Sperry has been very busy this season! We sponsored all of the NOOD Regattas, announced Team Sperry, and it was our first year as both official footwear of Cowes Race Week and title sponsor of Charleston Race Week.

We’d love to know what you’ve been up to! Share your favorite sailing story from this season and win this banner from Charleston Race Week (see the Sailing Group image). It’s a unique item to add to your collection, and not available anywhere else. The winner will be announced next Monday (8/29). Good Luck!

Sailing at the Indianapolis Sailing Club usually is as predictable as possible. Located on a small reservoir in the middle of Indiana, the Indianapolis Sailing Club doesn’t have the ideal sailing conditions every true sailor yearns for. Winds rarely builds over 12 mph and 180 degree wind shifts are more than common out on the Geist Reservoir. It may sound boring to coastal sailors but it’s the only place to sail for miles around so you have to be optimistic or you’ll never get a chance to sail. This past summer Indianapolis got it’s highest winds on record in over a decade. For one afternoon, Geist had 45 mph winds with gusts up to 55. You can guarantee that my co-workers and I (we teach a sailing camp to kids from 8-16) were out in that wind as much as we could. After hours of sailing and pushing the old club lasers to their limits it was finally time to head in. The sun started to set as the wind finally died. As I left the sailing club I began to smile. For one day, the heartland of America felt to me as it was the center of the sailing world.