Pride of Queen City - Dates and Details for your calendar

With spring and Opening Day of Boating Season coming up fast, your yacht club grounds and facilities are in need of their annual “spring spruce up”.  My name is Barry Rutten and it’s my privilege to be your 2015 Pride of Queen City Chairman.

 

For our newer members, a little refresher on Pride of Queen City is in order.  Our yacht club is host to many events during the Opening Day festivities, which span quite a few days.  We want our clubhouse, grounds and docks to look extra spiffy for our members and our guests from other yacht clubs that moor at our facility during the weekend.  In addition, many guests also come over to our club via shuttle boat from Seattle Yacht Club during the weekend of Opening Day, so we want that boat landing area to look shipshape!  We also have a Spring Clean Up event at the Winslow Outstation to get that heavily used facility all ready for the massive influx of members and their guests as boating season begins!

 

We know you’re busy and have many things competing for your time, especially on the weekend.  We’re hoping that you can mark your calendars now with one or more blocks of time to help your fellow members “take pride” in the appearance of OUR yacht club.  If we have lots of volunteers, all of the jobs will get done quickly and the club will look fantastic! 

 

Three Dates – Three Ways to Show Your QCYC Pride!

 

Sunday, April 12th – PressureWashAPalooza! – We have lots and lots of concrete curbing and many other areas that need the tender loving touch of your pressure washer to remove the seasonal “black and green” coating that has taken hold during the winter.  If you don’t get enough opportunity to fire up your beast of a machine at home and have been looking for a place to spend some more time pressure washing, this is the event for you! We’ll have more details on how we’ll feed you that day, but we need this work done prior to the main Pride of Queen City event, so if you’d like to join the pressure wash brigade at PressureWashAPalooza!, please let me know at barryrutten@comcast.net  Let’s get started around 9AM.

 

There is also a “Docks Fun Day” on Saturday April 11, where the project list will have a POQC focus. We are competing with the Tacoma Daffodil Festival that weekend, but if you plan on staying in waters closer to home, we’d love to see you out there with a hammer in your hand on Saturday or a pressure washer nozzle in your grasp on Sunday.

 

Friday – Sunday, April 17-19 – Winslow Spring Clean Up – This annual event, which we never miss, is organized and hosted by your very able Outstation team of Barb and Eric Wood.  They’ve got this event down to a science and it runs like a well-oiled machine.  Arrive by boat or by ferry but either way, join the fun, grab an item from the To Do list and enjoy making the Outstation look its best!  Most or all "action" will be on Saturday.

 

Saturday – April 25th – Pride of Queen City – The Main Event – We need lots and lots of volunteers to come out in force and make quick work of the many task that will be waiting for us that day.  There will be lists of projects, both inside and outside and there will be something for your special talents and interests.  We will have indoor and outdoor lists from the House Committee, ably led by Jim Damery and by the Grounds Committee, masterfully led by MaryLouise Alving. We’ll also have other outdoor projects on the grounds and docks, weather permitting. Chuck Goud and his Dock Dudes will run the show out there.

 

Food?  Of course we’ll be feeding you! We need lots of volunteers to help out with both lunch and dinner. If your skills lean towards the culinary, I need a team to plan and coordinate lunch and dinner that day, so please let me know if this is in your wheelhouse. Please.  Pretty please?  

 

Snowbirds and Busy Bees - If you’re a snow-bird (smart!) and not able to attend, many of your “flock” have been known to send in a financial contribution to the club to offset the costs of supplies, materials and volunteer meals.  If you’re a Busy Bee and simply cannot make the event due to other commitments, please consider a donation to the club as well.  Deborah in the office will be happy to help with your donation and we’ll keep a list of contributors for recognition.  If you prefer to remain anonymous, please let Deborah know.

 

Details – When you arrive, please be sure to go up to the second floor to select from a few tables full of “assignment cards”.  We’ll have someone on hand to jot down your name (and those of your team) so we know who’s working on which projects.  Some projects are one person only, some are multiple people required.  The card will let you know.  Please inform the “person with the clipboard” when you’ve selected a task and when you’ve completed a task.  The card will indicate what supplies are needed and where they are located.  If you are in doubt in any way, please ask Jim, Mary Louise or myself.  Please let us know by 10:00am if you’ll be joining us for lunch and if you’ll be our guest for dinner.  Both lunch and dinner are on the club.

 

It takes a village – We estimate we’ll need at least a dozen people for grounds projects, around 15 or so for clubhouse projects, around two dozen for docks projects plus a galley crew for lunch and dinner.  The more the merrier and the faster the work gets done. 

 

We’ll have more fine tuned details for you in the April Bilge Pump but the earlier you volunteer, the less stress I’ll have to endure!

 

Thank you in advance for your participation and contributions!

 

Barry Rutten

Pride of Queen City Chairman

425-949-2815 – Volunteer hotline

barryrutten@comcast.net - Volunteer e-mail hotline