GRAND TRAVERSE YACHT CLUB

WATERLINES Official Newsletter of the

Grand Traverse Yacht Club 13615 S. Bayshore Drive

Traverse City, MI 231.946.9779 www.gtyc.org

FLAG OFFICERS COMMODORE

Bud Cline VICE COMMODORE

Mac VanStratt REAR COMMODORE

Ken Stepnitz PAST COMMODORE

Tom Cowell

2007 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jim Dye

Dan Spyhalski Bev Stepnitz

Than Dykstra Paul Davis

Steve Wyckoff TREASURER David Skibowski SECRETARY Jon Siebers

COMMITTEE CHAIRS Building/Grounds Matt Hughey Club Rentals Jessica Gerber/Jim Dye Cruising Club Karen Downing &

Lisa Wilmeth Food/Beverage Jessica Gerber Membership Jim Dye Merchandise Deb Wyckoff

Moorings/Storage Steve Wyckoff, Fred Wilmeth

Newsletter Dannielle Higgins Race David Gerber, Joe Richter,

Nate Reynolds Hound Dog Regatta Dan Spyhalski Leukemia Cup Jamie & Laura Stuursma Melges 24 Fleet Mike Dow Interlake Fleet Bob Sagan Laser Fleet Jamie Stuursma &

Than Dykstra Social Fred & Lisa Wilmeth Website Steve Wyckoff

Waterlines JULY 2007

FROM THE BRIDGE By Bud Cline, Commodore

Hound Dog Regatta The books are closed on another Hound Dog Regatta. About 30 boats entered the regatta. The wind was a little light but our race committee chair, Eric Lind, adjusted the courses to make the races interesting. 250 people partied at the Club Saturday night and enjoyed the music of the Horn Dogs. Hats off to Dan Spy-halski, Dick Wollam, Julie Richards, Russ Whitney, Jim Dye, Glen Rauth, Paul Davis, Neil Davis, Steve & Deb Wyckoff, David Skibowski, Mac VanStratt and Bill VanWesten on Rover for all of your volunteer efforts (I am sure that I left someone out!). If you missed your chance to purchase a Hound Dog Hat or Tee-shirt, we still have a few in inventory. Check with Dan Spyhal-ski.

Leukemia Cup (July 4th) The Leukemia Cup is scheduled for July 4th. A dinner will fol-low the race, then fire works at dark.

Omena Long Distance Race (August 18 &19) The destination of the Northport Race has been changed to Omena Bay. The newly remodeled Knot-Just-a-Restaurant (formerly the Omena Bar) has invited the Club to a party at the restaurant Saturday night and Sunday morning. We hope to en-courage GTYC cruising sailors and powerboat cruisers to ren-dezvous with the races for a fun Saturday night meal and Sunday morning Brunch. The plans are still under development.

Mac Racers Our best wishes to the GTYC participants and entries in the July Mac Races. Get out on the water!

The membership@gtyc.org email list has been shut down. The official email communications is now from gtyc-membership@googlegroups.com . 244 invitations were sent out and 101 people accepted. After the Waterlines has been mailed I will reissue the invitations to those who did not respond. You will receive a message from noreply@googlegroups.com similar to the following: gtyc@charter.net has invited you to join the GTYC Membership group with this message: Welcome the the new GTYC email list. Here is the group's description: GTYC news ---------------------- Google Groups Information ---------------------- You can accept this invitation by clicking the following URL: http://groups.google.com/group/gtyc-membership/sub?s=***********&hl=en Access to the group on the web requires a Google Account. If you don't have a Google Account set up yet, you'll first need to create an account before you can access the group. You can create an account at: h t t p : / / w w w . g o o g l e . c o m / a c co un t s /N e w A c c o u n t ?s e r v i c e = g r o u p s 2 &d * * * * * * * * * * * * yc -membership%3Fhl%3Den --------------------- If This Message Is Unwanted --------------------- If you feel that this message is abuse, please inform the Google Groups staff by using the URL below. http://groups.google.com/groups/abuse?invite=MgAAAFf***********AA&hl=en You MUST click on the supplied link in the body of the message to accept the invitation. Just reading the message will not activate your membership in the list. You do not need to set up an account. You do not need to access the website. IF you have spam filters or other security software on your computer you must allow email from nore-ply@googlegroups.com and gtycmembership@googlegroup.com to receive the emails. If the above does not work and you wish to be added to the email list send an email to gtyc@charter.net requesting your email address be added.

GTYC EMAIL LIST, by Ken Stepnitz

FEEL THE LOVE!!!.........................................................................................................PC40

YES, feel the LOVE!!! It’s that time of year and the YC is abuzz w/ activity. We’ve just finished the Umpteenth (8th or 9th???) Annual Hound Dog Regatta w/ at least 4 or 5 boats coming from foreign waters and we are all craving for more racing activity!!! Cudo’s to those of you that took part, Con-grat’s to those that won some swag, and SHAME on you for those that did not turn out!!! Next year we are counting on YOU!!!

Lots of events coming up w/ the Leukemia Cup on July 4th for a great cause. If you haven’t signed up yet, do it now and start some serious fundraising. This will be a GREAT event w/ lots of fun on the water followed by a SILENT AUCTION!!!, a PIG ROAST!!!, and FIREWORKS!!!

Friday, July 6th, is the Annual TACS Cherry Pit Jr. Regatta on Boardman Lake and, if you don’t know what TACS is stop me anywhere, anytime for a “brief” explanation!!! We are expecting kids from all over NW MI and maybe even some down-staters as well to participate in this event. If you haven’t experienced kids having FUN!!! on the water, you need to come out for this event!!! OH, and by the way, TACS is currently raising funds for their BOATHOUSE and if you would like to contribute we would greatly appreciate your support. Details at the BAR or w/ any TACS Board Member.

The rest of July brings us the Interlake Regatta on the 21st and 22nd and a Long Distance Race on the 28th (TC - Suttons Bay) as well as the Mackinac races and a few other events. Also, I’m sure that many will be crusing up to Beaver, Mackinac, or even the North Channel. August will be more of the same I hope and we WILL see you at the RED FOX!!!

All the final preparations are coming into focus for the Leuke-mia Cup Regatta to be held July 4th at GTYC. We have se-cured some fabulous items to be used in the silent auction in-cluding rounds of golf from local courses, food items, and great giveaways from the National Sponsors including Mount Gay Rum and West Marine, among many others. The format will be very similar to a typical Wednesday night race with plans to do 2-3 races depending on conditions. We

will be offering a Racing fleet, a JAM fleet and an Open division for those wishing to race a multihull, Laser or other sailboat. There will be a pig roast dinner will the trimmings follow-ing the afternoon festivities, along with aforementioned silent auction and the bar will be open all night to enjoy the 4th of July fireworks on the front lawn. The entry fee is a$75 which is a tax deductible contribution to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. All the proceeds from this event go the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to fund-ing blood cancer research, education and patient services. Since its founding in 1949, the Society has invested more than $486 million into research, which has led to advances in diagnosis and treatment and improving the overall survival rate of patients diagnosed with blood cancers. The Notice of Race is posted at GTYC and will be emailed to the membership as well. Please contact Jamie or Laura Stuursma at ljstuursma@chartermi.net with any questions.

TC to Charlevoix

Race photos to follow next month….

Greetings Laser Sailing fans!! The summer is rolling and the Laser fleet is off to a rousing start. We have had great weather for the 4 Tuesdays in June and have had some spectacular sailing and close racing. We have had 21 different boats racing during the month of June with a high of 16 on two nights. Come join the fun, there are many levels of skills out sailing as well as many age brackets, from the Dirk Phelps and his small sail to the “experienced” Ned Lockwood still teaching us all some lessons. We capped off the month of June with Hot Dog party after sailing with monthly awards, a prac-tice that will continue throughtout the summer on the last Tuesday of July and August, so come join us for some sailing and even some Hot Dog eating at the end of July. Jason Massaroni sailed very well to take top honors for the month of June. Congrats Jason! We also had some great Jr. sailors making tre-mendous strides and challenging the leaders each night. They are certainly the future of the club.

GTYC LASER NEWS JAMIE STURSMA

Name Sail # 6/5 6/12 6/19 6/27 Race Totals Place Jason Masaroni 175202 1 4 1 6 12 1 Patrick Gerber 172904 6 8 5 3 22 2 Rob Lovell 6 2 12 9 5 28 3 Jon Forton 131390 DNS 2 3 2 30 4 Tom Babel 24040 4 3 DNS 4 34 5 Clark Phelps 87751 10 7 11 7 35 6 Keith Forton 0 5 1 DNS 8 37 7 Gus Stauber 120000 8 9 12 12 41 8 Spencer Powell 158357 9 5 8 DNS 45 9 Than Dykstra 175885 DNS DNS 2 1 49 10 Jay Kraft 170671 DNS 6 10 10 49 11 Bob Sagan 0 3 DNS 4 DNS 53 12 Tom Young 58233 7 DNS 13 11 54 13 Joergen Trepp 116880 DNS DNS 6 9 61 14 Dirk Phelps 61018 DNS 13 14 15 65 15 Eric Miliman 100698 DNS DNS 7 13 66 16 Jacqui Morganstein 157935 DNS 10 DNS 16 72 17 Ben Corwin DNS 11 DNS DNS 80 18 Morgan Young 11 DNS DNS DNS 80 19 Ned Lockwood 109930 DNS DNS DNS 14 83 20 Gus Arndt 109930 DNS DNS 15 DNS 84 21 Jr. Fleet Name Sail # 6/5 6/12 6/19 6/27 Race Totals Place Clark Phelps 87751 10 7 11 7 35 1 Gus Stauber 120000 8 9 12 12 41 2 Spencer Powell 158357 9 5 8 DNS 45 3 Joergen Trepp 116880 DNS DNS 6 9 61 4 Dirk Phelps 61018 DNS 13 14 15 65 5 Ben Corwin DNS 11 DNS DNS 80 6 Morgan Young 11 DNS DNS DNS 80 7 Gus Arndt 109930 DNS DNS 15 DNS 84 8

Some Interesting information regarding the orientation of the GTYC flagpole: A mast should be installed as if it is the mast of a ship putting out to sea, i.e., heading toward an intended viewer. That is, the gaff should point aft. If you stand at the base of the pole looking forward (toward the intended viewer), the extremities of the yardarm are termed port (on your left) and starboard (on you right), just as they would be on a vessel. When the pole is associated with a particular building, the gaff (if any) should extend from the pole in the general direction of the building. Thus, if you stand in or next to the building looking at the pole, think of yourself as looking forward on a ship; the starboard side of the pole is on your right as you face the flagpole.

The gaff is considered to be the honored position. This is why the flag flies from this location and not from the top of the mast.

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MEMBERSHIP By JIM DYE, Committee Chair

The summer season is in full swing and so is our club. Weather you’re Racing, Cruising or just hanging out, GTYC is the place to be. We just finished our Hound Dog Weekend with a terrific turn out! I hope you had a chance to make it down for any or all of the fun activities. Special thanks to Big Dogs, Capt Spyke, Dick Wollam, Julie Richards, Eric Lind and Bill VanWesten. You’ all know how to do it right! We now look forward to the 4th of July and the Leukemia Cup activities, Racing, Dinner, Silent Auction and Fireworks. Don’t miss it! New Members are still filling our ranks because of all the fun things we do here at GTYC. Please wel-come; Mike & Kim Lauer Social Traverse City Annette Benson Social Traverse City Jim & Pat Talbott Social Interlochen Libbett Terrell Social Traverse City Katie Horvath Social Traverse City Welcome one and all, I sincerely hope you find GTYC to be one of the best kept secrets in northern Lake Michigan!

GRAND TRAVERSE YACHT CLUB P.O. BOX 131 TRAVERSE CITY, MI 49685-0131

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