cool pool,

very nice docks, made better by the presence of

the BCYC cruisers.

Tony Angel is taking care of this cruise in my

absence. Ill be heading a bit further south with oth-

ers down to Key West, Dry Tortugas, and other

points of interest. Tonys email is in the cc: Please

remember to direct questions to Tony and not to

Carole.

The typical cruise schedule is cpts meeting 09:30

Saturday morning of the cruise, and leave BCYC

soon after that.

Club Cruise to Twin Dolphin Marinasubmitted by Guy O’Connor

BCYCMember

Take a look around the clubhouse in all direc-

tions and you will see work that was done

by your fellow club members this past work-

day. Jeff Reckson had a team on the west side. They

put up a chain across the opening at the end of the

dry slips. I think this will keep non-members from

coming in. Bob Seamon and Jim Meyer had a work

crew at the north side of the building to take down

the two oaks that didn't make it through the dry

season, both are now firewood. They

didn't stop at that the last of the 16 o-days has

been moved to that side so that it can be put in to

place as the center piece of the new play area for

kids and grand kids. Linda Maloy and her team

where on the east side, post for the lattice screens

are in place. The fire pit is now a standout in the

landscape not an eye sore. The steps of the raised

deck have been rebuilt and have new paver land-

ings. All the planting beds have been freshened-up

and the pots have new spring flowers.

On the South side we had two teams hard at work.

Jen Rogers and the girls team pulled weeds took

out old plants and replaced them with new ones.

Larry Lynch and the guys trimmed the mangroves

that were taking over our docks.

THANKS TO ALL THAT CAME OUT AND

WORKED SO HARD TO GET THE CLUB READY

FOR FUNDAY. BOB SEAMON, BILL MILES, HAL

FRANK, JIM MEYER, LARRY FIORENZA, JULI

JACBY, PAUL WILLIAMS, MYLES LARSON, LLOYD

MASON, FRANK DOWNWARD, DON ROGERS,

JEN ROGERS,PAUL J. LACHANCE, JEAN

PROACH, PHIL HESTER, RON REGAN, LOUISE

DOBOS, CONNIE ELLER,CRAIG FRETHEM,

GERRI ANGEL, ELAINE MIRANDA, TONY ANGEL

JEFF RECKSON, LARRY LYNCH, BOB HALL, JACK

GREEN, SHERI OGOREK, RICK OGOREK, ROY

YOUNG, BRUCE BINGHAM, BARBARA DOWN-

WARD, LARRY VANCE, MARIA GIRFFI, EMILY

WAGNER, STEVE RYE, CAROL FARMER AND

TODD TERRELL HOPE I DIDN’T OVERLOOK

ANYONE. ALSO THANK YOU TO BILL CASEY

FOR TAKING THE PHOTOS.

Wow What a Great Workday!submitted by Janet Terrell

News From The Desk of Your “Flag Officer”submitted by Tony Angel

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Again this month  David Brangaccio  took twosail school students out to teach them the finepoints of “sailing on the edge”.   The differencethis month was that the wind was not justblowing,  it was also gusting. On Dave’s boatthe difference was that while he shipped waterover the leeward rail he also planted two stu-dents into the bay head first.

One has to ask what the Department ofHomeland Security and the US Coast Guard hasto worry about in Boca Ciega Bay.    Well folks it is our sail school staff on a nightsail! Don and Jennifer Rodgers took a boat loadof students out on Wednesday night and withone student on helm and four watching for daymarkers no one was assigned to the depthsounder when they passed marker 16 headedfor the ICW Shoals.   Aground and helpless ourhapless crew was reported by many in TownShores being pulled off of the shoal by the USCoast Guard.

Larry Fiorenzo took off on the April club cruisewith flags flying and his trusty dink bobbingalong behind. He thought it was behind, ===and it really was!   That dink was almost theentire bay behind when he looked over hisshoulder.

Vick and Maria Giroffi sailed gracefully in to the

T-Dock the other week end and hopped off of the

boat. As they stood on “Terra Firma” chatting

about the cruise and other matters their boat

slipped its line from the “TIE POLE” and drifted off

to sea. I believe it drifted off to see if anyone knew

why they call those poles “TIE POLES”!

The Rum Running ladies of Boca Ciega YachtClub showed up in good numbers in April.   Sodid a strong Easterly wind.   One sunfish withtwo stalwart gals had no trouble getting out butlacked the instruction to tack back and they rap-idly worked their way out of sight. Captain JoelHeyne sailed out with Dan Gross and jumpedfrom his boat to the boat the girls were on toshow them the fine points of beating up wind ona sunfish with three adults aboard.   A lollypopflag just doesn’t describe that trick.

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When Club Chaplin Andy Bell called the faithfulto get their boats blessed Hal and Joy Feiningercranked up the racing vessel La Paloma andheaded her out for her annual blessing.   Theboat backed out of the slip and snapped it’s shiftcable blocking the fairway and drifting into otherboats.   Maybe La Paloma needs two blessingsa year. 

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