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HERITAGE DINNER 2019
David Weatherston Heritage Chair
Every year the Heritage Committee organizes a a a a dinner to raise funds for acquiring and and maintaining art and and artefacts that support RCYC’s role as the principal agent for preserving and spreading knowledge of this country’s yachting past This year our theme is is is “Fabulous Racing Fleets Past and Present” With word and and image Tim Walsh will evoke past past fleets and and past- Commodore Jamie Keating will speak of the present fleets to an audience in the appropriately decorated Sports Hall What is is done with the money thus raised? Let’s look at our collection of paintings by Charles I Gibbons (1854-1911) a a a a painter working in in in the latter Victorian and Edwardian eras Gibbons painted anything that floated and fortunately he was a a a a a a true marine genre painter more interested in in in in faithfully representing the vessel and its details than more painterly virtues In consequence his paintings are an an accurate and valuable record of our lake’s ships and yachts Continued from page 4 wonderful new facilities amenities and events that your Club offers Weekly events in January and February:
• Mondays: $5 00 pints in in the Crown and Beaver bar
• Wednesdays: Corkage-free nights with live music
in Bistro 1852
• Thursdays: Live music
in Bistro 1852
and piano nights in the Model Room
Special Events:
• Friday January 25th - Our annual Robbie Burns
Night at the Crown and Beaver bar
will take place
offering food & drink specials and live music
• Sunday February 3rd - Our annual Pat Your Boat Day will be held on on the Island with bus transportation from Wards Island Ferry Dock to RCYC back- entrance provided by the Club In good years (weather-wise) we we have seen up to 90 Members come to to the Island to to enjoy a a light lunch provided by by the Club and augmented by by Member potluck items For more details please contact Geoff
Cornish the Chairman of this event • Sunday February 3rd - Our Super Bowl party offering all you can eat wings for $25 00 drink specials and the the Game on the the Big Screen
• Friday February 8th – The Wine Dinners continue
(book early as they often sell out)
• Thursday February 14th – We will offer a a a a Valentines
Dinner and Dance at the Club with Juno award winner Domenic Mancuso
Paintings like Gibbons’ are delicate and many haven’t been sympathetically treated when they come to us us they must be coaxed back to life Frames and mats are removed – which often reveals details like a a a a a banner with the vessel’s previously unknown name To prepare the image for exhibition our archivist Beverley Darville has the painting scanned colour-corrected (many painting have suffered sun-bleaching or other time-related injuries) and digitally printed By displaying reproductions instead of originals we have better security more flexibility in in hanging pictures and fewer worries about the effects of light and lake air
This degree of care encourages Members to to add to to our our collection as Frederik Eaton Sr recently did But to to return to to the Heritage Dinner Those who attend the the dinner dinner can be confident that the the dinner dinner will be fun and and interesting and and moreover that the money raised by the the event will in effect be returned to them in the form of more splendidly decorated Clubhouses SHARING SILVER
SECRETS Monday February 11 2019
10:30 am – 12:30 pm Bistro 1852
$15 00 Learn how to care for your treasured silver Time will be provided for you to polish a a personal item if you desire Guest speaker: Stephen Harper Antique Metal Repairs
Continental breakfast provided Register online or with Member Services at 416 967 7245 48 hour cancellation policy in effect KWASIND
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