New Member Tea

For ZLAC Members

Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 2:00 pm

Please join us for afternoon tea to welcome, honor, and celebrate our new ZLAC members!

If you plan to attend, please RSVP to membership@zlac.org by April 30.

Holiday Tea 2023

This free event is for members and their guests.

Attending? Please RSVP to our Social Chair.

We also need volunteers to assist with setup and food prep. Please contact the Social Chair.

ZLAC Book Club — October 2023

For Members and their Guests

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC!

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die...

 Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLAC Book Club — September 2023

For members and their guests only. This meeting will be held via Zoom - Members, please go to the Members’ Events page (login required) to view full details.

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottleib

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is rev­olutionary in its candor, offering a deeply per­sonal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly reveal­ing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Salt Water Day

Sunday, August 27, 2023

11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For members and their guests only.

Kids are welcome! There will be a BBQ lunch with meat and vegan options plus soft drinks and beer or BYO beer/wine.

boat rides | root beer floats | swag table | games for kids

Salt Water Day t-shirts are available for pre-order and pickup at the event.

RSVP below by August 15.

ZLAC Book Club — June 2023

Members and their guests

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Zoom # 852 4878 1297 password “LENA”, or click HERE

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo’s fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband’s part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters — the self-centered, teenaged Rachel; shrewd adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father’s intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Dancing between the dark comedy of human failings and the breathtaking possibilities of human hope, The Poisonwood Bible possesses all that has distinguished Barbara Kingsolver’s previous work, and extends this beloved writer’s vision to an entirely new level. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel establishes Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring writers of modern times.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

CREW XI is hosting the annual Terrace Luncheon on

Saturday, June 24, 2023

11:30 am

This is a fun way to celebrate the start of summer and enjoy our beautiful terrace and friends!

The afternoon will include a delicious lunch and of course plenty of libations!

We will also be presenting a fabulous Silent Auction! We can always use your donations. Please contact Nora Welshans (norawelshans@cox.net) if you have any items that you can donate to help ZLAC.

We have MANY awesome items for our Silent Auction!

Here are just a few:

1 week stay in Puerto Vallarta!

4 tickets to the Old Globe

4 tickets to Padres vs Giants—great seats (next to the owner's box), plus parking

4 tickets to Padres vs Diamondbacks—first row behind the Padres dugout,
PLUS 4 tickets for a behind the scenes tour of Petco Park!

Collector's framed 1990 Crew Classic poster

Original art

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

All Club Row and Photo

All rowers (both members and guests) are welcome!

Signup on iCrew or contact Chris Shannon at 619.307.0018.

Floral Demonstration and Garden Tea

for members and guests

Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Deborah Warriner, a Master in Ikebana—the Japanese art of floral design—
will give a short history of Ikebana style and will create three floral arrangements.  

Floral Demonstration will be accompanied by a Garden Tea,
complete with sweets and savories made and served by Crew XII.

Plants and cuttings will be for sale.

Festive hats or fascinators are encouraged!

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

Where Is My Money Going?

for members only

Learn how our ZLAC funds are managed, where the money is going and how you can help keep us on track for another successful year.

Coffee, tea and sweets will be provided.

Please RSVP to info@zlac.org.

New Member Tea

All members and guests are welcome!

Please join us for afternoon tea to welcome new ZLAC members!

Please RSVP by May 3 to membership@zlac.org.

ZLAC Book Club — May 2023

Members and their guests

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC!

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Historical, nonfiction, true crime without glamorizing it: This account of the five women murdered by Jack the Ripper put the victims at the forefront, sharing their lives through the lens of Victorian London.

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.

What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women.

For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time—but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Wine Tasting

for members and guests

Saturday, April 22, 2023
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Online sales have closed for this event. If you would still like to purchase a ticket, please email Melanie Watson at nvrfollow@yahoo.com to see if there are any more spots.

Join us for the 2023 Wine Tasting featuring Sommelier Molly Brooks from Meritage Wine Market!

Five different wines—all by women winemakers—will be served with a selection of cheeses.
The evening includes a silent auction.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

Masters Dinner

for all Masters rowers

Saturday, April 1, 2023
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Join us for dinner during Crew Classic weekend.

BBQ Chicken • Vegetarian Chili • Cornbead • Brownies
ZLAC Hosted Beer & Wine • Soft Drinks & Water

Space is limited!

ZLAC Book Club — March 2023

Members and their guests

Zoom information will be provided on the calendar in the Members’ Area and in Eight Oars.

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone—but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Multiplying Membership Workshop

free for all members

Sunday, February 26, 2023
11:00 am to 1:00 pm

All members are welcome to join us for an informal lunch and workshop to take giant steps toward engaging all of us at ZLAC and providing a warm welcome to those we'd like to invite to join our wonderful club. Many of us through the last few years—from Juniors to long-time members to athletes to board members and club presidents—have offered great ideas to strengthen ZLAC. We'll work through what we've gathered, identify some ‘low-hanging fruit’ so we can hit the ground running and turn ideas into action. We'll focus on having fun while we build community—with an emphasis on “unity.”

An informal lunch will be provided. RSVP to kitaaboe@gmail.com (not needed but appreciated).

Building Fitness in 2023: Erging 101

free for all members

Sunday, February 5, 2023
3:00 to 4:00 pm

ZLAC has a well-equipped workout room with a fantastic view. Did you know that all members are welcome to use that facility?  The coached programs have first priority during their scheduled practice hours, but that leaves lots of time for other members to drop in and use the ergs, erg bikes, weights and other equipment.

Are you interested in improving your fitness or adding a new cross training component to your workout routine? The co-captains of the masters team—Alison Herr (XIV) and Meredith Alcock (XII)—are offering an orientation to the very basics of using an ergometer.

No previous experience is needed, and you do not need to be a rower!

Come by on Sunday, February 5 at 3 pm for a short info and hands on session covering:

• How do I get into the boathouse when it is locked?

• When can I use the ergs and erg room?

• How does the erg monitor work?

• What is the best form for “rowing” on an erg?

• What sort of workouts can I do?

• How do I put the erg away when I am done?

Wear comfortable clothes and athletic shoes and bring a water bottle. You are not required to do a workout then and there but will have the opportunity to do one if you like.

This session is designed primarily for non-rower members. ZLAC is your club, too, and we want you to have access to all the benefits of your membership.

Reservations are not required but are encouraged so we can email you information. Contact yale80@aol.com.

Note: Sundays are family days! Think about staying after the session for wine and cheese with Alison and Meredith at 4 pm. Even better, bring a picnic dinner for your family and stay and enjoy the club.

Moonlight Row & Hygge

for all members and guests

Friday, January 6, 2023
5:30 to 9:30 pm

Juniors Fundraising Event

Join the Juniors for a delightfully bright and chilly moonlight row followed by hygge, the Danish tradition of cozy and comfortable conviviality. Get your toes nice and ice cold, then warm up with a bowl of soup, cup of hot chocolate and a sit with friends and fleece in front of the fire. 

Row/Launch Ride is from 5:30-7 pm, then hygge after.

Hygge Only is anytime from 5:30-9:30 pm.

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

ZLAC Book Club - December 2022

Members and their guests

Zoom information will be provided on the calendar in the Members’ Area and in Eight Oars.

In honor of Native American Heritage Month in November: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Critically acclaimed and much buzz about this innovative nonfiction celebration of the natural world, science, and the connections we share, by an indigenous botanist. Rave reviews, shoved into Caitlin's hands by a friend who demanded she read it.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Friendsgiving Potluck Party

All members and guests are welcome!

Potluck signup sheet:
tinyurl.com/ZLACFRIENDSGIVING

130th Anniversary Brunch

This free event is for members and their guests.

Please join us for a special champagne brunch celebrating 130 years of ZLAC Rowing Club!

Please RSVP by clicking this link or by emailing eightoars@zlac.org.

Halloween Party

Everyone is welcome!

Sunday, October 30, 2022
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us for a free evening of Halloween festivities.

Kids Activities | Costume Contest | Silent Auction

Sign up to volunteer here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/108w_zttTO6o2ng8HK5Sd43pttEEWglIjyF4TNSEdJdI/edit?usp=sharing

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

ZLAC Book Club — October 2022

Members and their guests

Zoom information will be provided on the calendar in the Members’ Area and in Eight Oars.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

“Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again.” A haunting gothic classic that reads like a modern novel. Riveting and moody—perfect for October! Excellent on audio, and the Hitchcock film is outstanding.

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLACtoberfest

for members and their guests

Friday, October 14, 2022
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Grab your dirndls and lederhosen!

Join us for an evening of beer, brats, games and polka dancing.
Invite your friends. Fun for the whole family!

Kids under 18 are free!

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

Pearl Party

for members and their guests

Sunday, October 9, 2022
2:00 pm

Pinot & Pearls
Enjoy an afternoon learning about and shopping for pearls.
$40 includes wine, sweets and pearl earrings.

Reservations are required and members are encouraged to bring guests.
Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

Zummer Muzic Zeries (September 2022)

for members and their guests

Sunday, September 18, 2022
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Enjoy the patio at ZLAC with family and friends,
listening and dancing to the music of The Fab Lushes.
$25 includes beer/wine and light appetizers.

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

All Club Row and Photo

All rowers (both members and guests) are welcome!

Please RSVP by Monday, September 5 to zlac.captains@gmail.com

ZLAC Book Club - August 2022

Members and their guests

Zoom information will be provided on the calendar in the Members’ Area and in Eight Oars.

The Rose Code by San Diego local and best-selling historical fiction author Kate Quinn

A summer read with backbone. The surprise of the decade, this book blew me away. Juicy and fun, yet full of raw honesty about her journey through fame, motherhood, and alcoholism. EXCELLENT on audio—she reads it, and it's like a conversation with a friend you haven't seen in ages. Suggested by a book club member.

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.

1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. 

1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true enemy--closer...

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Paint & Pour

for members and their guests

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Painting class hosted by Crews XIV & XV and led by Savonia Guy (XIII).
$40 includes all painting supplies, light snacks and hosted bar.

Class size is limited to 40.

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

Zummer Muzic Zeries (July 2022)

for members and their guests

Sunday, July 10, 2022
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Enjoy the patio at ZLAC with family and friends,
listening and dancing to the music of The Shenanigans.
$25 includes beer/wine and light appetizers.

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here: