The 51st running of the Transpacific Yacht Race kicks off with starts on July 13, 16 and 17 in the 2225 mile race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. SDYC has three boats entered (Tom Holthus' Botin 56 BadPak, Wayne Zittel's Santa Cruz 50 J World's Hula Girl, and Roy Disney's Volvo 70 Pyewacket 70. Additionally a total of 26 SDYC member sailors will be competing in this year's race.
Follow the action at www.transpacyc.com for daily updates and media content, and the race tracker with a 4 hour delay until the final 200nm at http://yb.tl/transpac2021 (use the YB Tracking mobile app to view on a mobile device).
On this episode of the San Diego Yacht Club Sailcast, SDYC Staff Commodore Andy La Dow joins us to talk about his background in sailing, the Etchells fleet, and his time as Commodore at SDYC.
S/C Andy La Dow’s roots in San Diego started with his Grandfather. He and host Alli Bell discuss his time at the Club as a child, and the differences in the junior program now, stating that as different as it may be, the values and philosophy of the program will always remain the same. S/C La Dow mentions growing up as a kid around some influential sailors who shaped his adult sailing career.
Ian and Noah Nyenhuis (29er class) are the first SDYC juniors to qualify for the US Youth Worlds team since Judge Ryan qualified back in 2008. The 2021 Youth Worlds will be in Oman in December.
San Diego Yacht Club is proud to announce the biennial international yacht race from San Diego, California to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico will be held March 10 – 18, 2022. SDYC has been running the West Coast’s only continuous yacht race to mainland Mexico, a tradition that began in 1953.
This past weekend, six 29ers took to the waters to compete in the San Diego Olympic Classes Regatta. The first day saw light winds from 4-8 knots from the west, that were accompanied by large swells and chop. The second day was windier, with the breeze from the north west direction at 8-10 knots with large swells and chop. The racing was close at the top of the fleet, with teams Sammie Gardner and Alice Schmid and Anton Schmid and Peter Joslin battled it out for the regatta win until the last race of the event, where Sammie and Alice eventually pulled ahead to win.
The 2021 California Offshore Race Week was the first opportunity for many teams to stretch their legs in over a year and sail in one or more distance races down the California Coast. A variety of conditions were seen throughout the week, starting with great breeze sending boats under the Golden Gate bridge towards Monterey, to still waters during the Coastal Cup and SoCal 300 that caused several teams to retire, or fight through the light conditions to an extended version of the race.