San Diego Yacht Club hosted the first of the Finn Trifecta regattas – the Finn Pacific Coast Championships (PCC) this past weekend, September 15-16, 2018. Thirty Finns raced on North Coronado Roads tucked under Point Loma, battling for the championship title.

San Diego Yacht Club and Balboa Yacht Club regret to announce that the Rum Runner Regatta will not be held this year. The event had previously been scheduled to run Saturday, October 27, the weekend prior to the first San Diego Hot Rum, to ideally draw racers from Long Beach/LA to participate in that classic fall race. The reality is that prior participation has been modest at best, and most of the few competitors were San Diego boats trekking up to LA to just enjoy the race south. 

America's sailing capital saved the best for last, and so did San Diego Yacht Club, which won the 2018 Resolute Cup with error-free sailing when it counted most. With three strong results in the double-points medal round, the team representing the SDYC, skipper Tyler Sinks with crew Nick Martin, Nick Kaschack and Max Hutchinson, moved up the sxcoreboard from fourth, after the preliminary round of 12 races, to win the fifth edition of the Corinthian championship for U.S. yacht clubs.

The 2018 I-14 Worlds recently concluded in Richmond, CA.  The event was sailed on the Berkley Circle of San Fransisco Bay, northeast of Alcatraz Island and southeast of Angel Island in the slot where the breeze blows in from the Golden Gate.  It was typical San Fransisco weather with usual early morning fog clearing to nice clear blue skies for the most part.  As predicted the first several days of racing were 15-20 with a few of those days toping out around 25 kts.  The ‘Circle’ is very shallow so the wind driven waves stack up quickly, add a little ebb tide against or across the wind direction and it starts to make for sharp, short chop.  We never really saw the full fury of a 25+ kt. against tide day, which most defiantly would have broken more boats and spirits. There were 62 boats registered from AUS, CAN, GBR, GER, ITA, and USA.  A smaller fleet than usual I-14 Worlds, I think the predicted breeze kept some boats away.  As usual, there were lots of good times seeing and catching up with old friends and making new from around the world who love to sail these high performance skiffs.

After a hard fought week of sailing, and an intense medal race series this afternoon the San Diego Yacht Club team wins the 2018 Resolute Cup! As the 2018 champions, the San Diego Yacht Club team also earns an spot on the starting line at the 2019 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational. 

It was all smiles for the 330+ sailors who visited San Diego Yacht Club from all over San Diego, Dana Point, Newport Beach, and as far away as Los Angeles and Mexico City Sept. 8-9 for what has become one of the most popular regattas in Southern California. In fact, at 48 boats, organizers Barrett Canfield and Rick Day of South Coast Yachts think their formula for the regatta has made this Beneteau Cup the largest in the world. Even Mt. Gay came in as a sponsor this year, with their famous red regatta ball caps.