Santa Barbara Yacht Club
Founded 1872
Monday Luncheon Forum
Santa Barbara Yacht ClubFounded 1872
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Monday Luncheon Forum |
A venerable tradition of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club is our weekly Forum Luncheon. Except when preempted by a holiday or "Big Race" or such activity, a group of members and their invited guests meet at the Yacht Club for Monday Lunch. Reservations are not required. Cost is $9.00, which includes a buffet, coffee and dessert. Each program includes a Special Speaker. Topics cover a wide variety, often involving the following: Santa Barbara Happenings, technical subjects from professional spokespersons, travel talks with photos, local non-profits, etc. etc. We gather at the club between 11:30 and 12. We have a buffet luncheon at noon. We make a few short announcements about recent nautical events, and then we have our speaker from about 12:35 or so until 1:15 or so.
Recent and Upcoming Presenters 2012 Presentations: March 26 - Jeffyne Telson, Founder and President, ResQcats - Subject: A Journey Through the Eyes of RESQCATS March 19 - Captain Helene Webb, SBYC Member and Webmaster - Subject: Messing About in Boats, Books and Art March 12 - Bob Kieding, SBYC Member - Subject: SBYC in the 1940's and 1950's! March 5 - Kathi Brewster, Master Docent, Santa Barbara Historical Museum - Subject: A Salute to Santa Barbara's Women Feb 27 - Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning Feb 20 - Scott Riedman, Santa Barbra Waterfront Director - Subject: Santa Barbara Harbor Update Feb 13 - Michael Ditmore, Executive Director, The Novim Group & Jim Knight, Executive Vice-President, The Novim Group - Subject: Climate Change and Other Easy Subjects Feb 6 - Steve Windhager, PhD, Executive Director, SB Botanic Garden: - Subject: What Use is a Botanic Garden? Jan 30 - Frank Staplemann, Yacht Designer - Subject: Designing Practical Boats that Sail Well and Please their Owners Jan 23 - Craig Tyler, Illustrator Extraordinaire - Subject: Cruising the Intracoastal Waterway at 8 Knots Jan 16 - Thomas L. Scheff, Professor Emeritus, UCSB - Subject: What’s Love Got to Do with It? Jan 9 - Adelaide Ortega and her Guide Dog Caraway, Braille Institute Student and her Partner - Subject: A Woman and Her Guide Dog - Their Story Jan 2- Club Closed 2011 Presentations: Dec 26 - Club Closed Dec 19 - Alita Rhodes and Mary Beth Woodruff, Directors of The Santa Barbara Strings - Subject: The Second Annual Dave McEachen Memorial Concert Dec 12 - Ines Roberts, Photographer Extraordinaire - Subject: Films of the Channel Islands Dec 5 - John Coye, SBYC Member - Subject: Exploring the Galapagos Islands Aboard Nemo II Nov 28 - Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning Nov 21 - Stacey Otte, Executive Director, The Wilding Museum - Subject: Island Encounters, The Art and Conservation of the Channel Islands Nov 14 - Nicholie Bufkin, Destroyer Captain In A Multi-Mission Navy - Subject: Conversations with the Commander Nov 7 - Barry Keller, PHD, Consultant to Industry and Government - Subject: Atop the Rupture Zone - Chile's 8.8 Earthquake and Tsunami Oct 31 - Susan Mellors, President of VISTAS Lifelong Learning - Subject: VISTAS, It's Never Too Late to Learn Oct 24 - Shannon Miller, Vice Chair, California, Health Care for ALL - Subject: Health Care for Every Californian Oct 17 - Howard Hudson, Bugler Extraordinaire - Subject: Taps - 24 Notes that Stir a Nation's Soul Oct 10 - Macduff Everton and Mary Heeber, Local Author and Photographer - Subject: The Book of Santa Barbara, A Love Letter to Our City Oct 3 - Stephanie Boumediene, Vice President, External Affairs, SBMRI - Subject: NanoMedicin, Tomorrow's Science Today! Sept 26 - Peter Crane, Sailor Extraordinaire - Subject: Offshore Single-Handed Racing Sept 19 - Jack Byers, Commodore SBYC: Jack and His Tahiti Cruisers, SBYC Members - Subject: Tahiti and Back! Sept 12 - Mark Schrader, Project Director, Around the America - Subject: One Island, One Ocean; What We Learned Sailing Around the Americas Sept 5 - No Monday Forum, Club Open August 29 - No Monday Forum, Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning August 22 - Bill Guilfoyle, SBYC Member - Subject: Transpac 2011, Part Two: The Race August 15 - Lynda Tanner, CEO of VNHC - Subject: The Opening of Serenity House August 8 - Susan Plummer, PhD, Director, Alliance for Living and Dying Well, An Innovative Community Model - Subject: Conversations About End of Life Care August 1 - Karen Ramsdell, Director, Santa Barbara Airport - Subject: Santa Barbara's Airport: An Update July 25 - Randy Rowse, SBYC Member and SB City Councilman - Subject: Inside the Santa Barbara City Council July 18 - MJ Taylor, ATSI Director, Outreach & Education - Subject: ATSI: Programs for Youth Aboard The Tall Ship Bill of Rights July 11 - Greg Gorga, SBMM Executive Director - Subject: SBMM - Our Neighborhood Treasure July 4 - No Monday Forum. Independence Day BBQ. June 27 - Duncan Shea, Jr, SBYSF Program Director - Subject: Teaching the Sailors of Tomorrow June 20 - Bruce Hinds, SBYC Member, Retired Test Pilot - Subject: An Update, B2 and Stealth Technology June 13 - Charles Browning & Stan Darrow, Jr, SBYC Members - Subject: Transpac 2011 - Part One June 6 - Carpet Cleaning: No Monday Forum May 30 - Memorial Day: No Monday Forum May 23 - James Wapotich, SBN-P Columnist - Subject: Santa Barbara's Back Country May 16 - John Fritsche, Postcard Collector - Subject: Sailing through Time via Picture Post Cards May 9 - Nanci Pfarr, SBYC Member and Manager, SB West Marine Store - Subject: How West Marine Became West Marine May 2 - Michael and Kathryn Graham , Owners of C'est Cheese - Subject: A Short History of Cheese & How We Got into the Business April 25 - Jack Byers, Commodore, SBYC - Subject: An Update and Tour of SBYC's Galley April 18 - Dr. Rod Nash, UCSB Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies - Subject: The Consequences of the 1969 Santa Barbara Channel Oil Spill April 11 - Scott Reed, President of the Music Academy of the West - Subject: The2011 Summer Festival April 4 - Ed Vernon, Member SBYC - Subject: The Port of Santa Rosalita March 28 - Jasques Steininger, Member SBYC - Subject: OAT Turkey Tour March 21 - Chad Dreier, Member SBYC and Collector Extraordinaire - Subject: The Dreier Museum: Santa Barbara's Unique Treasure March 14 - James Lambden, Above the Waterline - Subject: Electric Boat Design March 7 - Kira Redmond, Executive Director, SB Channelkeeper - Subject: Protecting Our Waters February 28 - Club closed for carpet cleaning February 21 - David Petry, Local Historian - Subject: The Best Last Place, A History of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Cemetery. February 14 - Jeanne Martin, Harpist - Cupid's Harp: Love Songs and Valentine Mythology February 7 - Mike Lunsford, Naturalist - Subject: Treasures of the Gaviota Coast January 31 - Duncan Mellichamp, Board Pres., Opera Santa Barbara - Subject: Making Opera Come Alive in Santa Barbara January 24 - Brian Trautwein, Environmental Analyst, EDC - Subject: The Mission Creek Steelhead Recovery Project January 17 - Hester Rumberg, Author - Subject: Survival at Sea: A True Story January 10 - Ted Tedesco, Member - Subject: A New Community Venture: The Santa Barbara Institute on World Affairs January 3 - Judy Fontana and Phil Holland, Members/Cruisers - Subject: Ocean Crossings, Part 2 2010 Presentations: December 27 - Holiday Break. No luncheon. December 20 - Alita Rhodes and Mary Beth Woodruff, Musicians - Update on the Santa Barbara Strings and Holiday Recital December 13 - Bob Kieding, Member - Subject: "SB Harbor in the 40’s and 50’s" December 6 - Ines Roberts, Photographer - Subject: Winter in Yellowstone November 8 - Dr. Andreea Serban, SBCC President - Subject: SBCC at the Beginning of Its Second Century November 1 - Jay Robinson, FLIR Systems - Subject: Thermal Imaging for Mariners October 25 - Terry and Pat Straehley, Members - Subject: "Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon" October 4 - Kate Nelson, President of Save the Mermaids - Subject: The Mission of Save the Mermaids September 6 - Labor Day Holiday - No luncheon (Carpet cleaning) August 30 - John Bridley, Waterfront Director, and Karl Treiberg, Waterfront Facilities Manager - Subject: Marina One Construction Project Presentation and Waterfront Update August 23 - Gretchen Hofmann, Prof. of Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology - Subject: Ocean Acidification and Our Future August 16 - Peter Karoff, Chairman of The Philanthropic Initiative - Subject: "Moral Dimensions - True Wind and Apparent Wind in Philanthropy" August 9 - Edward Keller, UCSB Dept. of Earth Science - Subject: "Santa Barbara Earthquake Hazard: We do Have our Faults" August 2 - Tony Durham, SB County Sheriff's Crime Prevention Specialist - Subject: Living More Safely July 26 - Craig Barilotti and Bruce Harger, Marine Botanists - Subject: "The Giant Kelp as a Renewable Energy Resource. Ellwood Kelp Farm." July 19 - Erin Zetter, Coordinator of Docent Programs - Subject: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Collections and Mission July 12 - Bob Fulmer, Writer - Subject: Newcomers to Paradise July 5 - Jim Kreyger, Photographer - Subject: A Collage of America's Natural Beauty June 28 - Lt. Steve Baldovsky, USCG - Subject: The Mission of the USCG Blackfin June 21 - Larry Coldren, Dean of the UCSB School of Engineering - Subject: Fiber Optics Are Changing Your Lives June 14 - Bruce Bennett, Board Member of HAR - Subject: The Hearts Adaptive Riding Program June 7 - Dixie Daddies - Subject: History of Dixieland - Part 6 May 31 - Memorial Day - No Luncheon May 24 - Nick Di Napoli, Friend and Scholar - Subject: "Battle of Tsushima" May 17 - Mark Schrader, Captain and Project Director - Subject: Around the Americas: Circumnavigating the American Continents to Raise Awareness of Marine Health May 10 - Wayne Rosing, Member - Subject: Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network May 3 - Jon Lee, Coach and Traveler - Subject: Uganda, the Pearl of East Africa April 26 - Joseph Liebman, Attorney - Subject: "Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Landslides and Subsidence from a Legal Perspective" April 12 - Morgan Crowe, Member - Subject: "Mediterranean Odyssey" March 29 - Erin Graffy, Member - Our Book Is Finished! Or, A Long Time to Tell Our Story March 22 - Laura Inks, Dir of education - The Granada's Education Program March 15 - Steen Hudson, Exec. Dir. of Elings Park - Subject: The Gifts of Elings Park March 8 - Bob Kieding, Member and Writer - Subject: Summarizing 118 Articles about the Sea March 1 - Club Maintenance - no luncheon February 22 - Forrest Fleming, CEO of True Vision Surgical - Subject: True Vision: An Amazing New Medical Technology February 15 - John Woolley, Prof. of Poli Sci at UCSB - Subject: "The US Presidents and Boating" February 8 - Karl Hutterer, Director of the SB Museum of Natural History - Subject: "The Natural History of God" February 1 - Bill and Sam Fleetwood, Cruisers - Subject: “From Kebabs to Couscous, Blue Banana Sails the Mediterranean” January 25 - Mary Jane Cooper, Member, and Dick Nielsen, Volunteer - Santa Barbara Symphony League Music Van January 18 - Mark Schneidman, Realtor - Subject: "A Snapshot of Santa Barbara Real Estate" January 11 - Bob Craven, Member - Subject: Renovation of the NADA II January 4 - Kristian Beadle, UCSB Bren School Graduate and Rotary Scholar - Subject: Voyage of Kiri 2009 Presentations: December 28 - Holiday Break - No Luncheon December 21 - Joseph Sohm, Writer and Photographer - Subject: Visions of America December 14 - Alita Rhodes and Mary Beth Woodruff, Musicians - Subject: Santa Barbara Strings and Holiday Recital December 7 - Willard Thompson, Writer - Subject: Postcards from Paradise November 30 - Robert Warner, Professor and Chair of Evolutionary ecology, population and conservation biology - Subject: Connecting the Spots: Spatial Management of the Coastal Ocean November 23 - Club Maintenance - No Luncheon November 16 - Jim Kreyger, Photographer - Fall and Winter Beauty November 9 - Steve Hodges, Sailboat Cruiser - Subject: Weather Forecasting November 2 - Nicolas Di Croce - Subject: California's Water Solutions October 26 - David Mullinax, Regional Manager of League of Calif. Cities - Subject: Dysfunction in California Government October 19 - Morgan Green, Member - Sailing Insanity in Alaska October 12 - Greg Gorga SBMM - Subject: Alaska's Inner Passage October 5 - Bill Brown, SB County Sheriff - Subject: The Missions of the Sheriff's Department September 28 - Rich Block, Director of SB Zoo - Subject: What's New at the Zoo September 21 - Nick Di Napoli, Historian - Subject: the Sea Battle of Actium September 14 - Peter Schuyler, Conservation Biologist - Subject: Research Projects on Santa Cruz and Catalina Islands September 7 - Labor Day - No speaker August 31 - Fred Lange, UCSB Materials Science - Subject: How Materials Have Revolutionized Society August 24 - Maria Long, Director of CASA - Subject: The Work of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) August 17 - No luncheon - club maintenance August 10 - Michelle Howard, Development Director of WYP - Subject: The Work of Wilderness Youth Project August 3 - Erin Graffy, Author - Subject: The History Secrets behind Fiesta July 20 - John Bridley, Waterfront Director - Subject: Waterfront Update July 13 - Paul Larson, Sailor and Writer - Subject: America's Cup Review July 6 - Doug Crawford, Navy League - Subject: Commissioning and Update on the USS Stockdale and SB Navy League June 22 - Will McClintock, PhD., Director of the MarineMap Consortium - Subject: MarineMap: Designing Marine Protected Areas with a Web Based Tool June 15 - Mark and Trudy Allen, Members - Subject: Easter Island Wonders June 8 - Bob Vincent, Cruiser and Photographer - Subject: "Sailing in the Mediterranean" June 1 - Dixie Daddies - Subject: History of Dixieland, Part 4 May 18 - Bob Muller, writer - Subject: The Trees of Santa Barbara, or, "Santa Barbara's Urban Forest: An Historical Legacy with an Uncertain Future" May 11 - Ed O’Donnell, Senior VP of Venoco - Subject: Oil Operations on the Coast May 4 - Nir Kabaretti, SB Symphony Conductor - Subject: Symphony Update April 20 - Ted Sten, Grand Jury Foreman - Subject: The Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury April 13 - Monday after Easter - no luncheon (We had a very small crowd last year on this Monday, so I decided to skip it rather than have to explain again to a speaker why there were only 12 or so people.) April 6 - Linda Krop, Chief Counsel of Env. Def. Center - Subject: The Work of the Environmental Defense Center March 23 - Mike Beck, Headmaster of Dunn School - Subject: USS Constitution: Sailing into the 21st Century March 16 - Bill and Sam Fleetwood, Cruisers - Our Circumnavigation Continues - Part 3 March 9 - Bob Haller, botanist - Subject: Mediterranean Climates, Rare Plants, and Related Research at the S B Botanic Gardens March 2 - Paul McCaffrey, SBPD - Subject: Police Matters February 16 - Roger Chrisman, Vice Commodore - Subject: Stories Behind Some Club Trophies February 9 - Bruce P. Luyendyk, Prof. of Marine Geophysics (UCSB) - Subject: Natural Oil and Gas Seepages in the Santa Barbara Channel February 2 - Capt. David Bacon, SOFTIN - Subject: Seafaring Opportunities For Those In Need January 19 - Willard Thompson, Writer and Lecturer - Shipwrecks: Troubled Waters of the Santa Barbara Channel January 12 - Karl Hill, SB Zoo Veterinarian - Subject: Being Dr. Zoo January 5 - Sam Dover, Marine Mammal Veterinarian - Subject: Marine Mammal Medicine in the Santa Barbara Channel 2008 Presentations: December 29 - Holiday season - No luncheon. December 22 - Terry and Pat Straehley, Members - Subject: South Africa Safari December 15 - Jacques Steininger, Member - Subject: La Belle France December 8 - Shelley Bookspan and Gillian Launie - Subject: The Pearl December 1 - Mary Olson, General Manager of KCLU - Subject: The November 17 - Dr. Bill Morton-Smith, DRI - Subject The Work of Direct Relief International November 10 - Karl Hutterer, Dir. of SB Mus. of Nat. Hist. - Subject: Natural History Museums as Dinosaurs November 3 - Bob Kull, Researcher - Subject: A Year In Wilderness Solitude October 20 - Steve Gaines, Dir. of the UCSB Marine Science Institute - Subject: The Changing Seascape of the Santa Barbara Channel October 13 - Kira Redmond, Exec. Dir. of S. B. Channelkeeper - Subject: The Work of Channelkeeper October 6 - Courtney Seeple, Pres. of S. B. Beautiful - Subject: The Work of Santa Barbara Beautiful September 22 - Greg Gorga, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum - Coming Events September 15 - Rolf Geyling, Pres. of S. B. Rescue Mission - Subject: The Work of the SB Rescue Mission September 8 - Kate McCurdy, Sedgwick Reserve Director - Subject: Bears in Your Back Yard |
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