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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 ...
The Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans, traces its roots to the Gulf Coast resort of Pass Christian, Mississippi and to the year 1849, making it the second oldest yacht club in the United States. [8] [9] [10] New Orleans in the antebellum era was a proud, thriving port city, banking center and cultural leader. However, during the summer months ...
The Race to the Coast is the oldest running point-to-point distance sailing regatta and the second oldest regatta in the Western Hemisphere.The first race was held on July 4, 1850, with a course that started on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, Louisiana and finished in Pass Christian, Mississippi.
Carnival season 2024 entered its final days in New Orleans on Friday as a parade of “fabulous women and the men who support them” walked the narrow streets of the old French Quarter handing ...
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Tuesday marks Mardi Gras celebrations across the world, including New Orleans, the center of festivities in North America. You can watch a livestream of the city's annual parade and festivities ...
The Sugar Bowl Regatta has been held since 1934. The races have taken place on Lake Pontchartrain every year since 1935, except during World War II and immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2006. Lake Pontchartrain is a 630 square mile lake with a mean depth of 10–16 feet.
Boat racing is a sport in which boats, or other types of watercraft, race on water. Boat racing powered by oars is recorded as having occurred in ancient Egypt, [1] and it is likely that people have engaged in races involving boats and other water-borne craft for as long as such watercraft have existed. [2] A regatta is a series of boat races. [3]