ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX (Jan. 4, 2024) Rush Creek Yacht Club recently announced its 2024 Junior Flag Officers, and recognized the recipient of the prestigious Chilton Award and the Jim Wright Leadership Award. The junior flag officer’s duties are to encourage junior involvement in sailing, racing and general social activities, and assist in club functions. The 2024 Junior […]
ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX (Jan. 26, 2023) Rush Creek Yacht Club recently announced its 2023 Junior Flag Officers, and recognized the recipient of the prestigious Chilton Award and the Leadership Award. The junior flag officers duties are to encourage junior involvement in sailing, racing and general social activities, and assist in club functions. The 2023 Junior Flag […]
HEATH, TX (Oct. 26, 2021) Aston Atherton, a senior at Rockwall-Heath High School and Rush Creek sailor, has won the South Eastern Interscholastic Association (SEISA) single handed district qualifier. And he did so with a nearly perfect score – eight wins out of nine races at Houston Yacht Club, October 23-24. Atherton, along with RHHS, […]
(ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX – July 20, 2018) On July 12, the Ninth Biennial William I. Koch International Sea Scout Cup at Sea Star Base Galveston concluded with a world-class banquet where victors were honored in Koch Cup fashion. Skipper Andrew Vandling and Crewman Isaac Barkley, representing Sea Scout Ship 1000 of Rockwall and Rush Creek Yacht […]
(ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX – May 22, 2018) Rush Creek Yacht Club will host the Flying Scot North American Championship Sailboat Regatta June 10 through June 14. The south end of Lake Ray Hubbard will be swarming with about 60 boats and over 140 elite sailors traveling from all over the U.S. and abroad. These sailors will raxe […]
(ANNAPOLIS, MD – August 5, 2015) The National Sailing Hall of Fame recently announced the six people who will make up its 2015 class of inductees, including Olympic medalist Paul Foerster of Rockwall. The other honorees are sailing school founder Steve Colgate (Ft. Myers, Fla.), Olympic medalist and author JJ Fetter (San Diego, Calif.), boat […]