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Tempe Town Lake Results for Weekend Two
Two Sundays of Tempe Town Lake racing and two Sundays of strong wind! The racing on February 12 was as good as it gets, with good wind from start to finish, blowing from the west. Lasers, C14s, and...
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March Meeting: Boathouse for Tempe Town Lake?
Kim Knotter, Executive Director, Rio Salado Foundation The Rio Salado Foundation is making another run at building a $5-million boathouse on the north shore of Tempe Town Lake. Storage on the lower...
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Tempe Town Lake Draws Family Racing
Sure, the wind was shifty and sometimes light, but it was a nice day on the water at Tempe Town Lake on Sunday (2/26). Most fun, it brought out some of the kids. Will Zornik put daughter Heidi and son...
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April Meeting: Extreme Sailing!
Sailing will go to the Extreme in October in San Diego, foiling cats rising out of the water in a wild show of speed. The city is the latest entry in the world tour of the Extreme Sailing Series, a...
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Tucson Sailing Club Invites You to Mexico
The Tucson Sailing Club is headed for Mexico over Memorial Day weekend and would like you to come along. It’s the club’s spring trip to San Carlos, with lots of party and lots of sailing. You’ll find...
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Championship Regatta 2017 Slideshow
Here are three dozen pictures taken by Mike Ferring during the 2017 Club Championship Regatta at Tempe Town Lake, won by Mike Hester and John Mayall. ChampRace2017-2 ChampRace2017-3 ChampRace2017-4...
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Mike Hester Wins Club Championship
John Mayall and Mike Hester, Club Champs. Photo: Mike Ferring Mike Hester and John Mayall coped with shifting Tempe Town Lake wind better than 8 other competitors Saturday (5/13) to take the 2017 Club...
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Commodore’s Celebration at The Yard in Tempe
Registration is now closed for this event. This is the social event of the year for the Arizona Yacht Club, a gathering of friends highlighted by presentation of trophies and installation of the...
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2017 Tall Cactus
Lake Pleasant served up ideal winds and perfect conditions for the 2017 Tall Cactus. Steve Kusic won the monohull category and Brett Johnston the multi-hull, and now get to wear fancy trophy belt...
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Sailing Bingo Night in July
Just for fun. A purely fun, social monthly meeting. You’ll have an AYC Bingo card. You and your table of sailing wizards will be called on to answer sailing questions. If you get the answer right,...
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Shockwave Finishes the Transpac
After correcting for handicap, these are the finishing times for Shockwave’s division. She’s the fifth boat. The numbers show days/hours/minutes/seconds. Mike and Jo Grijalva and their predominantly...
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Back on Trailers; All’s Right with the World
Dog Years is lifted back onto its trailer after being knocked over in the July monsoon storm. Photo: Wendy Larsen An outpouring of help Saturday (7/22), including a crane and a forklift, put humpty...
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Let the Season Begin!
After a summer of quiet Wednesday night races, it was great to see Tempe Town Lake teeming with boats Sunday (9/10) on the first day of TTL Racing and RC Training and the first day of ASF Opti...
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Picnic, Play, Party at the “Hoot at the Lake”
All for fun: The Hoot at the Lake party on Saturday, September 30, from 10am to 1pm at the Grassy Knoll at Tempe Town Lake. Mike Bernard has planned a bunch of zany sailing games for the Hoot,...
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Results of TTL Weekend Two
Temperatures eased off a bit for weekend two of the Tempe Town Lake Fall Series, with Lasers on RC. The results of the afternoon are here or on the results page.
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It’s True: The Race Mark is a Robot!
Tom Ohlin watches a test of the new MarkSetBot on Lake Pleasant. Photo: Mike Ferring It’s a bit of a leap of faith, a broad jump really: The pin-end start mark on Lake Pleasant’s Opening Day (9/23)...
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Blustery Opening Weekend at Lake Pleasant
The Fall Series opening weekend was a blast—a blast of wind on both Saturday and Sunday! Saturday (9/23) was the big day for participation, with 14 boats racing in the multi-hull races, zinging across...
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October Meeting: North U Founder Bill Gladstone
The October Monthly Meeting Speaker, North U’s Bill Gladstone. Photo: Mike Ferring The crazy-windy 2016 Chicago to Mac was tossing our J/130 around like a toy when the helmsman (no, not me) made a bit...
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Little Wind for TTL Week 4
We decided to call it “rigging practice,” since sailing was, well, slow. This Sunday at Tempe Town Lake the wind started light and then turned lighter, allowing the Lasers and 14.2s to get one...
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Lake Pleasant Weekend Three
Notice to everyone who raced only Saturday: You missed the best wind of the weekend. Sunday morning started with cresting whitecaps and settled into a pleasant 8kts, serving up a trip around Horse...
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