Say Hello to Nick

On July 18, Nick Colberg — former stalwart Madeline Island Yacht Club shop employee and recently a boat captain for Halvorson’s Fisheries in Cornucopia — rejoined the club’s staff as Service Manager Coordinator. Nick will work to coordinate and accelerate work from the shop, including the regular flow of work orders as well as larger seasonal events such as fall haul out and spring launch. If you need anything from the shop, or have a question about the status of a work order, please see Nick.

It’s past mid-season ….

Speaking of large seasonal events, Haul out forms should be available about Aug. 1, online and from the shop. The forms would be available now, but the staff is awaiting final prices on shrink-wrap — which, by the way, appear to be rising less than expected. Stocks of the wrap appear adequate, and the club has new options to recycle shrink-wrap in the spring.

Also, on the subject of boat winterization manuals, Nick requests that members who have them to please share a copy with the shop staff, either in physical form or electronically to: shop@miyc.net.

Annual Meeting Report

The Pub’s Lightkeeper’s Lodge on June 25 was once again the venue for the club’s Annual Meeting, which included a celebration of a vibrant history (four former Commodores — Stan Cory, Wally Waffensmith, Tom Davison, and Allen Barnard —were all celebrated in the crowd) and a glimpse of a vibrant future (Commodore Tom Penn reported that the club attracted 22 new members over the last year, a record).

The Commodore also reported on the board’s on-going work engineering and financing replacement of the club’s aging fuel tanks. The new tanks will be above-ground and seem destined in the next few years to move across the road to the boat storage yard. Members also re-elected the current board, and the Commodore.

Other news

A new online system of transient boat reservations will be a winter staff project …. the club in July passed its biannual fuel system inspection, confirming accurate recordkeeping and metering …. and sales of the newly-available wine, beer, and Cafe Seiche edibles are reported to be robust.

And From the Recycling and Garbage Stockade ….

Two unhelpful trends in recycling and garbage have emerged at the club: 1) Significant amounts of recyclables are somehow finding their way into the trash, and 2) suspiciously large, household-sized bags of garbage are overflowing the trash bins, which are of course intended for trash solely from boats. Much appreciation for anything anyone can do to reverse either trend.