The "father" of College Sailing on the West Coast, Bob Allan, passed away last Friday, September 11, 2009.
The past, present and future of collegiate sailing met in Long Beach, California, as participants in the first-ever collegiate sailing championship in California history met to celebrate the 60th anniversary of that regatta.
(Honolulu, HI) – Robert M. Allan, Jr., of Pebble Beach, was honored for his forty years of “Father of Collegiate Sailing on the Pacific Coast.” A hundred friends and colleagues from Boston to Hawaii gathered at the San Diego Yacht Club for a “Collegiate Sailors Reunion” marking the fortieth anniversary of the first formal west coast collegiate regatta, which was sailed at Newport Harbor, spearheaded by Bob. Allan.
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