By Deb Heisler and Marc Danner This year the annual holiday party and pirate gift exchange was a great success with over 70 people attending. As usual, there was lots of laughter, moans of defeat, and a few people who had to keep picking a new
Lake Pleasant called up the biggest wind of the season for AYC’s final day of the fall series, enough wind to break boats and send lots of sailors back to shore. By late morning racing was over and the final standings locked down. Congratulations to the
By Deb Heisler, Rear Commodore On Tuesday, December 10, we will once again celebrate the year's end with our AYC Annual Pirate Gift Exchange. Besides gifts and thievery, the Governor’s Cup Trophy will be presented and we’ll hear your Blunder Bucket nominations prior to casting
At the November monthly meeting, Brooke Miller accepted the 2019 Ruth Beals award for winning the annual women-at-the-helm race named for the club's founder. Brooke corrected over the other competitors in the October 12 race around the islands on Lake Pleasant with crew Jeff Coulter on
By David Newland, Lake Pleasant Lake Captain I remember the first time I stared at a Lake Pleasant mark set bucket and wondered about that cleat bolted to the side (…and those bricks). After some instruction (and trial and error), I figured it out. And, fortunately,
Update on Wednesday, December 4: The campaign to raise money for Steve and Christina has reached $7,000 and the Ferrings have sent a matching check for an additional $5,000, bringing the total raised to $12,000 and climbing. In February 2018, Steve Campo was gut-punched with a
The Governor’s Cup regatta will be Saturday, November 23, with the first boats starting at 12:30 pm from a start line at the south end of Lake Pleasant. This is a pursuit race, so your handicap determines the time you start and your start time will
The pictures tell the story. Surprisingly patient sailors waiting for a breath of air on Tempe Town Lake (11/10). Kick back, enjoy the sun. Don't move or you'll yank the laminar flow from the drooping sails. Seven Sunfish were out, decorating the water with colorful
By Mike Ferring It was never supposed to be quite like this, but 20 years after water gurgled into the ditch that was the Salt River along the 202, the small body of water that became Tempe Town Lake is still a key part of Arizona
By Marshall Williamson, Spin Fleet Captain The Lake Pleasant Fall Series experienced "No" to light winds on Saturday (11/2) and the usual stronger winds early Sunday, but diminishing by late morning. The C22s were sailing Saturday, while Santana 20s, Sportboats, and Thistles were out both days,
By Rob Gibbs From high winds to no wind, from recycling to composting, and from DC to Alaska, the 2019 running of the Buccaneer North American Championship had it all! The regatta was held at Lake Pleasant, Arizona from 22-26 October. We had teams from Maryland,
By Heather McClain ~ Cruising Captain To our campers and glampers, AYC is having a camping weekend the same weekend as Governor’s Cup, November 22nd to 24th. It will be located on the 10-lane boat ramp side of the lake. Reserve your spot now! We will have
By Deb Heisler, Rear Commodore Eight women, a 32-foot Melges, good manners, humor and determination were the mix that led the Sail Like a Girl team to victory in the 2018 Race to Alaska (R2AK). Co-Skipper Haley King Lhamon was part of this history-making, all-woman crew
By Marc Danner This past weekend the wind forecast looked promising and perfect weather. The race committee boat on Saturday consisted of Martin Lorch, Greg Woodcock, Brian Hackman, Michael Parker, Josh and Vanessa. Marc, Myles, and Avery Danner joined Cedric Lorch on the Boston Whaler, working
By Mike Ferring What month has the best wind at Lake Pleasant? There's a lot of legend and guesswork swirling in the breezes of AYC. I remember vividly listening to the argument for moving the Birthday Regatta to February, the assertion that it's warmer then and the
By Bob Naylor - Sunfish Fleet Captain Wind conditions for Sunday’s races (10/13) were less than favorable on an otherwise beautiful Sunday afternoon. Sailors relied on their light-air tactics for much of the day while contending with periods of no wind, very light wind, 180-degree wind
By Scott Richards On a breathtakingly beautiful fall day at Lake Pleasant, a group of eight highly competitive women would have made our AYC founder proud. The Ruth Beals Cup is a regatta that mandates a woman at the helm of every boat and is considered
Jerome Rand got a standing ovation when he finished speaking at the AYC October monthly meeting and I don't recall that ever happening before. But then, it was quite the story he told. The tale really needs to begin with his 2012 trek along the Appalachian
And how unusual is that? On Saturday we gave some serious thought to giving up when the wind failed to show until well into the afternoon, but when it arrived we enjoyed some good racing, bouncing west-east on windward-leeward courses. Sunday arrived with with strong north wind
By Clay Poulson, Portsmouth Fleet Captain Week three of the 2019 Tempe Town Lake race series turned out to be a dandy. The racing dinghy fleets were greeted with fairly steady westerlies ranging up to the mid teens. A bit up and down but generally, we