For this article I will start by putting on my nominating committee hat and present your proposed 2024 SBYC board. My fellow committee members LB Day and Patricia Shannon-Garvey were instrumental in putting together this list, and I greatly appreciate their contributions. As always, this is a purely volunteer endeavor, yet board participation is an absolute necessity. Without active and thoughtful participation from the board the club could not continue on.
Although club business has kept me partly occupied as we slip into the quiet season for sailing, I still have a bit too much free time. I typically search out projects for the winter to keep me occupied. I also have a habit of surfing Craig’s List and came across a partially built little sailing pram that the original owner gave up on prior to completion and offered at a very fair price. I have a certain weakness for small boats, and collect them the same way some people rescue puppies. I won’t admit to how many small craft I have, but the combined length is 134 feet. In all fairness, some of these are inflatable, so if deflated the volumetric analysis is not so dire. The new addition came without instructions, adding a bit to the challenge, but in a good way. Once complete it should be a fun addition to the keel-boat for ship to shore duties, a quick sail in a calm anchorage, and even use with my little electric outboard. I have always loved sailing small boats and my first was an El Toro pram, followed by 2 lasers, sailboards and a few beach cat rides. I look forward to a return to small boat sailing, and hopefully some of you will want to give it a try. Yes, the homely little thing is more box shaped than boat shaped, but it is reported to row and sail better than it’s appearance would suggest.
Holiday Time – Dinner Get-Togethers.
With cruising events behind us for 2023, make plans to get together at our November 21 and December 12 Holiday Dinner Meetings.
We are reserved for November 21 and December 12 (earlier in the month than usual in order to avoid conflicting with other holiday events in the week of the 18th). We are again meeting at the Elliott Bay Brewing Company’s Cascade Room (lower level) in Lake City. An Evite will still be sent for all monthly dinner meetings. Even though this new format does not involve capturing everyone’s individual meal choice via Evite, we still need to know how many will be attending, so please reply to the Evite. The buffet meal will include Cobb Salad, Fish & Chips, Carnitas Tacos, Chicken Tenders, and Cuban Sandwiches. Cost is $27 for cash/check and $29 for credit card payment.
After our meal and short business meeting, we will be featuring MOVIE NIGHT. Large bowls of delicious popcorn will help set the mood as we view a couple short movies (videos) of treacherous rounding of Cape Horn. We’ll see amazing footage of the old clipper sailing ships negotiating this fabled passage, followed by more recent footage taken as part of the Volvo Round the World race.
(Photo: www.sail-world.com)
If you haven’t had the opportunity yet to join us at this facility, those who have been at the two Fall meetings thus far have given it very positive reviews. The room provides a more practical setting for conversation – there is, after all, our very own bar and bartender along one whole side of the room.
We hope to see you there!
(Turner, Alexander Harper, active 1920-1950. Ship Garthsnaid. De Maus, David Alexander, 1847-1925 :Shipping negatives. Ref: 1/2-014494-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/23214257)
Announcing a FOOD DRIVE at the November 21 Dinner Meeting and the December 12 Holiday Meeting. Food will be donated to NORTHWEST HARVEST Seattle. Please bring a can or a case of general food items, shelf-stable foods low in sodium, sugar and saturated fats.
Canned Protein (tuna, chicken, beans)
Peanut Butter (Plastic jars are preferred)
Canned Fruit (Low Sugar)
Canned Veggies (Low Sodium)
Rice, White or Brown, in original packaging
Whole Grain Pastas, unopened
Shelf Stable Milk or Dairy Alternatives
Baby and Infant Formula; Diapers
Thank you for helping SBYC serve our Seattle Community and feed families in need. For more ways to
give, or to donate a cash gift visit https://www.northwestharvest.org/ways-to-give/.
