In celebration of Black History Month 2022, NWSA hosted 3 inspirational sailors with stories both personal and eye-opening. Thank you to Marie rogers, Wanda Robertson and Pam Rice for sharing your stories with this month’s theme “Wake”.

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Marie Rogers tells the unlikely story of a childhood spent as an outsider in a white neighborhood to become the first Black woman Commodore of the Los Angeles Yacht Club.

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Wanda Robertson takes us on a historical journey of her decades of sailing and enjoying the “family” of Jackson Park Yacht Club in Chicago. She celebrates the Club’s 125 years of offering a friendly and welcoming atmosphere — “It’s where everyone knows your name.”

 

Pam Rice, illustrator, author, webmaster and sailor, takes us on a historic ride on Lake Michigan and beyond. As a Black woman sailing, she took the helm of a Sunfish in the ’70s and is still at it.

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