Racing at South Beach Yacht Club

Selected past special events and championships Moore 24 Nationals 2012 Laser 4.7 Nationals & Pac Coast Masters 2011 Catalina 30 Nationals 470 North American Championship 2005 Summer Sailstice Regatta Celebrity Media Regatta 2009 Major League Baseball All Star Game Parade

South Beach YC offers some of Northern California's finest year-round racing. We hit the Bay's racing scene with style in 1989 with a challenge for a Labor Day Weekend race that became our annual Jazz Cup. Our racing has grown ever since.

There's nothing like finishing a race to the roar of the crowd under bright stadium lights at a home game of World Series winning SF Giants. Always a thrill when national TV pans down to our finish line.

Today our racing calendar consists of our mid-winter and summer race series, regional races, and select regattas that we host or provide race committee.

	Regatta	Description	Schedule	Info	Prior
	Mid-winters	The Island Fever Regatta is our mid-winter series, running one Saturday per month Nov-Mar for a total of five races. Light winds, heavy winds, currents, and courses around bay islands make for a tactical and strategic challenge.	11/17/2012 12/15/2012 01/19/2013 02/16/2013 03/16/2013	Race Signups and Documents Notice of Race
	Friday Night Series	Our Friday Night Series runs from April into September and generally attracts 60 or more entries. Raced around buoys south of the Bay Bridge, the series consists of 12 races plus one practice race. Overall winners are scored for the six races in the first half and for all twelve races overall. See the Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions for timings, but races generally start after 6pm and most boats finish by 8:30pm. Dinners are offered afterwards in the clubhouse for a small additional fee.	04/19/2013(Practice) 04/26/2013 05/03/2013 05/17/2013 05/31/2013 06/07/2013 06/21/2013 06/28/2013 07/19/2013 07/26/2013 08/02/2013 08/16/2013 08/23/2013	Info & Register
	Jazz Cup	Our annual regatta, our signature race. A 26nm usually downwind romp from Treasure Island to Benicia on Labor Day Weekend. With a big favorable current, hang on for a fast ride! It's the result of an historic challenge made over drinks at Benicia YC when our club was just a year old and had not yet proven the strength of our racing fleet! SBYC has succeeded in winning the cup -- formed by an antique trumpet -- for most years since its first running in 1989.	08/31/2013		2012 Jazz Cup Results
	X-Bay Regatta	With many  friends on both sides of the bay, what could be more natural the a joint regatta? Play by the Bay!  However we style it, it should be a great time inside the Bay!  This regatta will begin in the Central Bay and finish at the South Beach Yacht Club.	05/11/13	Register for X-Bay Regatta NOR SI's	X-Bay Results 2013
	InterClub Regatta	We host one of six races rotating between fellow clubs in summer months.	07/13/2013	Register Here	2011 Results
	YRA Races	SBYC hosts or provide race committee for selected races of the Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay. Our 2012 race was the Duxship Race in May.		www.yra.org	www.yra.org
	Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors	We support BAADS for its active training and racing program, which includes the annual Herb Meyer Regatta. BAADS offers full accessibility for sailors with mild to severe physical disability with an impressive fleet of Access and Liberty dinghies, some of which are equipped with servo steering and sheeting.		Herb Meyer Regatta	Other BAADS Racing
	Sarcoma Cup	In cooperation with Berkeley YC, Berkeley Marina, and Richmond YC we're proud to help this race to raise funds to beat the connective tissue cancers called sarcoma in kids and adults	TBD	TBD	2011 Race Info
	Small Boat Sailing	Informal sails and races for adults and kids in McCovey Cove on Wednesday evenings, the second and fourth Wednesday of every month, occasional Sundays, from May through October.	Sundays Beginning 5/6/2012	Small Boat Info
	The Ham Jam	Our active and very competitive Catalina 30 fleet runs its own informal races on select Fridays to allow practice, new crew training, and less cut-throat racing than on regular race nights. Win a pig!		Contact Rhoulston@aol.com