April - 2010 Volume - 255 Founded - 1987

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Live Your Dream”

Editor: Ellen Vartan

Opening Dayon San Francisco Bay - April 25

According to Cruise Captain Charlie

Agnew, NVYC cruisers will spend April23,24 and 25 joining Opening Day on SanFrancisco Bay festivities at the TreasureIsland Yacht Club.Although plans are not finalized, there will be at least one dinner at the Treasure IslandYacht Club. Bloody Mary’s aboard “C’KingFun” are planned for Friday to celebrate her return from the boatyard. Also on Friday,appetizers and potluck. If you plan on an-choring out in Clipper Cove, contact Charliefor permit information.The weekend is the official opening day of the boating season around the Bay and in-cludes a flag-festooned boat parade and blessings of the fleet sponsored by the PI-CYA. If you wish to purchase a commemo-rative Opening Day windbreaker jacket,contact Art or Angela Lewis.For further information and to sign up for the cruise, contact Charlie atckagnew@comcast.net.

St. Patrick’s Day CruiseTo Loch Lomond Yacht Club

Five boats and one RV made the

trip to Loch Lomond in San Rafael to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with dinner at theYacht Club.Cruise Captain Kurt Stahr reported thatthis was one of the smaller turnouts for NVYC. In 2003, only three boats madethe trip due to rough water and rain. Incontrast, 12 boats attended in 2005.On Friday, a welcome cocktail party washeld on “Starship”. Saturday eveningstarted with cocktails on the dock fol-lowed by the traditional St. Patrick’s Daydinner at the club. Tom Hildreth won the prize for blowing the biggest soap bubblefor the Napa Men’s Team.The flotilla: Kurt & Dominique Stahr -“Starship”; Bill & Merrilee Newton -“Why Knot”; Bob & Joy Magoon - “BettyD.”; Scott & Diane Brown - Lady Di”;Tom & Pat Hildreth - “Gently Down theStream” and Gary & Sherrill Schager witha land yacht. The ride home on Sundaystarted early because of a lowering tide.Thank you, Kurt & Dominique!

Cruise News

CommodoreLarry WolfeVice CommodoreDirk KruidenierRear CommodoreBill Newton

GREAT NEWS FOR YOUR CLUB!

A new land lease with the City of Napa hasbeen approved by your Board of Direc-tors at a special meeting on March 30. TheCity Council in executive session has ap-proved the lease and authorized city man-ager Parness to sign. Over the last severalyears, many hundreds of hours of volun-teer time expertise and effort have goneinto getting this completed. It is hard tomention some and not all who havehelped. THANK YOU. Thank you forsupport from community leaders formerMayor Ed Henderson, former councilman/ member Ray Sercu, and former supervi-sor/member Harold Moskowite. The nego-tiating team from NVYC include: Eliza-beth Frater, Steve Vartan, Jon Lander,and Clay Parker. Legal counsel was BetsyStrauss.Highlights include:

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We have a land lease until 2022 withrent of $320 per month for 6 yearsthen $420 for 6 years.

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At the start of the last year of the leasenegotiations must be entered into forextension and if agreement notreached, mediation is required.

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The lease does not require improve-ments for the public.

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The City may use our club 15 days ayear at our discretion. City must cleanclub and have supervising staff pre-sent.

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The parking area is non-exclusive forboth public and club use.

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Currently, the flood wall design by theflood district will hamper use of muchof the property. City will work withclub for a better design.

ongratulations to LarryWolfe and all the otherswho helped secure a leasethat we can live with. A greatmany of our club membershave worked hard over the pastyears to get us to this point andwe owe them a great deal of gratitude. Larry was one of thehardest working this year andcarried the torch across the fin-ish line.We still have a number of Fri-day night dinner openings andwe need to get them covered:June 25th, July 16th, July 23rd,July 30th, August 13th, August27th, September 3rd, Septem-ber 10th, and one couple to helpon October 29th. If you haven’tsigned up for a Friday Nightdinner, please call Mark andNancy Lessler.While on the subject of the gal-ley, if you are working in thegalley and notice that we aregetting low on supplies, pleasee-mail me (rolex146@aol.com)so I can restock them.HAPPY SAILING -SPRING IS UPON US!“the vice”

e have accomplished a lotso far this year. Thank youto everyone who has so gen-erously volunteered their time andtalents toward making our club thebest that it can be.Fleet Captain: Bob Magoon has mostcruise-outs set.Web: New website is up and running.Clay Newton would like us to use thecomment feature to help him makeimprovements.Newsletter: Ellen Vartan is doing afine job. We all need to get informa-tion for the newsletter to her in atimely manner.Advertising: Kathie Peterson has donea great job getting advertisers for theyear.Merchandise: Art & Angela Lewishave been having a lot of sales thisyear with some nice looking threads.Membership: Evelyn Silveri has beendoing her usual excellent job.Public Relations: Lynn Pritchett isgetting those articles out there to thepublic.Building & Grounds: Chris Fultz &Al Mueller have been working theirtails off with club projects: new grateson the BBQ, and dock wiring is nearcompletion Materials have been pur-chased and the construction of newrestrooms will start soon,

April Events

Friday Dinners

April 2

- PotluckHosts: Sally & Phil Craig

April 9 - Green salad, Beef Bourguignon,Smashed Potatoes, Roasted root vegetables,Garlic bread, Meyer lemon dessertHosts: Dana & JR RobbersPat CaspersenApril 16 -April 23 - Pulled Beef Sliders, salad, dessertHosts: Jerry & Bruce ButlerDale & George CliffApril 30 - Cinco de Mayo Celebration (Menu: p.4)Hosts: Pat & Tom HildrethBob & Elizabeth Parker

Mark Your Calendars:April 1- April Fool’s Day!April 13 - NVYC Board Meeting 5:30 pmApril 23-25 - Opening Day on SF BayCruise-outApril 30- Cinco de Mayo PartyMay 30 - Special dinner to benefitSeniors Project - see p.7Birthdays:

Judy Garcia - 4/2Diane Brown - 4/4Betty Humber - 4/9Bob Magoon - 4/10Avi Strugo - 4/12Greta Vallerga - 4/15Howard Peterson - 4/18Gloria Cordeiro - 4/19Pat Crisman - 4/24Daryl Nord - 4/28

Anniversaries:

Steve & Ellen Vartan- 4/4Bob & Nancy Gurley - 4/7Dirk & Seeta Kruidenier - 4/7Bob & Joy Magoon - 4/8Kurt & Dominique Stahr - 4/17Paul & Leanne Reyff - 4/29(Belated Happy Birthday wishes to MerrileeNewton and Shelley Walker who bothcelebrated March 11).*****Thank you to Joyce Craven for keeping ourbirthday and anniversary lists up to date andfor hand delivering newsletters to our membersin Napa Yacht Club & Riverpark neighborhoods.

EightBells...We havelearned of the death of Fa yBarker, a former member. Fay did the newsletter for several years inthe 90’s. Fay andher husband Bob’s boat,”My Way”, a 38’Eagle trawler, served as their liveaboard before they moved to Edgerly Isla nd and soldthe boat to Bill & Merr ilee Newton. They moved toTrilogy in Rio Vista in 1999. Bob is a past commodoreof the Pt. San Pablo Yacht Club.

Beef Stroganoff, Buttered noodlesbread, salad, Cobbler with ice creamHosts: Else & Norm MadsenKaren & Charlie Agnew