Well, it’s fall now and the leaves are turning, and the holidays will soon be upon us. Thanksgiving, college bowl games, parties and everything leading up to the New Year! It’s an exciting time of the year and I hope everyone is getting their shopping done in preparation for the holidays.
Most of you will (and all of you should) be checking your boats, making sure they are secure for the winter. Probably not too many of you will be going out in your boats unless you want to tag along with the Christmas ships. A few of you might be going racing in the Snowbird series. This year’s Christmas dinner/meeting/party/gift exchange will again be at Ivar’s with both banquet rooms open for us. I look forward to seeing a large crowd with everyone there with rings on their fingers and bells on their toes! Well, maybe bells around their necks instead.
Roger again has a great speaker lined up for November’s meeting. Get your dinner choice to him in time to attend the event. The dinner meeting is on the 20th!
Cheers, Ken
Next Dinner Meeting: Tuesday, November 20, 2018
IVAR’S Salmon House, 401 NE Northlake Way, Seattle
5:30pm – Meet and Greet
6:45pm – Dinner in the Banquet Room
Topic: “The Steamer Virginia V Foundation”
Speakers: Heron Scott, Executive Director
We have two NEW menu choices, thanks to the team at IVAR’s Salmon House (see below). As well as learning more about the Virginia V, we will be voting at this meeting on next year’s SBYC Board Members. REMEMBER: Please use the Comments box in your RSVP on Evite to advise how many people and which dinner menu choice each would like.
The Virginia V is a glorious and unique part of local history. In 1921 Anderson & Company of Maplewood, Washington, began construction on the Virginia V. The ship was built of local old-growth fir. She was launched March 9, 1922, and towed to downtown Seattle for the installation of her engine and steam plant. In Seattle the engine was removed from the Virginia IV and installed in the Virginia V. On June 11, 1922, the Virginia V made her maiden voyage from Elliott Bay in Seattle to Tacoma down the West Pass. She was a passenger ferry in this area until the late 1930’s. In the 1940’s she moved to the Columbia River for service, but that proved unsuccessful. After her return to this area, her history continued, including winning the Great Steamboat Race in 1948.
In 1976, supporters formed the Virginia V Foundation, a non-profit organization to preserve the vessel and celebrate her history.
Come hear the whole story and what’s going on today from Heron Scott, the Executive Director of the Virginia V Foundation. The upcoming centennial for this flagship vessel is in 2022, sure to be a big happening for all Puget Sound boaters!
~Tonight’s Featured Menu~
~Starter~
Mixed Greens Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette
~Entrée~
Cedar Plank Roasted Sockeye Salmon
Local berry salsa, cornbread pudding, seasonal vegetable
Blackened Salmon Caesar Salad
Spicy rubbed Coho Salmon served our traditional Caesar Salad
Chicken Marsala
Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables
Ivar’s World Famous Fish ‘n Chips
Original recipe since 1938!
Alaska True Cod, coleslaw
Potato Gnocchi
Potato gnocchi, sweet green peas, mirepoix vegetables, mushrooms, shallots, white wine, lemon cream sauce
Coffee, Decaf, Hot Tea
Special dietary needs can be accommodated; please let me know.
Main course selections are due by 9:00pm on Friday, November 16th. Look for your Evite invitation in your email, then hit reply and use the comments field to tell me how many in your party and their dinner selections. Cancellations must be made by 9:00pm November 16th.
Note that the deadline for reservations is also the deadline for cancelling a previous reservation; otherwise you will be charged for the meal.
Dinner is $35 per person. If you charge your meal (credit card), we will add $1 per meal. Please purchase your drinks from the staff in the banquet room. The receipts count towards our room rental minimums.
WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE EVITE INVITATION TO THE DINNER, PLEASE REPLY AND USE THE “COMMENTS” FIELD TO TELL US HOW MANY IN YOUR PARTY AND WHAT MEALS EACH OF YOU WOULD LIKE!
Ok, everyone, the election is over and the Holidays are soon upon us. Take this opportunity to get your annual dues paid NOW. Deadline is December 15, with a late fee for anyone who renews after this date. PLEASE, make a commitment to yourself to get this done now. For most of us, it’s $70 – hardly a budget-buster.
Reminder of specifics:
- Please get your annual dues (typically $70) paid prior to December 15th
- The ways to pay DO NOT include the peer-to-peer online banking method, which is unfortunate. Because this peer-to-peer method can (in our case) end up with some confusion and errors, we’ve had to eliminate this one method for now. So, your payment options include:
- Mailing a check, payable to SBYC, to our address in Ballard
- Paying by check or credit card at the upcoming Dinner Meeting (November 20)
The other important thing we do each Fall, along with collecting the annual dues, is to update all members’ contact info (the usual name/address/phone/email items plus info about your boat). Historically the process has been a little cumbersome. You’d print a form fill it in and get it to a board member via mail or hand delivery. However, we now have a form on the website, which you can simply fill in. Here’s the link right to that online form: https://shilsholebayyachtclub.org/members/membership-renewal/
SBYC Calendar Project
My wife, Julie, and I enjoy going to the Husky football games on a 27′ sailboat with some close friends. A few years ago, Julie had the great idea to use some of our best photos from that fall’s games to make a calendar for the upcoming year. I would like to make such a calendar for 2019 (and hopefully in years beyond) for our club, with the goal of recording some of the fun get-togethers of 2018 and the people who were there to make it happen and show in the Calendar the key dates for 2019 Dinner Meetings and SBYC Cruises. Thus, it helps our planning month-to-month of all of our activities, as we can be reminded of when the Club get-togethers are happening.
We might also put a few dollars in the club’s general fund through the sale of these. We use the Costco offering to make the calendars, at a cost of roughly $10 per calendar. I’d like to suggest a sale price of $15 per calendar, so that we can put a few bucks in the club’s coffers while enjoying a useful product.
I ask your help in two ways:
(1) Please email me (vicecommodore@shilsholebayyachtclub.org) if you like this idea and would like to order a calendar (or even if you’re leaning towards wanting one)
(2) Please forward to the same email address any good photos you’ve taken while at Club events. For this first calendar, any good photos from the past few years would be useful.
What we’ve noticed in our Husky football crew group with this is that everyone has begun to take and submit very good photos throughout the football season, eager to see their “calendar-worthy” efforts rewarded by making the cut and becoming the lead photo for one of the 12 months in the next year’s calendar. I have kept our copy of each year’s calendar as they have become quite a scrapbook-style item for us in remembering our experiences with the Husky games. I can see that same thing happening here.
Let me know your thoughts!