{"id":1524,"date":"2020-04-28T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2021-05-24T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:57:11","slug":"104th-opening-day-on-the-sf-bay-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/28\/104th-opening-day-on-the-sf-bay-april\/","title":{"rendered":"PICYA 104th Opening Day on the SF Bay &#8211; Virtually"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 104 years, the Pacific Inter-club Yachting Association has hosted a parade of boats, representing its 106 yacht clubs, the USCG, the SF Fireboat Phoenix, the Potomac, and a Committee boat with 200 guests and several judges for the decoration competition on the boats, as they sail past and then go along to display to the throngs along the San Francisco shoreline.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, with all public events and yacht clubs shut down due to the pandemic, PICYA Vice Commodore Patti Mangan, suggested a parade of model boats \u2013 sourced from home during the Stay in Place Government order.  Everyone liked the idea and within 2 weeks, over 100 model boats entered into the Virtual Parade- at least 15 of them actually floating on the water in videos (\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lTkgFwjck8Q\">2 hour video of event<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guests today, representing this event on April 26, 2020 are PICYA Vice-Commodore Patti Mangan and emcee Dave Breninger.  Patti Mangan is a regular contributor to our show behind the scenes, and was a guest on the show in October 2019 about Fleet Week.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/471225932\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/156-sail-sport-talk-with-karen-43716747\/episode\/sail-sport-talk-april-28-61877623\/?embed=true\" width=\"420\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave has volunteered through the years on the Opening Day on the Bay Parade Boat as a judge of the parade vessels and over the past ten years as the on-board parade emcee.   He represented PICYA for 13-years as a volunteer legislative advocate on behalf of all California boaters as a Director on RBOC \u2013 Recreational Boaters of California \u2013 and for which he served as President in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave has been an avid recreational boater since the year 2000. He with wife Linda enjoy plying the 1,100-milies of waterways of the central California Delta as he skippers their Carver Mariner boat named \u201cDelta Time 2\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave represented PICYA for 13-years as a volunteer legislative advocate on behalf of all California boaters as a Director on RBOC \u2013 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rboc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recreational Boaters of California<\/a> \u2013 and which he served as RBOC President in 2009<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is a past Commodore of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/californiacarverclub.org\/Home_Page.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Carver Club<\/a> and an active membe<strong>r<\/strong> of several other yacht clubs in Northern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave is a 47-year member of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Rotary International<\/a> \u2013 a world-wide service organization that prides itself on \u2018service above self\u2019. Dave is a local member of the International Yachting Fellowship of Rotarians \u2013 a San Francisco Fleet and the Rotary Club of Roseville, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 35-year volunteer radio broadcaster featuring shows from his audio archives from the golden days of radio as heard over community radio station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvmr.org\/kvmr-schedule\/#1582526233819-45826920-dd42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KVMR, FM-89.5<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 104 years, the Pacific Inter-club Yachting Association has hosted a parade of boats, representing its 106 yacht clubs, the USCG, the SF Fireboat Phoenix, the Potomac, and a Committee boat with 200 guests and several judges for the decoration competition on the boats, as they sail past and then go along to display to the throngs along the San Francisco shoreline. This year, with all public events and yacht clubs shut down due to the pandemic, PICYA Vice Commodore Patti Mangan, suggested a parade of model boats \u2013 sourced from home during the Stay in Place Government order. 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