Tag: Sailing

Beer Can Racing: community, camaraderie and a splash of competition

Beer Can Races are a midweek tradition for sailing clubs across the United States. They are short, casual races where the emphasis is just as much on having fun as on competing. They represent a great opportunity for novice sailors to learn and for amateur photographers to capture the action.

Boating on the Bay: A slip in time ensures first cocktail

Securing a convenient and affordable mooring for one’s yacht could rightly be considered a ‘first-world’ problem of little concern to most of us. Certainly, conjuring up sympathy for an oligarch struggling to park his 80-foot super-yacht would be beyond me. But, a hard-working teacher with a life-long love of sailing, who has scraped and saved to buy their own 32-foot sailboat and generously hosts friends and family for sailing excursions - that’s another matter....