New Racing Series Out of the Berkeley Yacht Club (BYC)

[bil7y]

This update comes from Pioneering race organizer Jane Morson:

Some great news, BYC has opened it doors to Formula Windsurfing racing.

The last time I know of a windsurfing race series, being raced out of BYC, was in the late 80's, and it was for longboards, and was run by Ed Shirk.

So here we are in 2010, over 20 years later, and windsurfing racing is starting again, at BYC.

As this race will be a test run, we are dealing with possible light winds, and sunset at 7.15pm, we have had to make it an invitational race, and the invitations have gone out.

Now we are inviting everyone else, to come to BYC, cheer the racers on from the veranda, have fun, and enjoy the hospitality of BYC. There will be the usual Friday Night BBQ, and bar.

Skippers meeting is at 5.30pm, first possible start of the race, at the moment, is, 6.25pm or 6.30pm. (Race time will be given at the skippers meeting, as there is a possibility of moving it forward 5 mins.)

The 2011 dates will be set so as not conflict, with StFYC racing which also happens on Friday Nights.

I hope that you can all come and watch your friends, race out of BYC. Its been a long time since there has been a race out of BYC!.

THANKS Jane for making this happen. It should be pretty cool to see the Windsurfers racing the same course as the BYC Sailboat racing fleet!

[kevinkan]

very cool!

now, how about a slalom series somewhere? Jean had mentioned something about doing that out of StFYC.

[bil7y]

We will be working on a slalom series in the off season - no guarantees yet. It will be more fun oriented and encourage racers on non slalom gear to compete. It will be focused on crissy field largely because of the existence of natural marks. More to come!