Author: Michael Fulmor

The Jibsheet

Yaquina Bay Yacht Club, established 1947

February 2021

Winter is Happening
Zoomeeting #2 this Saturday 2/20- This time it’s going to be Nautical Trivia! (Pg.3)
Youth Sailing Report– Terry, Laurie and Greg are trying to put together a program, stay tuned for more details.
Race and Cruise Report– Frostbite dates are this Saturday the 20th and March 6. Hoping to have some kind of racing season.
Some More Filler from the Fulmor’s Big Adventure- A second excerpt from Mike and Barb’s South Pacific adventures from the Captain’s Log to make you think about sailing across the big Blue. Pg. 4

BOARD BITS
Your YBYC board met virtually 2/9. Following are some of the items on the agenda: Committee chairs will be updating their sections of the Operating Procedures; problems with the Google group are being sorted out; work on the Boston Whaler is proceeding, with new hydraulic motor lift installed, new bottom paint will be next; preparation for the February member Trivia Contest is about done; the process for a lapsed member to rejoin was reviewed; January revenue includes dues and additional donations; clubhouse rentals are not happening, although there have been inquiries; preparation of the Capri 22 continues; no plans yet for the 2021 race season; HS sailing is seeing interest, so those plans are going forward, with a possibility of bringing Optimist dinghies to Newport; The board meets again on 3/2. Members may always get a copy of the full minutes by e-mailing alimc_77@mcn.com

Another happy couple on a sailing lesson last Fall. (Classes are starting to book for May, by the way.)

Greetings and Salutations YBYC members,
It's getting closer, time to dust off your sail bags and get out that old can of bottom paint, spring sailing is just around the corner! While there are a few hardy sailors who sail year round on Yaquina Bay, the majority surely take a break and let the winter storms roll through (and roll through they have). Though our winter Sunday frostbite sails and spring Wednesday night racing is recommended for family or "pandemic pods" only within the same boat at this time, we are hopeful that before long we can get back to racing as usual. It is always exciting to me when the sun starts to climb a little higher and stay up in the sky a little longer, and that time is upon us!
The YBYC board of directors would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to the numerous members who have made financial and in-kind donations to the club during this unprecedented time when our ability to generate revenue has been severely hampered. Without your thoughtful and extremely generous financial gifts the club would be struggling today to meet it's obligations but instead are looking good through the end of this year. So, thank you on behalf of myself and the entire board of directors (some of whom have also been major donors), you know who you are! Thanks you!
The first YBYC virtual event went well and was fun for all who attended. There is another chance to join in the fun this coming Saturday the 20th. Thank you to the organizers of both events for getting us together - Michelle, Peggy O'Callahan and Alice McNamara and Vicki Hoover Krutzikowski. This camaraderie is much appreciated during these fragmented times!
Fair winds and following seas,
Cheers,
Todd
Todd Chandler
Commodore YBYC 2020-21

Commodore’s Report

Todd and Leigh’s schooner Russamee sailing on the Atlantic side of Panama.

Get Nautical for Trivia Night!
What: Yaquina Bay Yacht Club Nautical Trivia Via Zoom
When: Join YBYC for its second virtual event next Saturday, 2/20/2021 at 6:00 p.m. We can’t have our monthly pot luck/meetings, but we can have a few laughs and say hi as we test our nautical trivia knowledge.
Where: At your house...Have a drink and snack ready to go and all you need to do is click (or copy and paste) the Zoom link below before the appointed hour. Please RSVP to Vicki Krutzikowsky at vickihoosky@hotmail.com or text 541 351-1062. to get the password and help me know how many to expect. I can also help you with any tech problems ahead of the game.
Vicki Krutzikowsky is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: YBYC Sailing Trivia Night!
Time: Feb. 20, 2021, 1800 Pacific Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85010056583... Meeting ID: 850 1005 6583
Join Zoom Meeting

Need More Sail!

Eight Bells—S.C. Phillip Tanner
Phillip Tanner served as Commodore of YBYC in 1990. He and his wife Elizabeth were members for most of the 1980’s. Phillip served half the year, and when they moved to Hawaii Ruth Morford finished the year for him. Both he and Elizabeth were registered nurses and Phillip was also an anethetist. Phillip used his sailboat as committee boat for several of our regattas. He always opened a bottle of champagne after the first race was started. We loved working on Committee boat!! One year he decided to to shoot blanks from his gun at the beginning of the first race. We were soon visited by the Coast Guard, there was never a dull moment when Phillip was around, He worked at Hawaii’s Veterans Hospital for 21 years. He passed away from cancer August 30, 2020 ~Dorothy Bogamil
The Board of Directors of YBYC wish to thank the following Life Members: Dorothy Bogamil, Ron and Donita Cole, Gary and Marsha Hettman, Dave and Ruth Morford, Tim and Sarah Myrick, Dave and Barbara Schmaltz, Larry Sharpless, and Buzz and Anne Williams for their very generous combined donation of $6,050. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A belated welcome to new members Jake and Danielle who optimistically joined during Covid Times. Jake wants to sail and learn about boats all he can.

Island Time- Adjusting to a New Culture (Marquesas) 4/30/07
It was quite a feeling of unreality to actually arrive at a destination (Hiva Oa) one has dreamed of for years, read about from many different viewpoints, and planned for as long as this. Nothing compares to actually being there. After the 22-23 (we’re not exactly sure) day passage, we were out of beer, cigarettes, fresh food of any kind except for some really limp carrots and a loaf of indestructible Bimbo bread. And of course we wanted to try to contact wives and check e-mail. So we inflated the dinghy and made our way ashore, only to discover since it was Sunday, everything was closed except one small “snack”- the name for a lunch-type restaurant. They had pretty good hamburgers, great French Fries (fancy that, in French Polynesia) and with a couple of beers, we three paid about $75 for lunch. That was our first taste of Marquesas prices, soon to be reinforced when we finally got a look at the inside of a “magazine” which is what they call their markets. It was our goal that Monday to get checked-in to the country, buy the stuff we wanted, and finally make contact with the home front. After walking the mile or so from the anchorage to the little town of Atuona, we found that checking in would be a two day process (using Polynesian Yacht Services as our agent), and the magazines all closed from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm. Oh yeah, and you could only buy a phone card at one particular store or the Post Office, only one store (a different one) had cigarettes, and the only internet was at the post office, and also required a phone card. All these things were taken in stride, and we accomplished most of our missions. I bought three bottles of Tahitian rum for my upcoming birthday party, and it only set me back $150…
On our return to the boat that Monday, yours truly decided the time had come to attack the rather ripe pile of dirty laundry that had begun to give my cabin a distinctively unpleasant aroma. There are no laundry-mat type things in these islands, but near the dinghy landing area they had a tile-covered shelf with a faucet, and I had seen a fellow cruiser massaging her laundry there. “What the heck”, says I, “it can’t be rocket surgery”, so off I went, leaving my crew amusedly reading their books in the cockpit. I had two bulging bags of odiferous clothing, a container of detergent, and a Rubbermaid storage bin, and for the next three hours or so I discovered the immense sense of personal satisfaction one can only acquire from doing something one had never thought one would, or could, do. That’s my facetious way of saying I will never take clean clothes for granted again. Since then I have become very good at rotating a few things, washing them as I wash myself, and never wearing a shirt unless going in public.
So Tuesday rolled around, and we again did an expensive foraging foray into town, this time spending 35000 francs ($350) on a couple of bags of food and a couple cases of beer. I returned later and spent some more of the beautiful but fast-disappearing bills on a few items for the b-day party, and we began to plan for the event. We had made friends with several of the folks sharing the tiny anchorage with us; since we were within a few meters of each other it was easy. Wednesday, Linda from Wyntersea dropped off a wonderful pineapple upside-down cake she made for me, and later we had an international group aboard for cocktails: 2 Dutch, a German, a Pole, 2 Belgians, a Romanian, 2 Canadians, an actual American family of three, and ourselves. Arabella was low on her lines, and it looked like a used dinghy lot all around her, but we had a great couple of hours before we took off for the restaurant for a great dinner. Sometime during dinner, we finally noticed the beautiful tall lady with the low voice who was serving us might actually not be a lady. She had a pretty face, all made up, nice hairdo, etc. and was the first of many such we’ve seen since. Seems like it’s a really well accepted part of the culture here, drag as a way of life.
Anyway, after a bit of recovery from the night before, we hoisted anchor on Thursday and headed all the way to the next island, Tahuata, a whole 10 miles or so away. The captain was feeling his 55 years, but the stalwart crew did all the work as a kind of belated birthday present. We checked out a small bay that was supposed to have lobsters jumping into your dinghy, but they must have sold more than one copy of that guidebook! So we moved on down the coast a mile or two to famous Resolution Bay. This is the beautiful bay Captain Cook liked so much he named it after his ship. There was a small, very sleepy village there called Vaitahu, with two magazines, no restaurants, but a very nice Catholic church. As we strolled around we heard beautiful harmonies as the choir practiced for a few hours. Wish we’d had a tape recorder. We were invited into a yard nearby by a friendly fellow named Lulu, and shared a few Hinano beers with a group of men while trying to converse in French, Spanish and Marquesan, with a bit of English. They wanted us to return the following day to receive their gifts of bananas, pamplemuse (delicious grapefruit-type things) and citrons (limes) but we never found them. Instead a nice couple waved us into their yard and loaded us up with papayas, bananas, limes, and served us delicious limeaid. We were invited to their wedding the 26th of May, but sadly had to decline, since we’ll be in Tahiti by then. (TBC next month if you aren’t getting bored yet) ~Mike Fulmor

Approach to resolution Bay, Tahuata

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