How to sail the Point - Community Creative School

"The lunch time creative sandwich" is a serie of events organized in Downtown Pittsburgh by Community Creative School, at the Bruno Works Spaces.

This spot is pretty interesting: you can rent it for your own start-ups / events or projects, by renting this office/apartment at 945 Liberty Avenue.

On June 28th there was the 4th event (or lesson) in which John D. Norton, professor at Pitt, taught how to sail the Point, and the three Pittsburgh rivers.

Even if I am not an old sea dog, I wanted to attend the lecture. I am convinced that anything that could help Pittsburgh in "getting to the rivers" is a great idea. I was definitely awarded for my curiosity and I could attend a very well structured and easy to follow explanation.

John D. Northon explained the basic things you need to sail (eg. a boat, a marina) and then gave precious technical information on how to understand the winds, the currents, the dangers you could face. Plus tons of tricks for having fun avoiding bad experiences.

He started sailing in 2009 and has a blog where you can learn more about how to sail the three rivers in safety. You can learn how to use the GPS for sailing, how to read the wind forecast and all the engineering behind such an interesting passion of life.

He showed us his GPS tracks and routes, explaining every movement he had to do according to any possible condition of winds and currents.

And of course there were lots of photos taken from his boat. When you see photos of Downtown from the rivers, the city seems even more attractive and it is really easy to fall in love with the idea to do the same, and sail the Point as well.

In a very professional way, John D. Norton demonstrated us that it is possible to sail the Rivers, it is safe and funny.

The Bruno Works, once again (I had attended other events there, in the past) is a great place, very flexible, with a wonderful view on the city.

Wanna learn more about the Bruno Works project?

Just contact them!

An for whoever would like to attend something there, I saw there will be another lecture on July 19th, 2013. You can register, for free, and join Dutch MacDonald, from MAYA design, who will teach us (I am going) "How to make a Creative Environment".