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Regatta: Come sail (a)Way |
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Written by Erin Frustaci
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Wednesday, 07 June 2006 |
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Although he has limited use of his legs from a childhood bout of polio, Peter Way still sails in front Colorado’s mountainous backdrop every chance he gets.
A pair of canes guide him as he walks, but once he sets sail, he’s as tough as they come.
“What’s nice about sailing is you can do it with some disadvantages in your legs because you are sitting down most of the time,” he said. “Usually, it’s your mind that gets to you as opposed to anything else. A lot of people think sailing is just about getting as much speed as you can, but in reality it is an incredibly strategic game.”
Way, who lives in Fort Collins and has been sailing Hobie Cats for about 23 years, will be one of the guys running the Prairie Winds Regatta this weekend at Boyd Lake State Park in Loveland. Usually he races, but this time he is on the committee.
The regatta, hosted by the Northern Colorado Hobie Fleet 50, is open to all sailboats of the Hobie one-design classes and is classified as a point regatta, meaning the scores can count toward the annual division championship.
Jim Brown, Commander of Fleet 50, expects about 30 boats to turn out, coming from all over Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and the western part of Nebraska.
Brown of Loveland started racing sailboats in 1966.
“It’s something we could do with the kids,” he said. “We had lots of fun sailing together.”
In addition to the competition regattas provide sailors, they also have a strong reputation as social events.
It’s become tradition for participants to hang around on the beach after races, swapping sailing stories over dinner.
For Brown, who is 60, one of the biggest appeals of the sport is that ages seem to wash away.
“There’s a guy who won an Olympic gold and won another 30 years later with his daughter,” he said. “We’ve got some young kids who get pretty excited.”
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