[Pettipaug Yacht Club (U.S.)] RESULTS: October 18, 2025 2025 BIRCH RACE and TRI-CLUB SERIES RACES (pdf's attached) Thank you to Bob Cashman ROBIN STARR MEMORIAL TROPHY Awarded to the "fastest" boat with corrected time 2025 Winner: Steve Dix, MC SCOW 2025 ROBIN STARR RACE A handicap race with two divisions: MC SCOWS: 2025 First: Steve Dix - Second: Keith Kraner - Third: John Kihm ESSEX OPEN 2025: First: Sarah DuBois - Second: Mark Borton - Third: Carl Caruso (all Sunfish) The wind eventually picked-up! Kudos to all on both the BIRCH and STARR Race Committee. BIRCH PRO: Kathryn Ryan and team~ STARR PRO: Chuck Poindexter and team. Without your help time and effort, there would be limited racing at PYC! Kudos to all who helped Kathryn Ryan and myself move chairs, picnic tables, umbrellas etc. in and out of the building ~ on and off the deck. Kudos to our wonderful chef, Dave Courant and his wife Roz. They work so hard! A LOT of food and A LOT of PEOPLE! Membership Chair~ Mary Lee at the door~ wonderful. To Keith Kraner...do always come blow your horn! THANK YOU! Our Prayer and our Poem: Brian Donahue and Dick Hutchinson and John Walsh for 2025 Decommissioning statement. Thank you to our FRAU bartenders, Francine and Mindy. All clean-up crew. CONGRATULATIONS to Carl Caruso for winning the 2025 SUNFISH AWARD~ presented by 2024 winner: Sarah DuBois. Special Appreciation to Carl Caruso and John Becker for taking the lead and replacing the sliding glass doors in the Commodore's Room. THANK YOU! To the wonderful, always present squad: Sandy Sanstrom, slide-show, music, the canon, safety boat, overseeing all boats and stepping in for me....and helping with party clean-up and tree clean-up that Jeff Going (my mentor) did the lion's share of AFTER Adam Fritzsche and Peter Felischer ( new member we hope) chain sawed the tree that fell across the road that John Kihm towed out of the road. PHEW! A very special thanks to Bob Cashman who makes the lights go-on, PYC IT work and a gazillion other things that he does humbly behind the scenes. Thank you Bob. THANK YOU TO ALL who raced, THANK YOU TO ALL who celebrated. THANK YOU TO ALL for a WONDERFUL 2025 Season! RACE COMMITTEES Hutch, Joanna, PYC's Secretary and safety boat champ among another 50 things. Rosie, Marilou, Adam, John and Jen, Paul M, John S., Mary Lee, Sandy, Jeff and forgive me if I have forgotten anyone, never intentional. SAVE THE DATE~ Invitation will be sent this week. Please join us! NOVEMBER 15th ~ The 2025 PYC ANNAUL BUSINESS MEETING & DINNER~ Essex Corinthian Yacht Club ~ 5 P.M. Open Bar~ Business Meeting~ Dinner~ Slide Show~ Dessert~ Awards~ FUN! NOVEMBER 1: FALL WORK-PARTY @ 9 a.m. NOVEMBER 8: ALL MEMBER'S BOATS REMOVED NOVEMBER 15: DOCKS REMOVED time (TBD) and date confirmed.
