March 17, 2021 – General Membership Zoom Meeting
Is It Good Luck You’re Looking For? Look No Further than the March Zoom Meeting. Join us for all the Shenanigans! LIYC ZOOM General Meeting March 17 5:45 pm Zoom open mic, and no-host bar 6:00 pm Meeting starts 6:00 to 6:15 Announcements, short business portion of the meeting 6:15ContinueContinue Reading
Commodores Corner – March 2021
Howdy LIYC members, With the first Daffodil Sightings on Lopez Island comes the time to start preparing for spring boating. Having just ordered bottom paint and the parts to fix my pot puller, I will soon be ready for spring Prawns and Boating. Hopefully, with Covid numbers trending to theContinueContinue Reading
February Zoom Meeting Presentation: “Haida Gwaii by Camper, Ferry, and Zodiac”
Watch the Zoom Meeting Presentation by Gene Helfman Presented on: February 17, 2021If you didn’t have a chance to join the February Zoom meeting and missed the excellent presentation by Gene Helfman, no worries. Just click the link below and enjoy. The presentation is 40 minutes long, so grab anContinueContinue Reading
Love Letters & Poems to a Boat
Thanks to all who wrote a love letter or poem to your boat this month. Your words reveal all the joy, the sadness, the fun and the regret that love can bring. At the end of this posting please add your comment or, better yet, your own letter or poem.ContinueContinue Reading
Commodore’s Corner – February 2021
Dear LIYC members The entire LIYC Board and I would like to thank you for your patience this year. With the new vaccines rolling out, the hope is that we will be open by summer with some much needed normalcy, but as we try and plan spring and summer events, weContinueContinue Reading
Call for Love Letters to a Boat
Valentine’s Day is coming up and as Soundings editor I need your help again! Please write a short love letter or poem to your favorite boat. If you and your boat are going through a tough patch or breaking up, those letters are OK as well. Love is complicated. I’llContinueContinue Reading
Blue Skies
A Newsline Contribution by Scott Jennings My phone began ringing in the kitchen before I saw the boat, “Hey Scott, this is Larry – I’m out in front of your house sea trialing a new boat. Do you want to go for a ride?” Then came Larry’s big laugh. IContinueContinue Reading
January 20th 2021 General Membership Zoom Meeting
Get Ready for the 1st Meeting of the Year! LIYC ZOOM General Meeting January 20 5:45 pm Zoom open mic, and no-host bar 6:00 pm Meeting starts 6:00 to 6:05 Short video clip on what not to do as a Yacht Club 6:05 to 6:20 General discussion and planning sessionContinueContinue Reading
Commodore’s Corner – January 2021
Happy New Year, Yachties, and goodbye 2020 at last! It is an honor and a pleasure to serve as the 2021 LIYC Commodore. I will try to live up to the high standards set by the past commodores. That will be easy with the LIYC volunteer team working to makeContinueContinue Reading
A Christmas Story ~ 2020
Enjoy this audio visual montage of the historical journey taken by the brave Lopez Island Yacht Club Officers as they navigated the profound challenges posed by the 2020 global pandemic. We are blessed as a club to not only to have had these heroic leaders, but also by our membersContinueContinue Reading
Letters to Nautical Santa
This year Santa received 19 letters from Lopez Island Yacht Club members. As Santa’s representative, I read four a of them at this year’s Holiday Gathering on December 20. Here are all the letters I received for Santa. Of course, I’ve passed them on to him, and hope that allContinueContinue Reading
LIYC Annual Holiday Party!!!
Meeting Date: Wed, December 20, 2020.Login Time: 5:30 PM, No Host Bar.Meeting Starts: 6:00 PM. From the Vice Commodore, John Zaborsky: Dear Yachties, The LIYC Annual Holiday Party will be held using Zoom on December 20, 2020, at 6:00 pm. Commodore Russ Johnson will be updating us on the latestContinueContinue Reading
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