NEW!
LAKE TAHOE, the Big Blue!
Why Lake Tahoe?
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Spending time on the clear waters of Lake Tahoe in a sailboat is a unique experience, marked by ideal conditions many days of the summer, this jewel of the Sierra offers both ends of the sailing spectrum: take it easy and cruise or go for the high-intensity option of racing. When the valley gets up to 100, the wind picks up here. It’s the same reason San Francisco gets wind: The valley is hot, sucks the air off the water, and creates fairly consistent wind on most afternoons.
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Three hours northeast of San Francisco, it is 22 miles long and 12 miles wide, and it is divided roughly in half by the state line that separates California and Nevada. Tahoe sits at the entrance to the Sierra Nevada, with a surface elevation of 6,200 feet. It is drained by only one river, the Truckee, and it is almost 100 percent pure, like bottled water. It has only one keelboat marina, one island, and one true bay, named Emerald. However, the bay is so stunningly beautiful that there is probably no need for any others.
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Tahoe’s summer prevailing winds are about equally divided between a morning and midday northerly, followed by a rather consistent afternoon southwesterly coming up from the Pacific. Neither stirs up the lake very much, so they produce ideal sailing: a steady breeze with no significant swell. Of course, there are some summer days when the winds never exceed about 5 knots, but after all, this is an alpine lake located 200 miles from the nearest seashore.
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The Lake Tahoe sailing season runs from April to October, but there might still be snow on the mountainsides into June. Cruising under sail marveling at the awesome Sierra peaks above you and the impossibly clear water below listening to the wind sing down the 10,000-foot-high mountainsides, through vast groves of sugar pines is a memorable experience, and it feels like being in paradise.
We want to know you!
Each NEW sailing destination encompasses its own challenges, but our team of professional sailors works ahead to make this significant passage a successful one.
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The success of LAKE TAHOE lays primarily in finding a group of at least “75” people interested in becoming future members of our nautical community, to enjoy all the benefits that L4S will be offering in Lake Tahoe.
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Our PRE-Enrolling process will spark the birth of a new community that will share the same principle that made L4S a reality and will allow determining the appropriate fleet size, the team of people needed to deliver the service, the scope of adaptations necessary to be implemented, define the most suitable location within the lake to operate, and measure the financial implications of this ambitious crossing.
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This PRE-Enrolling process has NO monetary obligations, neither future commitments. The gathering of this group of people will help L4S to build-up a master-roster of interested people to whom to share the progress, advancements, and start-up of this new destination and to invite them, their families, and friends for the grand opening to start making the reality the dream of independent sailing.