Daven Voorhies

I’ve been near the ocean and on pleasure boats since childhood in Los Angeles. There I learned basic seamanship, topside maintenance, and pram sailing. While finishing college my young bride, Vickie, and I honeymooned on board the family twin diesel motor yacht for five months. Fast forward to 2013, past a move to Houston, various energy industry analytic jobs, two sons, and five grandsons, Vickie and I are on the water again in a 38′ Beneteau Oceanis. We’re retired now and continue to enjoy boating and serving WYC members.

Laurie Jachimiec

Chet and Laurie Jachimiec, WYC members since 2018, have been sailing since 1979, gradually moving up from a 16ft Prindle Cat to their current Jeanneau Sun Oddessey 37 (L’Attitude Adjustment). Chet serves as 2023 Director and Club Secretary, and previously served as Commodore in 2019 and Club Secretary in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Laurie serves as 2023 Vice Commodore and previously served as Director at Large in 2022 and Vice Commodore in 2020 and 2021. Mainly day sailors, they enjoy Club events, evening sails in the heat of the Summer and the chance to anchor and watch the sunset (or the fireworks go off). Chet competed in the 2020 Harvest Moon Regatta and did pretty well for an offshore newbie. When they are not sailing, Chet runs an energy services company and Laurie works in the Clear Creek Independent School District.

Steve Nolin

I have been around the water and boats most of my life in one capacity or another along the Texas coast and lakes. From inflatables up to larger ships I have enjoyed being on the water fishing, water sports or just hanging out enjoying the weather. By day I do tech support for a major IT company. I got into sailing in 2014 when a friend of mine took me out on his Watkins sailboat Scout and taught me the ropes/lines. I look forward to planning fleet events this year and getting more club members out on the water. When we are not out on the Star I like to play guitar at local open mics and jams.

Currently I have a 1986 33′ Watkins Seawolf sailboat and I have recently acquired a 2007 Boston Whaler Sport 150.

Howard Eisemann

Pending

Michelle Weidner

Michelle grew up in the city of Chicago but started her love for the water at an early age spending weekends on powerboats on the lakes of Wisconsin. Married in 2003 to husband John Judas they travel as much as possible and especially love trips to the Caribbean. They began their sailing adventures on Lake Michigan in 2012 with a 101 class aboard a J/22 all the while dreaming of one day escaping the long and cold winters of the Windy City.

The winter of 2013 brought her and John to Texas via a job opportunity and they soon after bought their first boat, S/V Sea your Future. Since then they have moved aboard the S/V Fresh Air, when not out on Galveston Bay sailing with John, she is usually found in the galley cooking up a storm or planning the next WYC event.

Vickie Voorhies

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wanted to be near the water. My husband Daven and I moved our young family to Houston in the early 80’s, and in 2013 were ready for boat ownership.  We bought the De Bonte Koe and have had lots of wonderful times out in the Galveston Bay and at the dock.  I earned my accounting degree while the children were growing up and have been an accountant/analyst in the oil and gas industry for more than 25 years.  I enjoy assisting with WYC’s many social activities and doing whatever it takes to keep the WYC fun. It has been my pleasure to serve as the Treasurer of WYC for the past three years.

Chet Jachimiec

Chet and Laurie Jachimiec, WYC members since 2018, have been sailing since 1979, gradually moving up from a 16ft Prindle Cat to their current Jeanneau Sun Oddessey 37 (L’Attitude Adjustment). Chet serves as 2023 Director and Club Secretary, and previously served as Commodore in 2019 and Club Secretary in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Laurie serves as 2023 Vice Commodore and previously served as Director at Large in 2022 and Vice Commodore in 2020 and 2021. Mainly day sailors, they enjoy Club events, evening sails in the heat of the Summer and the chance to anchor and watch the sunset (or the fireworks go off). Chet competed in the 2020 Harvest Moon Regatta and did pretty well for an offshore newbie. When they are not sailing, Chet runs an energy services company and Laurie works in the Clear Creek Independent School District.

Evan Bauman

I recently retired from the Shell Oil Company after a 30 year career as a chemical engineer with various roles in chemical technology and information technology.  For the last nine years, I was the application development manager for a Shell subsidiary leading a team of people developing and supporting customized applications for the catalyst business.  I also served as CIO for my wife’s intellectual property law firm, The Buskop Law Group, for 20 years.  Now that Wendy and I are both retired, we enjoy cruising our Bayliner 4788 pilothouse to destinations near and far to our base on Clear Lake.  We both hold 50 ton Masters licenses.

Simone Gordon

Simone has always had a love of the water, spending most of her first 50 years living near Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.  She sailed some in the lake but mostly enjoyed water skiing and eating at the array of waterfront restaurants.  She met her husband, Michael, at Tulane where they both studied engineering, partied hard, and shared a love of the lake, the area bayous, and boating.

After a change of careers into Nursing (really just engineering of the body) Simone and Michael relocated to Houston where they eventually found themselves without a boat for the first time in their marriage.  Their plan was to buy a sailboat, but after a weekend of sailing lessons in Clear Lake, found themselves gravitating toward power boating again.  In 2018 they joined the WYC with their boat, Navarre Pearl, and have enjoyed getting to know all their comrades on Pier 9 as well as in the WYC.  Simone previously served as Fleet Director in 2019.

Jeff Mountain

Jeff Mountain has been involved with boating, (on and off) for 60 years; learning to sail on the Kappa San, his parent’s 36 ft yawl and sailing dinghy, Ichiban. Following several years as a trailer sailor in Arkansas, Illinois and East Texas, he returned to the Clear Lake area as a Mechanical Engineering professor at UH-Clear Lake and is currently a live aboard in Waterford Harbor, where he continues to enjoy boating, both power and sail, aboard the ‘Marilyn T’ and the ‘Third Degree’.