March 2018 Tel. (617) 846-CPYC Web site: www.CPYC.ORG

COMMODORE Brian J. Murphy

VICE COMMODORE Peter Towner

REAR COMMODORE John Cataldo SECRETARY

Raymond Magnan TREASURER

Donald Kearney

Annual Meeting 2018

Election of Directors Nominating Committee Chair Louise Guillotte gave a brief review of the committee’s work, introduced the committee and thanked them for their work. She also thanked all who submitted letters offering to serve CPYC. Each of the candi-dates for the Board of Directors introduced themselves and said a few words. Recommended by the Nominating Committee: Jonathan Marks and David Reynolds By petition: Thom Barry Election was by paper ballot with Jonathan Marks and Da-vid Reynolds being elected as Directors

L. to R. Rear Commodore John Cataldo, Vice Commo-dore Pete Towner, and Commodore Brian Murphey

The Annual Meeting was called to order at 7:15 PM on Feb-ruary 28, 2018. In the absence of Secretary John Economides, Director Stan-ton read the call There was a moment of silence for the following deceased members. Larry Buote Philip Marks David O’Brien III Frank Voss Secretary's Annual Report Director presented the Secretaries report. During 2017 there were 244 Regular and Young Adult members, the same num-ber as 2016. Other categories of members were Senior 66, Life 19, Non Resident 13, Trial 9 and Social 125. The percentage of members with boats remained the same as in 2016, 42%. There were 94 bowlers. The average age of the membership dropped to 56 years. 63% of members live in Winthrop, with 90% in Massachusetts. The Secretaries report was accepted. Election of Officers as recommended by the Nominating Committee were all elected by unanimous vote as follows: Commodore : Brian Murphy Vice Commodore: Peter Towner Rear Commodore: John Cataldo Secretary: Raymond Magnan Treasurer: Donald Kearney

L. to R. Board of Directors: Michael Rinaldi, Jonathan Marks, David Reynolds, and Janine Stanton.

Secretary Ray Magnan. Missing from picture Treasurer Don Kearney

Brian Murphy presented the Vice Commodore’s award to Sue Hardy for her contribu-tions to sailboat racing at CPYC and writing the Wind-jammer Newsletter.

The Commodores Award this year will go to Bill Briggs. Commodore Schlichting called Bill a quiet unsung worker who quietly comes to CPYC on weekends, looks at the book with to do items listed and goes about taking

care of them.

Officers Awards The officers awards were announced as follows and will be awarded at the Commodores Ball in June. Rear Commodore Pete Towner announced his award to go to Pat Leary for all of the work she has done procuring items for and decorating the Make-A-Wish Auction, and running the CPYC Store. (As Pat was not at the meeting the Windjammer does not have a picture of her at this time, only a sample of her talent.)

Election of one member to the Audit Committee as recommended by the Nominating Committee for three years: Ginny Gaeta Annual Report of the Treasurer Treasurer Kearny unable to attend due to business commitments left a written report where he highlighted that for 2017 Club Op-erations finished slightly in the BLACK. He thanked numerous club members for all the work they had done this year to make this possible. Further he stated that the club insurance coverage increased with out increasing premiums, the Pilot House renova-tion , a 10% saving in electricity costs in the last quarter of 2017 due to LED bulb replacement, and a range of successful entertain-ment activities. The contract with Millie’s Kitchen has been renegotiated which should bring new revenues. The FAA lease is under renegotiation this year. There is a new lease with Sigfox for an antenna on the roof. Annual Report of the Audit Committee The Audit Committee reported that they had done a comprehen-sive study of Pilot House inventory management. As a result they found no written policies and undertook writing Liquor Procure-ment Procedures which were approved by the Board of Directors. The purpose of this is to tighten the reconciliation between or-ders, deliveries, invoices and inventory. In place for a half year, there is already an improvement. The Committee goals for 2018 are to look at how cash, credit card receipts and other incomes are managed. Bylaw Changes (requires a 2/3 vote) Motion (1)” In accordance with Article III, Section I, D, to waive payment of the Initiation Fee until Match 1, 2019. The motion was passed unanimously.

Framed burgees were presented to outgoing Board members, Jonathan Marks, John Cataldo, and John Economides. Newly elected Commodore Murphy thanked those in attend-ance for their vote and support. He stated he looked forward to working with our talented membership and wants to in-volve more of the membership on committees. He ended by stating that this Commodore's Ball will be the first with air conditioning. Before closing the meeting, now Past Commodore Schlicht-ing said that it had been an honor to serve as commodore and was pleased to leave office in good shape. He thanked his BOD and the members for their support in always wanting to make it a a better club. The meeting adjourned at 8:10 PM

Annual Meeting Continued ….

Wishes from CPYC South!

January Storm - High Tide—CPYC

Thanks to Barry Lawton for venturing out in the storm for these pictures. According to NOAA the tide peaked at 15 feet.

There was 8 inches of water on top of the pier. Water poured into the bath-rooms on the pier. The picnic tables moved in the high

water and waves.

High Water under the bowling alleys

Water covered the Interclub trailer wheels to the hub caps.

The easterly dinghy float

hoops cleared the top of the pilings in the waves.

Here a finger float hung up on the piling.

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Looking toward the westerly marina, the lumps are finger floats that were snapped in half by ice.

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Regular Membership

We welcome the return of former member Aaron Daigneault and his wife Alyssa. They have eight sons, some of whom may be interested in youth sailing. Aaron is in construction and his wife is the head of the Science Department at Winthrop High School. Arron is interested in the Capital Improvements Committee and has a 26 foot power boat. Trial Membership

Brent Farrell and his wife Sarah reside in Winthrop. They have a one year old. Many of his neighbors are club members. They are looking foward to getting in-volved at CPYC.

Men’s Bowling Roll Off

Congratulations to Team Wednesday Wild on their vic-tory in the Men’s Roll Off. By the end of the second string, Team Wed Wild was well into the lead and never looked back scoring 1497 pins, 46 pins ahead of second place Team Tuesday Wild. Team Wednesday Winners finished third with Team Tues-day Winners fourth.

Individual Honors Jeff Meskell High Single 141

Mike LaRosse High Triple 357

The Winning Team Left to Right: Dan Sheppard, Steve Nalen, Sr.,

Jonathan Marks, Steve Nalen, Jr., and Dan Klim.

Things Overheard During Bowling

For the women and men bowlers of CPYC

Who made up these teams? Who wants my job? There is something wrong with these alleys I hate alley four Reset What am I doing wrong? There is something wrong with these pins. Even when you hit them they do not go down. Who’s turn is it? Where is ____? Oh, in the bar! There’s a bump in the middle of the al-ley. What foul line? Who’s lobbing the ball? Who took my drink? Are we having fun yet? How come my average doe not go up? What alley am I on? How old are these sponges? Who knows how to score a strike on a strike on a strike? You mean there is an alley broken? Again? Any of these sound familiar?

Monday Nights

Do you know what an oologist studies? Do you know who was the first president to live in the White House?

Do you know what popular book has these three words in common about it—grail — mystery—cryptic ?

These were three of the questions at the most recent Monday Night Trivia. Since fall, every other week, from 4 to 6 teams, and up to 25 players have tested their trivia knowledge against the re-search done by Patrice Berk and Janine Stanton. PS—the answers are somewhere in this issue.

CPYC Frost Biter Quoted in Globe “On the Move”

Column

In a recent Globe “on the Move” article by Brian O’Con-nor on frostbiting at the Boston Sailing Center and Cot-tage Park Yacht Club, Linda Epstein shared why she started frostbite racing. Drawn to spend time and race with a friend she enjoyed the competitiveness of some of the best and hardiest sailors. She also enjoys introducing people to the sport, helping them dress for the weather. rig their boats and share experiences socializing after racing. Linda met her husband Tom Robinson frostbiting. To-day they are essential to the strength of this group of sail-ors. The Winthrop Frost Bite Sailing Association moved to CPYC from Marblehead seventeen years ago in 1995 and have been a welcome addition ever since then.

Winthrop Chamber of Commerce Presented CPYC with

The Belle Liberman, Chamber Business Member of the Year Award

Above Commodore Schlichting receives the award from Master of Ceremonies John Macero.

CPYC member Dick Lawton was awarded the Chamber of Commerce Town Service award by Cham-

ber Board member Ernie Hardy. Dick received this award for the time and talent he has given the town in

the numerous school construction projects and on town committees.

Picture of the Month By Nancy Corbett

Calm, unusual, reflective sunset in the marina after the ice departed.

Winthrop Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards CPYC and Dick Lawton

Congratulations to the Recipients

To the Windjammer Advertisers

The Windjammer and club would like to thank the support of our advertisers. We encourage the membership to support them by doing business with them. Anyone wishing to advertise in the Windjammer, the cost is $120 for six issues published every other month, or $20 an issue for a business card sized ad. Anyone wishing to place an ad please contact Sue Hardy at www.windjammer@cpyc.org.

Book Club The Ear Hears……

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng will be discussed on March 27th. A mysterious artist and single mother of one daughter enter the perfect bubble of a planned community and family where the guiding principle is playing by the rules. The April 24th selection, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is an historical novel of father and son love featuring Abraham Lincoln. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly is the May 22 book club selection. It is a tale of three women at the beginning of WWII and how their lives were effected by events at the time. It spans New York, Paris, Germany, and Poland. Attendees are free to participate or just listen. For information please contact Nancy Corbett at necorbett@comcast.net

Our condolences to the Voss family on the passing of long time member and sailor, Frank Voss.

*** Our sympathies to Tom and Holly Schlichting on the loss of Holly’s father John DeLuca.

*** Congratulations to Ashley and Michael Krupsky on the birth of their daughter Cora Joan. Proud grandparents are Joan and Peter Marks.

** Sadly we announced the passing of Ke-leigh Stundza wife of the late Tom Stun-dza a past CPYC secretary.

ANSWERS Collector of birds eggs

Madison The Da Vinci Code

Erlyn Ordinario at theTaal Lake Yacht Club

Cruising to the Caribbean with the Trainers, Lallys and Buckleys.

The Burgee Takes to the Road Again

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MARCH

Mar 2 Magic Night Mar 5 Pilot House Trivia Mar 9 Family Fun Night Mar 17 Happy St. Patrick’s Day Mar 19 Pilot House Trivia Mar 27 Book Club

APRIL

April 1 Easter CPYC closed April 2 Pilot House Trivia April 6 Family Fun Night Apr 7 Brew, Wine & Distillery Night Apr 21,22 CPYC Work Weekend Apr 24 Book Club

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Friday & Saturday Noon - 1:00am

Tuesday -Thursday 2:00pm- 11:00pm

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MAY

May 2 Ladies Roll Off May 9 Ladies Bowling Banquet May 22 Book Club