Monday Lunch is held every Monday at the Shilshole clubhouse. We gather between 11:30 and 12:00. The bar is open and a hot lunch is served. The cost is $15. Although the official end of the program is at 13:00, often our speakers continue awhile longer.
7/7/08
No speaker scheduled. But there will be a Monday Lunch.
7/14/08
Sharon Briggs, General Manager, Port Of Seattle Recreational Boating facilities. Sharon will discuss the completion of the Shilshole Marina project and answer any of your questions about future projects.
7/21/08
Bob Wood of Seattle Infrared Themography. Bob will talk about how infrared themography can be used to inspect fiberglass hulls in a non-intrusive method to detect absorption of water under the gel coat and in the fiberglass layup. Infrared can also be used for mechanical/electrical and structural analysis. Bob will also discuss how infrared is used today for nighttime navigation, man overboard situations, marine mammal research and other applications.
7/28/08
Bill Lieberman, Staff Commodore 1969. Bill will give an update on the CYC Seascouts Program.
8/4/08
No speaker scheduled. Lunch at Shilshole as usual.
8/11/08
John and Joellen Hope. John and Joellen will talk about the trials and joys of operating a steam powered 18' launch built in 1911 that they rebuilt. They are also long time sailors and own a 41' Morgan. John is from England and a retired Boeing engineer, Joellen is from Texas.
8/18/08
Tammi Allen, Harbormaster Bainbridge Island. Tammi who has been a speaker to the CYC Monday Lunch in the past will give an update on the new anchoring, mooring and unoccupied vessel regulations for Bainbridge Island. She will also discuss the availability to purchase oyster seeding kits now that the oyster research that has been going on in Eagle Harbor has been concluded.
8/25/08
Ginny Broadhurst, Director of the Northwest Straits Commission. Ginny will talk about the goals of the Commission, and specifically about the Derelict Fishing Gear retrieval program.
9/1/08
Labor Day Holiday. No Monday Lunch.
9/8/08
Tom Milne, Remote Medical. Tom will be back as a speaker to follow up on his previous presentation on 6/6/08. In response to the question as to where one can get some of the new first aid products he discussed on 6/6/08, Tom will have a display of them and we will also be able to order items directly from Tom after the meeting.
Tom will be prepared to answer any and all questions about his work and his company's products.
Also Tom was recently on King TV as the "Kayak Commuter" Tom sometimes commutes 13 miles from his West Seattle home to Fisherman's Terminal. To see the King TV broadcast Google "Kayak Commuter."
9/15/08
Sue Joerger, Executive Director of Puget Soundkeepers. Puget Soundkeepers is an organization that protects the water quality of Puget Sound. Sue was also the CYC Manager for a year in the 1990's.
9/22/08
Charles Fawcett and John Bailey. Charles and John just returned from cruising in Greek waters and will tell of their adventures and show slides of their Hellenic sailing odyssey.
Bob Miller
6/30/08
NO MEETING AT CYC SHILSHOLE CLUBHOUSE. Special Cruising CYC Monday Lunch on one of Paul Lamarches' Emerald City Charters' 70' Sailing Yachts from 11:00 AM to 1:00PM. The cruise will leave from Pier 54 Seattle waterfront at 11:00 AM sharp, so plan on getting there at 10:30 AM! The Sailboat will be the "Obsession", a 70' Maxi. Lunch consisting of sandwich trays, dessert trays and bottled water will be served on board. If you want beer or wine it will be BYOB. The cost of the cruise and lunch will be $25.00. The maximum number of attendees will be 40. You will have to sign up and prepay to come. A signup sheet will be available at the 6/28/80 Monday Lunch. More details to follow.
6/23/08
Marty Godsil. Marty is a CYC Legend winning the 1974, 1975, 1976 Dragon North American Championships, the 1978 Duke of Edinburgh Dragon Championship and the 1980 Netherlands Dragon Championship.
Bill Buchan Sr. Memorial Plaque Rededication. At 1330, after Marty Godsil's program, the CYC Monday Lunch group will walk down enmass to the new L Dock with Bill Buchan Jr. and family to rededicate the Bill Buchan Sr. plaque.
6/09/08
Tom Milne from Remote Medical. Tom will give a program called "First Aid in Boating." Tom specializes in talking about how to prepare for and survive medical emergencies when you are out on a boat or in the mountains and there is no immediate 911 help.
6/16/08
Suzette Connolly, CYC Secretary. Suzette and her husband Paul Baker did a six year circumnavigation of the World's oceans 2000-2006 via Cape of Good Hope and the Panama Canal in a Cal 35. Suzette will not have time to tell all of the events that happened, but will select a few of the events. We may have to have her back a few times to tell all of the story.
5/19/08
Judy and Gordy Cole. CRISIS AT SEA! In early February 2008 Judy and Gordy Cole were helping to deliver a Frers 65 sailboat from Ixtapa, Mexico to Seattle, Wa. One evening, heading north off Baja California in 30 knot winds and heavy seas, the crew was confronted with heavy smoke in the cabin and floorboards awash. Without quick action the ship was headed to the bottom of the ocean!
Come listen to how the crew saved the ship, and what the cause of the crisis was. It involves someone using non marine materials for a though hull fitting and surveyors missing the booboo, which was almost catastrophic.
5/12/08
Tom Nylund, CYC, Honorary Life Member. Tom will show and discuss his construction of his beautiful Cape George 36, customized to accomodate his 6' 7" height. The boat should be named " Headroom Galore." The wood workmanship and brightwork of Tom's boat is something to behold!
Peter Jennings will bring his Seawind along to the lunch and if there is interest he could sail after lunch at Green Lake down at the old Aquatic Center at the south end. He will also try to get Gordy Cole to bring his Victoria RC yacht to the lunch.
5/5/08
There was interest after today's lunch for contacts related to model racing yachts etc.
The following are a couple of web address that can lead to lots of information.
The American Model Yacht Association, AMYA at www.modelyacht.org
Seattle model yacht club who sail at Green Lake http://mysite.verizon.net/resv2zs8/seattlemodelyachtclub
Peter Jennings
4/28/08
Steve Travis, CYC Board Member. Steve will talk about CYC's co-sponorship with Seattle Yacht Club in the upcoming NOOD Regatta scheduled to run out of the CYC Shilshole Clubhouse May 16-18, 2008.
4/21/2008
Paul Lamarch, President of Emerald City Charters. Paul will talk about his 25 years of operating a charter service to give tourists a large racing sailboat experience off the Seattle waterfront. You probably have seen these two 70' sailboats (Santa Cruz 70 and a Maxi 70) in action in Elliott Bay during the summer months.
4/14/08
Elsie Hulsizer, Author of the book "Sailing to Windward." Elsie will talk about cruising the West side of Vancouver Island. Elsie will bring copies of her book to the meeting for purchase.
3/31/08
John Ellis, Staff Commodore CYC 1958. Past Chairman of Puget Power, Noted Seattle area civic leader , Past CEO of the Seattle Mariners Baseball Franchise.
John will talk about his experiences as the CEO of the Seattle Mariners. John will go directly from being our guest at the CYC Monday Lunch to SAFECO Field for the opening game of the Mariners 2008 baseball season.
3/24/08
Bill and Mary Black. 1972 Victoria - Maui Race, 1st overall. 1979 CCA Blue Water Crusing Medal. Bill and Mary also owned Seattle Cedar Lumber and the source of cedar and other wood supplies to many of the early CYC sailing champions who built their own boats such as Alan Holt and Bill Buchan.
3/17/08
Tom O'Brien, Master and Commander of the sailing yachts "Hooligan." 1971 Swiftsure Race IOR Ist Overall. Tom will tell us about being dismasted on a Straits of Georgia race. Tom has also recently raced "Down Under."
3/10/08
Rich Jablonski, CYC Member since 1995. Master of Sailing Vessel Windarra. Rich will show slides and talk about sailing the Pacific Ocean with teenagers to ports less traveled, and utilizing the dry-dock ship "Dockwise" to transport your yacht to distant ports without having to sail the long distances to get there.
3/3/08
No speaker as yet. Our regular cook, Mike, will be with us every Monday from March onward. Regular menu, not pizza.
2/25/08
Paul Bieker, World Class Yacht Designer. Paul worked on the design team for the America's Cup yacht "Oracle" and is designing new excitng racing sailboats such as carbon fiber International 14's. Jonathan McKee picked Paul to design leading edge 35' and 44' racing yachts for him. Paul will talk about what is new in racing yacht design.
2/18/08
Scott Anderson, of CSR Marine. This is a follow-up of a presentation Scott did in the the Fall of 2006 about the efficacy of the new Ceracote Bottom paint that was applied to Tom O'Brien's sailboat. Also Scott will talk about his dealings with the Wash. State Dept. of Ecology and what its impact might be to our pocketbooks. CSR Marine is also one of three ecology test sites for the electrical coagulation of drain water to eliminate copper from boat yard runoff. Come and learn all about it!
2/11/08
Carl Sutter, long time sail racer and sponsor of many sailing activities in the Puget Sound via The Crows Nest ( for the old timers) and Fisheries Supply. He has many interesting tales of sailing in the Pacific Northwest.
1/28/08
Wendy Hinman and Garth Wilcox, who just completed sailing their Wylie 31' sloop throught out the Pacific Ocean. They have many adventures to share.
1/21/08
Sandy Pratt, long time CYC T-Bird racer. Sandy raced his first sailboat race in 1946 and joined the CYC in 1953. He was Thunderbird World Champion 1975. Sandy will talk about his racing sailboat experiences in the Seattle area in days gone by.
1/14/08
Annual Herring And Aquavit Celebration. Our speaker will be Kristine Leander, President of Leif Erickson International Foundation. The Port Of Seattle owns the recently renovated Leif Erickson Statute but the Leif Erickson International Foundation was involved in the new update and the addition of the Rune Stones. Kristine will explain the renovation story. For those of you with Scandinavian heritage, there is still time for you to get your ancestor's names who immigrated to the United States added to the Rune Stones. Come and learn how.
1/07/08
Pizza Lunch Shilshole Clubhouse. No speaker at this time. It has been decided that since our normal cook, Mike, can not be at the first Monday meeting of the month, now to be held at the CYC Shilshole Clubhouse, pizza will be served, and the bar will be open. Bring your best jokes, poems and war stories to entertain your fellow lunch mates. The $15 lunch fee will be charged.
12/17/2007
Annual CYC Christmas Lunch. It was erroneously reported that Staff Commodore Dick Marshall would be mixing up his world famous Christmas punch but Dick informed us that the honor will be in the hands of Bill Liebermann, Staff Commodore 1969.
12/10/2007
John Ellis, Staff Commodore 1958. Joined CYC as a Junior Member in 1945. John is an outstanding example of a Seattle area civic and business leader as well as a sailor.
11/26/2007
No speaker planned. Bring your best sailing war stories, jokes, poems etc. to entertain your fellow Monday Lunch members.
11/19/2007
Alan Holt, CYC Legend, as a CYC Jr. and Senior winner of many sailing races. Bill Buchan gave Alan Holt credit for "pushing" him as a competitor for making him a much better sailor.
11/12/2007
No Speaker. This date is left open for a discussion concerning what do with the first Monday meeting of each month due to the fact that the College Club building is to be torn down.
10/29/2007
Bill Buchan, CYC Sailing legend, World Star Champion, Olympic sailor, sailing winner of about almost everything he has entered over many years. Bill will be returning from the Star Class Olympic Trials in Marina Del Ray, Ca. just prior our meeting and should have some interesting stories. Go look at the CYC Honor Roll of Champions.
10/22/2007
Peter Schmidt, CYC Charter Member and skipper of the Cal 40 Olympian. Peter will talk about his experiences of helping to start the CYC. Peter will also be just returning from a cruise up the Columbia and Snake Rivers to Hells Canyon and should have some interesting experiences from that trip.
10/15/2007
Baird Bardarson, CYC LTM, CYC legend, and International 14 sailor extraordinaire. Baird will talk about his sailing experiences sailing little sailboats with huge sail areas and his many years with the CYC. Go look at the CYC Honor Roll of Champions.
10/8/2007
Bob Miller (Famous Hawaiian Kahuna) wll show his pictures of the 2007 International Festival of Canoes in Maui, HI May 12-26, 2007. Since 1999, Maui has invited canoe carving masters with 5-7 apprentices from each of the Polynesian Island Groups to come to Maui to participate in carving canoes to help perpetuate their island's culture among the young.
Each team starts out with a 48" X 30 ' raw log and is expected to finish with a completed canoe by the end of the festival. When you go to Hawaii and see those beautiful outrigger canoes in the hotel lobbies...this is were a lot of them come from. The hotels sponsor the carving teams and get to keep the finished canoes. On the last day of the festival they launch the canoes with ancient chants and ceremonies and paddle off into the sunset.
9/24/2007
Charles Fawcett and Dave McGeath will talk about and show photographs of their recent sailing cruise along the Adriatic Coast. Their story was published in the CYC Leadline Aug. & Sept. 2007.
9/17/2007
Dick Marshall, CYC Legend, Staff Commodore 1957. Dick will talk about the CYC during his tenure as CYC Commodore and anything else that he deems interesting.
9/10/2007
Peter Jennings, a CYC member, demonstrated his radio controlled sailboat to the Monday Lunch members.
8/27/2007
Keith Smith who lives in Riverside, Connecticut and is a member of the Riverside Yacht Club will be our speaker. He has sailed and raced small and large yachts all over the eastern seaboard and Europe. Keith will talk about a recent sailing voyage he made to Greenland. Keith is a personal sailing friend of Charles Fawcett.
8/20/2007
Sue Van Gerpen, Marketing Manager for the Northwest Railway Museum at Snoqualmie and North Bend will discuss the exciting new plans to turn the Museum into a first class railroad museum. All railroad "nuts " will like this one!
July 30, 2007.
Our "Mystery Speaker" was Charles Fawcett, CYC Manager who discussed the Seattle Parks intention to upgrade the Leshi breakwaters and docks from their current dilapidated state.
Charles also told of his ongoing saga to control the "messy" pigeon situation at the front entrance to the CYC Club house at Shilshole Marina.
July 23, 2007.
Roland Sando and Tiel Riise of Seaview Boat Yard will talk about the recent conference between the EPA amd local boatyards concerning the new EPA "Best Management Practices" and what the impact it will have on us, the recreational boaters.
July 16, 2007
Rich Hazelton, Editor of 48 Degrees North Magazine. Rich will talk about recreational boating issues that will impact us in the future. Rich was rescheduled from 5/14/07.
July 9, 2007
Pat Goodfellow, long time SYC member and 6 Meter Sailor, business and civic leader, will be our quest and speaker. Pat wants to talk about his 6 Meter World sailing experiences and other sailing tales. For those who have not yet met Pat, his last name describes him ! See all of you on July 9, 2007. Note, Pat replaces Dick Marshall, who decided to spend July 2007 sailing in the San Juans. Dick will be rescheduled to speak at a later date.
June 25, 2007
Jim Overland from NOAA. Jim will talk about Global Warming and its possible impact on our future.
June 18, 2007
Tom Nylund, CYC Honorary Life Member. Tom will talk about how CYC hosted the 1971 Star Worlds Championship. This is when Dennis Conner won his first Gold Star and started his rise in the sailing world.
June 11, 2007
Cara Cruikshank, Director of the organization "Oysters for Salmon." Cara will talk about how her organization reintroduces oysters and mussels into bays and around docks to help clear pollution from the water. Currently this is being done at Eagle Harbor on Bainbrige Island. There is also a major project like this ongoing in Chesapeake Bay. Each mature oyster will filter 55 galloms of water per day.
Come and hear Cara explain how we can put these critters to work to clean up our waters!
May 21, 2007
Jan Newton, Principal Oceanographer, U. of W. Jan will talk about NANOOS. The Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems and why it is important.
May 14, 2007 -- Brown Bag Day
no speaker. See entry for July 16.
April 30, 2007
Bob Perry, World famous sailboat naval architect. Bob will talk about new trends in cruising sailboat design and what ever else he thinks interesting.
April 23, 2007
Al Hughes. Al is an acknowledged single hand racer and is also known as the "Mayor of Shilshole liveaboards."
April 9, 2007
Bill Lieberman, CYC Staff Commodore. Bill is our initial CYC Legend Speaker. A CYC Legend is a long time CYC member who has contributed to the CYC and has some interesting history to disclose to the younger members. Hopefully we can get someone to summarize the talks so they can be printed for posterity in the Leadline Magazine. Bill will talk about how the Shilshole CYC Clubhouse got established during his tenure as CYC Commodore.
March 26, 2007
The CYC Monday Lunch Guest and Speaker for March 26, 2007 will be Sharon Briggs, General Manager, Recreational Boating Facilities, Port of Seattle.
She will talk about current progress of the Shilshole renovation, future plans and take questions from the Monday Lunch attendees.
March 19, 2007
Speaker: Tammi Allen, Bainbridge Island Harbormaster
Tammi, who spoke to the CYC Monday Lunch several years ago will speak about the implementation of the Bainbridge Island Comprehensive Harbor Plan and explain the actual progress to date of implementation versus the original plan.
Why is this important to you? Environmental and ecological issues such as eel grass beds make some old anchoring areas off limits today. Some areas of past pollution have been capped with sand and dredged materials to seal in the pollution and anchoring tends to expose the pollution, thus they are now no-anchor zones.
Tammi will bring the CYC Monday Lunch attendees up to date with the current Bainbridge Island situation.
Invite wives and friends or anyone who is interested in using Bainbridge Island as an anchoring place to this meeting.
March 12, 2007
Speaker: Fred Pot, President, SeaCAS, LLC will give a presentation about the Automatic Identification System (AIS) in general and a live demonstration of the SeaCAS SafePassageAIS 300 Receiver.
As Fred explained it he will present "AIS for Dummies".
AIS: What is it? Do I need it? (2.5 minute video)
Who transmits AIS information?
If I want to buy AIS, what are my options?
February 19, 2007
Dick and Colleen Wagner, Founding directors of the Center for Wooden Boats. They explained how the CWB was founded, what the mission of the CWB is and future plans.
January 15, 2007
Keith Johnson, Commodore PIYA. Explained the role of PIYA and US Sail.