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Wednesday night racing has resumed at Tempe Town Lake. This is unofficial, social-distancing, no-score racing.We start racing at 5:30 and go until sundown. We do a one minute start sequence. … Continue Reading Wednesday Beer Can Racing
To play the Rod Favela webcast, click here or click on the YouTube image at the end of this post. And for a little different approach to the question, click … Continue Reading Rod Favela’s Sailing Prescription
If you were a voting-eligible member of the Arizona Yacht Club as of April 1, you’ve received an email allowing you to participate in the election of the next board … Continue Reading Voting Open for the 2020-2021 Board of Directors
AYC activities for April have been canceled or postponed. Here’s the announcement from Commodore Rob Gibbs. We can still go sailing at those places (please do), but not as an … Continue Reading How the Lakes Are Responding to Coronavirus
Remember Jerome? Our speaker for the October meeting? He’s the guy who spent 271 days circumnavigating the globe on a 32-foot boat built in 1975. Maximum adventure, maximum isolation. Now … Continue Reading Isolation Tips from Around-the-World Sailor Jerome Rand
There was enough 8-knot wind to combine with a splash of sunshine and 70+ degree weather to make it a memorable weekend on the water (3/14-15) and a nice escape … Continue Reading Gorgeous Lake Pleasant Race Weekend
Do you shop at Amazon? The huge online merchant will give .5% (one-half percent) of the money from each of your purchases to our Arizona Sailing Foundation. As of mid-March … Continue Reading Help ASF with Each Amazon Purchase
The lake looked like glass at the 2pm start time. A flicker of breeze wafted from the west at 2:15. PRO George Tingom, screamed “Start ’em!” Okay, he probably didn’t, … Continue Reading Sunday's Gentle TTL Action
By Bob Naylor, Regatta Organizer And what a weekend it was! The Birthday Regatta and Leukemia Cup was Arizona winter sailing at its finest. Blue skies, sunny warm days, and … Continue Reading Birthday Regatta Bash
Shroud tension. Check. Mast bend. Check. Keel faired. Check. Optimize backstay, traveler, outhaul, Cunningham. Check, check, check, check. Tune body. Body? At the March monthly meeting, Keith Kocher will show … Continue Reading Tuning Your Sailing Body
No, we still can’t meet in person, but let’s get together for a virtual meeting on Zoom. On our regular Tuesday night, April 14, at 7pm, we’ll offer a special … Continue Reading Put Sizzle in AYC Sailing: April Virtual Meeting
How difficult do you suppose it was for a woman to start selling sailboats in the desert in the 1950s? Drop a stake in a vacant lot and call it … Continue Reading AYC’s Founder: The Unsinkable Ruth Beals
Grant Younger says he did it on a whim. At 11:55, five minutes before the entry deadline, he grabbed five pictures off the AYC Instagram account and submitted them for … Continue Reading AYC Photo Wins a Tempe Instagrammy Award
You can order Saturday night dinner here. Deadline for entry has passed, but you can still register to race with a late fee. The biggest AYC event of the year … Continue Reading Here Comes the Birthday Regatta
Spring racing kicked off Sunday (1/12) at Tempe Town Lake and Saturday (1/18) at Lake Pleasant. Even though the season is underway, it’s not too late to jump in: Sign … Continue Reading Spring Racing Action Now
One of the earliest and most colorful members of the Arizona Yacht Club, Don DeFreze, passed away November 26 and on January 25, some of his buddies from AYC came … Continue Reading Passing: 50-Year Member Don DeFreze