A youthful Ruth Beals. 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 a sailboat store. Gather a nucleus of sailors and turn it into something called the Arizona Yacht Club. Very difficult, I'd … Continue reading AYC’s Founder: The Unsinkable Ruth Beals
Arizona Highways magazine in the 1960s was at the height of its fame: a lavish, glossy publication that was the state's answer to Life magazine, with splendid color photographs shot with large format film cameras. In September of 1962, Arizona Highways chose to feature the nascent Arizona Yacht Club and Arizona sailing on the cover … Continue reading More Bright AYC History: Arizona Highways 1962
The 1995 Club Championship contest in Santana 20s. Photo: Bob Worrall Bob Worrall was sorting through what he says were some 30,000 pictures he's accumulated on his computer when he stumbled on some with some serious AYC history: shots from 1995 and 1997 of AYC Club Championship racing.The 1995 Championship was run in Santana 20s … Continue reading Historic Club Championship Photos
By Dennis Lynde Well, this is from quite a while ago, but I was asked to recall a former Governors cup that I had participated in and my first was THE FIRST. In 1994 I was working for The Sailboat Shop and had the pleasure of selling a new Hunter 26, which he named Wit’s … Continue reading My First – THE FIRST – Governors Cup 1994
