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39th Annual Horn Island Hop, Ocean Springs, MS, July 6-7
Texas Race Week 2013, Galveston, TX, July 25-28
A multihull regatta launching from Ocean Springs Yacht Club and racing out to Horn Island. The sailors lunch, then race back. The final leg is the next day when there is another opportunity to beat the time around Deer Island. Go to www.osyc.com for more information.
Texas Race Week is the premier offshore yacht-racing event held by the Galveston Bay Cruising Association (GBCA), with race headquarters at the Galveston Yacht Club. The regatta encompasses three days of offshore sailboat racing on a variety of courses, beginning on Thursday with a 15- to 30-mile offshore route that lasts for five hours. Courses on Friday and Saturday run along the beach so onshore spectators can view the racing. The 40 to 50 yachts expected to compete will race PHRF, One-design and level fleets.Register online at www.gbca.org.
Texas Youth Race Week, Houston Yacht Club, July 15-21 A US Junior Olympics Sailing Event and USODA Team Trials Qualifier hosted annually by Texas Corinthian Yacht Club (Kemah), Lakewood Yacht Club (Seabrook), and the Houston Yacht Club. www.texasyouthraceweek.com
Women’s Trilogy Races, July 20, 27, Aug. 2 The Women’s Trilogy Series is typically held every July. The first race, the Fast Women Regatta, is at the Point Yacht Club in Josephine, AL, and will be held on July 20 on Perdido Bay. In this race, a female sailor must be at the helm and 50 percent of the crew must be female. www.pointyachtclub.org. The second race, the Bikini Regatta, is held at the Navy Yacht Club in Pensacola. It will he held July 27 on Pensacola Bay. In this regatta, a female sailor must be at the helm and 50 percent of the crew must be female. The third race, the Race for the www.navypnsyc.org. Roses, will be held on Aug. 2 at the Pensacola Beach Yacht Club and only female crew are allowed to race. www.pensacolabeach-yc.org. Awards will be at each regatta. At the last regatta, there will be a special Trilogy Trophy for the contestant who enters all three races and earns the most combined points.
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Northern Gulf Coast Race Calendar See local club websites for club races. LEGEND BSC Birmingham Sailing Club, Birmingham, AL BYC Biloxi Yacht Club, Biloxi, MS CSA Corinthian Sailing Association, New Orleans, LA FWYC Fort Walton YC, Ft. Walton Beach, FL GYA Gulf Yachting Association GYC Gulfport YC, Gulfport, MS LBYC Long Beach YC, Long Beach, MS MYC Mobile YC, Mobile,AL NOYC New Orleans YC, New Orleans, LA NYC Navy YC of Pensacola, Pensacola, FL OSYC Ocean Springs YC, Ocean Springs, MS PBYC Pensacola Beach YC, Pensacola Beach, FL PCYC Pass Christian YC, Pass Christian, MS PtYC Point YC, Josephine, AL PYC Pensacola YC, Pensacola, FL SSYC South Shore Yacht Club, New Orleans, LA JULY 5-7 Junior Olympic Sailing Festival. PYC 6 Patriot’s Day Regatta. PBYC 6-7 Meigs Regatta. FWYC See RACING continued on page 59
Youth Sailing Programs and Yacht Club Directory
AVAILABLE ONLINE — Search for or Update Your Program and Club
Going live on April 1 (this is no April Fools joke!), this new FREE online directory by SOUTHWINDS lists Youth Sailing Programs and Yacht Clubs and Sailing Associations in the Southeast U.S. Previously printed in the April issue, we found that most youth programs hadn’t made final decisions on their summer programs by the March 1 deadline, so we decided to create an online directory where program organizers can update their programs, whether summer programs or year-around programs, any day of the year on their own. Every program
gets its own page with room for photos, schedules, general information, youth ages accepted, rates, contact info, links to Facebook and more. For those looking for programs, you can search by name, location or miles from a zip code. The 2012 programs are listed, and program organizers can register an ac-
count, claim their listing and update it. Or new programs can be added. We also added a yacht club directory, listing all the clubs that were on the main SOUTHWINDS site. Clubs can claim these listings and also get their own page to add photos, general information, contact info, links to Facebook and more.
To update your youth program or club, go to www.southwindsmagazine.info, or you can access it through the SOUTHWINDS main site at www.southwindsmagazine.com. 48 July 2013
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