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Photo by Jeffrey Smith
One can sense the electricity in this photo of the New York Yacht Club docks during last year’s NYYC Invitational Cup. Twenty-six teams have been chosen to vie for the right to compete in the event Sept. 10-17.
NYYC Invitational’s Y.C. list is finalized Photo courtesy Offshore 160
e start of the 2004 Offshore 160 Single-Handed Challenge. She
allenge starts July 16 Narragansett Bay a total distance of 160 nautical miles. Conditions for the Offshore 160 are kept as simple and inexpensive as possible. Entrants are not required to carry a life raft, and the qualification sail is only a documented 25-mile singlehanded passage. A 2010 PHRFNB rating certificate is required. Applications for entry will be accepted up to the registration deadline of 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 14. The Offshore 160 Single-Handed Challenge provides a competitive, “doable” race for anyone considering solo offshore competition. The race may, at the discretion of the Race Committee, also serve as a qualifying passage for the biennial Bermuda One-Two (www.bermuda12.org), a shorthanded event sailed in odd-numbered OFFSHORE 160, continued on Page 52 www.pointseast.com
The New York Yacht Club has invited 26 American yacht clubs to compete for places in the second New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, to be sailed in Newport, R.I., Sept. 10-17, 2011. The initial yacht-club list includes: American in Rye, N.Y.; Annapolis; Bayview in Detroit; Little Traverse in Harbor Springs, Mich.; Boston and Eastern in Marblehead, Mass.; Carolina in Charleston, S.C.; Chicago; Fishing Bay in Deltaville, Va.; Fort Worth Boat Club in Houston; Ida Lewis in Newport, R.I.; Indian Harbor, Pequot, and Stamford in Connecticut; Larchmont, Rochester and Seawanhaka Corinthian, also in New York; Long Beach, Newport Harbor and San Diego in Southern California; St. Francis and San Francisco in Northern California; Southern in New Orleans, La.; and St. Petersburg in Florida; and Seattle. The top three U.S. teams will receive invitations to the NYYC Invitational Cup, where they will join the top six teams from 2009: New York, Royal Canadian, Japan Sailing Federation, Nyländska Jaktklubben of Finland, Royal Cork of Ireland, and Royal Bermuda, plus at least 10 other international teams, to be invited in the spring of 2010. FMI: www.nyyc.org, or email: sailingoffice@nyyc.org. Points East April 2010
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