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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 ...
“Throw” is a noun in New Orleans used to describe prizes that float riders in parades and members of walking krewes give to spectators. The prized throws at “Bosom Buddies” are hand ...
Mardi Gras World (also known as Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World, MGW) is a tourist attraction located in New Orleans. Guests tour the 300,000 square foot working warehouse where floats are made for Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. [1] Mardi Gras World is located along the Mississippi River, next to the New Orleans Morial Convention Center ...
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.
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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]
"The parade of shut-ins", as it has been known, Thoth begins at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and State Streets along the Mississippi River, proceeding westbound on Tchoupitoulas past Children's Hospital of New Orleans before turning north onto Henry Clay Avenue. It proceeds along Henry Clay until reaching Magazine Street, where it turns east.