Jan 31, 2024 By Heather Mahady The Art of a Well-Executed Duck Imagine being on port tack, unsure if you can safely cross a starboard tacker. Many ducks go awry due to sailors waiting too long, attempting a last-minute cross, resulting in a sharp turn that disrupts crew coordination and slows down the boat. This…
Jan 17, 2024 Kingston arrival last year With the holiday season behind us and the Toronto International Boat Show starting Friday, it’s time to plan our summer 2024 sailing season. After an eventful Race to Kingston in 2023 – complete with two rounds of storms, a fresh wind to keep the boats moving and an…
The 2.4mR class is an unusual one in that it is a World Sailing international class raced by tall and short, wide and thin, old and young, male and female and able and disabled all with scratch scoring, no handicaps!
Jan 3, 2024 Photo Credit: Joe Malon Sailors at Mimico Cruising Club (MCC) have long been passionate about racing. Located at the western end of Humber Bay, a short sail from downtown Toronto, this yacht club is home to 300 boats, about half of which are sailboats. And many of those belong to keen racers….
Dec 13, 2023 Above: Isabella Bertold, Maura Dewey, Tate Howell – Women’s Foiling Gold Cup, Lake Garda By Isabella Bertold, December 2023 It’s been a year since we first learned that Canada would be competing in the inaugural Women’s America’s Cup and the Youth America’s Cup in 2024. The interest from Canadian sailors nationwide has…
Dec 13, 2023 In the November 29 issue of Sailing in Canada, I wrote an article about Kevin Brown and team, a Farr 30 from Toronto, who won their section in the Chicago to Mackinac Race. The opening paragraph of that article read: “Chicago Yacht Club’s most famous event, is the 289-naughtical mile race from…
Nov 29, 2023 By Roger Renaud Photo L-R: Jeff Love, Kevin Brown, Mark McGinnis Chicago Yacht Club’s most famous event is the 289-nautical mile race from the Chicago Yacht Club at the bottom of Lake Michigan, to Mackinac Island, at the top – the longest freshwater sailing race in the world. Kevin Brown, and two…
Nov 15, 2023 By Tom Ramshaw Photo Credits: Dave Holland/Sail Canada Before diving into a recounting of the actual event, it seems worthwhile to reflect on the journey to arrive at the starting line. This year’s PanAm journey started in February with my trip to Pensacola, Florida, to secure Canada a berth in the Sunfish…
Nov 15, 2023 By Alec Coleman Photos: Elaine Brendel On Halloween weekend, Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, New York hosted the final Oakcliff Match Race regatta of the season aboard their fleet of Swedish Match 40s. With nine teams invited from the US and Canada, the crews competed for valuable points for the World Match…
Nov 6, 2023 Canadian sailors add two medals: gold for Lee Parkhill and silver for Sarah Douglas Canadian sailors added two medals on the last day of the sailing competition at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games bringing the haul to four. Saturday delivered a gold medal in men’s Sunfish for Lee Parkhill and a…
November 1, 2023 Tight starts in San Diego October 20-22 / SDYC photo By Nigel Cochrane The 2023 International Masters Regatta invites twelve legendary skippers from around the world to compete in rotating J/105s on San Diego Bay. Nigel Cochrane from Royal Vancouver YC and Billy Abbott of Sarnia Yacht Club were the two Canadians…
November 1, 2023 By Mark Searle “Jersey Girl” Jersey Girl on the way back from Dalhousie / Photo: Dee Hogan The LOSHRS Dalhousie Weekend last month – Races Five and Six of the season – is always fun and often delivers nail-biters. The final season results, and overall season championships are often determined this weekend….
October 18, 2023 Above: There are a few key differences between Asymmetric spinnakers designed for offshore racing and those that are optimized for windward leeward races inshore. One of these is the mid-girth measurement which tends to be shorter for offshore sails because they are often used at tighter wind angles. Photography credit: Henrik Trygg….
I hear so many organizers worry about bands and swag, and sometimes even the race officer. Very infrequently do they worry about mark setters, a panel of judges or the resources and equipment these important parts of a regatta need to operate.
The 2023 Canadian 2.4mR Championship was held September 22-24 at The National Yacht Club in Toronto, Ontario. The fleet of 26 boats was the largest ever at a Canadian 2.4mR National Championship and attracted entries from Puerto Rico, United States as well as British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario.
Expert and novice sailors alike use apparent wind. Many sailors believe apparent wind is unworthy of deep consideration and take it for granted because they feel they’ve already grasped the concept. Although its fundamentally simple, apparent wind is dynamically complex in practice.
