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We Have a Winner

"I’m feeling lucky that I won a shirt! Headed from Santa Rosa to Aptos we stopped in at St. Francis Yacht Club for a quick visit. As usual, I grabbed Latitude 38 for some good reading and daydreaming. Found my free shirt flyer while reading. Thanks y’all!" So wrote Jock McNeill. 

He went on to explain his current sailing situation: "One wife, two kids and three businesses have shifted my priorities the past few years away from sailing. I grew up sailing on Yankee out of StFYC with my family. She’s a gaff schooner that has been in Latitude 38 a few times. It’s a multi-generational boat and has been a big part of my life. I’m hoping to get out on the water more this year. I really enjoy Latitude 38 and it keeps me dreaming of my life as it should be."

Latitude 38 T-shirt winner, Jock McNeill, and daughter Molly at the helm of Yankee under some local bridge with a fine breeze blowing. Is it odd to have the flag parallel the lanes of this bridge?

Yankee
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Jock continued, "John McNeill (a former commodore of StFYC) is my dad. I grew up sailing on Yankee and really don’t know how to use a winch, because she has none. The old girl has been the center of our family for generations and I’ve had some incredible experiences aboard."

Yankee strikes a familiar McNeill family pose on the Cityfront.

Yankee
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Yes, Yankee has been featured in Latitude 38 just a few times as she’s raced in numerous Master Mariners Regattas and is sailed regularly by the extended family, which has owned the boat since 1925. Yankee was launched by the earthquake in 1906 and has been rocking the Bay ever since. 

We’re glad to send a winning T-shirt to Jock and grateful that Latitude 38 is part of the family tradition aboard the schooner Yankee.

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