Capt. Kathy Sheehan Elected Commodore
at Corinthian Yacht Club of Bellingham
 After seven years of serving as "Vice for Life" of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Bellingham, Sheehan World publisher Kathy Sheehan was elected CYC commodore in late 2022.
"Unopposed! Woot! Woot," Sheehan said after the unanimous vote to elect her commodore for 2023.
Sheehan said she would miss being in charge of vice of the small non-profit club but hoped to continue working with other CYC leaders to build and maintain a fun club for sailors and help finish launching a new CYC website.
Sheehan, or Capt. Kathy as she is known, has been a member of CYC Bellingham for 15 years and is a great-granddaughter of the late Capt. Alfred "Ferdinand" Renault of Nova Scotia, Canada, and a granddaughter of the late Capt. Abel Renault of Somerville, Mass. Both Captain Renaults were merchant mariners.
Although she currently does not own a boat (!!), she has carried on the family sailing tradition for more than 50 years. She began her sail training on the Charles River at the Community Boating Club in Boston and now holds a 100-ton captain's license. In between, she has owned two sailboats, crewed on many, including a tall ship, and earned an instructor certification to teach basic keelboat sailing, bareboat cruising, and basic coastal cruising for the American Sailing Association.
"My maternal grandfather passed on to me his love of the sea," Sheehan said, "but it was my older brother Johnny who shared his love of sailing with me and got me interested in learning to sail." John Sheehan, a past commodore of the Medford (Mass.) Boat Club and a current member of the Mystic Wellington Yacht Club, has since gone over to the "dark side" and bought a powerboat or two. But the youngest of Sheehan's brothers, Bob, is an experienced sailor and married a sailor who is a member of the Hyannis Yacht Club. Bob and Rosemary Sheehan's two children are avid sailors as well.
The CYC has about 100 member families in and around Bellingham, Wash., and actively supports other local boating organizations such as the Community Boating Center of Bellingham. The CYC has monthly potluck meetings, hosts monthly cruises to the San Juan Islands during the sailing season and sponsors a popular and fun race program from April through September. Although the club does not own any facilities (it uses the Squalicum Yacht Club building for its meetings), it offers reciprocal moorage in Squalicum Harbor to other friendly yacht clubs.
"I was told that the rules of the CYC also require each member to share their Dungeness crab catch with the commodore and to take her with them on cruises until she gets another boat of her own," Sheehan said with a twisted smile.
"This is a very serious endeavor," she said.
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