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2006 Vanguard 15 (V15)
Comes with 2 sets of sails (1 race, 1 club), racing/rigging cheat sheets, boat cover, road worthy trailer with new tires, and hand dolly. In excellent condition and ready to race!
Asking $3,800

DATES ARE MAY 10-12, 2013!!

Calling all sailors and landlubbers!!!!! DCYC's annual regatta NOR has now been posted!!! Previously known as the Leukemia Cup of North Texas, it has been renamed as The Corinthian Heritage Cup Regatta. ***SAME PARTY...DIFFERENT NAME!!!***

This is still a fundraiser event which will benefit the Junior Sailing Program and provide two scholarships to a week of Summer Camp at DCYC. This is a J/24 circuit stop, so all other one-design sailors, come join in on the fun! J/22, J/80, VX One, Viper 640s, J/105, Catalina 22!!!

NOTE: This will also be a qualifier for the Mallory Cup being competed in the J/24 class. Details will be out soon!

If you are not a sailor, come for the party!! On Saturday, we will have spectator boats, a rum party, a $15 dinner, a rockin' band, a silent auction, and a raffle giving away a Hobie kayak, among other things! Don't miss out!!!

Sign up today or give your donation online!!

If you would like to be a sponsor, please contact me at sailboats4sanity@yahoo.com or 940-808-6477. Be a part of the future of our youth sailors and join us today!!

http://www.regattatech.com/events/DCYC/C-Cup13

I would agree that the schedules get convoluted. I am out of the Galveston Bay area and want to come back to do more sailing, but have the Texas J/24 circuit and hopefully Sunfish circuit next year to contend with.

My only input is about the Women's Regatta. I do not agree that HYC should take over this event. I have raced at HYC twice and both times I was pretty disgusted with the comments made by the race committee during both year's skipper's meeting. I won't air those here, but the women that were there know what I am talking about. Which is why we don't go there anymore.

If you look at this year's participation between HYC and GBCA in the women's regattas, HYC had two days of racing with 5 spinnaker boats and 3 non-spin boats racing and on Saturday and 4 boats racing on Sunday. GBCA had one day of racing but they had 6 non-spin boats racing and 11 spinnaker boats. I was disappointed in seeing only one woman aboard the majority of the boats (with some having 1 woman and 8 guys), but whatever. I did enjoy the sequin tops on the men though.

Anyways, my point is if the objective for a women's regatta is to get female participation, why move it to the location with less participation?

Leave the Women's regatta alone and focus on the 30 other regattas going on in Galveston Bay to adjust. Unless, you are just wanting to make sure women don't go out to the race course and beat your a**. Just kidding Xav!!

Everyone did a great job on such short notice! Really looking forward to 2011's event!!

J/24 Siren

The J/22s have a circuit stop that same weekend. Too bad some will miss this event.

Awesome time!! Thanks GBCA!!! 

@ Jody...hope it was Siren that made you laugh! Really can't wait! C'mon ladies, let's go have some fun!

Um...Jody...I think I want that trophy.    Siren is in. Let's do this!

Are there any ladies planning to race J/24s or J/22s at this regatta? J/24 Siren will be signing up.

Jonsey, I agree with you on teaming up circuit stops with large regattas. The J24s this year participated at the Elissa Regatta and last year the Houston NOOD. While this is a new concept for us, it seems to be very successful and also helps alleviate burn-out of those same folks having to run a circuit stop year-after-year.

The idea of having yacht club summit is a great one. I hoped to race in the Sunfish Circuit this year, but there is only one race that does not conflict with my J24 schedule. I am a member of DCYC and I am happy to be a contact with my club. I will do whatever it takes to help keep OD sailing alive, whether it be local or circuit.

Tonja

I am a J24 circuit racer and used to live in Kemah. I moved to the DFW area 4 years ago. I was very involved in the Wednesday night races and GBCA while I was there. I have found coming up north that only the FWBC gives me the opportunities for racing like there was down in Galveston Bay.

We have seen the J24s decline in the circuit, and that had to do partly with the economy, boats being sold and possibly lack of interest to travel. While there are several new J24 boat owners, it has been very difficult to convince these folks to race locally as well as on the circuit, mainly due to inexperience.

I have made it a goal to race in one regatta at all of the clubs where a circuit boat is a member (AYC, FWBC, GBCA, CCYC, DCYC, and even Oklahoma Boat Club). I have encouraged others to consider doing a non-circuit regatta outside of their club.

One of the regattas I planned was the Shoe Regatta. But there are no J24s signed up despite the large amount of J24s in the area.

I don't really have an answer to why the J24s are not participating as much as they had in the past, but I for one would travel to Galveston Bay for regattas if the J24s would come out and race.