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Zoo Regatta – Lost in Translation
© 2013 – Troy Gilbert ISLAND OF GUADELOUPE – “We were trimming in and I had a boat above me and a boat to leeward of me and I had to go right then. I’m screaming Choquer! Choquer! So my mainsheet...
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New Orleans’ Culture of Sailboat Racing
Published – Gambit Weekly ©2013 – Troy Gilbert New Orleans has a rich history of sailboat racing and is proven training ground for champions in the sport Carter Christopher walked down a pier at West...
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(R)evolution of Women’s Sailing on the Gulf Coast
First Published March 2013 Southwinds Magazine © 2013 Troy Gilbert In 1853, the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Alabama, hosted sailors from New Orleans and the Mississippi Coast for post-regatta...
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Fear and Oil on the Gulf Coast
Racing the Regata al Sol through the BP oil spill Published – Sailing World ©2013 – Troy Gilbert Our Gulf Coast is a realm of tropical water, sugar sand beaches and bountiful marshes. It’s where...
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Reading the Wind – Sailing the Mississippi Coast
Published – Mississippi Magazine ©2013 – Troy Gilbert Like a great novel, sailors read the wind on the water. Wind lines are new chapters that guide and propel them toward grand destinations and...
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Cuba, Tack! – Regata al Sol
Racing across the Gulf of Mexico to Isla Mujeres Published – Sailing World ©2013 – Troy Gilbert Getting scoped out by high-speed Cuban Navy patrol boats in the middle of the night was little more than...
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Havana Regatta 1952 – Sailing into a Coup d’Etat
Published – Sailing World ©2013 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert “No one was hurt fortunately,” said George Bass of Detroit as he pointed out the bullet holes in his yacht’s mainsail. “But it was...
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How A New Orleans Regatta Created Cancun
© 2013 Troy Gilbert The history of how a little known regatta that started in New Orleans put the first feet on the sand and helped to create Cancun. In a Sports Illustrated article on the third...
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Cruise the Gulf Yachting Association
Published: November 2013 Southern Boating © 2013 Troy Gilbert The Gulf Yachting Association (GYA) is one of the oldest and most prestigious boating organizations in the United States, and while it...
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Sarasota – Havana Regatta 1994
Published: August 1994 Mid-Gulf Sailing © 2013 Troy Gilbert By Don Roberts Havana—a city whose name conjures up visions of intrigue, mystery and fast action—has remained inaccessible to sailboat...
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Regattas Should be on Your Radar for Cruising
Published: February 2014 Southern Boating © 2014 Troy Gilbert With boating season warming up on the Gulf Coast, thoughts are turning to cruising destinations with white sand beaches or docking up at...
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Regata al Sol 1988
Published: July 1988 Mid-Gulf Sailing © 2014 Troy Gilbert By Walter Atkinson The yacht Equation under the command of Buddy Friedrichs finished the 1988 Pensacola to Isla Mujeres Regatta al Sol in...
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Dauphin Island Race!
Published: June 1991 Mid-Gulf Sailing © 2014 Troy Gilbert By Tim Murray Note: Dauphin Island Race – April 26-27 2014: Over 100 sailboats participate in this regatta which has become an institution on...
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Southern Yacht Club’s Race to the Coast
Published: May 2014 – Sailing World © 2014 Troy Gilbert Drawing pistols at dawn, two sailors acknowledged their seconds standing by and marched off fifteen paces beneath the sprawling moss covered oaks...
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Junior Sailing’s “Katrina Babies”
Published: June 2014 – BoatU.S. Magazine © 2014 Troy Gilbert The Mississippi Coast is the birthplace of yacht racing on the Gulf Coast with the first regattas tracking back to 1849 in Pass Christian...
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Wooden Boat Festival – Madisonville
Published: October 2014 – Southern Boating © 2014 Troy Gilbert Many unique, historic classes of boats evoke the culture and lifestyle of particular regions in the U.S. simply from their appearance....
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Sailing Florida’s Emerald Coast
Published – Emerald Coast Magazine ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert Sailors read the wind on the water as you might read a great novel. Wind lines are new chapters that guide and propel them...
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Dauphin Island Race – Nowhere to Hide
Published – Sailing World ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert For Zane Yoder, an experienced 43-year-old sailor, the Dauphin Island Race was like the other 35 he’d done before. It’s a casual...
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The Deadly 1983 New Orleans Lightship Race
Published – Southwinds ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert — In light of the horrific and tragic events that fell on the 57th running of the Dauphin Island Race this past April, it is important...
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Viper 640 Wins GYA Capdevielle
Published – Sailing World ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert On September 5, 33 Gulf Coast commodores assembled at Mississippi’s Bay-Waveland YC for a long awaited and contentious vote, a...
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