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Published July 17, 2009, 12:00 AM

St. Croix Saliing School


Ten-year-old Graham Fisher of Hudson, left, skippers a Club 420 sailboat. Twelve-year-old Jake Bailey of Woodbury is his crewmate. All photos by Randy Hanson

  • Ten-year-old Graham Fisher of Hudson, left, skippers a Club 420 sailboat. Twelve-year-old Jake Bailey of Woodbury is his crewmate. All photos by Randy Hanson
  • Coach Kim Bullock helps Nate Wallace and Michael Tregilgas, right, both of Stillwater, set sail.
  • Graham Fisher, left, is a picture of concentration while steering a sailboat beneath the Interstate 94 bridge. Jake Bailey controls the jib, the boat’s smaller sail. Sailing is “very much an intellectual exercise,” says Thomas Vandervoort, a member of St. Croix Sailing School’s board of directors.
  • St. Croix Sailing School students receive on-the-water training in the no-wake zone north of the Interstate 94 bridge. They’re in the school’s 14-foot Club 420 sailboats.
  • Sailing can evoke a range of emotions. At right, a pensive Jake Bailey checks to see if he has the jib sail in the correct position. He flashes a grin, left photo, after he and skipper Graham Fisher successfully navigate the water under the Interstate 94 bridge.
  • Nine-year-old Steffine Bailey of Woodbury gives a wave while hiking with coach Gavin Potts, a 2009 graduate of Hill-Murray High School. Potts, also a Woodbury resident, will attend the University of Minnesota-Duluth in the fall.
  • Coach Bryan Markhart of White Bear Lake gives instructions to a pair of student sailors. Operating the coaches’ boat is Matt Gilbertson of Mendota Heights.
  • Last week’s class of St. Croix Sailing School students, right, review what they’ve learned with the coaches. Clockwise from center front are coaches Bryan Markhart (back to camera), Kim Bullock, Matt Gilbertson, Gavin Potts and Ross Baker, and students Steffine Bailey, Jake Bailey, Graham Fisher, Nate Wallace and Michael Tregilgas.
  • St. Croix Sailing School director Terry Thompson, left, visits with Paul Paulisich, vice chair of the school’s board of directors.