Commodore: Jack Donohue Vice-Commodore: Ed Philpot Rear Commodore: Casey Nickerson Secretary: Marcia Wadsworth Treasurer: Keith Nix Trustees: Bill Nutter, Mike Curtin, Laura Cameron

Volume 63 Number 10 OCTOBER 2016

Winnipesaukee Yacht Club

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Dockham Shore Road ,Gilford NH www.wyc-nh.org

WYC NEWS

The next monthly meeting of the WYC will be held at WYC clubhouse on Friday, October 7th beginning promptly at 7:00 P.M.

HOUSE COMMITTEE

Thanks to Don Forsberg for prep-ping and painting the door to the shed. Thanks to Sandy Storer and Dave Richardson for updating the outside lighting. Adam Angle is now the official WYC Bear Island property steward. Thanks to Bruce Gokey for his care of

the property over the past few years. Mark your calendars for Fall Clean Up. SATURDAY, NOVERMBER 5TH! Bring your leaf blowers, rakes, gloves etc. Chris Charlie

Haul-out will be held on Saturday, October 15th at 8:00, if all goes right. Scott and crew have been working diligently on getting the winch back to-gether and right now all we are missing is the coupling between the winch and the engine, which should be here by Fri-day 09/30. Keep fingers crossed. I’ll post the haulout order after the Cold Duck race. In the meantime, if you haven’t al-ready, get your cradles repaired and ready.

In preparation for haulout, a work party will be held on Saturday, October 1st. The major work to be completed is weed whacking, especially in the trailer yard, and replacing some ties. Start time is 08:00 and coffee will be served. See you all there. Hard to believe the season is now almost over. Thanks for everyone’s help and coopera-tion. Kevin Hayes Yardmaster

YACHT YARD NEWS

LABOR DAY DOCK PARTY

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Thanks to all who helped out with the Labor Day Dock Party this year and over the last 27 years. To the “preppers, cooks, runners, re-fillers, bakers, pick it uppers, washers and fellow organizers:” Thanks to Bruce Johnson for 27 years of FIREHOUSE chili “that gets better every year!!!” IT all works because of you. Special thanks to Keith Wentworth and his clean-up crew!! Thank you also to all who contrib-uted to a smorgasbord of delicious foods and desserts. Alley Boucher, Jason Bordeaux & Andrea Morin, Brody, Mr and Mrs (Guests of Don Roper from the California YC), Phyl-lis Corrigan, Rick & Sherry Correia, Mar-cia & Steve Cotter, Ruth & Steve Coneys, Laura Cameron, Chris Coons, Ilona Dun-

fee, Katie & Dave Ewing, Jan & Don Forsberg, Greg Goddard, Pam and Kevin Hayes, Marcia Hayward, Louisa Herte, Bruce Johnson, Nancy (Mrs Andy)) John-son, Ann Keller, Chris & Scott Kingsley, Tom Marks & Abby Russell, Lynda Nel-son, Brenda O’Brien, Carolyn & Don Par-sons (aka POPCORN), Dianne Philpot, Tracey & Mark Petrozzi, Judi and Jim Rogato, Mary & Larry Routhier, Rob Stemska, Trudi Sullivan, Annie Wein-mann, Stephanie & Keith Wentworth, Dave Williams, George Wilmot, Michelle Wormwood, Hazel Zimmer. Again, thank you so much----- and we know all will extend the same support to Chris and Scott Kingsley in the future. John and Moe

LOBSTER FEED

We had record attendance of 223 members, proposed members and their guests at this year’s event. The event was a great success due to the hard work of many people. Special Thank you to Steve Nix for supplying all the equipment and his ex-pertise for cooking the lobsters and to Dave Keller and Glenn Shaw for making the trip to Maine to pick up the lobsters. Thank you to Pam Shaw, Tim Cameron, Kevin & Chris Coons, Ann Kel-ler, John & Margy Knox, Rich & Cathy Cram, Marcia Wadsworth & Steve Plimp-ton, Don Roper, Nick Callaghan,

Al Fasshauer, proposed member Debbie Clough and her husband Dave, Dave Wil-liams, Bruce Johnson and Michelle Wormald. Thank you to Andy and Martina Howe for donating the delicious corn and watermelon. Thank you to Keith Wentworth and his crew, Dick Swett, proposed member Tom Marks, Ken Sterner, Chris Diodato, Steve Cotter, Don Parsons and proposed member Debbie Clough and her husband Dave for taking care of the clean up! Laura Cameron & Glenn Shaw

COMMODORES CUP

Did you notice that great coffee at the Commodores Cup? A big thank you to pro-

posed member Ben Bullerwell who, along with Karen Bassett, is the owner of Laco-

nia’s own Wayfarer Coffee Roasters! Working with Sara Laroux, Ben provided all of

the coffee for two days, and he thoroughly cleaned and sanitized our coffee pots and

equipment! Thanks to Sara and Ben for putting this together!

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DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW we received a September 4, 1937 Winnipesaukee Times from Joel and Linda Edinburg that contained a great little article about ear-ly WYC sailboat racing. We were able to pull out the scrap book from that year and find several photos of the two boats mentioned in the article! Back in those early days, the club had an anchorage in Weirs Bay, near the old seaplane docks. Club members raced in a variety of boats, but they were working towards “standardization” even

then. In fact, in the same issue of the newspaper, there was an advertisement for the Moulton Sandpiper, “WINN. Y.C. Class boat” built in Lakeport by McDuff Machine Company, Inc. of 85 Gould Street in Lakeport. Remember, if you have an idea or

topic for a future Did You Know? Wheth-

er it’s an historical fact, WYC trivia, or

anything else, send an e-mail to

ed.philpot@myfairpoint.net

Winnipesaukee Yacht Club Invitation

45th Annual Cold Duck Race

October 9, 2016 The Winnipesaukee Yacht Club is pleased to invite all sailors to the 45th annual Cold Duck Race.

This year’s version will feature all of the great components that make the Cold Duck a late season favorite, including our famous Cold Duck Chili, Pusser’s Rum Punch, and that highly desirable “Duck Gear” we have all come to expect.

We are thrilled to announce that we once again have Pusser’s Rum sponsoring the event with great prizes and giveaways, and of course, great Rum! Because this is our 45th year, we will be adding a few twists with raffles and prizes that can’t be beat!

Mark your calendar for October 9 and let nothing stand in your way. We are looking for a record turnout, fun and games and another terrific sailboat race!

WYC NEWS cont.

For starters, thanks to Paul Good-win, Tom Range and Graham Philpot for diving and helping me consolidate the pre-positioned mooring blocks at the Club and taking it one step further at Bear Island by floating the blocks and replacing the 25+ year old small one’s with new,1000 lb. blocks. It was time!! Also, thanks to Adam Angle for pounding nails at the Yacht Yard Dock to make walking on it safer. And finally, thanks to Scott Nolan for replacing one of the posts on the main dock that was broken at the water line. Sadly, it is not too early to think about winterizing moorings. I plan to close the mooring field on November 1 after which no boats may be on a moor-ing consistent with our permit from the State. The lighted buoys will come out that day. Also, my annual reminder, please put your name on your winter spar, float or whatever so in the spring when we are putting out the lighted buoys or discovering mooring chains that are no longer where they are meant to be we can better tell where we are locat-ed.

Please remove your dinghy from the dinghy dock also by November 1 and the same goes for sunfish, rowing shells or row boats on the racks or along the edge of the boat ramp. Remember, if you store these on the edge of the field at the Club they must be 14’ or less and completely covered with a dark brown tarp. Thanks to Al Herte who makes all arrangements to have mooring supplies in the cellar so they are easily available to our members for use on the spot. It is really helpful and makes our mooring field safer for all of us and our neigh-bors. Finally, I took a moment to add up

how many different temporary mooring

or dock space assignments were made

this summer—14 by my count. Thanks

to all those who notified me so we could

share the wealth of the mooring field.

FROM THE HARBORMASTER

RACE COMMITTEE

Thanks to the Cameron/Shaw led team, the 2016 Lobster Feed was a rec-ord-breaking HUGE success. The rainy forecast proved inaccurate and every portion of the club (inside, deck, porch , dock and lawn) was filled with very hap-py folks cracking open awesome lobstas. Our thanks to the huge number of volun-teers that once again made this another event to remember. Thanks to Keith Wentworth's clean-up crew that did an-other amazing job of returning our facili-ty to pristine shape! The 2016 Oktoberfest sold out in record time. We are looking forward to great German cuisine, fine music and fel-lowship on October 22. Please notify Keith Wentworth if you are available to assist with cleanup. The Haul Out Ham and Bean Sup-per is scheduled for October 15th. Thanks to Peter and Alida Millham and their team for volunteering to manage this event again this year. A huge thank you to Dick Pender-gast for another successful season of Fri-day Nite Pub Nites. Thanks to Pam Shaw for stepping in to cover when Dick could not be there. And also thank you to the many MANY folks that generous-ly donated hor's doevres and pizza to share all summer!

We may schedule a few WYC Movie Nites this fall depending on weather and interest. Please stay tuned to email for timing. Please note the date of the 2017 WYC Annual Meeting, Saturday January 14, 2017 at the Gilford Community Church, catered by The Lyon's Den. Our speaker will be WYC member Graham Philpot, who will share some of his mem-orable (and numerous) off-shore racing adventures. Graham was a graduate of the LWSA sailing program, became an instructor in the program and has gone on to race competitively (and successful-ly) both on and off lake for many years. Thanks to a donation, we will have outdoor speakers under the eves on the upper deck for the 2017 season, allowing for background music outside without blasting the volume inside. Thank you to Sandy Storer who has volunteered to in-stall them in the spring. Once again, we wish to thank all the scores of volunteers that have made the 2016 WYC SOCIAL SEASON THE BEST YET. John, Tom, Dick and Keith

ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE

WYC NEWS cont.

Our Commodores Cup afforded lake sailors with the only PHRF/Buoy racing opportunity of the season. For the 14 teams that competed in this year’s ver-sion, it was a terrific opportunity to hone their boat handling and racing rules skills on a variety of courses. We kicked off the event with our traditional single handed race on Friday

night. The sailors started in Sanders Bay and raced around the 70’s. The race started off with a nice westerly but it died with the sunset. Casey Nickerson nipped his son Guy to take home the rum bottle in the Racing Class, and Jay Norden held of all comers for his second consecutive win in the Cruising Class. We had ten boats on the line, and they all stayed close right up to the end.

Saturday dawned with a light nor-therly, and Principal Race Officer Jeff Kirchoff elected to set a course for the first race in Sanders Bay. His assistants, John O’Brien, Lynda Nelson, Brenda Whitmore and Don Forsberg got a course set quickly and the first race started right at the scheduled time. During that race, the wind began a mas-sive shift, but the committee boat stayed anchored and the race commit-tee completely reset the entire course without missing a beat! Larry Routhier was at the help of his boat which served as Committee Boat and Ruth McLaughlin was our scorekeeper and general organizer. They got off four rac-es for all classes, and the Race Commit-tee work was as good as you will see anywhere, and we received many com-plements. One person even remarked that it was nice that we had hired a pro-fessional Race Committee! A big THANKS to our team!!!! You are the greatest! The two spinnaker classes com-peted on windward leeward courses, while the Cruiser/Racers compet-ed on Triangles. Jeff managed to bal-ance the number of legs perfectly so that there was not a lot of waiting be-tween races and race management was the height of efficiency. The J-80 Class had for boats but quickly broke out into a continuation of the Friday night match Between Casey Nickerson sailing Argo and Guy Nicker-son and the crew of Pressure. Guy won race 1, while Argo fell to third behind Bob Knowles and He’s Baack! Pressure tripped up in Race two and fell to se-cond while Argo took the bullet. He’s Back was third and Al Herte and the crew of Schatz were fourth. While the finishes were close, races three and four saw Pressure in first, Argo in Second, He’s Baack! in third and Schatz in fourth

to set the final standings. The big Cruiser/Racers also had a close battle on triangular courses. Jay Norden and his crew of Fays rock stars on Claddagh stepped out to win three of four races, but by a close margin over Bob Garland sailing his Haleakala. Clad-dagh stormed out of the gate with a first race win, followed by Haleakala and then Shadow. Perineal podium presence Bob Garland stormed back to win Race two, with Shadow falling into place in second and Norden and his team drop-ping to third. In Raced three, Garland would stumble with DSQ forcing him out of the tight competition. Claddagh won the race followed by Shadow and that would be the story for race four as well, giving the regatta to Norden. Three racers also competed in the Racing Class. Sara Laroux’s shorthand-ed Ninkasi had four straight wins to claim the title in this class. Three of those wins were actually first over the line! The only boat to nip Ninkasi and prevent the sweep was none other than Don Parsons and his crew on Anticipa-tion. Charlie Boucher on Air Express managed to keep the racing close but had spinnaker problems and fell into third. The real excitement came in the Cruising B class. It looked like it was go-ing to be a runaway train with Chris Stevens winning races one and two by a wide margin, actually finishing ahead of most of the Cruising A boats! Mean-while, Jerry Slagle finished second in Feats of Strength and, JP Czech in Czechmate was third. Slagle and Czech traded places in race two, and with those big wins by Stevens, it looked like the race was for second.

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RACE COMMITTEE

That’s when the real Feats of Strength Happened. Slagle roared back with a first and Stevens stumbled and fell to second. Czech fell to fourth and Chuck Moretti on Nantucket Bound slipped into third. Stevens rebounded and pulled out the final race over Slagle with Czech in third and Moretti in Fourth to seal his overall victory. The racers got to enjoy a fabulous lobster dinner thanks to Laura Cameron, Steve Nix and the entire Lobster feed crew. Racing was canceled on Sunday due to bad weather, so we were all hap-py to have gotten in four races on Sat-urday! The overall winner of the Commo-dores cup is decided by the largest mar-gin of victory in a class. This year, for the first time in recent memory, there was a tie. The numbers were so close that it was determined that the crown would be shared by Sara Laroux and Chris Stevens. Congratulations to both of them!

Results: J-80 Pressure Guy Nickerson 1-2-1-1 Argo III, Case Nickerson 3-1-2-2 He’s Baack, Bob Knowles 2-3-3-3 Schatz, Al Herte 4-4-4-4 Racing Ninkasi, Sara Laroux/Ed Philpot 1-1-1-1 Anticipation, Don Parsons 2-2-2-2 Air Express, Charlie Boucher 3-3-3-3 Cruising A Claddagh, Jay Norden 1-3-1-1 Shadow, Mike Curtin 3-2-2-2 Haleakala, BobGarland 2-1-4(DSQ)-3 Cruising B Szep Lani, Chris Stevens 1-1-2-1

Feats of Strength, Jerry Slagle 2-3-1-2 Czechmate, J.P.Czech 3-2-4-3 Nantucket Bound, C. Morretti 4-4-3-4 Don’t Forget the Cold Duck! October 9

We really want a record number of boats to come out and support our 45th Cold Duck! Don Roper promises to out-do himself again with a memorable Cold Duck to end our season on October 9. This is the 45th year and we are already working on making this one special. As part of our work so far, we are pleased to announce the return of Pusser’s Rum with a renewal of their sponsorship of the event. They are stepping up big with great prizes ad giveaways for all of the participants.

The lake level might make it diffi-

cult to get some of the big boats out of Fay’s, so we really need to get every available boat on the line if we are going to surpass that magical thirty boats!

WYC NEWS cont.

RACE COMMITTEE

WYC NEWS cont.

Winnipesaukee Yacht Club Notice of Race

45th Annual Cold Duck Race

October 9, 2016 Invitation: The Winnipesaukee Yacht Club is pleased to invite all sailors to the 2016 Season Ending Cold Duck Race. Eligibility: The race is open to any skipper or owner who wishes to participate. Participants must meet all race requirements, and must have paid all event fees before becoming official competitors. Rules: This regatta will be governed by the 2013-2016 Racing Rules Of Sailing (RROS) Including US SAILING Prescriptions, this notice (except as to any modifications by the sailing Instructions), and the sailing instructions. Scoring: The low point scoring system (Appendix A2) will be used. The Two Turns Penalty, Rule 44.2 of the RROS, shall be replaced and a One Turn Penalty shall apply. Entry: Each entry must be submitted in the form attached hereto (a photocopy will be accepted).The en-try fee is $40.00 by cash or check payable to Winnipesaukee Yacht Club (WYC). Site: Racing will take place on Lake Winnipesaukee, and will be an island course for all classes. We may have shorter courses for smaller boats depending on the number of registrants Contact: Ed Philpot. ed.philpot@myfairpoint.net Prizes: Great Prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers in each class. There will be a perpetual tro-phy for the overall winner and, of course, infamous chicken award. Social: Adult beverages and Chili will be served and an award ceremony will be held at the WYC imme-diately following the race. Schedule: Sunday 10/9/2016 0900-1100 Registration @ WYC 1100 Opening Meeting 1200 Start * *the start time may be adjusted depending on weather, however adequate notice of changes will be given.

This event is a single race regatta. The Race will be an Island race

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REGATTA ENTRY FORM Skipper's Name: ____________________________________ Boat Name: __________________________________

Address:__________________________________________________ City: ___________________ State: _______

Zip: _______________ Home Phone: _______________________ Business:______________________________

E-mail address: _________________________________________________________________________________

Boat Type (make):___________________________________ Length:____________ PHRF Ra*ng: ____________

Hull Color: ______________________________ Sail No. _________________________________

Owner's Name (If not Skipper): ___________________________________________________________________

Address:___________________________________________________ City: _________________ State: _________

Zip: _______________ Home Phone:________________________ Business: _______________________________

E-mail address: _________________________________________________________________________________

Number of crew members:___________________

CLASS: Spinnaker Class:_____________________ Non Spinnaker Class:_______________________

Completed Entry Form, Signed Waiver and the $45.00 entry fee ($40.00 for WYC and LWSA members) must be submi�ed

prior to the start of the first race.

Waiver:

The undersigned agrees to be bound by The Racing Rules Of Sailing, Including US Sailing Prescrip�ons 2013-2016 and

all other rules that govern this event. The undersigned acknowledges that the compe**on in which he/she has entered is dan-

gerous and assumes all risk of accident, loss of property and personal injury or loss of life. The undersigned also acknowledges

that the establishment of any equipment regula*ons, and/or the inspec*ons of boats is merely for the purpose of ensuring fair

compe**on and neither serves as a cer*fica*on that the boat on which he/she is compe*ng is safe nor relieves the under-

signed of his/her sole and exclusive responsibility to maintain the boat in a sound, properly equipped thoroughly seaworthy

and safe condi*on.

The undersigned represents that the boat on which he/she will compete in this event is sound, properly equipped,

thoroughly seaworthy and safe. The undersigned represents that all equipment aboard, including, but not limited to, safety

and emergency equipment, is properly stowed, has been well maintained, is in good opera*ng condi*on and is appropriate for

this compe**on. The undersigned also represents that he/she and any crew permiAed aboard the boat are experienced and

competent, are physically fit, and capable of swimming or treading water in full sailing aBre, and have been instructed in the

use and loca*on of all safety equipment aboard the boat.

The undersigned acknowledges that the decision to start and/or con*nue racing is the sole and exclusive responsibil-

ity of the undersigned.

In considera*on of the acceptance of this entry, the undersigned cer*fies that each of the foregoing statements and

representa*ons are true and accurate and, on behalf of himself/herself and his/her heirs, successors and assigns, hereby re-

leases and forever discharges The Winnipesaukee Yacht Club and the Lake Winnipesaukee Sailing Associa*on and their respec-

*ve members, volunteers, employees, agents, Officers, Board of Directors, Race CommiAees and Juries from any and all liabil-

ity arising out of my par*cipa*on in this regaAa and all social events connected therewith, whether such loss is due to property

damage, personal injuries or loss of life, even if such loss is due to the negligence of any party so released.

Skipper Signature: ______________________________________________________________________________________