(upbeat music) - Grow the Flow and Great Salt Lake Yacht Club are once again hosting Sailfest 2025 after a successful collaboration last year.

And here to tell us more about it is Jake Dreyfus.

Jake, hi, welcome.

So tell me everything happening at this event.

- Yeah, so Sailfest, we have a day-long celebration and festival out at the Great Salt Lake State Park and Marina from 10:00 to 4:00 p.m., on Saturday, June 5th.

We'll have art workshops, naturalist walks, free kayaking, live music, and all sorts of tabling nonprofit partners, you know, to tell you about the work that they're doing to try to address the crisis at Great Salt Lake.

- And sailing, you've got sailboat races too.

- Yeah, that's kind of our culminating activity.

At 2:00 p.m., we'll have a sailing regatta where, you know, members of the yacht club go out and race around a course with, you know, sponsored boats, and been really grateful for the support of the community on this event.

- Yeah, it is wonderful you're doing it.

Sadly though, it may be the last time you get to do the sailboat.

- Yeah, you know, I think despite two, you know, record-breaking snow years, we're really back on the precipice with Great Salt Lake.

So I got an email last week just saying, you know, this is kind of the end.

They're gonna have to pull boats out of the marina, likely by the end of the summer, and you know, that means an end to Sailfest for the foreseeable future until we get the lake healthy again.

- So maybe last chance to go out there.

And I know, how much have we lost at the lake?

- Yeah, so the lake today is sitting at 4,193.5 feet, give or take.

For those of you who don't know that rudimentary number, that means we're about 40% full with more than 1,000 square miles of lake bed exposed, and that lake bed is bringing dust into our communities and impacting the air we breathe right now.

- Oh yeah, we saw that with the bad dust storms, we saw the dust blowing up.

And there's some pretty dangerous things in that dust.

- Yeah, certainly, certainly.

I mean, we can look to places like Owens Lake in California, which has become the single largest source of dust in the United States.

- So anyway, I hope you have great, great success with the event, thanks for being here.

- Yeah, thank you so much.

- And if you'd like to know more about that upcoming Grow the Flow and Great Salt Lake Yacht Club Sailfest.

It will be June 7th from 10 to four at the Great Salt Lake State Park and Marina.

Go to growtheflowutah.org/sailfest.

I'm Mary Dickson, thanks for watching "Contact."

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