Let's Go Sail

After a week of refurbishing at the yard of York River Yacht Haven, Let's Go Sail returned to the waters of the York River for Season 8. williamsburgchartersails.com

Famed underwater archeologist John Broadwater told a packed house at Williamsburg Regional Library that work will continue this year on three ships off the coast of VIMS that figured in the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. Lord Cornwallis’s flagship Charon went down from red-hot cannonballs fired by the French. Two nearby transport ships burned as well, and Broadwater’s team with JRS Explorations has identified seven cannons onboard one of them.

Nautical license plate of the week, seen on Jamestown Road.

The replica ship of Christopher Columbus’s fleet is on public tour in Yorktown over Memorial Day Weekend. The Nao Santa Maria set sail in 2017 to mark the 525th anniversary of the original discovery of America in 1492. The 200-ton, three-masted ship blew in this week from Wilmington NC. Photo taken on the York River by Let’s Go Sail. williamsburgchartersails.com

For the first time this year, we saw dolphins in May in the York River. Two couples from New Jersey and Tennessee got to see eight dolphins zoom in and around the wake of the sailboat. williamsburgchartersails.com

Close-up photo shows Navy personnel working or training on the hull of the submarine that came into Yorktown Naval Weapons Station last week. Harbor Security is vigilant. williamsburgchartersails.com