Jan 10, 2025
When I heard that Giles Scott was taking over the (literal) helm of Canada's SailGP team, and that he'd first learned to sail in (my hometown of) Ottawa, I quite naturally had to know: at which yacht club exactly?!
Was it Nepean Sailing Club, Britannia Yacht Club (which would be fitting, since he's a dual Canadian-British citizen), or Aylmer Marina? It was reported he learned "on the Ottawa River", but living in Chelsea, Quebec, as he was, might it even have been the Gatineau River Yacht Club? (I myself have sailed the Gatineau, although I'm most often 'sailing' it on a pontoon boat called the "Party Barge".)
