What would you do every day if you were a Horticulturist and Arborist for an extensive garden system? When watering trees, do you soak the trunk? Just how large is the Balboa Park system? What is an arborist anyway? How does a fairly recent college graduate become the Horticulturist and Arborist for the City of San Diego?
These questions, their answers (and many others) were included in the April Women’s Event Luncheon. It was a glorious sunny day as approximately 45 women and men gathered upstairs in the Commodore’s Room for a delicious luncheon, great opportunity drawing prizes, and a very interesting and informative presentation by Ms. Magen Shaw of the City of San Diego, Horticulturist and Arborist for Developed Regional Parks.
Andrew Campbell starts the conversation talking about his families roles in his sailing success and following in his father’s footsteps before moving on to his next and most thrilling journey, the America’s Cup, sailing with American Magic.
Starting off the Sailcast episode, Andrew talks about the simple exposure that he received from the Junior Sailing Program and how his family (who double as his role models) made it the norm to go sailing often. Born in Toms River, NJ, Andrew made it to the West Coast to start the SDYC Junior Sailing Program around age 6 or 7. His father, Bill Campbell, sailed the ’92 America’s Cup and was Commodore nearly 15 years ago. “My family always used SDYC as the center of their universe,” he explains.
The pressure was on at the Etchells Midwinters West, the only regatta of the Etchells West Coast Spring Series with no throw-out score option. All three days were full of tight, fast racing with intense competition, but Eric Doyle, sailing on USA 1177 with crew Patrick Powell and Justin Mendham, has a good start to the top spot on the series podium by finishing first this weekend.
Eric Doyle has been skippering the event for a couple of years, but has experience crewing for other Etchells sailors during this regatta too many times to count. "Once we had confidence that our rig tune and sail trim was correct and we were fast, we used excellent starts and conservative tactics to make sure we were always in the front of the fleet. We didn't have to take many risks and just kept chipping away at good finishes over the long series."
Next week is the 134th Opening Day at the San Diego Yacht Club, and with us to talk a little bit about it is SDYC Commodore Jerelyn Biehl coming to you from her very own Cupola.
Jerelyn joins us on the Sailcast to talk about all things SDYC Opening Day, the 90th year of the Junior Program what it means to the Biehl Family, what it’s like to be on the Board and be Commodore, and what’s on the horizon at SDYC.