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2009 Round the Island Race FWYC Results

2009 Snipe Nationals photos

Catamaran Surfing and Heart - Ala Moana channel into Waikiki Yacht Club - Neat Site

2009 A Class Catamaran North American Championship Gallery

Corsair Nationals Gallery by Steve Green (estensive with annotation)

2009 Corsair Nationals Gallery by Stuart Schaefer - Port to Port Race

Port Start: Race Four "Port to Port Race," Corsair Nationals, PHRF B, 36 nms.

Laser Sailing keeps growing and growing and growing

2009 Fleet 490 FWYC Schedule

Fort Walton Yacht Club: Sailors of all ages from PBYC, PYC, and FWYC have been coming together for a couple of years now in growing numbers for more events. The swell is rising, and with Key Sailing providing the boats and parts, 2009 appears to be a GREAT year for more interest and development. The Frosty Nipple Series, hosted by FWYC, is underway with twenty - plus boats a day. The Jubilee Regatta at PYC in early November featured twenty competitors on the line. Sam and Jennifer Grant, from FWYC, have been working with David Johnson, Dave Dunbar, and Rick Zern, from PBYC to make this adventure happen. Check out the links below to discover more about this great Laser Fleet for all ages.

Frosty Nipple Series Results Photos

Discover Pensacola Bay Sailing Festival

October 3 - November 2

November 1 & 2: US Sailing Alter Cup Eliminations (PBYC)

Area D South Photos see Catsailor for final scoring by points

The city of Pensacola is staging its 450th anniversary as a settlement in North America. Pensacola Bay is the oldest deep - water harbor in North America and has a great history of sea - faring. Prior to steam power, sailing ships filled the bayfront from the port across the north shore and eventually down shore to Pensacola NAS.

This October will present our community with a timely opportunity to become more aware of our sailing heritage, our present, and our future. Gulf Sailing is proud to sponsor this historic "return of sailing." We are proud to be working with the yacht clubs, the Celebrate Pensacola Committee, and Key Sailing to promote this event as part of Pensacola Bay's 450th birthday as the first Spanish settlement on the U. S. mainland. The up - coming regattas will feature national, world, and Olympic - level sailors from five nations competing for podium finishes against our local, Pensacola Bay sailors.

October 3 - 5: GYA Multihull Championships (PBYC)

Pensacola Beach: The tenth Annual Gulf Yachting Association Multihull Championships, hosted by Pensacola Beach Yacht Club and Key Sailing set sail on Saturday, October 4. Despite the light and shifty breeze, The PBYC Race Committee, headed by George Goodall from FWYC, as our Race Officer, managed to get in two races for the catamaran and trimaran fleets.

Fort Walton Yacht Club wins Pollak Trophy

The Team of Bob Curry, Brian Lambert, and Don Wigston outscored PBYC and PYC to claim the 2008 Gulf Yachting Association's Pollak Trophy in this inter - club contest. Bob Curry won the GYA Tucker Trophy, Kirk Newkirk had the fastest elapsed times for the Lundquist Trophy, and Don Wigston won a tie breaker against Bert Rice for the Smyth Sails Trophy. PBYC and Key Sailing cooperated to put on a very nice event that allowed "old" friends from windsurfing, catamarans, trimarans, and PHRF sloops the opportunity to enjoy seeing one another on the water and ashore once again after all these years. Next year's event at FWYC will be a real HOOT!

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October 10 - 12: GYA West Florida Ocean Racing Circuit (PYC)

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North American Championship

October 13 - 17: brought to us by Key Sailing and PBYC

photos brought to you by BeachCats Current results

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After seven races the action in this international event is escalating according to expectations. With three days of racing remaining, the close - quarter duels among the top contenders will inch closer in points and in seconds.

The Formula 18 North American Championship abrubtly concluded on Friday at 0900 when the RC hoisted "N" over "A" due to the glass box enclosing the racing area. Fifteen heats were sailed in all wind ranges with an early trend toward strong pressure in the morning and lighter pressure, with a gradual veer to the right, following the sun, in the afternoon races. Lunch was always ready when the fleet arrived on shore thanks to "Caz" from Key Sailing. They finally moved the grill after day one so the scoring chairman, Pierre Felteau, could breathe while he was entering data or printing results immediately after arriving ashore.

See the results button for the final scoring. Robbie Daniel and Hunter Stunzi ruled the roost. Gulf Sailing provided a few special awards in order to recognize the widespread base of talent and stoke in the Formula 18 Flying Family. Youth Champion: Taylor Reiss, Masters Champion: Gregg Goodall, Womens Champion: Sandra Tartaglino, Contenders Award: Mark Ederer, and Sportsmanship Award: Pierre Felteau - Long may we sail!

Pitt and Shafer claim their first US Sailing Alter Cup Championship

Smyth planes "YO!" to a win: 2008 GATRegatta at FWYC > Results

Photo Gallery from FWYC

Fort Walton Yacht Club, April 25 - 27: Seventeen teams from Iowa, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Florida and our panhandle lined up for seven starts, and sailed over fifty - seven miles during the Gulf Area Trimaran Regatta on Choctawhatchee Bay in light to medium conditions. Tommy Garner served as Principal Race Officer, and the Race Committee volunteers offered great course management. Bill Grady's barbecue at Lincoln Park was a real treat after the "ReachFest" from the yacht club. The support of the Board Members, the staff, and sailors along with beautiful sunsets after a day of racing make Fort Walton Yacht Club a venue to remember.

The Bermuda starting format for day one launched us into breeze for the 13+ mile distance races to Boggy Bayou (lunch in the park) and back to the yacht club. The Fleet Captain for the YC, Sam Grant, wrote a software program that prescribed each mark of the course (five in the first leg and four in the return leg) with bay marker id's by chart and descriptions which included bearing and distance to each mark. His program was based on the wind forecast, and it even revealed the percentages of upwind, reaching, and downwind legs. Friends and neighbors, he was spot on.

We sailed in single digit pressure for most of day two, and the Sprint 750s and Randy's F 25 C were semi - planing in the puffs. Wayne Jablonowski, with Mike Parsons on board the F 31R, Phoenix, fought a tough sea battle against "YO!" and Evolution, a C28 R, sailed by Kathryn Garlick for a second in PHRF Class A.

The Sprint 750 Class saw the most number of starters on the line (six) in the history of this new and exciting class. Don Wigston came back in the planing breeze with Brioso on Sunday to outshoot Phil Styne for the regatta win. Bob Hodges sailed to a consistent third.

Larry Shaw, Peter Clay, and Bruce Kuerten sailed their F 24 MK I, Riaka, to another decisive win over Bert Rice's, Mark Twain, a stock C 24 MK II. ED and Lois Dixon followed up a second place finish in the 2008 St. Pete. NOOD with a third in PHRF B aboard TriPower.

For the results and future updates anchor on www.gulfsailing.com.

By the way: we hit about 18 knts. on the reach back to the club to finish the second leg of the distance race. When the big sportfishing boat went by us going into the channel for the finish we surfed his wake at 14 knts. Every wave counts.

Aloha,
Bert Rice

Pensacola Yacht Club celebrates a Centennial vintage of Sailing!

2008 Performance Catamarans Midwinter Championships

Stuart Schaefer photos (click NACRA logo)>>>See Regatta Results for final scoring.

Alec Thigpen's 2007 Corsair Trimaran Nationals Sea Buoy Race Gallery

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Race Four Video: the "Sea Buoy" Race 2007 Corsair Trimaran Nationals (plug - in errors may occur)

Everybody video courtesy of Trey Ritter