These photos were taken by Pat Ray, our program director.
I used Photoshop to correct the exposures and made the frames.
These are great action shots. When the wind pipes up these boats really perform.
The kids just love it!
Fifty years later and it is still going. I was there i '54/'55. Handled the mail sail for Gary Sisson and we won the Lake Michigan Junior Chanpionship. Then we beat a crew of rich kids from Lake Geneva, WI. and went to the Sears Cup up in Macatawa Bay. We sailed Lightings out on the lake. A special thrill on days with heavy winds from the West was to beat out between the piers, come about, throw up the spinaker and surf back in. A real feeling of meeting the elements face to face. Never did turn turtle, even in the Penguin that my Dad got as part of a winter project of building a dozen or so in the now demolished Junior Building.
