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UPCOMING SOUTHERN RACING EVENTS ■ SOUTHERN RACING UPCOMING RACING EVENTS 2007 J/24 Midwinter Championship, Davis Island Yacht Club, Tampa, FL, Feb 22-25 Davis Island YC, the International J/24 Class, and J/24 Fleet 86 will host this flagship event for the fifth time at their new Key West-style clubhouse. DIYC provides easy launching and hauling at two hoists, instant access to racing areas on Tampa Bay and world-class shoreside amenities. Nine races are scheduled over three days. Previous superb race management prompted the IJCA to request that DIYC host the event indefinitely. The NOR and registration details are available at www.j24d10.org/midwinters. The sailors and officers of J/24 Fleet 86, with the support of the DIYC membership, will be coordinating shoreside events and activities and have made it their goal to host the finest in a long history of exemplary regattas. In addition to the usual regatta social events, an impressive range of awards and prizes ranging from T-shirts to foul weather gear, new North sails and a vacation getaway to the Bahamas are being offered. This year the regatta is providing easy online registration. This, along with the tradition of hospitality at DIYC, three days of world-class, warm weather racing, and a shot at some great trophies and prizes, makes for a regatta that you need to have on your racing schedule. Visit www.J24d10.org/midwinters for complete details. 14th Annual Conquistadors Cup, Punta Gorda, FL, March 10-11 Historically the largest regatta in Southwest Florida, this event is now run by the Punta Gorda Sailing Club. Many local historians agree that Ponce De Leon landed at Sanibel and Cayo Costa, and not, as widely believed, near Tampa Bay. Locally, the Royal Order of Ponce De Leon Conquistadors share this belief and support this regatta every year. The regatta will begin with registration and free beer on Friday, March 9, at Harpoon Harry’s at Fisherman’s Village in Punta Gorda. Two buoy races are planned for Saturday, March 10. Divisions include Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker, True Cruising and Multihull. A buffet and door prizes, which this event is famous for, will be at Harry’s afterward. Sunday will be the all-boat, reverse start, Conquistadors Cup. This is your only chance to be on the same course with spinnaker-flying and hull-flying multihulls. First boat across the finish line wins the coveted Conquistadors plumed steel helmet and the winner gets his boat pictured on next year’s T-shirt. The official NOR and entry forms are on the Punta Gorda Sailing Club Web site, www.pgscweb.com. Lightning Class Southern Circuit Gears Up—First Regatta March 11-12 For nearly 40 years, the annual Lightning Southern Circuit has been sending a fleet of 50 or so boats on a combination road rally and regatta that includes stops at Savannah, GA, and Miami, before finishing with an additional couple of dozen of the 19-foot-long sloops in St. Petersburg, FL. The series kicks off at the 51st annual Deep South Regatta, held March 11-12 at the Savannah YC. On March 13-14, the Lightning Midwinter Regatta will be hosted at the Coral Reef YC in Miami. The 60th Anniversary Lightning Winter Championship in St. Petersburg will take place on March 16-19. Competitors from South America, Europe, and North America will be on hand, as well as former and current world champions and Olympic sailors. For more information, please contact Amy Smith Linton, VP of Southern Circuit, at aslinton@aol.com or telephone (813) 254-3455. 33rd 2007 Orange Peel Regatta, the Florida Yacht Club, Jacksonville, FL, March 16-18 The Florida Yacht Club will host the 33rd annual Orange Peel Thistle Regatta on March 16-18. There will be a clinic and coaching program on Friday beginning at noon with practice starts and racing in the afternoon. Racing begins on Saturday at 1230 and continues Sunday at 0930. In addition to the coaching, the regatta has much to offer sailors and their families with a sunset cruise on motor yachts to dinner Friday evening, a great Southern buffet dinner and party on Saturday night, babysitting, free housing, excellent facilities and much more. The regatta attracts sailors from all over the country as it is the culmination of the Thistle Southern Circuit as well as the first stop on the Southeast Spring Series. For further information on the activities scheduled for the Orange Peel and the NOR, go to www.thistlefleet133.com/orangepeel or contact Regatta Chairman Greg Griffin at thistle3746@comcast.net. ■ SOUTHERN RACING NEWS Racing and Sailing News and Articles Wanted SOUTHWINDS is looking for race reports and sailing/cruising/racing news in the southern states, particularly in Southeast Florida, Florida Keys, Carolinas and Georgia. Contact editor@southwindsmagazine.com. Regata del Sol al Sol Racers Customs Update: Easier Return to the United States When retuning to the United States from a foreign country, boaters have several options for clearing customs. This usually involves calling customs to report your arrival and includes the customs sticker number for your vessel if you have one. After 9-11, boaters have been required to personally go to a customs office within 24 hours and complete the clearing-in process In 2007 there is a new program called a pre-departure registration program. Boaters in Tampa, Miami, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands now have a choice to register in advance with customs. This should eliminate the requirement to personally appear. To qualify for this, 48 February 2007 SOUTHWINDS www.southwindsmagazine.com
oaters must complete a one-time registration with their local customs office. This must be accomplished by every crew member on the boat. Sailors who complete this registration will get a registration number and should be able to bypass the personal appearance on their return. For information on this program call (800) 432-1216 or (800) 451-0393. Keep in mind, there is no room for last minute crew substitutions if you are planning to use this procedure. (SOUTHWINDS printed more information on this procedure in the December 2006 issue, page 22, in “Short Tacks.” Available online at www.southwindsmagazine.com). Gulf Yachting Association Winter Meeting, Mobile, AL, Jan. 6-7 By Kim Kaminski On January 6-7, the Gulf Yachting Association held its annual winter meeting in Mobile, AL. Each January, the organization meets with newly elected board members and officers of the GYA yacht clubs. Items discussed for the upcoming year are executive committee meetings, race management, offshore council, onedesign council, US Sailing championship committee, trophy committee and, of course, the schedule committee, which will schedule upcoming events for the year using input from the 33 member clubs. On January 5, as a prelude to the winter meeting, the GYA and US Sailing race sponsored a race management seminar instructed by Jim Tichenor, senior race officer and Walter Chamberlain, senior judge. The seminar was designed for those with some race management experience and provides an opportunity for the newly elected fleet captains of the Gulf Coast yacht clubs to become certified in race management. Also held was the US Sailing (sponsored by Mount Gay Rum) speakers series with noted special guest speaker, Dick Rose, an international certified judge, who presented the “U.S. Sailing Rules Seminar.” Mr. Rose wants to help with the re-growth of sailing in the northern Gulf Coast region. He donated all of his fees from his seminar program in support of the GYA Foundation to the junior and college sailing programs in the area. The official awards presentation was also held for the previous year’s GYA member winners whose accomplishments earned them special recognition. For instance, the Pensacola Yacht Club earned the GYA Race Management Award for hosting the 2006 Challenge Cup Regatta. For more information on the meeting, special awards and the upcoming 2007 race schedule, go to www.gya.org. The awards group at the East Sailing Annual Awards. Photo by Roy Laughlin. sailing events in Brevard County and draws membership from throughout central Florida. Each January, members meet at their annual awards banquet to socialize and recognize member accomplishments during the previous year. The range of ECSA-sponsored activities is broad. Membership is divided into three primary sections: racing, cruising and women’s sailing. The 2006 award list was both notable and long. Awards included a special citation for Gerry Moores for his service as race committee in so many regattas over the years (see story on Erben Award this section). ECSA also honored Joe Coleman for his decade of continuous service as an officer of the ECSA. For more information, go to the East Coast Sailing Association Web site, www.ecsasail.com. East Coast Sailing Annual Awards Highlight Sailing Prowess of Florida’s Sailors By Roy Laughlin The East Coast Sailing Association (ECSA) is associated directly or through reciprocal membership with most of the News & Views for Southern Sailors SOUTHWINDS February 2007 49
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