Open House
An Open House for HBYC was held on February 25 in conjunction with Safe Harbor Sandusky Marina and was a huge hit with a large turn out. Many members of the marina visited us and had never been in your club.
We had TWO new members join at the open house! One was a Erie Island Sailing School student that was introduced to our club during his classes and he is thinking of moving his boat to SHM. The other is an existing SHM docker.
We also had a large number of visitors from AYC (Associated Yacht Clubs) take the opportunity to visit our clubhouse. A large group from Harbor View Yacht Club (HVYC) in Toledo came and stole our burgee. Now we will go to HVYC and steal ours back and steal their burgee. This is a fun way to get clubs to visit other clubs and form more boating relationships among yacht clubs.
Associated Yacht Club Members & our HBYC Bridge pose for a pic before our burgee is “stolen”
Thank you to all that came to help meet and greet and provide food for our guests and special thanks to our webmaster, Chris Malott for designing and rolling out our new HBYC brochure for the open house. We also had a large spike in website hits after the event.
Save the dates
March 11th - AYC/TSC Visit
New 2023 HBYC Brochure
Toledo Sailing Club, another member club of AYC that we just joined, is having a bus trip on March 11th, and HBYC is one of their stops. Their estimated arrival time is noon and they will be be staying for about an hour. They expect around 50 people on the bus visit. We will be providing snacks and the beer cooler will be stocked with also fireball shots for sale. If you happen to be available on the 11th, please contact me and let me know if you are able to bring a dish to share.
April 15, 2023 - Commodore's Brunch
This will be at the Sandusky Yacht Club. More details to follow.
July, 22 2023 - Dock Crawl
SHM Dock Crawl - Looking for members to fly your HBYC burgee and be a host boat. More details to follow!
Trash Can
The dumpster is now behind a locked gate. Please put the trash in the trash can behind the old SHM office. SHM will come up with a better solution before the boating season starts.
“There is nothing so stable as change......” - Bob Dylan
Looking forward to a great season!
Rick Billheimer, HBYC Commodore 2023
“Believe in 23!”