Link to a review by Carol Standish of Nick’s book Saving Sailing – Main Harbors Saving Sailing available at Amazon Back in 2010, at about the same time that Nicholas Hayes published his book Saving Sailing I returned to active sailing after an 18 year absence from the sport. As […]
Visitors to Oak Orchard, in Waterport, NY will find a beautiful sheltering harbor that has been home to the Oak Orchard Yacht Club for 75 years. The folks that started the club are all gone now, but they would tell of a time when Snipe racing was all the rage […]
In a Scuttlebutt article by Glenn McCarthy, Paul Henderson, president of ISAF 1994-2004 pointed fingers at the root cause for the decline in the sport of sailing. RCR Yacht’s CEO Don Finkle responded in RCR’s publication Yacht Racer’s News, April 2013. (reprinted by permission) Don Finkle: I have great respect […]
When I read Brandon Flack’s article, One to Grow On, at SailingWorld.com, it really struck a chord with me. I’m part of a multigenerational racing family with the tradition stretching back to my grandfather’s Snipe racing in the 1950’s. Some of our best and worst childhood memories came from time […]
After posting the dates for the Bob Lamberton Memorial Sunfish Revival Regatta hosted by the Pultneyville Mariners’ Sail, Paddle and Canoe Club, we were excited to find out more about the area from Carol May, the club’s Sunfish Fleet Captain: Carol, what makes Pultneyville a special place? We have […]
Discretion is the better part of valor – perhaps, when it comes to frigid water. Shakespeare’s, Henry IV – Conesus Lake, one of NY’s eleven Finger Lakes, is cold this time of year. On Thursday, 18 April 2013, first responders from the area towns of Geneseo, Livonia, and Lakeville arrived […]
Lake Ontario at Oak Orchard and Point Breeze, NY Session 1: July 8 to July 19, 2013 Session 2: July 22 to August 2, 2013 Link for application: www.ooycyouthsailing.org Info from the webpage: Classes are held at Oak Orchard Yacht Club, 1103 Archbald Road, Waterport, NY and on Oak Orchard Creek […]
About her short film, Alas (salt in Greek): Nefeli Zevgoli edits and produces short films. She wanted to make a short film about a female gymnast and thought of me after reading a post I had uploaded two years ago. She was then inspired to created what you see above. […]
Keuka Yacht Club Hompage Download application link LEARN TO SAIL AND/OR UPGRADE SAILING SKILLS These Classes are for students age 8-18 who are beginning sailors or sailors wanting to tune up skills. Classes are now all full day, one week courses typically falling on Mon-Thurs with an […]
Since January 16, 2009 the official Laser sailboat speed record of 16.8 knots has been held by Mark Denzer of Honolulu, Hawaii. Mark noted that the record-breaking day was a bit unusual for sailing: high wind warnings, civil defense alert, schools closed, State government closed, and gusts up to 60 […]
Sailing out of the Genesee River will look quite different this coming season. Love it, or hate it, the Hojack swing bridge is gone from the harbor at Rochester, NY. Personally, it was quite an imposing structure. I felt the same for the bridge as I did my first car […]
March 15, 2013 A 25-year old Welshman and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club (RBYC) Sailing Academy Director, has gone where no local sailor has gone before – around the Island in an Optimist dinghy. He achieved the unprecedented feat in an elapsed time of nine hours, 28 minutes and 48 […]
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