Dear Friends,

This weekend, the weather is expected to be exceptionally fine. Celebrate July 4^th with expanded al fresco dining on our porch and lawn. Savor a drink or dinner with table service while enjoying our marvelous views of the Manhattan skyline.

July 4^th Weekend:

Launch

24 Hour Launch Service begins on weekends beginning July 3-5.

Weekday Launch Service: 8am-12am.

Remember to wear your mask on the dock and on the launch.

Dining

Enjoy our delicious menu expanded with holiday specials. Call to reserve your table or order take-out service to your boat via the launch: trevorcooke2006@gmail.com or (718) 885-2487 x2.

New Restaurant Food Service Hours

• Wednesday, 4-11 pm
• Friday, 12-10 pm
• Saturday, 12-10 pm
• Sunday, 12-10 pm

Reminder: while the restaurant is open for service, outside food and drink is limited to the dock and the yard.

 

Our Steward, Trevor Cooke

Just a little biographical information that I just learned: Trevor was a 9/11 First Responder and worked in the smoke and dust searching for survivors and retrieving the dead. It is an honor to be working with one of our heroes and it’s great to have Trevor as part of our club family.

City Island Junior Sailing Scholarship Fundraiser Support our Junior Program by purchasing CIYC branded swag at: https://stores.coralreefsailing.com/city_island_yacht_club/shop/home 15% of your purchase will go to our scholarship fund. Or, even better, sponsor a youth shirt for one of our sailors.

July 6^th The club finally opens fully. All rooms will be open at 50% capacity with 6’ distancing rules in place. Save a life! Wear your mask.

July 8^th Full outdoor plated service begins. Ask for our full dinner menu and the weekly specials.

July 16^th The Spring General Membership Meeting will take place beginning at 7:30 pm via Zoom. The Emergency Declaration of New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, prohibits gatherings of more than 25. On legal advice, we will meet remotely in order to maximize participation, and maintain social distancing.  Watch for an email with the link to the meeting.

 July 17^th Our first TGIF Sunset Series Race. Entry is required, no fee. 7:00pm start. Jib and Main only. Short course around the buoys and back to the club for dinner and celebration. http://www.cityislandyc.org/sailing/tgifsunsetseries/

 

Log-In When You Come to CIYC

• To continue keeping everyone safe, we ask that you log in with your name and a phone number when you come onto the site.
• The logbook on the West Porch is for the purpose of contact tracing if someone (God forbid) should fall ill. Your compliance will help us contact you should that become necessary.

Masks

• Please wear your mask at all times while on the CIYC site, except when you are eating, drinking or smoking. Children under 2 and those who cannot tolerate a mask due to health conditions are exempt.
• Stay safe!
• Wear a Mask!
• Wash Your Hands!

See you on the water and at the club!

Commodore Ira S. Bigeleisen

The Hempstead Harbor day cruise on Aug 25 was a great day!  With good weather – blue skies, 80 degree temps and a gentle breeze, the Restless, Five Star, March Hare, Snowgoose, First Rate, Jupiter 2, Airplane, and Adagio made the quick, two hour jaunt to Hempstead Harbor.  Our pin boat, Ed Woolsey’s Five Star, anchored first.  Then, all other boats rafted up in an organized fashion with no dings in the gel coat or bruised egos.  After getting settled in, we wasted no time starting cocktail hour with some great mixed drinks, beer, Proseco (Airplane’s specialty), and soft drinks.  With the warm weather and a few drinks under our belts, several crew members jumped in the water and cooled off quite effectively.  Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my drone for aerial photos.  Instead, Dave Z. volunteered to go aloft in the world’s most comfortable bosun’s chair and took some great aerial pix.  Check out the video below.  Once the grills were fired up, we cooked many thick steaks (thanks, Ira) and had a delicious dinner with a variety of appetizers and side dishes.  I think that I sampled appetizers from every boat.  Yum!  One of the highlights was the cruise back to City Island.  After a beautiful sunset, a full moon rose, the breeze picked up and we had a wonderful ride home.

 

CIYC OYSTER BAY Newsletter by Frank Palmieri

Fun was had by all during the Cruise to Oyster Bay and Sagamore Yacht Club June 16-17, 2018. No more need be said, but they told me I had to, so here it is.

The CIYC Cruising season opened with a cruise to Oyster Bay’s Sagamore YC, a 20 mile (approx.)  journey from City Island on Saturday June 16^th. Five boats participated including Restless captained by Roger Landau and wife Laurie with crew Saul Ostroff (brother-in-law), Clara Luna (Sister -in-law) joined by Gordon Murray, and Katherine DeFoyd; Excalibur captained by Charles Hurd with friend Wendy; Tara Captained by Christian Kramer and his wife; Rita captained by Arthur Sa with Jacqueline Kerr and CIAO captained by this author and wife Gigi joined by his son, Frank and his wife, Anna (taking pictures). 

The weather could not have been better for the sail up except for the absence of one critical factor – wind. There was precious little of it and most of us ended firing up the iron wind. By 5 PM Saturday all boats were snug at their moorings. Sagamore YC particularly Dockmaster Eric Smith was most hospitable and grouped our boats in one area near each other on the quiet east end of the Sagamore mooring fields near the beginning of West Harbor.

Everyone met at the Sagamore YC clubhouse overlooking beautiful Oyster Bay by 6 PM and got to know each other a little more before dinner.  The 5 boats carried 11 people, but several friends and relatives came by land and joined us for a total of 16. Charlie Hurd and this author discovered, after a few glasses of wine, that we were classmates in college 10 years ago (OK, so it was forty-one years ago-give me a break!).

Sagamore YC was most gracious in accommodating our group. We were greeted by the Commodore Constantine Baris during dinner.  Because it was Father’s Day weekend, but they had asked we use the “short” menu which turned out to be a very nice selection of fish, chicken or ziti Bolognese. All the food was excellent. The house wine selections were also very good as I tried multiple samplings just to make sure. They had live band music on the terrace (for an extra$15.00 charge) which some of us took advantage of. That evening turned out to be cool with a fresh light breeze. Excellent sleeping weather at a quiet peaceful mooring.

The next morning two boats decided to explore Oyster Bay and have breakfast. After a 10-minute walk into town, we discovered an excellent place called “Taby’s” had a pleasant breakfast with myself, Gigi Charlie and Wendy.

Some boats left late morning while others lingered for a bit hoping for a better turn of wind on the return trip but for most of us, the iron wind again held sway. All boats were back to CIYC by Sunday evening.