Southeast/Long Beach : New Alamitos Bay Dock Launches Sailing Programs
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Surveying the bustling waterway that is Long Beach’s Alamitos Bay, sailing coach MikeSegerblom surmises that local high school and college sailing teams couldn’t ask for a better place to launch: great breezes, a seven-mile-long breakwater off the coast. The only thing holding them back has been their lack of access to a dock.
Not anymore. With the recent opening of a 150-foot-long, $70,000 dock at the bay’s fledgling U.S. Sailing Center, student sailing teams now have access to something the nearby city-run dock does not offer--a facility where they can practice with boats and coaches.
Seven to 10 local high schools have begun training sailing teams aboard the center’s boats for competitions later this month. Teams from Cal State Long Beach and USC, which began training at the center last October on a 10-foot temporary dock, also are taking advantage of the new facility.
Money for the dock was raised by the Long Beach-based Pacific Coast Sailing Foundation, a nonprofit group of sailing enthusiasts who began raising funds for the sailing center just before the 1984 Olympics.
They plan to raise more money to upgrade the center by 1997 with a two-story training and boat-repair facility.
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