A Tahoe Hobie Cat Waits for Spring

We escaped to the mountains for a few days to visit our daughter, who, like many former city dwellers, thought working from home in a rental in the mountains was better than working from a rental in a city where all the lights are out. Luckily for ski areas straining to make a go of a semi-successful ski season, there was decent skiing, with some fresh snow that fell on Christmas Day. Despite being far from the ocean, high in the mountains, and surrounded by fresh snow, we weren’t far away from sailing. The neighbor next door has a Hobie Cat in the back yard, waiting for the spring.

It looks more like a winter sailing scene in Minnesota or Vermont. Like other sailing venues in the grip of winter it all changes when the summer returns. In normal times both Tahoe Yacht Club and the South Lake Tahoe Windjammers Yacht Club host racing from about May through September. The Tahoe Yacht Club was founded in 1925, and the South Lake Tahoe Windjammers Yacht Club was formed in 2018 after the merger of the Tahoe Windjammers Yacht Club (founded 1968) and the South Lake Tahoe Yacht Club (1961). When summer returns, you can launch your Hobie or small boats from Lake Tahoe ramps that can be found on the Tahoe Yacht Club site.

For now, your options are to bring your boat to the coast or keep it in the backyard and enjoy the ski season.