Nice to see a few boats emerging from their winter hibernation and in the water already... flowers blooming, pollen counts skyrocketing, it must be Spring!
We expect that the center parking island will start clearing out as things warm up and the lake beckons us all back out on the water, but do please keep an eye on the calendar and remember that all boats must be in their “proper summer storage” assigned locations by May 15th. This applies to all moorage, no creative parking please as this makes the Port Captain very cranky and nobody wants that.
If you have wet moorage and are keeping your empty boat trailer in Row J over the summer, please make sure your name and OR registration number are clearly marked on the trailer tongue. If you want empty boat trailer storage and haven't already done so you will need to submit a moorage request for that. Parking in Row J is “festival seating”, i.e. you can park in any available space, but we do assign location numbers (i.e. ticket numbers) for each trailer for billing purposes and to keep from overbooking the row. We will have overflow parking available in the field next door after the farmer cuts, bales, and picks up his hay but the date for that is not certain.
Speaking of billing, you should be receiving your summer billing statement shortly if you haven't already. With the 2024 Moorage confirmation emails we sent out and the Existing Moorage list on the Member Moorage page of the EYC website, everyone should already know exactly what moorage fees to expect, but please direct any moorage related questions to the Port Captain, not to our bookkeeper Larisa.
The Port Captain Committee (PCC), with the help of others, has pulled together our best archeological abilities to excavate the ancient pavers that used to mark the dry-moorage locations in rows A, B, C, D, E. Some of these markers were buried several inches underground, but they are now again on the surface and painted with bright orange paint for visibility. We have also painted white paint lines on the grass in area A to indicate the boundaries of each boat's storage location, as well. The width of all storage locations in rows A-E is nine feet, so please stay within the lines and try not to infringe on your neighbor's space.
Sailors are beginning to come out of Winter hibernation, the lake is just about full, boats are starting to appear on the grass and in the water at the club. So, when you're getting your boat ready to go, please heed thee markers and lines to assure your boat is parked properly, and more importantly, is in the correct space assigned to you! If you don't know where your boat is supposed to be, that information can be found on the list of dry and wet-moorage assignments which is on the bulletin board in the bathroom breezeway. As always, contact the PCC if you have questions or issues with your assigned space (eyc+portcaptain@eugeneyachtclub.org) .
And lastly, thanks to Gary Powell and his crew for shoring-up our deteriorating small boat racks and lockers near the lake. He said the repair group had to remove all items from the racks and lockers to fix the "leaning-racks of EYC" but they are once again upright and perpendicular to the ground! Gary asks that those using these facilities double-check that boats in racks match the items in the lockers, just in case something was not put back where it belonged. The list of assigned small-boat rack locations is also on the bulletin board near the bathrooms.
Fair Winds,
Art Stiers & Murray McLeod
(The Port Captain Committee)