Port Townsend Yacht Club
The Port Townsend Yacht Club is now accepting applications for 2012 Maritime Scholarship(s).
The deadline for completed applications is March 26, 2012.
For details, click on 2012 PTYC Maritime Scholarship in the right side bar of our Home Page.
Linda Newland, Scholarship Chair
by Ilona Bell
Newsworthy PTYC Live-aboards!
Our very own Greg Kerkof and Sheryl Alfson-Kerkof were featured in last week’s Peninsula Daily News. Click on the links to learn more about Greg, Sheryl living aboard Toccata with their golden retriever, Jake.
Kerkof page 1
Join me on a field trip to visit the Felicity Ann during the week of December 5. Get acquainted with the little boat that proved that she was not too small to make a voyage across the Atlantic in 1952.
Ann Davison, a native of the UK, was the first woman to sail singlehandedly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1952 on a 23-foot wooden boat named Felicity Ann. Ann stopped over in Portugal and the Canary Islands before heading across to Antigua. Due to storms, she eventually landed in Dominica and subsequently sailed to New York and a hero’s welcome celebration. She wrote an account of her historic voyage, My Ship Is So Small, which is still available at some online bookstores and in some libraries. I’ve picked up a copy myself just recently.
Although Ann died in 1992, her small boat has traveled through many owners and has now landed, maybe for the last time, at the NW School for Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, WA. I visited Felicity Ann recently and although she is undergoing planking, there is still enough of her identity to see how small her cabin is and to see the bronze kerosene lights still intact on the bulkheads. The original intent was to restore her to her original lines through the work of the students at the school. Unfortunately, through budget cuts, the cost of the raw materials to complete the job had to be dropped from the school’s budget. Now her fate is up in the air. The cost is estimated to be $35,000. (more…)
Here is the web address of the Volvo 70 video I was trying to access during my program. Might as well show some others, too including the new AC 45 cats.
Here are some Volvo videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh6dUAoj3sg&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArAq_8iu2dQ
Watch the helmsman in the videos, they are hardly moving the wheel, the
boats are planing and just being really pussy cats for control. Amazing
isn’t it? 30+ knots and they are just hitting the “Fun Zone”!
And here are some America’s Cup videos. NOTE: The new America’s Cup
racers MUST qualify in the 45 foot one design catamarans but challenge
in a custom designed 72′. This has never been done! the 45′s are wild
enough, the 72′s will be outrageous!
http://www.cupinfo.com/en/americas-cup-2013-boats-ac72-ac45.php
Capsize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjwY6O2zE0E
http://www.sail-world.com/USA/Americas-Cup:-Video-of-Oracle-Racings-pitchpole-and-near-capsize/84634
Some other videos:
This is a call to all women boaters who would like to learn the ropes of rigging and going up the mast by local legend Brion Toss in a 2-day workshop on Saturday and Sunday, October 1-2, 2011.
Please check http://www.briontoss.com for details.
Corine de Boer, PTYC member sailor
Show your PTYC Club member card at the fuel dock in Port Townsend aka Fish ‘N Hole and receive $.20/gallon off on diesel and $.10/gallon of on gasoline. The owner, Eric Elliott , is extending this offer for an undetermined amount of time. Take advantage if you can.
Discounts Offered: During the membership drive the initiation fee is reduced from $400 to $150 and dues for 2011 will be prorated quarterly. The membership gift bag will include a PTYC burgee, 2011 Roster, caps and a copy of The Burgee Marina Guide which contains reciprocal information and 2011 Tide Tables.
Monthly Membership TGIF TGIT Thursday, May 26, 2011, 4-6PM at the Clubhouse: This is for prospective members who would like to learn about the club, reciprocals and cruising. Light refreshments will be available. Contact us if you would like to come but don’t know a club member.
PTYC Membership Drive Application
Vince Verneuil, ptvince@gmail.com Macy Galbreath, macygalbreath@msn.com
379-4002 437-0783
Vice Commodore Vince Verneuil requested a link to Orcas Island Yacht Club (OIYC) be added to our website for the convenience of PTYC members to review common local reciprocal moorage on-line.
Click on the OIYC link located in the right-side bar under Mariner’s Links to check out this new feature!
MTU position paper-Copper antifouling paint ban-FINAL-Feb 11 2011
To simplify distribution of our yacht club reciprocal information, we are recommending using a local comprehensive marina and reciprocal guidebook called The Burge It is the only guidebook that has almost all of the information about reciprocals that we have provided club members on the old CD’s including locations, phone numbers, limitations etc. David Kutz, a member of the Kingston Cove Yacht Club, publishes it every 4-5 years with occasional update flyers. Since major reciprocal policies changes, such as ours a year ago, happen so infrequently, The Burgee should meet all of your cruising needs for the next couple of years.
In the 2011 Roster, we will now list all the Yacht Clubs with which we have reciprocal agreements. But for better reference, they will be grouped by locations that correspond to areas in The Burgee. A few local clubs will have an * to indicate that they are not in The Burgee. If you want to visit those clubs, you will want to check in our club’s master notebook. Later this information could be added to the website.
We are getting a substantial yacht club discount and are offering copies through the PTYC Ships Store on a preorder basis. The use of one reciprocal moorage will more than pay for the cost of the book. Using reciprocals five or six times during the summer will probably pay for your club dues!
Reciprocal Contacts:
Vince Verneuil, Vice Commodore
Macy Galbreath
Marilynne Gates
To preorder your copy of The Burgee at the discounted price of $20 – contact Char Quandt at Charlene.quandt@gmail.com
Or 360-440-4637