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Wednesday night
sailboat racing is nationally known for its low key "fun"
racing, most often dubbed the "Beer Can Series". The Tahoe
Yacht Club has found that busy weekend schedules as well as consistent
evening breezes produces the highest number of boats for this weekly
"hump-day" event.
The season of
racing is broken into two series, Spring and Summer. The spring
series includes 7 nights of racing, and begins on May 30, 2007,
ending on July 11, 2007. There will be a Spring series awards party
following the racing on Wednesday, July 11th.
The summer
series also includes 7 nights of racing, and begins on July
18th and ends on August 29 th.
The August 29 th event will be followed by the Beer Can
Ball, an awards party for the Summer series. Post race get-togethers
at the club are always a laugh as the events of the evening are
re-animated.
For those who just can't get enough sailing in in our short summers, join
in the new "Conner Fall Beer Can Series" starting September
5, 2006 in memory or our friend Eric Conner. See notice
of race.
For those of
you interested in crewing on a boat, or recruiting crew to be on
your boat, there are usually two Crew Parties during the summer
season. Anybody interested in sailing is invited to come to the
TYC clubhouse as a guest and find out more about our sailing events.
See our crew signup bulletin board here.
The
club continues to make a true commitment to the boats of yesteryear
that have a tough time competing head to head with the sport boats
of the new millennium. There are three separate PHRF divisions.
Boats that choose not to fly spinnakers will race in the cruising
class, boats with PHRF ratings of above 90 will race in the B class,
and boats with PHRF ratings 90 and below race in the A class. There
are season awards for all classes. In an attempt to further level
the playing field, the slower classes of boats will start ahead
of the faster classes. In addition, every attempt will be made to
get all of the boats back to the dock around the same time.
Wednesday night
racing in Tahoe is plenty of fun, but don’t let the traditional
attitude fool you; these races provide great competition as well!
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