NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2016

EXECUTIVE BOARD

OFFICERS

COMMODORE
Gerald Kutz

VICE COMMODORE Marty Milewski

REAR COMMODORE
Howard Halstrom

SECRETARY
Justin Byczek

TREASURER
Tom Lochtefeld

FINANCIAL SECRETARY
Marty Milewski

 

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

FLEET CAPTAIN Brian Lovegrove

RACKS & LOCKERS
Rob Komminsk

HOUSE & GROUNDS
Todd Scallen

ENTERTAINMENT
Ashley Bartolotta

MEMBERSHIP
John Keena

LAUNCH
CAPTAIN
Mark Cappelli

ADVISING OFFICERS

PAST COMMODORE
Glen Osberg

PAST COMMODORE
Dave Dever

 

Dear Members,

I sincerely hope you have enjoyed your summer so far.  The heat has arrived and I am sure you are all getting use out of your boats and our facilities before the kids head back to school.  But, Summer 2016 is not over yet and there is still great stuff happing at the club as we move into the final couple of months of the season. 

UPCOMMING EVENTS

Please plan to attend our next General Meeting at The Piedmont Club on Wednesday September 7th at 8 PM, we have quite a bit of information to convey regarding the expansion, club infrastructure updates and important votes.

Followed closely with our Annual Lobster Bake on Saturday September 10th from 6 – 10 PM. in the tent at Pear Tree Point, this is a great event every year!  It gives everyone a chance to spend some time dancing, visiting and meeting fellow members under the tent.  Great food, great music, and a great party!  This event is open to guests, so if you have friends or neighbors who might enjoy the Darien Boat Club, please invite them and be sure to introduce them to an Executive Committee member.

On Sunday October 2nd will be our Season End Picnic, if you have not attended one of the picnics in the past this is a great opportunity to meet the Executive Committee and enjoy some food with the family on a Sunday afternoon at the club.  For those that have attended previously, we are looking forward to seeing you there again.

Our last event of the 2016 Season will be our Annual General Meeting on November 9th at 8 PM.  We will have light food, and refreshments available.  The main purpose of the evening will be the election of the 2017 officers.  We will conduct a brief business meeting to wrap up the year and give an update of what to expect for 2017.

UPDATES/ANNOUNCEMENTS

Many of you have noticed and commented on the new deck layout and furniture.  I would like to thank the committee for their research and design to get us more space for dining and a much improved layout.  A special thanks to Paul Johnson for all his efforts to acquire and assemble the furniture.  Many others participated, but Paul really went above and beyond to make it all happen before the season got under way.  For those of you that haven’t been to the club in a while, please come down and spend an evening on the deck, it is really a secret gem of Darien.

I would like to welcome Mark Cappelli to the Executive Committee.  The launch service is now three seasons old and continues to grow in use and efficiency thanks to our Fleet Captain, Brian Lovegrove’s outstanding efforts.  However, the launch and the staff that runs it need dedicated attention, so the Executive Committee decided to add a position to focus exclusively on the Launch.  This will allow Brian to focus more on the massive job of managing the fleet.  Mark is a competent choice and I am sure will do an excellent job, we are very lucky to have him.

I am also sad to announce the departure of Paul Johnson as our Public Relations Chairman.  Paul has done a tremendous job publicizing the club and running events such as the Open House and Boat Camp.  He will be missed on the Executive Committee and we wish him well.  We will be backfilling that position soon, and will probably have an announcement at the September General Meeting.

As you have seen in the past month or so, we are beginning to reduce the price of fuel and carefully monitoring our existing supply.  As many of you know, we will be replacing our fuel storage tanks this winter.  They have been in the ground for coming up on 30 years and need to be replaced.  Currently the environmental laws allow us to put a new tank back in the exact same spot where the existing tanks lay.  We will have a full report to the membership on this project and a vote for the necessary financing at the September General Meeting.  Please come and learn about our infrastructure and the future it holds for the club.  I want to give a special thanks to Past Commodore David Dever for all the tremendous efforts he has put into this project.  If it wasn’t for his efforts, we would never be as far along as we are!  Be sure to thank him if you see him at the club.

At the September General Meeting we will be presenting some recommended changes to the fee’s at the club.  Please come and hear the presentation from our Treasurer Tom Lochtefeld and be prepared to vote on fee’s for upcoming years.

Enjoy the rest of the boating season.

Jerry Kutz

Commodore