VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Volume 37, No. 1 Jan-Feb-Mar Commodore Bob Richardson. View from the Bridge. Officers and Staff.

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1 Volume 37, No. 1 Jan-Feb-Mar 2017 VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Commodore Bob Richardson Inside This Issue: View from the Bridge Officers and Staff NY Boat Show 2017 Board of Directors and Appointees James F. Lalor International Night HYC Winter Cruise Coming Events I welcome all to our One Hundred Thirty Fifth season and thank the membership for their confidence in electing me as your Commodore. My most important task is to guide the club as the membership desires, and leave the H.Y.C. ready for a One Hundred Thirty Sixth year. I have a strong board of directors and flag officers to help in this endeavor. P.C. Califano has left us in the black for the second year in a row. Having served on and off the board for the last twenty years, I cannot begin to tell you what a difference it makes. We will do our best to continue along the same lines. As I am writing this article, we have just had a successful International Night. Please see my wife Joan s article on International Night on page 5. We welcome Frank Cavacini as our new Rear Commodore. Frank is a 38- year member of the club, and a retired civil engineer. Fadi Dagher will be taking over as House Chairman, taking Frank s position on the board. Peter Green is taking the Launch Chairman s position, as Howard Carpenter is stepping down. Justin Lewis is taking over as Restaurant Chairman, as Bill Clancy is also stepping down. I want to thank Bill and Howard for their service to the club. Our new Vice Commodore is Peter Trunfio. Peter is a workhorse for the club. Many of the newer members know him from his tenure as Membership Chairman. He also handles sportswear and is the go-to guy regarding the N.Y. Boat Show. P.C. Anthony Rosco as Membership Chairman has been the driving force behind our rise in membership. He also led the effort to have a new display made for the boat show. The members who attended Saturday s meeting were able to see that the work paid off. Not only do we have an up to date display, when it has to be taken down, it takes less than fifteen minutes and it all fits into a box with wheels. In the past, the retiring commodore fades into the background for the first year. I want to thank P.C. Mark Cetta who after his year as commodore came right back to become Dock Master. P.C. Jeep Califano has come back to be Race Chairman, replacing new dad Philip Swanton, outgoing Race Chairman. In the next edition, I will cover the remainder of the Board who have returned this year. I will also go over some of the projects we will be working on. Commodore Bob Richardson

2 Flag Officers: Commodore Vice Commodore Rear Commodore Secretary Treasurer Trustees: Entertainment Finance Food, Beverage & Catering Grounds & Lockers House Launch & Moorings Marine Membership Appointees: DEP Compliance & Dart Czar Dockmaster Fleet Captain Fleet Surgeon Goodwill Log Editor & Historian Asst. Log Editor Race Chairman Sportswear Webmaster Staff: Stewards Office Administrator Officers and Staff: Bob Richardson Peter Trunfio Frank Cavacini Ellen Murphy George Morstatt Kim Hollingworth Brian Hendricks, PC Justin Lewis Bennet Weber Fadi Dagher Peter Green Dan McElwreath Anthony Rosco, PC Walt Tyler Mark Cetta, PC Roger Karlebach Chin Ju Li, MD Nancy Curtiss Evelyn Schneider Art Koenig Jeep Califano Peter Trunfio Roy Smith Anne Booth & Kwon Chong Johanna Paciullo New York Boat Show Photo by Roger Karlebach by Roger Karlebach As an HYC volunteer, I had the privilege of staffing the snappy new professional looking display for our booth at the show. Nice, with lots of literature on the table explaining our programs. But the big advantage of the new display is that it rolls up into a small cylinder that, when empty, serves as a base for a table, and which, when full, we can bring through the front door instead of having to deal with (sometimes) ornery and (always) expensive employees of the Javits Center who we had to use to bring the old display in from the loading dock. There s also a nice larger display screen, lower left, on which lots of photos form a slide show. Regrettably, except for a sailing kayak by Hobie Cats, this was exclusively a power boat show, so, for sailors, there was little of interest among the many boats, but it serves our Club's recruitment efforts. Having more members spreads our fixed costs among more folks, lowering dues. And we attracted many transients who enjoy cruising in our area, which in the end adds to our mooring and restaurant income. HYC Contact Information HYC Office & Catering (718) HYC Launch House (718) HYC Office Fax (718) HYC Website HYC monitors: VHF 72 Log Submissions Deadline 20 th of the Month Mark Cetta, Anthony Rosco, and Charlie Schneider staff the club booth. Photo by Evelyn Schneider

3 2017 HYC Board of Directors From upper left: PC Brian Hendricks, Peter Green, Ellen Murphy, Bennet Weber, PC Anthony Rosco, RC Frank Cavacini, Commodore Bob Richardson, VC Peter Trunfio. In thumbnails: Fadi Dagher, Kim Hollingworth, George Morstatt, Dan McElwreath, Justin Lewis. All positions are listed on facing page at far left. Appointees: Nancy Curtiss, Art Koenig, Evelyn Schneider, PC Jeep Califano, Roy Smith, Walt Tyler, PC Mark Cetta, Dr. CJ Li, Roger Karlebach.

4 James F. Lalor served as Commodore of the Harlem Yacht Club from 1887 to He sailed the Peerless, a 30.5-foot cabin sloop, which the New York Times described as the crack boat of the Harlem Yacht Club fleet. The article below shows her winning the club s tenth annual Memorial Day Regatta, a tradition which the club kept up for some 60 years. A painting of the Peerless adorns the north wall in our Lounge. Lalor presided over the club when it was located at 125 th street, and supervised its settling into its new environment at the Randall mansion, where it stayed for over 10 years. Lalor was so beloved by his membership that when he declined to serve a fourth term as their commodore, the membership presented him with the plaque depicted at right also on our north wall as a testament to their appreciation. May 31, 1893, page 6 By HYC Historian, Evelyn Schneider [Partial results table omitted] At a special meeting of the Harlem Yacht Club held Dec. 20 th, 1890, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted. Whereas, our esteemed friend and associate, James F. Lalor, declines to honor us again as Commodore, and wishes to retire from the active management of our organization to enjoy a well merited respite from the anxieties and responsibilities of the position, and Whereas, In the many years he has graced the position with entire satisfaction to us and with honor to himself, No decision has ever been questioned or appealed from, and Whereas His uniform moderation, gentleness of manner and kind consideration have challenged our admiration and won our esteem, We have always found him unsolicited, an earnest, painstaking, effective worker in our interests, never flagging, but always endeavoring to help us onward and upward and Whereas, To him, more than to anyone else is due the credit of establishing our Organization on a firm substantial foundation, Therefore, be it resolved that We the Officers and Members of the Harlem Yacht Club of the City of New York manifest our appreciation of his long and faithful service; our admiration for his purity of thought and expression; our affection for him as friend and brother, and our loving assurance that while he may have many able successors, his name entwined with tender recollections will ever live in our memory and hearts as our Commodore. And be it further resolved that these Resolutions be inscribed in full on our Minutes, and a copy suitably engrossed be presented to him.

5 International Night By Joan Richardson International Night has always been a favorite at the Harlem and this year was no exception. From Argentine empanadas to homemade truffles, the food was wonderful. We started with appetizers of salmon wrapped in asparagus, Swedish meatballs, Scotch eggs and stuffed mushrooms to name a few. We then moved on to an array of delicious entrees. Our members made dishes like chicken vindaloo, Irish pork, Kentucky Bourbon chili and many other favorites. The dessert table was an assortment of homemade cakes, pies, cookies and pastries. It was such a nice evening. It s always fun to see everyone in the middle of winter and start talking about the upcoming season. I want to thank all those who participated in International Night with a special thanks to Diane Lages, Dorothy Budd and Lesley Brough for all their help in a very hot kitchen. As this event is a club fundraiser, all proceeds will go towards some clubhouse improvement as yet to be determined.

6 HYC WINTER CRUISE by Roger Karlebach Our Excursion to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to View Their Nautical Exhibits The Met has a terrific collection of late 19th century oil paintings in a semi storage area of the North American wing, which was focused on New York harbor. The Emperor" was painted for the captain of a Tugboat, extolling the power of his boat. That's me reading its title, printed all the way across the bottom. Incidentally, most of the photos in this posting (all the good ones) are by Chris Wentz of ZSails, who is not a Harlemite but has attended our last two excursions. We started our tour in Egypt, almost 4000 years ago, with these models of papyrus funeral sailing barges for the Nile, found in a Pharaoh's tomb during the 19th century. This one is being rowed on its way home, against the prevailing wind. The large white vertical appears to be boom and mast gallows. another model showed the mast and boom set up for a square-rigged sail. Some of our better sailors figured out how they steered this barge, which had eluded me. "The Cloud", evokes the mood of an impending storm on a dark night, being interpreted by my friend, Greg. He is an artist and professor and really knows about art, though he modestly chides me for telling people this. He agreed to come along to plan our trip and pointed out a lot of the things we otherwise would have missed and enhanced our visit.

7 We saw old Dutch Masters who painted at the other Haarlem, the one in Holland, painted during the period that New York was New Amsterdam. France was represented by Courbet. After a lively discussion, we agreed this was after a shipwreck. And England was represented by Turner s "Whalers", painted for a wealthy whaleship owning patron who refused the painting after it was done -- too violent! The black blob, the whale's head has just stove some boats, to its right. And we went to Papua-New Guinea to check out this fifty-foot dugout canoe, built in 1960 by named native craftsmen, used as a riverine cargo barge, and purchased by a Rockefeller for the Museum. It looks primitive but is the newest of the works we viewed. And most of us stayed to enjoy lunch together at nearby Via Quadronno.

8 Coming Events