Author Archives: Tom Willison

Brighton Road Swing Bridge Construction

On July 1, returning from the Sandy Cove Cruise, I took several pictures of the new Brighton Road Swing Bridge.  It is quite a change from the old bridge.  The last picture shows Dave and Terry’s boat Jackal passing though the opening and gives you a good prospective of the new bridge’s size. TW ” order_by=”sortorder”

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Sailpast 2018

Sailpast 2018 was a wonderful “official” kick-off to this season’s boating. The theme for the event was a tribute to Albert Stierle. The organizing committee (Brad & Crystal Chapman, Wayne Armstrong, Rob Arbuckle and Janet & Paavo Kivisto) worked closely with Andrea Stierle-MacNeill to the plan the day’s events. Albert had expressed his desire that

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2018 Lake Race Series Begins

The PYC summer lake series sailing races began on July 7 with 12 boats participating.  The weather was perfect with 10 knot winds providing enough action up wind and a great chance to hone spinnaker skills off the wind.  Results of this race and all the preceding Bay and Wednesday night 2018 races s are

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Wednesday Night Races

The 2018 Wednesday Night Race Series’ initial race was held on June 20.  As you can see from the pictures it was beautiful evening to be out on the bay and the wind was perfect for racing.   The following  brief summary was offered up by race coordinator Scott Hunter who is filling in for

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