2. Vice Commodore's Report

To all of the wonderful members who have stepped up this year, your Club is indebted to you. You have made such a difference for your Club. I hope you had fun participating and found your involvement rewarding. If you haven’t been involved before, opportunities abound. It is a great way to meet other members and help Queen City.

Speaking of volunteers, Captain Al Reiche has volunteered to chair a new event “Closing Day of Boating Season”, Saturday September 29th (boating season is not really closing). This event is the result of a significant “brainstorming” session among many; most notably Captains Al Reiche, Jim Hess, Jess Hill, Nick Castrow and P/C David Krows at the outstation Memorial Day weekend. Meticulous planning emerged from these sober deliberations (or was that consumption of significant libations?). The details of this event are not yet firmed up, but I understand that Nick will serve as Parade Marshall. Put it on your calendar, it should be a fun event.

As you may know if you attended the June 13 general membership meetings, thanks are also in order to Captains Jess Hill, Jim Hess, Richard Frisch, Cary Gould and P/C Chemla. Because they were willing to expend what Jess reports as more than one hundred hours in putting this beauty together, we have a new and really slick portable bar to serve events on the third floor of the Clubhouse. Thanks also to Chef Willie Williamson who was instrumental in getting a great bargain on the basic bones of the bar.

Captains Kelly Stocklin and John Alving (Trustee-elect) have been working with Rear Commodore Roberts and me on a replacement for the transverse dock at Winslow. It is our hope that we can be ready to put the new dock in place sometime this fall or winter.

Thanks also to Captains Craig Ranta, Dick Geving, Tom Kuhn, Treasurer John Rogers and former Treasurer Steve Farber who’s QCYC Technical Advisory Committee is working on upgrading the computer technology at the instation.

The 520 Committee under the leadership of Chairman Gary Stone has a busy agenda this summer. As more certainty about the 520 project emerges, they will be able to better report to the members regarding the impacts, mitigation and timing of the new bridge.

Please try to make the 4th of July and Labor Day cruises to the outstation and if you can, hook-up with the Fleet Captains’ cruise in the San Juan’s and Gulf Islands.

Hopefully by the time you read this everyone who can is out cruising (incidentally, thanks to the efforts of Webmaster Bixby and Editor Mihailov you can read the Bilge Pump online weeks ahead of the printed version). Every member should take great satisfaction from the achievements of our Club. So, fly your burgee with pride, have a great summer and stay safe.

Bill McGillin
Vice Commodore