Registration is closed until further notice: They Came for the Gold, They Stayed for the Yachting
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06:30PM - 08:30PM
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The California Gold Rush attracted 300,000 fortune seekers from around the world—half sailed through the Golden Gate on square-riggers. These sea-hardened 49ers transformed a sleepy village of 200 into a brawling boomtown of 150,000. As gold nuggets rolled through the dance halls of San Francisco, some who struck it rich overnight began building, betting on, and racing boats that they couldn’t have afforded a few years earlier. Our speaker Ron Young, Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Club's 2019 Historian of the Year, researched and will recount the Wild West origins of racing on San Francisco Bay. Ron has produced over 750 nautical talks from “The History of Yachting” to the pioneering women who in 1961, founded “Save The Bay” at The St. Francis Yacht Club. |
