Founder of the Point of Pittsburgh Sailing League, Joe Kirk organized the first official sailing regatta in Pittsburgh in 2004.
Sailing at the Point
It’s a brisk early-June Saturday morning on the North Shore just downriver from the Point. A light breeze is moving in from the west on the Allegheny River. Almost a dozen high school girls and boys from several Pittsburgh and suburban schools gather at an under-used concrete riverfront amphitheater, jabbering away while looping their arms …