On Sunday, September 5th, beginning at 7:00 a.m., Fleet Captain Gary Roesch will be cooking breakfast in the clubhouse to get your day started. The menu will consist of eggs, bacon, sausage, sweet rolls, juice, and coffee. The price is only $5 per person. He will be serving breakfast until 10:00 a.m. If you would like to attend, please sign up in the clubhouse so that Gary knows how many breakfasts to make. Following breakfast, the annual raft-up in the marina will be taking place. The boats will start lining up around noon and the party will continue until very late in the evening and in some cases, until Monday morning. This event is BYOB and there is no cost associated with it. Please have some snacks on your boat to share with the other members.

The acrylic wine glasses with the PIYC burgee etched on them are in and if you’d like to purchase some, please contact P/C Anne Eisert . The cost is only $5 each.

Congratulations to P/C Mark Eisert and his wife Amy for becoming the Top DOGs in the 7th Annual DOG Poker Run. They won with a full house. Everyone had a great time in this year’s DOG Race even though the weather ended up to be not so nice that evening. Many thanks once again to P/C Mark Eisert for organizing this very popular event and providing a great time for everyone. Team Baniewicz and Krahe (Mike) came in last place but did receive the ever-popular bottle of Mad Dog 20/20.

The link area on the left of the website now includes two new links: “Places to Eat!” brings up UrbanSpoon.com for Erie and “Things to Do!” brings up the GoErie.com calendar of events. If you’re hungry and you’re the gambling type, scroll down toward the bottom of the left pane and click SPIN on the UrbanSpoon slot machine. It’ll randomly pick a restaurant and show you the type. Clicking on the name of the restaurant will take you to the UrbanSpoon website where you’ll find directions, reviews, and menus. Don’t like what came up? Just click SPIN again.

PIYC Floating Clubhouse 1954

This photo was taken around 1954.  At this point in time, the club was given permission to construct large boat slips and was allowed to moor their clubhouse next to these boat slips.   This area was located just to the East of the small boat slips shown in the 1948 photo.  The large boat in the foreground belonged to Ben Bjalme who lived aboard this boat in the summer one season with his wife and two daughters.  Prior to this move, the floating clubhouse was moored near this area and had to be accessed via any boat.  I believe that arrangements were made to move the clubhouse into the new dock area, once they were built.

PIYC Lockerhouse 1948

This photo taken around 1948 shows the club’s “Lockerhouse” located just south of the old Presque Isle State Park’s Police Barracks where the original small boat stalls were located.  Larger boats were moored out front of these stalls on floating kegs that were chained onto very heavy weights sunken into the bottom of the bay.  Everyone that had a boat moored on a keg needed a dinghy to travel back and forth to their boat.  In front of this lockerhouse you will see our dinghy resting against the “loading dock” where one could launch and load their dinghy to travel to their boat.  Fifteen minutes was the time limit to be in this “locading dock” as many folks needed to use this spot.  PC Elmer Schmidt is the guy standing there facing the camera with the sweater and hat on.  Inside this lockerhouse were many individual lockers where the fellows stored their boating equipment like outboard motors, gasoline, ropes, fishing gear, etc.  Club members paid an annual rental for these lockers as well as their dockage to the club, which in turn paid the State Park an annual lease fee for the leased area.

This information has been added to PIYC History page.  Thanks to P/C Harold Eisert for providing us this information.