Wednesday marked the official start of the season for a handful of area teams. While many of them weren’t in action until Thursday evening, a handful of sports were in play on a cool Wednesday night.
Low winds forced the premature ending of the Commodores’ Cup and the fourth race of the Bluffton Bay Sails Cup regatta last week at the Grand River Sailing Club. That left a two-way tie for first between Schroeder’s Avanti and Smithe’s Job Site at the top of the main and jib fleet. Baneberry…
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The Grand River Sailing Club continued its Bluffton Bay Sails regatta last week, running the second of its four races as the summer continues.
Late July saw the start of the Bluffton Bay Sails Cup, a three-race regatta that serves as the third of the Grand River Sailing Club’s summer series.
The Grand River Sailing Club finished its North Shore Marina Regatta last week, the second of the four series this year.
With one race remaining in the Grand River Sailing Club’s North Shore regatta, both fleets have an intriguing battle for the trophy.
Last Saturday marked the Grand River Sailing Club’s maiden Women’s Race, as all-female crews raced under nearly perfect conditions on Lake Michigan.
The Grand River Sailing Club celebrated its 40th anniversary of racing on June 10 with the blessing of the fleet. Patty Edwards led the event held in front of the city marina.
Some of the best sailors from across the country will converge on Spring Lake Yacht Club this weekend for the 34th annual MC Blue Chip Regatta.
After a seven-hour search that covered nearly 47 square miles, the U.S. Coast Guard late Saturday suspended its search for a sailor who went overboard on the first leg of the annual Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac.
Sailing across an open expanse of water, with no land in site. The sun goes down, the wind begins to blow, and the waves grow in height and intensity.
The 80th anniversary of the Milwaukee South Shore Yacht Club’s Queen’s Cup sailing race will mark the event’s first visit to Grand Haven in eight years.
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