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May not be as romantic as a new 40 foot Valiant but, for some of us, the new stove/ovens/fryer is just as exciting. Many thanks for

the generous gift from the Van Westins' making it possible.

Thursday, May 8th

Board Meeting

Tuesday, May 20th

6:00 PM -Meet at

Club in Main

Room

Babel Cup

Saturday, May 17th

12:00 Noon at

GTYC.

• Chubb Update

• Tech Talk - Anodes

• Cruiser’s Corner

• Coal Dock

• Help for Katie

• Misc. Ramblings

• From the Helm

• Great Pasty Dinner

Surprise Program!

6:00 PM – Happy

Hour

7:00 - Program

May Not Be A New Boat But Some of Us Are Almost As Excited

MAY 2014

Fred Wilmeth Editor

Volunteer TBD Club Reporter

Volunteer TBD Club Photographer

Articles Due to Editor by the 15th of Month Prior to Publication

[email protected]

EVENTS CALENDAR

Greilickville-Suttons Bay: The Elmwood Township 150th Anniversary

Race, Saturday, May 24th.

The Suttons Bay race returns to the GTYC race calendar on Saturday, May

26th celebrating both the beginning of the summer sailing season and the

150th anniversary of Elmwood Township. As the first long distance race of

the season, racers can choose between two courses: out and around

Mission Light for the more experienced racers and up the western shore of

the Bay and around Stony Point for more casual sailors. After the finish,

all are welcome to stay for "apres-sail" social to follow at the Suttons Bay

Marina. Registration for the all this season's races is now open online at

YachtScoring.com and at the bar at the club.

FROM THE HELM A Word From the Commodore

GREGG DIEHL Commodore

Jordan Owen

Vice Commodore

Robert Cornwell Rear Commodore

Jim Sorbie

Past Commodore

Board of Directors David Phelps Jessica Gerber Bill Allgaier Jed Mooney Steve Hutchens

Rob Lovell

Committees Financial and Admin

Dave Skibowski

Treasurer

Kim Marian Secretary

Jim Sorbie Webmaster

Ian Sterling

Club Manager

The Bay froze February 3rd and the ice moved out April 20th. Seventy-six days of freeze. The ice was still moving around and it came back April 22nd. It might be gone now.

The first Wednesday night race is scheduled for May 7th. Dig your boats out of the snow and join us for a sail dodging icebergs on the Bay. Probably won’t need the cooler. Entry forms are available online and behind the bar. Club Clean-up Day was April 19 and it was well attended by selfless Members who cleaned the interior and grounds for your use. Thank you volunteers. They rolled up the sleeves of their blue blazers, rolled up the Khaki pants and with their epaulettes and scrimshaw buttons shining, got their topsiders wet cleaning trash cans and everything else in their path. Again, Thanks.

The Hutchens and friends put on a great yooper pasty dinner with over a hundred members and families attending. Some say up to two hundred. Profits of the event benefitted the adaptive sailing program at TACS. A worthy cause and great Member family, the Hutchens, even mom Hutchens was there. I hope you were there to join in the fun and if not don’t miss the next Club event.

The Flag Officers, their families, some Board Members and Members attended the Cadet Groups of Great Lakes Maritime Academy Captain’s Dinner & Ship Tour. It was a fundraiser for the Maritime Academy’s Cadet Groups, Women On the Water (WOW), the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the GLMA Sailing team. We were given a tour of their facilities and the training ship State of Michigan. Among the classrooms, navigation rooms, machinery rooms and individual simulators they have a simulation room. It holds a dozen people with a helm and almost 360 degrees of video monitors. It was simulating a ship at anchor just outside of port with light winds and five foot swells. With sailboats, tugs and ships sailing around you in the harbor the simulation actually tricks your mind into believing the floor is moving like you are on a ship. It was quite the experience. If you ever get the chance to visit it do so. It’s better than any movie theatre or video arcade and I was surprised that this piece of machinery even existed in Traverse City. I’ve been on a Battle Ship, an Aircraft Carrier, a Submarine and even the Queen Mary. I like the State of Michigan, she is a great ship. Twin screws driven by electric engines, a working ship. They could close down the school and charge admission for tours of the facilities and ship instead of turning out professional sailors with a hundred percent placement upon graduation. We had the pleasure of meeting Rear Admiral Jerry Achenbach, USMS, Superintendent of the school and Captain Joseph McGuiness, Captain of the training ship State of Michigan. Down to earth seriously professional sailors. Can you say that in one sentence? It is my honor to announce to the Membership that the Board of Directors of the Grand Traverse Yacht Club, in the spirit of building lasting connections with other sailing organizations in our community, have awarded Mr. Achenbach and Mr. McGuiness along with their families honorary membership in our Club. They will fit right in with our sailing club. Welcome them when you see them. See you at the club.

Gregg Diehl,

Misc. Ramblings by Eric Lind, PC- 40

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Speaking of safety, I renewed my CPR/AED

skills recently at the Leelanau Twp Fire/Rescue

hall and will go back in a few weeks for first aid.

The interesting thing is that it was either free of

charge or at least very inexpensive. Check with

your local fire/rescue service or with Munson

and find a class near you. If there is enough

interest I will schedule a session or two at the

yacht club.

The Club now has an AED (defibrillator) in the

lobby that we all hope is never needed, but can

all have some comfort knowing that it is there.

The unit was purchased by Wes & Janie

Schulz, Dave Phelps & Sherry Small, Rick

Newman, and Steve Tripp. If you are interested

in learning how to use this particular unit, Wes

and/or I will be available on Wednesdays and

Fridays to demonstrate or watch the training

video online at http://depts.washington.edu/

learnaed/Defib_HeartStart.php.

App o’ the Month – Intelligent Mainte-

nance announced the launch of the My Boat

app for iPad. Providing tools for maintenance,

trip planning, photo sharing, inventory tracking,

and more, My Boat will help make sure you

have everything you need before you are ready

to ship out. It is currently available for iPad for

$19.99 in the iTunes App Store. Their website

is www.intelligentmaintenance.com.

Saw this paragraph a week or so ago in some

Olympic Sailing newsletter and it made me

wonder ‘who the heck picked this place?’ —

“Responding to our direct questions about the

water quality in Rio de Janeiro, specifically at

the 2016 Olympic sailing venues, the

communications department for the Rio

Secretary of the Environment in Rio de Janeiro

provided figures that showed that 800,000 tons

a day of untreated effluent is currently

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It doesn’t happen very often and it’s not always

perfect, but we were able to hold the Iceboat

Fun Regatta at the Club the last weekend in

March and it was AWESOME!!! The best part of

the weekend was seeing Dick Wollam, Julie

Richards, Dick Hirtreiter, and many others taking

people for rides and showing them what ice

sailing is all about. We definitely have some new

devotees. We did get two races in on Sunday

and awarded the world famous Bird House

Trophies to the winners, but the best part of the

weekend was hearing Bill Cutting tell about his

two kids, Bink & Bobbie, sailing their Ice Opti in

stiff wind and coming back with huge smiles on

their faces.

Our High School sailors have finally gotten wet!!!

The ice is out of Boardman Lake and they have

been practicing for a couple of weeks now. At

their first regatta in mid-April on Lake St. Clair

the TC Central team took 1st place. The TACS

Red 8 Regatta is scheduled for Saturday, May

10th and is currently scheduled for Boardman

Lake which will make it a spectator friendly

event. Interest is high and we are expecting as

many as eight to ten teams from downstate to

compete.

Read an article recently in one of the cruising

newsletters about learning how to use a piece of

safety equipment. The author was relating his

experience in recertifying his life raft. The

technician had him unpack and inflate his raft

and then get inside for a while and also went

over every each part of the raft. I found this

interesting as the same could apply to any piece

of safety equipment. How many of us have

actually USED any of our safety equipment???

Maybe it’s time for another Safety at Sea

Seminar. Thank you to Doug & Sarah for doing

that back in ‘98(?). We were fortunate to be able

to attend and it was an eye opener.

CAN YOU HELP?

Grand Traverse Yacht Club – Waterlines – May 2014 Issue

As many of you know Past Commodore and good friend of GTYC members, Katie Horvath has been in treatment for cancer for some time now. All of us have inquired as to how we can help and we recently received this note from Mom, Libbet Terrell with an opportunity to do so:

“As many of you already know, my daughter Katie Horvath was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer last December and is currently in a 12-month course of chemotherapy to treat it.

Many GTYC members have indicated to me that they would like to help Katie & her daughter Elayna, and we sure could use some help with meals this summer 2x a week.

I have put together a meal plan at takethemameal.com with a meal calendar of each Tuesday & Thursday, June through September. In September we will regroup to figure out what to do next. Elayna's school community at the International School at Bertha Vos has generously provided meals for them January through May of this year.” To sign up to provide a meal, please go to takethemameal.com and give the last name Horvath and password GTYC.

Inside the webpage (Illustrated Below) you will find a note from Katie, along with her dietary restrictions...whew, it’s a list! On that page is a calendar where you can sign up, if you want to help with a meal. (Continued Next Page)

Help for Past Commodore Katie Hovarth

(CAN YOU HELP? Continued)

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Katie's home is 10110 San Remo Blvd. which is located off M-22, north of Pathfinder School in the LaRiviera West neighborhood. We would welcome meals delivered there, or alternatively to GTYC...we hope to place a cooler labelled "Meals for Katie" by the door, so as not to interfere with kitchen operations. We will have a family member pick up anything delivered to GTYC before 6:00 pm on Tues & Thurs.

Your help is so very much appreciated!!! We hope to see Katie & Elayna occasionally at the Club, as she is feeling up to it. I know she misses everyone and would appreciate cards & e-mail [email protected] or cell phone calls/texts 231.313.7572 as she is isolated most of the time. Visitors to her home are welcome for brief visits, as long as they are in good health. Elayna also greatly enjoys "play dates" with friends.

Pasty Fun-raiser 2014 By Steve and Barb Hutchens

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On Friday April 18th our popular “Yooper Night” was held with 146 dinners sold and 70 “to goes”

out the door. Even though it was Easter weekend attendance was strong, and the dinners were

SOLD OUT.

The evening included a prize for the best costume, jokes, and other miscellaneous silliness.

Pasties, both beef and veggie were served with slaw and a pickle. Tables were covered with

brown paper, grandma tablecloths and plastic flowers in a beer glass. This upscale, classy event

was held to help fund the adapted sailing summer program. On Tuesdays and thursdays from

4:30 – 7:30 individuals with disabilities are able to sail in adapted boats at the Cornwell Sailing

Center on Boardman Lake. Barb and Steve Hutchens were master chefs and Fred and Lisa

Wilmeth were kitchen slaves. Also helping with the crew were Christina Sanok, Jinny and Eric

Lind, Shannon Petaja, and Jasen Hutchens.

Thanks also to John Johnson and Steve Rutkowski, TACS board member, for keeping the RIF-

raff at bay by watching the door. (Many thanks to the individual who donated $50. at the door.)

TACS Adapted Sailing is a unique program in the U.S. because it allows people with both

Physical and Developmental disabilities to participate. For more info, to make a donation, or to

volunteer contact www.tacsailing.org

Benefits to TACS Adaptive Sailing Program

Cruisers Explore National Park

Islands Sleeping Bear Ranger Discusses History & Geography

of the Manitou Islands

The last cruisers meeting provided an enjoyable and informative

evening exploring North and South Manitou Islands with the

National Parks Service Ranger, Miss Fredericks. The discussion

focused on the history of the Manitous’ and their development as

lumber and agriculture economies and, later, their return to a more

origianl natural setting and subsequent inclusion by the National

Parks System.

Today’s islands, especially South Manitou Island, offer boaters an

interesting place anchor and explore. That exploration includes

sunken and abandoned ships, old growth forests, beaches, wild bird

preserves, amazing dunes, camping, and, well you name it. And

right on our doorstep!

Our Cruisers

Have Tales

to Tell

of Far Off

Boating

Destinations

All Boaters

Welcome…

GTYC Cruising Club

meets the 2nd Thursday

of each month

fall through spring.

All sailing and powerboat

cruisers are welcome. A potluck dinner is followed

by cruising stories, seminars,

and planning for cruising destinations.

For more information

contact: Lisa Wilmeth

CRUISER BLOGS

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Calliope

Kismet

Discovery Center Proposes New Pier & Harbor

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This proposal has huge potential economic, recreational, educational and cultural benefits to the residents and visitors of our region as an ACTIVE working waterfront with offerings such as:

Major waterfront attraction - economic driver Port of call for cruise ships and excursion boats

Public Fishing Pier Base for Fishing Charter fleet

Base for Tall Ship fleet

Water Taxi to Power Island and Clinch Park Scuba Diving Charters

TACS High School Sailing Team practice base

Bareboat Sailing Charters and Sailing School

Access to boating through rentals, charters, memberships Pedestrian access point to the water

Environmental and scientific learning opportunities

Recreational activities for all ages and capabilities Maritime history education

Community events like regattas, fishing derbies and Kid's Free Fishing Day

Expanded Discovery Center Programs

Active, working waterfronts are quickly disappearing and the public interest is being crowded out with

private development. What better use can there be of this public asset? The chance to do something like this is historic and can provide monumental benefit to the region's citizens and visitors forever.

For more information about the Discovery Center Community Harbor, Marina, and Pier follow these links,

then "Share" and "Like" on Facebook, Linked In and other social media and tell our City officials that you support this project. More information on the Community Pier, Harbor and Marina project can be found

at: http://discoverygreatlakes.org/community-harbor/

Discovery Center Proposes New Pier & Harbor

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We are striving to make the public aware of our efforts to convert the surplus coal dock property into a vibrant, informative, and fun attraction for our community and the region. We believe that this project with

bring new life to a former industrial waterfront and fill a much need niche in our community's mix of

waterfront activities. A presentation will be made to the City Commission on Monday April 21 (late on

the agenda, probably around 8pm), which will be televised live on Charter Cable Government TV

channel 191 and will be available to view on-line live or later at your convenience. We need you support

to help convince the City Commission to work with us to move this project forward. Links to more information appear at the bottom of this message.

This exciting proposal has huge potential economic, recreational, educational and cultural benefits to the

residents and visitors of our region as an ACTIVE working waterfront. Please read on and pass on!

Proposed Community Pier and Public Access Hub

Note that we are the first to admit that parking on the dock is not desirable or highest and best use, but it

allows this project to proceed until safe methods of getting users across the busy highway to remote parking are in place. Once that happens, parking can be removed from the dock in favor of activity space.

Community Plan for Coal Dock Area

GTICY Annual

Fun Regatta at GTYC

GTYC

Grand Traverse Yacht Club – Waterlines – May 2014 Issue

Local winners this year are:

Silver fleet - 1st place Mike Burns, 2nd ChrisStoppel, 3rd Geoff Harris.

Gold fleet, 3rd place Julie Richards.

The wind came back up and some of us sailed until almost 7 pm. A great end to the season? Not quite... we sailed the first weekend in April, too, out in front of the club under sunny skies and 50+ degree temps. This late season sailing after the single digit temps earlier this year was absolutely delightful.

The ice is still on the bay as I write this...it has been an amazing season! Hard water sailing is done for now... it's time for soft water sailing....see you on the water soon!

The GTIYC hosted its annual invitational event, the Fun Regatta on March 29th and 30th. Always the last event of the season, we got lucky and had sailable ice out in front of the Yacht Club. Having the event at the club was a treat! The sailors enjoyed the convenience of our beautiful facility and a lot of GTYC members stopped down to watch. Some of the more adventurous tried iceboating for the first time. The weather cooperated, but there was some shale ice from the recent warm temps and rain. It made for some challenges racing.... hitting the shale slowed or even stopped the boats if tacking or not up to speed. It showered pieces of ice into the cockpit of my boat a few times. We had 2 races on Sunday before the wind died at about noon. We had lunch and gave out awards, plus prizes to all the 19 registered competitors. Jim Dye and company entertained us with music.

The trophies are fitting for a regatta with an emphasis on FUN! They are whimsical birdhouses, hand painted and each one unique. Collector’s items all, these trophies are treasured by those who have earned them.

By Julie Richards

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SPRING AND SUMMER SERIES

Wed, April 30 PHRF Skipper’s Meeting

Wed, May 7 Spring Series #1

Sat, May 10 High School Red 8 Regatta

Wed, May 14 Spring Series #2

Sat, May 17 Lasers Spring Babel Cup

Wed, May 21 Spring Series #3

Sat, May 24 Greilickville to Suttons Bay (LD #1)

Wed, May 28 Spring Series #4

Wed, June 4 Summer Series #1

Wed, June 11 Summer Series #2

Sat, June 14-15 GTYC Invitational - The Hound Dog

Wed, June 18 Summer Series #3

Sat, June 22 Interlake & Friends Bay Chase

Wed, June 25 Summer Series #4

Wed, July 2 Summer Series #5

Wed, July 9 Cherry Festival Bye Week

Mon-Tues, July 14-15 Smythe Triple handed Area K U.S Junior Qualifier

Wed, July 16 Twilight Series #1

Wed, July 23 Twilight Series #2

Sat, July 26 Round the Island At Night Race (MD #1)

Wed, July 30 Twilight Series #3

Sat-Sun, Aug 2-3 Interlakes Great White Northern Championships

Mon-Fri, Aug 4-8 US Sailing Chubb U.S. Junior Championships

Wed, Aug 6 Twilight Series #4

Sat, Aug 9 Traverse City to Northport (LD #2)

Sun, Aug 10 Northport to Traverse City (LD #3)

Wed, Aug 13 Twilight Series #5

Sat-Sun, Aug 16-17 Melges 24 Invitational

Wed, Aug 20 Twilight Series #6

Wed, Aug 27 Nan-C-Jay Race

(See GTYC.ORG for FALL Series Schedule)

Chubb

Update!

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If you’ll notice the sign this week at the club there’s only 14 weeks to the big event. Your coordinating

committee is meeting every week to plan for the first week in August!

One of the best suprises in this task is the fun and companionship that surrounds the organizing committee as

we work through the issues. I personally am amazed at how many times I hear things like “Don’t worry, I’ve

got that covered” and then people get things done. Need a place to meet, yep I can arrange that, Need another

boat? I can talk to …… and they might volunteer. Nothing brings people togather like seemingly

insurrmountable obstacles that team work and cooperation can’t overcome. So it’s been an adventure so far, but

a fun one.

Want to get involved? Well there certainly are opportunities yet abounding! At the moment we’re looking for a

event coordinator for the Host / Member party on Thursday night to work with the sponsor (Chubb) to create an

adult event at the club that is intended to thank the GTYC members for hosting the event.

Another opportunity is for a publicity chairperson. When we took on the opportunity for hosting the nationals our

first thought was how to promote the local sailing scene, especially the local youth sailing environment. We’ve

seen great growth in our high school programs and we’d like to extend the enthusiasm around that acticity to

the sailing scene on the bay as well. People will notice 100 yound sailors on the bay that week. We’d like to

create enough public awareness around this event so that all the locals can say “hey there are those kids

competing for a national champioship that the Grand Traverse AYcht Club is hosting”. We can’t think of a

better opportunity to portray GTYC in a better light and enable YOU a GTYC member to say proudly “Yup!

I’m part of that”.

As for the event itself, last week VC Jordan Owen hosted a training meeting for the on the water

group of volunteers with nearly 30 volunteers showing up. We are gratified by that response and look

forward to further training events. GTYC has always had a great core of volunteers to run regattas

and our P.R.O. Eric Lind has assembled a terrific group of volunteer to run a race. The difference for

this regatta is that (1.) we’re running two simultaneous courses and (2.) the event is four days and (3.)

we’re using a trapazoid course ( 4 marks). All of these factors will require more people on the water

than we’ve ever used before. As a consequence, we’ll be using more people, some of whom may be

there for the first time. So we’re planning more on the water and classroom training sessions.

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Chubb Update! (Continued)

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The next opportunity is a practice regatta at the Cornwell Sailing Center (TACS homebase) on the Boardman

on May 3rd. HS sailors wil provide the racers and PRO Lind will provide the training. What we want

to familaize people with are procedures around rescue, mark sets, postioning on the race course, etc.

Believe me nothing is worse than telling the PRO in the middle of race that you’ve lost the anchor to

a mark and they need to hold up a race (sadly, I’ve done this!).

The next opportunity will be assisting in a “for real” regatta on May 8th. This will be the HS R8

regatta, we’re expecting 8-10 teams from the midwest to compete in a one day event, and after this

past winter the sailors are geeked for racing, come and join us! If you’d like to volunteer please drop

me a note at [email protected]

We’ll be providing more details on what the event is and what the volunteer needs are from both

organizations. But here’s the event timetable to give you a overview of what happens :

o Monday (Arrival)

Registration, rig boats & Opening ceremony

o Tuesday (Clinic Day)

o Wednesday, Thursday & Friday are Race Days

o Saturday (Departure)

There are two events in the evenings of interest to our local junior sailors as well: One is a discussion of college

sailing and the other is an intro to preparing for major sailing campaigns i.e an Olympic campaign.

Our organizing committee (listed below) is meeting weekly to plan for the event, if you’re interested

in helping in that planning feel free to contact any of us!

Jim Sorbie - Co Chair Dave Gerber - Co Chair

Eric Lind PRO Jim Menzies - Transportation

Jordan Owen – On the water Coordinador Liz Zimmerman – Treasurer

Janie Schulz – Housing Co-Chair Bob Cornwell – Sears Cup Coordinator

Allyn Kay Cornwell – Housing Co-Chair

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Spring Clean

Up 2014

Photos by Gregg Diehl

Spring clean-up took place Saturday morning and was an awesome success!!! We started at 9:00 AM and completed much of the work right around noon. It is estimated that we had approximately 50 people participate. We washed walls, raked lawns, trimmed trees, cleaned out the gardens, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned inside and outside chairs and tables, washed windows

inside and out, wiped down the bar area, washed and disinfected the children's toys, washed grills, power washed patio, and the list could go on and on.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your efforts and taking a morning out of your Easter weekend to work at the club.

Thank you from Building and Grounds!

Grand Traverse Yacht Club – Waterlines – May 2014 Issue

Tech Talk “What Flavor Are Your

Anodes?

Marc,

Thought I’d share my experience with replacing my

anodes today. Here’s an easy way to tell the difference

between Magnesium and Zinc. My old anodes have

virtually no corrosion after over 8 years in fresh water

while the new Magnesium ones weigh less than half of the

old ones.

I have two bolted-on pairs of 5” round anodes on the

rudder and skeg, a 12 “ anode on the stern and one 2 “

anode for the bow thruster. I pounded and banged on the

rudder and skeg anodes for a while with a chisel and

hammer with little success. I finally got smart and drilled

out the heads of the stainless steel bolts, hit the bolt in the

center and they popped off. That’s probably the best way to

tell what your anodes are – by the weight.

George Kobernus

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- “Sailing is a good sport. You don’t have to beat up the other guy like you do in boxing and football’

you just try to outsmart him, and then you go out and have a beer with him.” – John Kolius. -“You can’t believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There’s, like, whales and storms and sh*t! They

don’t bloody tell you that!” – Libba Bray.

- “Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear”. – Buzzy Trent.

-“One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.” – Alec Wilkenson.

-“I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn’t spend

on this or made do without that.” – Lin Parday. - “A ship is always referred to as “she” because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder”.

ADM. Chester Nimitz.

- “The perfection of a yachts beauty is that nothing should be there for only beauty’s sake”. – John

MacGregor. - “The thing I realize this last few days is that the earth is a big place”. – Paul Cayard.

- “Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the

neighborhood.” – Christopher Columbus. - “A tourist remains an outsider throughout his visit; but a sailor is part of the local scene from the

moment he arrives”. – Anne Davison.

- “Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk”. – Sir

Frances Chichester while loading his boat with gin. - “I know who you are, but you’ll have to wipe your feet”. - Capt. Richard Brown of the schooner

America to Prince Albert of England, 1851.

- “I’ve never sailed a schooner. Never even been on one.” – Dennis Conner. - “We don’t just want the Cup, we want the whole damn island!”. – Tom Blackaller, on retrieving the

Americas Cup from Australia.

- “The Americas Cup is a race of management, money, technology, teamwork and, last and

incidentally, sailing”. – Bill Kock. - “I don’t know. I’ve never won the America’s Cup. But I can tell you this: it certainly isn’t worth a

hundred million dollars to lose the America’s Cup.” – Larry Ellison.

- “Fun? You think we’re here for fun? Do you think losing is fun? I don’t. This is professional sports, not a third-grade T-ball game. Is sailing fun? Yes, if you want to sail to Sausalito and sit and do a little

fishing or sunbathing out with your family, that can be fun. If you’re sailing in the America’s Cup, if

it’s your job, you are supposed to work very hard. We are here to win. Winning, that’s my idea of

fun.” – Larry Ellison. - “Forget everything I just said. The answer is simple. I never give up.” – Larry Ellison after a long

answer.

Sailing Quotes – Wisdom, Fear, Funny,

and Fast

Compiled by Diehl