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1st woman commodore named in Sea Cliff Yacht Club's 128-year history

The sea cliff yacht club too has set sail toward unchartered waters, with its first woman captain at the helm..

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1st woman commodore named in Sea Cliff Yacht Club's 128-year history

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BURNED OUT,3 YACHT CLUBS REFIT

By Karen Polk

• Nov. 28, 1982

IN the Gold Coast days of the Island's North Shore, Hempstead Harbor was a playground for the yachting set. Three boating clubs were established along the harbor's shores around the turn of the century, and all three still actively promote the sailing, racing and fishing that have characterized summers at the harbor.

Between August 1980 and June 1981, however, each of the clubhouses was leveled by a fire, and the police said all the fires were arson cases. One building had stood since the 1890's, and one was modeled after an original New York Yacht Club building.

By coincidence, all three clubs will be completing the construction of new buildings this month. And though in at least one case the new structure is a duplication of the old, the three clubs will have made a concession to modern times and added fire-alarm and security systems.

The Sea Cliff Yacht Club, established in 1893, was the first to be burned, on Aug. 15, 1980. The structure that was lost had been built in the 1920's as a bathhouse. Situated at the mouth of Glen Cove Creek on the east side of the harbor, the building was bought by the club in the mid-1940's.

The fire, which destroyed the building, was an apparent attempt to cover up a burglary, according to detectives from the Nassau County arson squad. Objects stolen from the clubhouse eventually led detectives to three local youths. One was charged with burglary and two were charged with arson and burglary, and trial proceedings began late last month.

All three were charged with burglary and grand larceny at the Seawanhaka Yacht Club in nearby Oyster Bay, in a burglary that occurred the same night as the Sea Cliff incident.

The architect of the new building, Douglas Wilke, designed a structure that will occupy the same ground area as the old. The new design provides for greater interior space, but otherwise is much the same as the old building, in keeping with the general style of the Village of Sea Cliff's distinctive and quaint architecture.

Commodore Thomas Attridge said that the club would also be installing ''the best of modern technology'' in fire, smoke and entry alarms at a cost of nearly $5,000, in addition to a three-tiered sprinkler system, which is estimated to cost $18,000.

A fire five months later, on Jan. 20, 1981, destroyed the Glen Cove City Yacht Club. That structure was a replica of the Station 10 Building of the New York Yacht Club, which had originally occupied the location on the northeastern shore of the harbor.

The original Station 10 Building, with a gabled roof, was built on the Landing in Glen Cove about 1905. Years later, when it was hauled away to its current location at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, it was replaced with a duplicate structure that was then leased to the city's public yacht club. Flames set by the door of the club were blown by winter winds throughout the structure, gutting the Gothicstyle house.

That building is virtually irreplaceable now as material costs raised the price of duplication beyond the budget capacity of the city. The new building is a cinder-block construction that would not be as susceptible to fire as the old one, according to Commodore George Bythrow. He added that his club would be installing fire and entry alarms at its own expense. It has also asked the City of Glen Cove for increased police patrols of the area.

Enough of the Hempstead Harbor Yacht Club was left after the fire on June 10, 1981, for the architect Alfred Barteld to get a good idea of its design. Using drawings and descriptions provided by club members, Mr. Barteld has attempted to duplicate as much as possible the 1891 wooden building that overlooked the northern entrance of Glen Cove Creek into the harbor.

Characterized by Mr. Barteld as a ''typical wood-shingled structure of Long Island at the time,'' the destroyed building was topped by a gabled roof covered with cedar shingles and was surrounded by a distinctive wooden deck. In his new design, Mr. Barteld is copying as best as possible the details of the old building, down to the cedar roof shingles and the wood ceiling and walls of the interior.

According to Commodore Jim Hopkins, the Hempstead Harbor club is also installing central station alarms for smoke, fire and entry at a cost of approximately $5,000 and has installed high-power security lighting for the surrounding grounds.

The arson squad of Nassau County's Second Police Precinct reports that the Glen Cove and Hempstead Harbor club cases remain unsolved and the investigations are still open.

Officers at all three clubs anticipate that the festivities on commissioning day at the opening of the 1983 summer season will include long-awaited dedication ceremonies for the new clubhouses. Anxious to begin its new facility, however, the Glen Cove Yacht Club held its first postseason meeting there last week, though members had to bring their own chairs.

Setting sail, opening doors: Foundation treats kids to club program

Max Martinez, 11, hikes while sailing back to shore at the Sea Cliff yacht club on July 8, 2022, in Sea Cliff, New York. Credit: Brittainy Newman

T he light wind on Hempstead Harbor this summer day was just enough for the boys and girls sailing tiny Optimist dinghies to make a little headway.

It was the second day of Sea Cliff Yacht Club’s seven-week Junior Sailing Program for students ages 8 to 17. But it was the first day the beginners’ group got to sail after completing swimming tests and practicing intentionally capsizing the 7-foot-9 craft on day one.

The majority of the eight novices quickly got the hang of making the Optis, as they’re known, go where they wanted, although several were occasionally confused about which way to turn the rudder to change course.

Most of the 42 participants in the sailing program’s three levels are children of yacht club members. But three enrolled through an unusual route.

While the club members paid $2,685 tuition and either own or rented the required boat for their children, three beginners are attending on scholarship. Their participation was made possible by program co-chair Harvey Bass, a former club commodore — chief officer of the club — who seven years ago created Ranger Sailing Foundation to sponsor children from underserved communities.

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Harvey Bass named Ranger Sailing Foundation in memory of his father, who was an Army Ranger in World War II. Credit: Brittainy Newman

ON THE WATER

On the first day of sailing, scholarship recipients Ly’Anna Ermmarino and her friend Mayra Chandler, both 12 and heading into seventh grade at Glen Cove Middle School, were making the most of the opportunity. Max Martinez, 11, of Glen Cove, joined the program in the second week, after attending lacrosse camp.

The rectangular Opti dinghies can only comfortably hold one small person, so the students sailed solo while getting tips from instructors circling in “crash boats,” on hand to help with mishaps.

Instructor Shepard Stone, 24, glided alongside Mayra’s boat and corrected where she was holding the “main sheet,” the rope that controls the angle of the single sail. Idling alongside Ly’Anna’s boat, Stone told her to move back toward the stern. “That way you will have room to move the tiller both ways,” said the Maine native who has been sailing since he was about 10.

The novices sailed slowly, or drifted under a hot sun when the wind died, until the instructors yielded to pleas to return to the club for swimming.

There would be more excitement in coming days, when the wind inevitably would be stronger, and by the second week the participants would cruise farther on “adventure sails” and compete in races.

Ly’Anna said she had been on a sailboat once before in Oyster Bay when she was about 2 and remembers enjoying it. Already thinking of her future, she said she’s excited about learning to sail “because I think it would be a good skill to know and I might have a higher acceptance rate at some schools.” She thinks she would like to continue sailing and compete in races.

“I like it,” Ly’Anna said, but she was looking forward to sailing with more wind. So far, she said, she wasn’t having trouble controlling the boat. “Everything’s pretty good,” she said.

She added that she hasn’t done a lot of swimming in salt water “because I’ve always been kind of scared of it, so being here is kind of making me get over my fear.”

Capsizing the boat intentionally the day before to learn how to handle such an occurrence while sailing “was pretty scary because it was the first time I have been in the sea or the ocean for a while.” Having done it, she said she felt much more comfortable in the Opti.

Unlike her friend, Mayra had never been boating before. And unlike Ly’Anna, she signed up because “I really like the ocean, and I like swimming.”

Mayra’s initial reaction: “It’s all right. I like it.”

But she, too, was looking forward to windier days. After the first day under sail, she said she understood the mechanics of controlling the boat “a little bit.”

“I need some work, but I get it,” she said, adding that she was looking forward to “going places and moving around more.”

‘I’M HAVING FUN’

“The first couple of days we didn’t get a lot of wind, and the first day we got wind they were definitely a little freaked out,” instructor Stone said of Ly’Anna and Mayra’s first week.

Putting them in a boat together helped, he said. “It seems like they’re starting to get a feel for it and it’s starting to be a lot less scary for them. It seems like they’re having fun now.”

“It was a little scary with the wind and waves combined,” Mayra said after her second week. “Now it’s fine,” she said, adding that she learned to handle the Opti: “I can control it. I learned how to stand up in the boat to steer.”

“It’s just a little scary sometimes when there’s a lot of wind,” Ly’Anna added. “It’s getting better. It’s getting easier than it was in the beginning,” she said of sailing the Opti where she wants. The bottom line: “I’m having fun.”

Stone kicked off July 5, the breezy first day of week two, by having the young sailors launch from the beach, sail out to a buoy by the entrance to Glen Cove Creek and return to make sure they could safely handle the boats — before proceeding for a day of sailing on the open waters of Hempstead Harbor.

Max and the others accomplished the boat handling reasonably well as Stone shouted encouragement and directions from shore. “Pull in the sail a little more,” he yelled to Max and a few of the others.

Max, who will be entering sixth grade at Glen Cove Middle School in the fall, is a relative sailing veteran. He started two years ago at a weeklong program at the nonprofit WaterFront Center in Oyster Bay, sailed in a four-week program on Hempstead Harbor last year and sails regularly with a friend.

“It’s fun,” he said. “It’s relaxing and I really like the water and water sports,” he said, noting water scooters, paddleboarding, kayaking, “and all that stuff.” He said controlling a sailboat has become natural to him, but “I just want to get better.”

FOUNDING THE RANGERS

Bass, 75, created Ranger Sailing Foundation in 2015 to satisfy a desire that emerged after undergoing successful esophageal cancer surgery in 2002.

“I was working at The Green Vale School, which is a very wealthy private school, and I grew up in a poorer neighborhood in Brooklyn,” the Sea Cliff resident related, “and I thought it was time to do a little payback. I started to look at what I was going to do with the rest of my life, and I really enjoy teaching, and I wanted to help kids who had a background like mine when I was growing up.”

Bass also wanted to memorialize his father, who died at 67 in 1987, the year Bass joined the yacht club. “He was all about kids,” Bass said of his father.

“I called it the Ranger Sailing Foundation because he was a decorated Army Ranger who hit the beaches in Normandy in the Second World War and survived a mission that was classified as almost suicidal that day.”

“I took my father out sailing just a couple of times,” Bass said. “When I was young, we took out rowboats and went fishing upstate.”

With donations from foundations and individuals, Ranger Sailing Foundation has provided scholarships for more than a dozen students so far. Bass has raised money to buy several Optimist dinghies and 420s, 13-foot-9 dinghies with two sails that hold two occupants.

“My greatest accomplishment was that the first two sailors I had — Adam Bonilla and Rafael Cruz Villalobos — got jobs last season as junior sailing instructors at Port Washington Yacht Club,” he said. Both are teaching there again this summer.

Bonilla, 18, of Glen Cove, had never sailed before he attended the Sea Cliff program the summer before seventh grade at Glen Cove Middle School.

“It was a great experience,” he said. “I met new people and they become lifelong friends, both students and instructors. In the beginning I felt like an outcast because my color was different and my accent was different. But after two or three weeks I felt welcome.”

Oscar Bonilla, Adam’s father, said, “He loved it. He was so excited. I feel proud of him.” Asked if he could have afforded sailing lessons for his son without the scholarship, Bonilla, a delivery driver for a beer distributor, said “No way! I can’t afford those kind of things.”

Bonilla, whose brother Brian subsequently participated in the program, will attend SUNY New Paltz in the fall, so the foundation is paying for his books for the first year.

BASS' VARIED CAREER

Bass began his career teaching math at an intermediate school in Williamsburg in Brooklyn while studying for his MBA at Baruch College. Then he was hired by Baruch and later worked as a fraud investigator for the New York City Human Resources Administration. He became the head systems administrator for the city’s Department of Investigation and eventually worked for the New York City Transit Authority, where he also headed the systems operation.

After retiring in 2004, Bass worked as a consultant. A two-week project for The Green Vale School led him to a full-time job there, starting in IT, then returning to the classroom to run a “discovery lab,” for pre-K and nursery school children, as well as a robotics class for older students. He’s now completing his doctorate in information science while continuing to teach at the school.

Bass began sailing at 25 after a friend from City Island, in the Bronx, said he had bought a Hobie catamaran. The two assembled the boat and launched it.

“We did not know tacking from jibing, turned it over a few times and figured that maybe we should take some lessons,” Bass said.

They found a Coast Guardsman who “took us out on a 26-foot sailboat that had no motor, so we really had to learn how to sail,” Bass explained. “I’ve been sailing ever since.”

In 1975, he bought his first large sailboat, a 23-footer, and joined Stuyvesant Yacht Club on City Island. Two years later, he traded up to a 28-footer.

Bass moved his boat to a mooring in Manhasset Bay in 1982 before joining the Sea Cliff club in 1987. His current boat is a 37.5-foot Hunter named No No Nanette, inspired by the Broadway musical and his wife, a retired eveningwear designer who also loves to sail. Bass has three grown children. “My girls are both teachers. . . . My son owns a kosher organic farm.”

After becoming co-chair of the junior sailing program in 2004, Bass said, he inundated the club’s board of directors with enough suggestions for improving the program to get a spot on the board. He worked up from treasurer to commodore in 2012, serving for two years in that position.

Shepard Stone, left, and Emma Vandorn are sailing instructors for Sea Cliff Yacht Club's Junior Sailing Program. Credit: Brittainy Newman

FUN COMES FIRST

“I’d like to give a big shoutout to the club for recognizing that it has a responsibility to the community,” Bass said.

The current commodore, Robin Maynard, the first woman in that role, said the yacht club is “thrilled to partner with the Ranger Sailing Foundation to be able to provide the opportunity to sail to underprivileged children.”

“It’s been a great experience for everyone,” she added, with scholarship recipients and members’ children participating in birthday parties and other events and making lasting friendships.

In addition to sailing in the junior program, some of the older and more accomplished young sailors have joined Bass on his boat for evening races. Before he started the foundation, he invited six sailors from the program who were 14 and older to crew his boat in 2007 for the Around Long Island Race, sponsored by the yacht club. Bass said it was the first time a boat competed in the race without an adult crew — and they came in second. He subsequently has taken young crew members a half-dozen times on the race.

Of the young people brought into the program through the Ranger scholarship, Bass said, “I’ve stayed in touch with a couple of them. Some of them have stayed with sailing and some of them moved on. Kids want to do a lot of things, and parents want to put their kids into hockey, tennis and golf, so you have a lot of competition.”

True to Bass’ experience, novice sailor Mayra said she’s not sure whether she’ll continue sailing after this summer. “I like sports,” she said, noting many others competing for her attention.

Those who have raced on the bigger boats tend to stay with the sport, Bass said. “Some move on to racing because they’re motivated to do that. But we don’t emphasize that here. At other clubs, everything is built on racing. A lot of times that turns kids off. The idea is to keep it interesting and challenging.”

Bass said the junior program operates on a simple philosophy: “They’re children, and they need to have fun. If they learn to sail, that’s terrific.”

Colorful Optimist dinghies sit ready for young sailors at Sea Cliff Yacht Club. Credit: Brittainy Newman

GET INVOLVED

Harvey Bass hopes to raise money to buy larger boats that can accommodate several crew to expand the junior sailing program. Tax-deductible donations can be sent to Ranger Sailing Foundation, 42 The Boulevard, Sea Cliff, NY 11579.

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Longtime sailor Harvey Bass had an epiphany after undergoing successful esophageal cancer surgery in 2002. “I was working at the Greenvale School, which is a very wealthy private school, and I grew up in a poorer neighborhood in Brooklyn,” the Sea Cliff resident related, “and I thought it was time to do a little payback. I started to look at what I was going to do with the rest of my life, and I really enjoy teaching and I wanted to help kids who had a background like mine when I was growing up.” “I also wanted to do something to memorialize my father, who passed away at age 67 in 1987,” the same year he became a member of Sea Cliff Yacht Club, where he would later serve as commodore. “He was all about kids.” It took until 2015 for his idea to jell into a nonprofit foundation to underwrite children from underserved communities to be able to attend the yacht club’s junior sailing program. “I called it the Ranger Sailing Foundation because he was a decorated Army Ranger who hit the beaches in Normandy in the Second World War and survived a mission that was classified as almost suicidal that day,” Bass, 75, explained. With donations from other foundations and individuals, Bass, who cochairs the junior program, has provided scholarships for more than a dozen students so far. He also has raised money to buy several 7-foot-9-inch Optimist dinghies with a mainsail and larger 420s, 13-foot-nine-inch dinghies with two sails that can accommodate two occupants, because participants in the junior program have to supply their own boats. Bass hopes to raise money to buy larger boats that can accommodate several crew to expand his junior sailing program. Tax-deductible donations can be sent to Ranger Sailing Foundation, 42 The Boulevard, Sea Cliff, NY 11579.

Week One On the second day of the yacht club’s seven-week program for students ages 8 to 17, there was hardly any on Hempstead Harbor, just enough for the young boys and girls sailing the rectangular “Opti” dinghies to make a little headway. It was the first day the beginners’ group got to sail after completing swimming tests and practicing intentionally capsizing the boats on day one. Most of the eight novices quickly got the hang of making the Optis go where they wanted, although several were occasionally confused about which way to turn the rudder when changing course. Most of the 42 participants in the program’s three levels are children of club members. But the three who are not enrolled through Bass’ foundation. The club members paid $2,685 in tuition and had to supply a boat for their children. The Ranger Foundation paid all of the expenses and supplied boats for three children. So, on the first day of sailing, scholarship recipients Ly’Anna Ermmarino and her friend Mayra Chandler, both 12 and heading into seventh grade at Glen Cove Middle School, were making the most of the opportunity. Max Martinez, 11, of Glen Cove, joined the program on the second week after attending lacrosse camp. Because the rectangular Optis can only comfortably hold one small person, the students were sailing solo while getting pointers from instructors circling in “crash boats.” The chief instructor for the younger group, Shepard Stone, 26, glided alongside Mayra’s boat and corrected where she was holding the main sheet, the rope that controls the angle of the single sail. Then idling alongside Ly’anna’s boat, Stone told her to move back towards the stern. “That way you will have room to move the tiller both ways,” said the 24-year-old Maine native who has been sailing since around age nine. With the light wind, the beginners sailed slowly or drifted under a hot sun when the wind died until mid-afternoon. At that point, the instructors yielded to please to return to the club to swim in the pool. Bass promised it would get more exciting in the coming days when the wind inevitably would be stronger and by the second week they could sail farther on “adventure sails” and compete in races. Ly’anna remembers being on a sailboat once before in Oyster Bay when she was about two and enjoying it. Already thinking of her future, Ly’anna said she’s excited about learning to sail “because I think it would be a good skill to know and I might have a higher acceptance rate at some schools.” She thinks she would like to continue sailing and compete in races. Although she was looking forward to going faster on windier days, Ly’anna said “I like it.” So far, she said, she wasn’t having trouble controlling the boat. “Everything’s pretty good.” Ly’anna added that she has not done a lot of swimming in bodies of salt water “because I’ve always been kind of scared of it, so being here is kind of making me get over my fear.” Capsizing the boat intentionally the day before to learn how to handle that situation if it happens unintentionally while sailing “was pretty scary because it was the first time I have been in the sea or the ocean for a while.” But having done it, she said she felt much more comfortable in the Opti. Mayra, unlike her friend, had never been boating before. And unlike Ly’anna, she signed up because “I really like the ocean and I like swimming.” “It’s all right. I like it” was her initial reaction: But she, too, was looking forward to windier days. After the first day under sail, she said she understood the mechanics of controlling the boat “a little bit. I need some work, but I get it.” What she’s really looking forward to is “going places and moving around more.” As to whether she would keep sailing after the summer, Mayra said “maybe. I’m not sure. I like sports,” so she might not have time to sail. On the first day of the second week, July 5, [which Max attended but the girls missed] Stone said, “The first couple of days we didn’t get a lot of wind, and the first day we got wind they were definitely a little freaked out,” he said of Ly’anna and Mayra. “So, I had them both go together in one boat. It seems like they’re starting to get a feel for it and it’s starting to be a lot less scary for them. It seems like they’re having fun now.” “It was a little scary with the wind and waves combined,” Mayra said after her second week. “Now it’s fine,” she said, adding that she learned to handle the Opti: “I can control it. I learned how to stand up in the boat to steer.” “It’s just a little scary sometimes when there’s a lot of wind,” Ly’Anna added. “It’s getting better. It’s getting easier than it was in the beginning,” she said of sailing the Opti where she wants. The bottom line: “I’m having fun.” Stone kicked off the breezy first day of week two by having the young sailors launch from the beach, sail out to a buoy and return to make sure they could safely handle the boats before proceeding out for a day of sailing on the bay. Max and the others accomplished it reasonably well as Stone shouted encouragement and gave directions from shore. “Pull in the sail a little more,” he yelled to Max and a few of the others. Max, who will be attending sixth grade at Glen Cove Middle School in the fall, is a relative sailing veteran. He started two years ago on a weeklong program at the WaterFront [CQ] Center in Oyster Bay, sailed for four weeks in a program on Hempstead Harbor last year and also sails regularly with a friend. “It’s fun,” he said. It’s relaxing and I really like the water and water sports – jet skis, paddle boarding, kayaking and all that stuff.” He said controlling a sailboat comes naturally to him but “I just want to get better.”

Biggest Success Harvey Bass is proud of his young sailors. “My greatest accomplishment was that the first two sailors I had – Adam Bonilla and Rafael Cruz Villalobos – got jobs last season as junior sailing instructors at Port Washington Yacht Club,” he said. Both are still employed there. Bonilla, 18, of Glen Cove, had never sailed before the Sea Cliff program. “It was a great experience,” he said. “I met new people and they became lifelong friends, both students and instructors. It opened up many doors for me and my friend Rafe. I have many great memories and I’m grateful for that. In the beginning, I felt like an outcast because my color was different and my accent was different. But after two or three weeks I felt welcome.” Adam’s father, Oscar Bonilla, said, “He loved it. He was so excited. I feel proud of him.” Asked if he could have afforded sailing lessons for his son without the scholarship, Bonilla, a delivery driver for a beer distributor, said “No way! I can’t afford those kinds of things.” Bonilla, whose brother Brian subsequently participated in the program, will attend SUNY New Paltz in the fall, so the foundation is paying for his books for the first year.

Bass’ varied career Bass started his career teaching math at an intermediate school in Williamsburg in Brooklyn while studying for his MBA. Then he was hired by Baruch College and later worked as a fraud investigator for the New York City Human Resources Administration. Then he became the head systems administrator for the city Department of Investigation and eventually worked for the New York City Transit Authority, where he also headed the system’s operation. He became a consultant after retiring in 2004. A two-week project for the Greenvale School led to him working there full-time, starting in IT and then returning to the classroom running a discovery lab for pre-k and nursery school children and robotics for older students. He’s now completing his doctorate in information science while continuing to teach at the school. Bass was 25 when he first went sailing. A friend from City Island in the Bronx told him he had bought a Hobie catamaran. The pair assembled the beach cat and launched it. “We did not know tacking from gybing, turned it over a few times and figured that maybe we should take some lessons.” They found a Coast Guardsman who “took us out on a 26-foot sailboat that had no motor, so we really had to learn how to sail,” Bass said. “I’ve been sailing ever since.” He bought his first large sailboat in 1975, a 23-footer, and two years later traded up to a 28-footer. His current boat is a 37.5-foot Hunter named No No Nanette after his wife and the Broadway musical. Bass joined the Stuyvesant Yacht Club on City Island in 1975 and then moved his boat to a mooring in Manhasset Bay in 1982 before joining the Sea Cliff club in 1987. After becoming co-chair of the junior sailing program in 2004, he inundated the club board of directors with so many suggestions for improving the program that he was given a seat on the board. He worked up from treasurer to commodore in 2012 and served for two years. Bass said, “I’d like to give a big shoutout to the club for recognizing that it has a responsibility to the community.” Commodore Robin Maynard, the first woman in that role, said “The yacht club is thrilled to partner with the Ranger Sailing Foundation to be able to provide the opportunity to sail to underprivileged children. They fit in great with the other children. It’s been a great experience for everyone.” In addition to sailing in the junior program, some of the older and more accomplished young sailors have been invited to join Bass on his boat for evening races. In 2007, he took six sailors from the program that were 14 and older to crew his boat for the Around Long Island Race, which is sponsored by the yacht club. Bass said it was the first time a boat competed in the race without an adult crew, and they came in second. He subsequently has taken young crew members a half-dozen times on the race. Of the scholarship recipients, Bass said, “I’ve stayed in touch with a couple of them. Some of them have stayed with sailing and some of them moved on. Kids want to do a lot of things, and parents want to put their kids into hockey, tennis and golf, so you have a lot of competition.” Those who have raced on the bigger boats tend to stay with the sport, he added. Bass operates the junior sailing program on a simple philosophy: “They’re children, and they need to have fun. If they learn to sail, that’s terrific. Some move on to racing because they’re motivated to do that. But we don’t emphasize that here. At other clubs, everything is built on racing. A lot of times that turns kids off. The idea is to keep it interesting and challenging.”

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Over its 128-year history, the Sea Cliff Yacht Club has seen a multitude of changes, from its membership to its programming to its community service projects. One of its constants, however, has been male leadership. That changed last Saturday, when Robin Maynard was named the club’s first female commodore.

“It really, truly is an honor, and it was important to me also to be a role model,” Maynard said. “Boating is a male-driven sport, and it’s nice to push female boaters and female sailors [forward].”

Maynard, 48, said she has been a member of the club for 12 years, and has sat on its board in various capacities for the past decade. Although she grew up relatively far from the water, in West Orange, N.J., she said she has always been drawn to the ocean. Sea Cliff’s proximity to the water, she said, and her love of its Victorian architecture were what brought her to the village in 2000. Whether she is out on one of her three sailboats, her powerboat or her scull, she said, she feels at home on the water.

“Being on the water is just a special thing,” Maynard said. “It’s very relaxing. There’s no better view than sunset at the Sea Cliff Yacht Club.”

Although she began sailing several years before joining the club, Maynard said she became a member when her daughter, Samantha, was 2 because she wanted her to get involved in boating early. Samantha, now 15, rows competitively at the private Kent School in Connecticut.

Bringing rowing to the yacht club is one of Maynard’s goals. She also wants to improve the club’s beach area with new furniture, she said, and update its dining room.

While the coronavirus pandemic has made things difficult for the club and its 175 members, Maynard said it is very proactive in its health regulations. A committee of doctors has put a number of procedures in place, she said, including temperature checks, distancing of tables, thorough cleaning and limiting capacity, and a tent equipped with heaters will augment club capacity as the weather gets colder.

Harvey Bass, a member for 34 years who served as commodore from 2012 to 2014, said that Maynard has shown her dedication over the years as a board member. She has a strong operational background, Bass said, having served on a number of committees, and has even made financial contributions. Her ascension to commodore is a milestone, he said.

Maynard is a no-nonsense person who gets things done, Bass said, and is very inventive when it comes to creating events. For Halloween she created a “trunk-or-treat” event in which members decorated their vehicles and children made their way around the club parking lot collecting treats. She enjoys bringing the club’s families together for all sorts of programs.

“The Sea Cliff Yacht Club is year-round,” Bass said, “so you have to have a person who inspires people to come by the club even on those cold winter days that have nothing to do with sailing.”

Thirty-six year club member Doug Wefer, who was commodore from 2001 to 2003, said that women have played an important role in the club for years. It’s about time it had female leadership, he said, and Maynard’s devotion and energy make her the perfect choice. While some private yacht clubs are set in their ways, he said, Sea Cliff is more open-minded.

“Considering the role that women play in our club, doing everything, [and] all the volunteerism that there is,” Wefer said, “it’s appropriate that women also lead the club, so it’s great to see.”

Maynard, an attorney at Marchese & Maynard, is the village’s associate judge, and served on the village board in 2017 and 2018. “I think the more that you give back and the more that you’re involved in the community, the more fulfilling it is,” she said. “It’s also a good example to set for our children to be active in our community. I try to give back as much as I can.”

Sea Cliff Mayor Edward Lieberman said he has gotten to know Maynard well through her many contributions to the community, and described her as philanthropic and humble, a caring, devoted resident of the village. The yacht club could not have made a better choice for its first female commodore, Lieberman said, noting that her induction punctuated an eventful week in woman’s history, with Sen. Kamala Harris being elected the nation’s first female vice president.

“The year 2020 has now seen a fulfillment of the woman’s movement and the history of women’s suffrage,” Lieberman said, “that in the same week we have a woman vice president of the United States and a woman commodore of the Sea Cliff Yacht Club, both historical and inspiring places of leadership.”

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Overview   Founded in 1892, Sea Cliff Yacht Club is one of the oldest private member-only Yacht Clubs on Long Island Sound. We promote sailing and boating in the summer months, with opportunities for both racing and cruising. Additionally, our members enjoy a year-round experience in our pristine facilities.   Our well-protected location on Hempstead Harbor provides an ideal place to learn to sail, cruise, or race competitively. We offer full launch and dock service during the summer season. Moorings are available for guests. We own a fleet of Ideal 18’s available to Members. Our adult sailing lessons are a great way to learn and meet fellow Members.   Sea Cliff Yacht Club offers fine dining, bar service, a summer snack bar, a large pool with a sunny deck, and a children’s pool. We have a private beach with plenty of room to rest and relax. Our Club owned paddle boards are available to Members to explore the harbor.   Our youngest Members can participate in long-established, well-recognized summer programs, including Junior Sailing, Swim Team, and Summer Camp for the youngest. There is something for everybody.   Every season provides a new opportunity to enjoy our facilities. During the summer months we offer Ladie’s Sailing Nights, Thursday Night BBQ’s, Sunday Ideal 18 Racing. Our outdoor dining deck is the perfect place to enjoy the stunning Sea Cliff sunsets.  We frequently host parties for our Members, taking full advantage of our facilities and encouraging a fun, social atmosphere.    In the winter, we gather to celebrate holidays and connect with fellow Members. We have holiday parties, Wednesday Night Pub Night and formal Friday Night Dinners. On Sunday’s we gather in the Regatta Room, light the fireplace, and enjoy the pub menu in our restaurant. Of course, you can always find a few people gathering around the bar.    Since 1977, we have hosted the Around Long Island Regatta. Also, Junior Sailors from all over Long Island Sound come to compete in our Western District Regatta. We are proud to have a strong fleet of Sunfish and ILCA sailors participate in our winter Frostbiting season.   Our strong culture of volunteerism makes our Club the vibrant place it is. In addition to the Flag and Board, Committees composed of Members of the Club work together to keep our traditions vibrant and to assure our long term viability.    Sea Cliff Yacht Club is our home away from home.

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A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to yachting. Yacht Clubs are mostly located by the sea, although there are some that have been established at a lake or riverside locations. Yacht or sailing clubs have either a marina or a delimited section of the beach or shoreline with buoys marking the areas off-limits for swimmers as well as safe offshore anchorages. On shore they also include a perimeter reserved for the exclusive use of the members of the club as well as a clubhouse with attached bar, café or restaurant where members socialize in a pleasant and informal setting.

Although the terms Yacht Club and Sailing Club tend to be synonymous, some general differences regarding the recreational use of boats can be broadly outlined. Historically a Yacht Club tended to focus on a membership composed of yacht owners, including motorboats. This type of club often was extremely exclusive, attracting the aristocracy or the high class and leaving small boat owners out of the circle. On the other hand, a Sailing Club tended to focus on a membership composed exclusively of owners of sailboats, including smaller boats such as dinghies. These became very popular towards the end of the 19th century when small boats began to be produced on an industrial scale. Now days, many Yacht Clubs offer the same sailing opportunities to their members as Sailing clubs.

Yacht clubs are often known by their initials (e.g. New York Yacht Club abbreviated as NYYC and Kamini Yacht Club abbreviated as KYC). Many well known yacht clubs, including the Yacht Club de France and the Royal Yacht Squadron, have been established under royal patronage or have been granted the title at some point in their history.

Organized and run by the membership, Yacht Clubs became a place to promote the sport of sailboat racing and cruising, as well as provide a meeting place for the particular social community. The membership is a mixture of people with specific recreational affinities. Generally, the members include those who sail as crew for cruising or racing, as well as boat owners. Also it is up to the members to decide on the objectives of the club to satisfy the membership and to attract other like-minded individuals. For example, some clubs include owners of powerboats, while others specifically exclude them. In order to overcome difficulties concerning the affinities of their members one particular club may have two sections, a sailing section and a powerboat section.

Members Clubs often have paid staff for catering, bar duty, boat yard duty, accounts, office etc. Control and organization of the club is done for the membership via members elected by the membership into roles such as Sailing Secretary, Commodore, Cruising Captain, Racing Captain etc. Smaller clubs typically have a condition of membership which requires active participation of the membership in activities such as maintenance of club facilities and equipment.

Unlike the classical clubs where the membership is the focus, certain clubs are run on a commercial basis. They may be owned by individuals or a company to provide a service and generate a profit. Often they are associated with a particular marina or port. Objectives are usually very similar to members clubs but the social side maybe more dominant.

There is a long historical tradition behind yacht clubs. According to the date of establishment, the Neva Yacht Club, founded in 1718 in Russia, is the oldest yacht club. However, since this Russian Yacht Club was established by a decree of Tsar Peter the Great, it does not fully qualify as a proper club in the modern sense, understood as a voluntary association of members who organize and run the club. Therefore, the Royal Cork Yacht Club founded in Ireland in 1720 is also widely acknowledged as the oldest yacht club in the world, despite having gone through periods of dormancy and undergone name changes in its long history, much in the same manner as the Neva Yacht Club. It was only in 1846 that the first yacht club in Russia to adopt British-style Members Club regulations was established. Using this Western understanding of what a club or society is, the Royal Swedish Yacht Club, KSSS, founded 1830, becomes the oldest European yacht club outside the British Isles, and the fifth oldest in the world.

A number of the world's most renowned Yacht Clubs are located in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Canada, and the United States. The first yacht club in North America was the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, located on the Northwest Arm in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada established in July 1837. The most prestigious of them are organized within the International Council of Yacht Clubs.

The Kieler Yacht-Club in Northern Germany organizes the yearly Kiel Week, the biggest sailing event in the world, that is celebrated since 1882.

Racing and Sailing Activities

Most clubs, regardless of the size of their craft, have a well defined racing program. Clubs may host regattas ranging from informal local events to national championships. Often clubs have a regular weekday evening racing schedule or a weekend racing schedule organized by the membership. Many yacht clubs field teams to compete against other clubs in team racing. There are also some specific boat models and lengths which have their own club. These boat ownership clubs often hold single design races for their members; the Islander 36 association is such a club. With the growth of sailing at secondary schools and universities many yacht clubs host Interscholastic Sailing Association or Intercollegiate Sailing Association regattas. Additionally, a number of yacht clubs enter into agreements with schools to provide dock space and practice facilities for the school teams year-round.

Clubs with active adult sailing programs most often feature junior sailing programs as well. Most often these programs enroll children from ages 8 to 16. Children most often learn to sail in the optimist (dinghy) and then progress to a larger single handed dinghy such as starling or laser dinghy or two handed such as 420 (dinghy). These junior sailing programs often also teach children rowing, kayaking, general seamanship and navigation. Children are also taught how to race competitively from an early age and most clubs host junior sailing regattas each season.

Club Burgee

Members belonging to a yacht club or sailing organization may fly their club's unique flag (usually triangular), called a burgee, both while under way and at anchor (however, not while racing). Traditionally, the burgee was flown from the main masthead, however it may also be flown from a small pole on the bow pulpit, or even the starboard rigging beneath the lowest starboard spreader on a flag halyard. Some traditional clubs have also been granted the right to fly a special yacht ensign at the stern.

At traditional clubs the burgee and the ensign is hoisted at 08:00 each morning and lowered each evening at sunset. This ceremony is called colours. Traditionally, the first time a member of one club visits another, there is an exchange of burgees. Exchanged burgees are often displayed on the premises of clubs, such as at their clubhouse or bar.

Organization

Yacht clubs are organized like any other club or organisation with committees, chairman, directors, etc. Due to the connection with the sea and hence the navy, the various posts use naval terminology. For example, the chairman/CEO is the Commodore. Usually, under the Commodore there are also the Vice Commodore (in charge of land-based activities) and the Rear Commodore (in charge of water-based activities); for clubs in the United States they might in turn be assisted by thePort Captain and the Fleet Captain respectively. In a few clubs in the United Kingdom the Admiral, which is one rank above the Commodore, is the senior officer. Each of these ranks has specific responsibilities to ensure the smooth running of the club.

Reciprocating Clubs

Reciprocal Agreements between clubs allow members of one club to use the facilities of a reciprocating club at no cost or at a nominal fee such as for electricity. This allows club members to cruise to many destinations without incurring the higher cost of marina moorage, etc.

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— Topics of Webpages — Website Pages are categorized under the following 16 MAIN TOPICS:

The MAIN TOPICS follow a natural progression from conception of the vessel thru its building, marketing, survey, financing, insuring, transport, moorage, use and upkeep. The MAIN TOPICS (all Caps) below are followed by their Main Subtopics with Links.

00 – HOME: CONTENTS ,  ABOUT EAB : Contact EAB , Abbreviations & Symbols , FAQ , GLOSSARY , ADs ,+ . 01 –  ABOUT BOATS w/Museum Directory : Early History , Recent History , Modern Vessel Types ,+ . 02 –  BOAT BUILDING, OUTFITTING, REFITTING & REPAIR: Materials , Equipment , Builders ,+ . 03 –  BOAT MARKETING: Boat Shows , Dealers & Brokers , Importing & Exporting , Auctions & Sales ,+ . 04 –  BOAT INSPECTION: Types of Marine Surveys , Marine Surveyors , Schools , DIY Inspections ,+ . 05 –  BOAT TITLES & VESSEL REGISTRY: Boat Title & Registration , Vessel Registry , Title Co's ,+ . 06 –  BOAT FINANCING: Conventional ( Banks , Credit Unions ,+), Unconventional (Creative) ,+ . 07 –  BOAT INSURANCE: Maritime & Recreational: Coverage, Carriers, Agents,+. , Claim Processing ,+ . 08 –  BOAT TRANSPORT: By Sea ( Piggyback , Delivery Skippers & Crews , & Towing ), Over-Land ,+ . 09 –  BOAT HAULING & LAUNCHING: Drydocks, Ways, Lifts, Cranes & Hoists , Launch Ramps ,+ . 10 –  BOAT MOORAGE & STORAGE: Builders , Anchorages , Marinas , Yards, Racks & Stacks ,+ . 11 –  BOATING ORGANIZATIONS: Yacht Clubs & Sailing Clubs , Paddling Clubs , Boat Owners ,+ . 12 –  BOATING & TRAVEL: Events , Destinations , Boat Rentals & Charters , Cruises , Voyages ,+ . 13 –  BOATING & MARITIME EDUCATION: Recreational Seamanship , Ship's Master & Crew ,+ . 14 – MARINE LAWS & REGULATIONS : International & National Laws ‚ Lawyers ‚  Investigators ‚+ . 15 –  DO-IT-YOURSELF: DIY Boat Building & Repair , DIY Boat Sales , DIY Boat Surveys , DIY Classes ,+ . 16 –  MEDIA  w/Creator Directory + Academy eLibrary : pDocs , Books , Magazines , Videos , Websites ,+ .

The above MAIN TOPICS and a more detailed listing of Subtopics can be found on the Website Contents page and on the Right Sidebar .

What we have accomplished so far . Anchors Aweigh Academy and its EverythingAboutBoats.org website.

• Published over 50,000 website pages about boats and boating, bringing us closer to reaching  our goal of becoming "The ultimate reference resource about boats and ships for everyone from the beginning recreational boater to the seasoned professional mariner!"
• Published over 300 website main topic webpages, many with full articles on the topic. See our Website Contents or the Right Sidebar for the listing of the main topic pages.
• Published over 9,000 marine vendor webpages, all with their contact information, most with a description of their products and services, many with product documentation, specifications and independent reviews. (incl.: Boat designers, boat building tools, material and equipment manufacturers and suppliers, boat builders and dealers, yacht brokers, marine surveyors, boat insurers, boat transporters, skippers and crews, boatyards and marinas, yacht clubs, boat rentals and yacht charters, boating, seamanship and maritime schools, marine law attorneys and expert witnesses, boat refitters and repairers, book authors, magazine publishers, video producers, and website creators)
• Acquired over 120,000 pages of product documentation including Catalogs, Brochures, SpecSheets, Pictures, Serial Number Guides, Installation Manuals, OpManuals, Parts Catalogs, Parts Bulletins, Shop Manuals, Wiring Diagrams, Service Bulletins, and Recalls. And have made all viewable to Academy Members through our EAB website eLibrary .
• Acquired over 1,200 books and magazine back issues in our academy library and so far have made over 700 viewable to Academy Members through our EAB website eLibrary .
• Published over 500 DIY How-To articles about boat design, construction, inspection, operation, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair. We are working hard to do more.

We are currently formatting and polishing the Anchors Aweigh Academy online and hands-on courses. Our Marine Surveying  course has proven to be excellent for both the beginner and the seasoned surveyor, and especially helpful to the Do-It-Yourselfer.

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General Comments About the Website

FROM Donald:  " This is an awesome website. I found the information that I needed right away from one of the over 20,000 free articles that you provide as a public service. I'm surprised that so much if this site is free. But I still signed up so I could access the thousands of expanded pages, interesting articles, and dozens of valuable programs! The member's library of books, magazines and videos that I can view online is really terrific! I understand that you and your staff are all unpaid volunteers. Please keep up the good work. And I commend you for your plans to add another 10,000 free informative articles over the next year. I'm thrilled to support you in this endeavor with my small membership donation. Thanks again for all your hard work. "

FROM Huey:  " I agree with my Uncle, I too have found the articles to be very enlightening. They say that it will take about 100,000 articles to cover the full scope that they have envisioned for the website. They have over 20,000 articles so far and that's doing pretty well, but it could take several years to get the rest. I also noticed that many of the Main Topic Pages and some of the article pages are still in the rough draft stage. I guess that they will fill in as they can get volunteers to work on them. But what I can't figure out is why anyone would spend the time writing informative in depth articles just to give away free to this website for publication? What's in it for them? "

FROM Dewey:  " Well Huey, to me It looks like most of the articles on this website are written by very informed people, like boating instructors, boat designers, boat builders, riggers, electricians, fitters, marine repair technicians and marine surveyors. Writing such articles helps establish them as knowledgeable professionals. After all, this website was originally created by a school for marine technicians and marine surveyors. The website is growing in content every day. They even had to move to a bigger, more powerful server because the website's traffic has been growing exponentially. "

FROM Louie:  " I agree with everyone above. This site is quickly becoming the ultimate reference resource about every aspect of boats and ships for everyone from the beginning recreational boater to the seasoned professional mariner. I use the topic pages on the right sidebar to browse around the website. It's like a Junior Woodchucks' Guidebook for Boaters. Their Members' Library of over 300 popular and obscure books and over 200 magazine back issues that can be viewed online is fabulous. The Academy's magazine is especially informative. On top of that, there is the "Ask-An-Expert program for members where you can get an expert's answer to any of your boat questions. And a whole years membership is only $25. What a deal! I really love being part of this "Everything About Boats" community and help provide thousands of helpful articles free to the public. I think that I'll sit down right now and write an article about my experiences boating with my uncle. "

FROM Scrooge: " You rave about this website like it was the best thing since sliced bread. Well, I think it stinks. Sure, it has a lot of good information for boaters, and they're adding more every day, but it will probably never be finished. Furthermore, I don't even own a boat. And I wouldn't have a boat even if someone gave me one. Boats are a waste of money and time and energy and money! They're just a hole in the water you pour money into. If you gave me a boat, I'd sell it quicker then you could say Baggywrinkle. Then I'd lock up the cash with all my other money so I could keep my eye on it and count it every day. Bah humbug. "

FROM Daisy:  " I'm just so glad that Donald got the boat so we and the boys could enjoy boating — together. And of course all of the girls, April, May, and June, love to be on the water too, especially when that is where the boys are. Oh poor Scrooge, boating is more fun then you could possibly imagine. "

FROM Scrooge: " After seeing how much fun you all have on the water together, I regret that I didn't have that much fun when I was young. I've had a change of heart, and I'm giving each of you a Lifetime Academy Membership . "

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