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WOW What a Team!

WOW! This sums up how people reacted to the great job that our Vallarta Yacht Club Volunteers did to support the Pan American Games. Here's a big "Thank You" to all of the volunteers that helped!

Once again our depth of experience proved its worth … after all we've seen everything that can possibly go wrong with a regatta!

Hurricane threat? No problem for VYC! In less than 24 hours we had all the competitors boats either under cover or secure.

Last minute or late arrival of support equipment? No problem, we've been there before.
Need another 90 lunches for competitors? No problem … You guys and gals ROCK!

Volunteers First!

The VYC Constitution describes the Rear Commodores ‘s Role like this:

Rear Commodore-Club Activities, Responsible for planning, organizing and executing all afloat and ashore regatta, race, tournament, social, educational and community activities.

When I was elected to serve our club as Rear Commodore I had looked at this, but I didn’t have any idea just how many activities we have going on! None of these happen without Volunteers, so I’ve decided to focus on the foundations of all activities, Volunteers First! Past Rear Commodore Bill Noonan did a wonderful thing when he put together the All Volunteers Thank You Luncheon this year. He put together a list of over 260 Volunteer roles that were filled by over 160 VYC members! The biggest activity in our Club is Volunteering.