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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Group cruise on July 1-3

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

Feel like taking a cruise for the long weekend? A group cruise is being planned for July 1-3, destination to be determined by weather and group interest. Skippers and crew, please e-mail svanegmond@tinyplanet.ca (or call the office) with expressions of interest, and you will all be put in touch with each other. Please provide your [...]

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Docks: The Bubblers Worked

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

from Denys Jones, VC Marine Every year we store everything away, winterizing as best we can, so that we hopefully have minimum damage from our savage winter storms. One of the biggest problems we experience in our NYC basin is ice, which can split rocks and bend steel.  When ice accumulates, and is pushed by [...]

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Request for Garbage Containers

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

Geoff Hadrill, Environment Committee Chair The Environment Committee is preparing the yards for maintenance season by setting up waste containers to collect separate waste streams (e.g., garbage, recycle-ables, paints, toxic waste solids) for removal and appropriate disposal. Our current temporary garbage containers distributed among the boats for your convenience are in very poor condition. If you own an old [...]

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Food & Beverage Update

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

It has been a strange winter. Cold, dark, snowy, rainy, windy, and not very motivating to drive over to NYC. Many of you have made the trip and have been rewarded with some fine specials offered by our new chef Francis. To bring you up to date, we have made some changes to our menu [...]

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The Seafood Collection: Halibut with Shrimp Sauce

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

What you will need: 4 (6 oz.) Halibut fillets 3 Chopped Roma tomatoes 2 Thinly sliced green onions ½ C. Tomato juice 1 Clove chopped garlic 1½ tbsp. Chopped jalapeños 2 tbsp. olive oil ½ C. Small pre-cooked shrimp (peeled and de-veined) Three easy steps: 1. Preheat grill to medium. In a saucepan, cook onions and [...]

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Women Rule Thursdays

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

from Janet Geisberger You may have heard, Women’s Racing has moved to Thursday evening this season. More dates to race! Our goal is to increase participation in racing with women at the National and have at least 8 boats on the start line. To participate in the Women’s Racing series all you need is a woman on the helm and a [...]

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Making the Switch to IRC: Everything You Need to Know

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

IRC has become the premier rating system for sailors of boats of all size, type and vintage who are committed to high-quality handicap racing. IRC treats a diverse fleet fairly and equitably and as participation continues to grow, it’s become clear that it’s here to stay. If you’ve been thinking about taking your game to [...]

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Weather Resources, from Ron Bianchini

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

I was at Ron Bianchini’ss fantastic weather-focused Sailors’ Night. At that talk, he promised to provide a document listing all the resources he mentioned during his talk.  Here it is: Weather Resources for Boaters March 2010 Edition , all eighteen pages of it. It’s a rich resource for boaters seeking to improve their weather knowledge. Stephen [...]

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Commodore’s Comments, March 2011

By stephen | Published: March 29, 2011

from Commodore Henry Piersig I am back in the saddle; pardon me, on the helm. The helm on the Bark EUROPA took some getting used to as she had one enormous wheel and 175’ forward of the helm. Traveling today does present everyone with all sorts of challenges and dangers. I was just informed that [...]

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Beneteau First 36.7 Championship at the NYC

By stephen | Published: March 28, 2011

Throughout the summer you will be hearing from the Board, Mike Sonosky and me about an exciting event hosted at the National this September. Get used to seeing that wild-looking logo at the top of the page. So far it has appeared on a big poster at the NYC booth at the boat show, prominently [...]

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Short Season Predicted for This Year

By stephen | Published: March 28, 2011

Twenty days after launch, the world, as we know it, will come to an end. That’s the latest prediction of certain US-based biblical scholars who have spent many years in computational rapture and determined that judgement day will be May 21, 2011. Hardly time to get the mast up, let alone have sailpast (though I [...]

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Report from Antarctica

By stephen | Published: March 28, 2011

A teaser. Henry and Vicki will tell the rest of the story the night of April 6. -Ed. Vicki and I look forward to sharing with you our terrific experiences on the Bark Europa. Vicki had a great time using all her camera equipment including her new 300-600mm telephoto. We enjoyed the whole expedition immensely [...]

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The NYC’s Workshop

By stephen | Published: March 24, 2011

from Red Warren, Workshop Chair Members of NYC have a variety of reasons why they enjoy belonging to NYC. Some will assure you that it is the pleasant people that they meet. Others will be far more impressed with the view from the dinning room.  But, of course there are those who will assure you that it is the [...]

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