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Tucson Sailing Club 2019 Memorial Day Regatta
This weekend we had a lot of fun being the chase boat for the Tucson Sailing Clubs Memorial Day Regatta. I also had lots of great volunteers, James, Liz, Clair haha my Clair, Margaret, Diego and Rick helping us on the chase boat. Thanks Tony, hope we can see you next year!!! Here are some… Continue Reading
Kevin Jill & Harley 5 days three boats and Fin Whales
So we had pretty much all conditions on this course. From super light winds to strong southwesterly’s to a decent northwesterly wind on our last day that shredded our main sail on our 50ft. Gulf Star. Continue Reading
Jean Paul Bart & Jim 5 days
Jean Paul, Bart & Jim for 5 days of wind Jean Paul lives in San Miguel de Allende, his son Bart in Dallas and Jim is in Tucson. We had 5 days of all conditions from light wind to strong wind and cloudy days to sunny days. We sailed three distinctly different sailing vessels this… Continue Reading
Peter from Tucson completes 101 and soon more!
Peter and his lovely wife Ellen came down from Tucson for a three day course, thanks so much again for the plane ride, here are pictures from your course I got some great Dolphin Id shots. This trip we didn’t have to go find dolphins, the dolphins came to us right in the Bay two… Continue Reading
The soon to wed Pete from England and Alejandra from Puebla, a full week of great wind & snorkeling
So the great thing about teaching sailing in September is that opportunity to drop the anchor at various spots in the bay and enjoy the warm blue water that the Sea of Cortes is famous for. Wind can be spotty in September but Alejandra and Pete had pretty much 7 days of decent wind. We… Continue Reading
Verne, Antonio & Dave had some great days and got to sail a Norm Cross 50 ft. Trimaran
Here are the pictures from Verne 7 day course. His son Antonio showed up for a few days and Dave from Chicago had was with us for 4 out of the 7 days. We had one really great dolphin day along with the chance to sail Paul and Jo’s Norm Cross 50 foot trimaran, a… Continue Reading
Spring Breakers from Irvine California, the international team! ASA 101 – 104
At the end of March Kenneth from the U.S.A. Niles from Denmark, Sean from Taiwan, and Yasu from Tokyo Japan came down for spring break during from them and easter for us here in San Carlos and completed the first three levels of ASA. Continue Reading
Paul & Jo completed 101 in 3 days, now they own a Norm Cross 50!!
Paul and Jo had three nice days of sailing in the middle of March. We even got to see a nice group of common dolphin about 5 miles off shore. Unfortunately we didn’t get a local bottle nose dolphin day. After completing the 101 basic keel boat they went ahead a purchased a piece of… Continue Reading
Chris & Tony came in late February and had great wind and good dolphin spotting!
The end of February was a bit chilly but the winds stayed down to managble strength for the brothers from Phoenix and Seattle!! We had some excellent dolphin days and I got without a doubt new ID pictures from this trip. Thanks for coming down guys and sorry it took so long to get these… Continue Reading