Sports
Tennis Camp
The Vineyard Tennis Center Workout and Spa will be offering a summer tennis camp running through Labor Day. Camp meets every Monday through Friday from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and is for both children and adults. Students can attend daily or weekly sessions. Cost is $90 per day. For more details, call 508-696-8000 or visit vineyardtenniscenter.com.
Worried Vineyard lobstermen are breathing a little easier this week following a meeting held last week with fisheries regulators in Rhode Island, where a proposed five-year moratorium on lobster fishing was placed on the shelf — at least for now.
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association’s summer season of handicap racing from Vineyard Haven harbor continued Thursday night, July 1, a beautiful evening with a pleasant 5 to 10 knots of west-southwest wind. Fourteen boats posted for the 6 p.m. start at red nun 6. The course took the fleet to nun 4 at West Chop, then to green can 23a at East Chop and back to nun 6. The first leg was a broad reach on the port tack. After rounding the nun, a run downwind ensued, with the close reach on the starboard tack for the final leg to the finish.
Regis College head tennis coach John Ciarleglio recently announced that Teanna Montoya of Edgartown plans to play for the women’s tennis team this fall.
Previously a player on the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School varsity team (in the first doubles position since her freshman year), Ms. Montoya has been playing the sport since she was 12 years old, and competed in tournaments for the Boys’ and Girls’ Club and Vineyard Youth Tennis Center.
By PETER BRANNEN
As the charred remains of the drive-on dock at Menemsha stand as a reminder of last Monday’s fire, the unselfish actions of a few individuals during the frenzied confusion of the blaze have come into sharp relief.
One such individual is Menemsha bass fisherman Casey Elliston, who salvaged a number of boats from the inferno as flames raced down the ill-fated pier. For his part, Mr. Elliston refuses to acknowledge that he did anything special the day Menemsha burned.
Sailing is a summer sport, at least for the most part. It is also usually limited to people of means who belong to expensive private sailing clubs.
But Sail Martha’s Vineyard is breaking all the usual rules. Founders Brock and Hope Callen think Islanders and seasonal residents alike should be able to enjoy the sport year-round, without worrying about breaking the bank.