Volume 71, Number 7

Mauni Elliott 2021 Race 1, Edgewalker photo by Heidi Gunsul

July 2021Volume 71, Number 7

Summer is here and the activity around Portland Yacht Club is going full speed. June was

jampacked with events and there will be no letup in July.

One of the highlights of June was the Mauni Elliott Regatta. Every Wednesday night a small fleet of sail boats raced around the buoys on the Columbia River and then returned to the club for a get-together over a few beverages while critiquing the good and bad of one’s own performance. Everyone had a great time.

July starts out with a no-host 4th of July Cruise to the outstation. There is also the 4th of July Carnival at the club with fun for the whole family. The PYC Summer Regatta is on Sunday July 11th. We have the cruise to Cathlamet for Bald Eagle Days on the weekend of July 16 to 17th, complete with a parade. Who will be in the eagle costume this year?

Portland Yacht Club’s rendezvous at Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes WA is at the end of July. There are over 20 boats going north for the event, but we can use a few more. It’s not too late to sign up and if you don’t want to go for a nice boat ride up the coast you can go by land and drive up. There are a lot of exciting adven-tures planned for the weekend. Let Lisa Vanek know you want to go.

The moorage upgrade committee is busy getting ready for the replacement of B Row in the open moorage. The work will begin the end of August. If you are looking for a summer workout, come join the fun.

We have a lot of new members at PYC and many of you new mem-

bers are probably wondering how all of these events happen. It takes a lot of planning and work by all of the committee volunteers. Get involved and join one of the many committees. It is a great way to get to know your fellow members.

It is really great to see all the people at the club again. Our outstanding staff members are seating over a hun-dred people at our events. You can’t find a better place on the water in Portland to have lunch than on our patio. I would like to thank all the members for abiding by the state-mandated COVID-19 rules. It has been a rough-year-and-a-half keeping up with the constantly changing rules, but we did it and now we are on our way back to normalcy.

Now that we have warm sunny weather, let’s get those boats untied and out on the water. Everyone who is heading north, have a safe trip. Don’t forget your Vessel Safety Checks: if your boat has not been checked, see club member Patrick Norris or the office to schedule one.

A special thank you to Gary Jamieson and Mike House for the upgrade to the downstairs bathroom at PYC. It looks great, good job!

The first Lady Barbara and I would like to thank all the members and staff at PYC for your continued support.

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COMMODORE’S COMMENTSBy Floyd Jones

Finding Treasure at

Cap Sante Rendezvous July 30th - August 1st

Space is limited 20/25 Slips Already Reserved!

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Save the Date and Cruise this Summer to Beautiful Anacortes WA!

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Committee – Mike O’Bryant, editor; Sandy O’Bryant, graphic design;

Nancy MacGregor, Mary Ann Nitchie and Shirley Sanders

offiCers and trustees

Commodore Floyd Jones (power)

Vice Commodore David Gunsul (sail) Secretary/Treasurer Tim Carman (power) Rear Commodore Barbara Woodford (sail)

Trustee Greg Allison (power)

Trustee Mark Denny (sail)

Trustee Jay Densem (sail)

Trustee Pam Sesar (sail)

Trustee Steve Spahr (power)

Summer is here! Member events and cruising are back in full force and the

energy around the club is amazing. As we push aside any remaining COVID-19 restrictions, I want to take a moment to thank you again for all of your support through the pandemic. Not only did you stick with us, you gave us support when we needed it most by continuing to pay dues, contrib-uting to staff fundraisers, ordering takeout, recruiting new members, and by backing difficult decisions made by the club to keep us operating safely through the pan-demic.

We are now more than 400 members strong and our momentum will push us to new heights not seen before at PYC. Thank you, members!

June showcased our progress in our return to normal with some wonderful events with great participation. The Memorial Day Cruise (held the last weekend of May) featured 40 boats and over 100 members and guests for dinner. Festival de Espana was enjoyed by over 110 members. And, the Pig Roast turnout, which was undetermined at the time of publication, looked to be nearly a record-setting crowd enjoying the “Night in Havana” themed roast with some great live music. Father’s Day Brunch was held as we welcomed the first official day of summer.

And, did I mention the Mauni Elliott Regatta? We had over twenty boats participate in this year’s five-Wednesday regatta which swarmed the Kelly Bar and patio after every race. We capped the series with our traditional Spaghetti Dinner to celebrate the winners (and losers) of PYC’s signature members-only regatta. The Mauni Elliott Regatta continues to be one of PYC’s marquee events.

July brings us a no-host 4th of July Cruise, the 4th of July Carnival, two Cookout Committee themed dinners, Bald Eagle Days in Cathlamet, and the Cap Sante Ren-dezvous in Anacortes, WA to finish off the month. It’s going to be a great month of cruising.

The galley and bar are open for business six days a week all summer, with lunch Tuesday-Friday, dinner Wednes-day-Sunday, brunch Saturday and Sunday and happy hour Wednesday-Sunday. Stay tuned to the Weekly E-News for hours, menu updates, and specials. Reserva-

tions are always appreciated to help staff plan and make your experience a great one.

There have been a number of questions regarding the club’s strategy on gratuity for Entertainment and Cookout Committee-sponsored events: Is gratuity inclu-sive? Do I add a gratuity for both the event and drinks ordered? The answer is simply this: Gratuity is not included for any event in which a check is presented for a signature. Any gratuity, while not required, is greatly appreciated. The Entertainment and Cookout Commit-tees have needed to raise prices for events to pay for the increased cost of doing business at the club, mainly labor and food cost increases. Therefore, event prices have been increased, and the previously-included service fees have been removed. The hope is that members still find the appropriate value in these hosted events, and that staff members are still able to generate their additional income through gratuities. We appreciate your support in this effort and apologize for the lack of previous com-munication regarding these new pricing strategies.

Thank you for your support and membership. Cheers to a great summer boating season!

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CLUB MANAGER REPORTBy Daniel Wilkins


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KEN AND SANDRA BAKKEKen and Sandra are lifelong Portland-area residents and passionate boating enthusiasts. Ken is retired and manages his real estate investments and spends much of his time with his hobby of restoring and owning classic wooden boats. Ken is a member of the Antique and Classic Boat Society. He was bitten by the “boat bug”

at 13 years old when he worked for Portland Boat Works and, in fact, was there when the boat he now owns was built. Later he worked at Staff Jennings on the Willa-mette River, which was the Chris Craft dealer at the time. The Bakke’s have four adult children; Carol, Cathy, Cindy and Tyler. Ken and Sandra were sponsored by Steve Vanek and Steve Spahr.

MARY AND PHILIPPE HENRY DE TESSANMary was a longtime resident of Sausalito in the San Fran-cisco Bay area and was born in Sacramento. Philippe was born in Paris, France before immigrating to the United States in the early 1960s. The Henry de Tessan’s have spent many years enthusiastically sailing San Francisco Bay in their Cal-25 and have been

members of the St. Francis Yacht Club, Sausalito Yacht Club, Sausalito Women’s Club, Francisco Club, San Fran- cisco Garden Club and Multnomah Yacht Club. Mary & Philippe have two adult children; Christina and Matthew.

JEFF AND SEANNA STONGThe Stong’s are owners of Image360, a custom and out-door signage company based in Vancouver, Wash. Jeff and Seanna are very accomplished sailors, owning and racing several boats and holding memberships at the San Fran-cisco Yacht Club and Van-couver Lake Sailing Club while serving in leadership

roles at those organizations. The Stong’s enjoy fly fishing, woodworking, cycling, cross country, golf, cooking and sail racing. They have two adult children; Julia and Joseph.

JULIA STONGJulia is in the field of environ-mental services with experi-ence in architecture, design and construction, and she is a graduate of Washington State University (2018). She enjoys snowboarding, hiking, run-ning, swimming and camping and grew up sailing and racing Lasers and Lightnings. She has crewed in numerous

races over the years. Julia is looking forward to buying a sailboat under 40-ft in the not-too-distant future.

JAMES AND CLAUDIA CAMERONThe Cameron’s are returning members. They were both born and raised in Portland, but had worked in Massachu-setts for six years and in Cali-fornia (San Francisco Bay area) for six years. Now that they have returned to Port-land, they are living in the family home designed by Claudia’s father, a Portland

architect. Jim is a mostly-retired principal engineer and Claudia is in the business of funding new technology ventures. Jim is a lifelong sailor (crewed on a Santana 22 as a teen), is searching for the right sailboat and looks forward to Columbia River cruising.

GARY COLLINS AND JUDIE MILLERGary and Judie own the Meridian 411 named Odyssey, a 42 foot power boat. Gary has been on water most of his working life and was a tug-boat captain on the Columbia River for 40 years, navigating from Astoria to Lewiston. He currently works for SOS Lumber Supply. They’re boating interests are cruising

on the river. Gary and Judie were sponsored by Shannon Alfonso and Paul Wilson. They live in Stevenson, WA.

Please give a warm welcometo our new members.

NEW MEMBER PROFILESBy Chris Finks, Membership Chair


July Bar & Galley Hours Tuesday (LUNCH) – 11-2 pm

Wednesday (LUNCH, HAPPY HOUR & DINNER) – 11-9 pm Thursday (LUNCH, HAPPY HOUR & DINNER) – 11-9 pm Friday (LUNCH, HAPPY HOUR & DINNER) – 11-9:30 pm

Saturday (BRUNCH, HAPPY HOUR & DINNER) – 10-9:30 pm Sunday (BRUNCH, HAPPY HOUR & DINNER) – 10-9 pm

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First Lady NotesBy Barbara Thompson

We are so fortunate to live in the Pacific North-west, especially when we have a spring as warm and sun-filled as our past weeks have

been. What a great way to open boating season!

PYC’s second official cruise of the season – the Memo-rial Day Cruise – was on one of those sunny weekends. Jeanette Slepian and Ken Hunkin along with Tammy and Mike House and Cheryl and Dennis Derby, aka “The Arizona Jeeping Gang,” hosted this very fun weekend. They creatively planned a USO venue that reminded us of the historic USO tours from Bob Hope films, including an “Andrews Sisters” performance by our very own Julie Hinkley, Ruth Parr and Pam Sesar. It all made for a fun evening. The Memorial Day Tribute to lives lost protecting our freedom was led by Commo-dore Jones. It was a touching tribute to our Veterans.

If you haven’t attended one of the Cookout Themed Dinners, you should. Margo and Gary Jamieson chair this committee; it involves more club members than any other committee. As you know, the cookouts of the past have given way to Themed Dinners due to COVID-19 restrictions on self-served food.

Here’s how it works, if you’d like to participate: various club members plan a theme for the designated date, create a menu working with Margo and Samantha, decorate the club and often find live music to make the evening even livelier. These dinners have been extremely well-received with attendance at all-time highs. The last themed dinner was Espana night, with Paella prepared by our club members Jim Dwyer and Gary Jamieson. Live Flamenco guitar completed the evening. Thanks for a great dinner. 115 members and guests enjoyed it!

Upcoming On The Patio:

JULY 4 — Not to be missed is PYC’s Fourth of July Carnival for both the young and the young at heart. The cost is only $20 for a summer BBQ of burgers, hotdogs, fruit and potato salads, cotton candy, and ice cream sundaes. Beer is $1. You can win prizes, such as Kelly

Bar drink tickets or a plush toy, at one of the carnival or yard games, or better yet by dunking the Commodore in our very own Dunk Tank!

JULY 9 — Hawaiian-themed Luau dinner with a menu that includes spam appetizers with entrees of teriyaki beef, kahlua pork or sesame ginger chicken, and with entertainment by Francis Doo. $6 Mai Tai’s too! This themed dinner is hosted by Hilie and Tyson Calvert, and Yvonne and Curt Thies.

JULY 30 — This themed dinner is inspired by Jimmy Buffet’s “Cheeseburger in Paradise” song. Brought to you by Barb and John Neidig, the band “BobKat Duo” will be the featured music.

We’re off to a great summer on the patio!

JULY 16-18 — Bald Eagle Days Cruise to Cathlamet. The sweet little town of Cathlamet opens its doors to one of the best weekend events of the year. If you’ve missed celebration fireworks, you will enjoy the display here.

Last call on reservations for Cap Sante Rendezvous, July 30-August 1. Join us at this world class marina either by boat, car or RV. Contact: Lisa Vanek, [email protected]

If you have not yet submitted a recipe to the PYC Family Cookbook, there’s still time. We are looking for about 80 additional recipes, so if you’ve intended to submit your recipes but haven’t yet, please do. Submit to Chery Derby, [email protected].

Lastly: Save the Date, Oct. 30, for “PYC’s Got Talent,” a show and fundraiser auction to raise money for the PYC kitchen remodel. If you sing in the shower or on the big stage, maybe you’re a juggler or a tap dancer from your early days….don’t be shy, we need you to be part of the show! We also are looking for auction items, such as hosted dinners, vacation condos, game tickets or raffle baskets, to auction as we hope to raise $40,000. Don’t hesitate to participate. It’s your club! Talent, donations or donation ideas can be emailed to [email protected]’

Thanks to each of you…see you on the river or at the club!


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Columbia River One Design – Legacy of the Jean IIBy Nancy MacGregor, Historian

The Columbia River Yachting Association was founded in 1933, with the purpose of the pro-motion of yachting on the Columbia River. The

organizers decided that a Columbia River One Design class could meet the demands for sailing skippers and the boat would require several features; it had to be reasonably priced, of simple construction, have cruising accommodations, auxiliary power and shoal draft.

The officers of CRYA asked Joseph Dyer of Astoria Marine Con-struction Company to design such a yacht. The result was the CROD, a 28-foot swing-keel sailboat with 8-foot 10-inch beam, 5-foot draft, 40-foot spruce mast and a 7,000 lb. displace-ment. Pow-ered by a 4-cylinder Universal gas engine, it was capable of 6 plus knots cruising speed. The boat could sleep four and included amenities such has a drop-leaf table, stove, sink, icebox and built-in head, all within a cabin with only 4.5 feet of headroom.

The story of hull #2, the Jean II is quite remarkable, considering the lack of modern instruments and aids for navigation. The boat was built by AMCCO and owned by PYC member Dean B. Webster (Commo-dore 1939). It was launched on June 28, 1934, and crossed the Columbia River bar the following day on a 350-mile journey to the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club to participate in the Pacific International Yachting Associ-ation Regatta. Webster’s crew included Dr. A. Holmes Johnson (Commodore 1935) as helmsman, Dr. Gordon

B. Leitch as navigator and Stuart Kerr as cook.

Here are two newspapers articles found in the personal scrapbook belonging to Dr. Holmes that describes the Jean II journey:

Rides 30-Mile Gale Up From Portland“One of the unusual features of the regatta was the entry of the sloop Jean II, which came from Astoria via the Columbia River, Cape Flattery and the Straits of Juan de Fuca specially for the event. It was the

first time that a small yacht has made this trip for the regatta under its own power, and the journey was made for the sole purpose of determining the speed of this newly-constructed member of the Columbia River one-design class under the finest of racing conditions.

The Columbia Bar was crossed Friday night, and when twenty miles off Destruction Island the craft encoun-tered a 30-mile gale which it rode out successfully while fishing boats sought shelter and other boats were bar-bound at the mouth of the river.”

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28 foot Columbia River One Design blueprint by Joe Dyer 1933.


Portland Boat Makes Record in Ace Meet“Portland yachtsmen are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the crack 28-foot sloop Jean II, owned by Dean B. Web-ster, because of her remark-able showing in the Pacific International Yachting Asso-ciation regatta at Vancouver B.C. last week….Although brand new and never raced before the doughty packet showed a clean pair of heels to her competitors in the class C races, winning

two firsts and one second in the three races over the 12-mile course.

She held the record for being the greatest distance and was given a special prize for her performance while yachting experts paid high tribute to her lines and the seaman- ship of skipper and crew.

The Britishers were so pleased with the yacht’s performance that they requested she be anchored immediately off the yacht clubhouse so open house could be held on her. She was the center of interest by builders and sailors both.

Approximately 40 members of the Portland Yacht Club were on hand for the events at Vancouver July 3, 4 & 5. “

The Jean II returned to Oregon immediately following the PIYA event and was victorious in the Astoria Regatta and PYC’s Annual Regatta in August 1934.

Webster’s success can be attributed to the boat’s pop-ularity and several new CRODs were under launched within months, including; W.G. (Cap) Elliott’s hull #3 Aeolus, J.C. Ainsworth’s hull #4 Terry, Harry Clow’s hull #5 Dorla, and S.S. Wilcox’s hull #6 Susan.

The first three of the twelve boats built were completed in 1934. The majority of the boats were moored at PYC and raced actively until the early 1960s. Hulls #1 and #2 are presently in storage at the Columbia Maritime Museum in Astoria.

It is unknown how long Webster owned and raced the Jean II. In 1956 the boat was still moored at PYC, but owned by Donald Peters and renamed Sea Breeze per the fleet list in the club roster published that year.

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Dean B. Webster Dr. A. Holmes Johnson


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News from the Ship’s StoreBy Jonie Horsfall and Vicky Carman

Are your summer T-shirts tired? Ratty? Baggy? Time for an upgrade!

Take a look at our new sleeveless flowy tanks. We also have great stock on basic men’s and women’s styles. Do your closet a favor and stock up today!


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Memorial Day photos by Nancy MacGregor & Penny Spaziani

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Memorial Day photos by Heidi Gunsul, Nancy MacGregor, Skip Nitchie & Barbara Thompson

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Mauni Elliott photos by Heidi Gunsul, Nancy MacGregor & Shirley Sanders

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What’s In a Name?By Gillian Carson

We’re introducing a new column where we report on the stories behind the names of PYC boats. This is the brainchild of member Gill

Carson. She needs your help. Does your boat name have a great story behind it? Email Gill at [email protected] if your boat has an interesting story behind its name.

S/V Crumpet Owners: Ryan & Gill Carson Boat Details: Catalina 445, 2018 — Moored: D19

Bought in 2020, Crumpet was shipped by truck from Florida and arrived in Port-land in February of this year. Originally named Slapshot, Gill and Ryan were looking for a new name that would mean something to them and their two boys, Jackson and Devon. Gill is British and the whole family loves to eat toasted crumpets with lots of butter when they visit family in England.

“We felt like Crumpet was a fitting name for our new boat. Something that made us feel happy and right at home straight away,” said Gill.

Their dinghy is named Earl Grey to complete the tea-set theme.

M/V IbisOwners: Tim & Vicky CarmanBoat Details: 28-foot Black Crown, built by Devlin Boat, Olympia in 1988 — Moored: J-10

Tim and Vicky bought Ibis in Port Townsend in 2015. She was named Ibis when they bought her. The designer, Sam Devlin, named many of the boats he designed after coastal birds.

“Vicky and I are enthusiastic bird-watchers, and having spent much time in Florida, Ibises are among our favor-ites. Ibis is also the name of the second Herres-hoff NY 30 built in 1904. So, keeping the name was an easy decision,” said Tim.

Ibis’s dinghy is named Love Me Tender....just because.

Unfortunate End for Phantom By Chris Finks

Phantom, a beloved historic vessel, longtime member of the PYC fleet and formerly owned by the legendary Chuck Kellogg for nearly two

decades, has come to unfortunate end.

Phantom was designed by renowned naval architect Joseph Dyer and built in 1936 by Astoria Marine Con-struction Company. Phan-tom’s twin, the Merrimac, owned by PYC members John and Karen Fettig, was also built during the same timeframe by the Astoria company. Both of these vessels are significant for their beauty and impact to Northwest maritime his-tory. The Astoria Marine

Company not only built pleasure yachts, but was a major contributor to the World War II war effort and con-structed much of the U.S. 165-foot minesweeper fleet.

A 51-foot bridgedeck cruiser, Phantom was a World War II veteran and served with distinction patrolling on the Columbia River painted in Naval Haze Gray livery before it was saved and restored decades later by Kel-logg. Phantom was active for more than eight decades on the Columbia River and a fixture during many CRYC Opening Days, countless regional boat shows

and festivals, and well-known nationally.

Phantom was lost in the aftermath of a sinking and botched recovery from Flathead Lake in Montana. It was 85 years old. Many PYC members admired this beautiful piece of American history.

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Every Wednesday from

July 7 to August 18

6pm - 8pm

on the PYC patio

P O R T L A N D Y A C H T C L U B P R E S E N T S

Featuring performances by

Michael Horsfall and guests

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By Barb Thompson

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As this has been graduation season, I thought it would be timely to have “Below Deck” feature the PYC staff members who are students, and there are many.

Lupe Rosales...Lupe is part of the dining room crew. She graduated from Skyview High School in Vancouver in 2019 and gradu-ates from Clark College in mid-June 2021. Lupe will achieve an Associate’s degree in Pre-Nurse studies, hoping to enter OHSU School of Nursing to become a BSN Labor and Delivery Nurse. She is proudly a first generation college graduate! In her own words, Lupe believes “every person is a sum of their choices.”

Jake Zmick...Our bartender/server graduated from Chandler High School in Chan-dler, Arizona in 2011. He moved from the Phoenix area to Portland in 2019. Jake attends school online pursuing a degree in Business Management and Data Science. Jakes career goals are in Sports Analytics. He is a snowboarder for fun. Jakes words to live by are: “Always be Mindful” and “Lead with Compassion.”

McKenna White...McKenna graduated from Roosevelt High School the first weekend in June. McKenna was involved in Varsity Cheer at Roosevelt and she was involved in a program, “Outside the Game,” conducting after-game interviews with student athletes. These interviews through social media provide student athletes with additional exposure to further their opportunities for College recruitment. McKen-na’s words of wisdom come from her father, she says: “Pre-pare for the worse, but expect the best.” McKenna will enter the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism this fall.

Anthony Braunstein...Anthony is a June graduate, from Central Catholic High School. Anthony’s future plans are attending Univer-sity of Portland, with a focus on a degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Man-agement. His dream career would be as a Naval Architect. Anthony is a familiar face as crew at PYC and also on the river aboard his parents, Tom and Mireya’s, boat Benny Bones. His mottos is “Work hard and play harder!”

Ian Brink...A student at Sunset High School, Ian will graduate in 2024. He is involved with the baseball program at Sunset. He expects to be playing in tournaments this summer in Montana and Corvallis. Becoming an electrician is Ian’s future career goal. His philosophy is “work hard for everything you have.” Ian presently works part time as a member of our dining room crew.

Max Jennings…A 2020 graduate of Roose- velt High School, Max graduated during the COVID-19 year. His graduation ceremony was a drive around the school round-about. It was live-streamed for friends and family to share in this benchmark part of life. Max attends University of Oregon in Business Administration and Political Science. He shares his dad’s entrepreneurial spirt and is presently assisting him in his Website development business. Karma is Max’s philosophy “What goes around comes around.”

Maxx Diehm...Maxx has been with PYC since Spring 2021. He is a recent graduate of Roosevelt High School, involved with soccer and baseball in his HS years, and is our newest member of the dock team. Maxx is headed to University of Oregon in Pre-Law. Asked what led him to law as a career path his answer was, “concern over border issues and correcting legal injustices seen within my own friends.” Maxx is guided by the philosophy “Do what is right, even when others say it is not.”

Maxwell (Max) Radaelli...Max is one of our newest crew members, working as a server and bartender. An Arizona State grad-uate in 2019, he then attended University of New Mexico with a career in law in his future. Then came the Pandemic. 2020 offered Max a time to reflect on his career objectives. Design had been a lifelong passion for Max; he moved to Portland, putting a career in Law aside to pursue fashion design at Portland Fashion Institute with a focus on street and active wear. Max lives by the Nike slogan: “Just Do It” and “live life with persistence and determination”.

Hunter Haslett...Hunter is the grandson of our own Gordy Lusk. He will graduate in 2022. Hunter is also a June graduate, but from a boarding school, The Gow School in Buffalo New York. He acquired a scholarship to University of Denver and will be studying Business Management and Computer Science. Hunter is following the words of his Grandpa in his life “Keep a good mindset at all times”.

The two truths and a lie for our student crew is:

• Graduation came too quick

• PYC is a great place to work

• For most, Anthony Braunstein is their common connecting thread.

Which is it?????

Please wish these terrific young people congratulations.


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Update: Moorage Upgrade CommitteeBy Scott Brattebo, Chair, Moorage Upgrade Committee

All is going well for the replacement of B-Row this September. Bellingham Marine has completed the engineering and has begun fabricating the docks and we have the appropriate U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Oregon Department of State Lands permits in place. The water and fire system, dock

hardware and dock-boxes are being ordered. And finally, the boats currently moored in row-B have been noti-fied that they need to find alternative moorage during September and October.

If all goes as planned, the actual work on the water will begin the week before Labor Day when the old row will be removed. The new docks will then be assembled and installed the first 3-weeks after Labor Day, fol-lowed by six to eight weeks to install the electric, water and fire systems, dock boxes, railings and dock cleats.

If you are looking for a fun experience, please consider volunteering during the assembly process … many hands make light work.

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PYC SUMMER REGATTA

Plan to join us after racing on Sunday afternoon at the PYC bar and patio for a drink and criers and liars session. We will post results and award trophies at that time.

Date: July 11, 2021 Looking for a regatta to fill your summer weekend and have some fun in the sun? July is one of the best weather months for sailing in Portland (we hope!). Mark your calendars and plan to join PYC in our 2021 Summer Regatta!

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Deadline: July 10, 20216:00 PM

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June: A great month of sailingBy Mary Stainsby, PYC Sailing Captain

What great racing – and lots of it - we had in June. Mauni Elliott every Wednesday night, Rose Festival Regatta the 1st weekend in

the month, and a few of our boats took part in the CYC Pacific NW Offshore Race on the 10th – 13th.

We had a good turnout for Mauni Elliott, 21 boats in all. Tom Kelly and Barbara Woodford provided Sisu for the committee boat on the first race, and Gordy Lusk pro-vided Sea Star as the committee boat for the 2nd race. Our fleet was pretty evenly split between PHRF (Per-formance) class and Fun class, and the racing was tight. Often there were only seconds between the corrected times between competitors. We had beautiful evenings for racing with steady breezes making for fast racing and extra time at the club watching the sun set. After racing on the last evening, folks were able to gather at the club and enjoy Bob Martin’s world famous spaghetti, just like in past years. If you didn’t race this year, there’s always next year, so hopefully you won’t miss out on the fun.

Results for the first 2 races:

Fun Boats Rating Class Race 1 Race 2 Points PlaceEdgewalker 117 2 2 1 3 1Monkey Bar 129 2 4 2 6 2Bluefin 84 2 1 6 7 3SLA Rose 129 2 5 3 8 4Breakaway 111 2 3 5 8 4Go Team! 66 2 6 4 10 6Miners Queen 231 2 9 7 16 7Lovin Life 120 2 9 9 18 8

PHRF Boats Rating Class Race 1 Race 2 Points PlaceKermit 171 1 2 2 4 1Town Bike 183 1 4 1 5 2Fury 75 1 1 4 5 3Lolita 105 1 3 3 6 4Camelot 63 1 6 6 12 5Lykke 70 1 8 5 13 6Iris 99 1 5 11 16 7Resolute 192 1 7 11 18 8Femme Fatale 33 1 9 11 20 9Deadbeat 183 1 11 11 22 10

Melges 24 Rating Class Race 1 Race 2 Points PlaceApex 90 3 DNC DNC 3 3Windwagon 90 3 DNC DNC 3 3

The Rose Festival Regatta took place on June 6th. We only had 8 boats entered, but the wind was brisk, and we managed to run 3 races. Bob Hansen provided the committee boat, and the start/finish line was set up near Ryan’s Point on the Washington side of the river.

Final results were:

PHRF A Rating Class Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Points PlMyst 90 1 1 1 1 3 1Lolita 105 1 2 2 2 6 2Salient 87 1 3 3 3 9 3

PHRF B Rating Class Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Points PlApple Pie 168 2 2 3 1 6 1River Rose 291 2 1 4 2 7 2Misty 147 2 4 1 3 8 3Nausicaa 186 2 3 2 5 10 4Kermit 171 2 5 5 4 14 5

While the CYC Pacific NW Offshore Race is not a PYC race, we do have a few boats and a number of sailors who take part in the race, so I think it should be included in our fleet news. This year, PYC was represented by 2 boats: Free Bowl of Soup, who placed 3rd in their class out of 9, and Velocity, who placed 4th in that same class. Congrat-ulations to both of you for a very fast race and a really good job. Well Done!

This month we have the Summer Regatta, July 11th and I hope we will see a lot of you out there. We will be announc- ing results and trophies at the club after the last race.

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4, 11, 18, 25 Sun. Brunch, Happy Hour & Dinner

6, 13, 20, 27 Tues. Lunch

7, 14, 21, 28 Wed. Lunch, Happy Hour & Dinner

8, 22 Thur. Watercrafters

9 Fri. Cookout

11 Sun. Summer Regatta

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21 Wed. Board Meeting

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