Sep 30, 2020
(photo and story submitted by Martin Rheaume) My first time at CORK was quite an eye opener as I had only 4 years experience as a sailor. I came to CORK in 2003 with 5 others members of SailRA (now merged with Ottawa New Edinburgh...
Sep 16, 2020
(photo and story submitted by Gary Jobson) (photo from 1971. I am standing behind my Finn with all the weight jackets I used to wear) In 1971, at the age of 21, I drove my 1965 Pontiac with a borrowed Finn on a trailer to...
Sep 10, 2020
(story and photo submitted by Robert Vagners) I volunteered to be the parent, chaperone and driver for 4 new sailors from QCYC participating in their first Fall CORK in 2012. It was also my first as a volunteer. The drive to Kingston from Toronto was uneventful,...
Sep 1, 2020
(photos and story submitted by Robert Woodbury) I first attended CORK as an athlete in the OK Dinghy class in 1971. Jim Beckett sailed in that fleet as well if I remember correctly. There were 56 boats (I might have these numbers a bit wrong). Four did not...
Aug 19, 2020
(Photo and Story submitted by Jim Beckett) I arrived in Canada on Friday 13th February 1964, after a crossing delayed 3 days by gales, to take up a post at the Biological Station in St. Andrews. As the weather warmed I learnt that there was no dinghy racing locally....
