YMCA at LMSS — 8/26-8/28

The last week of August, we were lucky enough to welcome 30 middle and high school students from YMCA of the North for three afternoons of sailing fun! Sailors had the opportunity to sail Hartleys, 420s, and Sonar keelboats. Many sailors tried more than one boat before settling on their favorite boat. Because it was SO HOT, we did a lot of swimming and capsizing!

The LMSS-YMCA relationship is in its 30th year! In 1994, Marty Baskerville, a Minnetonka Yacht Club member and long-time friend of LMSS gave an enormously generous gift: the promise and the means to ensure that YMCA students would be able to learn to sail at LMSS each summer. Many thanks to the Baskerville Family and Chicka Merino — Youth Development Specialist at YMCA of the North — for their continued support over the past 30 years, and for many more to come.

To read more about Marty (and see a fantastic picture of one of the first years of YMCA at LMSS!!) see pictures 5, 6, and 7.

We already can’t wait for next year!⛵️

📸: Chicka Merino