Boats rafted up at the annual Dauphin Island race. Courtesy photo.
The Dauphin Island Race is shared with four yacht clubs on Mobile Bay and rotated among them each year. Participating clubs are: Lake Forest Yacht Club, Fairhope Yacht Club, Mobile Yacht Club, and Buccaneer Yacht Club. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. with the skippers’ meeting at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, April 23, race time on Mobile Bay centers around 11:00 a.m. and awards are presented back at the Yacht Club after the race. Two perpetual trophies will be awarded, which are for the first PHRF spinnaker boat and the first PHRF non-spinnaker boat. On Friday night, April 27, the “big” party begins at the Yacht Club at 5:00 p.m. with great music and food. The race starts at 9:30 a.m. on April 28 with the PHRF
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division. At 9:45 a.m., the Portsmouth division begins, and at 10:00 a.m., the onedesign fleet, which includes multihulls and smaller boats (not less than 16 feet), begins. The 18-mile racecourse takes the racers past Alabama’s historical landmark, Mobile Middle Bay Lighthouse, where the schooner Joshua (the official sightseeing boat) will be watching the boats pass by. At 5:00 p.m., the race is over and the awards presentation will be held roughly around 7:30 p.m. with music and dinner and breakfast served the following morning. For more information, check out their Web site at http://www.lfycinc.org.
2007 Alter Cup to be Held in Melbourne, FL, April 24-28 By Roy Laughlin The Melbourne Yacht Club will host the US Multihull Championship for the Alter Cup on April 24-28. The Alter Cup is named for Hobie Alter, the inventor of the Hobie 14 and 16 and founder of the Hobie Cat Company. His catamarans are the icons of the sport.
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