Treating our daughter’s in-laws from Guam to a wonderful Sunday afternoon dinner at the La Mariana Sailing Club in December, we were dismayed to learn it was scheduled to close at the end of April. But yesterday’s front-page story as to its possibly remaining open was indeed good news (“La Mariana Sailing Club faces uncertain future as its lease is set to expire in April,” Star-Advertiser, March 25).

It also brought back great memories for me. In the late 1980s, while on a photo shoot on Honolulu Harbor, my good friend, the late Capt. David Lyman, steered our launch with photographer Dana Edmunds and me aboard to next-door Keehi Lagoon and owner Annette Nahinu’s La Mariana for lunch. Fantastic!

Approaching the marina, in retrospect, was the ideal way for my first-time experience of La Mariana. Of course, Capt. Dave introduced us to the charismatic Nahinu. And I remember our server’s name was April. The setting, the food and the people were wonderful — and still are.

Tom Haynes

Kaneohe

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