FEBRUARY 2017 BEACON

Rear Commodores Comments…

NCYC 2017 is definitely in full swing kicking off the year with the Commodore’s Ball. Everyone who was in attendance can attest to the good time had by all! Thank you Commodore Pat and his Lady Nancy Carroll for a wonderful evening. Each year the immediate Past Commodore has the daunting task of choosing the Hatzenbuhler and Spirit Award recipients. P/C Stroh’s choices were definitely hard to make with so many members going above and beyond the call of duty and gave so much of their time to our Club in 2016. Congratulations to Debbie Siwek, Glenn Nixon and Sheila Nixon, you are amazing and deserving members. Your Board is continually hard at work taking care of Club business to support a successful 2017. Some highlights are changing all of our banking needs to the Fifth Third Bank, recruiting and establishing the required Committees that support our projects and taking care of all the membership dues, and assisting the new Directors as they are jumping right in with their new roles and responsibilities. The NCYC 2017 Event Calendar has been populated and posted to our website. This is a great tool when planning your summer and scheduling your weekend visits to the island. Please take a minute to review so that you may attend our activities and events. We look forward to a great year full of participation! Coming up in March is the ABYA Spring Rendezvous and the Blessing of the Fleet at Mariners’ Church. Another important Board duty during the winter is to fill the Week Day managers list. As of now, we still have five weeks opened. If you or groups of you are thinking of taking a week, please reach out to Dick Raymond (captdout2c@yahoo.com/ 810-794-4850) as he will be pleased to help you find a suitable week and can provide you with more details. At the time of writing this article there are 73 days until the first Elite Brigade and 114 days to the opening weekend! We will be on our precious island before we know it. R/C Ian Blackburn