While participating in the Everett Yacht Club’s “Dinghy Slough Cruise”
back in July, I noticed that most of the Everett small boats had EYC
burgees flying. These were smaller than your normal burgee and were
more proportionally sized for dinghy, RIB, or “Boston Whaler style”
tender use. Most were flown from a small stainless staff attached to
the top of the outboard motor case.
I asked Jim Busse to contact our burgee supplier about the
possibility of purchasing smaller burgees for sale in the Club Store.
As usual, he was right on the task and ordered an initial batch of 25.
Keep you eyes open for their arrival. If they sell well, we’ll get
more.
In case you haven’t heard, QCYC has sold their outstation in
Eagle Harbor for 26.3 million bucks and has now purchased all of the
land surrounding BYC plus ten new outstations in Canada. NOT!
However, that was the story I was told after they finally figured out
why their V/C, Scott Grimm, was getting calls about his “property for
sale”. It took a while for Scott to realize that one of BYC’s
esteemed members (a P/C no less) had posted professional looking “For
Sale” signs at their outstation shortly after the Big Brother
Cruise-In. I’m not sure, but this may have been in response to Queen
City’s “masked raid” at our Commodore’s Ball in June. It’s all in
good fun and we’re fortunate to have such a good relationship with our
“big brother - Queen City”.
On Friday, 12 August, BYC was visited by Mike Wikstrom, a
representative of the Kitsap County Tax Assessor’s Office. The
purpose of his visit was to view the privately owned boathouses in our
marina. Jim Busse, our Facilities Manager, Capt. John Rosendale, our
Float Chairman, and I met with Mike to answer his questions and provide
him with the information he requested. The county’s records were so
different from our current marina lay-out and slip assignments that
Mike said he’d have to return to the Assessor’s Office, build a new
spread sheet with names, slip numbers and boathouse dimensions, and
then return at a later date to perform his evaluations.
Reminder, our first General Meeting after the summer
break
is
right around the corner, September 19th . I hope to see you
there.
On the subject of reminders, if you haven’t had a recent photo
taken for the Annual, please submit one as soon as possible to
our
Annual Chairman, Capt. Jack Flood. You may drop it off with
our
Facilities Manager at the Club Store, or place it in the Annual
mailbox. If you’re happy with the one in the annual now, so be it.
If there is no photo of you or your vessel in the annual, please bring
one in to be scanned, or let Capt. Flood or me know in advance, and
we’ll try to get your photo taken prior to or after the meeting on
September 19th.
Last but by no means least, a special BIG thank you to
Capt.
Mike Knight and his able crew who made our Youth Sailing
Program
such a
resounding success this summer. We are indeed fortunate to have such
dedicated members.
See you ‘round the club,
Charles Billings
Commodore
