July 2007 - What an amazing month! Not only did we take pos-session of our beautiful new club-house just in time for a July 4 party, but we hosted two [2] major regat-tas, almost back-to-back!

We should all feel proud! Thanks to our architects Mike Piazza and Lynn Mitchell, the New Building Committee, John Cramer, Bill Dietrich, Joe Huffman and Ian Prosser for a job well done. Thanks to the many volunteer members,

whose efforts helped bridge the financial gap between the clubhouse we wanted and what we could actu-ally afford, becoming a reality.

Thanks to Janie Eshleman and Janet Miller-Schmidt co-chairs for the 5-day “Ida Lewis” regatta. Thanks to the many volunteers, from the “Dorm Diva’s” to the “Food Diva’s” and all the volunteer support on and off the water. A tremendous amount of organization went into the planning and hosting

amazingly successful regatta. To top it all, our new Junior Lipton team achieved a solid 5th place overall. In fact, they came in 2nd [18 boats] at the previous weekend’s Capde-vielle event in Mobile! So, watch out for these young guys in 2008.

As we make ourselves at home in this our 3rd clubhouse in 40 years, let’s also consider the difficulties and challenges

faced by many of our fellow sailors along the Gulf Coast who struggle with not only rebuilding yacht clubs but also their homes.

We are really fortunate but also, we are really, really first!

Yours aye

Kelvin

for no less than 70 ‘teenage girls arriving with an entourage of judges, coaches and US Sailing officials. Hosting this prestigious National event was indeed an honor, but we could not have done it without VOLUNTEER SUP-PORT!

Last but not least - “Junior Lip-tons” chaired by [who else?] Janie Eshleman.

Co-PRO’s David Bolyard and

Gene Wanless, Registrar Pat Ross, Scoring Controller Julie Bolyard, Head Judge Karen Reisch and Race Committee mem-bers Jenny and Cecelia O’Hara; all the course boats Steve & Caron Choate, Rob Doolittle, Billy Ross, Larry Ruthven, David Bolyard Jr. and respective crews; Yard “dogs” Hew Hamilton and Huey Kliebert, the “Burger Babes” Barbie, Leigh, Jamie, Peggy and Pat Brinks. The usual well oiled “Regatta Machine” just swung into action once again to put on another T

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Commodore’s Corner “Pontchartrain is probably the best example of getting a design-build program put together, agreeing

on what they were doing and getting it up and going”.

Ron Richards, GYA Vice Commodore – Times Picayune 7/8/07

Barbie & Uwe Adler, Food & Beverage/Art/Housing

Rebecca Barclay-Choate, Program

Joy Berndsen, Dorm Diva

David & Julie Bolyard, Boat Yard/Medical

D.J. Bolyard, Boat Yard

Pat Brinks, Food & Beverage Co-Chair

Steven & Caron Choate/Race Commit-tee/Dorm Diva

John Cramer, Race Committee

Phyllis & Susan Danielson, Dorm Divas

Anne David, Dorm Diva

Marshall & Nick David, Boat Yard/Awards Dinner

Janie Eshleman, Event Co-Chair

Bill Evans, Boats

Cleve Fair, Race Committee

Peggy Gele, Boats/Dorm Diva

Jack Gilbert, Food & Beverage

Betsy Green, Food & Beverage

Hew Hamilton, Charter Boats & Yard Dog

Megan Hamilton, Dorm Diva

Terri Hamilton, Club Race Chair/T-shirts/Artwork

From the Vice- Commodore - Jane Eshleman

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Roy & Colleen Hollyfield, Race Commit-tee/Food & Beverage

Sharon House, Food & Beverage

Bridget & Tom Jarvis, Club Social Chair/Entertainment/Boats/Housing

SnoAnn Jones, Race Committee

Gail Ledet, Food & Beverage/Dorm Diva

Joel & Mary Lindsey, Club House &Grounds Chair/Food & Beverage/Dorm

Diva

Janet Miller-Schmidt & Gene Finnell, Event Co-Chair/Housing

Jenny O’Hara, Race Committee/ Food & Beverage/Dorm Diva

Mark Oswald, Boat Yard

Stacie Palazzo, Club Manager

Barry Pierce/Race Committee

Erin Powell, Housing

Tom & Cindy Quinlan, Race Committee/Spectator Boats/Dorm Diva

Bob Reedy, Boat Yard

Karen Reisch, USSA Judge

Brent Roberts, Physical Plant

Ashley/Ryan/Collin Ross, Boat Yard,/Awards Dinner

Debbie Ross/Dorm Diva

Pat Ross, Program/Registration

Billy Ross, Club One-Design Chair/Race Committee

Jamie Sieverding, Food & Beverage

Vaughan & Stefani Sollberger, Club Membership Chair/Power Boats/Food &

Beverage/Dorm Diva

Celeste & Gary Thorson, Transportation Chair/Race Committee/Housing

Bev Toebben, Transportation Co-Chair/Dorm Diva

Eric Traill, Club Staff

Kelvin Troughton, Commodore/Race Committee

Leigh Wanless, Food & Beverage Co-Chair/Registered Nurse

Dottie Williams, Food & Beverage/Dorm Diva

Stewart Williams, Race Committee

Suzana Williams, Club Junior Chair/Event Photographer/Dorm Diva

Jonathan Wilson, Club Staff

Emily Winchell, Food & Beverage

Chuck & Nancy Wyllie, Cash Manage-ment/Food & Beverage

Georgia & Larry Young, Transportation

The first order of business is to express my appreciation and admiration to all of you who worked so hard for six consecutive days to make the U.S. Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championship (Ida Lewis) a success. I don’t think the club has ever put on an event of this magnitude for so many days, but in true PYC form, you

all “just showed up” to make it happen! You are all champions to me! Please let me know if I’ve forgotten anyone, because we plan to do something special for all of you!

I would also like to offer my sincere thanks to Ian, Joe, John, Bill, the Rodicks, and all of the volunteers on the building committee who have worked tirelessly to have the club opened for this event, and who managed to continue working during the six days of chaos! Our hats are off to you!

Finally – congratulations to Shan Kirk, who was just elected as a national director of the United States Opti-mist Dinghy Association (USODA); and happy birthday to the Flying Scot, which turns 50 this year!

Janie Eshleman

And from one of the national chairs, a note of congratulations to all!

Janie and Janet and PYC I want to thank both of you for the tremendous effort you put forward in hosting this event. It was wonderful and the girls truly had a great time. Sev-eral of them told me how much they actually liked staying in the cabins because they were all to-gether and could just hang out. Believe me when I tell you that no event of this magnitude goes on without a few hitches. After seeing first hand what your local situation is, I am astounded at what you accomplished for this championship. No other club has ever done what you did with such enthusiasm and support, after such devastation. You and your group of volunteers should feel very proud of your club. Personally, it was a pleasure for me to get to know both of you over the past year and I'm sure our paths will cross again. Thank you for hosting me and running such a great event. I hope you are relaxing now!!! Carolen Amarante

US SAILING National Chair

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please copy BoatUS atGovtAffairs@BoatUS.com . We’d also like to ask you to send a copy of your correspondence to the EPA, so they can see how this will affect citizens. How-ever, please know that if you choose to send it to EPA, it will become a part of the public record. EPA’s email is

ow-docket@epa.gov , and your email needs to have a subject line with Docket ID No. OW-2007-0483.

Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Margaret Podlich BoatUS Government Affairs GovtAffairs@BoatUS.com 703-461-2864 or 703-461-2878 x8363

For 34 years the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has exempted discharges from recreational boats from the Clean Water Act permit system. Re-gretfully, a recent court ruling cancelled this permit exemption. EPA is required by the court decision to develop and im-plement by September 30, 2008 a na-tional permit system for ALL vessels in the United States for a variety of normal operational discharges.

Fortunately, the Recreational Boating Act of 2007 (H.R. 2550) has been introduced by Representatives Gene Taylor (D-Miss) and Candice Miller (R-Mich) which would protect recreational boats from being swept into this unnecessary and expensive permitting system. It is critically important that H.R. 2550 be passed and your support is essential. Please contact your Congressman and Senators TODAY and ask that they co-sponsor or support H.R. 2550. If the permit system becomes a reality,

you will be required to pay for a state permit for each of your boats. EPA will be monitoring your deck runoff, grey water, bilge water, engine cooling water, and the use of copper bottom paints. The original lawsuit that led to this court decision sought to address ballast water discharges from large ocean-going ships, which can introduce damaging aquatic invasive species into U.S. waters. Keep-ing our waterways clean and preventing the spread of invasive species is of ut-most importance to the future of boating. But taking a complex permitting system designed for industrial dischargers and applying it to recreational boats will not yield significant environmental benefits and it will come at a very high cost. Re-quiring recreational boaters to purchase a permit would not prevent the spread of invasive species.

Please ask your elected federal represen-tatives to support H.R. 2550. It is com-mon-sense legislation. As you send your emails to your Members of Congress,

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FYI - Legislation which could affect YOU

Douglas and Michele Seal of Folsom

Frank Tardo of Mandeville

Amalie Danielson of Mandeville

Bill and Sara Taber of Mandeville

Dr. Sue and Joe Leblanc of Hammond

James and Charlotte Carrere of Man-deville

Current Applications for Non-Resident Membership:

Whitney and Patrick Banks of Baton Rouge

Current Ap-plications for Junior Mem-bership:

Patrick Sie-ner – Return-

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ing Junior Member

Our Membership Committee has been very busy with membership duties: Chuck Wyllie, Phyllis Danielson, Bob Lipscomb, Tom Jarvis and Tom Quin-lan and we are all thankful to have their help. If you have any questions or sug-gestions, please contact any one of us.

Membership - K. Vaughan Sollberger Jr

Our latest membership applications were accepted by the board of directors include:

John and Angie Bell of Mandeville

J.C. and Ruth Evans of Mandeville

Wolfgang Teller of Metairie

Patrick Ruiz of Mandeville

John and Jacqueline Cummins of Lacombe

Ben and Tanja Lyons of Mandeville

Stacie Wyllie of Mandeville

Bill and Marsha Lane of Baton Rouge

Ken Weise of Slidell

Chris Morency of Slidell

Dale and Nancy Phillips of Abita Springs

Current Applications for Resident Member-ship:

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juniors@pontyc.org - Suzana Williams Wow! Summer Sail Camp is almost over. I would like to take a little space in this CHART to thank everyone who has helped make it a success:

First and foremost are our AWESOME team of counselors Daniel Ram-sey, Ashley Howard, Eva Conner, Ashley Ross, Ryan Ross and Jacob Lindley, you guys are the best, sail camp could not happen without your dedi-cation and PATIENCE!!!

Special thanks to Ross Kirk, our counselor’s helper who is always will-ing to go the extra mile to make sure the kids are having a great time.

Thanks to the PYC staff, Johnathan Wilson, Brent Roberts and Stacie Pa-lazzo.

Thanks to Commodore Troughton, Stewart Williams, Vaughan Sollber-ger, Bill Ross and Max Albert, who are always available to help with broken dinghies, power boats or anything that may be needed.

Our Junior Program is also progressing and growing. Coaches Max Albert, Stewart Williams and Chris Morenci are doing a terrific job of running this pro-gram and getting our kids excited about sailing and racing. The program is being refined, and, as with any program its gone thru some growing pains….but we have help and guidance.

Thanks to Shan Kirk for all his expert advice, and for his help in getting our Optis rigged correctly.

Thanks to Stewart Williams for taking the time to put together a curriculum that the kids enjoy and look forward to. Thanks to Chris for all his patience with the little Harbor Mice.

And again, it takes a lot of parental involve-ment to make this all happen, so all parents, pat yourselves on the back for your commitment to this program!

Vaughan, Dennis, Billy, Howard, Kelvin, and Stewart a BIG thanks for keeping our power-boats in running order!

This month our juniors will be traveling out of town to participate at regattas in Gulfport (Galloway) and Long Beach (inter club).

In September we have Back to School Regatta, which is always a big event. Fell free to drop by

and cheer our sail-ors on, they need your sup-port!

Lastly I would like to thank everyone who made Junior Liptons a terrific success this year. I have never seen so many families

together enjoying our club. There was something for every-one, on and off the water. PYC continues the tradition of putting on a great event.

As Leigh Wanless says

See you on the water

Suzana

First of all, I would like to thank eve-ryone who helped with School’s Out, Ida Lewis, and Jr. Liptons Re-gattas. It took a lot of people on and off the water to make these races a success. Janie has mentioned eve-ryone individually in her article, I thanks you also, we could not do it without your help and support.

Thank you to the PYC staff for go-ing above and beyond their duties in helping us put together another great series of events!

Our Jr. Lipton team practiced went to

Mobile Yacht Club to practice for Jr. Liptons, finishing 2nd out of 18 boats. Thanks to Brian and Ann David along with Dan Ramsay, who helped our team pre-pare.

Jr. Liptons were held ay PYC July 21-22. Our team finished 5th out of 15 well trained teams, and it was fun to watch them sail so well.

Congratulations to all teams who sailed and we hope to see more

teams participate next year.

Sailing for PYC in Jr. Liptons were , Ross Kirk, Collin, Ryan and Ashley Ross, Wesley Howden, Patrick (and MasonSheen on stand by).

PYC Junior sailing program is moving forward with a lot of future potential. Keep it going guys.

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1design@pontyc.org - Bill Ross

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More Photos on our website WWW.PONTYC.ORG

2007 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Commodore Kelvin Troughton - cmdre@pontyc.org

Vice-Commodore

Jane Eshleman - eshleman9589@bellsouth.net

Rear-Commodore

Jay Conner - jayconner9@aol.com

House & Grounds Joel Lindsey - lindseyj@bellsouth.net Social Bridget Jarvis - baojarvis@yahoo.com

Juniors Suzana Williams - juniors@pontyc.org

One Design Bill Ross - 1design@pontyc.org Membership K. Vaughan Sollberger Jr.- kvs@kvsarchitecture.com Race Terri Hamilton - Hew@pineapplegallery.com

More Club Contacts Emailing and email list

Georgia Young

pycevents@bellsouth.net

Webmaster & The Chart

Suzana Williams

juniors@pontyc.org

Victoria Class

Hew Hamilton

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JP1 Schedule

August Wednesdays & Sundays

JP2 Schedule

Tuesdays & Thursdays

Prince of Wales Regatta

August 18 & 19

PYC Friday Twilight Series

Skippers Meeting 6pm

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