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2025: A TORNADIC 64th SAILING SEASON - AWARDS AND THANKS

GETTING BACK TO "NORMAL"

Sailing season provided a welcome sense of getting back to “normal” and provided the needed blessing of the club's camaraderie  after a rough start to the year:  An F2 tornado hit Grandview Lake on May 16. It was a real blow, with very significant damage to property.  Amazing that no one was injured. We were also mourning the passing of club mainstay Bob Orben a little earlier in the year. You can read about Bob here.

We had 8 race days. There were 35 participants, about half sailors and half Committee Boat volunteers. About half are women and half are men.  Ages of the participants  ranged from preteens to octogenarians.

NEW PARTICIPANTS – WELCOME ABOARD!

We are very pleased to have Lily and Molly Garrett sailing with us along with the welcome return of Peggy Voelz to the water as well.   Colleen Logan and husband Steve Anderson joined us for the first time during their stay at the Logan’s place in July.  Dylan Wilson, one of the Auld clan joined us as well.  

VOLUNTEERS RECOGNIZED

Volunteers on the Committee Boat enjoying lunch while watching the race. They'll be busy in a few minutes when they record the finishing times of the sailors

Thanks to our Committee Boat volunteers!  They are wonderful, great at what they do, highly esteemed by the sailors, and are always right!

Arlene welcomes the race set-up volunteers arriving to pick up gear. 

Special thanks to  Arlene Truex, for hosting our gatherings and our pre and post-race logistics. It is non-stop activity at her place all day long on race days! 

SOCK BURNING AND POETRY

Sock burning at the start of the sailing season has become “a thing” amongst sailing clubs across the country. It is a celebration of Springtime. Such exuberance inspires poetry, so that is part of it as well. This year many of the poems composed by club members mentioned the tornado, the importance of friendships, and sailing of course. You can find the blog post with all of the poetry here .

SAILORS & AWARDS

 

SPECIAL AWARDS

Ghost Sailor Award  Enthusiasm Award

This year we repurposed the “Ghost Sailor” trophy.  Under the tornadic circumstances of 2025, rather than a mild teasing of those who were somewhat absent, we recognized a couple who travelled the farthest and went to great lengths to be able join our sailing fun.  Colleen Logan and Steve Anderson began inquiring about joining us in January and travelled here from way, way out west.  Unfortunately the sailboat they had arranged to borrow was a tornado victim.  Instead, Colleen was able to crew for John Auld.  Steve helped out on the Committee Boat. 

Colleen Logan up front, crews for John Auld

Regarding the trophy: We changed the title plate and put a new figurine on top of the ghost sailor trophy as you can see below.

Even with its modifications, the former ghost sailor award remains difficult to capture in a photograph (frustrating the web-master). 

The "Jim Riffle Perfect Attendance Award"

This award is named after Jim Riffle because he is rarely absent from any Grandview Lake related activity, function, or meeting.   

The award is Jim's favorite holiday breakfast doughnut - jelly filled.

Although no one achieved such attendance perfection this year, some were close, including:

John Auld, Cindy Bartlett, Matt Bartlett, Tom Cartwright, Dianne Fisher, Laura Garrett, and of course Jim Riffle.

 "Booby Prize”

This year’s misadventure award went to “The Tornado of 2025” Kind of like in 2021 when we awarded it to “Covid 19”.   Both events are recorded for the sake of historical infamy on the very appropriate chamber pot trophy.  

The chamber pot is full of actual tornado debris along with a depiction of the tornado itself. 

Good Samaritan Award:

This year’s winner was Doug Hale who with the assistance of the safety patrol officer was able to get Catey Hale's turtled Y-Flyer righted - never an easy task. A jelly donut was awarded.

RACING AWARDS

Memorial Day Race Winner

Matt Bartlett (right) with trophy awarded by Kevin Preuss– just like last year – same T-shirts even!

 July 4th Race Winner

Jim Voelz with the trophy awarded by Lisa Duret

 

Labor Day Race Winner

John Auld was the winner

Accepting the award on behalf of John Auld is Tom Schroeder, his crew for that race.

 

CREW  AWARDS

    FIRST PLACE

Tom Schroeder

SECOND PLACE

Sarah Cartwright - see her?

THIRD  PLACE

Ben Cartwright
pictured at the helm giving his dad a scare

 

LASER CLASS AWARDS

    FIRST PLACE

Matt Bartlett

 

SECOND PLACE

Laura Garrett

THIRD PLACE

John Gall

INTERNATIONAL  CLASS AWARDS

FIRST PLACE

Tom Cartwright

SECOND PLACE

John Auld shown here with crew Beth Auld

THIRD PLACE

Catey Hale shown here with crew Elizabeth Hale

     ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:

The 2025 Rookie of the year is Molly Garrett (not pictured)  

** CLUB CHAMPION **

MATT BARTLETT

The Club Champion is the sailor that accumulates the most points based on the club's scoring system

And thanks to our club officers for another great season!

Beth Auld

 

Kevin Preuss

 

Lisa Duret

 

Tom Schroeder

Thanks to Beth Auld our Committee Boat Chairperson and Kevin Preuss our Race Chairperson. They are the ones that organize the races and keep them running like clockwork. And to Lisa Duret  our Secretary/Treasurer keeps our memberships and checkbook current and helps in many other ways. And to Tom Schroeder the Commodore who tries to help if he can.

We hope you and yours enjoy FAIR WINDS in 2026!