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The Mainsheet
Volume 53, Number 10, October 2020 Latitude: 30°32’29”N Longitude: 87°54’14”W
From the Commodore They promised a weakening hurricane . . .
Hello Everyone,
What a crazy month! Hurricane
Sally ripped through here and left
a lot of damage for all of us. I hope
you all made it through okay and
with minor damages. The club-
house fared well, but the hoist
area not so well. Please stay away
from the hoist area until we fix
the problem. Youth Sailing is in
full swing so please keep an eye
out in both parking lots for chil-
dren and teenagers. Wadewitz
Regatta is around the corner for In case you haven’t been down to the Club, we have a few pic-
the 73rd year. The regatta will tures to show you how we weathered this storm. The picture
happen October 10 and 11. above was taken in the height of the winds of the morning after
We have some outstanding by Carol Revel from Sea Cliff. The bottom picture and others
employees. I would like to throw
out a special thanks to Holly, Joe, throughout this issue were sent by members. At bottom, the
Pat, and Eric. They were at the harbor from the gazebo about noon after the storm and the
club getting things cleaned up first hoist when we looked at the damage!
thing after the hurricane. They
were cleaning at FYC probably
before they were cleaning their
own yards. Thank you guys.
Chris Dabney,
Commodore
The Nomination Committee has
released their slate of candi-
dates for 2021. It will be found
on page 6. If you are interested
in serving on any of our elected
committees or have a candidate
to propose, the November meet-
ing will accept candidates from
the floor.
Our Governor has continued her mandate,
MASKS are de réguèur at Fairhope Yacht Club!
The Mainsheet is published
monthly by the Fairhope
The Layline ~ Sailing Director Holly Murry
Yacht Club, a member of short set back on the start of fall
the Gulf Yachting Association and clinic and high school sailing.
United States Sailing Association. We are now in full swing with clin-
Circulation includes all Fairhope Yacht ics and high school sailing. We
Club members and GYA affiliated enjoyed the start of the high school
clubs. The Mainsheet, Fairhope Yacht
Club, P.O. Box 1327, Fairhope, AL
36533, or e-mail to
mainsheet@fairhopeyachtclub.com by
the 20th of the month prior to publica-
tion.
Just when we thought 2020 was
BRIDGE
giving us all she had, she delivered
Commodore - Chris Dabney Sally, who was like having unwanted Mobile Bay series this past Sunday.
Vice Commodore - Scott Hartwell guest that overstayed their welcome. A big thanks to Scott Hartwell for
Rear Commodore - Philip Durant Too slow, Sally left her mark at FYC organizing the event and Randy
Fleet Captain - Mark McCullins but it could been way worse had she Fitzpatrick for spending her Sunday
Fleet Surgeon - Dr. Robbie Rux not drifted 50 miles to the East. afternoon running RC.
Secretary - Tracy Hirsh Boats and equipment faired very well We have two 420s heading to Bay
Treasurer - Kay Robberson but the process of clean up gave us a St. Louis Ms for the GYA 420 cham-
pionship. We are forecast to have a
BOARD OF GOVERnORS beautiful weekend. We wish them
Randy Fitz-Wainwright the best of luck!
Mignon Bishop We are excited that events are
John Clarkson starting to take place. After
Kevin northrup Wadewitz we will head back with our
John Adams high school teams for the Monk
Elizabeth McGriff Smith in Bay St. Louis.
Jeff Valentine See you on the water!
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Memorial Pat Colvin
Entertainment Angel Overton
Building & Grounds Chad Smith
Food & Bev
Insurance/Marine Safety David Barr
Harbor John Buziak
Associates
Membership Steve Savarese
Offshore Don Faircloth
Cruising Bob Knapp
Sailing Director Holly Murray
Ann Nix
Adult Sailing Holly Murray
Race & Regatta Philip Durant
September 5, 2020
Junior Commodore Kip Buck
Juniors Advisor Ann Hartwell
Member of the
Historians PC Barbara Brown
Sarah Johnston-Cox
Guardian John Adams Founding Committee
GYA Coordinator Philip Durant of the
Mainsheet Editor nancy Fitzpatrick FYC Auxiliary
Long Range Planning
ICRC
At Half Mast
FYC Auxiliary Kate Gibson
Office: Mon-Fri 8:00am-12:00, 1:30-4:30pm
Phone: 251-928-3276 Fax: 251-990-8602
Gary DeArman
Email: office@fairhopeyachtclub.com September 5, 2020
Equity Member
Club Office: 101 Volanta, Fairhope AL 36532
Mailing Address: Box 1327, Fairhope AL
36533
Web address: www.fairhopeyachtclub.com
From the Junior Commodore
In this past month of September the juniors on Thursdays and Saturdays.
have been warming up for the new high school Their first clinic practice was
sailing season. We had our first official practice on Thursday, Sept. 24.
on Monday, September 21, and will continue to We are all very happy to
have practice every Monday and Wednesday. resume high school sailing
On top of the practices the juniors are partici- after the spring season was
pating in a fall series where every Sunday we cancelled and are very excit-
compete in a small skirmish regatta against ed for all the new sailors
Mobile Bay teams. joining this year.
The junior Opti green fleet and advanced fleet Kip Buck,
have also started for the fall season practicing FYC Junior Commodore
When GYA regattas are cancelled, create your own!
Nothing seems to stop young sailors who want to
compete and our Juniors with their sponsors and
coaches have found a solution-high school team rac-
ing between Mobile Bay schools! The Mobile Bay
High School Fall Series consists of five Sunday
races. Each local high school has two teams com-
peting for a “bragging rights” traveling trophy to
take back to their high school until the next series.
This week the teams who attended were Fairhope
High School, St Michael Catholic High School and
UMS -Wright. We hope to see a few more high
school teams join soon!
Submitted with pictures by Vice Commodore Scott Hartwell
It’s time again to select our
outstanding Juniors.
Awarded each year to the outstanding
Junior Yacht Club mem-
ber, the Marty Cup hon-
ors the Junior who has
contributed to the club in
leadership, sportsman-
ship and involvement in
activities during the
year.
The Boat Cohen Award
honors the first-year jun-
ior who has shown the
most improvement in
skills and participation
as a beginner.
Candidates for these
honors can be submit-
ted to the Junior
Advisors or to the FYC
Office. You may
include any pertinent
reasons for your nomi-
nee. The honorees will
be announced in
December at the
Commodore’s Ball.
Restaurant & Bar Hours Of Operation
(251-928-8888 for Dinner Reservations)
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
11am-8pm Closed Closed 4pm-9pm 4pm-9pm 11am-10pm 11am-10pm
October~2020
1 2 3
Auxiliary
Luncheon
4 5 6 7 Membership 8 9 10
Mtgs Wadewitz
6:00 JrYC Regatta
7:00 Equity
Halloween
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Party
Wadewitz
Regatta
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Porch Social
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
First Supper
Club Event!
WHAT’s Happening at the Club!
SUNDAY RACING: Afternoon Tiki bar under the clubhouse. OUR FALL FESTIVAL OF
race starts at 2pm and sails 5 There will be a costume contest, SAILING, THE WADEWITZ
nautical miles on our compass so let your creative juices flow WILL BE HELD OCTOBER
course. Check in below the club- and dress to win! 10/11. Honoring our founding
house! Join the sailors after the PORCH SOCIAL: OCTOBER Commodore, Otto Wadewitz,
race for yarns and refreshing 18. Join your friends to watch we have sailed this regatta
adult beverages. the sunset! since 1947. No hurricane has
SUPPER CLUB NEWS! The The Luau was a blast! stopped it and we proved that
first Supper Club event will be after Katrina. Join as a sailor
October 28. The special meal or join as an observer. It will
includes a 5-course dinner and be a regatta to remember!
two glasses of wine or 2 mugs of
beer. It will be held in the main
dining room at one large table so
you can see what you are miss-
ing! Dress to Impress!
HOLIDAY SCHEDULING!
To book a holiday event, con- We were so happy
tact the FYC Office for sched- to be together
ules. December is filling up! again! Olivia and
Ask your server about very Russell Autrey
limited specials! were 1st place
Halloween Party. Patrick
OCTOBER 16, 16 7-10 pm, the winners in our Early morning on our beach
decorations con- as mist coats the world, the
Smith band playing and open test. stillness of the air is magical!
Restaurant & Bar Hours Of Operation
(251-928-8888 for Dinner Reservations)
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
11am-8pm Closed Closed 4pm-9pm 4pm-9pm 11am-10pm 11am-10pm
November~2020
1 2 3 4 Membership 5 6 7
Mtgs Auxiliary
6:00 JrYC
7:00 Equity Luncheon
8 9 10 11 12 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 sgiving
28 29
Thank
30 31
Let your Holiday plans include the Yacht Club. Contact the FYC Office to
plan your family, business or club Holiday events!
Work Party Workout! ~ Jennifer Stanley
I was amazed at the transforma- leaves on the roof of the boat barn member earlier in the week. We
tion that took place at the work were blown off thanks to the brave were all there because we love
party September 12. There was so Fleet Surgeon, Dr. Robbie Rux. Fairhope Yacht Club and want
much accomplished in just a few our club to look its best. I know
hours. Moss, Sweetgum balls, and that in the future when I see any
pine straw were removed from the of those good folks, I am looking
bed by the gate; weeds, trash, old at someone who cares about our
mulch, and volunteer oaks and club and is proud to be a member
shrubs were removed from the of Fairhope Yacht Club.
beds in front of the bathhouse and
the sego palm was pruned as well;
all of the crepe myrtles were
pruned; the beach was cleared of
debris; shrubs were trimmed; the This is just mentioning some of
the work that was done. All of
the pruning, trimming, and blow-
ing would have been a lot to haul
to the dumpster, but Rick Byrne
made it easy by scooping up the
piles of debris with his tractor.
There were at least 15 volun-
teers of which about half were
equity members and half were
associate members. Some were There was a bonus too. Chef
hard core sailors and some were Matthew Brown prepared a deli-
more social members, some were cious lunch for the volunteers.
grandparents and some were par- The pork tacos paired perfectly
ents of young children. One vol- with an ice cold beer after we fin-
unteer, Drew, had only become a ished cleaning up.
More hurricane damage ATTENTION
SLIP RENEWALS
BOAT SLIP
RENTALS:
All slip rentals are due
for renewal by October
31, 2020. This includes
the new Kayak rack as
well the new placements
due to the Harbor
restructure.
Please contact the FYC
office if you don’t remem-
ber how to renew your
slip. There are a number
of members who are wait-
ing for slips to come
available and will happi-
ly move into unrenewed
slips.
The 2020 Nominating Committee:
Joe Comer, Chair; September
Tracy Hirsh; Chad Smith; Tony Lowery; John Adams; Membership
Kevin Northrop; P.C. Cathy Cromartie Committee Report
will present a slate of eligible Equity candidates at the October
General Membership Meeting. Nominations from the floor may Invited to Transitional
be presented at the November meeting and voting will take Membership:
place at the Annual Meeting in December. All Equity Members Cory Dean
are qualified to vote in person at this meeting.
Invited to Associate
Membership:
James (Drew) Allison
Bridge: Commodore- Scott Hartwell
Matthew Cepeda
Vice Commodore - Philip Durant
Jeremy Hovater
Rear Commodore- Mark McCullins
Chris Lee
Fleet Captain - John Buziak
Secretary - Tracy Hirsh Donnie Ryals
Fleet Surgeon -
Board of Governors: Carl Wegener Alexa Turner
Sophia Waara
William Wooldridge
Don Faircloth
Accepted to Equity
Dan Beasley
Membership: Chad Clark Membership:
Steve Savarese
Dan Herzog William (Bill) Duggar
Joel Green Michael Gaunet
Kelly Sadler Colby Giles
Kendall Bowman Joel Green
Melinda Moran Brian Kasch
Harbor: Randy Fitz-Wainwright Sean Kemper
Ray Billups Melinda Moran
Steve Christensen
Long Range Planning: John Luce Welcome Aboard
Steven Savarese
Membership Chair
Mignon Bishop
Sabe Fink
Sunday Sailing ~ report & pictures from Tracy Hirsh
8/30 Nine boats checked in for anoth- zip back and forth riding your bow
er great Sunday of racing! The weath- wave.
er was perfect and the temperature 9/13 While some boats prepared for
felt great out on the water. We even
spotted a dolphin checking out the
competitors. The winds were light to
start but managed to stay in the 6-8
kts range through most of the race,
building to about 12 kts for the final
leg and the ride back to the club.The
course was set at X-SW-NW-NE-X
Have you heard?!? Mobile Yacht
Club is hosting a Mobile to Key
West Offshore Regatta in what, at the time, seemed like an
November of this year. If you are unlikely Hurricane Sally, seven boats
interested in participating in this made their way out to the starting
race, I've got your crew! Check out line at the X-mark. Light winds and
the NOR and let me know by mixed skies made for another beauti-
return email or phone call and we ful day on the water that included
can get together to talk about it. dolphins to distract the racers. Winds
9/6 There was that bounced from E to ENE, called
ALMOST a for a course of X-E-N-W-X. Very light
touch of fall in winds and a light sprinkle of rain at
the air this past the start kept boats close to X for the
weekend. The start but skies quickly cleared and
temperature was jackets were quickly shed as the
just slightly cool- boats stretched out around the
er and the sun course. Boats glided forward and fell
just as bright. back with the wind
With absolutely
no better place
they could have
chosen to be,
seven boats
and the boats stayed close as they made their way
made their way around the course all out to the start
finishing within 5 minutes of each for another
other. thrilling Sunday
race. With winds in the 8-10 kt range, 9/20 True and hardy sailors gathered
boats stayed close, crossing tacks fre- in the light misting rain on Sunday.
quently While the wind had been predicted to
with some be high with even higher gusts, it
gliding actually measured in the steady 10-12
across bows range with occasional 20-25 gusts dur-
to the call of ing the race, all out of the East. Three
"starboard!". boats headed out to the starting line in
With winds less than favorable conditions but the
from the rain quickly cleared and the race was
NE, the on! The course was set at E-N-S-E.
course was
set at X-NE-
Looking for a great way to get out of NW-SW-X.
the heat? Come join us! Get your boat
out for an afternoon of sailing through THANK YOU to Todd Landau for
different points of wind and join the this week's race photos!
crews after the race for a refreshing
beverage and race recap! If you need
crew, let me know and I'll make sure
you have what you need to get your
boat out! It isn't always about win-
ning, it's about getting out on the
water, every week, keeping skills fresh
or learning new ones and sharing this Keep an eye out when you are out on
love of sailing. Don't hesitate to come the water! Dolphins are in the bay!
out and join us. Meet under the club We saw quite a few out this past week-
about 12:30 to check-in and get your end and have been seeing them for
start time and all the information you several weeks now. It's always a thrill
need to participate. to have them come up beside you or
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