News
The Club's monthly bulletin, Tell Tales, keeps members informed of Club events and activities and is sent to members via email near the start of the month.
Current Issue of Tell Tales
The Club's weekly bulletin, Weekly Spotlight, which gives the most recent news updates, is sent to members via email.
Archives of Tell Tales, and its earlier version, AHOY!, can be accessed by clicking on the Newsletter Archive in the navigation menu to the left.
News Items of Particular Interest
2023 HMBYC Awards
The winners of the 2023 Awards are listed below:
- Photographer Extraordinare: Anita Hart
- Rookie of the Year: Kathleen Courtney
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Goddess of the Sea: Laura McGee
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Watch Officer of the Year: Javier Sanchez
- On Land Volunteer: Anna Tengelsen
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Service to Youth Sailing: Beccie Mendenhall
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Longest Serving Quartermaster: Dee O'Connor
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Facilities: Ralph Wigginton
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On-the-Water Volunteer: Rick Loeper
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Ferry Whisperer: Chris Ice
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Pinch Hitter: Suzy Pinkerton
The awards were announced at the Commodore's Ball on 11 November. Congrats to all, and thank you for your service to the Club!
Half Moon Bay Yacht Club Youth Sailing Wins Nimitz and Horder trophies
In 2017, the Club's Youth Sailing program was awarded the Pacific Inter-Club Yacht Association's Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Trophy for “having made the greatest advancement during the current year in promoting youth activity in yachting, including instruction in boat-handling proficiency, seamanship, and safety.” PICYA represents clubs throughout Northern California. The Nimitz Trophy is the oldest award that PICYA gives out, originally sponsored by Admiral Nimitz himself back in the mid-1950’s. Winning the Nimitz Trophy made HMBYC the PICYA 2017 submission for the Pacific Coast Yachting Association's Garrett Horder Memorial Trophy that is awarded annually to the member organization judged to have shown the greatest improvement in its Junior Boating Education program. The trophy, a famous Currier and Ives print of the sail/steam vessel “San Francisco,” is over one hundred years old and occupies a prominent mantel location at St. Francis Yacht Club. PCYA includes yacht clubs across the entire west coast of the US and including Hawaii. And HMBYC won this award also! So basically the yachting community said that HMBYC had the best youth sailing program in the entire western US. These awards validated the Club's approach to sailing camps and shows the high quality of this program.
Take the Tiller
Take The Tiller is a sailing workshop for women with moderate sailing skills, designed to build confidence and command at the helm. Each skipper takes turns commanding Cal 20 with a crew of two and a trained HMBYC facilitator on board. The final challenge is a race to the finish.
In 2017, Take the Tiller featured as the keynote speaker Margie Woods, the only female participant in the Singlehanded Sailing Society’s Singlehanded TransPac 2016, a 2100-mile solo sailboat race from San Francisco to Hanalei, Hawaii. A review of the event appeared in Latitude 38.