Welcome Christie Parker and Bobby Stroud! Christie's family is mostly in Southern Virginia( Bassett VA) which is near the North Carolina border. Bobby mostly grew up in Waldorf Maryland. They are both still working. Bobby is a computer field engineer who works mainly in Northern Virginia. Christie is the pharmacist at the CVS in Kilmarnock and works part time at the Rappahannock General Hospital.

Bobby has always been around water and boating. He would go out with his dad and later boated on the Potomac River in Woodbridge. Christie got introduced to boating when they both lived on the Potomac River. Since they bought their house here about 4 years ago they have a 24 ft center console for boating excursions.

They like to ride to Urbana and take their dogs out as much as they can. They have a walker hound named River they found ~3 years ago on River road on Christmas Day. They also have Charlie, a mix of all good dogs. He is mostly a cattle dog, who they rescued from the Franklin County Animal Shelter. Supporting local animal shelters is a big passion for Christie. She also enjoys planning activities and live music. Bobby loves working on his tractors, trucks and anything with tires in his barn. He has come to love being a country boy.

John and Sherry have two children, Nicholas 46 and Sherron 44. Five grandchildren (Mckenzie, Malloree, Nicholas III and twins Brooklyn and Austin) ages ranging from 26 years to 7 years. We have a four legged child, a mini schnauzer, Ollie, who is almost 15 years old.

Sherry retired in 2018 as a SVP over Commercial/Private Wealth and Small Business Banking Loan Administration at SunTrust/Truist Bank. John will retire in December 2024 as the VA Sales Rep with American Uniform which provides uniforms, duty gear and ballistic vests to law enforcement agencies and fire depts across the State of VA.

We purchased our river home in Dec 2019 while still living in New Kent, Va. Sold our New Kent home in August 2023 and moved full time to our river home. Enjoy golfing, boating, fishing, home renovations, gardening, traveling and entertaining family and friends. John is a member of the Viniterra Golf Club in New Kent, VA.

Sharon and Rob Shutler split their time between their home at the end of MIllenbeck Rd. (since 2011) and Arlington, Virginia.   Sharon is a retired environmental attorney with the Department of Justice and prior to that, with the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.  She grew up on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach and has always loved         estuaries.  Rob is an architect who designs   traditional homes and has been in practice for 45 years.  They have 2 adult daughters and a black lab. Sharon and Rob enjoy hiking, kayaking, biking, watching birds and traveling.  They are looking forward to an upcoming trip to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. In addition, Sharon loves to garden and Rob enjoys painting. They are hoping to learn to sail and are delighted to be new    members of YPYC. 

New members Glenn Reinhardt and Jane Knecht moved to Myer Creek from Old Town Alexandria in 2015, and enjoy spending their retirement between the Northern Neck and Charlottesville, VA.  Glenn sails and races MOJO with members Jay Hornick and Mike Moriarty in YPYC and RRYC events, and really enjoyed last year’s Turkey Shoot. Glenn and Jane also enjoy power cruising aboard Good Trouble, their Mainship 430 Trawler, to ports and anchorages around the Chesapeake Bay and have been as far north as Block Island, RI.  They also enjoy Rascal,a  21 foot center console, for visiting neighbors,    enjoying water sports with the grandkids and taking cocktail cruises on the Corrotoman.  Jane is an avid reader, enjoys gardening,  walking & hiking and likes to plan trips to fun cities around special art exhibits.  Glenn likes to do all things boating (maintenance and repairs) and is a skilled handyman/ project manager around the house.  Both enjoy travelling (Portugal and Alaska are 2024 highlights) and being in the   company of friends and fellow boaters for raft ups and  cruises.  

Tom originally from Chestnut Hill, PA and Erika (Suburbs of Baltimore, MD) met in Northern VA (Warrenton) before moving to Eagles Landing in 2015. However, Tom has been doing some serious fly fishing in the Northern Neck for 30 yearsand knows it well. He had a commercial business fly tying that serviced the entire East Coast. He was also Head Master of Ware Academy in Gloucester from 2004- 2019 but retired as their son Carson was headed to college. Carson is an accomplished sailing racer, so we are hoping he visits one of our YPYC races soon (after he graduates of course!).

Both are animal lovers having 5 dogs -(2 golden retrievers, 3 Irish hunt terriers) and 1 horse. Erika knows her way around a horse as she has brokered thoroughbred race horses. Currently Tom works with Bay Properties selling residential waterfront real estate in an area covering Colonial Beach to Gloucester Point. Leaving the health insurance business after 13 years, Erika now works for a nationwide vacation rental management company recruiting new properties to manage.

On the water, they make use of a canoe, kayak, a 20 ft Tidewater bay boat and a 13’ Whaler. Erika would like to learn to sail. She’s in the right spot! When they are not working or tending to their dogs Erika enjoys reading, cooking and gardening while Tom:” Eats what Erika cooks”, and does a lot of fly fishing. 

Evan and Susan live on Yankee Point, are fully retired and loving it!  Evan was a tax partner with a Big 4 firm in Dallas, specializing in the taxation of insurance companies, and then the head of tax for a publicly held, global property and casualty insurance group headquartered in Bermuda. Evan enjoys working out, collecting various vintage collectibles (antique beer cans, 60's Hot Wheels cars, baseball cards, etc.),    listening to short wave radio and ham radio broadcasts and all sports.  Susan was in charge of recruiting for a global, Fortune 200 company headquartered in Richmond. Susan enjoys Wordle, gardening, reading, boating, listening to music and working out. Susan and Evan love traveling, especially to the Caribbean, the    Florida Keys and to the mountains. 

Rick and Victoria lived in Northern VA (Vienna) for 10 years before migrating to Ginter Park Terrace area of  Richmond and then eventually buying their home across from YPYC 5 years ago. They originally came for Summers and used their home during pandemic lock-downs. Rick retired last year and they moved here permanently.  How did they come to land in Lancaster? Well they found their house online, visited once, walked out back, saw the river and that was it.  They said -”this is the house!” Renovations are in progress on enlarging the main house after improvements have already been completed to the garage to      include man cave, bar with tiki hut, and an office. They are interested in a creating a living shoreline and place to splash for grand kids – 5 kids and 3 grand kids between them. Rick relayed an amusing story, “When Victoria goes to visit grand kids in WV, they have access to a terrific butcher, so when she returns, you can tell it’s her as the front wheels of her car are off the ground… she has ~400lbs of meat in back of the car!” Meat comes in handy as they both cook- Rick cooks delicious biscuits and gravy, makes mean BBQ ribs and chili. Just about everything else consumable is a Victoria specialty.   

Rick likes to play golf (if he has time), enjoys gardening  and landscaping and they both enjoy crabbing and fishing.   Victoria's free time is occupied with Art and antiquing, attending auctions in Richmond and filing a stall at Kilmarnock Antique Gallery. Her career was spent in    mortgage lending before retiring in December. Rick’s background is in the building business  retiring in 2020, as VP of a custom home builder. This means he dabbles in lots of construction projects (his house for one) although a wee bit smaller than the 10-15,000 sq ft homes his company had him oversee..  

The Garbers are owners of Mojo, a 23 ft Chris Craft and an 18 ft catamaran they have yet to name. They are interested in continuing to learn to sail their catamaran.  Loves of their lives locally are their dogs - Bernedoodle, Bella age 3 – “wader not swimmer”. Ladradoodle Bernie age 4 – “swims the river.”

Pete and Gail Hoynash are originally from Pennsylvania. They purchased their first sailboat in 1993 and did the 1998 Caribbean 1500 rally on her. They bought their current boat, a 1986 50 ft. Alumabot Cutter, "PeGa," in 2009. They spent the next 8 years rebuilding her at their home in Pennsylvania. They sold the PA house in 2018 and then sailed for five years in the Western Caribbean.  Pete and Gail purchased a house on the Northern Neck of Virginia on the Corrotoman River in July 2021. They say they absolutely love the area!! 

Ken and Heidi are life-long Virginians who have been married 22 years and have two sons, Nathanael and Aaron who are currently in college at JMU and George Mason, respectively. They also have a standard poodle, Lily, who was born to swim and is always eager for a dive off the dock or the boat. They reside in Arlington and have been active boaters for many years on the Potomac with their 2006 Rinker Fiesta Vee 342. They fell in love with the Northern Neck over the years and purchased a second home on the Rappahannock this past Spring to spend more time away from the city. Their boat, Spirited Lady, is currently docked at Belmont Bay but they hope to bring it down to Yankee Point next Spring. 

Ken learned to boat, water ski, and wakeboard at his parents’ home on Lake Anna when he was a child. Heidi puts up with Ken’s boating endeavors and even agreed to take sailing lessons with him while several months pregnant. She primarily enjoys reading, napping, and drinking wine on the boat. Ken graduated in finance from Virginia Tech and earned an MBA from George Washington University and now works for an investment advisory firm in DC. Heidi earned both an undergraduate degree in education and a master’s in library sciences from Longwood University. She recently returned to Alexandria City Public Schools where she is an elementary school librarian. 

Tina graduated from Mary Washington. Marsell from USNA.  Most recently, Tina was the Executive Director of the Powhatan County  Chamber of Commerce and is currently the Curator of the Morattico Waterfront Museum.  Marsell is a retired USN Commander and United Airlines Captain. 

They are the proud parents of two daughters. Technically “Comeback Heres” — They bought a cottage nearby  in 2000 and   returned full time in 2020.  Tina and Marsell enjoyed their 25’ Catalina sailboat for many years. Now they own a 20’ pontoon boat. 

Alexa was born in NYC and grew up near the water on Long Island. Her neighbors who lived on a common canal had either cabin cruisers or speedboats; she had a small sailboat — so much better (even if you couldn’t waterski behind it).  Right now Alexa lives in Cape May, NJ, but still has a place in Brooklyn [which is  currently occupied by one of her (two) daughters and her family].

When she was 19, she bought a one-way ticket to Paris and stayed for four years, but never lost the travel bug. One continent to go: no, not that one — Australia.  She worked in publishing for most of her career — as a copy chief, executive editor, and writer — and she loved it, but is thoroughly enjoying retirement.  

Alexa was introduced to the club by her cousin Beth and Dean Blair. She visits them as frequently as possible (she loves the Rivah!) and looks forward to spending more time among the community at YPYC!

Mike is 67 years old and grew up sailing beach cats off of the Jersey shore. He started chartering the bigger sailboats out of Rock Hall, MD in the early 90's. He has bareboat chartered many times on the Bay, also 50 plus foot monohulls in the BVIs, the Leeward Islands and a 38' cat out of Ft Lauderdale (“our 25th wedding anniversary”). Mike currently owns a 32' twin engine SeaVee center console, a 17' Triumph center console, and is a co-owner of a 27' S2 sailboat. Though he has lived in many states and places, Mike called Pennsylvania home from 1987 to 2021. He retired and moved to the NN in early June of 2021 after the unexpected passing of his wife of 45 yrs. Mike has been visiting the NN since 2003. Mike has been blessed to have found happiness again and now enjoys exploring the bay with his fiance Paige. 

Jeanne Erickson and Jonathon Truwit relocated to Lancaster VA in January 2023 from Milwaukee,  Wisconsin, where they  lived for 9 years and sailed on Lake Michigan. Prior to Milwaukee, they lived in Charlottesville for 24 years and worked at UVA.  Last summer they retired from academic life; Jon was a pulmonary and critical care physician and  administrator, and Jeanne was an oncology nurse and educator. They are new owners of Spiritus, a Catalina 355. They also enjoy biking, hiking, birding, and cooking. They have three married children, one (very new!) granddaughter, and a chocolate lab named Bodie. They look forward to travel     adventures - by land, sea and air -  on their own and with their growing family. 

Matt and Deana Towers came from South Jersey to the Northern Neck in February 2019.  They first met and dated when they were 13 years old and were reunited after 30 years thanks to Facebook and got married in December 2019.  A true-life Hallmark movie.  They share two sons, Ryan and Shane, two daughter-in-laws, Danielle and Samantha, one daughter, Caitlin and just recently added a grandson, Charlie and a granddaughter, Stevie to their  extended family. 

Prior to moving to Virginia, Matt worked in retail for over 30 years in the specialty of Asset Protection.  Deana worked as a bookkeeper and payroll specialist at an accounting firm for over 30 years. 

Currently, Matt is a real estate agent and owner of RE/MAX Waterfront Realty in Kilmarnock. He also works for Poolside Spas in Kilmarnock as a part time senior field aqua specialist (aka pool boy). Deana is a part-time beauty consultant for Mary Kay.  They are both volunteers for the USCG Auxiliary Flotilla 33, Kilmarnock.  Matt is the Flotilla Vice Commander along with being the Flotilla Staff Officer (FSO) -VE (Vessel Examiner), FSO-PV (Program Visitor-Recreational Boating Safety) and a Public Education      Instructor.  Deana is the FSO-PA (Public Affairs), a Program Visitor along with being a Public Education Instructor.  They are also both active members in their HOA, Heritage Point Association.  Matt is the Pool Committee Chairperson and volunteers many hours in the upkeep and maintenance of the community pool.  Deana is the President of the Association along with being the Clubhouse Chairperson who handles all the social events.  

When they aren’t on the water enjoying the beautiful rivers of the Northern Neck, they enjoy their Happy Hours and traveling, whether it be to some beautiful tropical island, Florida to their second home, or back to NJ to spend some precious family time.