Welcome back to the 2026 sailing season! I hope you are as excited as I am in anticipating another great year of sailing. I would like to thank our outgoing Board members for the tremendous job and countless hours they put in maintaining a community that continues to draw us back year after year.

I am pleased to present your new board of directors for the 2026 year as follows:

• Commodore – Amie Pardy, [email protected]
• Vice Commodore – David Holdsworth, [email protected]
• Treasurer – Doug Crighton, [email protected]
• Secretary – Carol Hurst, [email protected]
• Membership Director – Ken Wright, [email protected]
• Social Director – Liliana Cordeiro, [email protected]
• Harbour Master – Ed Pardy, [email protected]
• Assistant Harbour Master – Greg Sneep, [email protected]
• Hurry Inn Director – Ann Ramsden, [email protected]
• Fleet Captain/Sailing School – Hendrik Cuppen, fleetcaptain@edmontonyachtclub
• Clubhouse Director – David Carr, [email protected]
  

Be on the lookout for the newsletters that will inform you of the exact dates for docks in which is always weather dependent, yet predictably somewhere during the first three weekends of May. As we have come to expect, it will be a mandatory all hands on deck experience. As usual, food, refreshments, and great company will be enjoyed along with a good night's sleep after all the exercise.

Our club only exists because people like you say yes to the volunteer opportunities through the year. We will have various work projects  and committees throughout the summer that will need our volunteer efforts to continue to perpetuate the viability and vitality of the club. Please consider saying yes to some of the volunteer opportunities that will come along this year.

Our community and the way we come together socially holds a special place in my heart. If you have additional social ideas that you would like to see, please email Liliana Cordeira as we build our social calendar for the year.

I look forward to seeing everyone soon and enjoying a great 2026 sailing season together.  Here is to another year of water, wind, and sun!

Amie Pardy
2026 EYC Commodore

At our Family Day potluck, Harbour Master Ed Pardy shared some of his "to do" items:

• Install the wet field one day, docks another
• Replace the chain anchoring the yellow buoys
• Might replace the tag line connecting those buoys
• We NEED two divers to check the condition of chains anchoring the wet field moorings
• Ed and Bob will examine the damaged dock section where a tire came loose during docks out
  
• We'll precisely measure the dimensions of one of our docks and price building a new one

Ed, I apologize if I got any of that wrong. I'll blame on it on my food coma from eating too much chicken pot pie and perogies!

Mark G

Formally known as the Seba Beach Annual Family Regatta, Seba Days take place during the long weekend in August. There are a LOT of events!

EYC hosts Monday's Volleyball Tournament. Most of our members volunteer to make and serve food for the attendees.

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Every summer during August long weekend, Seba Beach puts on their Annual Family Regatta. From Friday, August 2 through Monday, August 5 there will be lots of family-friendly fun events. Check out the complete program. [The village calls it a "regatta" but there is one proper sailboat race plus a wide variety of non-sailing events!]

The Sunday evening fireworks are very popular but he Parkland County has a Fire Ban in effect. Here is the relevant web page which says, "Fire Services will evaluate fireworks permits on a case-by-case basis."

Terry joined EYC with a Day membership around 2011 after being a member of the Sunshine Bay Yacht Club for many years. This allowed Terry & Leonie who had a West Wight Potter 19 to use EYC's docks and facilities on a "day basis". During this phase of his membership Terry still contributed a lot of volunteer time on a variety of activities.

In 2013 Terry sold his Potter and became a partner with Rob Martin in Fugitive, a San Juan 24, and bought a "full" family membership.

Terry was a member of the Board of Directors for several years. During his tenure as Membership Director, Terry sorted out a "rats nest" of past records, establishing a new and updated data base, and member share tracking system with the issuance of new share numbers.

Terry also participated significantly in several club strategic plan initiatives. He pushed hard for EYC to establish a vision and definitive action plan update, upgrade and in some cases remake the club's  infrastructure. Especially Hurry Inn!

He was always front and centre at docks in and docks out. Initially in the water but as his arthritis got worse, Terry became the key person on shore to ensure the dock sections were stacked and unstacked to guarantee correct placement. He assumed this role from Bill Hunka.

Terry was always there to flip burgers with flare and humour on Seba Days and at club BBQs.

Terry and Rob won a number of races on Fugitive over the years, including Splice the Mainbrace twice. He performed bowman duty on spinnaker sets and was a sail trimmer extraordinaire!

Terry passed June 3, 2024, aged 76. His caustic wit and keen observations are sorely missed!

-- Rob

Thanks to Marg Iveson for gathering all the summer songs suggested during the Trivia-Activia contest held on Canada Day.

• Barrett’s Privateers  Stan Rogers
  
• Beachin’. Jake Owen
• Beyond the Sea  Bobby Darin
• Bibia Be Ye Ye, Ed Sheeran
• Blow the Man Down. Sea Shanty
• Blowin’ in the Wind
• Boats of Spanish Leather, Dylan
• Both Sides Now  Joni Mitchell
• Brandy Looking Glass
• Castaway. Zac Brown Band
• Come All You Sailors  (Classic)
• Come Sail Away. Styxx
• Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), Harry Belafonte
• Fisherman’s Wharf. Stan Rogers
• Float Away Grabbtz
• Fogarty’s Cove. Stan Rogers
• Follow the Sun  Corona Commercial
• Goin’ to the Country  Bruce Cockburn
• Good Day Sunshine
• Here Comes the Sun – The Beatles
• How Far I’ll Go, Moano soundtrack
• I Saw Three Ships  The Chieftans
• If I Had a Boat   Lyle Lovet
• Into the Mystic. Van Morrison
• It Never Rains in Southern California   Albert Hammond
• It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere  Allan Jackson
• It’s Raining Men  The Weather Girls
• Jamaica Farewell. Harry Belefonte
• Kokomo. The Beach Boys
• North West Passage Stan Rogers
• Orinoco Flow, Enya
• Pirates of Penzance  Gilbert and Sullivan
• Pirates of the North Saskatchewan   Arrog
• Rain
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
• Ride of the Valkeries  Wagner
• Rock the Boat  Hues Corporation
• Row Row Row Your Boat  (Classic)
• Sail  Awalation
• Sail AWOL  Nation
• Sail Away. David Gray
• Sail on Sailor. The Beach Boys
• Sailing, Christopher Cross
• Saturday in the Park   Chicago
• Sea Cruise  Frankie Ford
• Sea Side  the Kooks (2026)
• Singing in the Rain
• Sitting on the Dock of the Bay  Otis Redding
• Six Months in a Leaky Boat  Split ENZ
• Sloop John B  Beach Boys
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea  Otis Redding
• Somewhere Over the Rainbow, as performed by Israd Kamakawiwo’de
• Son of a Son of a Sailor,  Jimmy Buffet
• Southern Cross  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• Stormy Weather – Etta James
• Summertime   Louis and Etta
• The Redneck Yacht Club, Craig Morgan
• The Last Saskatchewan Pirate  Captain Tractor
• The Maid on the Shore, Stan Rogers
• The Rain Song
• The Skye Boat Song/ Over the Sea to Skye   Outlander Theme Song
• The Summer Wind  Frank Sinatra
• The Thunder Rolls. Garth Brooks
• The Yankee Sailor  Great Big Sea
• Thunderstruck
• Waiting for My Real Life to Begin Ship to come  Colin Nay
• Walking on Sunshine
• We Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
• Wellerman Sea Shanty
• What Can You Do with a Drunken Sailor.  Irish Rovers
• When the Ship Comes in. Bob Dylan
• When the Sun Goes Down. Kenny Chesney
• Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Gordon Lightfoot
• Yellow Submarine. The Beatles

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Thanks to Michelle Simoneau for these photos (and for helping with coffee, snacks & lunch).

Bob Schimmel wrote, "I launched this buoy last week in easier conditions than when I first tried it. During our initial attempt it was confusing to find the longer west finger of the sand bar that I usually park the buoy on because I could not find the 3 fingers at the end of the bar. The best I can figure out is the sand bar has shifted a lot since last year. The second launch attempt was a lot easier when we had sun light to see the bottom to confirm location. This made it easier than just using the portable depth sounder.  

"At any rate the buoy is floating in 12-15 ft of water. You should pass to the south of it since it is a south cardinal buoy, albeit not looking like one since it is an orange barrel. We could not find shallower water to the south of it. However, there is no warranty expressed or implied on it's location! If you find shallow water south of the buoy please let me know and I'll move it."