June 2013 Latitude N 30°21.65 - Longitude W 89°05.35

2013 GYC Ship Island Rendezvous

Photos by Poem Love

John Freeman 304 Southern Circle GPT 39507

John Rice 5210 Quincy Ave GPT 39507

Paul Mullen 9170 Ridge Road GPT 39503

Chuck Loftis 410 Caribe Place GPT 39503

Brent Stewart 428 Courthouse Dr GPT 39507

Michael Pitalo 11137 Karli Lane Biloxi 39532

Joel Blackledge 2114 Boardman Blvd GPT 39507

Katie Hewes 17 Colonel Wink Drive GPT 39507

John Bush 2668 Beach Blvd Biloxi 39531

My Dear Members

Carpe Diem!! Seize The Day… and don’t miss the full calendar of activities your club has to offer this summer. Please remember the time and effort our committee chairs and committees devote to making sure that you as Members, have the best possible experience here at the club.

First, I want to thank the Ladies Auxiliary for their continued work to improve our club. Not only did they recently polish all the silver in our trophy case (check out the shine), but also they are about to purchase a player piano for our chart room. What a wonderful and generous addition that can provide a wide variety of background music to the incredible view at our facility.

Skipper Kalil and his Committee, working with our General Manager, Steve Chatelain continue to spend hours discussing ways to improve house operations. As with any club our size, there must be subtle adjustments to keep us on course.

The Gulfport Yacht Club was well represented in this years infamous Race For The Case. Congrats to John Dane on his boat War Canoe, with a 1st place in the Race For The Case. John had excellent tactical assis-tance from our Sailing Committee Chairman, Sam Hopkins, and our Docks and Piers Chairman Michael Hage, along with several other seaworthy crew. Even your Commodore got a 3rd in non-spinnler class, sailing our Beneteau, with the critical assistance of 2 outstanding junior sailors, Sam Hopkins Jr. and my son, Jacob Seic-shnaydre. Of course, the Mamadore’s decisive timing of when to tact made all the difference.

Pascal Johnson, our Pool Chairman has been working closely with Steve and Jay, our Property Mainte-nance Supervisor, to design suitable shade solutions for our pool deck participants.

After much deliberation, the Wine Committee will shortly release new wines to be added to our men-us. Expect better taste sensations.

NOTICE: During this years LUAU, we have a special event. Sam Vasquez, our Sailing Director, is grow-ing out his hair to be donated to Locks of Love. During the luau, you will have the opportunity to cut a lock of his hair. It will be a lot of fun.

And finally, please come down to the club this summer to observe and support our sailing regattas, swim team events, entertainment venues and club parties. See ya at the club.

Dr. Michael Seicshnaydre

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE - Types of Memberships

$250.00 Initiation Fee for full Resident and Non Resident Membership for a Limited Time Only

Full Resident Member Age 35 years of age and up Initiation Fee $2,000 Dues $1,750 per year - $153.13 per month Has voting rights and can hold office. You can pay your dues each year in full or pay monthly with a 5% interest charge

Jr. Resident Member Age 21-35 Initiation Fee 10% of Resident Fee $200 Balance of full Resident Member Fee must be paid by the age of 35 Dues $875 per year - $76.56 per month. You can pay your dues each year in full or pay monthly with a 5% interest charge

ATTENTION

Please Close Gate and

Lock after using

Launching Ramp

4th of July Celebration Thursday, July 4, 2013

4:30pm – 10:00pm On the Deck

Buffet

5:30pm – 8:30pm BBQ Chicken, BBQ Ribs, BBQ Brisket, Potato Salad,

Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, Burgers, Hot Dogs, Chicken Nuggets, Mac & Cheese, French Fries, Ice Cream,

Assorted Cookies, & Watermelon

$12.99 Adults, $7.99 Kids 6-12, $5.00 Kids 5 and under

4:30pm —Giant Waterslide & Snow Cones

6:00pm – 10:00pm —Live Music by Kandeeside (New Orleans Cover Band)

8:45pm —Firework Show

Sunset Sunday June 23, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Music provided by The James Johnson Trio featuring George Mason on the Fiddle

Menu Hamburgers

Hotdogs/Chili Potato Salad

Homemade Potato Chips Baked BBQ Beans

Cookies

See You Sunday!!!!!

GYC Bingo Thursday June 06, 2013

6:00pm – 9:00pm Adults Chart Room, Children Ballroom

Buffet 6:00pm, BINGO 6:30pm Adults $9.99++, Children $5.99++

PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES

Ladies Auxiliary cleaning the trophies

THANK YOU!

GYC Deck Party Agreement

A fee will be charged for all functions occurring on the grounds outside of the clubhouse as follows:

Party for members/dependents not using the pool under 20 people – NO CHARGE

Party for members/dependents

21-50 people $50.00

51-75 people $100.00

76-100 people $150.00

GYC Club Rules and Regulations:

Section XV Swimming Pool and Swim Team Activities and Guidelines Gulfport Yacht Club Rules, revised 2011, page 14, number 9, Member and Member Sponsored Events: Guests of members hosting birthday party may use the pool. If the pool will be used during the time the club does not have a lifeguard on duty, arrangements must be made through the club to have a certified lifeguard on duty. Payment of the lifeguard will be at the expense of the member or the

member hosting the party.

Section XII Club Rental and Catering of the Gulfport Yacht Club Rules, revised 2011

XII: CLUB RENTAL AND CATERING: 1. Club members shall contact the Club management to rent Club facilities. The rental fee will be quoted by the General Manager or his

designee. The Chart Room and rest rooms shall remain accessible to all members when the Club is used for any activity.

2. Functions sponsored by the Club take priority over any private party. However, the Club function and reservation of space for the func-

tion must be scheduled in advance.

3. Request for rental must be made by a Club member.

4. A request to reserve Club facilities not specifically covered by these rules will be referred to the House Committee for consideration.

5. No food or beverages may be brought to the Club without the permission of the General Manager or his or her designee.

Parties that use the outside facilities without reservations will be charged applicable charges plus $500.00 penalty.

The facility should be left in the same condition as it was upon arrival.

Person Sponsored: ______________________________________________________ Approx. # of guests: ___________________

Member Sponsor Name: ______________________________________________________ Member #: _______________________

Function: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Day/Date: _________________________________________________ Time: _____________________________________

I HAVE READ AND FULLY UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.

Signed: __________________________________________________________________ Date: ___________________________

Catering: ______________________________________________ General Manager: __________________________________

Hat Trick - GYC Boats Win 1st, 1st and 1st

On the weekend of May 18 three members of Gulfport Yacht Club’s classic wooden boat fleet participated in the Billy Creel Wooden Boat Festival in Biloxi. This event is sponsored each year by the Biloxi Mar-itime & Seafood Industry Museum.

Past Commodore Johnny Atherton on the “Bout Time”, Past Commo-dore Wayne Tisdale on the “Alligator” and Skipper John Heath aboard the “Loophole” made the run to the Biloxi Schooner pier on Friday, June 17 for the show the following Saturday and Sunday. The wind was a little “blustery” at 10-15 out of the SSE but it was no match for the classic wooden vessels of GYC. Upon arrival and securing the boats the skippers and their crew worked to make the boats shipshape and look ahead to the weekend of fun, food and people who love wooden boats.

At the Biloxi Show this year there were 7 categories of vessels to be judged both in the water and on trailers. The classes as defined created a situation wherein the GYC vessels were not in competition with each other but rather with the other boats in the show in classes that utilized their length in the overall definition of power vessels

Once again representatives of the GYC fleet of wooden vessels were recognized as all being First Class:

In Water Power Boats:

Skipper John Heath; Loophole 1st in class less than 40 feet

Past Commodore Johnny Atherton; Bout Time 1st in class 41-47 feet Past Commodore Wayne Tisdale; Alligator 1st in class 48-100 feet. Past Commodore Atherton’s Bout Time also won the Perpetual Judges Award which brings the total awards won by GYC boats to four.

There were approximately 45 beautiful wooden vessels participating including those in the water and also on trailers.

Each year many of GYC’s fleet of wooden vessels participate in this show and also in the Madisonville Wooden Boat Show in October in Madisonville, Louisiana. This is a great favorite among GYC activities at which the Powerboat Committee spon-sors a rendezvous for these classic vessels as well as their inferior cousins in the GYC Plastic Boat Society.

The Plastic Boat Society of the GYC is presided over by Plastidore Dickie Dunnaway. Past Plastidore Woody Bailey is ru-mored to be planning a campaign to re-claim his position of leadership but Plastidore Dickie and First Mate Nancy aboard GlasSea will make formidable opponents. They are known to be much more generous with the spoils of this lofty position than was Past Plastidore Bailey who is reputed to be very “frugal” with the booty taken on the high seas. The GYC plastic ves-sels do not usually make the trip to the Biloxi event as it does not lend itself to visiting boats as does Madisonville.

Their notable absence leads to a very suspicious occurrence in that nowhere to be seen were the infamous Pirates of the Tchfuncte. These scurrilous mariners are greatly feared by those that might accidently find themselves alone along the banks of the Tchfuncte and other ports of call on the Mississippi Sound. Innocent sailors have been known to disappear while on shore leave when these scourges of the high seas are around. It was only a few short years ago that Past Commodore Law-rence Hage was almost victim to a life of indentured servitude aboard the pirate vessel Miss Alabama captained by the most dastardly pirate of all… No Beard. It was only the courageous actions of the brave seaman of the GYC – Boson Louis Bell, Past Commodore Michael Hage, Quartermaster Sherman Muths III, Ship’s Carpenter George Boddie and Quartermaster Creighton that he was plucked from their grasp at great risk to themselves facing the flashing cutlass’ of No Beard’s crew of misfits with naught but flounder gig’s as weapons just before the dark ship sailed for ports unknown.

These scourges of the seas only seem to appear when the Plastic Boat Society is present and active - meaning loud music, flowing spirits, and suspicious characters (some with wooden peg legs) dancing aboard these plastic vessels to all hours of the night and feasting on libations lavished on them by Plastidore Dunnaway. Even the notorious No Beard seems invisible until such times present themselves. It is told that when he makes his unwelcome appearance he becomes invisible from his consumption of that devil rum and as the evening wears on he becomes bullet proof (in his own mind).

Hmmmmm…. This might make one question if the Pirates themselves might not dwell secretly within this Society. Could No Beard himself be among them??? This log entry by Past Commodore Wayne Tisdale of the M/V Alligator

It is not to late to sign up for GYC Summer Swimming & Sailing Camps!

Applications can be found in the GYC office or GulfportYachtClub.org

Cinco de Mayo Party

Crawfish Boil

Loaded Potato Soup 8 potatoes, peeled and diced ½ C butter ½ yellow onion, diced 4 strips of bacon, sliced thin ½ C flour 4 C milk 3 C ½ & ½ 1 C chicken broth 8 oz Sour cream ½ C shredded cheddar Salt and pepper to taste 4 oz green onion, sliced

Boil the potatoes until tender. Melt the butter add the bacon and onions, cooking until the bacon is browned. Add flour, mix well. Add stock, milk and ½ & ½. Stir as you add the liquid. Bring to boil and allow to simmer for 5 mins on low-medium heat. Stirring occasionally to pre-vent sticking. Add sour cream, cheddar and salt and pep-

per. Bowl up and top with sliced green onions. Enjoy.

We had a great May at the Club and looking forward to an exciting June. I have had numerous compliments about our Mother’s Day Brunch and would like to thank our Staff for a job well done!! Mark your calendars in June for the follow-ing upcoming events, BINGO, Thursday, June 06 (Adults and Children Welcome), Challenge Cup Regatta, Friday June 14 – Sunday, June 16, Father’s Day Brunch June 16 and Sunset Sunday, June 23. Keep in sight our 4th of July Independence Day Celebration, Thursday, July 4. The BBQ Buffet is served from 5:30pm to 8:30pm, Water Slides open at 4:30pm, Live Entertainment with Kandeeside Band out of New Orleans starts at 6:00pm and Fireworks at 8:45pm.

We encourage all members to utilize our facilities and ser-vices. However, when planning an outdoor deck or pool party you must contact the office to make arrangements. I have posted in this Log a copy of the deck party agreement for your review. When having any deck activity or pool par-ty this agreement must be signed and approved by Man-agement.

Summer is an extremely busy time at the club with a num-ber of children using our facilities, having fun at the beach, sailing and pool with family and friends. I need to mention a few things to keep in mind from a safety point of view. Par-ents please remind your children running in the Clubhouse, Tiki Bar Area, Parking Lot and Pool is not permitted. The parking lot is always a concern of mine because our drivers don’t always see children especially if they are running. The rocks on the beach around the water have very sharp shells that could cut your foot or the loose rocks could become a hazard. Please try to stay away from these areas. Children are not allowed to sit at the Tiki Bar or Main Bar where al-cohol beverages are sold. The safety of our children, mem-bers, guests and staff is a high priority for Management and the Board. Let’s be Safe and have a Fun summer at GYC!!! I would like to thank the Ladies Auxiliary for taking the time to polish our Trophies and clean our Trophy Cases. Also, each year the Ladies Auxiliary uses funds from their budget to help the Club with needed expenditures that are not budgeted through operations. This is a great help to the Club and the Board and Management are grateful.

Steve Chatelain

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We still have some Available Slips on A Pier for Half Price!!! Please contact the

office or Docks and Pier Chairman Mi-chael Hage for more Info!!!!!!!!

PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE

PAID Permit #135 Gulfport, MS

Photos by Mark 'Oz' Oswald

2013 Race for the Case 1st John Dane II—War Canoe—GYC/PCYC

2nd Wes Stanley—Cherry Baby—BYC

3rd Steve Nolte—Piranha—GYC

4th Samson Vasquez—LAST CALL—GYC