February 2010 Anchorline

The Anchorline is the SBYC's monthly newsletter, published 10 times yearly. The Editor requests subsmissions to the Anchorline be received prior to the 20th of month for publication at months end.

February 2010 Anchorline
In This Issue
Your Commodore's Report
Fleet Captain's cruising report
Membership Report
New Members
March meeting news
Commodore's Ball on Sat. Feb 20
Did you know?
Historian's Report
Pictures from 1981
2010 Cruising & Events Schedule
January winter cruise pics
Club Classifieds

Commodore's Report

The changing of the guard has happened and your new Executive is well underway planning for what I hope will once again be a most memorable year for the Club. The Cruising Schedule is posted and our Social events calender is now getting finalized, starting with The Commodores Ball on Saturday, Feb. 20th. Our lively St. Patrick's day party is on March 20th. Bobby Smith will once again ensure that we all have a fun time. Both of these events will be at the Silva Bay Resort and I encourage all to book early and to attend. Details will shortly be posted to our web site. Happy Cruising !

Bos

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Fleet Captain's Report

This year's Valentine's Day Cruise has an added bonus or two. First, a Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre on Saturday night is being held at the Pub and we are invited to att

end. Second, a Valentine's Day brunch is being held on Sunday and you may choose to attend that or, you may choose to attend both events. Third, the SBYC invites you to take part in a competition to win a dozen long stem roses for your better half.

The dinner theatre event is a fund raiser for The Nanaimo Competitive Gymnastic Club. The inclusive cost (dinner, theatre) is $45 per person. The $45 also includes door prizes of which the main prize is a 3 day, 2 night trip to Las Vegas with a $500 cash voucher. If you travel to Dinghy Dock Pub by the Protection Island Ferry, your ferry costs are included in the $45. If you travel by boat the Dinghy Dock Pub will be offering a discount to those of you who attend the Valentine's Day brunch on Sunday.

The Valentine's Day Brunch will run from 1030 hours to 1500 hours and is all you can eat for $15 per person.

The roses: The Cruise Director, yet to be named, will have a jar of Hershey's Kisses at the Sunday brunch. You have to guess how many kisses are in the jar. The closest guess gets to present their better half with a dozen roses.

If you are attending by boat, you have a choice of one or two nights. If you do not have a boat, you can attend via the

Quinsam and the Protection Island Ferry.

Tickets for the Dinner Theatre event are selling quite fast, so please let me know ASAP if you wish to attend that event. If you are attending the cruise only and do not partake in the Dinner Theatre event regular meals will be available in the family part of the pub, or you may choose to eat on board your boat.

Please let me know if you wish to attend the brunch as Dinghy Dock will reserve a section in the pub for our group.

This is a rather complex announcement so please feel free to e-mail me regarding any concerns.

Safe boating,

Ian Waymark

Fleet Captain
Silva Bay Yacht Club

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Membership Report
Good day Everybody!
The month of January (warmest on record) is over and I am still waiting for half of the membership dues.
I was considering adding the SST on the membership for the month of February but after our meeting yesterday everybody told me that “Sylvie Special Tax” does not apply on the membership dues! Go figure, and I thought I could make money being a chair and get myself a bigger boat!
Joking aside, everybody should make an effort to mail me your cheque, as your dues are overdue. Please remember to donate as well for the Marine Parks in the amount of $10.00, it would be greatly appreciated.
Have a great month of February and please do not hesitate to send you SST if you think the executives were wrong on their decision! J

Sylvie Gendreau
“CHAIR”

New Members
Welcome to our new members!
Dave & Melanie Teichroeb
Don & Vickey Mayrand
Heather Kay

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March Meeting, Mon. March 1st, Bert Terhart
Ultralarge Crude Carriers, Kayaks and Cruisers - A Chart Maker's Nightmare

Here's a précis:
Coastal waters are coming under intense pressure from both pleasure craft and commercial shipping. The role that GPS and especially electronic charting will play in keeping us all safe afloat is something that the DFO and Canadian Hydrographic Service is struggling with. Understanding something about the transition from paper to electronic charts can help keep us all off the rocks.

About me:
Bert Terhart is a life-long sailor and a former physical oceanographer and programmer. If you press hard enough, he might even tell you about his experiences as an officer with the Canadian Army's Airborne Special Service Forces.

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Social Events
SILVA BAY YACHT CLUB
2010 COMMODORE’S BALL
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 20TH, 2010
AT: Silva Bay Resort and Marina
Cocktails 6:00 pm - Dinner 7:00 pm - Awards etc., 8:30 pm
Dress Code: Business Dress and Cocktail Attire.

Menu: Salad to start
Your Choice of:
9oz. Cut New York Steak with Baby Red Roasted Potatoes and Grilled Vegetables
Or
6 oz. Cut of Pacific Salmon – Oscar Style, drizzled with Bernaise Sauce. Accompanied with Wild Rice Pilaf and Grilled Vegetables.
For Dessert: Home made Apple Pie a la mode – Coffee – Tea
A Vegetarian meal will be available upon request.

Cost per person $35.00

To reserve your tickets for the dinner, please call DOUG OR DEB CUNNIAN at phone # 247-7669, or email them at dcunnian@shaw.ca.
Please include in your phone call or email your choice of entrée – e.g. Beef or Salmon - and how many meals you are requesting.

Tickets can be paid for and picked up at the door on the evening of the Ball. Note: Tickets must be ordered prior to Feb. 14th, 2010.

Just a reminder, if you do forward your request for tickets, we do expect you to attend the Ball. If, however, should you have some type of emergency and cannot attend, a phone call to the Cunnian’s immediately would be much appreciated so we can inform Silva Bay.

Please do try and attend this event – to meet and greet your new Executive – and to mix and mingle with both old and new friends.
It is always a fun evening and should not be missed.

Thanks, and see you there.
Jerrie for: Commodore Bos Malcolm

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Did you know?
The phrase"Over the Yardarm".

The yardarms on a sailing ship are the horizontal timbers or spars mounted on the masts, from which the square sails are hung. (The word yard here is from an old Germanic word for a pointed stick, the source also of our unit of measurement.) At certain times of year it will seem from the deck that the sun has risen far enough up the sky that it is above the topmost yardarm. In summer in the north Atlantic, where the phrase seems to have originated, this would have been at about 11am. This was by custom and rule the time of the first rum issue of the day to officers and men (the officers had their tots neat, the men’s diluted). It seems that officers in sailing ships adopted a custom, even when on shore, of waiting until this time before taking their first alcoholic drink of the day.

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Historian's Report
Last month I mentioned that over the last several years I’ve been trying to get an archive set up where we can save or store pictures and records that have been part of our club over that past 30 years. I’m happy to announce that as of the last executive meeting, a committee has been formed to look at how to do this. It was suggested that the best way to do it is by putting the materials we want to save, onto our website. Exactly what and how this best can be done is what the committee will look into.

As most of you know, if you peruse our website from time to time, is that Jordan has been doing some of this already. There are a number of old Anchorlines and a slide show from the year 1981. My guess is that by the time we’re finished there’ll be a lot more of this. It obviously will take a lot of work as most of this will have to be collected, identified, sorted and then scanned. We have a large number of photos and some work in identifying members has already been done by Wendy Hobbs who has been in the club from the beginning. Obviously not all the photos will make it we probably have many pictures that are the same. I have been collecting as much material as I can and would ask that any members that may have records or photos belonging to the club to please pass them on to me. Also if any of you have personal materials relating to the club that we could use, again call me and we’ll return them after we’ve decided what to do with them.

Once an archive is set up it will have to be maintained so that each year a method of entering materials in an orderly fashion will have done.

Finally a decision will have to be made as to what to do with the hard copies once they are electronically copied. Some albums are done beautifully and would be a shame to disrupt while others are nothing more that a collection of photos. Apparently the Gabriola museum has our original minute book and may be interested in other materials as well. If any of you have other ideas please let me know and I’ll pass them on to the committee when we meet.

Fred Withey (Club Historian)

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