1 BOW N n STERN STERN BOW The Sheboygan Yacht Club June 2018 Dates to Remember Commodore s Comments Spring has finally officially arrived, and there are many exciting things for us members to look forward to in the months ahead! Let s face it, if you are a boat owner or just a summer enthusiast, our season is very short here in Sheboygan. We have to take full advantage of this time of year and what better place to enjoy the beauty of the lakefront than at your club! The basin will start to fill with our favorite pastime, the grounds will be manicured, the events will be plentiful, and the club will be at its best! This is our time to shine! This is what we wait for so long all winter, and it is finally here! Our club is special year-round but the months ahead are when we show our true colors! Do yourself a favor and come down and enjoy all that we have to offer. Invite your friends to join you. It is a special time of year! If you have not heard yet, the House Committee has a very exciting announcement. They have hired a professional chef and a few of his past staff for our galley operations. We are so happy to welcome Chef Benjamin Sommerfeldt to our family! He brings to us a very impressive resume with his most recent position being Head Chef and Manager of Lola s on the Lake at the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake. Chef Benjamin fully understands the dynamics of our club s dining needs, and he will look to enhance them in all aspects. He will provide us with some outstanding specials and entrées along with what he describes as simple food done right. Chef Benjamin s first brunch this past Mother s Day was simply amazing! Approximately 230 lucky people got just a glimpse of what we have to look forward to with this very talented crew! I truly believe this galley staff will take our club to a new level that we have not seen before! Please come down and taste for yourself; you will not be disappointed! Next on the club s agenda is the Lakefront Open House which is scheduled for Saturday, 2 June. Please invite your friends, tell your co -workers or anyone else that may have an interest in joining. Our Membership Committee, along with many other organizations on the lakefront, have put together a special day to showcase what we have to offer the community. Plan on spending the day and then kick off the Unofficial Start of Summer with our popular Sock Burning Party! Exciting times ahead! See you at our club! ~Commodore Mike June 2 June June July July 14 28 3 4 Lakefront Open House and Sock Burning General Membership Meeting SYC Book Club Venetian Night Brat Fry, Dinner, and Fireworks Hours LUNCH 11:30 to 1:30 Wed-Thu-Fri DINNER 5:00 to 9: 00 Tuesday through Sunday **Dinner reservations recommended** BAR 11:00 to close Wed through Sunday 4:00 to close Tuesday Mondays House Manager Sean Pieters Chef Benjamin Sommerfeldt Service Manager Jordon Eckhardt Office Manager Kori Novicki Treasurer Jennifer Spicer Commodore Mike Knop Vice Commodore Mark Wessel Recording Secretary Leighanne Metter -Jensen Rear Commodore Dan Gruenke Membership Secretary Jeanette Wierzbach Contents Commodore s Comments SYC Club Calendar SYC Book Club New SYC Members Sail Sheboygan Lakefront Open House Coast Guard Seeks PFDs New SYC Staff New Menus Kentucky Derby Photos Mother s Day Photos Venetian Night and July Fourth s s 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 5 6-7 8-9 10 11 Bow N Stern Editor, Ronald F. Abler Copy is due to rabler@aag.org on the 20th of the month prior to issue month Club Phone: 920 458 6601 1
2 SYC June 2018 Calendar of Events Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 May 1 June 2 June No Brunch Bar 4:00-close 3 June 4 June 5 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June Bar 4:00-close 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June Bar 4:00-close General Membership Meeting 7:15 p.m. 17 June 18 June 19 June 20 June 21 June 22 June 23 June Bar 4:00-close D 5:00-9: 00 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 June Bar 4:00-close D 5:00-9: 00 SYC Book Club 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 7 July Happy Hour @ SYC 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. $0.50 OFF drinks during Happy Hours Every Night Except Fridays & Club Meeting nights Venetian Night Special Menu Bar 10:00-close Brat Fry in the Pavilion 11:00-2:00 Special Menu New Moon Full Moon D 5:00-9: 00 Marie Larson on the piano 2
3 SYC Book Club *The June meeting of the SYC Book Club will meet on Thursday, June 28 at 6:00 p.m. Selection: Wisconsin tie Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr. ***NO JULY or AUGUST MEETINGS!*** Welcome New Members Helen Mullison Carl and Kathryn Martens Postal Service Honors First American Woman in Space Nearly 35 years after space shuttle Challenger mission STS-7 launched on 18 June 1983 with astronaut Sally Ride as a mission specialist, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) honored her, America s first woman in space, with a Forever stamp that was launched on 23 April 2018. The first-day-of-issue dedication ceremony took take place at the University of California, San Diego, where Ride served as a physics professor after retiring from NASA. Personalized Mortgage Solutions from Wisconsin Bank & Trust Whether you are buying your first home, expanding your real estate investments, or refinancing an existing home, you can count on the mortgage experts at Wisconsin Bank & Trust to offer straight forward and dependable advice. Contact Yacht Club member Jim Wind Mortgage Loan Originator for a free consultation at 920-208-5761 Direct; 920-889-4576 Cell; or jwind@wisconsinbankandtrust NMLS #1325775 Equal Housing Lender Member FDIC Advertise in the SYC Bow n Stern Monthly rates, billed quarterly $30.00 business card size; $50.00 ¼ ; $75.00 ½. Ads are always welcome. Submit to rabler@aag.org by the 20th of the month prior to publication. 3
4 Sail Sheboygan The United States Yngling Association is excited to announce it is partnering with Sail Sheboygan and the Sheboygan Yacht Club to host a three-regatta series including the 2019 International Yngling Class World Championship and the 2018 and 2019 North American Championships as feeder events. Designed in Norway in 1967 by Jan Linge, the Yngling is a 20-foot open cockpit keelboat that is commonly thought of as a smaller version of his Soling design. The Yngling is sailed with a crew of three with a sail plan that includes a main, jib, and spinnaker. In the US there are currently only four active Yngling fleets and 50 registered boats, but it is a popular race boat in Northern Europe and Australia where the class attracts 40-60 boats annually at the Open World Championship Regatta. The class saw a resurgence in number of boats built and improved sail design when the Yngling appeared at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics as the Women s Keelboat. Sheboygan native, Christine Kronich, joined the Minnetonka Yacht Club Yngling fleet eighteen years ago when she was offered a boat by a co-worker who was being transferred out of state. After sailing three World Championships herself, in Denmark 2008, Norway 2015 and Austria 2016, she thought her home town would serve as a perfect venue for the class as the Europeans were encouraging the US to take another turn at hosting the Worlds, the last of which was held in Newport, RI in 2000. Sheboygan sits about equidistant between three of the four active clubs, those being, Alpena, MI, Minnetonka, MN, Okoboji, IA and Sakonnet, RI, providing a central location for the North American regattas that will serve as tune ups for the 2019 Open World Championship. Lake Michigan provides more appropriate sailing conditions for the Yngling than the inland lakes and Sheboygan s proximity to Chicago will provide easy travel for Worlds competitors. When the bid was presented to the International Yngling Association, Sail Sheboygan was a familiar name associated with excellent race management, and an easy sell. The 2018 Yngling North American Championship will take place 1-5 August at Sail Sheboygan. You can find the NOR and link to online registration at usa.yngling.org. Charter boats are available for the event and questions about these events can be directed to Sail Sheboygan or Christine Kronich at ckronich@hotmail.com 2018 Lakefront Open House The organizations on the Sheboygan Lakefront invite you to Get to know your Lakefront! On Saturday, 2 June, the Sheboygan Yacht Club (SYC), the Sailing Education Association of Sheboygan (SEAS), the Sheboygan Youth Sailing Center (SYSC), the Harbor Centre Marina, the US Coast Guard Sheboygan Station, and more are hosting an open house with activities from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The day begins with FREE sailboat rides with SEAS and SYSC including rides for individuals with disabilities. If you ve ever wanted to go for a sail, here s your chance. The Harbor Centre Marina will be having boat safety checks, boat vendor displays, and a brat fry from 11:00 to 1:00 p.m. The US Coast Guard will have tours and Coastie the talking boat for the kids. From 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. you will be allowed to BURN YOUR OLD FLARES off the shore behind the SYC. Take advantage of your lakefront has to offer. Sea Scouts will be on the lakefront rigging their boats for the summer sailing season. Stop in and chat to find out what this group of scouts is all about and how to get your kids involved. You are invited to the SYC to discover the benefits of membership and to dine at the Club. Whether it s a snack on the patio or dinner inside, you ll see what the new Chef Benjamin Sommerfeldt is creating. At 7:00 p.m. bring your worn-out socks to the Yacht Club for the Sock Burning Party which officially kicks off the sailing season, as we say goodbye socks, hello flip flops. Staff and volunteers will be on hand throughout the day to answer questions about all the participating organizations and how you can get involved in your lakefront. No matter what your boating skill may be, there is a place for you on the Lakefront. We are looking forward to showing you how. All events will take place from the US Coast Guard Station along Broughton Drive to the Harbor Centre Marina Sheboygan. Visit www.seasheboygan.org/event-calendar for all the details. No registration needed. Please Consider Going Digital If you receive the SYC Bow'N'Stern by mail, consider the advantages of receiving the newsletter via email. Your issue will arrive days earlier than the mailed version, you save SYC money, and you will be able to see photos and other graphic content in gorgeous color. To sign up for the digital version, please contact me at rabler@aag.org or Office Manager Kori Novicki at office@sheboyganyachtclub.com Thanks. ~Ron Abler, Bow'N'Stern Editor 4
5 News from the SYC House Committee and the House Manager We have hired a Professional Chef for the SYC Galley!!! This is exciting news at an exciting time for our club. Sean has brought together an awesome management team to move our club to the next level of dining experience. Don t worry we know who we are and there will always be many dining options available to our members! First things first: Let us introduce Chef Benjamin Sommerfeldt who will began his employment with us on 9 May. Chef Benjamin comes to us from the Osthoff Resort where he has been employed for six years, most recently as Chef de Cuisine at Lola s on the Lake and L ecole de la Maison, that is, Head Chef at Lola s and Manager of their French Cooking School. Prior to that he was Restaurant Chef at the Wisconsin Room at the American Club in Kohler. Chef Sommerfeldt does understand the variety of menus we expect at the club from burgers to fish fry to seafood and steak. He is looking forward to making all of those entrées flavorful along with a great dining experience or a laid back experience around the bar. He also understands the business of running a profitable organization an important skill for our Club s success!!! Chef Benjamin is very professional and personable and loves to touch and visit with every table he serves. You WILL see him in the dining room! A Chef s Table is something you will want to try!!! He is exited to get started on his new journey and we are looking forward to his expertise! He has already planned and executed a Mother s Day Brunch that was spectacular. Please join us in welcoming Benjamin to our SYC family! Sean also recently added Jordon Eckhardt to the SYC staff in the role of Service Coordinator. Jordon s experience is far and wide! From Lead Waiter at the Riverbend in Kohler, to Waiter at two very high end restaurants in Australia, to studying for his Level 1 and Level 2 Court of Master Sommelier he knows his wine! Jordon s role is to provide food and drink service to our club membership effortlessly. He oversees the duties and responsibilities of the service staff. His goals include increasing our service standard and overall drink knowledge along with bringing the team together to work as one. Jordon is looking forward to having our service reflect the beautiful food of our new chef. If you have not met Jordon yet, please introduce yourself and welcome him into the SYC family as well. Sean has put together an awesome management team, just in time for the summer! Come on down and enjoy your club, meet the new staff, check out the new dining experience, and bring your friends! ~Denise Cornell, House Committee Chair ~Sean Pieters, House Manager Coast Guard Life Jacket Collection Please bring life jackets that you d like to donate to the Coast Guard to the General Membership Meeting on 10 June. The Coast Guard is starting a life jacket station on the beach for the public to use. They are part of a Water Safety Task Force to make beach and water activities safer. Contact Bea Van Geffen at bvangeffen@charter.net to set up a date if you have life jackets(s) you d like to donate and can t get to the meeting. ~Bea Van Geffen Professional yacht surveying Discount for SYC members Richard Reichelsdorfer 920.889.0758 rich@marineproservice.com www.marineproservice.com Offering pre-purchase, insurance, appraisals and damage surveys SAMS Survey Associate ABYC Certified Marine Technician USCG Master 100-Ton 5
6 Dinner Menu Starters House Made Soup cup 3.50 bowl 5.50 Beer Battered Gibbsville Cheese Curds buttermilk ranch dressing 8.50 Jalapeno Popper Dip grilled pita 7.50 KC Pork Wild Wings sauce -buffalo, sweet chili, hot garlic, honey garlic, maple bourbon barbeque Slaw, ranch or bleu cheese dressing half pound 8.50 pound 15 Deer Creek Local Cheese Flight The Stag cheddar, Blue Jay blue cheese, 7 year cheddar, tomato jam, lavosh, spiced almond, grape 18 Smoked Chicken Wings sauce -buffalo, sweet chili, hot garlic, honey garlic, maple bourbon barbeque ranch or bleu cheese dressing half pound 8.50 pound 15 Salads add: grilled chicken 6 salmon 12 shrimp 13 Caesar romaine lettuce, SarVecchio parmesan, crouton, Caesar dressing 8 Roasted Pear mixed greens, spiced pecan, buttermilk bleu cheese, riesling vinaigrette 11 SYC House mixed greens, heirloom carrot, European cucumber, tomato, scallion, white balsamic vinaigrette 7 Asian bibb, romaine, avocado, orange, pickled ginger, scallion, almond, lemon soy vinaigrette 12 Sandwiches all sandwiches served with kettle chips Miesfelds Steak Sandwich caramelized onions, pickle chips, Sheboygan hard roll 9.50 Jib Burger half pound angus burger, vine ripened tomato, bibb lettuce, pickle, stone ground mustard aioli, brioche bun 9.50 Barbequed Pork Sandwich creamy coleslaw, bread and butter pickle, pretzel bun 11 French Dip Sandwich shaved prime rib, crimini mushroom, onion frills, au jus, hoagie bun 14 BLT Sandwich Neuskies bacon, vine ripened tomato, bibb lettuce, onion, garlic aioli, 9 grain bread 12.50 Grilled Chicken Sandwich bibb lettuce, tomato, lemon basil pesto, brioche bun 10.50 Sides french fries 2 basket 4 / sweet potato fries 3 basket 5 / onion rings 3 basket 5 coleslaw 2.50 / cottage cheese 3 / fresh fruit 4 / raw veggies & ranch 3 6
7 Dinner Menu Entrées Choice of house made soup or salad Potato Crusted Walleye Shrimp mouselline, fennel tomato salad, pernod beurre blanc 28 Seared Norwegian Salmon herbed potato gnocchi, spring pea, tomato, spring onion, dill butter, crème fraiche 26 Grilled Smoked Pork Chop Neuskies bacon braised mustard greens, polenta cake, maple bourbon barbeque sauce 22 Lemon Ricotta Ravioli spring onion, mushroom, asparagus, spinach, pea, fire roasted tomato sauce 18 Blackened Ribeye roasted cauliflower risotto, beet puree, charred spring onion butter 32 Shrimp Scampi linguini pasta, tomato, pea, asparagus, pearl onion, SarVecchio parmesan, lemon basil pesto 27 Grilled Airline Chicken Breast chive and crème fraiche smashed potato, grilled broccolini, lemon herb cream 21 Little Skippers Menu 10 Choice of side vegetables, French fries, onion rings, kettle chips, raw vegetable Includes small ice cream sundae Mac & Cheese Chicken Tenders Choice of barbecue, honey mustard or ranch Kids Burger KidsCheeseburger Grilled Chicken Breast Grilled Cheese Dessert House made dessert selections 7
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11 Sheboygan Yacht Club Fourth of July Events 2018 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, 3 July, Venetian Night Bar Hours Dinner Hours 11:00 a.m. Close 5:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Special Dinner Menu and Salad Bar Reservations Requested! Venetian Parade at dusk in the Harbor Come on Down and Enjoy the Party ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wednesday, 4 July, Independence Day Bar opens at 10:00 a.m. The Brat Fry in the Pavilion 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Join us after the parade! Dining Hours 5:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Special Dinner Menu and Salad Bar - Inside Reservations Requested! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fireworks at dusk! Happy Birthday USA!! See you here! 11