Texas Youth Race Week starts July 7th on Galveston Bay/ Rum Race

[JayZ]

Hey guys, 

There will be a bunch of youth sailors on the bay tomorrow for the start of Texas Youth Race Week.  There is the possibilty they will still be on the water when the rum races get started.  This is a big regatta for the little guys (qualifier for team trials) so please be mindful and give them some room and respect on the water.

Hope to see y'all on the water tomorrow.

Jay Zittrer
S/V Banjo Girl.

[BJSailor]

Shouldn't be any conflicts.  The Texas Youth Race Week event will be in the upper part of the Bay (where they want to build the marsh) sailing out of HYC on Sat and Sun.  Rum racers shouldn't be interfering with these kids, unless you're WAY off course:-)  TYRW runs through next Friday.

Have fun gang!!!

[ChrisK]

It's great to see so many sailboats on the bay. Good luck kiddos.

[BJSailor]

Interesting to see that the largest regatta on Galveston Bay these days (140+ boats) is all children.
It's so great to be on a racing line to see so many new sailors going at it.  Challenging one-design conditions today - wind settled at about 125deg, oscillating about 15 degrees either side of that, blowing about 10 knots building to 12 and swinging right to about 135 by the end of the day.

This is a qualifier for the National Team for the Optimist sailors.

Sat and Sun at HYC.  Monday is the USSailing Area F Eliminations for the Youth National triple hand championship in sonars out of TCYC.  Back to fleet racing on Tue thru Fri out of TCYC.

I'm just going to leave it at this - 100+ children come out to race in Optimists, Lasers, 420's - and this is a down year.  What do we need to do to get 100+ "adult" boats out for an event?...

[ShakenNotStirred]

I'm just going to leave it at this - 100+ children come out to race in Optimists, Lasers, 420's - and this is a down year.  What do we need to do to get 100+ "adult" boats out for an event?...

How about relieve them from all personal and financial responsibility and pay for everything they need or want? In other words, Time and Money!