APRIL 2016 BEACON

Commodores Comments…

I think spring is trying to start, but Old Man winter keeps trying to hold on. The warm weather got me to remove the shrink-wrap off my boat but then the snow started again. We cannot control Mother Nature. One thing that I can control is getting the club ready to open. The Flag and our spouses attended the Blessing of the Fleet at the Mariners Church in Detroit where the club Burgee was blessed to ensure a good year. Sandi and I also attended the ABYA Midland rendezvous with other NCYC members, both signaling the start of the boating season for us. Please be sure your First Mates have saved the date for the Fashion show on April 30 th at Avante Banquet Hall in Clinton Township. Although the Elite Brigades officially start April 16 th , we have a fin in the water and there has been a good size, hard working group of members that have been at the island for weeks now doing the work of readying the club. The water is on, the bar project is well underway, and there are work lists for Harbor & Grounds and Clubhouse ready for workers to execute. Please come join us with your fellow members and enjoy the fun of getting the club and island shined up for 2016. We have a problem that I need you to solve, that the club needs you to solve. We are one weekend OD and 5-week managers short of filling the calendar. These are truly fun activities to take on to serve your club. Grab a friend or two and call Harley Burris to take on the week manager dates. If you want to fill the last weekend as OD, which is an open weekend with no events scheduled, please contact Tom Martin our NCYC Secretary to take it on. The Board of Directors has listened to the membership and their concern with the issue of work hours not being fairly distributed across all of the weekends at the island. Your 2016 Board has put a process in place to ensure we do not repeat the issues going forward. Our Secretary Tom Martin has been working with the weekend OD’s to level the work force.