VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Volume 33, No. 2 Mar-Apr 2013

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1 Volume 33, No. 2 Mar-Apr 2013 Inside This Issue: View from the Bridge Officers and Staff Contact Info Volunteers Get Well Wishes International Night Club Cruise Meeting Yacht Club Exhibit 218 Days and 218 Nights Coming Events VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Commodore Steve Lochner April 1st is here already! This year seems to be moving in fast forward at HYC. Our Clubhouse is beginning to show signs of coming back to life: the walls are painted, the floors have been replaced, and our dedicated volunteers are working hard at refurbishing the walk-in box in the kitchen. The bar will be getting a new sink and beer cooler this week, and the great clean-up is about to begin. Next stop, the waterfront! We will be temporarily rehabilitating the dock to make it usable as we will begin the launching season in the next few weeks. I would recommend that if you need to go out on the dock, please use every caution as the dock is missing some planks and a portion of the handrails. The water is mighty cold this time of year! All of the marine contractors we have contacted are presently booked on other repair work and we have to wait for our turn. In the meantime, we will string temporary light and water to keep things usable and set up some fencing to keep things and people on the dock. Our mooring contractor, C&C, is now setting up mooring balls and bridles. Please be sure to check that your gear is in place before you schedule your launching date, and remember that all boat owners and contractors when working in the yard need to make every effort to contain paint residue from sanding, power washing and painting. A plastic tarp can be used but must be disposed of by the member. HYC can no longer provide recycling for waste oil or antifreeze. The Department of Environmental Protection has been taking a close look at club and marina operations on City Island. Lastly, please consider volunteering to join a committee. All of the members of the board welcome the opportunity to have someone to assist in their respective areas. There's plenty to do and the "help wanted" sign is out! Please contact Vice Commodore Mark Cetta and he'll be happy to help you find your spot. Looking forward to a fully operational club and to another great boating season at HYC. Hope to see you all soon. Cheers, Steve Lochner Commodore

2 VOLUNTEERS Officers and Staff: Flag Officers: Commodore Vice Commodore Rear Commodore Secretary Treasurer Trustees: Entertainment Finance Food, Beverage & Catering Grounds & Lockers House Launch & Moorings Marine Membership Appointees: Fleet Captain Fleet Surgeon Goodwill Historian Race Chairman Sportswear Webmaster Log Editor Staff: Restaurant Manager Office Administrator Steve Lochner Mark Cetta Jeep Califano Ellen Murphy Dana Lauria Paul Beaudin John Wilkes Jill Standridge Vincent Pirone Bill Clancy Kris Haymon George Morstatt Peter M. Trunfio Marcia Leeds Dr. Chin Ju Li, MD Nancy Curtiss Evelyn Schneider Roy Smith George Ross Roy Smith Evelyn Schneider Keira Austin Johanna Paciullo George Gibbons and Bob Richardson two carpenters extraordinaire on task, rebuilding the foundation and subfloor to the Atrium. Get well wishes go to Nancy Curtiss, our own good will representative, who recently underwent surgery. HYC Contact Information: HYC Office & Catering (718) HYC Launch House (718) HYC Office Fax (718) HYC Website HYC monitors: VHF 72 Log Submissions Deadline: 15th of the Month Launch service begins April 20 th.

3 INTERNATIONAL NIGHT by Rowena Lochner "Thank you!" to all 76 members and guests who came to the club on the night of February 23 rd and made International Night a huge success. Given the club's post-sandy state of recovery, the Commodore and I were very pleased with the show of support and fantastic turnout. We truly appreciated the spectacular food and monetary contributions, as well as the assistance given by many throughout the evening, from start to end. We could not have done it without you!

4 CLUB CRUISE MEETING We had our first cruise meeting of the season on March 9th. It was well attended, and lots of good ideas were exchanged. Those in attendance agreed on an itinerary that will take us up the Connecticut coast to Stonington, Conn. and Watch Hill, RI. We will then cross the LI Sound, and travel along the North Shore of LI. The trip will begin on Saturday, July 20 th, returning to HYC on Sunday, August 4th. This trip will be designed to accommodate those members who are still working, and cannot take the full two weeks off. Almost every port will be accessible by either Metro North or the LI RR, so that members can leave and rejoin the cruise as needed. We will also have Port Captains that will make the arrangements at each port, and inform members of sights to see, things to do, etc. Our next meeting will take place on April 4pm. I invite and welcome any cruiser who may even have just a slight curiosity about the trip. We would love to have newer members join us, as this will be a great trip for first time cruisers, as well as, those who have traveled with us in the past, and have some favorite ports that they want to be on the itinerary. I look forward to "seaing" ya'all at our next meeting. Marcia Leeds, HYC Fleet Captain

5 YACHT CLUB EXHIBIT Many club members turned out on March 24 th for the successful opening of the Yacht Club exhibit at the City Island Nautical Museum. The exhibit featured offerings from the Island s four yacht clubs the Harlem, the City Island YC, the Stuyvesant and the Morris Beach and Yacht Club as well as the Touring Kayak Club and the Island Boat Club. In addition, the EBYRA (Eastchester Bay Yacht Racing Association) and Fleet 61 (the local one-design J-24 fleet) were represented. The HYC exhibit was put together by Evelyn Schneider and Ellen Murphy, with Evelyn supplying most of the historical material and Ellen providing the onsite coordination. The museum graciously furnished refreshments during the Open House. The exhibit will be on display through July. Admission is free, although donations are appreciated. It is located at 190 Fordham St., just up the hill from the City Island Diner. Photos by Rowena Lochner & Evelyn Schneider

6 218 Days and 218 Nights By Roger Karlebach OK, I confess. Yes, I am a bit compulsive about counting things. By recording facts in a log, one gains the ability to see patterns that are interesting to me and perhaps to some of you. Actually the "log" is more of a diary than a traditional sailing log. It is the source from which the posts to our Blog are drawn, but has a lot more detail. Many have asked where we went and what we did on a daily basis or on a typical day, etc. So here goes. The on-board portion of last winter s return trip adds up to 218 days and nights. This began with ILENE s splashdown into the brownish waters of St. David Harbor, on the SE coast of Grenada on November 7, And it ended with our arrival at the Harlem Yacht Club, City Island, New York, on June 12, The 218 exclude our thirteen days in a hotel at St. David's while preparing the boat for her voyage after her summer on land in Grenada. Where did we go? We visited 17 nations aboard ILENE, which are listed below in the order we visited them. Following each is a parenthesis with numbers in it. The first number represents the number of separate ports, anchorages or marinas at which we stopped for at least one night in each nation. Then, following a dash, the second number shows the total number of nights spent in that nation. Seven of the 17 nations, those with an asterisk following the parentheses, are nations we did not visit on our way south the winter before new nations to us. An 18 th nation, also with asterisk,would be Saba, Dutch West Indies, but we visited this nation by ferry from Sint Maarten rather than aboard ILENE and we did not spend a night there. Grenada 4-20 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 4-8 St. Lucia 2-3 Martinique 4-9 Domenica 1-1 Guadeloupe 5-10 Antigua 3-7 Nevis 1-8* St. Barts 2-2* Sint Maarten (Dutch)** 1-10* Anguilla 1-3* The British Virgin Islands 6-9 The US Virgin Islands 5-9 Puerto Rico 8-25* Turks and Caicos 5-10* The Bahamas 14-34* USA **(ILENE was in French Saint Martin last year) We spent six nights nowhere, that is, underway, at sea. (Two nights during which we got underway in the dark of the early morning hours are counted as if we stayed that night.) All of the eight total and partial at sea nights were in the final 43 percent of the days of the trip. We stopped in 84 ports, but Lene spent 19 days in 18 of those 84 ports without going ashore. I had only 18 "stay aboard" anchorages because I went exploring at St. Louis on Marie Galante Island in Guadeloupe while Lene remained aboard there. Most of these stay aboard places were either due to high winds which would have made dinghy rides problematic, or because there was simply no nearby attractions ashore; and one was due to customs and immigration. You don't have to

7 check in and out if you stay only one night and do not go ashore which we did in Domenica. 218 nights divided by 18 nations means an average of twelve days per nation; median - nine. There are many other places that we would have liked to stay longer and many others that we had to skip, and any return trip would surely also include a return to some of our favorites. How often and how far did we move? ILENE made 83 passages which, with overnight passages taking more than one day, means she moved during 89 of the 218 days or 41 percent of the days about two of five. So three of five days were "lay days." When I was younger I would have despised such a lazy plan but now... we had lots of sailing, thank you. Our stays in any one spot ranged from one day, e.g. in Prince Rupert Bay, Domenica to ten days in the lagoon in Sint Maartin. Average duration in each port: 2.6 nights. Interspersed with longer stays in some ports were periods in which we made a new passage each of four or five consecutive days, as in the lower Bahamas and approaching home. The length of each passage (excluding the overnight passages such as 300 miles during all or parts of three consecutive days (from Boqueron, Puerto Rico to Big Sand Cay in the Turks and Caicos) ranged from 88 miles -- from Anguilla to Virgin Gorda in the BVIs -- to as little as two miles when we transited from Gustavia to Anse de Columbier, both in St. Barts. Total mileage (measured by the shortest logical safe route from port to port (excluding additional miles spent tacking, and searching through an anchorage for a good spot, and rounding each day s voyage up or down to the nearest whole nautical mile) aggregated 3281 nautical miles. Not so very far just a bit more than 1/8 of the earth s circumference as a straight line. Our course, however, was quite jagged and generally was a gentle S -shaped curve northbound up the Windward and Leewards, then curving to WNW from Anguilla to Florida, followed by a curve to NE and North up the coast of the States. And we averaged 37 miles per day for the 89 days of travel, with a lower median because some long days skew the average. How did we secure ILENE at night? Six nights we were underway. 3% 38 nights we were on docks. 17% 43 nights we were on moorings. 20% 131 nights we were on our anchor. 60% We used docks more as we got closer to home: First 81 nights zero docks 0% Middle 84 nights 12 docks 14% Final 53 nights 26 docks 49% Where did we eat our 218 breakfasts, lunches and dinners? We ate three breakfasts off the boat, 52.5 lunches (a half is used when one of us ate out and the other stayed aboard) and 60.5 dinners (11 of the 60.5 dinners were on other people s boats or their land homes rather than in restaurants. And we had 16 meals aboard ILENE with people from other boats: mango pancake breakfasts or dinners, in addition to many meals aboard with others during the 14 days that three sets of guests voyaged with us during the trip. These social meals aboard with others are simply accounted for as meals eaten aboard.) So 26 percent of all lunches and dinners were off ILENE, mostly in restaurants. Figure about one lunch or dinner "out" each two days. So there you have our great adventure, statisticalized. I would be happy to try to answer any questions.

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