Join us for a fun golf outing, we will
be playing 9 holes of golf at Willow Ridge Golf & Country Club on July 6th.
We have reserved 5 tee times, first Tee
time scheduled for 3:30 pm then every 9 minutes following.
To play your team must consist of a
Junior and Senior Member. We will be
using carts to play. If you don’t have a
team mate to play with please let us know and we will find you a member to play
with.
Join us after at the Willow Ridge Grill & Pub for a quick bite to eat.
Please sign up on the sign up sheet posted on the bulletin board at EYC . You can also email be at jchesterfield1@cogeco.ca with your nam, team member and your preferred tee times. Hopefully we can fill all five times.your teammate and preferred tee time, hopefully we can accommodate everyone time.
Rondeau Yacht Club hosted an excellent EYC – RYC
Regatta at their yacht club last Friday 8-9-19.
The conditions were great with 15 knot winds with 18-20
knot gust, Southwest to West. Standard winds for that side of the
bay. Sunny skies prevailed for the
entire day and the temperature was a comfortable 20º-23ºC / 70º-75ºF. The water surf was fairly rough and with the
odd white cap. The swells grew during
the doubles races.
A modified triangle course was set with 400-500 meter
separation between marks. All races
consisted of two around the course.
There were 40 Junior Sailors registered for the
regatta. EYC had 16 junior members
register and RYC registered 24. See
attached photo for participants.
A total of 23 Lasers were rigged and 20 raced, EYC had
11 lasers rigged and only used 9.
RYC won the Regatta!
The scores are as follows Singles EYC-169 vs RYC-100, Doubles EYC-135 vs
RYC-86. Event Total = EYC-304 to
RYC-186.
Following singles races RYC provided an excellent
lunch, pulled pork sandwiches, hot dog, corn on the cob, salad, chips and
drinks.
Double Races commenced after lunch. 14 boats entered the doubles race.
We had plenty of help from the ESS Staff, Directors and
Volunteers that I wish to thank. Thank
you to everyone who supported us and made this day a success for our Junior
Sailors.
We were loaned 2 fully rigged lasers, extra sails from EYC
members listed below. It should be noted
that thanks to our members no EYC junior member was left wanting for a laser as
we had plenty. Thank you Tug, Tim & Meghan.
We
have intentions of creating different classes next year to allow some of our
younger sailors to participate in the event.
We are hosting next year and it may provide a good opportunity to implement
new fleets.
I had the
opportunity to have a friend design some EYC merchandise for purchase. Many thanks to Phil Duym and his team with
Promo Shop, the logo looks great.
Attached to
this letter are the items for sale and the order form.
We need a
minimum of 25 orders per item to meet the production requirement for.
Erieau Yacht Club – Silent Auction Fundraiser Fish Fry – Live Band
When: July 13th, 5:30 pm
Where: Erieau Yacht Club
What: Silent Auction (fundraiser) Fish Fry –
Live Band (Strictly Music)
Cost: EYC Member $20.00, Non Member $25.00 per
person
Dear Members,
Join us for an exciting evening as we
host a fundraising event at the Erieau Yacht Club July 13th.
This year we will bring back one of EYC’s
favourite events, the silent auction.
The evening will start at 5:30 pm where donated items will be bid on
silently while enjoying an appetizer amongst family and friends. Some selected items will be sold by live
auction later in the evening.
Following bidding, enjoy fresh caught
Lake Erie Pickerel for diner catered by Taylor Fish Company of Wheatly. On the menu for desert will be strawberry
shortcake.
To finish off the night we have
scheduled a band of talented musicians to entertain as we admire our newly
acquired items.
Please consider donating an item for
the auction, the proceeds will go to the benefit of our junior Sailing and
Swimming program and facility improvements.
Auction items are being collected and
held by Steph Pirscher. If you are
unable to drop off donations, please bring the item to the club at 5:00
pm. I look forward to seeing everyone
next Saturday, have a great week.
I hope this letter
finds everyone in great health and happiness.
I trust we’ve had enough winter and rainy spring and are ready for a great
summer in Erieau and at the EYC. The
Board of Directors are looking forward to a great season at the club and on the
water this season and have planned a few social events for our enjoyment.
The water
levels hindered Dave Allely and the Ground and Waterfront committee in dock
installation, but with great determination and hard work our docks are in at
the Club. We are very thankful for the
work our volunteers have done for our enjoyment and for our swimming and
sailing camp students. The club has been
cleaned and ready for use. Their work
also contributed to the first International C-Scow regatta hosted by EYC last
weekend. We had 10 C-Scows that raced of
which 5 traveled from the United States.
It was a very successful regatta.
The weather and wind was perfect and allowed us to have 5 races in the
bay and 2 on the lake. Congratulations
to Matt Poile and the C-Scow regatta committee on a job well done, we wish them
the best as they plan for the 2nd annual next year.
Junior
Sailing
Last year we
successfully revamped and updated our sailing instructor fleet. This work permitted our instructors and
students to learn and improve their skill in the appropriate craft. One benefit to this was that our Saturday
junior races successfully had three to four fleets racing, which allowed us award
more of family trophies during our closing banquet. Please offer Jessica Mallory-Dillion any
assistance as she plans the junior race program.
We are very
excited to announce the Swimming and Sailing staff for our summer program have
been hired. This staff was very
successful in providing excellent learning environment for our junior
campers. Please help in welcoming them
back. John Kerr will be providing Aiden
Banks the necessary tools and environment to successfully complete her task as
head camp counselor for the season. We
are very pleased to have Gabby Gooch returning as our head sailing
instructor. Working under Gabby’s
tutelage will be Kaatje Kempe and our new assistant instructor will be Hailey
Kemp. Katelyn Kemp will be working with
our swimmers under Aiden’s guidance.
Registration
is available online and some weeks are filling up quickly. You can also register this Saturday June 29th.
RYC will be
hosting EYC for the annual regatta Friday August 9th.
We will be
hosting the Boom Access sailing program for handicapped sailors the week of August
12th-16th.
Chatham Kent Health Association has inquired of the potential for EYC to
host an additional week, which the EYC board of directors will review over this
season.
Social
Our website
and facebook pages are being updated and managed by Jessica and John. If you wish to provide photos, information or
feedback contact us. We would like to
thank John Graham for hosting and maintaining the EYC website for the past
several years. I would also like to
announce that our instructors will use Instagram as an additional social tool
for EYC and ESS benefit.
We have
planned a few events and the silent auction will be held July 13th
as our fundraising event for this season.
Please consider a donation for the event. The auction winners will be announced
following a fish fry dinner. We are
still searching for a volunteer auctioneer.
I have attached a copy of this season’s
schedule. Please join us this weekend
for our opening BBQ. We have a special desserts
planned, 12 homemade pies, compliments of my wonderful mother in-law Edna and
her sister Betsy.
Kindly visit
Stephanie Pirscher prior to the BBQ Saturday to complete your registration and
payment for the 2019 EYC season.
Shannon and I
are looking forward to a great summer, enjoying everything that Erieau and EYC
has to offer.
