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New Orleans Yacht Club is an extremely active sailing club [7] and is the organizing body for Mardi Gras Race Week, the Bastille Day Regatta [8] and Wednesday Night Racing on Lake Pontchartrain. New Orleans Yacht Club also is host to an active Viper 640 , Easterly 30, Optimist (dinghy) , S2, 420, and Sunfish fleet as well as multiple Handicap ...
Southern Yacht Club is an extremely active sailing club and is the organizing body for the Race to the Coast, the oldest point to point regatta in the Western Hemisphere. Initially raced on July 4, 1850, the race continues to this day with the course starting on the shores of New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain and finishing in Gulfport, Mississippi.
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The 2006 Sugar Bowl football classic was moved to Atlanta, Georgia and the regatta committee held the intercollegiate races on Lake Lanier in the Atlanta-area thanks to the Lake Lanier Sailing Club and the Georgia Tech sailing team.
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On 10 June 1816 Orpheus, Bathgate, master, was sailing from New Orleans to Liverpool when she foundered at Competitor was coming from Jamaica when she saved the crew. Competitor then brought them into London. [5] [a] In 1820 Competitor ' s registry shifted to London. [1]
The Mull 34 is a sailing yacht designed by Gary Mull under the International Offshore Rule. The design, although similar in many ways to Mull's Ranger 22 design, is striking for its wide beam, carried well aft, and the quintessential IOR transom. Several Mull 34's have been built to the Swampfire design:
House designed by Rathbone DeBuys in New Orleans in 1908. Rathbone DeBuys is responsible for the Georgian Revival design of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, Mississippi. Rathbone Emile DeBuys (December 1, 1874 − June 27, 1960) was an American architect and sailing enthusiast based in New Orleans, Louisiana. DeBuy's Station was named ...
Star of the South sailed from Philadelphia to New Orleans on her maiden voyage, arriving on May 28, 1853. [7] She then began sailing between New York and New Orleans, as her owners, the Stantons, originally envisaged. She was a fast ship for her times and this was particularly notable since propellers were still viewed as unproven technology.