EAGLE’S CRY

“THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN

EPHRAIM REGATTA”

December 2002

In This Issue Commodore’s Comments

Commodore’s It has been a long standing tradition at
Comments……………Page 1 the EYC that the Commodore edits and
2002 Highlights………Page 2 publishes the Eagle’s Cry. It is a big
task to clearly and yet concisely
In The Spotlight……...Page 3 communicate the things that need to be
First Mates Corner..…Page 4 communicated, thank the many who do
so much, and recognize those who have
Activities & Lessons….Page 5
achieved so much. Fortunately, I
Race & Regatta……....Page 6 inherited a big black binder containing
Boats and Motors…….Page 9 previous examples for me to pattern
from. What I discovered is that over the
years, the content has stayed much the
same with variations in author style and
presentation. Given that, I decided to
make my own mark on the publication
by introducing a new style of my own.
Officers and Directors of the Ephraim Yacht Club 2002-2003 My hope is to deliver the same great
John Peterson (Commodore)………..…2005
George Carey (Vice Commodore)…......2004
content that is part of our longstanding
Suzanne Lisle (Rear Commodore)……..2003
Diane Taillon (Secretary)……….……...2003
tradition in a format that is easy to read.
Paul Pillat (Treasurer)………….……....2004
Bill Calkins…………………….…….…2003
Hopefully, I’ve succeeded at that but as
Barbara Hambleton…………….…….…2003
Debby Heidler………………….………2004
always, I appreciate your feedback on
David Sauter……………………………2004
Brud Sturgis…………………….……....2005
improvements as we go on. Read on for
Maxwell Robinette…………….……….2005
Ryan Malmgren……………….………..2005
the highlights of our 97th season and best
The Eagle’s Cry is published periodically by the Ephraim Yacht
wishes to all for peace in the coming
Club, P.O. Box 331, Ephraim, WI 54211. For all questions
regarding this correspondence, e-mail us at commodore@eyc.org or
year.
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2002 Highlights
By: John Peterson
(Editors note: the following is a
summary of the oral report that was
given at the 2002 EYC Annual Meeting)
The Ephraim Yacht Club had a very
good year in 2002. The year started with
the completion of an extensive
clubhouse remodeling project lead by
the team of Bill Calkins, Arv Munson
and Bud Weaver. This project was made
possible in large part by the generosity
of Jack and Ruth McCoy and family.
Our Code of Conduct was created and
implemented giving our juniors written
guidelines by which to conduct
themselves and the staff some authority
for initiating disciplinary action. As a
result, we had the best behaved group of
young sailors that we’ve ever had
according to Larry Lewis.
The junior lesson program had a record
numbers of participation with over 50
kids in session C.
Thanks in large part to the efforts of
Larry Lewis, we had many active adults
learning to sail. Larry encouraged
eighteen ladies to participate in a total of
seven boats in what Larry Lewis coined
as the first annual NEWFOR regatta
(N.E. Wisconsin. Female. Only. Regatta)
For the first time ever, we had “junior”
staff members. These younger staff
members were instrumental in both day
to day operations as well as instruction
for beginner and intermediate students.
Jason Brown and JP Pillat both did
outstanding jobs in these new roles.
Ryan Malmgren, winner of the last two
Ephraim Regattas, gave a racing seminar
that was well attended by a wide variety
of people interested in improving their
sailing.
George Carey revamped the “Power
Squadron” by fitting a new tube for the
large inflatable “Uffda” as well as
replacing the outboards on both boats.
The EYC is more than just sailing. In
fact, we have more members who
participate in tennis, bridge and social
events than we have active in all of the
sailing programs combined. Continuing
to meet the needs of these groups is vital
to our success.
We continue to be sound financially. In
2002, we had record revenues as
significantly impacted by the increase in
group lessons. We have a strong
positive cash flow from operations and
are following significantly better
accounting procedures thanks to Paul
Pillat our Treasurer, who is also a CPA.
All of the above has lead to the addition
of 20 new family members! We have a
great atmosphere. People see us and
want to join in on the fun.
The Ephraim Yacht Club is also facing
some challenges. We need to continue
to build individual ownership of our fleet
boats. This will be a challenge as we
have limited space in which to do so.
We also need space so that we can
provide for our ever increasing lesson
programs particularly during bad
weather.
We must continue towards receiving and
implementing 501C(3) status so that we
can encourage gifting to the club. This
status has been delayed due to a need to
completely overhaul accounting methods
that were previously used.
Finally, we must work toward being an
even better service to the community so
that we can be involved in such things as
the Village of Ephraim Sesquicentennial
celebration in 2003 and increasing our
local membership to create a “year
round” continuity.
EYC Attracts New Members
By: John Peterson
In my opening comments of the Spring
2002 issue, I wrote about our diversity
and our many programs and challenged
the membership to introduce newcomers
to the club. Respond you did! Since
that time, we have added 20 new family
members. Our social events were very
well attended with the Commodore’s
Party up significantly from the previous
year. Our junior sailing program had a
record 50 juniors receiving sailing
instruction during the weeks of July 15th-
26th. We welcome all our new members
and look forward to your continued
involvement!
New Board Members Elected
By: John Peterson
During the 2002 Annual Meeting held in
August, the membership elected Max
Robinette and Ryan Malmgren to the
EYC Board of Directors. Max and Ryan
were both elected to three year terms by
filling the positions of retiring board
member Bud Weaver and the vacancy
created by the resignation of Holly
Hanselman in September of 2001. Brud
Sturgis was re-elected to a second three
year term. Congratulations to these
three gentlemen and thanks to Bud for
his years of service!
EYC Dedicates New Flagstaff
By: John Peterson
During the 97th Ephraim Regatta held
this year, a new flagstaff decked out in
its full glory of flags was dedicated to
the memory of Ruth McCoy, a long time
Treasurer and a mainstay for many years
at the EYC. Her husband Jack was at
the event and spoke on behalf of the
McCoy family who together had the
vision for the improvements and made
them possible through the memorials
given in Ruth’s name.
In addition to the flagstaff, the
improvements included the replacement
of the rot damaged structural members,
siding and fascia, as well as new
windows, carpeting and lighting. Great
Northern Construction performed the
renovations under the watchful eye of
the Building Restoration Committee.
Furniture Campaign Kickoff
By: Suzanne Lisle
A challenge grant has been offered by a
member to be used to replace our very
old, tired and broken furniture in the
“living room” area of the clubhouse.
The estimated cost of this project is
$6000.00. The member will match all
contributions up to $1000.00, so we are
hereby inviting you share in the project
by sending donations to the club address
(P.O. Box 331, Ephraim, WI 54211)
earmarked “FURNITURE”. It is the
next important step in finishing our
clubhouse restoration, and would be a
real tribute to our membership if we
could secure the funds via donation and
have the furniture in place for the
beginning of the season.
First Mates
Submitted By: Deanna Peterson (Committee Chair)
Thanks to everyone for helping make all
of our summer social events a huge
success. Not only do the First Mates
provide the leadership needed, but we
sure have fun! We were excited to see
such a large turnout for all the events.
The First Mates meet twice for coffee
and planning during the summer. The
gatherings are open to all, and it is not a
formal “structure”. Special note to
newcomers – please come!! It is a great
way to get to know your fellow Club
members.
All of the events are staffed and planned
by volunteers and we are very thankful
for the people who donated their time
this year.
Champagne Opening Social
Thanks to the Beadell’s and Di Taillon
for planning the Champagne Opening
Social again. They have been on this
committee for several years and should
be commended for their hard work.
Ice Cream Social
Our hats off to Cheryl Chase, who again
chaired this event. The Ice Cream Social
is always a great time to get together
with family and friends to enjoy the
delicious ice cream. This year we had so
many people attend that there wasn’t
very much leftover for the sailing
students to enjoy on a hot day.
Regatta Lunch
Our committee for the Regatta Lunch
was Catherine Sturgis and Di Taillon.
They organized all the food and drinks
supplied for the whole weekend. You
can ask us; it certainly is appreciated to
have complimentary early morning
coffee and orange juice when racing or
working the regatta. Suzanne Lisle
organized the EYC t-shirts this year, and
with the help of all the volunteers to
work at the tables, everything ran
smoothly.
Ladies Potluck
The Ladies Potluck dinner was chaired
this year by Gretchen Meillinger, Sallie
Heidler, Margaret Graham and Leslie
Harsch. Thank you for planning this
beautiful evening! It started outside with
cocktails and appetizers, followed by a
delicious spread of food in our newly-
remodeled building. One of the
highlights of the evening was the
entertainment provided by magicians
Stafford Taillon and Hans Emanualson.
We all had a great time and can’t thank
the committee and entertainment enough
for all their hard work.
Commodore’s Cocktail Party
The Commodore’s Cocktail Party is
always a sure sign that the season will be
soon coming to a close. Thanks to
Susan Reynolds-Smith, Joan Balistreri,
Judy Harmon and Deanna Peterson for
organizing this beautiful event. We
always have a large number of members
come to this party. Thank you to all our
volunteers as we couldn’t have done it
without you.

Bridge
By: Suzanne Lisle
The EYC Bridge Group enjoyed a full
season beginning on the opening day of
the Club and ending well into the fall
long after the other events of the club
had wrapped up. Judy Walch organized
the intermediate lesson group and a new
“true beginners” group was also formed.
These popular programs will continue
next summer. Regular bridge sessions
were held on Mondays at 12:00 p.m.,
chaired by Priscilla Apfelbach and Jay
Hellyer. Bridge was also offered on
Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m., chaired by Eloise
Hanselman and Romayne Neumann.
Junior Activities
By: Suzanne Lisle
Wednesday evenings were again busy at
the Clubhouse and surrounding locations
as our Juniors met to enjoy social time.
The season kicked off with a barbecue at
the club followed by mini golf at the Red
putter. JoEllen Stollenwerk chaired the
opener. Chairs Max and Lindy
Robinette brought the charm of good
weather for the sailing picnic. Kay
Eatough had our scavenger hunters
traversing the village for obscure items
with the payoff of ice cream at the end
of the evening. Ruth Sauter led the
group to a performance at American
Folklore and Debby Heidler planned the
group beach picnic. Betsy Aardsvold
coordinated the progressive dinner at
three locations to wrap up the juniors’
season. Based on the large number of
participants, it’s obvious our young
people have a good time together on
terra firma as well as the water. Many
thanks go to the individual event
chairmen and to Bud Weaver who
scheduled and recruited this hard
working team.
Lessons
By: David Sauter/John Peterson
The EYC sailing training programs were
again a great success in 2002. Many
thanks to all the instructors and students
who helped keep the program
educational and FUN! Faced with the
challenge of record numbers of students
in lessons, our staff really rose to the
challenge this past summer. Sarah Lisle
again led the staff this year with the
assistance of Andrew Sauter Sargent,
Jason Brown, J.P. Pillat, Larry Lewis,
Steve Sauter and Betsy Hoag.
Session A had twenty students this year
compared to only twelve last year.
Session B was down slightly year over
year with thirty five students this year
compared to forty one last year. Session
C had a record fifty two students
enrolled as compared to thirty seven last
year and session D had thirty six as
compared to thirty eight to 2001.
As a result of the program, we have six
new recipients of junior skipper awards.
Congratulations!
Junior Skippers
• Sam Dominik
• Ashley Edwards
• Carolyn Edwards
• Kelly Ferguson
• Karl Nosbisch
• Matt Smith
We are busily working on continuing to
fine tune certain aspects of the program.
The checklists were a big help in
tracking the students progress and
making sure they succeeded at their “on
the water” skills as well as their written
ones. The written tests are going through
another overhaul this winter to keep
them even more in line with the
knowledge needed in the waters of Eagle
Harbor. The adult program was a
success as we look forward to helping
members of all ages learn how to sail!
Don't forget to pre-register in the spring
for the 2003 season as it helps us staff
accordingly.
Fleet Race Results
By: John Peterson
The weekly Flying Scot, Sunfish and
JY15 races were well attended this year
and were competitive for all of the
sailors involved. The results of each
series were as follows:
Monday/ Thursday JY 15 Series A
1. Allison Chase 10 pts
2. Woody Heidler 13 pts
3. Matt Smith/ Nick Weborg 22 pts
Monday/ Thursday Flying Scot Series A
1. Christian Pillat 4 pts
2. Susan Reynolds-Smith 7 pts
3. JP Pillat 9 pts
Tuesday/ Friday Sunfish Series A
1. Allison Chase 24 pts
2. Woody Heidler 50 pts
3. Catherine Hambleton 53 pts
Monday/ Thursday JY 15 Series B
1. Stafford Taillon 5 pts
2. Tom Sublewski 11 pts
3. Lindsay Scattergood 16 pts
Monday/ Thursday Flying Scot Series B
1. Stafford Taillon 55 pts
2. JP Pillat 55 pts
3. Jason Brown 58 pts
Tuesday/ Friday Sunfish Series B
1. Woody Heidler 40 pts
2. Allison Chase 43 pts
3. Stafford Taillon 43 pts
Saturday Flying Scot Series
1. Mike Faugust 63 pts
2. John Peterson 88 pts
3. Paul Newton 95 pts
Sunday Sunfish Series
1. Skip Heidler 7 pts
2. Woody Heidler 19 pts
3. Allison Chase 21 pts
Fyr Bal Regatta
1. Dave Sauter (Stephanie Smith) 4
_ pts
2. Sarah Lisle (Jason Brown) 7 _
pts
3. Andrew Sauter-Sargent (Alexis
Sauter) 11pts
Sunfish Regatta
1. Christian Pillat 7 pts
2. JP Pillat 13 pts
3. Woody Heidler 19 pts
EYC’s “NEWFOR” Regatta a
Hugh Success
By: Larry Lewis
Perfect conditions greeted nineteen
women who competed in the first annual
NEWFOR on July 29. The winds were
light to moderate from due north making
the double windward leeward courses an
opportunity for lots of tactical sailing.
In the end it was the veteran team of
Nancy and Carol Claypool who
dominated the field, winning all three
races. The Claypools did not win all the
starts, but they headed to the right side
of the course on all the beats, picking up
a little shift and a little more wind to
lead at each weather mark. Donna
Scattergood dogged the Claypools in
every race, finishing second overall.
EYC Director, Sarah Lisle, sailed well
off the wind and with one jibe to the
shore in the last race caught Susan
Reynolds Smith and finished third
overall. Smith, disqualified in race 2 for
a tacking too close infraction, finished
fourth, narrowly ahead of Christine
Bridenhagen. Diane Taillon in
her first ever race, finished sixth, in fact
leading the third race for a while after a
perfect pin end start.
Veteran Nan Zimdars Hoseley improved
in each race and finished seventh. She
had been a dominant winner in Ephraim
when she was growing up and vows to
return to her earlier form.
The quality of sailing was excellent and
the large spectator fleet composed of
husbands and followers of the
competitors was impressed.
(editors note: This regatta started as a
“grass roots” idea conceptualized and
organized mid-season by several of
Larry’s students. This event is clearly
demonstrative of the rapid growth and
interest in sailing by many of our women
members. I’m excited by this event and
look forward to the challenge of
continuing to meet the needs of this
growing group at the club)
Results
1. Nancy Claypool 3 pts
2 Donna Scattergood 6 pts
3 Sarah Lisle 11 pts
97th Ephraim Regatta
By: John Peterson
For the second consecutive year, EYC’s
own Ryan Malmgren skippering with
wife and crew Kimber took top honors at
the 96th Ephraim Regatta. The week
before the event, Malmgren gave an on-
shore racing clinic to EYC members and
continued to “school” his opponents the
following week winning two of the five
races including the Vail Cup. Seventeen
Flying Scots competed during the two
day event that featured light and
extremely shifty winds.
The Malmgrens also took home the
Wisconsin Cup as the highest place
finishers of the first three races and, of
course, repeated as the winners of the
Pedar E. Knudson for being the highest
placing wife/husband team.
Jason Brown, an EYC Instructor with his
Dad Kirk Brown clinched the Sturgis
Trophy for the highest place finish for
skippers eighteen and under. In
addition, Jason won the Sauter Trophy
as the winner of the first race on Sunday.
It is interesting to note that the top three
places in the regatta this year were
husband and wife teams who at last
report anyway were still speaking to
each other!
More than a dozen loyal EYC members
come forward each year to make the
regatta run smoothly. In addition to
Chairpersons, Frank and Sally Heidler,
Suzanne Lisle, Don Polzin, George and
Jean Reynolds, Mary Johnson, Lal
Burridge and Guy Bush also worked communications and kept on top of
hard to make the regatta a success. everything. Klein and Claypool families
hosted the evening, while the
Overall Standings: Commodore, John Peterson kept in
touch. We thank everyone who attended
1) Ryan Malmgren (EYC) and encouraged us, and appreciate the
Kimber Malmgren positive response from our membership.

2) Michael Fagust (EYC) After paying all of the known bills, $650
Jennifer Faugust in profit was given to the club treasurer.
In all, 43 doz. ears of corn and 512 brats
3) John Peterson (EYC) were consumed!
Deanna Peterson

4) Tim Devries (Madison) Rich Hall Junior Regatta

Chuck Hoasting By: Larry Lewis

5) Tim Sugar (Madison) Sailing in windy conditions which could

Hugh Sugar
Sarah Lott
In The News:
EYC’s Ryan and Kimber Malmgren
finished 2nd in 2002 Midwest District
Regatta held in September at Carlyle
Sailing Association near St. Louis. The
regatta was held as part of CSA’s
annual “Whale of a Sail”.
Bratfest
Reprinted from Bill Klein’s report to the membership at the
2002 Annual Meeting
We celebrated the 27th Bratfest with 331
members and friends in attendance.
Eleven volunteer First Mates arrived on
Friday to cook brats, work on food prep,
napkins and other tasks vital for Sat.
night. The sailing staff joined to move
grills, tables, furniture and anything else.
We are very proud of the staff that helps
us! You must be too! Sally and Joe
Schoendorf and the Sturgeon Bay Yacht
Club provided four half-barrels-one
large key to the financial success. Rosie
Klein managed orders, details and
have brought a cancellation, six boats
with twenty four juniors raced for the
Hall trophy on August 11. It was a day
which proved the quality of the EYC
junior fleet. A huge southwesterly made
even getting rigged and to the course
very difficult. The committee moved the
course over into the lee of the Peninsula
Park bluff which helped bring the
breeze down from 25 to 15-18.
Christian Pillat did not even bother using
a chute in the first race of five
races as he won the start and held on to
hold off his rapidly closing
brother, JP, and that was the story of the
whole regatta. Christian won all
five races, but every one was
competitive.
JP held on to finish second while
Stafford Taillon finished third.
Rich Hall was present and handed out
the awards to the winners.
Junior Regatta
1. Christian Pillat 5 pts
2. Matt Smith 13 pts
3. JP Pillat 16 pts
 Classifieds:
Boats and Motors WANTED: Energetic sailing minded
By: George Carey staff for the 2003 season. If interested,
please contact:
Our powerboat fleet was up and running
for the whole 2002 season. What a John Peterson
relief! Our thanks go out to the staff for 9000 N. Pelham Pkwy.
doing a great job taking care of our new
Milwaukee, WI 53217
motors. Jason Brown kept track of the
service requirements and we all 414-352-3678
appreciate his good work. jspete@earthlink.net
For the 2003 season, it was our belief
that two of our Scots, Malcolm and
Peppermint, were not up to EYC
standards for safe use. These two boats
have been retired from EYC and have
found a nice home with Andy Sargent
and will be used for a youth boat
reconstruction-training program. EYC
has therefore, replaced these boats with
two nice used Scots that came to our
attention from the excellent work of Lal
Burridge. You may recall that it was Lal
who brought “ Fern” to EYC a few years
ago. The two Scots will be #2611 and
#3506. They are in very good condition
and should service our needs quite well.
Lal and I will bring these boats up to
Ephraim in May so Mrs. Burridge can
get them off her patio in St. Louis.
John Peterson
9000 N. Pelham Pkwy.
Milwaukee, WI 53217