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Friday Night Sail/Fest 2016
August 5, 2016 | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
An event every 0 weeks that begins at 7:00pm on Saturday, happening 8 times
Friday Night Sail/Fest 2016
Presented by: SEATTLEBOATSHOW.COM
Friday Nights in August are about to get hotter.
The Friday Night/SailFest returns to Shilshole Bay. This is a free fun event for all sailors.
Bring your friends, your business associates, kids and kid’s friends for a fun filled evening on the water and ashore.
After the fun sail everyone is invited to I Dock at the Shilshole Bay Marina Plaza for free hot dogs/beer, wine sodas and the famous Sail/Fest Raffles. Bring the kids, there is no telling what prizes might be waiting for them.
The Race is designed for everyone to come out and sail for fun. No ratings, show up for a sail. There will be three starts: fast boats, not as fast boats and dinghy’s. First start is at 1900 hours and subsequent starts at 1905 hours and 1910 hours.
Only three rules: have fun, no collisions, rules of the road.
Course will be:
- Start/Finish will be the between the YC V (CYC’s Red Committee Boat) and the mooring buoy (Horseshoe) off the north entrance to the Shilshole Bay Marina.
- The start will be upwind.
- Marks of the course are to be left to your port.
- In a northerly the course will be Start, Meadow Point Buoy, #1 Green Lighted buoy (entrance to the ship canal,) sailing through the Start/Finish line and continuing on for another lap to the Finish.
- In a southerly the course will be reversed with the Start, #1 Green Lighted buoy (entrance to the ship canl,) Meadow Point Buoy, Start Finish line and another lap to the Finish.
The course may be shortened at the finish of the first lap if the breeze is dying.