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May 2016

The Friendly Little Club at the end of the Santa Fe Channel! 700 West Cutting Blvd, Point Richmond, CA 94804

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Commodore Paul Maheu

Shipmates:

Seems like the good weather is finally here and fit-ting out season is upon us.

Lots of activity around the Club as members got ready for Opening Day and beyond. Chuck Lind’s wetsuit has lived up to its name and hasn’t dried out all month!

Strictly Sail Pacific made it’s way north to the Craneway Pavilion, and was lined clew to earing with stuff to buy. Despite the slop, our friends from the S.S.S. Northland were there with their whaleboat and their enthusiasm. The good weather also brings Cruise-ins to our Club, so please check the posted Calendar and make it a point to come down when other Yacht Clubs visit. As you know we are always graciously received whenever we visit other Clubs so it’s important for us to return the hospitality and keep up our good name as the “Friendly little Club at the end of Santa Fe Channel!”

Additionally, now’s the time to help put the “Yacht” back into PSPYC by using your boat or crewing on someone else’s! Sails and lines are made to be stretched, motors run, and hulls to be moved! Besides the salt air is good for the soul. Speaking of which, I’ll sign off now as Kath-leen needs attention: wood boats love May!

See you at the Club!

Contact the Editor at: FoghornEditor@gmail.com if you would like to submit articles or photos for publication. Deadline is the 20th of each month.

Read the Foghorn on-line at PSPYC.org

Lillian Maheu’s dessert made for the Cruising Club of America (CCA) luncheon on 4/6 received lots of compliments. She says is really easy to make, and the hardest part is the stirring so you don’t burn the cream and sugar. Or perhaps it is the wait to set the gelatin. She provided the recipe below, and recom-mends you try it.

Ingredients: Makes 6 servings 1/3 cup milk 1 envelope gelatin [unflavored] 1/2 cup sugar 2 1/2 cups heavy cream 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Combine the milk and gelatin by sprinkling the gel-atin on top of the milk. Let sit it while working then stir to make sure there are no lumps. Heat cream and sugar in a sauce pan over medium heat then bring it to a boil. Add the gelatin mixture and stir to melt completely cook for another minute or so, take off heat and add vanilla. Mix well and portion into 6 serving cups. Cool to room temperature. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge. Let sit 2-3 hours (or better overnight) Serve alone or with a yummy topping. Enjoy!

Panna Cotta

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Vice Commodore Ingrid Hogan

Rear Commodore Tonja Jackson

Join Us for Happy Hour Fridays 5:30/6:00pm

It's always a great time and we will have our band "Strange Angles". If you can, bring an appetizer or snack of some sort, as they are always appreciated and enjoyed! Come, hang out, eat, drink, dance, and have some Friday evening fun and meet fellow club members.

I’m back.

The Mexican Riviera was beautiful. It’s quite differ-ent in the sailboat that Harry and I took the last time. It was nice to remember the good times we had and how much I learned about sailing on that trip.

Thanks to Kelly & Shari Mack and Richard & Kath-erine Alexander for taking care of April’s meeting night dinner. I understand they did a great job. May-be it can be an annual thing they can do. Again, thank you.

Regarding future cruise-ins, it sure would be nice if other clubs came to our great club for a cruise-in. They would meet some of our members. I am usual-ly there but it would be more enjoyable if they could meet several of our great members and not come to an empty clubhouse. Let’s be hospitable and wel-coming. Maybe you just might make new friends and have a good time.

Hope to see you soon.

Hi all, thanks to our boards approval, our state of the art glass washer/sanitizer is finally here, installed, and ready to go.

I'm thankful to all of you who cooperated in using the plastic cups. As always I'd like to thank Blake, Beb, Lauren Pressler, David Greitzer, and Shary Mack for their bartending assistance. Thanks to Syb-al Hallbauer for all of her efforts in assisting with the purchase of the glass washer and to our Port Captain John Peitso for his timely installation.

The bar is doing well and the happy hours continue to be lots of fun with good music from the Strange Angels.

Thank you Kelly Mack for the awesome appetizers you contributed a past Friday, and also Paul and Lillian who always provide lots of goodies.

Now back to the glass washer/ sanitizer, the opera-tion instructions are as follows:

1. Turn on washer

2. Wait for the wash temperature to reach 165° and the rinse 185°

3. Wait for the amber light to turn green

4. Press the start button

5. Once the cycle is complete the screen will read end.

6. Open and remove the rack let them sit for 1-2 minutes to air dry

There is also a operations manual on the counter in the bar. Follow instructions properly and our washer will last a long time.

If you do the last wash before leaving press the drain button to drain any

water left in the washer the screen will read drain, once done turn off.

PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE THE WASHER ON AT THE END OF THE NIGHT!!!!!

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Port Captain John Peitso

Fleet Captain Glen Bigelow

April showers have arrived aplen-ty with flowers of their own, and more sure to come in May. The rains seem to be zeroing-in on the weekends, putting a bit of a crimp on work party efforts directed at the grounds.

Many thanks to Jenny for her efforts on keeping the lawns and garden in such good shape. With another rainy Saturday the work party focused on maintenance issues in the Club House. We had some cleaning and organization in the Galley, with some of the same for the Store Room. Thanks for the recommendations on improving the lighting in there. Plans are in the works to make it a more inviting and useful space for the Club.

Mike Proudfoot did some great work on getting the South dock gas powered emergency pump back toward functionality. Chris Jannini and Hal did some great work digging out some rotted wood from the floor of the closet by the South entrance, with repair and water-proof detailing to come. Tonja got a new glass sanitiz-er for the Bar and we provided upgraded water and electrical supply's to bring the installation up to code.

We had a great cruise-in on Apr. 16-17 by the 'San Jo-se Sailing Friends' who enjoyed our facilities and hos-pitality.

Several of them will be returning Apr. 30-May 1 with the expanded San Jose Sailing Club cruise-in, there will also be several boats from San Rafael for the weekend. Let's come on down and extend our hospi-tality and let them know what a great club we have!

Our second cruise-out of the year to Sierra Point YC on April 16-17 was a very enjoyable time. The appetizers and Paella dinner were amazing. Two chefs, that obviously knew what they were doing, each cooked on huge Paella pans, approximately 4 feet in diameter. One pan was full of a seafood based Paella and the other pan fea-tured sausage. They also served grilled chicken breasts as a choice or in combo with the Paella dishes. Dinner was followed by live music and dancing.

I wished PSPYC would have been better represented, but the six of us had a good time. Paul and Earlene sailed Lodestone over and Glen & Pam Bigelow and Bob & Sarah Rectenwald all met on board for cocktails and Paul’s great crab dip, before heading up to the clubhouse. Napa YC was also in attendance and they had 2 boats and 6 people and the Sierra Point members had a great turnout.

The May cruise-outs include Oyster Point YC on May 6-8, for a 3-day weekend of fun and merriment, includ-ing a Friday night Prime Rib dinner; then on Saturday watching the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby; and followed by a celebration of Cinco de Mayo with dinner and dancing. Finally, on Sunday, a Mother’s Day Brunch will be served.

On May 21-22 we’re heading up the river to attend Petaluma’s 11th Annual American Graffiti celebration associated with a classic car show surrounded by a great local area of art, wine, cheese creameries, fine dining and lots of music.

May 7-8 Oyster Pt. YC Cinco de Mayo

May 21-22 Petaluma YC American Graffiti

Jun 18-19 Alameda YC Pirate Party

Jul 30-31 Loch Lomond YC Cajun Boil

Aug 20-21 Aeolian YC Tropical Party

Sep 2-4 Half Moon Bay YC Labor Day Weekend

Oct ?? South Beach

Nov No Cruise-Out Planned

Dec ?? Fleet Captains Dinner

2016 CRUISE-OUT SCHEDULE

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Treasurer Darrell Struck

Your next drink at the PSPYC will no doubt be served in a very clean glass container. The new glass-washer is now installed and operational and clearly a cut above the old one. As a bonus, it is fitted with two trays; one is blue and the other is yellow. This of course is a coincidence but makes a great story as a “tribute to the club” from the manufacturer.

A few days ago Sybal and Tonya, tired of the foot drag-ging of a major vendor, ended up at the East Bay Restau-rant Supply and drove a hard bargain for this new washer including delivery which was previously approved by the board. The delivery was specifically limited to a drop off at the door and not inside the clubhouse or installed. For-tunately, Mike Proudfoot was at the club on the delivery date and used a little persuasion and tact so it ended up in the clubhouse after all. At that point our Port Captain, John Peitso, took over and after some electrical redesign and plumbing modification on Saturday, John returned on Sunday to install the beast with the assistance of Luc Maheu and moral support from yours truly. This is our first capital purchase for 2016 and a fine acquisition it is. NO MORE PLASTIC.

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Harbor Master Glenda Linn

Wow, May is here already! Beautiful days mixed with rain has been a perfect April. The lawns have been growing like crazy and it is such a treat seeing how very green they are.

Our slips are two vacant and they will be filled shortly. John Peisto is working on the slip assignments and that will bring our waiting list down to four. With our lockers we have one large and two small currently available. We have two on our waiting list for containers.

Yay!! We now have a glass sanitizer for our bar! Thanks to our Rear Commodore, Tonja, with all her research, we got a brand new one delivered, installed by John Peitso and ready to go!

Many thanks to Steve Friday for finding us the right kind of light bulb for our big screen projector. It took some time and effort between finding, ordering and the crazy round about way of getting it delivered, but we are now back in business...well, once it's installed! Thank you again, Steve!

Last, but not least, another humble thanks to Glen Bige-low. No, not computer break downs, just a printer failure break down. Argh!! Of course, it resulted in the purchase of a new one. Really, it's not me, but I'm beginning to wonder what kind of karma is following me!! Glen found an excellent one, I got it delivered, and he came down on his own time spending over an hour just getting me hooked up. He set me up so that my new HP printer is connected to the internet with HP and the printer orders the ink when needed...which means I will always have it. Pretty slick and cannot thank Glen enough coming to my aide for my ‘help’ calls, keeping me going...and even in a better way!!

This last month there was another CCA luncheon where they enjoyed Ingrid's great cooking once again and Lillian's awesome dessert! We had a cruise-in from San Jose Sailing with Friends and another upcoming cruise-in the end of April from the San Jose Sailing Club. It is al-ways with great appreciation the volunteer help that makes these events fun & successful.

As those of you know who attended the April Dinner Meeting, you were able to get the new edition of the RULES AND BY-LAWS. For those of you not there we have copies for all members. They are here in the Harbor Master office, and can be picked up at your convenience.

May 13th is our dinner meeting and with these lovely spring days & evenings looking forward to seeing every-one!

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PSPYC General Meeting: Minutes April 8, 2016

Commodore: Paul Maheu

Meeting called to order at 8:09pm

Paul asked for approval of last month’s meeting. Mo-tion was made to approve, motion 2nd. All in favor.

Paul said thanks to the cooks for the meatloaf dinner. Kelly, Richard, Shari, and Lillian for the desert.

Vice Commodore: Ingr id Hogan

No report this month as she is in Mexico.

Rear Commodore: Tonja Jackson

Thanks to everyone for using the plastic cups. As a reminder the snacks are not free. They are one dollar. Please mark your card when you get snacks. Keep in mind that it’s theft if you do not pay for them. Jim said there used to be a sign for the prices of small and large snacks. It’s all large now and all snacks are $1. Sodas are also $1.

Next happy hour will be next week. They are usually the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month. This month there are 3.

Fleet Captain: Glen Bigelow

Next week’s cruse out is to Sierra Point YC. Please sign up on the board in the bar so he can let them know how many people are coming. The dinner is $20.

Also, Sarah Rectenwald is the editor for the Foghorn and she needs pictures and articles by next week to get them in the Foghorn.

Bob Sky pointed out the great article that was in the Foghorn that highlighted Paul Lagier’s boat building project. Glen said that these kind of articles make the Foghorn a yacht club publication that other yacht clubs can envy. Sarah also asked for high quality pictures. Modern smart phones can take good pictures.

Paul Maheu reminded everyone Bob Sky is our web-site editor and is doing a great job. Bob said that he can use articles, pictures and stories. Also, be sure to let him know about upcoming activities so he can include them in the website.

Port Captain: John Peitso

John said we have a cruise in next week end. Maybe 6 boats. They will have a BBQ on the deck.

At the end of the month we will have the same people come in and also some boats from San Rafael.

Tomorrow’s work party: We will see if we can get the

old dock by the fence straightened up. We also want to work on one of the containers, do some rail work, weed whacking, etc. as long as the weather is good. THERE WILL BE DOUGHNUTS!

Paul reminded everyone that the work party is a great chance to volunteer and meet with other members. There are other things that can be done as well. If you think there is something you are good at Paul said we can get you on a committee. Please help if you can.

Jim Koss said there was an AED conference so if there is anyone interested in learning the opportunity is there.

First Mates: Sue Proudfoot

They made two gift baskets. One beer basket and one wine basket to give to PICYA. We sent them as a gift from the club and not the first mates.

The clothes dryer is not working as well as expected and John will be putting in a new gas line that should help.

Tomorrow Louie and Sue are meeting to design T-shirts.

PICYA: Sybal Halbauer

Reiterating that we get COTY points for the gift bas-kets. Thank you. Donations are needed for the COTY points.

The opening day on the bay. ‘Hero’s on the bay’ is April 24. Hopefully we have some boats that will enter so we can get COTY points. Andy knows some of the details for getting boats numbered for the parade so talk to him if you want to enter your boat.

Antioch has a Jazz and Wine festival on Saturday June 24th. Sybal will post a notice on the bulletin board.

PICYA does scholarships. They have 6 to 8 $2,500 scholarships available. If you have a child, grandchild, great grandchild, cousin, etc. planning to go to college have them apply. Last year they didn’t have that many applications for the scholarships they were offering. The deadline to apply is June 30th. The scholarships will be awarded in August. If you want to donate to the scholarship fund that would be greatly appreciated. It’s a $250 donation. It was suggested that we can put a link on our website for the information.

Old Business:

Paul Maheu said there was a very nice memorial for Tony. It was wonderful to see everyone. There was a video and slide show. One thing that happened is that we were not able to use the projector. Steve has run out and got a new lamp thanks to him for that.

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First Mates Susan Proudfoot

FIRST MATES MEETING MINUTES April 8th, 2016

The meeting was called to order by Sue Proudfoot at 1730 hours.

Present: Colleen Fielding, Earlene Lagier, Vicky Os-wald, Sue Proudfoot, Dolores Robinson, Nancy Struck

President Report: The laundry dryer was going to be discussed at the PSPYC Board meeting. Possibly the dryer does not receive sufficient gas. Discussion is underway regarding installation of new gas lines.

Louie Nickles will bring his preliminary design for PSPYC tee shirts to workday for review.

Sybal Hallbauer took two prize baskets from First Ma-tes to PICYA for their opening day prizes. They were presented to PICYA as gifts from the PSPYC.

Treasurer Report: To date there have been fewer pri-vate parties resulting in less tips for First Mates. First Mates’ tips are given to the entertainers during the Fri-day Happy Hours.

It was agreed that the back room needs improvement, especially better lighting. Suggestions are forthcoming.

The meeting adjourned at 1840 hours.

Next Meeting: June 10, 2016 at PSPYC.

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New Business:

There is a new PSPYC rules and bylaws manual avail-able. They are available to pick up tonight or anytime afterwards in Glenda’s office.

Thanks for all the volunteers and help with kids. How-ever, there were kids running on the docks so please be sure to help kids be safe.

Coleen asked when Kelly’s picture is going up on the wall of past commodores since it’s been 3 months. It will be happening.

Jenny asked folks to not just leave stuff here at the club. If it’s stuff that needs to be thrown way use the dumpster. If your using the oil recycle area don’t leave containers or filters. Also, don’t put banana peels in the recycling bins.

Motion to adjourn. Motion approved at 8:39 pm

Officers:

Commodore: Paul Maheu pmmaheu@gmail.com (510) 524-3587

Vice Commodore: Ingrid Hogan ingridhogan@me.com (916) 969-9676

Rear Commodore: Tonja Jackson tonjahester@gmail.com (510) 964-0320

Port Captain: John Peitso john@renoirplumbing.com (510) 506-6894

Fleet Captain: Glen Bigelow fleetcaptain.pspyc@gmail.com (916) 996-4241

Treasurer: Darrell Struck dstrucksr@sbcglobal.net (510) 235-3719

Secretary: Hal Peterson halbosanova@yahoo.com (707) 569-7485

Directors:

Richard Alexander rjalexander@msn.com (925) 954-8700

Griff Brazil dgbrazil@comcast.net (510) 685-8841

Sybal Hallbauer shallbauer1@comcast.net (510) 409-4382

Steve Hutchinson steve@hutchinsonmarine.com 510-219-2453

Contact Info for your PSPYC Board

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Around the Club

Barbara Friday & Rosemary Hegarty David Greitzer & Colleen Fielding

Mike & Sue Proudfoot

Shary & Kelly Mack

Paul Lagier & Hal Peterson

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REMINDER

Wayne & Julie Rundall

Steve & Barbara Friday

Glenda Linn & Shary Mack

Tonja Jackson & Suzzane Staler

Band: Strange Angles

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Glen & Pam Bigelow

Giant Seafood and Sausage Paellas

Paul & Earline Lagier

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by Glen Bigelow from information provided by Paul Lagier.

This is the continuation of the story of building Lodestone, the ferro-cement boat that Paul Lagier began building in 2007.

In the first installment (parts 1-4 in the April Fog-horn), we covered be most critical part of the process the build of the metal structure of the boat, including the intricate framing and then covering it with a wire mesh, to which the cement plaster will be applied.

And, that is where this month’s installment begins. So, on with the story.

Below, Paul discusses the game plan, so that every-one is on the same page and knows their job. This is extremely important, because once you get started mixing and plastering, there isn’t time to stop and re-think strategy. Once everyone is on board, let’s get started.

Below, Paul begins the first batch.

When the plaster or mud is ready, it is transferred to 5 gallon buckets to be delivered to each of the plasterers.

Each plasterer has a flat board with a handle on the bottom called a “hawk”. Below, Benny, the master plasterer tests the mud. You can see his “hawk” in his left hand. Once, he approves the consistency of the mud, everyone can get started.

Ferro-cement Mixture Ferro-cement is a combination of sand, cement, posilon and water. Posilon (pozzolan) is a fine silica based compound which comes from volcanic ash and reduces the porosity of cement which makes it more waterproof.

The mix is 4 boxes sand, 2 sacks cement and 2 cans of posilon. The mixing is done in two parts. You start with 2 boxes of sand, 1 sack cement and 1 can posilon. After it is well mixed you repeat the process with the remaining materials to complete the batch.

Building a Ferro-Cement Boat (Part 5—See April Foghorn for Parts 1-4)

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Half done!

Three quarters done!

Building a Ferro-Cement Boat, continued part 6

Working on the deck.

While the plasterers work on the outside, someone small and quick on their feet has to work inside find-ing spots where the mud didn’t come all the way through. In this case, it was Erin, Paul’s daughter-in-law. When, she finds a thin spot she pokes a wire through it to show the plasterer where it needs work. Erin also uses a broom to sweep the mud smooth.

Finishing the port side.

Finishing the deck around the cockpit and stern hatch. The forward hatch is finished.

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Building a Ferro-Cement Boat, continued part 7

Plastered and Floated!

Benny finishes up around the cutlass bearing while Paul looks on.

After the mud is on, they "float" the plaster to where the hairpin ties just show through, ensuring uniform thickness. Floating further compresses the plaster and provides a texture for the finish coat to adhere to. The shiny part of the hull is waiting to be floated.

Below, floating up close.

Earlene serves up a well deserved lunch break!

1/8th inch finish coat!

The Finished Hull!

Then, it has to be sprayed down 3 times a day for a month to allow the plaster to cure.

On Saturday, for the plastering & floating, there were 16-18 people, 6 plasterers and the rest, support. On Sunday, for the finish coat, there were 8-10 peo-ple, 6 plasterers and the rest support. I find it note-worthy, that after the finish coat, no other fillers were ever applied...no sanding was ever done...just multiple coats of epoxy and the finish paint.

To be continued...

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Officers Commodore: Paul Maheu Vice Commodore: Ingrid Hogan Rear Commodore: Tonja Jackson Port Captain: John Peitso Fleet Captain: Glen Bigelow Treasurer: Darrell Struck Secretary: Hal Peterson

Directors: Richard Alexander, Griff Brazil, Sybal Hallbauer, Steve Hutchinson

Membership Chair: Lauren Pressler First Mates President: Susan Proudfoot Staff Commodore: Kelly Mack PICYA Representative: Sybal Hallbauer Webmaster: Bob Skye Foghorn Editor: Sarah Rectenwald

Harbor Master Glenda Linn

Club House: 510-620-9690 Office: 510-233-1046 Cell: 510-375-0289 Fax: 510-233-0843

Mailing Address for

Berthing and Locker

Payments:

PSPYC PO Box 70307 PT. Richmond,

CA 94807

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Cruise-Out - Oyster Point YC May 6-8 : Friday - Prime Rib Dinner Saturday - Kentucky Derby &

Cinco De Mayo Sunday - Mother’s Day Brunch

Member Meeting & Dinner May 13th

Work Party May 14th

Cruise-Out - Petaluma YC May 21st: American Graffitti & Classic Car Show

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