Konza Sailor
Official Newsletter of the Blue Valley Yacht Club
Founded 1963
Post Office Box 961, Manhattan, Kansas 66505

http://www.bluevalleyyachtclub.org/

Volume 2005 Issue 1                                           Konza Sailor                                                   January 2005

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Welcome aboard
By Diane Barker, commodore

cern.  I'm sure we will all sail a little easier knowing that the BVYC has this coverage.


Please take a look at the tentative calendar and mark our yearly events, the Spring and Fall Banquets, Pig Roast, the Chapman, Shipley and Bennett Spring Series races, the Scott Liebler Memorial Day Long Distance Race, and the Labor Day Long Distance Race.  Keep watching the newsletters for additional events like full-moon sails, raft-ups, sailing seminars, safety seminars, bonfires, and racing schedule updates.


If I don't see you out at the club, I look forward to seeing you at the Spring Banquet.

Welcome aboard the 2005 sailing season with the BVYC. Now, while the snow is on the ground and ice coats the Indian grass, is the time to patch those sails and dinghies. The Spring Banquet will be here before we know it, and some of us will have boats on the water.

This year the Corps of Engineers has required the Blue Valley Yacht Club to carry liability insurance as a condition of renewing our lease. This has caused a modest increase in the membership dues from $75 to $100.  If you get your membership in early, the fee will be only $90. Of course we never raise fees lightly, but club liability insurance has been a much-discussed con

Forty three members and guests of the Blue Valley Yacht Club gathered at Valentino's Restaurant on Saturday, November 13, for the Club's Annual Fall Banquet.  Bob and Jane Mullen, social chairpersons, had arranged for our partaking of the sumptuous array of foods prepared by the restaurant and had also arranged for the guest speaker.  Thanks Bob and Jane for a wonderful evening and for all the social gatherings that you had organized throughout the year. 


The annual banquets always provide opportunities to get to know the new members who have joined during the season as well as to re-welcome former members and guests.  It was especially enjoyable to have Ralph Teaford and his guest, Elaine Shea, spend the evening

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Club ends 2004 season with Fall Banquet

By Bart Bartholomew, editor

Club members and guests dining at
Valentino's Restaurant