Buzzi offers a reporter a ride in his sailboat, the 36-foot Circuit Breaker. The tour includes trips past some of the fleet's more impressive boats and the Morgan Lighthouse. From far off in the bay, Perth Amboy's looks as pretty as any harbor in New England. The waters are filled with students from the Junior Sailing Club, whose members, ages 8 to 15, sail individual 10-foot boats. Vicky Jo Neiner, who has been a yacht club member all her life, once taught the Perth Amboy sailing program.
Sailing seems to be inherited here through the generations.
Neiner's parents have been members since the 1940s, and she says they have pictures of her driving a boat when she was less than a year old. She now enters sailboat races all around the country. Back at the yacht club, sailors whose boats are kept in the yard fret about the power outage. The biggest problem is the loss of the electric crane used to lower boats into the water. But even if the power stays off, the 6 p.m. race will go on.