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October 2018 Volume 51 Number 7

COMMODORE’S COMMENTS

A night with Jeff Johnstone of J-Boats

Sail Camp Report

Low Country Boil and raft up

New Members

Quarterly Meeting and Fall Work Day

Dock Slip and Mooring Waiting List

McDougal Notice of Race

Iron Skillet Regatta results

Lots A Lasers results

Photo byTim Parshall

COMMODORE’S

COMMENTS

Although the summer months have provided us with activities like a record setting Sail Camp, social gatherings, and many more good wind days than I can remember in summers past, Fall at HIYC is packed full of great events and tradition. By the time you read this we will have already started our Fall racing season with the Iron Skillet Regatta and will have completed one of our signature events, Lots-A-Lasers where seasoned and novice battle the unpredictable winds of our venue for a weekend of sailing and gathering. Put two major events at HIYC on your calendar for October 6. Fall Clean Up/Work Day is an opportunity for our volunteer club to pitch in a keep our grounds, house, dock, and harbor in ship shape condition. A list of projects will be furnished by each Chair and lunch will be served at noon. Later in the evening on October 6 we will gather for our Fall Quarterly Meeting. Potluck begins at 5:00 with our business meeting starting at 6:00. You will hear reports from your board, com-mittees, and special project chair. We will also recieve the report from our nominating committee for our new officers to begin in 2019. October concludes with two weekends of racing. The McDougall Cruiser and Dingy weekends are typically classic HIYC racing and social events named in honor of John McDougall, one of the principals in HIYC history. November is a special month with the Arnold Nye Regatta on November 10, followed that even-ing by the annual Lobster Boil ( reservations are limited and required) On the 17 we will honor Fred Beesley by catching the crisp winds of the Beesley 50K Regatta and there are plans un-derway to mark his 50 years of service as Treasurer. Thanksgiving is the traditional time around the table with our family . The first weekend in December ushers in the last race of the year, the Flotsam Jetsam on De-cember 1. Trophies from past regattas will be awarded. We will also gather that afternoon to decorate our Clubhouse for the Christmas season. Your board will be cooking and serving the December 9 Christmas Brunch as we complete our year of service. Check our calendar, plug in the dates you can attend, volunteer your service, and join your HIYC sailing community this fall on the lake . Gene

*** Dock Slip and Mooring Waiting List ***

AN EVENING WITH JEFF JOHNSTONE

Every sailor at one time or another has sailed on a

J/ something. Meet the man behind the boats.

Great news! Mark you calendars for Wednesday

evening November 7th at the HIYC Clubhouse, exact time TBD. Jeff Johnstone, President of J Boats, will joining us for a free lecture on the his-

tory of J Boats and the evolution of new J boat de-sign. Following the presentation, Jeff will welcome

questions from the group. Steve LeMay from J Boats Southwest- the new J Boat dealer for Ten-

nessee is the sponsor and will provide complimen-tary drinks. We hope to see you all for an in-

formative presentation. This is open to all sailors.

Iron Skillet 2018

With spectacular sailing conditions ,wind from the north blowing a steady 7-13 MPH, Pro Dave Brandon

set a 6 mile course with a start off Harbor Island, a weather mark off Lindsley’s Light and a leeward

mark just past Drake’s Creek. Class sailed just one lap while the rest of the fleet sailed two laps.

Thanks to Dave, Nelson Miles, Tim Parshall, and Don Kaufman for their Race Management.

Small but on time! Brock Short in a Harbor 20 leads the A & B fleets across the starting line

Iron Skillet 2018

In tight action at the leeward mark, Paul Latour leads Greg Theriot

The B Fleet converges on the leeward mark

With Pam Vague at the helm 007 closes with Anne Bees-

ley just yards from the mark

With inside position, Anne hold 007 off as Steve Vague taks

the helm for the final weather leg.

New Members

Tom and Vicki Hines

Tom and Vicki Hines both grew up in Nashville and graduated from the

University of Tennessee. They have been married since 1988 and have

two daughters, Macey, a graduate of Cumberland University’s Nursing

School, and Emily, a sophomore at MTSU. Tom has worked at Wilson Bank and Trust for 23 years and Vicki has

worked as a school librarian at Coles Ferry Elementary School for 9 years. They were members of HIYC

over 20 years ago and are looking forward to sailing again and being members of the club.

Peter and Audrey Fleming

Hello, we are the Fleming Family! We are a family of three– Peter, from a small town in Australia,

Audrey, from Knoxville, and Beckett, from right here in Nashville. Peter and Audrey met in Archi-

tecture school when Peter left the Austrailian football ground of Melbourne to punt for Auburn

University. They reconnected years after graduat-ing while working in New York City, and the rest

is history! Peter works as a designer, painter, custom-design furniture maker, an all out renaissance man. Audrey left the practice of

architecture for the best job ever– Beckett’s mama, earning certification for early child-hood Montessori teaching, while doing countless loads of laundry. Beckett is now 9 1/2

and loves all things mechanical, non-fiction research, designing and building robots, kayaking and sailing. After a magical summer of learning how to sail, we have followed

his heart to HIYC and look forward to spending many happy moments among you. Thank

you for welcoming us aboard!

Low Country Boil and Raft up are a big success!

Special thanks to Cindy Lovelace and her team for putting on a wonderful “Low Country Boil” It was “grab

and go!” as participants took their meals out on the water for a beautiful sunset party that included swim-

ming , rafting, and a whole lot of socializing!

It’s fall and cool weather is headed our way! Now is the time to get your

HIYC wearables for the fall/winter racing season. the Harbor Island Yacht

Club Online Ship Store is your shopping answer.

Member spotlight: Bill Killebrew

Exhibition Announcement

Norm Diamond & Bill Killebrew

September 15 – October 27

Nashville based artist Bill Killebrew introduces a new sequence of oil paintings on diverse surfaces in his second solo show at Cumberland Gallery. Within this body of work, Killebrew touches upon a wide range of subjects: landscapes, interiors and still life’s, with or without figures, intimate or widely-known places. However, his paintings are always depictions of the artist’s immediate surroundings.

His choice of subject is not guided by an abstract concept but rather by a quality of light or a distin-guishing spatial feature that captures his eye – a method he has held onto during his 40 plus year ca-reer. It is these small and beautiful moments of daily life, mundane but not self-evident, that form the poetry of his work: to stop, observe and capture the extraordinariness of ordinary events. When looking closely, these moments can teach us about life’s dynamic undercurrents: observe a crowd and you discover relationships, observe a room and you discover a lifestyle.

The artist elaborates: “The painting becomes significant through the establishment and release of tensions and energies, in the material.” Within this series, the viewer sees a society at work: a quiet neighborhood, a vibrant party, or an intimate family moment. Born and raised in the South, Killebrew values the ideas of community, coexistence, and joined experiences and so recreates these highly specific yet universally shared moments: “the story might be a common story”. Hence, the artist de-picts spaces with a formal approach balancing between loose realism and expressionism – rendering just enough to hint a narrative but leaving sufficient room for individual interpretation. This in-between approach is also noticeable in his use of material: oil paint is applied on un-gessoed panel, linen or canvas, allowing the underlying surface to play a role in the image. This to the extent that the concept of ‘non-finito’ comes to mind when wood grains are treated as marks and part of the painterly process.

Bill Killebrew earned his BFA in painting and printmaking from Middle Tennessee State University in 1975. Since then, his works has been shown throughout the Southeast including a solo exhibition at the Parthenon Museum. Collections include Music City Center, Tennessee State Museum, The Tennes-sean, Mint Museum, and Nashville’s Historic Courthouse. In 2013, Killebrew was honored with the Delta Award by the Arkansas Arts Center.

They Discussed It At Length (2017), oil on canvas, 29" x 43 1/2"

The McDougall Regattas: October 16 Cruiser Regatta

October 27 & 28 Open Class Regatta

Each fall we honor John McDougall with two regattas one for cruising boats and a sec-

ond regatta for one design classes. John McDougall was a man who purchased the land

and built the causeway for what would be-

come Harbor Island. It was his vision that

created the island community of Harbor

Island as Old Hickory Lake was being

filled. The first regatta was held in 1968.

John McDougall passed in 1991, but it is

fitting that we honor the memory of this

visionary and avid sailor to whom we owe

so much!

An abbreviated version of the Notice of

Race follows below. For the official version

of the Notices of Race and for complete sailing instructions please go to www.hiyc.org

Click on “Racing” then “Fall Regattas” , “McDougall” and please download and print a

full set of sailing instructions for each event. Octo-

ber typically brings great weather and freshening

breezes which gives us some of our finest race days so

go to the website and register for these regattas, gath-

er your crew and plan on joining us for these two excit-

ing events.

30 years ago Australian Laser sailor John Sykes took a weekend break from his fellowship training in interventional radiology at UAB in Birmingham to sail at HIYC in Lotsa Lasers. So fond were his memories of the fall colors around the lake, the fireplace in the clubhouse and the hospitality that he planned a return trip to the US to coincide with Lotsa Lasers, packing his sail and his mainsheet and boom vang for the trip! So while his wife Ann read a book by the fireplace John sailed SECONd CHILdHOOd to a series of second place finish-es in Saturday’s fresh northerly breeze, comfortable in the 15 knots common on his home waters off the coast of Adelaide.

But those winds, and especially the gusts to 20 knots, were a challenge for those of us still learning to tame a Laser downwind! For the eight who had the weight and the experi-ence, the racing Saturday was great…and close. John Coolidge “put on a clinic” with re-spect to vang sheeting upwind and smooth mark roundings at the leeward gate in the first three races and Dave Young came back from a two-year hiatus to win the fourth by a cou-ple of boatlengths.

There were some notable efforts Saturday that deserve mention. Addison Jones graduated from the Opti class to sail in his first Laser regatta…and like Jenna Rehm (also sailing in her first regatta), chose a full rig, hiked as effectively as humanly possible, discovered what “overpowered” feels like but also felt the thrill of going “really really fast…” until physics and fatigue dictated the prudent choice to call it a day to remember and sail home. His grandfa-ther Ralph made a valiant effort to go out “once more to the lake” at the age of 83 but was not able to depower his main with enough outhaul. Williiam Hofmeister refused to allow a “bad back” to hold him back and was consistently at the front of the pack. Denis Colby won the dreaded MOP (Middle of the Pack) Award once again and Bill Killebrew the Bookend Award. Ania Gorska captured the offset mark which made for a spectacular tango! Sun-day’s rain sent us packing after breakfast, with N over A flags flying from the committee boat at the dock.

Thanks to Nolan Richards, Zyg Durski, Julie Bollinger, Peter Bennet, Jim Milliman, Katie Dietzer and Sue Miller for their indefatigable support and remarkable attention to detail on the race committee; to the safety and rescue boat team of Todd and Ella McBee who were as busy as they could be; to Dan Haskell for driving his “photo boat” to the right spots for Andy Griswold’s great action shots (Pictures are up at:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/TnkhXnKM1V3wKJKS9); to Bob Carlton for helping with registra-tion; to Paul Latour for sharing his nimble Scout which served as the weather mark boat, to Greg Theriot for preparing the club boats; to Chandler Owen for pressure washing the docks; to Michael Underwood for preparing dinner and to all those who helped out in the kitchen…and as always to HIYC’s support of this traditional weekend of Laser racing.

Smooth sailing,

Bruce Richards PRO and Regatta Organizer

Lotsa Lasers Regatta 2018

Kitchen Crew: Michael Underwood, Julie Bollinger, Nolan Richards

Dockmaster: Chandler Owen Photographer: Andy Griswold

Registration: Bob Carlton and Nolan Richards

Monogramming of "Buffs" by Southern Textile and Sculptures by Claire

Categories J=junior, C=clydesdale, F=featherweight, L=Lady,

AM=apprentice master (35-44), M=master (45-54), CLUB=club boat,

GM=grandmaster (55-64), GGM=great grand master (65+)

FT=first timer OLYMPIAN (85+)

Sea Scout News

During June and July five of our Sea Scouts work as staff at Boxwell Boy Scout camp which is 12

miles up river from HIYC. As a result these five Scouts were not present when we held capsize re-

covery training with the Flying Junior sailboats earlier in the summer.

It was a beautiful Thursday evening with a temperature of 80 degrees and winds from the South at

8-10 knots. This was Will and Nathaniel’s first meeting after leaving Boxwell for the summer. And

they were excited. They were also the first to get their boat rigged and sailing. And Yes within

three or four minutes they flipped. ( So glad they emptied their pockets before heading out.) A

Flying Junior is fairly easy to right after capsizing. If you have had the proper training. And thus

we watched as this untrained crew worked against each other trying to right the boat. All the while

turning turtle and moving closer and closer to the end of the C dock. But with some coaching by

Brian Laidlaw from one of the Boston Whalers they managed to right the boat and get back in and

then spend another 45 minutes sailing around the harbor. Nathaniel had never taken a lot of inter-

est in learning how a sailboat works but very much enjoyed crewing. This experience has changed

that attitude and he is now actively pursuing greater knowledge of how to properly skipper a sail-

boat.

A couple of weeks later with the skill levels of our Scouts improving we decided to set up a small

triangle course and attempt to actually run a race. There were nine Scouts sailing that evening.

The wind was fairly light but the Scouts had decided to have three on board each of the boats. At

this point we were considering Sam to be our best skipper and Nathaniel the one with the least

skills. As is typical with beginning sailors no one was at the line when the starting gun went off.

But it soon became clear that this race was not going like Brian and I had expected. Eli, Sam’s

Brother took first. Nathaniel took second and Sam never even finished that race. Race two was

similar except that Nathaniel took first, Eli second and Sam third. It was getting late but we had a

tie for first and this needed to be resolved. Race three Nathaniel took first, Sam second and Eli

third. Thus the Scout that we expected to be in the back was in the front. Pretty cool. And Sam

has been working real hard to improve his sailing skills since that race. At the next meeting we

had winds of 12-15 and I was very concerned that we might have multiple boats flipping. But I am

glad to report that all four boats went out and no one flipped. And all had a great time.

Additionally if you go to West Marine in Hermitage you might see Sam and Eli Slater there as they

are now working for Rachel at that store. Yeah pretty cool.

Andy Griswold

Three members of Harbor Island Yacht Club sailed in the 2018 Montana Cup Regatta, which was held August 4 and 5 on Flathead Lake near Somers, Montana. Brock Short skippered his Beneteau First Twenty, “Benny Hana”, along with his wife, Jane Short, and Konstantin “Costa” Tchernoushenko. Brock and Jane traveled from Big Sky, Montana, where they

live in the summer, and Costa drove from Nashville, Tennessee for the event. Tyler Grupe of Big Sky, Montana and

Hebgen Lake Yacht Club also crewed for the race.

The Montana Cup is Montana’s largest and oldest regatta, having been held since 1978. It is sponsored by the North Flat-head Yacht Club (NFYC), which was established in 1975. The lake itself is incredibly beautiful and interesting. It is the largest natural fresh water lake in the United States West of the Mississippi River, over thirty miles long and sixteen miles wide, with an average depth of one hundred sixty five feet. One of the cleanest lakes in the world for its size, it is nestled in the Rocky Mountain chain. It is bordered by the Mission Mountains to the East and the Salish Mountains to the West.

It sits only thirty miles from Glacier National Park and less than one hundred miles from the Canadian border.

The summer winds on Flathead Lake are driven by thermals that show up early in the morning, often dying by afternoon. Thus the first race began by 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and 7:30 a.m. on Sunday. This year’s Cup was well attended, with twenty two boats competing in four fleets. The A and A+ fleets included some very fast boats, such as a Melges 24, a Henderson 30 (crew of 9), and a J-90 (with a skipper near 90 years old).

The B Fleet consisted of J-24’s and other fast boats, including a Schock Harbor 25 sailed by its designer and builder, Tom Schock. Tom’s father Bill began designing and building boats out of Newport Beach, California over seventy years ago. Tom continued the business, building over 13,000 sailboats ranging from 13 to 55 feet in length, until selling the company in 2015 to retire to the Flathead Lake area.

The Harbor Island team sailed in the largest fleet, which combined both C and D fleets. Their fleet consisted of a total of

eight boats: two Schock Harbor 20’s, a Catalina 25, two San Juan 21’s, a Hunter 30, their boat, and a smaller Portsmouth rated skiff. One of their competitors trailered all the way from Tucson, Arizona.

Over two days competitors sailed a total of nine races. The total on-water time exceeded fourteen hours. Competition was stiff, with many races decided by less than two feet between three boats. The HIYC team struggled in the light to

moderate air Saturday morning, but as the breeze stiffened briefly in the afternoon, they began to sail better. In the

most exciting race they came in under spinnaker towards the finish line with a Harbor 20 and a San Juan 21 both barely ahead, fifteen feet apart. They managed to cover first one, then the other, and slip their bow between the two for a one-foot victory. It was one of the most exciting and miraculous finishes in this year’s Cup, about as rare as hitting a 6-10 split in bowling. At the end of the day, after five races, Benny Hana was tied for fourth.

Sunday brought stronger winds (12-14), and the heavy air skills developed from sailing on Hebgen Lake, along with enough crew weight, came through. They sailed better up-wind, and they smoked the fleet with their spinnaker work sail-

ing down-wind, posting two firsts out of four races. Costa’s bow work was incredible. Tyler Grupe looked like a one-man gang, trimming sails, raising and lowering the keel, doing whatever it took to sail just a little bit faster. Jane was equally nimble, trimming the spinnaker to accelerate the boat past the competition. Brock stayed calm, even when they were almost run over by a much larger vessel at full speed, steering the HIYC entry to its best showing ever in the Montana Cup. The whole crew sailed like a true team. They moved up in their fleet to capture third place, their first trophy out of two tries in the Montana Cup.

At the end of the day, they were all glad they had made the effort to attend and compete. The members of NFYC were helpful and very friendly. The facilities and the lake were magnificent. The side trips into Glacier National Park to drive the Going-to-the-Sun Highway, hike from Logan’s Pass to Hidden Lakes, and hike to Avalanche Lake were opportunities of a lifetime. The Saturday night dinner and party at the yacht club was fantastic. Brock said “It was truly worth all the ef-fort that went into the preparation, travel, rigging and de-rigging, practice, racing, and camaraderie. I would like to thank my crew (Jane, Tyler, and Costa) immensely for all their hard work, patience, and skills that made this possible.”

Respectfully Submitted

Brock Short

Brock Short represents HIYC at the “Montana Cup”

Montana Cup 2018

Brock, Jane, and Konstantin

Driving to weather Benny Hana (dark hull)

Benny Hana on the wind

Around the club….

B-Dock proves once again that you don’t need the

social committee to plan every party at HIYC!

This grassroots event is a great example of our sail-

ing community coming together for an evening of fun

and friendship.

Now let’s see what the other docks can do to match

this party!

New member Ashley Evans has

wasted no time in getting involved at

Harbor Island.

First she assisted with the Y-Flyer

National Championship Regatta and

created an outstanding poster to

showcase the event.

Next she bought a boat from Ray

Marley, and is clearly taking ad-

vantage of the social opportunities

that sailing can offer!

The lesson here, don’t wait on the

sidelines… plunge in, get involved,

make friends and grow the HIYC sail-

ing community.!

Are you missing your car keys? Do you know someone who is missing their keys? These

were found in the board room about the time of the Y-Flyer Nationals. If you have any idea

who might have left these behind, let us know so that we can send them back to their own-

er, who by now is likely tired of walking to work !

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Proxy

HIYC Quarterly Meeting: October 6, 2018

I, ________________________________ being an Active Member of Harbor Island Yacht Club, entitled to vote at the

Quarterly Meeting, do hereby constitute and appoint _____________________________ as my

proxy to attend said Quarterly meeting to be held on September 30, 2017 or the continuation or adjournment

thereof, with full power to vote and act for me in my name, place and stead, to the same extent and with the

same effect that I would have if personally present. Any proxy or proxies heretofore given to any person or

persons whatsoever are hereby revoked.

Signed ______________________________________ date _____________

Quarterly Meeting

Saturday October 6: 8AM –12:00 Fall Work Day.

Committee Chairs and Dock Admirals will have projects ready for volunteers.

Noon: Lunch Provided

5:00—6:00 Pot Luck Dinner

6:00—7:00 Fall Quarterly Business Meeting

We are a volunteer club and we need your help to keep the club house, grounds, docks,

and club boats in good shape. Please put on you work clothes and gloves and come ready

to work!

Please plan on coming back to HIYC for a 5:00 Pot Luck Dinner flowed by our Fall Quar-

terly Business Meeting. This is a most important event as the 2019 slate of officers will

be presented.

If you are unable to attend the meeting, we still need your proxy to secure a quorum to

conduct business. Please fill out the Proxy Form below, sign and date it and take a pic-

ture of the signed form with your phone and email the form to HIYC Secretary Don

Kaufman at

Kaufmandj@sbcglobal.net

Important Notice

TO:

Harbor Island Yacht Club

Located on Old Hickory Lake

Visit us On-line at www.HIYC.org

Schedule of Events

2018 Officers Commodore—Gene Lovelace Vice Commdore Bob Carlton Secretary— Don Kaufman Treasurer—Fred Beesley Rear Commodore—Randall Butler Senior Governor—Brian Smokler Governor— Dan Haskell Junior Governor— Jim McCann

Harbor Island Yacht Club

PO Box 8117

Hermitage, TN

November 2018

04 Sun — Daylight Savings Time Ends

06 Tue — Board Meeting

07 Wed — A evening with Jeff John-

stone of J Boats

10 Sat — Arnold Nye Regatta

10 Sat — Lobster Boil

17 Sat — Beesley 50K Regatta

22 Thu — Thanksgiving Day

December 2018

01 Sat — Flotsam / Jetsam Regatta

04 Tue — Board Meeting

09 Sun — Christmas Brunch

25 Tue — Christmas Day

Photography contributed by Andy Griswold, Tim Parshall, Cindy Lovelace, Don Kaufman, Ashley Evans,

Brock and Jane Short

October 2018

02 Tue— Board Meeting

06 Sat — Fall Work Day

Pot Luck dinner

Quarterly Business Meeting

13 Sat — McDougall Cruiser Regatta

27 Sat —28 Sun McDougall Open Regatta

Sea Scouts meet every

Thursday at 6:00 PM