Vinnie Mendes' Celebration of Life
Sun, Apr 26
|Lake Lanier Sailing Club
Hollis Mendes (Vinnie's widow) invites us to celebrate the life of Vinnie.
Time & Location
Apr 26, 2026, 5:00 PM
Lake Lanier Sailing Club, 6206 Commodore Dr, Flowery Branch, GA 30542, USA
About the event
Hollis Mendes (Vinnie's widow) invites us to celebrate the life of Vinnie at LLSC on Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 5 PM.
The sailing community has lost a great friend. As BFSC Past Commodore Pam Keene relates in her recent feature column Vinnie Mendes lived a life that wasn’t ‘made up’ (Lakeside News):
"Vinnie Mendes lived life to the fullest in his 83 years. Anyone who has read his monthly columns in Lakeside News over the past several years was fortunate to follow along as he recounted sailing stories, tales of life growing up in coastal New Jersey and all sorts of “You can’t make this stuff up” yarns about life on and off Lake Lanier. That was the tagline he came up with for his column..."
Continue reading reflections of Vinnie on the Lakeside News website.
An archive of Vinnie's columns are located at https://lakesidenews.com/author/vinniem/.