Last week in conjunction with the Canada’s Cup, Toronto’s Royal Canadian Yacht Club welcomed competitors, family, and supporters from around the World for the inaugural Warrior Sailing Cup, which hosted six teams from the Netherlands, Australia, USA (2 teams), and Canada (2 teams).
The 26th Canada’s Cup finished last weekend on Saturday, September 3rd after three days of racing hosted by Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC).
There are lots of reasons to become a member of the Salty Dawg Sailing Association but the best reason right now is that we are expecting a record number of boats in our rally to the Caribbean this fall and everyone is looking for crew.
The competitions will be held in St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia from August 31 to September 5 and the top Olympic sailors in the world in the 49er (men’s pair) and 49erFX (women’s pair) Olympic classes as well as in Nacra 17 (mixed pairs) will get a chance to shine before a national audience.
Team British Columbia won three of the five events at the 2022 Canada Games held in the Niagara Region earlier in August.
High profile Olympian Sarah Douglas joined SailGP in Denmark last week as a strategist, in line with @sailgp’s Women Pathway Program.
Eighty women, 11 boats, and one day of highly competitive racing: August 20, the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto held the second annual J105 Ontario Women’s Championship.
Helly Hansen Chester Race Week wrapped up on Sunday, August 13 with a final day of spectacular racing. Day 4 was likely the best day for weather, especially after Day 3 when a lick of wind wasn’t to be found and the races were cancelled.
Long-time customers of the SailTimer Wind Instrument, the Halifax-based manufacturer, will know that the company is often sold out of new inventory in the spring. For 2023, the company is going to do an experiment, which gives customers a reduced price and helps to ensure sufficient inventory.
Clubs: Did you know that if the instructors/coaches in your club/school are not registered, and there is an incident, your clubs’ insurance could be null and void?
The second of three scheduled Canada’s Cup Match Races will begin September 1, 2022. The best of 13 event will be a re-match between McLaughlin/L’Heureux Team Defiant and Burns/Hesse Team ZING.
Here is a list of recent international regatta results by Canadian sailors.
Sail Canada is currently accepting nominations for the Rolex Sailor of the Year Award through to September 14th, 2022.
Sail Canada, along with the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron (RNSYS), is inviting all Canadian sailing fans to Canada’s second annual Celebration of Sailing event which will be held in the afternoon of October 19 at the RNSYS.
Every summer, for the past ten years, sailors from different yacht clubs, including sailors with physical and/or sensory disabilities, have gathered for the Regatta for the Québec Adapted Sailing Association (AQVA).
As Rear Commodore at Ashbridges Bay Yacht Club in Toronto, I have been actively involved in addressing the inequity in sailing.
