Al Van Deventer was a local sailor who grew up in Tacoma during the Depression, sailed Snipes at the Tacoma Yacht Club as a teenager, sailed Blanchards at CYC in the late '50s, and was one of the first OK Dinghy sailors in the US. Here he recounts those bygone days and gives us some idea of where we came from.
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 | Al sails a Snipe in Tacoma (8.4Meg mp3 variable bitrate file) | |
| | Sailing in Tacoma in the '30s and '40s ( 5.6Meg mp3 variable bitrate file) | |
| | The Blanchard fleet in the 1950's ( 4.1Meg mp3 variable bitrate file) | |
| | OK dinghy sailing part 1 ( 7.4Meg mp3 variable bitrate file) | |
| | Al doesn't meet Charles de Gaulle ( 5.4Meg mp3 variable bitrate file) |