3. Rear Commodore's Report

Spring is in the air and our project schedule is ramping up with the approaching warmer weather.  We have a major work party, Pride of Queen City, scheduled for April 26th from 0830-1430.  This is a great opportunity to contribute to your Club as we get things ship-shape on the Docks, Grounds and Clubhouse for Opening Day which begins the next week.  There’s always plenty of projects and the more hands we have available the more we can accomplish.  It’s also a great opportunity to meet your fellow Club members and renew friendships.  We’ll provide the lunch and a dinner beginning at 1730.  If you‘re not going to be in town on April 26th, please consider sending a monetary contribution to the Club to help offset the costs of the lunch and dinner.  Regarding work parties, I inadvertently left Tim McCarthy off the list of workers at the February 9th grounds clean-up.  My apologies to Tim.
By the time this report reaches you, the dumpster enclosures will be complete and will present a more attractive appearance for our Club.  We’ll be on time and under budget.

Opening Day.  Speaking of Opening Day – and who isn’t – the committee is busily planning for an enjoyable, fun-filled celebration.  We expect many visitors and guests at the Club during the five-day festivities.  An event of this magnitude requires a great deal of coordination and the cooperation of every member. With that in mind, I’d like to ask for your help with the following:

• Please let Dick Geving know if you’re going to be away from your slip so we can assign visiting boats to your slip.  We always have more requests than we can handle so every available slip really helps.
• Because of the heavy demand, the reciprocal list is suspended during Opening Day Week.  We will only be able to accommodate boats from the Grand 14 and Kingston Cove Yacht Club.  Each year we have greater demands on our available moorage and it’s a difficult task but we try our best to safely accommodate as many boats as possible.

Opening Day and Summer Parking  --  Due to numerous complaints from members about violations to our parking rules, we’ll be issuing new summer-use parking passes.  These hang from your rear-view mirror and will be in force during Opening Day week and as further stipulated in Rule 7.01 of the Queen City Yacht Club Rules (p.111).  Only 1 (one) pass will be given to each member. During Opening Day week the gate will be monitored and only those with the summer use parking pass will be allowed access to the lot.  We have only printed enough for each member so please be careful with them as there are no replacements: we don’t  want to have to turn people away. Club Rule 7.01 states “Only one vehicle per member shall be parked on the Clubhouse property from June 15 through September 15 and at times of scheduled Club activities.”  Also, given the recent spate of boat fires (Winslow, Tacoma, Pt. Roberts), please obey the fire lanes and park only in the striped spaces in order to provide access for emergency vehicles should they be needed. Please be fair to your fellow Club members and follow the Rules.  Your cooperation and understanding is greatly appreciated. 

Fair Winds

Ed Jennerich
Rear Commodore