NEWSLETTER MARCH 2010
REPORT FROM THE COMMODORE
At the time of writing this, Spring
is just around the corner. Soon we will Attention: PDYC Members
be removing winter tarps and
scrubbing away winter's grime ready Subject: Temporary Dockage
for wax and bottom paint – halfway to Assignment
launching the boats again. Opening
dinner is on Saturday May 1st, 2010. We will be holding a meeting to
explain the process of assigning
temporary dockage.
When: March 27, 2010
Where: Port Dover Yacht Club
(No washroom facilities at this time)
Time: 1:00 pm
Club house and grounds clean up is on All are welcome.
Saturday April 24th, 2010 at 12 noon. Anyone interested please reply by,
Please put these dates on your March 26, 2010.
calendar. Members old/new and
associates, please come out / drop Frank Lee
by "clean up" to meet friends that you Dockmaster
may not have seen over the winter. frank_lee1@live.com
Many hands make short work! 519-759-1141
Tim FitzGerald, Commodore
FIRST MATES FIRST MATES
ENTERTAINMENT--- Marsha Iarocci
PRESIDENT--- Pam German
Please check out our website for PDYC LADIES LUNCHEON
Updated information on the club Saturday May 8, 2010
at www.pdyc.ca 12pm
Also if any of our members have
Catered by Liz Campbell
any items of interest that they
Fashions by,
would like to have included in an
upcoming newsletter please send
Debbie’s Basic Black of Paris
an e-mail to Lana at, Tickets $20.00
pdycnewsletter@yahoo.ca Please call Lynda Burville,
519-583-9154 for tickets.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
If anyone is interested in helping If anyone would like to make a
the Mates with events, please donation for a door prize to the
contact, Delizia Taylor at, First Mate’s Ladies Luncheon
dtaylor @tigercat.com please contact, Judy Fletcher at,
or Pam German at kfletcher@sympatico.ca or
pamgerman3351@hotmail.com/ 519-583-9114.
phone 519-583-3351.
DONATIONS are in
need to supply the Ladies and
GOOD NEWS!!!
Men’s washrooms for the 2010
PDYC will be having the
Boating Season. If anyone would
“SAFE DRIVE PROGRAM”, again
like to donate toiletries please
this season for the main events
contact Lois Aicken at,
scheduled at the Club.
Lois.Aicken@gmail.com or
Our chauffeur this year will be,
519-426-9883
Keith Spours.
BABY NEWS OLD CLUB PHOTOS
CONGRATULATIONS, If anyone has any old photos of the yacht
To proud new Grandparents, club, in any shape, could you please contact
Garry White.
Kerry and Judy Fletcher with the
It doesn't matter if they are torn or wrinkled.
arrival of twin boys, I can repair them in Photoshop and give you
Coleman Evan & Carmine Miller a better copy as well.
Fletcher. I am collecting photos of the club to
And also Congratulations goes to document the history of the club so that it
them as well for the arrival of doesn't get lost, and to make a slide show of
them to give to the members.
another Grandson,
I enjoy doing this and hope you have some
Grayson William McGowan. pictures to contribute.
I will make sure that they are taken care of
and returned to you.
Please call or email me at,
A NOTE FROM MEMBERSHIP
Full and Associate Garry White
Membership cards for 194 Oakhill Dr.
Brantford, On
2010 will be mailed out
N3T 5L7
In April with the (519) 756-8793
“Calendar of Events” gwhite01@sympatico.ca
Bruce Grummett
Membership
POSTINGS
Check your FULL MEMBERSHIP
mailboxes in early April for Richard Epple
your invitation to the
Opening dinner on ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP
Erin Mellon
Saturday May 1, 2010. Jeff Rice
Gary and Kathy Caskenette
Scott Bruley
Will and Lynn Smallacombe
VISITOR’S DOCKAGE
All members should be aware that our club has
RECIPE CORNER reciprocal dockage privileges with other clubs which
THREE INGREDIENT PEANUT BUTTER choose to participate. Our reciprocal agreement
COOKIES involves first night free (with exception of the Erie
Yacht Club which is two nights). If while cruising you
INGREDIENTS:
visit a reciprocating club which offers more please
1 cup peanut butter 1 egg
make it clear what our club offers before accepting
1 cup white sugar
their largesse.
DIRECTIONS:
As well, as you visit other clubs please make it a
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Line baking sheets with parchment paper. point to show your membership card. In our letter
. Combine the peanut butter, white sugar and egg.
of enquiry regarding participation in reciprocity this
Mix until smooth. year to ILYA Clubs we will notify them that when
Drop spoonfuls of dough onto the prepared baking visiting our club presentation of a membership card
sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 6 will be expected.
to 8 minutes. Do not over bake! These cookies are
The list of clubs with whom we have agreements will
best when they are still soft and just barely brown
on the bottoms. be posted on a bulletin board in the hall. We will also
try to have the list on our web site suitable for
downloading.
TOONIE DRAW Further, members without dockage assignments at
the club should be aware that they are entitled to a
The club will again be having the Toonie draw total of three nights dockage at the club free of
EVERY WEEK. The draw is a 50/50 draw to be held charge each year. Any member, when taking
every Saturday night at 9:00pm at the bar. Please
advantage of this, should fill out a dockage form
come to the Club and sign-in and put your Toonie in
the jar for a chance to WIN. Please note you do not (located beside the telephone in the hall) indicating
need to be present to win and the winner's name will their membership.
be posted on the whiteboard at the bar. Eric Skinner
WITH SYMPATHY
Our condolences are extended to
NEWSLETTER
If anyone wishes to have the members Donna and Al McMillan, on
newsletter e-mailed to you instead the loss of Donna’s Mother,
of snail mail please send me an E- Elsie Marie Crone O’Brien.
mail and I will add your name to the
list. If you decide later that you Our condolences are extended to
would rather have it mailed out you member Brooke Sowden, on the
can always be added back to the passing of his sister, Beth Hayes.
list.
“When someone you love becomes a
Lana Nadrofsky
memory, the memory becomes a treasure. “
pdycnewsletter@yahoo.ca
PDYC Sailing School Committee is very busy
early in the New Year setting objectives for
growth and organizing our structure in order to
achieve that growth.
Our goals this year: 3) FINANCE
Fundraising. You can see our financial
1) New Location. To move from Long Point
Region Conservation Authority’s report with its balance of about $16,000
location at Port Ryerse to the Port in capital reserve. Of that, $1,200 came
Dover Harbour Marina. to us through the Ash Winter bequest
Background: LPRCA staff was excellent fund. That money is earmarked to
to deal with and the protection of purchase two used Club 420 boats we
Turkey Point to the area proved are purchasing from Oakville Yacht
invaluable to our young sailors last Squadron. I plan to make arrangements
summer. However, the number of with the committee in cooperation with
steps, the steep cliff and low public Mary Winter for a naming of the boats
visibility in addition to rather cramped in Ash’s honour. We have also received
quarters and rocky beach made it less approximately $2,000 in donations from
than ideal for the day-to-day operation PDYC members and community groups.
of our camp. We are therefore in the This money is earmarked for 8
midst of seeking Norfolk County’s sponsorships for youth from community
approval to operate out of the Port agencies who would not otherwise be
Dover Harbour Marina on a trial basis able to attend our program.
for one year this summer. This has a Capital budget items: This year we will
number of strong advantages for our need to purchase a ramp and floating
programming and we are very hopeful dock system for our boats. We will be
this will work for PDYCSS and the using our capital reserves, applying for
community. another Trillium grant and seeking out
Action: Please support our efforts to other funding options in order to offset
move our sailing school back to Port this expense.
Dover by contacting your local 2010 goal: We will be holding a
councillor. We are making a deputation fundraiser Aug. 14 here at the club and
on Feb. 16 to a committee then the we are hoping to once again hold the
matter is before council on Feb. 23. Interclub Cruise breakfasts as a service
to the club and as a fundraiser for our
operational costs. Our goal is to raise
2) Expanded programming. To expand our $5,000 this year for operating costs
youth programming and develop a alone although we also hope to raise
junior membership program. We would money for sponsorship and future
like to request PDYC to consider a junior
capital purchases.
membership program for our senior
youth 14 to 21. We are offering an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant: Lisa
instructor-in-training program this Marr submitted an audit report to OTF
summer which we hope will develop and it has been accepted and approved.
the leadership skills of our youth Our file is now closed.
participants. We would like to offer an Government grants/wage subsidy: we
honorary membership to these youth
received this last year and plan on
this year in order for them to attend
one or two regattas. applying again this year for our two
6) Expanded Curriculum. This year we are
offering programming up to Bronze V.
instructors. We could potentially The sailing school follows the
receive up to $5,400 in wage subsidies. curriculum set out by the Canadian
Race Division donation: PDYC Racing Yachting Association and can therefore
Division approved a donation of $2,000 award our students various levels of
to PDYCSS to offset purchase costs to achievement according to its rigorous
guidelines. Topics include sailing,
move to Port Dover Harbour Marina.
seamanship, weather, boat
Port Dover Lions Club: Has indicated maintenance, knots, marine safety,
they will once again sponsor two youth basic navigation and racing. There is no
in our program this year. specific instruction for participants in
program to learn how to run a marine
4) Policies and procedures. We are in the engine, however there are obvious
midst of assembling a handbook for benefits to the program for all boaters.
parents and participants of the sailing
school as well as an internal guide to 7) Reporting. PDYCSS has in the past and
our basic policies and procedures. This will continue to provide regular monthly
will outline our new staff orientation operational and financial reports to the
and training program as well as our bridge.
programming information. We will
provide a copy of this document to Sailing School Committee
PDYC for records, hopefully by June 1,
Lisa Marr, chair
2010.
Bill Lawrence, sailing director, PDYC
5) Insurance. PDYC executive has expressed
Tina Millea, secretary (occupational therapist with
concern about this issue from time to
time and we are currently facing a the Grand Erie District School Board, races with Roy
problem with insurance coverage for Chivers on Erie Witch), parent volunteer
the program coordinator of PDYCSS. Dianne Pope, treasurer, soon moving over to
PDYC has a $2 million liability insurance registrations and recruitment, B.Sc M.B.A.
policy with The Cooperators. PDYCSS Dianne Whalen, taking over treasurer’s duties, C.F.O.
pays an extra premium of about $1,000 Williams Coffee Pubs, financial analyst
directly as a “rider” on that policy to Hadley Jackson, adult program
cover the sailing school’s extra liability Thor Olsen, capital budget, long-term planning,
costs. Our instructors are CYA certified P.Eng (retired), past commander of Port Dover
and therefore carry personal liability Power and Sail Squadron
insurance of $3 to $5 million. However, Doug Ballantyne, site management, P.Eng. races on
after attending a risk management Habanero, member of Silver Lake Rowing Club, ski
seminar held by Ontario Sailing in instructor
November, it is brought to our Sam MacLeod, policies and procedures, equipment,
attention that the direct supervisor of set designer, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, races with
the instructors must also be covered by Steve Hewson on Impulse
liability coverage. Most clubs include Steve Hewson, software consultant, adult keelboat
the junior sailing director on the bridge,
program
a move PDYC may want to consider at
Paul Creighton, PDYC member, member of Port
its next AGM. However, in the interim,
Dover Harbour Marina advisory board
Lisa Marr, the current program
Scott Marr, P.Eng, M.B.A. P.P.S.
coordinator and lifetime PDYC member
Al St. Hill, CYA instructor, Bridge Yachts
respectfully requests to be included as
an officer on the bridge so as to reduce Other supporting members: Maria Welhorski, crews
exposure in this matter. on Stargazer; Esme Hurst, parent volunteer, several
youth volunteers.