Table of Contents:

1. Keith Conrad, Commodore
2. Bill Rumbold, Vice Commodore
3. Bob Bachman, Rear Commodore
4. From the editor
5. From the Fleet Surgeon
6. You Are Invited
7. BYC On the Net
8. Previous Towline

GOD BLESS AMERICA!  Shelley and I wish to express our deep sorrow in the loss of American life by the terrorist attack. Americans are a strong people and we shall prevail. 

An update on our outstation situation finds that Pierce County has not yet responded to our written request to petition the hearing examiner for a modification to our permit. Pierce County determined after 8 years, that BYC should be limited to 13 boats at a time at our outstation. We had no limitation on the number of boats in the original determination.  I will keep you posted as this situation develops. 

The Executive Committee has recently had discussions regarding requirements for being a sponsor for a new member application. It has been the unanimous decision that both sponsors must know the applicant well enough to personally vouch for him/her. Prospective sponsors to be advised that applications may be rejected if only one sponsor knows the candidate. We need to re-establish our required process. 

BYC has a requirement to schedule fueling appointments in advance. Please be courteous and do not appear during the dinner hour requesting fuel with little to no advance notice. Call the store and schedule the fuel appointments in advance! Failure to do so may result in a substantial delay in your fueling. 

Capt. Dale Armstrong has started the galley upgrades and has now turned the project over to Capt. Morris for completion. As you know, the work is to be done by work party time to save money. Now its time to call Capt. Morris and put in some work time. We must quickly complete this project. Without adequate help and soon, we may have to pay a contractor to complete the project. Thanks Capt. Armstrong for the great kickoff on the project.

"Do your share plus a little" and always be positive.

Keith and Shelly
Commodore
Awesome Ospreys

September 11, 2001, a day that I shall always remember. A day that evokes extremely strong emotions in me every time I see events on TV and every time I think about it or talk about it. My heart goes out to the thousands that lost their lives and those that lost loved ones and friends. I know that there are many of you that have experienced some loss as a result of that horrific event. Please accept my condolences. The other side of my emotions is an extreme hatred for those criminals that caused such a terrible event. They must be caught and punished severely.  I have asked myself what can I as an individual do and my answer is to provide support. Support for those that lost loved ones; support for our great country and support for our leaders that will have to make the right and hard decisions. I hope that you all can do the same. Commodore Conrad set the theme for this year for the club as "Do your share, plus a little". Now is the time.

I have found it hard to sit down to write this article and to talk about social stuff around the club or the running of the club, but life goes on.

The salmon bake on September 9 was a huge success. My thanks to Rod Perryman and his great committee for a great job well done. 

On Saturday, Sept. 29, David Wilson is chairing the Swap meet in the parking lot from 0830 until 1300. Bring your trash and turn it into cash and someone else's treasure. From his advertising blitz we should have a good turnout of buyers.

Leroy Armstrong is chairing the first Sunday morning breakfast on 30 Sept. from 0900 to 1030. Come and enjoy a great breakfast. You all know who the real cook in the kitchen is - Juanita.

We start October off with an Octoberfest on Friday, 5 Oct. chaired by PC Bob Wheeler. As he says, you will be there and you will have fun!

Bill Rumbold 
Vice Commodore 

Summer is on the wane. The last of the Club long range cruisers have returned just the other day so it must be. As we get set for the fall what better way to start it off than by signing up for the upcoming WORK PARTY on October 6 and 7. Required time this year is 8 hours so sign up now. Get your time in, get a hearty hot lunch and it's all free. What a deal! Work Party Co-chairs, Capt. Terry Stevens and Capt. Steve Stearns will be glad to have you. They've been working on their project lists in anticipation.

Speaking of projects, things have been happening around the clubhouse. The north men's head has been nicely redone along with painting of the north entrance interior and new lighting in the west entrance. These, plus some other upcoming improvements are the handiwork of a crew of Skipperettes led by Estelle Hamling. Many thanks ladies for your work.

The galley project is well under way as evidenced by the white footprints throughout the clubhouse because of the sheetrocking. I would like to thank Capt. Dale Armstrong for all his hard work. Dale was instrumental in getting the project off the ground. The project can still use helpers and it will count towards your work party time. See Capt. Lewie Morris and get involved.

By now you've probably noticed the big hole in the north parking lot. That's the home of the holding tanks for our new pumpout system. Capt. Ray Gorski has things well in hand there and we should see it in operation in the not too distant future.

Last. Please keep in your thoughts and prayers the victims and their grieving families of those senseless, evil acts back east. Help in some way if you can.
 

Bob Bachman
Rear Commodore

I would like to thank Captain Rosendale for his submission of A Tribute to the United States. I think you will find it a timely and intuitive observation by one of our neighbors to the North.

Read it and feel proud. I know I did.

text and additional information may be found at: http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/ccf/news/unique/am_text.html

Captain Mike Thomas
Towline Editor

Workout your Blues

In many cases, exercise works as well as drugs in treating depression.  Psychologists and exercise physiologists have suspected that exercise can beat the blues.  Now a study from Duke University proves it. Researchers recruited 156 men and women aged 50 and over who suffered from major depression. One third of them were put on a regimen of walking of jogging 30 minutes, three days a week.  Another third took the antidepressant Zoloft. The others did both exercise and the drug therapy.

Though the groups that took the medicine began to show improvement sooner, by the end of the four month long study, all three groups had made remarkable improvement. "exercise is a viable alternative to drugs" says lead researcher James Blumenthal. "It may not be for everybody, but if a patient's motivated, the chances of beating depression may actually be better."

Exercise, like drug therapy, must be an ongoing routine. After six months the researchers rechecked the patients. Of those doing a combination of exercise and and drug therapy, 31 percent had fallen back into depression, of the drug therapy only group, 38 percent had relapsed. In the exercise only group, only 8 percent saw their symptoms return.

Source: Health, January/Febuary 2001

Captain Mike Thomas
Fleet Surgeon

My thoughts go out to members of the club and the community affected by the attack on the WTC, both currently and possibly in the future.  With the possibility of military action looming ahead of us, more members of our community may soon be in harms way.  I hope for a resolution as fair and non-violent as possible. We need to be supportive of all americans, and supportive of actions taken in the future to resolve this issue. We need also to be aware of the concerns of the military as we boat in Sinclair inlet and other areas with naval facilities.

The web project continues along.  We have the basic framework. Now we need your help and suggestions to make the BYC web page even more helpful and useful, both to club members and interested outside parties. If you have information that could be useful for the web page, please forward to: webteam@bremertonyachtclub.org.  I try to include towline articles in the web page as well. If you are submitting a towline article electronically, please send a copy to the webteam as well.

The 2001-2002 annual project is wrapping up. We've tried to make sure that all pictures submitted are used, and contact information is correct.  We've also thought about making copies of the annual available electronically, on cd-rom.  No promises at this point, but if you are interested, contact me or the annual committee.  Possible formats would be MS Publisher, MS word, or html. Not perhaps as pretty as the printed copy, but could be a nice backup copy.

Thanks,
Captain Dave Uebele
Technology Chairman

BYC members are Cordially invited to join the Skipperettes Wednesday, November 7, at 1:15 PM in the club house meeting room. Guest speaker will be Russell Warren, local historian, who will speak on the early Bremerton history and the Mosquito Fleet. Last January Russel spoke at Skipperettes about early BYC and Charleston history to rave reviews. Coffee and cookies will be served. Guests are welcome.

Bunny Danial
BYC Skipperette Program Chairman

For the September Towline on the web, click here.
Last update: 7 October 2001