Commodore Champion opened the meeting with a salute to past commodores: Bill Miller, Gary Reimer, Ronnie Hendricks, Herb Siewert, and Lee Huddleston were in attendance.

Hardmaster Report: Hardmaster Reimer reported that the dock is still tied to the trees at 9.5 feet over Summer pool. He is looking to get an engineer to determine how to extend the arms on the dock. Expect the lake to be at summer pool by month end.

Treasurers Report: Not available Barry Sanders is at Kenlake with the Boy Scouts. Discussion that we need to get a proper accounting of finances to determine future plans. We need a formal report. Also mentioned that those over 62 years old are supposed to have their dues frozen and they want to know who is eligible and at what rate their dues are to be frozen.

Commodore Champion asked if any mates plan to crew in the Bluegrass games at Kentucky Lake and posted a sign up sheet on the board.

Commodore also mentioned that the Yankee Doodle was hot and had not much wind but the dinner was well attended and the pig was devoured.

Next Race is the Infinity Race on July 16^th. This new regatta is around the islands and Racing chair Doug Roberts needs help on the Committee boat. Herb Siewert mentioned the need for the Committee boat to fly the American Flag.

Bill Miller presented a pavilion report. Construction costs are rising and are around $4388 for a 30×30 pavilion with a gabeled truss metal roof and 6×6 posts. To have a cedar gabeled end will increase to $4750. This will need to be pre-paid. Max Vinson has offered to supervise construction, as he has a background in this. Lots of discussion back and forth, as to the need for a new pavilion, type of roof structure for sail storage etc.  This project would need to begin in November with the teardown by POYC members of the old pavilion. We are still looking for input from the members on this project, if you have ideas or plans let the officers know.

More discussion but no conclusion on Lee Huddleston’s Suburban donation as a put in take out vehicle. Max Vinson offered to help people put their boats in and said he has the assorted sized balls to do this.

Max showed several people how to make a Turks head knot and this was very informative.

Next Months knot will be a Soft Shackle splice. I’ll try to find something on this and post on Tell Tale on line.

We need cooks for the next two months, please contact Alan Cannon if you can help.

Meeting adjourned at 7:50 pm.

Gary Guss – Scribe

POYC at Culebrita

After flying the POYC burgee through 900 miles and 13 islands in April-May, Diana and I settled on a more limited goal for this trip: just go to some quiet and pretty places in the Virgin Islands. For me that usually means places with sandy beaches, palm trees, and not a lot of people. The two photos were taken at the exact kinds of places I was looking for. The first one is the bay on the north side of Culebrita in the Spanish Virgin Islands off of Puerto Rico. This island is a turtle sanctuary and is uninhabited, except by turtles, birds, fish, and an occasional sailor. The second photo is Sandy Cay in the British Virgin islands.

POYC at Sandy Cay

It is also uninhabited and is a nature preserve. A walk through the trail that circles through the island brings you into close contact with lizards, red crabs, hermit crabs, and all kinds of birds. It can get busy with boaters during the day, but if you slip in late in the day and leave early in the morning, you can have the island to yourself.

Larry Caillouet

 Yardmaster Gary Reimer is cooking ’cause the pigs all ate up… Meeting starts at 6pm  with social hour.

Bring your Turks Head knot knowledge and a side or desert to share.

See you there Mates !

The June meeting was held on June 10th at POYC. Commodore Champion opened the meeting with a recognition of all past Commodores present. Barry Sanders, Carol and Frank Kersting, Ronnie Hendricks, Gary Reimer and Doug Roberts all were present.
Max Vinson gave a great presentation on making Shackle lanyards and provided all present with fids and enough line to create these useful items. Thank you Captain Max for your interesting presentation. These lanyards sell for $5 at West Marine.
As Bill Miller was not present, no report on the Pavilion rebuild was forthcoming. Gary Reimer would like those that are able to take a look at the stone columns at Covington Park in Bowling Green as an idea of whats possible. Debbie Champion asks that all forward their ideas to her for possible inclusion in the planning of this project.
Due to high water the dock continues to be tied to trees, if you tie to the dock please also set a stern anchor to help take pressure of of the dock. The lake is expected to reach summer pool around July 20th.
The heads have been repaired and are in working order per the hardmaster.
The purser reports that we are in sound fiscal shape.
Our next race is the Yankee Doodle on July 2nd and Herb Siewert is presiding, we will have the usual pig roast and the cost for dinner will be $10. The skippers meeting will start at 10am and the races at around 11am. Herb needs at least 2 volunteers to help on the committee boat. Herb plans to have a t least 3 races for this event.
The Club has made at least $300-400 dollars on the regattas this year. We have race t-shirts for sale for $15 each.
Vandals broke the concrete sink which we had donated to us last month. We may be able to salvage part of the counter top from this for use in an outdoor kitchen later.
The knot of the month this month will be the Turk’s head knot. The meeting was adjourned at about 6:30 pm.