Category: PHRF Racing
Racers’ Eyes Turn to Whidbey Week
Northwest sailboat racers are turning their attention to Oak Harbor next week as Whidbey Island Race Week gets underway, with a CYC crew led by Principal Race Officer Charley Rathkopf running the on-the-water action. Rathkopf expects to run the racing the same as he has in past years, setting courses in Penn Cove in westerly [ MORE ]
Scatchet Head: Wet and Windy
This year’s Scatchet Head race on March 12 was, in one way, exactly the same for all divisions—wet. Very wet. It rained from the first start to the last finish, but such things just don’t bother the dauntless sailors aboard 73 yachts gathered for the second race of the CYC Seattle Center Sound Series. Almost as [ MORE ]
Club Seeks Volunteer Whaler Drivers
Corinthian Yacht Club is looking for members to volunteer as whaler drivers. Our Boston Whalers are used for mark setting and retrieval along with safety boat operations, and volunteers are needed for both Puget Sound and Lake Washington events. It’s a fun, exciting, and rewarding way to serve your fellow sailors. We will be providing [ MORE ]
Blakely Rocks: CYC Seattle’s Sailing Season off to a Great Start
Resoundingly described as the most unique of all the light-air Blakely Rock Center Sound Series races, the clubroom post-race roared with excitement. The sailing season is off to a great start. Over the course of the day, the wind waxed and waned and flopped and held, but just as we began to wonder [ MORE ]
CYC Hosts US Sailing Race Management Seminar
Fourteen experienced race officers from around the Northwest participated in a US Sailing two-day advanced race management seminar hosted by Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle on the last weekend of February. Seminar partipants at CYC’s Shilshole clubhouse Instructors Mark Townsend, Leslie Keller, and Brian Watkins lead the group through all topics of race management including [ MORE ]
