My dear cousin Sue's kid Lara raced for team USA in the 470 coed class at Paris and Tokyo. Finally got around to watching race 7 on Peacock. They didnt win but they had fun.
Race 7, coed 470 class, Paris olys. My cousin had fun....
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Stuart Brogden
When I was younger, I loved sailing. In the summer of 1982, I spent 2 weeks in the Mediterranean Sea on a 29 ft sloop.
Phil Tarman
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I have loved sailing for a long, long time. Beginning when I was in the 3rd grade, my dad and I planned to build a sailboat. We'd study the plans from Glen-L, but we never had the place to build a boat, and dad would have to move us whenever he got a different job. I lived in 15 houses by the time I graduated from high school. During my senior year, an Explorer Post I had been part of for four years started building a wooden 14' sloop, but we didn't finish it before all but two of us graduated and left town for college.
After my 1st year of seminary at SMU, Sir Francis Chichester sailed his yacht Gypsy Moth IV around the world single-handed and I recaught my sailing bug. We spent the 1st week of summer school looking for a boat and found a $300 11'6" catboat of the Penguin class. I'd go to class in the morning, and we'd head to White Rock Lake in NE Dallas, spend the afternoon sailing, go home, have supper, put our 2 yr-old son to bed and I'd do my homework. We'd been doing that for about 3 weeks and I'd fallen in love with a class of boat that was well-represented on White Rock -- the 13' Chrysler Lone Star 13 -- and a guy sailing one caught up with me and told me that he sold sailboats and had a customer who was looking for a Penguin. He told me if I was interested, he could help me trade our Penguin for a LS-13. I was convinced that he meant to trade even, but when I found out that wasn't what he meant, it was too late. I bought the Lone Star for my Penguin and $30/month for three years. After I finished at Perkins, my first church was just out of Freeport, Texas, and I sailed in the Gulf, on the Brazos and St. Bernard Rivers and on some lakes in SE Texas.
During that time my dad finally built a boat. It was a 16' sloop called a Luger Leeward. After 3 years, he started on a 20' sloop built from a kit by Luger and I made the mistake of selling my Lone Star and buying dad's 16' boat. It wasn't a terrible mistake, but the boat wasn't one I ever fell in love with and it didn't sail as well as the Lone Star. A few years later, I sold that boat to a friend so I'd have tuition money for a class I wanted to take. Then a couple of years later, I bought another $300 boat. This one was a 17' sharpie with two masts. It had terrible sails and was slow upwind, but it was great downwind and easy to handle. I sold it when I was transferred to Wyoming and haven't had a boat since. But I still love sailing and follow it through magazines and books. One of the great things about sailing today is the large number of wooden boats that can be built from kits for reasonable amounts of money.
After my 1st year of seminary at SMU, Sir Francis Chichester sailed his yacht Gypsy Moth IV around the world single-handed and I recaught my sailing bug. We spent the 1st week of summer school looking for a boat and found a $300 11'6" catboat of the Penguin class. I'd go to class in the morning, and we'd head to White Rock Lake in NE Dallas, spend the afternoon sailing, go home, have supper, put our 2 yr-old son to bed and I'd do my homework. We'd been doing that for about 3 weeks and I'd fallen in love with a class of boat that was well-represented on White Rock -- the 13' Chrysler Lone Star 13 -- and a guy sailing one caught up with me and told me that he sold sailboats and had a customer who was looking for a Penguin. He told me if I was interested, he could help me trade our Penguin for a LS-13. I was convinced that he meant to trade even, but when I found out that wasn't what he meant, it was too late. I bought the Lone Star for my Penguin and $30/month for three years. After I finished at Perkins, my first church was just out of Freeport, Texas, and I sailed in the Gulf, on the Brazos and St. Bernard Rivers and on some lakes in SE Texas.
During that time my dad finally built a boat. It was a 16' sloop called a Luger Leeward. After 3 years, he started on a 20' sloop built from a kit by Luger and I made the mistake of selling my Lone Star and buying dad's 16' boat. It wasn't a terrible mistake, but the boat wasn't one I ever fell in love with and it didn't sail as well as the Lone Star. A few years later, I sold that boat to a friend so I'd have tuition money for a class I wanted to take. Then a couple of years later, I bought another $300 boat. This one was a 17' sharpie with two masts. It had terrible sails and was slow upwind, but it was great downwind and easy to handle. I sold it when I was transferred to Wyoming and haven't had a boat since. But I still love sailing and follow it through magazines and books. One of the great things about sailing today is the large number of wooden boats that can be built from kits for reasonable amounts of money.