Reprint from Facebook - February 2014
“The largest group of black sailors of both men and women in the country —cruising and racing.”
BCS on Cover of Chicago Defender
BCS on Cable TV
BCS - 2011 Yachtsperson of the Year
BCS - Ski Winter Park, CO
Bill Pinkney's New Book
PRESS RELEASE:
Captain Graves
Captain Ward
Captain Stan Bailey
"It Was A Club of Their Own"
by Ann Dermody - Reprint from
BoatUS, March 2009
Once the nation's first all-black yacht club, Seafarers still thrives—
Live Fire Drills on Lake Michigan
Captain Charles Hunter
Stan Hill - CYC Officer
Eunice Jackson Lyle - Yachtsman of the Year '06
Alpha Ray Thompson - Yachtsman of the year '05
Capitalizing on the Auld Mug
Lawsuit alleges America's Cup organizers unfairly reject African American sailing team asnd breached trustee duties by self-dealing
from Baxter Smith - Universal Sailng Club
2013—
Commodore Paul Thompson III
Read the great article Captain Paul wrote for the Chicago Yacht Club's 'BLINKER' on his intro duction into racing and the Chicago-Mackinaw Race experience!
Meet Captain Ross...
Tuskegee Airman says sea is true calling— John 'Captain Jack' Lyle to receive Chicago Yachting Association's Yachtsperson of the Year Award!
2010 Paul Thompson III on Mise en Place won a 5th in the Cruising Section on his 2nd Mac!
Captain Jack Lyle Receives Congressional Medal
Pinkney Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
QuickTime Movies
The purpose of this message is to memorialize the 20th Anniversary of one of the most widely seen but little known examples of uniquely successful “community art” in the city of Chicago. Painting renderings of the International Alphabet Code Flags signaling the message 'Bon Voyage' was created to promote the Chicago Park Distric Rainbow Fleet for children and adults.
EdmondGueringer was the first black sailing instructor for the Chicagp Park District
'Signal: BON VOYAGE'—
An art expression celebrating Chicago's love of boating.
Created by Edmond Gueringer, Summer 1994
Click Here
Boat of The Year - 5th Place Unknown Lady 2 David Ward
Performance Series - Section S4 - 8th Place - Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
Competition Series - Section S4 - 5th Place - Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
Long Distance Sereies - Section S4 - 5th Place - Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
Dominic Marano Regatta - Section S4 - 9th Place - Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
UK Hasley Sprint Regatta - Section S4 - 4th Place - Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
Weathermark Tavern Sprint Regatta - Section S4 - 6th Place - Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
Skyway Yacht Works Sprint Regatta - Section S4 - 5th Place -- Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
MORF Open Series Fleet - Section S5 - 8th Place - Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
MORF Open Series Section - Section S5 - 2nd Place - Unknown Lady 2 - David Ward
Captain David Ward Big Winner in MORF
2014 Midwestern Open Racing Fleet
Awards and Recognition
Sailor Alexandria Thompson Makes Headway
Jackson Park Yacht Club has a notable youth sailor named Alexandria Thompson. As a youngster, Alexandria learned to sail with the Park District Rainbow Fleet Sailing Program and her family at JPYC. She often taught kids to sail on the Flying Junior sailboats. After volunteering with the Judd Goldman program last year, she completed her US Sailing Level One Instructor Certification and became a sailing instructor with Judd Goldman this year. Alexandria completed her second Mac this past summer where she drove the boat across the finish line.
For fun she still sails the Flying Js at JPYC, but most of her experience last summer was on adaptive boats (Sonars and Freedoms) as well as her family boat, a Beneteau Oceanis 381. Alexandria is a senior at the University of Chicago Laboratory High School. She wants to be a psychiatrist and is planning on sailing at the college level.
Sailor Alexandria Thompson Makes Headway CLICK HERE
2015 Season Begins in the Boatyard—
Women at Work
Captain Chiaka Patterson
Purple Reigns getting facelift.
Print AD produced for the 50th Anniversary of the
Chicago Sno-Gophers Ski Club program.
JUNE 2015
Captain David Ward of 'Unnown Lady2'
Places 5th Place in Section on the 2015 Chicago to Mackinaw Race
Captain Paul Thompson III of 'Misen Place' Finishes in 11th Place in Section on the 2015 Chicago to Mackinaw Race
Captain David Ward (in black shirt, front.)
Captain Paul Thompson III (on left)
Captain/Skipper Lance Lovely Completes The Great Route!
The circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water is known as the Great Loop. Also referred to as the Great Circle Route, the trip varies from 5,000 to 7,500 miles (8,000 to 12,000 km) depending on the options used. The boats used range from personal watercraft to 60-foot-long (18 m) yachts. Both sailboats and powerboats are used but the most common boats are 34–45-foot (10–14 m) recreational trawlers. The main factors that govern the size of the boat are the limited draft (5 ft, 1.5 m) in some locations on the loop and the height of one bridge (19 ft, 5.8 m) in Chicago. People traveling the Great Loop are known as "loopers." The number of people attempting this voyage is growing with the baby boomers reaching retirement age. In 2007, more than 150 boat owners notified America's Great Loop Cruisers' Association (AGLCA) that they were planning to attempt the loop in the coming season.
Most Great Loop cruisers travel the loop counterclockwise, taking advantage of the downstream currents on the Illinois, Mississippi, Tombigbee and Black Warrior rivers to Mobile, Alabama.To avoid summer hurricanes and winter ice, most Loopers head north in the spring, spend the summer in the Great Lakes region, and head south on the rivers in the fall, arriving in Florida after the beginning of November.
End -of-The-Season's' Racing Results at Jackson Park Yacht Club
Ted Graves (DeDas Toy), Paul Thompson III (Misen Place), and Stanley Hill (Simple Justice) CLICK HERE
2016 Strictly Sail Show in Chicago
Tuskeegee Airman/Captain Jack Lyle, Captain Bill Pinkney, and
Captain Edmond Gueringer.
Stan Bailey, Alpha Thompson, Pam Rice, Ted Graves
Chicago Defender - 2004