Category: One Design Racing
Kiteboard racing is taking off in Seattle in 2011 at CYC
A number of local kiteboard racers, whose organizers include Melges 32 owner Darrin Towe and former CYC board member Michael Cenname, are building a kiteboard race fleet to participate in the weekly CYC Sunday and Thursday night series at Shilshole off Golden Gardens park. CYC welcomes kiteboard racing as a class of sailing in the Sunday/Thursday [ 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 ]
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 ]
Standing-Room-Only Crowd for Ullman Seminar
I just got home from the Ullman Sails Seminar Series. I enjoyed the presentation and got refreshed on “Unlocking” the race course just in time for the Thistle MidWinters in San Diego. CYC hosted the event and Ullman sails donated $5 for each ticket to the CYC Junior program. CYC Members got a $5 discount [ MORE ]
CYC Members Among Four Killed by Somali Pirates
CYC member Bob Riggle and his partner, Phyllis Macay, who began a world cruise in 2007 and whose J/109 Gaiawas named the club’s cruising boat of the year for 2008, were among four Americans reported murdered by Somali pirates Tuesday off the coast of East Africa. Riggle and Macay were aboard a Davidson 58, Quest, owned by [ MORE ]