The final version! Grab a mojito with Don Q rum, relax, and watch 90+ years of memories from the amazing person known as the Old Man. You know, he wasn’t always old. See early movies and photos from 1950s Havana and then follow Gonzalo and his family to sailing regattas and championships around the world. We thank you Old Man…
My first conscious memory of the person I so respectfully called “The Old Man” was, appropriately, on the race course; watching his Snipe, sail numbers barely visible, cross the entire…
Gonzalo Diaz Sr., the “Old Man” as he was lovingly known to all of us, left us Friday morning at his home in Miami surrounded by his loved ones. It’s…
GONZALO “OLD MAN” DIAZ1930- March 3, 2023 Today we’re one less boat on the starting line with the loss of Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz. Loved by everyone he met,…
by Carol Cronin (from her blog “Where Books Meet Boats”) If the past two years have taught us anything, it’s a deep appreciation for traditions we…
(From Scuttlebutt Sailing News) by Lynn Fitzpatrick Four Miami Snipe fleet crews rarely posted a double-digit score during the 2021 Snipe U.S. National Championship as they…
by Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz 28814 started in March 1995 with either a Proctor Miracle or a Junior Sidewinder (worst than the proctor miracle) which I inverted several times…
Jack Wirt with many trophies, early 1940s or 1930s by John Rose The boat photos show Jack with many trophies and and old Snipe he had, maybe back in the…
by Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz (Originally published on “SnipeTales by a Great Group of Snipe Sailors”, edited and censored by Buzz Levinson, 1996) This is my favorite story and…
by Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz (Originally published on “SnipeTales by a Great Group of Snipe Sailors”, edited and censored by Buzz Levinson, 1996) In 1957, I learned another Snipe…
by Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz (Originally published on “SnipeTales by a Great Group of Snipe Sailors”, edited and censored by Buzz Levinson, 1996) Back in 1943 (I was thirteen), I…
Gonzalo “Old Man” Diaz drinking La Bomba in Havana in the early ‘50’s. Note a young Carlos Bosch cheering him on…
A bunch of us here in Miami got together on Sunday November 4 to celebrate and congratulate Ernesto and Kathleen for their extraordinary way of winning…
by Gonzalo "Old Man" Diaz According to the report in the May 1996 Snipe Bulletin: There was no races the first two days as winds were 25 to 40 knots. …
On the second day of the 2017 DonQ Regatta, Charlie and Michele Bustamante capsized to weather at the jibe mark and lost their rudder.