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WELCOME
ABOARD!
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
FOR 2008
Dave Dodd – Commodore
Rob Giberson – Membership – Vice Commodore
Larry Tilling – Sailing School – Rear Commodore
Barrie Atkinson– House
Brian Skuffham – Treasurer
Gerry den Hartog – Moorings
Tonny den Boer – Docks
Gary Eames – Property
Manager – Dennis Payne
Doug Trumble - Secretary
Bay Beaver Bugle Editor – Ross Trant
Safety Officer – Jack Strachan
Volunteer Coordinator – Cathie Coultis
Contact the Bugle at: 613-399-2476, or by email at
kilahara@gmail.com or rtrant@sympatico.ca
Deadline for submissions:
The 28th of each month
except February, when it is the 26th
Coming Events!
Lobster Dinner – June 13
Sail Past – June 14
Commodore’s Corner
Now
that most of the boats are in the water and some have begun racing
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some of us have even gone
for a cruise, we can look forward to the official start of the
sailing season with Sail Past on June 14. Starting with a fine
lobster and or steak dinner on the Friday night, we will have the
flag raising, blessing of the fleet and then the Sail Past on
Saturday the 14th in the afternoon. There will be BBQ’d
burgers and dogs on shore and we have a DJ lined up to start us
dancing right after the BBQ. So bring your sailing hats and dancing
shoes and have a great time.
PEYC was
incorporated in February 1938. We’ll hopefully have some surprises
at Sail Past to commemorate our 70th year as a Yacht
Club.
The County is
working with the Federal Government on the divestiture of the
various small craft harbours and docks around the County. Picton is
the next and final one to be divested to the town and the County
(and ourselves) are determined that the docks and seawall should be
brought up to a state where they are as good as, or better than, new
and ready to last for 25 years with no major repairs.
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The Yacht Club is involved through our agreement with the County in
the management of the docks and we will be reviewing the plans as
they are produced. The County’s experience with the previous
divestitures is that the government agreed to finance all the work
requested by the County. We are also fortunate that one of our
members will be preparing the engineering plans for the
reconstruction. Timing of the reconstruction is uncertain – they
will try for this fall after our haulout to begin, but it could be
delayed til spring or even fall 2009 depending
on the government’s ability to move quickly on this. I’ll try to
keep you posted as this progresses.
From the
House
House Chair, Barrie Atkinson, reported the Club dinner held on
Friday May 23 was a sold-out success. The meal was excellent and the
entertainment equally so. The after-dinner presentation, by Richard
Bird of BQYC was about the adventures of Jack and Gwen Braidway
and the voyage of the Yankee, with Irving Johnson, capped the
evening. Many thanks to Bob Clapp for making the arrangements for
us.
The Friday
Happy Hours continue with appetizers served when there is not a
scheduled club dinner. Volunteers are always welcome to assist.
Please contact Barrie if you can help.
Sailing
School
Plans for the
summer are well under way, and registrations are coming in rapidly.
If you have children or grand children planning to attend, be sure
to submit applications soon.
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Parking will be restricted in the
Sailing school area while students are present.
Larry
Tilling, Rear Commodore
Volunteers
Corner
Thank you to
everyone who helped with the spring work parties, and please keep an
eye on the bulletin board in the Club for the coming events.
Volunteers
are needed for the barbecue at Sail Past, June 14. Please contact
Barrie Atkinson.
Hedonists’
Corner
By Gord
Timperon
Escape
from Quinte Point, Part Two
The few hours
we spent at our harbour of refuge, Quinte Point, became the
Murphy’s Law principle, anything that can go wrong will. Quinte
Point allowed us some time to see if we could replace the flywheel
back on the engine. No such luck. The anchorage was filling with
numerous boats and the light airs we started with earlier began to
strengthen and change direction. With only sail power and a small
auxiliary engine and dinghy we thought we should move on before the
winds intensified as we weren’t comfortable that the ground tackle
would hold in the upcoming conditions.
Being sailors
we set the sails, assuming that the thousands of deep tropical water
miles and forty years of sailing experience, what else could go
wrong? Gord and Sue, global travellers now looked like an episode of
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As the sails
filled we tried to retrieve our anchor, which had set beautifully in
the weeds. We must have provided our fellow sailors with something
between entertainment and panic as they watched us try to manoeuvre
through the anchorage under sail with our favourite Northill anchor
skimming the waterline. The anchor had collected close to a ton of
weeds which produced a dragging effect and due to the amount we were
unable to raise it to the deck.
So into the
dinghy I launch myself leaving Sue at the helm and tending the
sails. I was able to free the remnants of Quinte Point from the
anchor while Salty Dog manoeuvred through the packed anchorage and
out into the Bay of Quinte.
Back aboard
after a few anxious moments we began to take stock. Salty Dog was
sailing well and no worse for wear, there were no collisions. So far
so good until I looked at my leg. My ankle was close to the size of
a cantaloupe and numerous cuts along my leg producing various hues
of red, blue, black, and yellow which occurred when I launched
myself into the dinghy. As for Sue, she was bleeding profusely and
swearing like a longshoreman from those lovely little sailing aids,
the stainless steel cotter pins which were exposed and pointing out
around thigh level. You would think that it was the Battle of
Trafalgar rather than a safe anchorage we had escaped from as the
decks ran red with our blood.
We
managed to sail through the Telegraph Narrows and towards our
original destination, our friend Peter Barber’s home before
nightfall where
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we shared a
wonderful evening together and a good laugh about the joys of
sailing.
In
Memoriam ~ Terry
Doble
It is with
sadness that we inform members of the recent passing of Terry Doble,
who was a member of PEYC for more than twenty years, from c.1987
until his sad parting from us during the final weeks of May.
When he arrived in the County, Terry, a recently retired
aeronautical engineer, brought with him Terrina, an Ontario
28 sloop which he had purchased in kit form and completed on his
own. His engineering and manual skills showed clearly in the fine
workmanship.
In time, when Terry decided to purchase his home in Picton, he sold
the boat to Conrad Lister who owns her now. Terry replaced his love
with a Shark, and later a Grampian 26, before giving up sailing last
year.
Terry was an active member of the Quinte Model Boat Club whose
members build and sail radio controlled model yachts, competing in
regattas throughout Ontario. He was also a member of the GHOSTS, a
group of mainly retired sailors which began at PEYC and remains
active in the County.
Terry Doble is survived by a son in Hudson, Quebec and two daughters
as well as several grandchildren and great grandchildren as well as
brother in England.
A funeral was held at the Hick’s Funeral Home, Centre Street, Picton
at 2:00 PM, on Wednesday, June 4, 2008.
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