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I just bought an older used Lightning to use and race with my kids.  I'm looking for recommendations for PFDs for dinghy sailing that would be an upgrade from the cheap Wal-Mart PFDs that we have now.  I don't need the most state of the art expensive racing gear.  We are mostly just going to...

Coast Guard friend of mine can't wait to retire and move back to Traverse City Michigan.   He was a chopper pilot stationed in Traverse City,  Puget Sound, Kodiak, and Juneau and wants to go back to Michigan for the sailing and diving.

Thanks guys.  It appears that some of the club members who are actively sailing are looking to upgrade to newer fancier boats so there are several boats possibly available that are actively being sailed and being successful raced locally and regionally.   And there are some older boats sitting...

Well yes.  No shortage of uber-wealthy yachties here.   Not everything is about the Olympics.  I kind of like that ordinary kids can go out and learn to sail at most university programs without having to be world-class athletes.  That is as it should be.  The point of university shouldn't be to...

Lightning it is then.    Now I just gotta find the right one.  Looks like I have enough local options to have some choice of price and condition so I don't have to chase all over the country.

In the US I'm sure it is 99% a funding issue and 1% to do with inflexibility at the university level. In the US there are millions of nontraditional college students attending part time, nights, weekends, seasonally, whatever.  That's common.  Maybe not at super elite Ivy League universities...

I don't think sailing is necessarily more unpopular in the US than skiing.   I'm talking about ski racing not futzing around the mountain recreationally or going on ski vacations.  Yet the US does pretty well on the world scene when it comes to ski racing.  There are very few youth ski racing...

Yes, very nice facility.  They have plenty of storage in the secure grassy parking area next to the ramp.  Most everyone stores their boats on a trailer with the mast up and a cover on.  They just pull their cars or pickups up to the boat, rig it and then tow it down to the private club ramp. ...

Has anyone ever had any kind of hassle for wearing a non USGC approved PFD?  I'm not talking about for things like collegiate racing.  I'm talking about out on the water running into a random local water patrol.  I mean seriously, with as much alcohol and high Horsepower-fueled craziness that I...

Towing is not a problem.  I've got a V6 Highlander with 5000 tow rating that I've used to tow a 4000 lb camping trailer all over the west.  Lightning should be child's play.  Mostly just towing it 50 yards down the ramp and back up.  Heck, I think I could do that with my wife's Prius if...

As a boat I think the daysailer would be my first choice of the two.  But the club with the Lightnings is closer and more convenient and I think the lake venue where the Lightnings are sailed is larger and a nicer venue than the river sailing at the club with the daysailers.  Of course they are...

I haven't actually sailed out there.  Since I'd be coming from the WA side on Highway 14 I was actually looking at something like launching out of the Cascade Boat Ramp that is in downtown Stevenson on the WA side.  But maybe that's not a good location for sailing.   Plus the Lightning seems...

Vancouver Lake is super easy.  Just a straight shot down highway 14 for me and there is never really any afternoon traffic on 14.  So probably 20 minute most weekday evenings. Willamette Sailing Club would be driving across the I-5 or I-205 bridge and through downtown Portland.  It's a reverse...

I know there are a variety of PDX area sailers here.  I've recently moved my family back to the Portland area and I'm thinking about getting back into sailing after a LONG hiatus.  Decades ago I used to race dinghys in college (in the Portland area and Northwest) and did a bit of crewing on...