The Yardarm Newsletter for The Hudson Cove Yacht Club

Fall 2013

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Commodore’s Message

Marc Goldzweig,

Commodore

Holiday Party

Saturday, December 7,

7 PM

Marina Conference Center

Hi All,

The wonderful fall season is here. The leaves are beautiful. Most of us have hauled or are in the process of hauling our boats. It seems as if I was just thinking about commissioning!! In any event, we will continue to have interesting events to take us through the winter and into springtime.

I am sorry that Gail and I were not able to attend the elec-tion dinner at Madeleine’s Petit Paris; but, we understand it was fun. Outgoing members of the board provided valuable service to the club and will continue to do so in other capacities. I am excited to work with the new Board of Governors. Future events will include our upcoming holiday party, educational seminars, and events to be announced. I am always interested in ideas for club events so please email me with yours as they may be of interest to all members. Please continue to check our website www.hudsoncove.com to see these and other events on our calendar.

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Five Happy Sailors Home From the Sea...

...And One More

Just Happy to Be Home!

Marc Goldzweig,

Stu Finn, and

Tom DiLauro

Jacky Dawson and Brenda Edwards

Carol Finn

Yacht Clubbers showed up with big appetites and good spirits for the Labor Day Barbecue.

Nancy and Roy DeVries

Jon and Bobbie Potaki

Rob Eldridge and Pat Martino

Brenda and John Edwards

Dan and Karen Kinsley

Bob Garabedian and Myrna Lurie

Rich and Cathy Thabit

John and Jane Nielsen

Mike, Carolyn, and Louie Pflueger

Gloria and Al Shapiro, Chuck and Eileen Manley, Herb and Gina Dietrich

Charlotte and Steve Pendleton

David and Karolyn Hutto

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Jeff and Linda Anders “Sleep Walking”

Jeff has been boating all his life. His first boat was an all-wood 1958 Thompson. It took him six months to strip it down and refinish it… All on his own. Linda actually bought their first boat together, a Bayliner handyman’s special. Next came a 27-ft. Maxim, then their Mainship. The only bad parts of boating according to Linda… ”Paying for gas and docking on very windy days.”

Chuck and Patsy Booth “Prelude” “I was about 12 when my father saw an ad for a build-your-

own-boat kit, a Luger 14-ft. fiberglass runabout.... ‘A few evenings of work for a lifetime of pleasure.’ Those

few evenings turned into many months. Our house smelled like a horse from all the fiberglass work. Eventu-

ally we launched it in the Hudson with a used Scott 40-HP motor. There wasn’t one outing that went off without that engine failing to start, conking out; or, if by some miracle it did start, racing at full speed in neutral. I inherited the Luger when the Scott finally blew up; Scotty is now backfill at the Jersey shore. My next boat was a 17-ft. Boston Whaler, followed by a 17-ft. Mark Twain, a 25-ft. Crownline, and now a 35-ft. Silverton. We named this one “Prelude.” The idea was it would be a forerunner to a 42-ft. Silverton; but, Patsy says anything bigger than this and I’ll be boating with a new wife. My favorite part of boating is a nice

cruise on a smooth day, watching a great sunset. Patsy was never a boater and just goes along for the fun of bottom painting, polishing, docking, and all those other special times together. She says people at the marinas always know her name because I yell it so often. Her favorite part of boating is cocktails on the bridge.”

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll beg for more! Here’s how it all started for twenty of our HC Yacht Clubbers.

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Jerry and Rita Cohen

“On The Wing”

Jerry credits “Herbert” with getting him into sailing. Herbert was an industrial engineer who worked with Jerry at General Foods in Tarry-town. They carpooled together in the 80’s. “Herbert had a 27-ft. C&C, a nice little boat which he handled very well. And we would, once or twice a summer, sail to work … In Tarrytown. So the first time we went, we waited for high tide and got in and someone from Herbert’s work group picked us up. At the time, he was a senior engineer, so someone who worked under him would transport everyone. Eventually, we had what was called ‘Early

Fridays’… Starting at noon and sailing supposedly until 9 PM, al-though we rarely went that late. Rita be-came a sailor when I bought a boat. I ab-solutely love the concept of sailing… The idea of having the wind push you, how the sails work… It is very, very nice!”

Friday!!!

Chris and Erica

Conway

“Patronus”

Erica says she was always a sailor, it just took her awhile to realize it. She took her first boat ride at 11 weeks old. Her parents were power boaters and Erica, wearing a big orange lifejacket, cruised along in a cockpit playpen on their Pacemaker. Eventually they moved onto their boat full time, then upgraded to a 1965 wood Chris Craft. It was a high school science teacher who introduced Erica to sailing. He asked her to fill in as crew for a Wednesday night race. As long as she knew port from starboard she was welcome aboard. Two hours into the race and Erica was hooked. “They couldn’t get me off the boat...” Chris started sailing as a young boy. He did the Transatlantic Race ,the Fastnet, and Cowes Week all before he was 22. The two were on the sailing team in college racing 427 dinghies for Cornell. Erica took a break when their children were born; but, two years ago, they bought a Beneteau 473, packed up the offspring, and spent 14 months sailing the east coast of the US, the eastern Caribbean, and the Bahamas. To get ready, Chris “took an intensive diesel engine repair and mainte-nance course, researched every possible piece of equipment from bow to stern, and pored over the charts from Maine to Grenada.” Erica is thrilled that her children love sailing as much as their parents with “8500 nautical miles under their own lifejackets.”

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Sailing was always something Stu wanted to do “even though I knew nothing about it!” About five years ago he saw a sailboat on craigslist and checked sailing off his bucket list. Stu calls Carol “… a good sport. She’s in it for the long haul.” As for Carol, she loves to shop and “boating gave me some-thing else to shop for. Sometimes I get carried away. I bought several sets of

dishes because they were so cute and nautical; but, ended up us-ing paper plates so I don’t have to wash them.” Their favorite

things about boating “the great people we’ve met and the friendships we’ve made.” And Carol adds “At the end of a sail, just hanging out on the boat and watching a beautiful sunset, with cocktail in hand, makes all the effort worth it.”

Stu and Carol Finn “Melita”

Herb And Gina Dietrich “How we got into (and out of) boating: In 1970 when Gina and I were married, I was a surfer, and 30 lbs trimmer. After almost simultane-ously knocking Gina out and drowning her while teaching her how to surf, it was clear to me that going for-ward it was going to be either Gina or the surfboard. A deci-sion was made, let's buy a boat since we love the water. Back then all we could afford was a Sunfish on a trailer, and so we sailed the Great South Bay of LI. The Sunfish followed us when we moved to MA and then ME, at which time we wanted something a little bigger and more stable such as an Alberg Typhoon. With two children on the scene, our priorities changed. Because the ocean in ME is freezing all year except for two weeks at the beginning of August, we decided to move back to NY and settle in Rockland County. In 1986, the itch to get back into boating re-appeared and we bought the Ty-phoon, then an Ericson 28, then an Ericson 34, and finally a Passport 40, which we sold in 2012 after sailing her for al-most 12 years on LI Sound. We are still into boating - just other friends’ boats (when we are invited). FYI, the surf-board stands in our garage to this day.”

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Eddie and Debby

Frank

“Seas The Day 3”

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For Eddie and Debby, it started about 30 years ago with a drive along the Hudson in Piermont and a Snark for sale on a front lawn.

They spent $200 for 15 years of “a lot of fun” sail-ing on local lakes, in bays, and on the ocean. Eddie sold the Snark in 2004; but, two years later, with retirement beckoning, he took a sailing course at Croton, and then purchased a 1986 Catalina 27, traded up to a 295 Hunter, followed two years later by a new 2009 Hunter 38. They’ve been enjoying “fair winds and following seas” ever since. One high-

light, a 2010 sail to Bermuda on “Seas the Day 3” with three other Haverstrawians (the wives opted to fly). Debby calls herself a “sailor by marriage; otherwise I never, ever would have been one.” She suffers from severe seasickness; but, wristbands and Bonine keep her on an even keel. According to Eddie “She’s a great first mate. She’s the wind beneath my sail.”

Marc and Gail

Goldzweig

“It’s About Time”

Marc started sailing in summer camp. His father had always wanted a sailboat; but, never bought one. “I never did anything about it until about ten years ago when I bought my first sailboat, a Catalina Capri 22. It was a great day sailor.” That’s when Gail realized how much she enjoyed the sailing life. “Gail and I decided we wanted something with more cruising capability and moved up to a Beneteau 281. It was a great boat for several years; but, we needed/wanted some-thing a little more comfortable and moved up once again to a Beneteau 36.” Marc wasn’t always a con-firmed sailor. When he was about 13, he bought plans to build a small one-person hydroplane powered by a 10-HP motor. The plans said it could be built easily

and cheaply. Not exactly true in either case. As it turned out, the engine wasn’t included. “But it was a great father-son project.”

Chuck and Eileen Man-ley “Cloudspin”

It was Eileen’s Uncle Logan who started it all. He built and raced a Controversy 27 in Buzzards Bay, MA. He laid the keel in Maine then shipped it to his home and housed the hull in a chicken coop while he fin-ished the work. Eileen’s father carved an eagle for the stern. Eileen was about 17 at the time and

dating Chuck. Uncle Logan took one look at Chuck and decided “a strong young man” like that would be just the fella he needed to crew for his Saturday races. “I’ll have him back in time to take you to dinner!” That was the “Yankee Too” and that’s how Chuck became a sailor. Eileen says she just went along for the ride. They’ve had two boats on the Hudson… A Northstar 25 and Cloudspin. At home on the lake they’ve sailed a Comet, a 470 Olympic Class, and now a Sunfish, and a sailing dinghy. “Sailing is all about the quiet, and moving with the wind and a need to be very flexible about where you are go-ing” says Eileen. “And the social times, in the evenings when you ex-change ‘tall tales’, are very precious.”

Al and Gloria Shapiro

“Purrfect Sunset”

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Thanks to all who contributed to this cruise down memory lane. And especially to Eileen Manley who came up with the idea.

Photos are courtesy of: Chuck Booth, Linda Anders, Debby Frank, and Erica Conway.

Al and Gloria started off with a sail canoe at City Island in the late ‘50’s, moved up to a racing catamaran, then to “Quest”, a tri-maran. About 15 years ago, rather than scrap her, they de-cided to ship Quest to Hope Town, The Bahamas for “as long as the old girl lasted.” She’s still going strong, racing every other Wednesday during the season. Al’s only concern…”We need more room on the shelf for all the glasses she’s won.” Their current boat is a Catalac 30, the “Purrfect Sunset.” It was their daughter, Leslie, who came up with the name, a play on their boat’s CATalac origin and their continuing search for an ideal day’s end. Al says Gloria’s has always loved sailing except for the time her hairdo was drenched just before a wedding.