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2012 Grandbanks Rendezvous Message
Season’s Greetings! from the Puget Sound Grand Banks Owners Association
We hope you are all enjoying a joyful winter holiday season, savoring memories of last year’s boating adventures while looking forward to another wonderful cruising season in 2012. In that spirit, the PSGBOA Board of Directors has already begun the planning process for our annual Rendezvous to be held May 10-13, 2012, once again at beautiful Roche Harbor Resort on San Juan Island.
This annual kick-off to the cruising season is a wonderful chance to catch up with old friends and meet new ones, while sharing experiences and expanding our boating knowledge. The weekend will offer a variety of workshops covering topics such as marine weather, using radar, marine engine maintenance, marine electronics, cruising Northwest waters, onboard cooking, and more. Do you have special expertise that you would like to share with the group, or an idea for a speaker? Please do let us know. We love to have members lead sessions when possible! Additional activities will include the annual Coast Guard Auxiliary courtesy boat inspections, sponsor booths, an opportunity to tour participating boats during “Open House”, as well as a return of the ever-popular “Women-on-the-Water” boat-handling training. Check back on our website for updates to our schedule of events and happenings as we get planning the 2012 Rendezvous.
You can also look forward to lots of fun activities and chances to relax with your friends. With many members arriving on Thursday, we are hoping to schedule a few “icebreaker” events for that afternoon/evening this year. On Friday night, join us on the party barge for the always-popular appetizer potluck and wine tasting. Speaking of food, we are all eager to see what Chef Shaw has in store for our big Saturday night catered dinner, and can’t wait for him to “wow” us with another cooking demo (hopefully outside, weather-permitting!). Since we will be gathering this year on Mother’s Day weekend, we plan to have some special treats for all the moms as well as more fun activities for the kids. As always, the success of this event depends on the efforts of our volunteers, so please let us know if you are interested in helping out on-site or in organizing one of the many activities. It’s a great way to meet other members!
So, please mark your 2012 calendars to join all of your Grand Banks friends in Roche Harbor this coming May 10-13. If you’ve never attended a Rendezvous, we urge you to find out this year what you’ve been missing! More details will follow after the first of the year, and we will be posting updates on our web site. We also plan to send out an “e-vite” sometime next month in order to get an initial idea of how many members might be planning to attend. Please look for a message from PSGBOA in your email inbox, and help us out by responding as best you can at that early date.
In the meantime, on behalf of everyone on the PSGBOA Board, have a wonderful Holiday and a very Happy New Year!
Sue and Byron Richards, M/V Eagle’s Gig, 2012 PSGBOA Rendezvous Chairs
360-933-4454 or <gb46eg@comcast.net>
PSGBO headed for Alaska, come along!
SLOW BOAT CRUISE TO SE ALASKA THIS SUMMER 2011!
Lin and Maryke Hines of M/V Wandrian, a 1962 American Marine (Grand Banks) 35′ Chanteyman Pilothouse trawler is planning to cruise to SE Alaska as far as Glacier Bay this summer. We made it to the top of the Broughton’s last summer and loved it! Looking for another boat or boats, hopefully with Alaska Cruise experience, to cruise with us. We’ve completely rebuilt and repowered our boat in the past 3 years. We cruise at 7-7.5 knots and 6-7 hours a day is comfortable.
We live in Olympia and are members of the Olympia Yacht Club. We will be ready to leave in mid-May right after the PSGBOA Rendezvous in Roche Harbor and return to Puget Sound by August 20. Let’s get together and talk about it.
Contact information – Lin Hines at linhines@earthlink.net or 360-455-9637.
Join the Bowles family this weekend!
The crew of JoMeKe will be cruising to Port Townsend for the long weekend (Feb 19-22) as Seattle school let students out for Winter Break and President’s Day. We have no reservations but are counting on a spot on the linear float at Point Hudson Marina with easy access to town. We are anxious to explore the new Northwest Maritime Center that was recently completed nearby. The weather promises to be nice with ample sunshine and maybe enough warmth to drop in on our favorite ice cream shop. If anyone is in the area, please come by and join us. We’d love the company.
Ken Bowles
Thanksgiving 2010 – PSGBOA Style!
Hello Everyone. I just wanted to say hello and post a few pictures from our get together with other GB owners. Three families spent Thanksgiving together on the water, in our Grand Banks in Poulsbo. Ken & Cheri Bowles on their GB 42, Noah & Dominique France on their GB 32 and myself and wife Lynne on our GB 36. On Thanksgiving, we had the town of Poulsbo to ourselves and what a great time we all had. It was winter cruising at its best. The kids all had a ball which made for the perfect holiday on the water. The pictures say 1000 words and we could not have been more blessed to have enjoyed such a great weekend with family and friends.
Hope to see you at our 2011 Rendezvous in May at Roche Harbor. Happy New Year to you.
Greg Richmond
PSGBOA RENDEZVOUS CHAIR
Thanksgiving in Poulsbo - GB style
Boats on the Dock in Poulsbo
- Thanksgiving
Deer Harbor Summer Gathering Recap!
The weekend of Aug. 20-21, we held a casual get together for Grand Banks at Deer Harbor Marina. We had six boats participate. Saturday night, we convened at picnic tables on the dock, and enjoyed drinks and appetizers. Two of the boats had kids, and all six of the boats had a great time socializing. It should be noted that the next day, parties of Grand Banks owners were touring various boats, comparing maintenance and boat improvements. Everyone had an enjoyable time!! Participants included:
Gizmo 1966 32′
Bonnie Banks 1967 32′
True Love 1973 36′ (Traveled the second longest distance – Texas!)
Sea Spree 1995 42′
Honu 1991 32′ (Traveled the longest distance – Hawaii!)
North Star 1991 49′
Thank you,
Lynne Thompson, Norm Hubbard, Grant Hubbard and Chookie
Lynne
SUMMER CRUISING UPDATES
Hello to everyone in the Grand Banks Community!
I hope you are having a fun summer and getting out on your Grand Banks.
For the fourth of July, PSGBOA had their first informal get together in the south Sound. If you missed it, you missed a very good time.
We had four boats join up and others were in the area. During the weekend we were all able to take care of the world’s problems over a few bottles of wine and some great food. Bill and Brenda Davis had some great Maine jokes and Marshal and Shelby were great hosts, inviting everyone to their 42 Europa. The fireworks were fantastic as always.
Fireworks in Quarter Master Harbor 2010
Fireworks in 2010
Our next outing will be Aug. 21/22 at Deer Harbor on Orcas Island. If you are planning to go, get your reservations now or plan on being on anchor. Lynne Thompson and Norm Hubbard, aboard the North Star, will be snagging a picnic table and drinking wine on the docks on Saturday night. Bring a cocktail and join other PSGBOA members.
We’d like someone to volunteer to be the informal hosts of a get together Labor Day weekend at Poulsbo. Anyone interested?
Most of us boat in the winter. Does someone have an idea for a winter get together?
Greg Richmond PSGBOA President