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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
By Deb Heisler, Rear Commodore If you’re missing your sailing friends and the social aspect of our sport and club, you’re not alone. Oh wait, you probably are! All the … Continue Reading Beached – AYC Virtual Happy Hour Thursday, April 9, 6pm
By Deb Heisler, Rear Commodore With thousands of islands and places ranging from marine parks through old English inspired cities, the British Columbia Region is a water playland that has … Continue Reading February Meeting: Cruising Beautiful British Columbia
Recently we had higher winds at Lake Pleasant than on an average race day and two people landed in the water after a knockdown under spinnaker. The water temp was … Continue Reading Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility
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
By Deb Heisler, Rear CommodoreWe are continuing our AYC-hosted Happy Hours each month at various locations around the valley. An evening of food, stories and a brew or two are a … Continue Reading Like to Host an AYC Happy Hour?
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
By Deb Heisler, Rear Commodore It’s something we don’t often think about, but our very existence in Arizona relies on the mighty Colorado, Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and the reservoirs … Continue Reading Water in Arizona – Past, Present, and Future
How dld the first Tempe Town Lake race series go for the new Sunfish class? Quite well, thank you, and congratulate longtime Sunfish fan Gary Oberbeck for a fall series … Continue Reading TTL Fall Series Winners
By Deb Heisler and Marc DannerThis year the annual holiday party and pirate gift exchange was a great success with over 70 people attending. As usual, there was lots of … Continue Reading Annual Holiday Celebration and Pirate Gift Exchange
By Bob Naylor You can order Saturday night dinner here. Deadline for entry has passed, but you can still register with a late fee. Celebrate the improbability of a yacht … Continue Reading AYC Birthday Regatta and Leukemia Cup: February 7-9
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 … Continue Reading Congratulate the LP Fall Series Winners
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 … Continue Reading The Name’s on the Ruth Beals Trophy: Brooke Miller