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Wind at Their Backs

The southport junior yacht club has inspired generations of sailors to love the sport.

The young sailors wave their hands in the air, following the Southport Junior Yacht Club’s (SJYC) well-established signal for quiet. Ranging in age from 8 to 12, about 50 kids sit on benches in a rough circle, some holding life jackets in their laps, all wearing smiles. The junior and senior instructors stand behind them, while a few parents of newcomers to the program watch from the edges of the room. The building’s garage doors are open, and Cozy Harbor is sporting her full summer regalia. Sail and power boats bob lazily at their moorings under a cloudless blue sky, and there’s just enough breeze to flutter a flag—ideal conditions for the beginner sailors.

Program director Will Jacobs takes attendance, inserting lighthearted comments as he goes through the list of names. “Good to see you…Nice haircut…Hello Charlie, how’s the old leg?” When he gets to first-timer Abraham Leonard, he calls out, “Abraham’s going to take the swim test today; who’s going to take care of Abraham?” Hands shoot up to volunteer, and a boy is chosen who will support the newcomer through this crucial first step of the program. Jacobs goes over the sailing safety rules—life jackets and shoes (no flip flops) are a must—and the group troops down onto the dock to cheer on the swimmers—three today including Abraham. Shouts of encouragement go up as each swims out to a designated mark and back, while doing their best to splash the two instructors rowing a dinghy alongside. After drying off and warming up with hot chocolate, the swimmers join the rest of the class. “Let’s go sailing,” Jacobs says.

On summer mornings for 50 years, the same scene has been replayed against largely the same backdrop. With a few alterations, the two simple buildings and the docks and floats that make up the Southport Yacht Club look just as they did when my two brothers and I were learning to sail here. Kids still careen down Cozy Harbor Road on their bikes and fold their sails on the lawn after class. Handmade posters advertise bingo nights, ice cream socials, and the annual Commodore’s Clambake. The view from the dock to the tall channel marker capped with an osprey’s nest and beyond to the Sheepscot River is as familiar to me as my own face.

The Southport Yacht Club was launched in 1923 in a former general store, bowling alley, and snack bar that now houses the seasonal restaurant Cozy’s Dockside. In the late 1930s the club moved across the driveway to the Cozy Harbor House, a gray-shingled Cape that had been a summer hotel. The Junior Sailing Program was formalized in the 1960s under the late Norma Smith. A single-story building for the Junior Yacht Club was installed on the edge of the harbor in 1968. Despite the name, the yacht club is not a swanky place, with no tennis court, no restaurant, no jackets with insignias; the dues are modest. Membership is not required for participation in the sailing program. “When people ask me what I do in the summer, I have a very hard time saying I run a yacht club,” says Jacobs. “I say I run a sailing program.”

Admired by all and honored with an annual sailboat race that bears her name, Smith spent 35 years instilling the love of sailing in countless children, including Jacobs. The program continues on much of the framework she established; the morning class is for beginner sailors, who learn how to rig and handle the boats, the care of sails and other equipment, knots, etiquette, and safety. The intermediate group meets in the afternoon and focuses largely on interclub racing, and advanced sailors, an older teenage cohort that also sails in the afternoon, represent the SJYC in competition against other yacht clubs.

“It was so important to me when I was a youngster,” says Jacobs, a fifth-grade teacher in Tarrytown, New York, who has helmed the program since 2007. “It was something I wanted to pass on to my children, and I realized how important it was to other people, so I wanted to keep it going.” He credits his predecessor, fellow teacher Peter Hawley, for introducing a bit more structure, including the colorful star charts that beginners use to track their skills, and a fleet of 420s, two-person dinghies that are universally raced at the college level, for the advanced sailors. The SJYC is the only sailing program in Maine that still has a fleet of Turnabouts, 10-foot-long, cat-rigged boats that were once ubiquitous at yacht clubs in the Northeast. The tubby yet fun-to-sail Turnabout has largely been replaced by the Optimist, a lightweight single-handed dinghy that is sailed and raced by youngsters around the world, including at SJYC. “I love Turnabouts, and I would never get rid of them,” says Jacobs.

The advantage of the Turnabout is that it can hold three kids, four if they are small. At SJYC, this means a junior instructor—who volunteers with the morning class and sails in the afternoon—can be in a boat with a couple of beginners. Some of the 25 Turnabouts in the yacht club’s fleet, with names like Huzzah , Bandito , Windjoy , and Hi-Ho , have spent summers in Cozy Harbor for decades, passed down between generations or transferred to a new family. My parents sold ours, painted pale yellow and named Sea Nymph by some unknown former sailor, when my brothers and I were in college. Years later, just as my son and niece were starting the program, their grandparents found our old boat and bought it back.

As the instructors ferry the kids and their gear by Boston Whaler out to the field of Turnabouts, senior instructor Shannon Killian notes that it’s high tide, and the wind is just right to allow the class to sail out of the harbor through “the gut,” a rare treat. A narrow passage leading to the Sheepscot at the back of the harbor, the gut is impassible at all but high tide. Today the light breeze coming from the south allows the fleet to glide through with the wind at their backs. Once they are out in the river, the wind picks up slightly and instructors tail the fleet in motorboats offering instructions and encouragement. “Avery, bear off first, get your speed up, and then tack,” Killian calls to a boat that has slowed down by sailing too close to the wind. “It’s nice and puffy out here,” Abraham says as he sails by. “Kids who might be a little tentative may come for a week or two at this level, then when they get the fever they’ll stay for the whole summer,” says Killian. Like every SJYC instructor, she came up through the program, beginning at age eight, and went on to race at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island, where she was named to the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association’s 2015–16 All-Academic Sailing Team. She has been coming back to teach in Southport for ten years. “The instructors here bring a great energy,” says Jacobs, “and if a new kid is feeling a little shy, I’ll call over Shannon or her sister, Jen, and the next thing you know they’re playing and laughing.”

For the past hour or so, the Turnabout sailors have tacked back and forth between the shoreline and the center of the river, learning how to turn efficiently and to trim their sails. Killian blows a whistle to call them back toward the harbor, and suddenly a small armada is breezing toward us on a reach; the wind has risen enough to create wake against the bows as the little boats sail past. I remember the feeling of being in my own Turnabout in a good wind, one hand on the tiller and the other holding the mainsheet, feeling the salt air and the sunshine on my face as I made for the harbor, and I see the same sense of contentment in this group of morning-class sailors, many of whose family names I know well, having grown up spending summers on the water with their parents and grandparents.

Some of these kids may go on to race sailboats competitively, while others, like me, will never catch the racing fever but will jump at every chance to go sailing. And, whether they have sailed here for a season or for years, they will come back to this place where, summer after summer, the docks go in, the star charts go up, the fleet of Turnabouts returns to its moorings, and the breeze reliably picks up in the afternoon—same as it ever was.

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Southport Junior Yacht Club: Powered by Youth

Teaching sailing, as well as learning how.

Photographs by Adrienne Chandler

Cozy Harbor, located midway down the western shore of Southport Island at the mouth of the Sheepscot River, is almost invisible from the river, obscured from view by David’s Island to its west and Pratt’s Island to its south. Just two-tenths of a mile from end to end, the harbor’s maximum depth at mean low water is nine feet, and that’s just in one spot. Yet within its tight confines lie more than a hundred moorings—home to lobsterboats, recreational powerboats, daysailers, dinghies, and even a 38' Alden yawl. Along the shore are unpretentious, mostly 19th-century houses with the occasional dock and float. During the summer there are so many boats that you could almost hop from one side of Cozy Harbor to the other without ever getting your feet wet, but the harbor is all-but-deserted during the winter, save for a couple of working lobsterboats.

In its earliest iteration, the club was centered around Pratt’s vision of racing outboard motorboats on Sheepscot Bay. There were regular races for boats 19' to 25' long, plus meetings, picnics, and poker evenings. There were an annual regatta, a lobster stew banquet, a clambake, and a dance and beauty contest. Membership was small, however, and by the time of the Great Depression, the club’s days seemed numbered. Then, in 1937, the White family from Malden, Massachusetts, came to the rescue.

In the 1940s and 1950s the Southport Junior Yacht Club was open to youngsters aged 10 to 18. It appointed its own junior officers and offered limited instruction to its youngest members. When the Junior Sailing Program was introduced in the 1960s, the teaching of sailing took center stage. The boat used was the Turnabout, the beamy 10-footer that remains the foundation of the program to this day. 

As commodore, Custer Carroll recognized the importance of involving young members. “There are kids in the sailing program today who are third generation,” she said. “Their parents and grandparents learned to sail in Turnabouts, sometimes even the same  Turnabout… that continuity is huge.” 

Today’s Southport Junior Yacht Club Sailing Foundation is, on the surface, like most other sailing programs in this part of the world. The program is open to all, to the children of non-members and club members alike, and with one fee for all. There is a scholarship fund available. Kids range in age from 7 to 18; there is a morning program for the younger less-experienced children, and an afternoon program for the older ones. The club uses Turnabouts, Optimists, 420s, and Boston Whalers and their equivalents. 

But beneath the surface something very different is happening at Southport: With the exception of Director Will Jacobs (himself a one-time Junior Sailing Program student), the entire program is run by kids: college-aged kids and younger. And they are all either current members or graduates of the program. 

“To have an instructor who’s gone through the program, who understands the program, the philosophy, the parents, the community… the connection is very important,” said Jacobs. “So we have afternoon students who come help in the morning class, unpaid. After a few seasons some of those helpers become Junior Instructors; now they get paid to work in the mornings, and then go back to being students in the afternoon. Eventually, Junior Instructors can become Senior Instructors and then they work all day, Monday to Friday.” 

There is a generally accepted understanding that if you want to become an instructor, you must pay your dues in the ranks of the unpaid helpers—if you care enough to help out when you’re young, chances are you have what it takes to be a future leader.

The morning program has a maximum attendance of 50 kids looked after by Jacobs, 18 paid instructors, and between 8 and 12 helpers. The students are divided into groups depending on their level of experience, and the senior instructors figure out who’s in which boat and with whom. 

Making it fun is huge at Southport. As well as evening events like Ice Cream Socials and Bingo specials, there are weekly happenings from kickball on Wednesday afternoons to Friday Fundays for the morning class. But, of course, learning to sail is always there. The morning program is run exclusively in Turnabouts, two to three students per boat, with the focus on sailing and basic seamanship. On fair-weather days, the fleet goes out of the harbor into the Sheepscot. On less easy days, and especially when there’s fog, the kids stay inside the harbor, learning to dodge and weave among the many moored boats and each other. 

In the afternoons, the fleet is mixed. An average day will see 10 Turnabouts, 20 Optimists, and 10 to 15 420s—at least 55 kids—sailing off the moorings. In 2016 the club added a J/24 to the fleet—some kids will sail the J/boat and nothing else, but the majority will sail it for an afternoon here and there. It’s up to them. The prime focus of the afternoon is on racing, but it is never the only focus.

“We do racing but we do all of the other stuff too: rowing, docking, mooring. We do knots, talk about seamanship skills in terms of being safe and respecting the boat. We talk tides and currents and winds. We have had sailors who go on to sail in college but we have many, many more who’ve gone through here and continue to sail well into adulthood and still love it,” Jacobs said. “Are we producing hotshot sailors? No. We’re producing really strong sailors who love sailing, who appreciate the ocean and sailing.”

That philosophy is the essence of  Southport Yacht Club. While memberships of yacht clubs up and down the country are struggling or in decline, at Southport the membership continues to grow.

On a gentle morning in August I joined Will Jacobs in one of the club’s Whalers and we headed out into the Sheepscot to do what he does most summer mornings: watch 20 or more Turnabouts go sailing. We heard small children hurling affectionate insults at one another; we fended off a boat as it came alongside to allow two giggly girls to tell us they were headed in for a bathroom break; we paused to watch a crew execute a series of shaky jibes and saw arms extended for a high-five before the boat turned up onto a reach. 

“You were asking about the core of the Southport Yacht Club,” said Jacobs. “Well, here it is, right here: the love of sailing, appreciating the ocean, and having fun with it. Look around us—there are 50 kids out here having fun on the water, loving sailing. And you know… chances are they’ll go right on loving it for the rest of their lives.” 

He paused and looked back to his fleet of small boats. “I’d choose that any day over one superstar who goes on to the Olympics.”       

One-time Managing Editor of WoodenBoat magazine, Jenny Bennett has taught small-boat sailing throughout her adult life. A native of Southwest England, she now lives in Seacoast New Hampshire and summers on Southport, Maine.

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This week was the seventh of the Southport Junior Yacht Club. We had sun and smiles throughout the week, especially for Bingo on Wednesday! 

Throughout the week, we had eight new swimmers: Isla Anand, Corbett Chapman, Beatrice Davis, Arzetta Garey, Josie Gibbons, Sydney Gibbons, Grayson Helming and Aiden Nunan. They leaped into the Maine water and were then rewarded with hot chocolate and a day in Turnabouts. 

The morning class had a calm week of sailing on the Sheepscot most days this week. Only Friday was spent on land, but even then we had a day of fun playing charades, knot-scotch, are you smarter than an instructor, and harbor navigation with life jackets!

With sightings of porpoises and journeys to the harbor of Five Islands, the morning class sailors at SYC had high spirits and learned new skills each day! 

In the afternoon class, we had a competitive week. The 420s had three race days, one of which was the Junior Round Southport Race against Boothbay Yacht Club sailors. While there was a light breeze, a highlight was when Skye Harrington and Finn Uhrich cut through the Newagen harbor and went from fifteenth to third! SYC sailors know the local waters! Some of our Opti sailors also joined in for the race and raced BHYC’s Fevas. While we didn’t win, we had a day of friendly competition and good sportsmanship.

This Wednesday, we had my personal favorite event, Bingo! With seventy-four prizes, all generously donated by local businesses, we had an amazing night. With the sound of bingo cards banging on the tables, and shouts when we called a number, bingo nights at SYC remind us all of the best parts about our special yacht club. While we only have one more week of the sailing program, we continue to make memories and the most of each moment.

Next week, we will begin to pack up our yacht club and end the week with our annual SYC Banquet at the Southport Town Hall at 6 p.m. where we will celebrate the sailors and the summer of 2024.

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