As a teen in the mid-60s my sister and I raced our BlueJay every single weekend at a regatta somewhere on the Bay. Predictably at each Edgewood regatta (Providence River just south of the STB headquarters) we would get into an argument over who would reach over the side to scrub off the brown oily slime that has coated our hull overnight. No way would we consider swimming to do the rest of the bottom. We carried a baggie of wet paper towels to clean our arm off afterwards. These days when sailing the Bay I am thrilled to see how much cleaner and clearer it is. ~Gidget Loomis
