Club Calendar Building 101 Many folks know that I manage the Club Calendar. Some of you have asked how we plan it each year. Our General Manager Mark Felbinger, Dining Room/Food & BeverageManager Carrie Brooks, Dining & Banquet Manager Pam Dorr, and Chef Jono Osburn all are key players in this process! So how does the Club calendar for the next year get built? The day after Blessing of the Fleet in mid-February is when the process begins for the next fiscal year! The first thing done is to place Annual Yacht Club Events on the Calendar: • Colors, mostly the 3rd Friday of the month except for Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, and St. Patrick's Day. Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day make sense, but you ask, “Why St. Patrick’s Day?” Well, the Colors ceremony for March is always later so it does not conflict with St. Patrick's Day Happy Hour. This was done years ago by a Commodore to maintain the solemnity of the ceremony. So, as you can see, our Bridge Events take priority! Next, all Club Cruising Events are placed on the calendar. This is where the conflicts begin! Day Cruises and Extended Cruises get added to the calendar. Dockage constraints influence the dates of these cruises as well as other challenges! A planned extended cruise rarely goes on its initially planned dates because so many outside factors influence it. Marco Island Events are placed on the FY2023 Calendar (Holiday Boat Parade, Holiday Street Parade) along with the standard holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, and Easter. Some sunset cruises then get moved due to where Thanksgiving and Christmas fall . • Commodore’s Ball • Blessing of the Fleet • Boaters' Night (1st Wed of the month) • Sunset Cruises (4th Wed of the month) Next, we start filling in with our Signature Events blocking dates so that Pam knows what dates she has available to sell for outside banquets. Weddings sometimes are planned out for more than a year, so we need to honor commitments we have already made. Angela Holt, Chair of Member Events, then asks for dates available for planning events. She has to quickly book entertainment NOW as performers are already booking for Season 2023. We have to support our Clubhouse, non-Boating Membership and Staff. We have to make sense of who will attend events and when. So, that is how we then plan Wine & Dine and other dining events. Chef gets consulted to see if he can have dining upstairs or downstairs while still having a Club Event. Try fitting in Twilight Golf, Couple’s Bridge, Men’s Bridge, Book Club and Fishing Club (monthly sub-groups) and then add in weekly activities of Mah Jongg, Ladies’ Bridge, Ladies’ Canasta, and Mexican Train and you see how complicated it gets! The calendar is an ever-changing document so that is why we present you one for the month and the outlook so you can plan when to be at your Club! That is why we have dining events like Seafood Fun, Cooking with Chef or Fla-mingle Progressive Dinners popping up now that Covid protocols have relaxed. The April calendar, the April through the rest of the season calendar and the DRAFT for our Fiscal Year 2023 (Oct 2022- Sep 2023) are all available as links within this Anchorlines email . We want you to plan to be at as many Club events as possible! The calendar on the website will be updated soon for FY2023. It has many of the planned dates now! Know that you can download the calendar from the website right into your personal calendar! Vicki Bretthauer
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