Rush Creek Yacht Club announces officers, award winners

Rush Creek Yacht Club announces officers, award winners

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 […]

Rush Creek Yacht Club presents 2022 Chilton Award, announces 2023 Junior Flag Officers

Rush Creek Yacht Club presents 2022 Chilton Award, announces 2023 Junior Flag Officers

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 […]

Hawk on the Water: Rockwall-Heath scholastic sailor qualifies for National Championship

Hawk on the Water: Rockwall-Heath scholastic sailor qualifies for National Championship

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 sailors win third place Koch Cup at prestigious sea scout regatta

(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 […]

Flying Scot North American Championship coming to Lake Ray Hubbard

Flying Scot North American Championship coming to Lake Ray Hubbard

(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 […]

Rockwall’s Paul Foerster to be inducted into National Sailing Hall of Fame

(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 […]