Leah and Nancy with a photo of the founding members of the Windjammers of the Chesapeake.
Fellow Windjammer Hugh Donald with brother Keith and cousin Louise Bavier introduced their sailing family documentary that was made with the aid of Joe Stevens. A 16mmfilm includes, teachings, cruising and racing to Bermuda, with the start of the1931 TransAtlantic race, and the beginnings of the Severn Sailing Association and much more.
Nancy Taylor Robson, tug boat captain, author of many books and articles spoke at the February Windjammers lecture. An author of Woman in The Wheelhouse, Nancy grew up sailing and building boats with her father on the Chesapeake Bay. After graduating from the University of Maryland in history, she worked as cook-deckhand on the coastal tug on which her husband, Gary Robson,was captain and then became one of the first women in the country to earn a USCGlicense to run coastal tugs.Robson’s first novel, Course of the Waterman, won the 2003 Fred Bonnie Award She is a contributing writer for Chesapeake Bay Magazine, and her work has appeared in Yachting and many other notable magazines and papers.
She is also childhood friends with Leah Alfriend, and both of their fathers were active on the Bay
