CONVENIENTLY LOCATED AT: 37˚ 46’ 47.5” NORTH - 122˚ 23’ 16.2” WEST
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T H E G A N G WAY G O U R M E T
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here is nothing that says England like a ploughman’s lunch washed down with a pint of tepid beer, and likewise, when I consume a pungent platter of Lutefisk, the Kingdom of Norway comes to mind. Just as haggis always makes me think of Scotland and baluts make me yearn for the Philippines. Or perhaps that classic “un pruneau et thon (prune and tuna casserole) says Paris to me. It’s an acquired taste, as they say. Speaking of sayings, who was it that said “A sailor travels on his stomach?” We do, you know. When I joined South Beach Yacht Club I had a preconceived image (hey, I was a teenager then) of guys nicknamed TUFFY, and women named MUFFY discussing the dreadful scarcity of really good polo ponies and the intolerable shortage of domestic help while carefully implying an inside knowledge of Wall Street and the stock market. Well, instead of “Deidra” and “Sanford” trying to out “humble brag” each other, these SBYC folks turned out to be boaters who owned and
actually used their boats, and who also wanted to share their enjoyment of The Bay. And eat. Yes, everything we did happily ended with food. So we ate. Oh, did we ever eat. We celebrated the construction of the first RESTROOM in South Beach Harbor down by G dock with a BBQ. SBYC members working on the first Clubhouse on Pier 40 were provided their choice of gourmet deli sandwiches for lunch. Monthly meetings featured everything from the ever popular “pizza-delivered” to Mary Makin’s boeuf bourguignon. Yummy. And the club picnic at Glen Cove after the Jazz Cup race featured a hall of fame grill full of all things that could be lawfully be BBQ’ed. Also, someone always brought a wonderful watermelon vodka beverage to the gathering that was very refreshing. It came in COSTCO style - a 50 gallon drum. Organic and gluten free, it was a delicious thirst quencher on a warm summer night... hmm, I really can’t remember a lot more about it.
Ah, but when I’m cooking, either down at the club, or when we have friends over to my home, my very favorite recipe is CHICKEN-DING! Magnificent in its simplicity, it is a surefire success every time. I take a plump fryer, say five or six pounds, sprinkle on a little salt and pepper and pop it in the microwave oven. When I hear the DING, dinner is ready. Bon Appetite, y’all.
Ray Hall – Dancing Bear
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Cover & some issue photos by Gerard Sheridan
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COMMODORE’S COMMENTS
A BARRIE WHEELER
STRICTLY SAIL PACIFIC JACK LONDON SQUARE SEE SBYC @ APRIL 10 & 11
pril is the month we look forward to all winter long—cherry blossoms and dandelions! As I enter my fourth month, I continue to be impressed by the many skills our members bring to the running of the Club. Paul Janofsky had his first meeting of the newly formed IT Committee. The focus is to assess our IT needs including the website and POS system. The attending members included Tom Rogers, Roger Ladwig, Colm Pelow, Emmanuel Uren, Nikos Troullinos, Karen Wheeler and yours truly. Bill Murray and Andrew Lorenzen were unable to attend. This will be an important committee and I encourage anyone with knowledge and experience in website development or IT to please contact Paul Janofsky and or attend the next meeting. As reported in the March issue, I was appointed to a seat on the BAADS Board of Directors. I found it very enlightening to see how the programs work and how BAADS operates. It became very clear how heavily they rely on donations and volunteers. They are a great bunch of people working hard to keep the onthe-water activities up and running. I am so glad that we, at South Beach are a part of that! When I told them that we have approved our budget for this year and that it included a
new outboard motor for their Boston Whaler, there were cheers all around and they said we rock! An event I missed and wish I could have attended was OOD Appreciation. Hugh does such a bang up job for his OOD’s. I was sick in bed with a miserable cold. I seem to recall being sick last year after attending said event but that was a different illness, which was cured by a Bloody Mary or two! Thanks, Hugh for a great event! Coming up quickly is the monthly member dinner on Friday the 10th. We had such a lovely time in Marchcome join us as we gather with old and new friends, discuss the Club progress and impress new members. During the day Karen and I will head over to the boat show in Jack London and drop in at the SBYC booth to chat up the volunteers who are recruiting members for our Open House on Sunday, May 3rd. Then before you know it, it’s Opening Day on the Bay - with the annual Blessing of the Fleet and Boat Parade where Anabel struts her stuffin all of her decorated glory. Join in the boat parade and represent SBYC! Then come on back to the docks for Bob Mason’s 16th annual Oyster Festo BBQ on the deck. April lies before us like a promise only May can keep. See you at the club!
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VICE COMMODORE’S REPORT
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n 1989, just one year after SBYC opened, we heard from urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg about “the third place”. Oldenburg’s philosophy is that such a place is, in addition to our first and second place, (our home and work places) important for civil society, democracy, civil engagement, and establishing feelings of a sense of community and sense of place. Here are a few other descriptors of a third place. Inexpensive, accessible, food and drink are key, involves regulars, is welcoming and comfortable, old friends are there. Dr. O is an academician of some repute, while I function at a considerable distance from that particular station in life. Nevertheless I am
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aware of a few universal phenomena such as, “if it walks and talks like a duck…” Our comfortable Clubhouse certainly fits Oldenburg’s definition of a third place and of the importance such a place plays in our lives. Even a cursory look at the SBYC calendar reveals the breadth and depth of the activities of our members, guests and visitors. Our Clubhouse is a focal point for socialization, important meetings, special events and general use by people involved in a variety of interest that intersect with their involvement in boating, sailing and what happens on SF Bay. Our exceptional Clubhouse has become the linchpin for much of the activity. Please take a look at the calendar, check out each of the various events and sign up for the ones that seem to be of interest to you. Remember, for each event a few volunteers are
needed, part of our sense of community is bound in the act of volunteerism, also a linchpin of SBYC; and it keeps the costs down! Coming up in April… our annual Easter Sunday Brunch by Susie Fay and her group of volunteers, Friday the 10th is the Member’s Dinner Meeting, Monday the 13th is the Giants Home Opener (we need an OOD) and on Sunday the 26th- Opening Day on the Bay & Oyster Festo thanks to faithful Bob Mason. Then comes May… 2nd-Cinco de Mayo thanks to Toni Heyneker, 3rd- Open House, 10th-Mom’s Day Brunch, Susie again, 14th-Texas Hold’em, Toni again, and finally, the 23rd-Motown Party, hosted by Deb Phairas. We need volunteers for each of these events so please contact me, Mr. D or the person hosting the event. New members - raise your hand! Your volunteer participation is incredibly important and, as I mentioned earlier, a linchpin for our Club.
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SPLICE THE MAINBRACE
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op quiz. What movie did this great line come from? “My momma always said life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” OK, you knew that (Forrest Gump for those under 30.) Bet you never thought how much that applies to our yacht club? Seriously! Hear me out for a moment before you go flipping the pages back to Racer Ray’s rambling rant which has its rightful place on the first page of this august publication. The conversations in our club, and especially the ones at the bar, are our “box of chocolates” because, like Forrest, you really never know what you’re going to get! That’s what I mean! Sit in the club or on the deck or, better still, pull up a bar stool and just listen to some of the conversations – and I don’t mean just the great sailing and racing stories we love to share! We have an astonishing group of fascinating people among our members and guests. We may not have too many titans of industry (thank God), but we have all kinds of smart, knowledgeable people who do, or have done, amazing things in their lives and their careers. The stories being told in our little club are truly unique and wonderful. You can learn so much about stuff you knew nothing about just by getting into conversations with fellow members about just
about anything (well, anything other than the weather and sports – those are nice and predictable… but they are candy bars to chew on that you won’t find in a box of chocolates.) Don’t just talk to people you already know. Talk to people you don’t know, old members and new. The conversation possibilities are limitless. You really never know where a conversation may go until you’re in it Here are just a few of the topics (at least the ones that I can remember!) that I’ve learned from at our bar in the past month or two: geography, energy, dive sites, nutrition, photography, old cars, tides, books, rugby (thank you, Warnock family) the Bay Bridge, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, philosophy, tools, relationships, technology, flying (did you know Pete Hamm and Ray Hall are pilots?), bilges, fishing, solar power, SF history – and, of course, juicy gossip not for publication in a respectable journal such as this. So come in to the club anytime and start talking with people other than the ones you usually hang out with. Open the ‘box of chocolates’ that awaits you at your SBYC bar! Splice the mainbrace, y’all!
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REAR COMMODORE REPORT
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t’s April and that means our Friday Night Race series starts soon - April 17th to be precise. Have you signed-up yet? We’re making a few changes this year in response to racer feedback and initiatives we feel will help lift our program to a new level and provide development opportunities for our race committee volunteers. Specifically, the changes this year will include: No practice race - all races count subject to the discards as per the NOR, re-introduction of a 1st and 2nd half season and an overall full season winner, redesigned course list which will include the option of temporary marks. This offers the Principal Race Officer greater flexibility in creating better race courses for various classes and as a club we build our expertise in setting up such courses. Plan on an end of season awards event on September 12th. This will be a fun event to celebrate your amazing crew and our Race Committee volunteers. We’ve just published the Notice of Race for our new annual regatta called the SBYC Bay Bridge Regatta, May 30-31st. This is a new two-day regatta, open to members and non-members of both PHRF and One Design classes. We have a race course on our doorstep that offers flat water, steady westerlies and warm weather conditions in May and this regatta was conceived to make the most of these conditions. We’re honored to have the Pacific Coast Yachting Association use the event to grant the J/70 fleet the chance to compete for the Jesse L. Carr Perpetual Captain & Crew Trophy as per the deed of gift which you can see on the website. I’d like to encourage all of our active club race teams to enter. If you race in the FNS then you should be racing in this event also. We’ll have a cruiser class for those who don’t fly spinnakers. Please spread the word also with others outside the club who you think might be interested. The goal is to make this a fun and popular race calendar fixture on the Bay. It will take time to get there but let’s all help realize its full potential. Watch this space and notices on email and our Facebook Group as more details become available. Please sign up now! On March 17th we had a very informative evening in the club with John Super and Beau Vrolyk sharing their expertise and experience for our Mark Set course. We had an enthusiastic group of new and existing Race Committee volunteers and the training was well received. We’ll follow-up shortly with hand-on training on the RIB and seeing and retrieving marks to reinforce the training. I’ll be announcing dates for this soon.
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
SBYC member Paul Caturegli tugs on our burgee hanging out front at the prestigious Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland, NZ. Home of the America’s Cup 34 Team New Zealand - who called our Clubhouse home in 2013.
RACE TACTICS APRIL 9TH
Improve your chances of winning with Chris Boone 7:00 pm at SBYC.
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MIDWINTERS IN MIAMI Team Alpha, comprised of four BAADS members, competed at January’s ISAF World Cup–Miami in the Sonar class. The event is the largest annual Olympic and Paralympic class regatta in the Americas. The Sonar fleet had 5 boats which competed at the 2012 London Paralympics and 8 boats which raced at the 2014 World Disabled Sailing Championships. In this stacked fleet, BAADS finished 9th overall and 3rd among USA boats. The week of racing was marked by many challenges, a few highlights, and lots of learning. First off, Team Alpha faced two unexpected crew changes. John Wallace, who was the gyb trimmer at the US Disabled Sailing Championshipst, had his international disability classification inflated weeks before the event. This made him ineligible. His replacement Larry Young next had his classification inflated three days into the regatta. Hence a new crew member from the U.S. Virgin Islands was thrown in to race with the original Dylan Young and Chris Childers for the last two days. The most promising aspect of the week was that Team Alpha improved during the five day event. We survived a steady 25 kts of wind and a low visi-
bility rain squall the first day. We rounded a mark in 3rd on the water in the latter half of the week, and we finished a race 5th on the last day. “Wow, we had equal boat speed at many times. But certainly we didn’t have the consistency on every leg. Also our stars were horrible. If we get that much better, we can certainly be in the mix.” said helmsman Dylan Young in review. The event concluded with the unexpected and shocking news that Paralympic Sailing has been dropped from the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics by the International Paralympic Committee. This affected not only all the sailors who were representing their nations in Miami, but the prestige of disabled sailing everywhere. BAADS has just recently been certified as a Paralympic Sports Club. The benefit of this title is now unclear. Team Alpha and BAADS will continue to race in the South Beach Yacht Club Midwinters and various regattas in the Spring and Summer. For more information about the ISAF World Cup–Miami visit: http://www.sailing.org/ Find us at BAADS.org and on the water!!!
Many thanks to Bill Canfield who filled in as crew from the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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OK, here’s a quiz: what organization in San Francisco Bay has been monitoring commercial ship traffic, safe boating and environmental safety for 165 years? Hint #1: They put the telegraph on Telegraph Hill. Hint #2: You probably have never heard of them. While not the world’s best self-promoters, the San Francisco Marine Exchange (SFMX) folks have been among the busiest people in San Francisco Bay this year. With containers piled up everywhere at the beginning of March, the Marine Exchange and its 24/7 operation staff help coordinate the ships to get the flow of goods going again. As a pleasure sailor, you might know some of the many helpful pamphlets the Exchange produce, primarily through their Harbor Safety Committee. My favorite is “Do You Speak Channel 14?”. It is a great help when you want to understand what the pros are talking about on Channel 14. “Harbor safety is one of our primary concerns,” says the Executive Director Captain Lynn Korwatch. As Chair for the local Harbor Safety Committee, she recently spoke before Congress, urging them to keep our physical aids to navigation. “They were considering switching to only virtual” she explained. “Not every boat out there has GPS and the buoys really help everyone respect the shipping channels, especially pleasure boats.” Can you imagine losing our navigational aids? “And our educational outreach is ongoing,” says Korwatch. “We are not an advocacy group, we do not lobby on behalf of anything but safety and security, which benefits everybody.” A non-profit trade association, the SFMX is financed by 600 members from 200 companies in the commercial shipping industry. “We are comparable to a chamber of commerce.” says Lynn Korwatch.
“We assist the members to run their services more efficiently. For example, some of our members do ship repairs. They need to know what time the ships are coming in, so they aren’t standing around waiting. We keep track of ships going in and out, and all who are in port at any one time, as far as 7 days out and publish a daily report, to which many of our members subscribe.” The name “Exchange” is left over from the days when there was a commodity trading exchange in SF and shipping news was essential. Their original building at 465 California St. is now a bank but the history of the Exchange is still evident on the walls. “The traders needed to know when the ships were coming in back then, what was on them and who was on them,” Lynn says. “We put the first telegraph up on Telegraph Hill, to relay information downtown from the vessels approaching. Just like with the gold, it was a big scramble for their goods, prices were decided right there on the docks. The city fathers needed to know what important people might be aboard.” Founded in the year of the gold rush, 1849, the Marine Exchange began with a wooden semaphore tower up on the hill, then became the West Coast’s first electric telegraph service in 1853. Today their vessel tracking is done through more modern technology and they have automatic identification system receivers placed on Mt. Tam and other sites around the Bay. They are also part of the Maritime Information Services of North America, which tracks all the ships at sea in North America. “We have changed drastically with all the new technologies,” Korwatch admits. Monitoring everything from tugboats and their load requirements to potential pollution violations for OSPR (the Office of Spills, Prevention and Response of the State Dept of Fish & Wildlife), they operate 24x7 from an office building near Fisherman’s Wharf. They monitor VHF channel 10 continuously and work very
closely with the Coast Guard and VTS, which we know as VHF channel 14. “The bulk of our work is distributed as shipping reports to the members, mainly by email” says IT director Chris Hicks. “Or they log into our system.” “But we can act as a dispatching center for tugs…and provide communication links between pilots, tugs, the Coast Guard, ship agencies, carriers and government agencies.” he adds. The Marine Exchange struggles to educate the recreational users of the Bay, from kite boarders to kayakers to sailboat racers. “First and foremost is knowing the traffic lanes and how to behave in them,” says Korwatch, rather remarkable in her own right. She graduated from the Maritime Academy in 1976 in the 1st class of women, sailed on various commercial vessels until she went to work full time for Matson Lines in 1985. She was the 1st woman in the US to command a US Flag commercial vessel and after serving at sea for 15 years, came ashore for Matson as head of their marine department. “I served on the Board of Directors of the Marine Exchange during that time, so when an opening came up at the SFMX it seemed like a great opportunity, and it’s a job I love.”
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Go onto www.sfmx.org and download all sorts of useful information, including “How to Speak Channel 14”. Call them at 415-441-7988 for copies or download. “Rules 9 & 5…Laws to Live By “Your Guide to Recreational Vessel Marine Radio Communications for San Francisco Bay.” “Safe Transit Program: A guide to preventing engine and steering failures.” “Safety Tips for Paddle Boaters” “Where in the heck is Collinsville?” A guide to AIS destination codes in SF Bay
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LY N D A ’ S T I P S U P : N E W M E M B E R S MARK KENNEDY
One serious racer and quite a character. So, just how serious is he, you ask? So serious he doesn’t allow his crew to bring beer on board for a race, sandwiches or even foulies. “All that stuff weighs too much.” He has 40 years + of world and European championship racing events and a variety of small boat sailing with several championships. He races a Flying Tiger 10 meter named Centomiglia.
NOAH BURT
As a child, Noah learned to sail on his Dad’s Islander 26 in the Delta. He now owns that same Islander that he is refurbishing, and keeps in Antioch. He has participated in our FNS on the Catalina 30 class and is now hooked on racing. He loves the camaraderie of SBYC and wants to be more involved.
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BRAD WHITE In his youth, Brad worked on fishing boats in Alaska. He now owns a Pacific Seacraft 31’ berthed in SB. He loves sailing and wants to do more, but also wants to meet people who would like to sail with him. He wants to learn from other sailors and build his confidence at single-handing.
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FLYI NG THE FLAG @ LAT I T U D E 6 5 S O U T H
In January this year, we went on a trip of a lifetime to Antarctica and Patagonia. Leaving Buenos Aires, Argentina on the Seabourn Quest, we had a brief stop in Montevideo, Uruguay and then headed South toward the Falkland Islands. Rough seas and winds approaching 50 knots derailed the planned visit, although we saw the island of East Falkland just a couple of miles to starboard
as we steamed past on the way to the South Shetland islands and the Antarctic peninsula. 46 countries are party to the Antarctic Treaty, which established Antarctica below 60 degrees south as a natural reserve, and limited activities there, including tourism. Funnily enough, as we continued
JULIE WICKLUND South, the winds and seas behaved and the dreaded Drake Passage was as smooth and sunny as Lake Tahoe. It didn’t last. Despite this being mid-summer in the Antarctic,
stormy weather brought high seas and ice floes, leaving our captain to change plans and expertly maneuver the ship several times in order to find calm seas and even sunny weather. At 65 degrees 12 minutes South, we reached the furthest South the ship had ever been. We went ashore in Zodiacs along with the onboard expedition team, wrapped warmly in half a dozen layers and topped off with a bright orange parka - easier to track in the snow if we wander off? Body in the water? The highlight of the trip for us was hanging out with the penguins:
we visited several colonies of Chinstrap, Adélie and Gentoo penguins, who built nests of small rocks and twigs. One penguin partner typically
went to sea for food, while the other remained at the nest protecting the chicks from Arctic Skuas, Sheathbills and other predators - not always with success. Wobbling from the sea up rocks and cliffs to the rookeries, the penguins used “penguin highways”, routes channeled in the snow from the hundreds, sometimes thousands of penguins in the colony. Not very stable on land, they constantly slipped and fell on their bellies, only to get up, shake their heads and flippers, then carry on home. No doubt long and tiring journeys for the kneehigh penguins with the ridiculously short legs, it was beyond hilarious for the humans to watch.
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CONGRATULATIONS to fairly new members Lee Glenn and Julie Fineman who became engaged while traveling in France a few weeks ago. Lee proposed in Paris - the city of love. Recent transplants to San Francisco - they are enjoying the friends they have met via the Yacht Club and while sailing on the Bay. Thanks to Carol Shoaff for a great photo. This being a boat trip, we were conscious of our nautical obligations and duly planted the SBYC burgee (surrounded by Gentoo penguins, who showed no interest in it whatsoever and carried on fishing or standing around). After a week in the company of penguins, killer whales, minke whales, humpbacks and leopard seals (a different location each day), we sailed North to Ushuaia, Argentina, the world’s southernmost city (it says so on the t-shirts we bought the kids). We arrived on Australia Day, celebrated by the Aussies on our ship, and joined at the dock by STS Youth Endeavour, an Australian sailing ship crewed by 24 youth and a dozen members of the Australian navy. They had just completed 28 days at sea on a journey from Sydney. Our ship then headed to Punta Arenas and several stops in Patagonia and the Chilean coast, an area Bruce had been waiting to visit since seeing National Geographic pictures as a child. It didn’t disappoint. We had a great time in Punta Arenas (we boarded a life size replica of NAO Victoria, Ferdinand Magellan’s ship), Castro, Porto Montt and Valparaiso, where we also waived the flag at the Valparaiso Yacht Club (no burgee exchange, though). We ended the trip with a few days in Santiago, Chile, a thriving and charming place that has just completed South America’s tallest building and generally had a very European feel. Wonderful trip - so glad we did it. Just looking at the penguin pictures makes us chuckle.
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SOUTH BEACH YACHT CLUB EVENTS CALENDAR COMMODORE Barrie Wheeler 707-938-9442 VICE COMMODORE Milt Smith 925-285-2897 REAR COMMODORE Gerard Sheridan 415-810-2004 SECRETARY Kathleen Dunn TREASURER Roger Ladwig MEMBERSHIP CHAIR Lynda Maybruck 408-472-3667 PORT CAPTAINS Ken Ludlum & Cat Reining HOOD Hugh Coppen JUNIOR SAILING Kevin Wilkinson 650-333-7873 CRUISE OUT DIRECTOR Alan Maybruck 408.489.2477 CHAIRMAN of the BOARD Bruce MacDiarmid BAADS COMMODORE Cristina Rubke 415 533 0276 CLUB STEWARD Mr. D’Artagnan 415-495-2295 NEWSLETTER Patti Mangan 415-272-2053 SB HARBORMASTER 415-495-4911 Pier 40 on the Embarcadero San Francisco, CA 94107
Wednesday, April 1
6:30 – 8:30 pm
CYC Speaker Series - Artist & Racer Jim DeWitt
Thursday, April 2
6:00 – 9:00 pm
SBYC Board Meeting
Saturday, April 5
2 Seatings
Easter Sunday Brunch by Suzy Fay
Thursday, April 9
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Racing Tactics Seminar with Chris Boone
Friday, April 10/11
12:00 – 5:00 pm SBYC Booth at the Strictly Sail Pacific
Friday, April 10
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Saturday, April 11
10:00 – 1:00 pm Shoreline Clean up - Heron’s Head Park
Sunday, April 12
1:00 – 4:00 pm Free Adult Dinghy Sailing
Monday, April 13
12:00 – 4:00 pm Giants Home Opener BBQ
Friday, April 17
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Saturday, April 18
10:00 – 1:00 pm Book Club Meeting - Over the Edge of the World
Friday, April 24
Check website
Ballena Bay Cruise Out
Friday, April 24
6:00 – 9:00 pm
FNS Race #2
Tuesday, April 28
6:00 – 8:00 pm
SBYC Membership Committee Meeting
Thursday, April 30
6:00 – 9:00 pm
SBYC Board Meeting
Saturday, May 2
7:00 – 11:00 pm Cinco de Mayo Party
Sunday, May 3
2:00 – 5:00 pm
SBYC Members Dinner Meeting
FNS Race #1
SBYC Open House
For reference to all races held in Northern California visit the YRA master calendar
follow SBYC on twitter @SBYC_SF WaveLength is available for Android devices. This issue relied heavily on Gerard Sheridan for beautiful photos! If you have photos to share of your adventures please do send them in with names of the folks pictured, where taken and any other interesting bits of info.
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