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November2020

Season’s Greetings to All.

It’s been hard to imagine that we are into the Xmas season – the weather has been great for most of November. I hope you and your families have enjoyed this and at least reconnected somehow for Thanksgiving.December promises to be more “seasonal” and unfortunately coincides with a large spike in the Covid numbers. Obviously, this has hurt the restaurant business and the board and galley committee have resolved to cut losses to the minimum while maintaining our commitment to use our relief money to keep minimal staff employed. We don’t want to start from scratch when vaccines and/or spring get us going again.

Our always great Christmas party has been put on hold and any large gatherings are precluded for the next few months. We hope they can be reimagined as a season opening gala when feasible. The bar has been open and still offers a limited menu. We do have room to stay under limits and social distance plus some heaters for nicer days on the deck.

Thanks to all who worked on decorating inside and out – the place looks good and just in time to match the cities holiday lighting. Also again this year we have had very good response to our Christmas Charities collaboration with member Karl Erickson’s ELCA Urban Outreach. The need is certainly there and members have been very generous.

I hope as many as possible can make the virtual December member meeting as we deal with current finances, a budget for next year, and proposed By-law changes as well as our usual committee reports. Remember attending a meeting counts as an hour towards your membership service requirement which we do on the honor system – there is an entry to report this on our website.

Hope to see or hear from you all – lets all pull together and support the mission of the club and get us thru to better times.

Happy Holidays.

Ron Otto, Commodore

Upcoming Events

• Next KYC Membership Meeting is Wednesday December 2nd @ 7:00pm
  • This will be a video meeting.
  
  

Board Members

Announcements

• Dock & Derrick(Doug Vacarello)
  • With the high winds we have had it would be wise to come to KYC and check how your cover is doing on your boat. Some are loose and others have some damage. Come down when the club is open and spend some money.
    
    thanks, Doug
    
  
  

• Sailboat Racing(John Weiss)

  • As we look to the holidays and see visions of COVID vaccines dance in our heads, I think we can be optimistic for a better 2021. By the time you read this, you will have had your socially distant Thanksgiving and we will have scheduled our “Post 2020 Race Season” meeting and begin plans for the 2021 race season. I can tell you, summer 2021 can’t come quick enough but in the meantime, here are a few things you can do to speed up the time:
    
    Wednesday Mixed Nuts- hopefully this will continue through the winter. I’ll try to attend a few and make sure the BS that I sling has exaggerated sufficiently to meet the other BSers :)
    Iceboating- there will be ice this winter. To know what going on, you can get updates at
    https://www.iceboat.org
    https://www.niteiceboats.org
    Vendee Globe Virtual Regatta-https://www.virtualregatta.com/en/- I think you can still join mid-race. There are several KYC racers participating.
    
    I’m thankful that we have such a great yacht club with awesome members. My holiday wish for all KYC sailors/boaters is for you to be safe, get through the offseason and we’ll see you on the water soon!!
    
    
    

  • We have aMail Group for KYC sailboat racing
    

  • To register, go tohttps://groups.io/g/kyc-racing/
    You have to opt-in to this list if you’d like to receive email updates specific to KYC sailboat racing. You can choose to receive individual posts or daily digests, etc. You can also unsubscribe.This Group will provide information on KYC racing topics.
    
    

    John

    
    

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Good Winds: (by: Joyce Rinehart)

• We send out warm wishes for healing and hope to all who have family and friends who have been touched by the Covid virus. Stay strong and stay safe.
  

If you or someone you know of is in need of some Good Winds, please let me know. We do acknowledge celebrations as well as difficult times in our member's lives.Joyce can be reached atgoodwinds@kenoshayachtclub.comor 262-945-9183

Joyce Rinehart

Letter From The Editor

Ahoy!