Sinking Sailboats
A Chesapeake couple who sailed previously with Let’s Go Sail returned with some friends and a story. “I have to tell you something,” Denise Osenbaugh said gravely when she arrived at the dock. “Yesterday we sank our sailboat.” What? “We were in Currituck Sound in North Carolina,” her husband Mark explained. “It’s a little 16-foot […]
Drowning Suspected
Searchers probed the York River for a 50-year-old man suspected of drowning Sunday night off Gloucester Point Beach.
Boy Sailor
A Yorktown dad drove over the Coleman Bridge to take his 8-year-old son sailing for the first time. Sirish Mulpur was thinking about buying a boat. “Noah is really excited about this. I don’t know where he got the idea, but he’s been reading and research about sailing. Today’s the day.” Sure enough, Noah turned […]
York Rescue
Let’s Go Sail alerted a nearby powerboat to rescue a stranded small sailboat with three people on board. They returned safely.
Siren Sail
While observing a US Navy ship in dock, Navy patrol boats zipped past while one had its siren screaming. Let’s go sail.
Omaha Sailors
Omaha Sailors has a couple from Nebraska joining their teenage daughter who has already completed ASA 101.
Navy Ship Arrives
A West Viginia family got to see a US Navy missile cruiser transit Yorktown to the Naval Weapons Station. Let’s go sail.
Cleaning Up
The National Park Service has been removing invasive bamboo from the shoreline of historic Yorktown. Good luck with that. In a related note, I asked York County about the moorings off Yorktown. One is sinking (at right) and another is listing badly (below). Capt. James Scruggs, dockmaster at nearby Riverwalk Landing, replied: “We are aware […]
Opening Day
Within 72 hours of Opening Day, a Chicago family got to see a US Navy warship come into Yorktown.
Navy Twofer
We got to see two Navy warships transit the Coleman Bridge in one day.
Sailing Alternatives
Sailing Alternatives covers other ambitious outdoor activities in America.
Stout Sailors
Stout Sailors show a US Navy destroyer coming into Yorktown en route to the Naval Weapons Station. Let’s go sail.
Navy Sailors
Three couples got to see two Navy ships passing in the York River from/to the Naval Weapons Station.
2 Ships
Two ships came into the York the same day, a Navy guided missile cruiser followed by a USCG buoy tender.
Gal Pal Sail
Gal Pal Sail describes how three women from Richmond took the helm.
Season Opener
After a shakedown cruise with a delightful couple from Fredericksburg, we launched the season opener with a fellow who brought his wife and sisters-in-law along for his third time at Let’s Go Sail. Since it was a Monday, we were on the lookout for two Moran tugs that would signal an incoming Navy warship. Sure […]
Arts Quarter Sails
Award-winning actor Glenn Close was the star of the dedication of the William & Mary Arts Quarter, a massive reconfiguration of Phi Beta Kappa Hall into a half dozen buildings interconnected. Before several hundred alumni and guests in the new PBK, Close expressed heartfelt gratitude for their support, tearing up at one point from the […]
Hover Sail
Three couples from Georgia, South Carolina and Maryland converged on a cool, crisp Fall day to pursue the History Cruise. But first we sailed under the Coleman Bridge to view a Navy submarine in port. Doug Boyd reluctantly took the helm, having once sailed S-28s in Annapolis. He talked of the wind conditions there as […]
The World
Albeit pretentious, that’s the name of a massive cruise ship that anchored overnight in the York River. MS The World presages the coming (and controversial) Princess liner with 3,000 passengers disembarking at Yorktown. But this one has only 150-200 passengers who own 165 condo apartments worth millions. As the name implies, the cruising course extends […]
Navy Sail
For six weeks, we saw nary a Navy warship. Then two showed up within two days. Three days later, the first ship left to go out to sea. A New Hampshire couple was aboard, having taken their ASA 101 course on Lake Champlain. I thought it only fitting that the navigate under the Coleman Bridge […]