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February, 2016

Volume 38, Issue 2

Contents:

• From the

Commodore 1

• Calendar 2

• PICYA for all 3

• Places to Go 4

• Classifieds 9

Individual

Highlights:

Calendar 2 KCRA 8 Lake Level 8

Gold Country Yacht Club monthly Newsletter Call for more info: 530-272-6969

From the Commodore

March 2013

General Club

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I hope everyone is safe and sound after the storms that have passed through. I know we haven't been to the boat in a while now and are wishing that maybe El Nino would let up a bit...or maybe just rain Monday through Friday and give us the weekends for some fair weather sailing? Oh well, just dreaming out loud. It's nice to see Scotts Flat lake is filling up too along with Folsom, which by the way, Folsom Yacht Club is having their first race the 2nd Saturday in February, they can launch again, so if you want a "tune up" race, head on down... Here it is February already, the board has already got things going for the Regatta this year, if you are interested in helping out with some of the early preparations, I'm sure Stew Perry would love to hear from you. As you should know, we are a working club when it comes to the regatta, so please everyone be ready to pitch in. We discussed the PICYA meetings with the board and have come up with a novel idea. Instead of just one person going to all the meetings, how about going to represent the club at just one? If you're interested, please let us know, there is a full listing of the PICYA delegate meetings on their web site as well as in the news letter. Howard Hendrich Commodore

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At Our Helm

Commodore Howard Hendrich

530-272-6969 commodore@gcyc.net

Vice Commodore

Stewart Perry 530-887-9522

vicecommodore@gcyc.net

Secretary

Debbie Mack 925-899-0739

secretary@gcyc.net

Treasurer

Stephanie Perry 530-887-9522

treasurer@gcyc.net

Cruise Chair Lynn Buchanon 530-913-4283

Publicity/Membership

Hugh Talman 530-272-2344

membership@gcyc.net

Port Captain

Bill Gully 530-263-5994

portcaptain@gcyc.net

Race Chair Jerry Lewis

530-272-9380 race@gcyc.net

Sailing Education

Don Hare 916-774-6610

education@gcyc.net

Newsletter Editor Dave Cowell

530-272-3209 newsletter@gcyc.net

Note: Astrerisk events are not GCYC sponsored. February 1 GCYC Board of Directors Meeting #2 10 General Meeting-Alta Sierra Pizza & Grill March 9 General Meeting-Alta Sierra Pizza & Grill

28 GCYC Board of Directors Meeting #3

April 2

Raft Up’s Every Wednesday (3PM – sundown) April 6, 13, 20,27 *Trans Folsom Race - Folsom Lake

3 9

GCYC Club Race #1 GCYC Club Race #2

10 13

Work Party- SFL Clubhouse (10 AM) General Meeting- SFL Clubhouse

16-17 *Camellia Cup Regatta - Folsom Lake 23 *Konocti Cup Regatta - Clear Lake 24 *SFL No Motor Day/Open House 24 GCYC Club Race #3 25 GCYC Board of Directors Meeting #4 May 11 13-15

Raft Up’s Every Wednesday (3PM – sundown) May 4, 11, 18, 25 General Meeting-SFL Clubhouse Adult Sailing Class

14 21

GCYC Club Race #4 Work Party at SFL

22 GCYC Club Race #5 25 GCYC Board of Directors Meeting #5 General Meeting - SFL Clubhouse

28-29 *Whiskeytown Regatta - Redding

June 4-5

Raft Up’s Every Wednesday (3PM – sundown) 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 GO FOR THE GOLD REGATTA

Calendar

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Pacific Inter Club Yacht Association

PICYA is the one organization that interfaces between the yacht clubs of Northern California. Its history goes back over a hundred years to 1896 when five bay area yacht clubs wanted to standardize their functions and coordinate events. Today there are over 100 clubs in PICYA. PICYA mainly serves to help clubs with inter-club events and promotion of recrea-tional boating through the coordination and dissemination of information to the benefit of boaters. In this way PICYA started the Recreational Boaters of California (RBOC) which is a political advocacy organization (lobby) with the state Legislature. Every month PICYA has its Delegates Meeting around the state at one of the mem-ber clubhouses. Unfortunately these are always a distance away which makes it a possible burden to a member who has volunteered to be our delegate. For this reason we will not ask one member to be our delegate but rather all members. The meeting schedule is as follows: March 7 Benicia Yacht Club April 4 Pittsburg Yacht Club May 2 Oyster Point Yacht Club (S San Fr.) June 6 Stockton Yacht Club July 2 Delta Marina Yacht Club (Rio Vista) August 1 Sacramento Yacht Club September 12 Oakland Yacht Club October 3 Bridge Marina Yacht Club (Antioch) November 7 Encinal Yacht Club (Alameda) In addition there are two Leadership/Management Conferences on March 26 Martinez Yacht Club October 15 Loch Loman Yacht Club PICYA has several intra-mural contests in that it awards kudos to outstanding Yacht Clubs, the best Club Newsletter, and a number of member club individuals for Yacht-ing related activities. There’re even several PICYA scholarships for students ($2500). The Delegate Meetings seem a little snobbish when you read the Standing Rules for the association. You have to endure an Attitude Adjustment at 6:00 PM, Dinner (not to exceed $22.50) at 7:00 PM and the meeting at 8:00 PM and you’re expected to be attired in BLUE BLAZER with shirt (turtleneck OK) and slacks. (Maybe the club will buy a supply of blazers to outfit our delegates.) Actually, that’s just a recommendation but you will not be asked to talk about our club for more than three minutes nor ad-dress the assembly for more than five and you should take a miniature burgee to post at your dinner place setting. Anyone who has previously attended a Delegates Meeting is asked to come forward and relate the experience so as to prep the next person volunteering. Contact Stew or Howard. Delegates are expected to generate a report that the board can review and act on as necessary and to commend you on your stepping forward. If you want to be our delegate for a particular meeting please contact Howard or Stew and let him know your druthers. This looks to be a lot of fun and you get to hob-knob with the elite of the Bay area yacht clubs. Who knows where it could lead. See WWW.PICYA.ORG .

Club Notices Suggestion Box You can anonymously make recommendations to our board of directors with a mind to make this an even better yacht club! It can be found at www.gcyc.net or with this link:

Free Sailing Magazines Latitude 38 and 48 North magazines can be picked up anytime at 148 Richardson Street in Grass Valley. They are in the driveway in the BLUE MAILBOX. Usually we get them between the 2nd and 4th of the month. They are also available at the general meeting. Club Meetings The February meeting was held Wednesday the 11th. The next General meeting will be held Wednesday, March 11

th at the

Alta Sierra Pizza & Grill; dine from 6pm, Commodore’s bell at 7pm to start the meeting. (The club meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month but December, and two Wednes-days before the Gold Country Regatta.) Dues Club dues for current members should be paid before 1 April. Forms available at :

http://gcyc.net/gcyc-

membership.html

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Places to Go

Last year was a disaster for sailing on California lakes. The drought had eliminated accessibility at most or created an overcrowding situation at the rest. The main question asked when you needed a sailing fix was "What is there left to sail on?". But this year looks to be something totally different as most all lakes are being filled by El Nino. So the new ques-tions are "Where can I go within a day's drive?" and "What can I expect to find there?" And so we have created the GCYC "List of Local Lakes for Sailing". The 3LS is not meant to be a complete compendium of water bodies in California but to offer suggestions of where to go if for some reason Scotts Flat Lake isn't suitable or you find yourself elsewhere needing a sailing fix and want to "just add water". If you have recent experience at any of these lakes and want to add your knowledge to the public weal, please do so. As a regular feature We'll take them individually and expound on their features and suitability for sailing. Your in-puts may be more recent or in greater depth and so are valuable. (But as Jack Webb often said "Just the facts, Ma'm.") Some of these lakes may become a GCYC Cruise destination and so we'll try to describe them in advance of the scheduled trip. In that vein if you're interested in one of them as an early go-to place we can put out feelers or make a field trip to explore it. It'll become first priority. We hope you'll make a field report after your trip though. Besides our specific club knowledge we'll use Google Earth, Microsoft Maps and Active Captain to ferret out infor-mation. As a basic source we have Recreation Lakes of California (Tenth Edition) to start with. Generally we've picked lakes over 500 acres in size within a reasonable driving distance which is measured from Grass Valley. The lakes are grouped by their relative locale or distance from home.

Englebright and Rollins Lakes Our first lakes are the most local ones, Englebright and Rollins. Englebright is located down Highway 20 just before you get to Smartsville. It’s an easy drive to get there. There are two launch ramps, one straight down a long grade from the main road at the dam and the second down a winding road with some pretty tight switchbacks at Joe Miller ravine. Once at the lake by the dam you’ll see a very steep ramp with almost no place to set up your mast. At issue is that trees are everywhere and overhead clearance a potential problem. The second ramp at Joe Miller is a little more open but has a narrow road down to the ramp. The water everywhere is deep and stays that way throughout the year as Englebright is not a storage reservoir. The water is also very cold. It comes from the Colgate Powerhouse which is fed from the bottom of Bullards Bar reservoir. Englebright is managed by the Corps of Engineers and so has com-pletely different rules than a NID or PG&E lake. The prices are also completely out of balance with other lakes in that a day use will only cost $5, season pass $40, and season camping $20. Golden Pass holders get it all for free. Once away from ramp the first thing you see is that the cove is packed with houseboats. This is a recreation area that has only camp sites accessible by boat and houseboats are the rule for the rest. There are almost zero beaches and the shoreline is generally steep and covered with scrub and live oak trees and brush. Camp sites are first-come-first-serve so there’s some real contention for a favorite spot. The lake is narrow and in a deep canyon with an East-West orientation so that winds will always be down the lake. The pattern for wind speeds is pretty well the same as for SFL which is only ten miles upriver but temps are higher due to the lower elevation. The coves are pretty well protect-ed but will attract water skiers and fisherman. This is a put-and-take lake for fishing as the cold water is perfect for trout survival and the lake gets a lot of planting. The upper end of the lake has a speed limit and so is devoid of skiers. It also opens up a bit where the South Fork and North Forks of the Yuba come together. There are some major gravel and sand bars here left from the 1870 hy-draulic mining which is why they built the dam in the 1930’s, to catch the debris from the diggings. But, there’s a haz-ard involved in that there is a major current which fluctuates with Colgate operation. Anchor on a gravel bottom in still water for a nap and wake up to a five knot current. Englebright has a going commercial houseboat and powerboat rental business. You can bring your relatives and put them up in a rental in your own cove while you sail off into the sunset. One of our members, Seth, has recently ac-quired a houseboat on Englebright so maybe we’ll have to plan an outing to visit him.

See http://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Locations/SacramentoDistrictParks/EnglebrightLake.aspx or else

http://englebrightlake.com for the best information.

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Englebright Lake

Prep area at Dam Launch Ramp Dam Launch Ramp

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Rollins Lake is another artificial lake in the Nevada Irrigation District’s system. Like Scotts Flat it is managed by NID for water storage and support of water customers although it has one major difference. It is smack dab in the middle of PG&E’s Yuba-Bear Power Generation system. The Bear river, on which Rollins sits, is not a large drainage river and so has little runoff for storage. For that reason the lake would be just like Scotts except that the PG&E power houses all empty into it. They get their water from the Upper Division lakes which are major storage reservoirs and so have water throughout the year. NID keeps Rollins full as a backup for the water supply coming through PG&E’s sys-tem. If something happens to one of the power houses or canals then Rollins is used to keep NID’s water flowing until repairs are made. To get to Rollins you only have to go down Highway 174 from Grass Valley. The turnoff in Chicago Park is at Orchard Springs Road and you’re there. In fact there are three launch areas on Rollins but Orchard Springs is the one most suitable for sailboat launching. The ramp and pre-launch area is wide and without any encumbrances. The dock ex-tends well out from the ramp. If you have a NID pass for Scotts then it’s valid for Rollins otherwise prices are the same. Rollins is like Englebright in that the shoreline pretty well remains the same and so there aren’t many places to go ashore. From the aerial you can see the narrow fingers that make up Rollins. The winds are much more interactive with the Delta Breeze due to the South-West orientation of the lake and can be pretty heavy when that system is go-ing. The major drawback to Rollins is its proximity to I-80 and accessibility for Sacramento boaters and that it allows personal watercraft which means there are jet skis all over the place. During the week it’s a lot less crowded and is a good bet if there’s no water left in Scotts Flat.

Rollins Lake

You can find all the pertinent information at http://orchardspringscampground.com and

http://nidwater.com/recreation .

The following page is a listing of all the lakes which we feel are within a three day weekend’s voyage. Some would be

better suited for a week cruise such as Shasta, Tahoe and Almanor due to their size and some would be best left for

just a visit if you’re in the area for some other reason.

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General Lake Information

Lake Area (ac) Elevation Driving Distance

Rollins Lake 825 2100 10.1

Scotts Flat 850 3100 11.7

Englebright 815 527 15.3

Camp Far West Lake 2000 320 25.1

Bullards Bar 4700 2000 28.2

Collins 1200 1200 29.3

Folsom Lake 11930 300 39.7

Oroville Dam 15500 900 60.8

Jackson Meadow 6200 59.8 / 92.8

Little Grass Valley 1615 5040 71

Gold Lake 6000 69

Bucks 1827 5153 85

Indian Valley 3800 1476 102

Butt Valley 4150 115

Almanor 28000 4500 127

Berryessa 13000 98

Clear Lake 43000 1320 112

Black Butte 4500 470 109

Stony Gorge 1275 800 116

Shasta 29500 1067 155

Whiskeytown 3220 1209 154

Donner 5963 51

Tahoe 6229 70

Stampede 3440 5949 72

Prosser 740 5711 60

Boca 980 5700 65

Lake Davis 4026 5775 107

Frenchman 1580 5588 111

Jenkinson 640 3478 68

Pardee 2200 568 109

Camanche 7700 235 102

Lake Washington 10 63

Sacramento Delta 0 103

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Latest Information

KCRA interviews Scott and Dave at Folsom While they were working on Scott’s Santana 20 to get it ready to go sailing, the News crew of KCRA Channel 3 showed up. Sharokina Shams and her cameraman proceeded to interview our early bird sailors about the water level in Folsom and the outlook for the season. Although Dave and Scott waxed eloquently about sailing, boats, GCYC and other subjects only a couple of sound bites made it into the Saturday Six O’clock News. Still, they had a grand time smoozing with the television crew at the boat yard and again at the Purple Grill during lunch. Perhaps they can invite their new friends to the Go for the Gold Regatta?

Scotts Flat Lake is Useable

This is a Monday photo of the lake.

J24 Sloop.

Very fast 1980 race boat. Hull and standing rigging is in good condition with many updates. Has large sail inventory including 2 spinnakers, several sets of working sails and one brand new set of racing sails. Carbon fiber spinnaker pole, duplicate set of blocks and sheets. Tactic sail computer, Sony marine am/fm dvd player stereo and VHF marine radio. Single axle trailer and a great mooring spot at Scotts Flat Lake.

$5900. Call Seth - 530 292 3274

Classifieds

Flying Junior Sailboat for Sale Contact Bryant Cockroft for more information: . 530-265-5196 or email cockcroft@hughes.net 13.25’ molded fiberglass centerboard dinghy. Club youth and collegiate racer. Used but good condition with nearly new Pineapple sails. No trailer Asking $600