Los Angeles Times: Balboa Island Yacht Club: Run by kids for kids
Los Angeles Times: Balboa Yacht Club’s Jeffrey Petersen rings the bell again in Governor’s Cup
For the second time in three years, the bell behind the bar rang in victory at the Balboa Yacht Club. Behind a near-perfect performance, skipper Jeffrey Petersen became the 13th two-time winner of the ...
Balboa Yacht Club’s Jeffrey Petersen rings the bell again in Governor’s Cup
The Balboa Yacht Club’s 40th Governor’s Cup junior sailing regatta begins today. The 12-team field includes the Balboa Yacht Club and the Newport Harbor Yacht Club. The Balboa Yacht Club team consists ...
Explore Balboa Park in San Diego, home to world-class museums, gardens, attractions, and events. Plan your visit, discover experiences, and make the most of your day.
Balboa came from the ranks of that lower nobility whose sons—“men of good family who were not reared behind the plow,” in the words of the chronicler Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés—often sought their fortunes in the Indies. In 1500 he sailed with Rodrigo de Bastidas on a voyage of exploration along the coast of present-day Colombia.
An utterly ruthless adventurer and colonizer, Balboa was as much a danger to his fellow conquistadors as he was to the indigenous peoples he came across. Balboa helped establish the town of Darién, the first permanent Spanish settlement on the American mainland.
The 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus of...