Memorial Sails
Memorial Sails describes a burial at sea and a commemoration of a fallen Navy sailor.
Sail Impasse
Sail Impasse describes a Navy warship stopped in the water due to a stuck bridge.
Anchors Away II
Anchors Away II describes the departure of a second Navy warship from Yorktown NWS on the same day.
Navy, Finally
Navy Finally recounts how two ships came onto Yorktown for the first time in eight weeks.
Big Sail
Big Sail recounts a trifecta of vessels on the York.
Learning to Sail
Learning to Sail recounts the thrill of going fast on 3 reaches.
Dolphins
Dolphins explains how they are slowly returning to the York River.
Navy Sailing
oh On a warm, breezy morning a newlywed couple from Louisville KY took their honeymoon cruise on the York River. Stephen Bacher explained that Rachel Kinser was planning to sail down the Mississippi River in a year or so. “I’d like to be married with her long enough before she dies,” he joked. Rachel is […]
Baby Sail
A couple recently relocated to Charlottesville took two sailing sessions on the York River. They got to see the USS Monterey at Yorktown, where it’s doing maneuvers for a month. Kyle and Madison Robinson were pretty ambitious, since she’s eight months pregnant. “I’m due in a month and I’m ready,” she said midway through a […]
Sailing by VIMS
To avoid a rainout, Bentley Streat of nearby Hayes went a day early to take her family sailing on the York. Her sister Linda Shaffron works at nearby VIMS, or Virginia Institute of Marine Science. “Ours is the largest facility in America focused on estuarine research,” said said proudly. Estuarine as in estuary, as Chesapeake […]
