I learned to sail when I was fairly young. I was 9 when I began crewing for my dad while we raced a 16-foot sailboat called a Butterfly. By 10 years old, I was racing that same boat in a youth ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Sailing can seem an elusive, exclusive, expensive sport. It’s intimidating, when boats can cost thousands of dollars and sailors have been tacking and jibing since childhood.
Have you ever wondered if sailing is an adventure for you? You can find out Saturday when the Mansfield Sailing Club holds open house from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Clear Fork Reservoir, 2904 Ohio 97, ...
Dinghy sailors of the 1970s had slim pickings for sailing gear. At least until avid racer Nick Gill did something about it. He convinced his father to give him a corner of his lace factory in ...
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Rocky River High School reached a milestone in sports history this spring. The Rocky River sailing club is one of only 20 in the country, and the first in Ohio history to ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Sailing can be one of life’s great pleasures. It also can be one of the world’s great workouts. All you have to do, as I learned this week, is take it seriously. Approach sailing as ...
“I was telling him (the skipper of Excalibur) to take it up because I wanted my boat to go higher, he was in my way, so I was giving him advanced warning that he was wrong,” said Paul Burke several ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Every summer, Dennis Simpson, 66, of Elizabethtown, Ohio, takes on a challenge that tests his endurance. This summer of COVID-19, when just existing is testing the endurance of so ...