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March , 2018 Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club. . . www.byscnet.com
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Recurring events:
Exercise Group Mon, Wed, Fri 9am Needlework Wed 2pm Sunset Friday Fri 6pm Walking Group Mon, Wed, Fri 9:30am
3/3 High School Points Regatta 8:00am 3/9 Sunset Friday 6:00pm 3/10 Race Committee Seminar 8:30am 3/10 PHRF Frostbite Series 1:00pm 3/11 Frostbite Series—Final 1:00pm 3/13 BYSC Board Meeting 6:00pm 3/14 Steak Night 6:00pm 3/16 Sunset Friday 6:00pm St Paddy’s Day Happy Hour 3/17 Santa Elena Regatta/ Jean Ribaut Cup 9:00am Jean Ribaut Dinner 6:00pm 3/18 Santa Helena Regatta/ Pedro Menendez Cup 9:00am 3/23 Flag Raising 6:00pm Sunset Friday 3/24 Laser D12 Regatta 10:00am 3/30 Easter Egg Hunt 5:00pm Sunset Friday 6:00pm 3/31 PHRF Series Final 1:00pm
(No Final Friday in March)
March Events Open to all Members
Commodore’s
Message The Club’s Board has vot-
ed to repair and repave the damaged areas of Yacht Club Drive from Meridian Road to the entrance gate and the roads around our property. Repairs of the existing asphalt require removal of roots, cracks etc. to prepare for approximately 1 1/2" of asphalt. More thickness of asphalt will be used along the edges (2") to achieve a flat surface. Fill dirt will be in-stalled along the edge where necessary, to help protect the edge when cars park. The dirt will also improve the final appearance. The trash truck has already been redirected to limit driving on the driveway. It will come in a straight line from the street to the trash container then back around on the existing gravel to exit.
This project is scheduled to begin on weekdays in early
April and take ten days/two weeks to complete. Traffic will be controlled for normal usage. The contractor will work from our dock back to Meridian.
This is the time of year we prepare for summers activi-
ties. Jerry and Paul will attend Pool Operator Certification in early March. Docks were repaired, the bottom of the flagpole was repainted, painting improvements have been made inside and outside the Clubhouse, and the pool gates were reconfigured for ease of locking. The Club’s Website is going to be completely updated over the next few months. Sixty plus campers have already signed up for our Summer Camp. Sailing activity has begun as has Pickle Ball/Tennis. There are many new members joining.
More on all this later. Marvin Marvin Day
General Manager’s Message New Members
The Board of Directors has approved the Membership applications of: Lee and Sarah Lowther of Beaufort and Allison and Ben Coppage also of Beaufort. Please join me in welcoming them when you see them around the Club. Current Members of the BYSC are the best source for new Members. Please be on the look-out for poten-tial Members among your friends, business acquaintances and neighbors. Membership Dues and Boat Storage Fees 2018:
Invoices for Membership Dues and Boat Storage Fees, if unpaid, will be sent out in March. The Board has re-quested that all Dues and Boat Storage Fees be paid by March 31. An alternative is, to register to make monthly payments through the ACH or credit card programs. If you would like to register for either of these programs, please contact the office by email: [email protected] or phone: 843-522-8216.
BYSC and Beaufort Community Sailing & Boating (JSB) Summer Camps Registration for BYSC Summer Camp and BCSB “Learn to Sail Summer Camp are now open. Open the following links for information and to register your campers.
• BYSC Summer Camp
• Beaufort Community Sailing & Boating “Learn to Sail Summer Camp”
Swim Lessons
Private Swim Lessons for Children and Adults begin June 4. Sign up begins April 1.
Pickleball
The new Pickleball Courts have been Christened appropriately with champagne provided by Jerry. Jane Abrams held a clinic attended by 12 players. There are now about 25 Pickleball players at the Club. Tuesdays from 2:30 - 4:30 is a designated time for all to participate. Of course the courts are there for your use at any time. They are great courts. We do ask that the nets be left on each court and not be moved around. The courts are a wonderful addition to the Club and hopefully more and more people will enjoy the game. If you are interested in another clinic, let Judy Alling ([email protected]) know and another one will be scheduled. Full Sails & Tight Lines,
Jerry Jerry Giarla CCM
Volunteering at BYSC
Club Members can earn Volunteer hours by offering support to our various programs. By working Volunteer hours during a current calendar year, your Fees will be reduced for the subsequent year by $10.00 per hour. The maximum credit is $240 per Membership. Partial hours will be credited. There are a variety of Volunteer activities for all types of skills and interests.
Volunteer Bartending
• Volunteer Bartending for Sunset Fridays, Final Fridays and Special Events
• 3 hour time commitment (No experience necessary)
• Contact: [email protected]
To sign up, please use the Signup Genius Link here:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0445a5a72ea6fa7-2018
Social Committee
The Social Committee organizes and hosts events year-round that enhance Membership at the club.
Here are some of the areas that the Social Committee contributes to:
• Major Social Events, Steak Nights, Final Fridays
• Children’s Events
• Educational/Entertainment Evenings
• On-land Regatta Support Contact: Marilyn Marino at [email protected] To volunteer for Steak Night please contact
Angie Williams: [email protected] or Ulrike Poppeliers: [email protected]
Grounds & Gardens
• Contact Jerry Giarla at [email protected], or at the office 843-522-8216 or his cell 843-929-9510
• Shrub and Tree Trimming / Weeding & Maintaining Gardens
• Spreading Mulch
• Tennis Court Upkeep
• Pool Deck Area Upkeep
• Please email [email protected] to confirm your interest in helping out.
If you bring along your own garden tools, that is always very helpful.
General Maintenance The projects may vary depending on the time of year and the Club’s needs.
• Contact Jerry Giarla at [email protected], or at the office 843-522-8216 or his cell 843-929-9510
• Dock Repair and Maintenance
• Exterior Clubhouse Repairs/ Painting
• Interior Repairs /Painting
Many projects are skill-based – carpentry and painting experience is appreciated!
Lowcountry Regatta The Lowcountry Regatta is BYSC’s biggest event of the year. This year the event takes place from Friday, June 22nd to
Sunday, June 24th.
• Contact Will Achurch at [email protected] or 843-694-4827
Special Events for 2018
Please see the Sailing Calendar on the Website for all Sailing Events
Sunset Friday and Final Fridays will continue for 2018
Steak Nights are the Second Wednesday of the Month.
The Social Committee will determine the Final Friday themes.
March 10 Race Committee Volunteer Seminar 8:30am
March 16 ST. Patrick’s Party & Sunset Friday 6:00pm
March 17-18 Santa Elena Regatta All Day Events
March 17 Jean Ribaut Cup & Dinner All Day Events
March 23 Flag Raising & Sunset Friday 6:00pm
March 24-25 Laser D-12 Regatta 12:00pm-6:00pm
March 30 Easter Egg Hunt & Sunset Friday 6:00pm
April 28-29 Low Country Cat Boat Gathering All Day Events
May 19-20 Lightning District Regatta All Day Events
May 28 Finals-Spring Series Racing Day Series
May 28 Memorial Day Picnic 4:30pm-6:30pm
June 2-3 Beaufort Water Festival
June 22-25 Low Country Regatta All Day Events
July 4 Bring Your Own Picnic & Fire Works 5:00pm
September 3 Labor Day Picnic 4:30pm-6:00pm
September 3 Fall Series Begins Day Event
September15-16 Junior Pluff Mud Junior Regatta Day Event
October 26 Fall Members’ Meeting 5:30pm
November 10 Change of Watch & Fall Series Awards 6:00pm
December 10 Christmas Drop-in 4:00pm-6:00pm
STEAK NIGHT
Steak Night is held on the second Wednesday of each month at 6 pm. The cost is $18 per person for the full steak dinner and $10 for the non-steak option.
NEW PRICING!!! We are now offering the full meal for children 12 and under for $10.
Reservations are a must! Please reserve through PayPal. If you do not wish to use PayPal, please email the Club indicating your name, the type of meal option, and how many attendees.
Reservations close Monday prior to Steak Night at 5pm or as soon as we reach our maximum number of 75 guests.
Club email: [email protected]
The meal includes salad, potatoes, vegetable, garlic bread and des-sert! Our creative volunteers often add a new side dish which al-ways make each night special!
Members may offer to make a dessert for 7-10 people. (please
contact Ulrike or Angie)
We are always looking for volunteers to help.
Email Ulrike Poppeliers [email protected] or Angie Williams [email protected]
To make your reservation through PayPal, open the link below.
Steak Night Reservations:
Tips on using PayPal: Once you hit “Buy Now” it will take you to the page where you can indicate the number of meals you wish to purchase. Make sure you hit the little “update” button..
Then scroll down to the right to the line:
Pay with a credit card as a ”guest”.
NOTE: You do not need a PayPal ac-
count.
That takes you to your payment screen. When you put in your email address, you will get a confirmation email from PayPal that your reservation is completed.
RACING by Frank Pontious
The next two months are going to be a wild and crazy time for our sailing program. Lots of opportunities for all of our sailors and race volunteers to be involved.
RACE VOLUNTEERS: you can now sign up online by clicking the Volunteer
box on the home page and follow the instructions. SAILORS: Many of the Notices of Race are available in the Racing section of
the BYSC website. March 3 is our spring High School Regatta. There will be about 100 kids and their
parents here for a full day of sailing. You are welcome to come out and watch a great group of kids enjoying competitive sailing. Chris Hoogenboom is heading this up.
March 11 our Frostbite Dinghy Series (finally after months of marginal weather) will
conclude. March 10 (Sat.) is our Race Volunteer and support boat program. If you have wanted
to be involved in helping conduct the races this is the class to attend. Wayne Bretsch and Geoff Grout will teach you all you know about getting started. The class will be fol-lowed by the PHRF (keelboat) Sat. series at 1pm.
March 17 and 18 is the Santa Elena Regatta with the keelboats sailing in Port Royal
Sound on Saturday and on the river on Sunday with a planned start in front of the water-front. Jim Thomas will be heading this up. The Dinner at BYSC on Saturday night is a great event and all are welcome - reservations required.
March 23 Flag Raising March 24-25 The Laser D-12 Regatta will take place along with racing for the Evo
class. Chris Duer is leading this.
And, that’s just March!
But, get ready for April. Our Spring Series for dinghies starts on Sunday April 8. Registration for Racing and Race Committee are now online. On the BYSC web-site click on Racing and Spring Series and follow the directions. The Spring Series will be held most Sundays for all dinghies and you can see the full schedule on the Racing Calendar.
RACE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Our racing program depends on Volunteers from the club to help with all aspects of the racing. If you are new to Volunteering, the list below will give you an idea of what each position involves. Please keep in mind that the race committee works together as a team, so these descriptions will give you an idea of the basic roles, but there is flexibility and fluidity in the tasks to make sure that everything can get done and that everyone has the help they need to fulfill their role.
WHY SHOULD YOU SIGN UP TO
BE A RACE VOLUNTEER?
It counts as volunteer hours You get to spend the day on the water It’s a great way to learn about
the rules of racing and sailing in general
It’s the best seat in the house to watch the racing
DO YOU NEED EXPERIENCE TO
BE A RACE VOLUNTEER?
NO!! New volunteers can sign up
to be an observer and have no specific responsibility while on the RC boat
Another great role for new volunteers is the mark/safety boat crew as the skipper will be there to help guide you in your role
HOW DO YOU FIND OUT MORE?
Come to the training for Race Volunteers at the:
Race Committee Seminar on March 10th @ 8:30am HOW DO YOU SIGN UP?
Go to www.signupgenius.com/go/ 20f084aafae29a1fb6-pros and pick your date and position
Local Tradition Continues with the Santa Elena Regatta
Beaufort, SC – The Santa Elena Foundation and the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club will sponsor the Santa Elena Regatta for PHRF sailboats on March 17 and 18, 2018. This event is the major big boat sailing event in Beaufort each year and commemorates 452 years since the founding of Santa Elena on Parris Island in the spring of 1566.
This Regatta is a combination of the Jean Ribault Cup which will be sailed on March 17, and the Pedro Menendez Cup on March 18. The Ribault and Menendez Cups are sailed as separate events and the results from them will be combined to determine the winner of the Santa Elena Regatta and the recipient of the Founder’s Cup.
The Founder’s Cup trophy is unique and quite an honor for the winner. Their name will be etched on the base of a bronze statue of Pedro Menendez, Santa Elena founder, which was donated by Count Alvaro Armada of Spain, the 20th generation descendent of Menendez.
Geography not only plays a major role in the historical references but also in the race logistics. The plan is for the Ribault Cup to be sailed in Port Royal Sound and the Menendez Cup in the Beaufort River starting at the Waterfront Park.
“What a great partnership. The Regatta is a wonderful tradition for the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club and, now, the Santa Elena Foundation,” says Megan Meyer, Santa Elena History Center Director. “Its significance is further realized as we think back 450 years ago… when earliest European settlers too sailed into Port Royal Sound to establish their settlements in the New World.”
The Regatta is open to boats with a PHRF rating that are at least 22” LOA. Boats that are 18’ LOA and over will be considered on a case by case basis. Trophies will be awarded for both the Ribault and Menendez Cups as well as to the overall winner of the Santa Elena Regatta.
There will be several social events associated with the Regatta including a kickoff Skippers Meeting and cocktail party on Friday night before the racing starts, an Awards Dinner on Saturday night and an Awards Presentation on Sunday after the racing is over. All social events will take place at the Beaufort Yacht and Sail-ing Club.
For more information about the historic, local significance of Pedro Melendez and Jean Ribault, and to learn more about the Santa Elena Foundation visit www.Santa-Elena.org.
Full details of the Regatta are in the Notice of Race which can be found on the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing
Club web site at http:www.byscnet.com/about/racing/santaelena or by contacting Regatta Chairman, Jim Thom-
as through the Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club.
The Santa Elena Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in Beaufort County, South Carolina. The mission of the foundation is to discover, preserve, and share the untold story of America’s first and lost century through the rise and fall of Santa Elena.
Junior Sailing of Beaufort Update Spring is here and so is sailing! Our High School team is in the thick of the points regatta sea-
son and hunting for their qualification for the district championship. Come on out to the club this weekend, March 3, for one of the last high school regattas of the season.
Our Opti’s will be heading to Florida for the Sunshine State Championship and the Lasers are all practicing for the District 12 Championship, hosted by BYSC on March 24-25.
In other very exciting news, Beaufort Community Sailing and Boating (Junior Sailing of Beau-fort) has taken over the nationally recognized Spirit of America program location in Beaufort. With over 20 locations across the country, this program came to Beaufort about 4 years ago and had been hosted by the YMCA and on-the-water activities took place at the Port Royal Sound Foundation. We plan to host this seasons sessions at the Port Royal Sound Foundation location and are looking for volunteers to help teach sailing, paddling and powerboat operation during one or more of the 4 planned sessions.
March 26-30 (Homeschool Class and National Coordinator Training) April 9-14 (Spring Break Session) July 9-13 August 13-17
More information can be found on our website at: https://www.beaufortsailing.com/spirit-of-america/ With any questions or interest in assisting, please contact Chris or Tauri Duer or any other member of the Junior Sailing of Beaufort Board of Directors.
SEE ALL DETAILS AND PRE-REQUISITES ON THE US SAILING WEBSITE WWW.USSAILING.ORG/EDUCATION/SBINSTRUCTOR/LEVEL-1-INSTRUCTOR/
Direct link to enroll in our class: http://www1.ussailing.org/enrollment/selectregistrant.aspx?
Adult Sailing Seminars at BYSC
Here comes March and with this month comes Spring, nicer weather, and wind. We also are
planning and looking forward to several races. Beaufort Community Sailing & Boating (JSB) would love to see more adults sailing this year. So much, we are articulating an Adult Sailing Program and looking for interested BYSC members and non-members alike. Right now the main focus is four day classes for introductory students.
BCSB has a 27-foot S2 keelboat and it is the ideal platform to learn how to sail. In the past seminars, participants learned aboard the S2 with four students and one instructor.
The instructor is fellow BYSC Member Scott Gordon. Scott is a US Sailing Level I Small Boat Instructor. He is also public-school educator with 20 years’ experience. His sailing experience in-cludes racing and coastal cruising and 20 years’ experience teaching sailing.
The cost for this seminar is $275 for Members and $325 for Non-Members. It includes 16 hours of instruction over four days. Twelve of those hours are on the water with four hours in the classroom and on the dock.
In the past few weeks, Beaufort Community Sailing and Boating (Junior Sailing of Beaufort) has updated their webpage with a good deal of new information. One of the pages is devoted to the Adult Sailing Program. Check it out at this address: https://www.beaufortsailing.com/adult-sailing/. Take it a step further and sign up for a class! Currently, we need one more person for our May class. Hopefully that person will be you.
Reminder on New and Returning Spring Activities
ALL MEMBERS WELCOME
Walking Club: Monday/Wednesday/Friday at 9:30am We meet at the Depot Road entrance to the Spanish Moss Trail on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We will walk approximately two and a half miles in total. Please contact Nancy DePalo for details: [email protected].
Exercise Group: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays , 9:30-10:30am All BYSC Members welcome! This informal group will meet in the Clubhouse for a variety of exercise programs led by BYSC members. Participant feedback will be a vital part of this group to determine the types of activity that the group will engage in.
Needlework Group: Year-Round, Wednesdays at 2pm in the Clubhouse. Please contact Ulrike Poppeliers: [email protected]
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