Smoke Signals - Metedeconk River Yacht Club

Page 10 Smoke Signals Volume 29 Issue 7
I can’t believe its August already!!
The sailing program is going
great! The kids are learning a lot and
having fun! Don’t forget to check out our
junior website and blog for highlights of
the junior sailing season. Wednesday
race results as well as various regatta results
can be found there. Thanks to Cindy
Lutz for posting the highlights for us!
The 26 th annual Powder Puff
Regatta was a huge success! Thanks
Vivian and Karen and all the volunteers
for another wonderful and memorable
day. The kids had fun and several of our
own girls placed in their various fleets!
Green Fleet: 3 rd Place: Sophie Ruggiero
4 th Place: Emily Gonzalas
6 th Place: Rylee Wernoch
White Fleet: 3 rd Place: Madeleine Kardek
Blue Fleet: 4 th Place: Abby Kardek
420’s: 2 nd Place: Haley Kardek and
Alex Lehnes
Sunfish: 5 th Place: Catherine Baier
Also, congratulations to
JUIOR ACTIVITIES
Gillian Francis for winning the Marion
Freeth Sportsmanship Award and Abby
Kardek, winner of the Best MCYC
Sailor Award. Good job girls! Way to
go!
As for the Ironman Regatta, we
also had a few boys who placed:
3 rd Green Fleet Opti: Cole Banias
4 th Blue Fleet Opti: Jack Ruggiero
6 th Laser Fleet: David Alldian
2 nd Sunfish Fleet: Michael Damico
Good job boys!
Thanks again to our Junior Social
Committee: Lisa Bonevento, Alison
Boland and Tracey Ackerman, for all
their hard work on the Fourth of July
picnic. It was truly a picture perfect day!
Our photographer, Justin
Chando, has posted pictures from our
various sailing and swimming events on
his website. These photos are available
for individual purchase. Visit
www.justinchando.com. Also, order
forms are out for our season end yearbook.
Don’t forget to place your order.
Steve Fortunato has been hard at
work creating another video masterpiece
of our junior season. DVDs will be available
for purchase as a Junior fundraiser.
Those of you who saw last year’s video
know what an amazing job he does. His
new 2009 video will premiere August 21
after the Junior Awards Ceremony.
Thanks Steve! We appreciate all your
efforts!
Please note these key dates:
Monday, August 3: Junior Commodore Ball
(ages 12 and older only)
Friday, August 21: Junior Award Ceremony
and Pool Party
Lastly, if you can continue to
remind your kids to pick up after themselves,
we would appreciate it. Also, all
gear should always be kept on the North
side of the club (water side).
Thanks and happy sailing!!
Anne Ruggiero
26 TH AUAL JR. POWDER PUFF A PERFECT 10!
PIK IS’T JUST
A COLOR…
IT’S A ATTITUDE!
This was the theme for the
26 th Annual Junior Powder Puff
Regatta and the sailors proved just
that! We had a perfect day – a 10+
with just enough sun, wind, and 250
enthusiastic sailors! We saw plenty
of pink that day and nothing but
great attitudes to go along with it!!
250 young ladies sailed out of
our Club after being treated to a scrumptious
breakfast, coming back in for a great
lunch and goodies afterwards. Who could
ask for more? They did and they got just
that….they received terrific race committee
work, enough patrols to keep them
safe and lots of encouragement. Of
course, the annual Goodie Bags donated
by Mary Holder/Mary Zanowic with all
the “stuff” is always a highlight. This
year we were fortunate enough to add the
new Barrel Bags donated by the Whitman
Family to go along with the Powder Puff
Bag. It wouldn’t be the Powder Puff
without the traditional bears and this year
was no exception. Karen Haupt made
sure each participant received a white
bear in a PINK outfit and the winners also
received the traditional bears as well.
Chairperson Karen Haupt pulled
off another successful regatta with her
attention to awards, raffles, and the daunting
task of registration – we turned away
30 sailors— safety first. I’m sure these
girls won’t wait ‘till the last minute next
year – so Metedeconk sailors – be sure to
get your registration in EARLY. Hats off
to Mary Ellen Butryn and the galley crew
who worked hard all day getting the sailors,
instructors, parents and all the patrols
and race committee fed and hydrated all
day long. Jennifer Alldian, Jack Heacock
also had a major roll in the success along
with the Regatta Committee and many
race committee volunteers.
To the 80+ volunteers – THANK
YOU. We couldn’t do this regatta without
your assistance. To our Head PRO –
Bob Reago, Opti PRO – Chris Petracco,
Opti Green PRO – Mimi Dimon and 420,
Sunfish and Laser PRO – John Cutting,
Tom Sollas - Judge – congratulations
again on providing our young ladies with a
great day of sailing. Getting in four races
and allowing a throw out is a wonderful
way to show our Racing Management
Skills to the rest of the bay. We will try
again to win the coveted BBYRA Race
Management Award.
To all those to assisted in any
way, directing traffic, launching boats, to
the Sandpiper Fleet for moving all their
boats to give us room in the dry slip area,
to those who donated to the raffle tables
and most especially to Commodore & First
Lady Eytel for donating the first ever Commodore’s
prize – an iPod Touch, the
Kardeks for donating the fantastic Sail of
Choice and to the Committee for once
again providing the PINK Bike. These top
prizes along with 40 others made for a terrific
afternoon.
Our sailors had team shirts made
up and it brought tears to my eyes when I
looked out and saw just how many other
yacht clubs had their girls in team shirts
with the words Jr. Powder Puff on them.
Winning the Best MCYC Sailor
Award was Abby Kardek for coming in 4 th
out of 54 boats.