Officials: Center’s vision sails on
SUN FILE PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Logan Boucher, left, and Blake Van Tassel, who learned to sail through the Charlotte Harbor Community Sailing Center, sail a 16-foot Hobi Getaway this past June in Punta Gorda. Such sailing programs should be the focus of Punta Gorda's Bayfront Center, say city and community officials.
By GREG MARTIN
Staff Writer
PUNTA GORDA — The Charlotte Harbor Community Sailing Center and the Charlotte County Family YMCA, which had been vying contentiously for a lease to the city’s Bayfront Center until the City Council selected the Y Wednesday, have had difficulty working together in the past.
But they share a dream of seeing the facility become the base for a quality sailing program — and, thanks to both of them, that dream finally may be destined to become reality.