Tag: Racing

Take Your Passion Cruising

Ellen races her home, combining cruising and racing

Upwind It only took about 40 years and two failed marriages for me to discover my passion is sailing. The question, “Would you like to go sailing?” was not one I could ever answer in the negative. My calendar revolves around regattas and racing schedules to this day.

As a young adult, I raced every weekend in Chicago, and later Annapolis. When the skipper bought a J-33 …Read more

News from Women and Cruising contributors

Ellen Sanpere working with the St. Croix Hospice Regatta

Ellen_Sanpere Cruiser Ellen Sanpere has been a terrific champion of volunteering as you cruise. She started the “Volunteering” section on the Women and Cruising Resources page. She worked with Fundamigos in Venezuela for a number of seasons. Now that she is hanging around in the Virgin Islands, she has been giving of her time and talents to a number of causes on St Croix. …Read more