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Officers
Virgil "Butch"
Jones - Commodore
Just about every
weekend you can find Butch on the water somewhere. In the
summer months, you will find Butch and his wife Pat on their Sea Ray
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one of the many bays on Barkley
or Kentucky Lakes.
In the winter months, boating and
scuba diving in the Florida Keys is their favorite destination.
Although an avid power boater, Butch sails from time to time,
whenever anyone will let him crew.
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Dave Rittenhouse - Vice Commodore
You will find David and his wife Janet
Rittenhouse on pier 11 slip 1 aboard the DaJaRi II during much
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As Professor of Computer Drafting Technology for Kaskaskia
College careerobligations result in much of the fall
to spring spent in the classroom. Boating has been a part of our
lives since 1986 with many hours of travel and skiing. As more
leisure time became available, we began to visit the marinas,
resorts and boat shows. Our conversation moved from ski boats to
yachts. Barkley and Kentucky Lakes had long been favor boating
locations. We could anchor in a cove, walk the shoreline or
cruise the waterways. We found good food, good accommodations
and good friends.
Our friend, Tom Pape, gave some great leads and provided a
positive insight about Green Turtle Bay Resort. The day we
boarded the former “Special Lady” our interest grew the most and
the 1986 Carver 4207 Aft Cabin was ours. Convenience of the pier
was the primary consideration, but we quickly found that the
friendly nature of the people at Kentucky and Barkley Lakes as
well as Green Turtle Bay Resort bring are what truly make the
trips, the cost and the boating season worthy of our precious
relaxation time. We have found that which we were seeking.
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Duane Statler - Rear Commodore
Rene' and I reside on
pier 10 with our 1st mates Kramer and Cosmo on a 310
Sundancer, "Satisfaction". We moved to GTB in March of
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I inherited my love of the water from my father
who built our first boat, a 24' cruiser, in 1968. Later on
he purchased a ski boat and a house boat.
Rene' and I started with our own boat, a Sea Ray Sundeck
240 in 2003. We spent the summer weekends traveling to
various lakes from Dale Hollow to Table Rock and many in between
seeing the natural beauty in the Midwest. In 2005 we
upgraded to our current cruiser so we could spend more weekends
at the lake.
| Stuart "Stu" Schwalm -
Fleet Captain, Long Range Crusing
Stu and Marcia have been boating
since 1976 when he brought home life jackets and announced that
the family was going to buy a sail boat. Today, 32 years later,
Stu and Marcia no longer sail. As Stu says, “We don’t have one
good knee between the two of us”, therefore, it’s now a power
boat. Retiring in 2005 as a systems improvement (LEAN, ISO,
6Sigma) manager at General Dynamics Land Systems, Stu started
the search for “their” perfect power boat. Two years and 10,000
miles of travel the search took them to Hamilton, ON, to purchase the
Canadian built, “Silver Lady”,
and a lady she is! She is a custom built, 35 foot, diesel
powered, all-aluminum fast trawler. Launched at GTB in May
2007, she found a permanent home on pier 4 amongst those
beautiful sailboats.
Stu and Marcia now live in West Virginia.
They come to their boat year-round several weeks at a time,
going home to recoup/recover. They discovered GTB and CYC via a
search on the internet. After sailing for years on the Great
Lakes, they thought it was time to encounter smoother waters,
i.e., on top of the water, not under it. GTB was originally to
be jumping off point for a Great Loop adventure; however, now
pier 4 will be home port as Stu and Marcia are comfortable
exploring the rivers, bays and coves. Long time members of
the United States Power Squadron, they are now members of the
Kanawah River Power Squadron in Charleston, WV. Always looking
to improve his piloting skills, Stu is currently enrolled in a
series of advanced navigation courses.
For Stu and Marcia, GTB and CYC
brings friendship of true boaters. They enjoy meeting not only
GTB members but also transients. They have made lasting
friends with several “Loopers”. All these people have spoken
highly of GTB and CYC for the friendliness of the members and
staff and the first class facilities. In short, Stu and Marcia
are glad to be apart of the GTB/CYC family.
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| Kim Hall -
Fleet Captain, Short Range Cruising |
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Eddie Beeny - Fleet Captain, Commonwealth Cup Regatta |
John Pinney - Fleet Captain, Sunfish Sailing Fleet
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| Ann Donnelly -
Recording Secretary |
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| Sharon Brown -
Historian Sharon Brown
has served as secretary of CYC since its beginning in 1973,
and in 2008 left that position behind to serve as the club’s
historian, a newly formed position.
She retired in 2006 after
having been an art
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and
humanities teacher in
both Jefferson and
Marshall Counties in Kentucky.
During the 35 years she and her husband have lived in the lakes
area of western Kentucky, along with their children Alyn and
Ashley, they navigated the lakes and the rivers of the area in
boats ranging from ancient fishing boats to houseboats and
cruisers, most often named Teacher’s Pet. When Bob passed away
in 2007, Sharon chose to remain in western Kentucky close to the
beloved lakes and friends the family made while boating.
She has
served as chairman of the Fine Arts Departments in the high
schools in which she taught, most recently in Marshall County,
which borders Kentucky Lake. She has also served on state and
local committees involving the arts, both in education and
within the community. She has directed school and community
theatre productions, and has been active in local community
theatre. Her training includes degrees and studies within the
areas of Art, Ancient History and Writing.
More
recently, she is a writer for a gardening website, occasionally
for the Nauti News, and is currently involved in writing a book
about the native medicinal plants of Kentucky.
As an
artist, she does several commissioned paintings as time allows,
and spends much of her free time in her flower gardens,
photographing, painting, and researching every bud and bloom.
Other hobbies include quilting, restoration of historic handmade
furniture and fabrics, and photographical studies of the lakes
and surrounding plant and wildlife. She is also director of the
Courtroom Gallery, an art gallery which shows the work of
community artists. It is located on the second floor of the
historic courthouse located on the square in downtown Benton,
KY.
Alyn and
Ashley grew up and moved away, but both continue to live near
the water in Florida and in northern Illinois. They never
forgot their roots, nor the boating friends who influenced their
lives. Sharon now has a 4 year old grandson, Ethan, who is not
only made in her image, but is also the love of her life and an
avid boater. She is looking forward to creating a scrapbook
that will hold all the stories and photos that make up the
history of the Commonwealth Yacht Club. More importantly, she
looks forward to continuing friendships through the club.
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| Mark Sunderman - Immediate Past
Commodore
Mark is a certified Master Fabric
Craftsman and has been creating boat canvas for 30 years.
Mark found that after working all day on boats, he had no
desire to spend his leisure time on a boat. However,
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| coming to the Lakes area to work
out of his mobile canvas shop and met a few of the salty sailors
hanging around
Green
Turtle
Bay. Mark
enjoyed sitting around with them in the evening, smoking good
cigars and listening to them tell various, and some times true,
sailing tales. At that time, Mark owned a large canvas
company in
Jeffersonville,
Indiana and, even though
there were a few sailors from the Louisville/Jeffersonville area
who sailed the
Ohio, it just didn’t have the
same appeal to him as sailing on the lakes.
Mark’s dream of sailing became a reality when
six years ago he sold his large canvas company, relocated his
home to Grand Rivers and started a small, family-owned canvas
and boat graphics company which he runs with his wife, Susan and
their son, Caleb. Mark quickly discovered that when you
live this close to the lake, you really need to own a boat and
purchased his sailboat, a 30’ S2 9.2. Mark sails his
red-hulled sailboat, Varangian, with Susan. When not
working in his shop, you can usually locate Mark and Susan on
their boat and, if not there, hanging out at the CYC (the two
stools located at the left-sided end of the bar).
In 1999, Mark’s company designed
the sea anchors used by Tori Murden, to help in her successful
quest to become the first woman and the first American to row
unsupported across the
Atlantic in the SECTOR NO LIMITS
sponsored American Pearl. Mark has also made canvas
for the famous African Queen and the River Rat.
Mark is a member of the Kentucky
Lakes Sailing Club (KLSC) and also crews on a 35.5 Hunter during
the KLSC racing season. Mark is also Vice President of the
Grand Rivers Chamber of Commerce and has been an essential
member of the
Grand River’s Hunter’s Moon Festival
Committee for the past 3 years. |
Board of Directors
| Pat Bumpus
Pat and his wife Patty have
enjoyed boating since they were teenagers. They taught
their daughter, Tara to ski at age seven and hope
to enjoy many years introducing their granddaughter Ella and
son-in-law Scott to the boating life. Pat decided to buy a
house boat so he could have his family and friends visit and
enjoy all the beautiful surroundings at Green Turtle Bay.
Since
Pat and Patty are both retired they spend their time between
GTB and Springfield, Illinois.
Pat’s
background was in the Environmental field with the State of
Illinois. It is his hope to use this knowledge to increase
environmental awareness.
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| Jerry Carter
While a boater for the
last 30 years, my wife Cindy and I are quite active in our
Harley-Davidson Dealership in
Paducah.
Since we lost our Sea Ray 370 Sundancer the Pier 6 fire in
January, we and our partner
Jack Fares now
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have a
322 Baja on Pier 12. We live in
Marina
Village and are
somewhere in the
Marina every
weekend. We enjoy living at the lake, life at Green Turtle
Bay, and trying to get more boaters to become Harley-Davidson
owners. We can be found tooling around the marina in our
12 foot Caribe inflatable also, so wave the next time we pass
by.
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| Cecile Gibson
In 2005, my husband Phil (Hooter) and I decided it was time
for a move. The main criteria for a new location was that
it had to be by a lake. We moved to
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During our first summer here we traded in our run-about for
a 24 ft. Suncruiser pontoon, named
Hunky Dory. When I went to rent our covered boat
slip on Pier 9C, Bill Gary IV asked if we would be
interested in joining the Yacht Club. I laughed, and said
"With a
pontoon boat?" He said "Sure!". We decided to take
advantage of the opportunity to meet other people with the
same love of the water as us and have been grateful for that
decision ever since.
We have made many wonderful
new friends and thoroughly enjoy our time spent at CYC as
well as time spent boating on the lakes. Cecile has been in
the broadcast industry for the past 26 years. She has been
employed for the past 8 years as a broadcast equipment
salesperson for Broadcasters General Store located in
Ocala, FL,
and works from her home office.
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Vebbie Griffith
| Diane Howard
Diane and her husband Tom have been on Pier (formerly Jetty)
1, on their Beneteau 281 for nine years. They also enjoy
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racing season.
Tom and Diane spend their vacations away from the
Lake sailing. This past summer they sailed the
Adriatic,
traveling from the
Greek
Island of Corfu to Venice, Italy.
When not on the water, Diane is busy practicing law. But when
not occupied with work or her boating life, she is spending time
with her family. Tom and Diane have a grown daughter,
Katherine, who is also a lawyer. Their son Matt, an
Environmental Scientist, and his wife Kristie, are most
importantly parents of grandson Samuel who just turned one and
the new grandson-to-be who is due to arrive in January of 2009.
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Mary Ann Osborne
| Beverly Reed
Bev has been boating most of
her life, but came into the
sailing world with a
Hobie Cat
in 1991 at
Chickamauga Lake in
Chattanooga ,
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her discovery of the area lakes.
Bev quickly moved to mono-hulls with a Hunter 23.5 and then to a
Hunter 30 where she spent her weekends. Bev has sailed on the
Lake Michigan, the
Atlantic Ocean,
Gulf of Mexico,
the Caribbean, and also sailed in Puerto Cervo, Sardinia , where
she met several of the crew from Alingi in 2000. What a thrill!
In 2002, Bev married her best
friend, Harry Reed, a fellow sailor who has also sailed for a
number of years. Harry introduced Bev, who previously loved
cruising, to racing on
Kentucky Lake and she was never the same. They have
since raced and cruised a number of boats. Harry took first
place in the 2006 Club Series JAM B Fleet on his Cal 27 and Bev
took second place in the JAM A Fleet on her Hunter 33. Last
year, they decided to size up and bought their Hunter 54,
Windblown. You can find Bev &/or Harry at any point in time,
working on one of their boats. They still have a Cal 27, J/22,
Cal 20, Holder 20, J/27 and three Sunfish, in addition to the
others. The Holder 20 was the boat they accidentally sunk on
March 1, 2006, and didn’t know if they were going to drown,
freeze, or go over KY Dam. After a good bit of
hypothermia,
Bev screamed and got some attention. Not that Bev ever needs
attention or anything! 10 days later, Bev & Harry recuperated,
repaired the boat, and took it to
Harbor Island
, TN and placed 3rd. Yep, they love sailing! Bev and
Harry have also been extremely active in the promotion of the
Commonwealth Cup.
While Bev’s passion is sailing,
she also has a love of her business, commercial insurance. She
has been in the insurance industry for 24 years and has been
employed by Western Rivers Insurance since 2005 as a commercial
lines agent. In addition, Bev teaches several continuing
education insurance courses for
Professional
Insurance Agents of Kentucky. She is a former member of
Insurance Women of Marshall County and Insurance Women of
Chattanooga. She holds her Chartered Property and Casualty
Underwriter designation as well as her
Certified Insurance Counselor and Certified Insurance
Service Representative designations. She holds a
bachelor degree
from
Murray State University in Organizational Communication.
Bev has also been very
instrumental in several non-profit and civic organizations. She
is a former secretary and a director of
Kentucky Lake
Sailing Club and served on the board of directors for 2
years. She previously also held the position of Scribe for three
years, handling the communication tasks and newsletter in the
club as well. Bev previously served as a co-chair on the
Paducah Rotary Antique Quilt Show Promotions Committee, where
she was a
member of the club from 2005 to 2008. Formerly, she id
currently a member of the Murray Rotary Club, where she served
currently is a
Paul Harris Fellow, Chairman of the Murray Rotary Ham
Breakfast committee, and previously served as Chairman of the
Christmas Parade Committee, Chairman of the
Soap Box Derby
for 2 years, and Co-Chairman of the Membership Committee and
Attendance Committees. Bev is also previously served on the
2007-08 United
Way of Paducah and McCracken County Campaign Cabinet.
A proud grandmother of three,
Peyton, 11, Hailey, 9, and Weylin, 4, Bev also loves to ride
horses and shares a love of living in the country with Harry.
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