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From:
Bill Selick
Sent:
Monday, November 21, 2011 9:14 PM
The Awosting Yacht
Squadron hosted the regatta using the Awosting Community of Hewitt,
NJ’s boat house as party central for the entire week’s
festivities. This was the same basic format that we had followed
the previous time when we hosted the event in 2007. Since we
don’t actually own the facility, there were challenges not faced at
other clubs like:
- No running water, kitchen or restroom
facilities (we had to order additional porta-potties)
- integrating well with the community
(including synchronizing social calendars - there was “Movie Night” on
the Saturday before the regatta began, which taxed our septic
facilities ;>((
- a mischievous teen population, so we
had to tear down everything nightly and rebuild in the morning
- Limited dock space
- Awosting community rebuilt their
docks last spring, and didn’t open for business until the Saturday of
the regatta - yours truly was installing cleats on the dock by himself
on Saturday AM (Al's note: just in time
to keep me from wrecking my Rebel on the rusty, steel pilings at the end of the dock [just
behind our sails below] when I luffed up head to wind only to have a
gust come in from astern. Bill's cleats caught both our main and jib
sheets and brought us to the nicest stable stop you could ask
for:
- Limited parking near the facility
- No lift, and limited ramp access
requiring us to follow a “launch once” policy (ie: no dry sailing
for visitors)
- No indoor shelter (but why would you
need one in July? Oh yeah … possible SQUALLS!!!!)
As regatta chair, I appointed the following
sub-committees to divide and conquer the planning process. My
vice-chair was Wendy Gallione, who did double-duty as the treasurer.
- Rose Steele: PRO, Welcome
Committee Chair, and Awosting liaison (Race Committee: Dan Murphy
[chief cannon operator] and Meg Horton [committee boat skipper];
Dennis on the crash boat)
- Jack Schuchardt: Logistics Chair
- Jeff Schuchardt: docks, buoys,
etc.
- Dan Murphy: head donkey a.k.a. head
liaison [ie: the porta-potties]
- Jack Roe: Hey, Beer Man!
And general all-around helpful guy with the house next to the beach
- Jean Zimmer: Food
Committee Chair: lunches came from Jean’s shop, the Coffee
Buzz, Buzz and don’t forget Vickie’s Kitchen which catered
all the dinner food; Karyn Schuchardt organized the Sunday night pot
luck dinner
part of the "food trust": (l to r) Jean Zimmer, Wendy
Gallione, Karyn Schuchardt
- Dillon Waltner: Saturday’s Portsmouth
Race with AYS’s own commodore, Paul Bryan, coming in first
- Gail Bado: Raffle
- Dan Leon: (Lack of) Juniors
program
- Bob Zimmer: Weigh &
Measure; blow-up buoys on loan from town of Greenwood Lake
- Dave Sutter: Protests
- Entertainment: Jack Roe’s son
and friend performed; Bobby Nusbaum Raffle and performance
with his wife, Shera, on Wednesday night… don’t forget Barbara singing
Al: Thanks to all who
helped. And most especially to Regatta Chairman, Bill Selick, who of
course couldn't thank himself above!! You Awosting people did it all
and made it look look like you were not frazzled, a factor not to be
overlooked as you made things fun and easy for the rest of us!!!
And of course, thanks to
those who took pictures and let us use them:
- action shots: Sharon
Nowak as always, Jeff Reynolds, Bobby Nusbaum, Uncle Al
- on shore: Uncle Al,
Barbara Selick
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