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Gulfport Yacht Club 800 East Pier - Gulfport, MS 39501 / PO BOX 600 - Gulfport, MS 39502 Phone: 228-863-6796 / Fax 228-863-9843 / www.gulfportyachtclub.org
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2008 GYC Overall Sailing Awards Recipients Sailor of the Year – Meredith Price Female Sailor of the Year – Claire Yoste PHRF Sailor of the Year – Commodore Ricky Bond One Design Sailor of the Year – Samson Vasquez Sailing Camp Overall Award Recipients Daugherty Sailing Instructor Award – Sarah Gele’ Alfonso Award – Hugh Hawkins Hage Award- Desiree Good Fellow Session 1: Optimist Best Overall—Dawson Doucet Best Boy – Chase Rogers Best Girl – Desire Goodfellow Most Improved –Mathew Edwards Most Enthusiastic – Louis Doucet Sportsmanship –Baylor Johnson Flying Scots Best Overall –Alex Robison Best Boy – Allen Edwards Best Girl - Annie Lenoir Most Improved – Aubrey Christian Most Enthusiastic – Sherry Grace Dymond Sportsmanship – Madison Gros 420’s Best Overall - Sam Hopkins Jr. Best Boy – Casey Gros Best Girl – Raemie Ladner Most Improved – Tara Harrington Most Enthusiastic – Kyle Hammack Sportsmanship – Jeffery Register Session 2: Optimist Best Overall - Luke Seicshnaydre Best Boy – Trea Dymond Best Girl – Carlee Dymond Most Improved – Bailey Moore Most Enthusiastic – Josh Estes Sportsmanship – Grant Kalil Flying Scots Best Overall - Luke Pappas Best Boy – Barrow Hawkins Best Girl – Alex Scarbrough Most Improved – Claire Robinson Most Enthusiastic – Lainey Aschenbach Sportsmanship – John Miller 420’s Best Overall—Jacob Seichsyaydre Best Boy – Hugh Hawkins Best Girl – Sydney Bush Most Improved – Skip Webster Most Enthusiastic – Adam Cooper Sportsmanship – John Harrison Doucet |
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Alfonso Regatta & Sutter Cup - “Three Regatta Regatta” April 25 & 26, 2009 @ GYC. NOR -
Sailing Committee Meetings – 2nd Wednesday of every month. We also recommend joining US Sailing to get your copy of the new rules that started this year & subscription to Sailing World Magazine.
TWO NEW BOATS! Memorial Hospital has become the Title sponsor of the Jr. Summer Sailing Regatta! $2,000! We also received another $1,000 in sponsors from two other medical businesses. With a total $3,000!
Jr. Raffle @ Challenge Cup - Need to start gathering items for the Liquor Basket. You can drop them off in the office next time your down at the club. Last year we raised $800! It the committee’s goal to sell $1,500 in tickets this year! You can purchase tickets from club anytime or go to the www.gulfportyachtclub.org to get the Internet Special! Look for the basket! Ruthie McMullen (228-860-6691) and Shannon Weatherly (228-234-2303) are heading up the efforts this year so, please feel contact them for tickets & donations. Do not have to be present to win. The proceeds from these two events will add to $3,500! That is enough to purchase TWO Open Bic High Performance Sailboats! The committee has also worked a deal with the local rep (Liquid Force) in Fort Walton to leave a few loaners for the summer. The price to purchase a demo boat is only $1,695 and is available for anyone. Yes! I am saying is that we will have at least 4 Open Bic’s for the Three Regatta April 25 & 26! These really are great & safe boats and it will be a wonderful gift to increase the fleet every year with these fund raisers. Ali Bass & Committee did a great job pulling in the money last year. But, we still need your help with Challenge Cup Sponsors & items for the raffle. Please call (228-323-1336)
Challenge Cup @ GYC June 18-21, 2009- www.challengecup.org First committee meeting is at 5:00pm Feb. 11 before the sailing committee Once again we get the privilege to host the prestigious regatta. By using last year as a starting point the committee and staff are headed in the right direction tweaking the logistics out to cut costs while improving the product. We are now at the point where we have to start finding sponsors. The committee has prepared extra sponsorship packets for members distribute friends and colleagues located in the office. Like last year we are going to all the extras that make it remarkable weekend. Live Music, great food, free massages, kattack yacht tracking, daily trophies, & plenty sailing stories!
Challenge Cup related Questions directed to all GYC Members & Guests Do you have a something that you can donate/re-gift to the Jr. Raffle Basket? Bottles, mixers, gift certificates, etc... Can you please find one person we can contact for sponsorship opportunities? Call (228-323-1336) or fill the quick “Challenge Cup Info & Request Form” at www.challengecup.org If you know any one that might be interested or have contact we can send a packet to, we would greatly appreciate it. Do you want a Regatta Committee shirt? If yes, are you able to help out during the weekend? We need all kinds’ of helpers! Parking lot supervisor, shuttle bus drivers, Race Committee Help, boat drivers, registration desk & ticket sellers, sandwich makers, anchor boys, raffle ticket hustlers, party planners & decorators, BBQ Pit Chefs for Saturday, etc…
___________________________________ Wednesday Night Chalk Talks First Wednesday of every month @ 6pm! The Sailing Committee will be hosting series of “Chalk Talk” training sessions over the year. All ages, levels, & genders all invited to participate. February 4 Basics of Racing March 4 420 Racing April 1 SAILING SIGN UP DEMO DAY - 4:30pm May 13 Race Committee Seminar June 3 How to win a Protest July 1 Team Racing August 5 Upwind & Downwind September 2 Mark Rounding’s October 7 Team Racing November 4 420 Sailing December 2 Sailing Christmas Party
The 2008 Sailing Banquet was a fabulous evening. The ballroom was filled with a little over 200 campers, family members, and friends. It was a magical event with everyone dressed up in their finest clothes and their hair combed and their nails did. You could not recognize half of the campers since they weren’t in there usual summer attire of board shorts, sandals, and life jackets. It started off with the instructors and campers eating first followed by the parents. The kitchen and wait staff prepared a wonderful spread of a garden salad, grilled & fried chicken breast, French fries, corn, and banana pudding. The ceremony started with all of the 86 campers receiving their certificate of completion than followed by the overall sailing camp awards. It was a great sight watching Commodore Atherton having to get down on one knee to hand out and get a picture with the younger kids. After the sailing camp awards we started a new tradition at GYC and gave out all of the new Overall Club Awards. These awards are something that I felt that needed to be done. This year I added “Sailor of the Year”, “Female Sailor of the Year”, “One Design Sailor of the Year”, and “PHRF Sailor of the Year”. All of the recipients of these trophies earned it buy sailing and caring about GYC year round. Every single sailor is a winner and should not feel bad about their performance. So please pick your head up and get down here and go for a sail to improve your skills. We the Sailing Committee would like to thank everyone that attended this year’s banquet. It was a good gesture to show support for all the GYC sailors. And I personally would like to thank everyone for keeping me around for so long. It was a great and loving feeling I felt when I got a standing ovation from the entire crowd. I am very proud to work at such a prestigious place with fantastic members. I will be here at least one more year. At one point I will have to grow up and find a real job in the real world. Until then….. HIT THE TREES! |
