Pensacola Beach Multihull Challenge is set for July 17th. This is also the final leg of the Trident Series, Race No.3.

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Pensacola Beach Yacht Club
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Surf Burgers (located above Key Sailing)


Registration 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
$30 double handed boats, $25 single handed boats
Registration includes dinner at Surf Burgers
Trident Series T-Shirts while they last for those that didn't receive one at the Navarre Beach Island Fever Regatta or Great Bay Race

Skipper's Meeting 10:00 AM at Surf Burgers
Race Start at approximately 11:00 AM
Race Course - Steeplechase around Pensacola Bay approximately 30 Miles

All beach cats are welcome. Anticipated classes are High / Low DPN Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker.
Skipper and crew trophies will be given 3 deep in each class for the regatta.
Perpetual Trident Series trophies will also be awarded at the trophy presenation.

At the conclusion of the trophy presentations, a drawing will be held to give away a new set of Sails sponsored by Sabre Sails. (The door prize is for a set of Dacron Sails, main and jib for your beach cat that may be upgraded if the winner so choses to pay the difference. You must have participated in at least two of the Trident Series Regattas to qualify for the door prize.)

See flyer attached for more info.

Hope to see everyone there.

Hey Don -

Do you have a course figured up yet? Do you mind posting it for those of us with GPS units?

Danke!

Yes Big John!

I will post here and e-mail all of you that I can ahead of time with the course ASAP.

Right now I'm on the road, but should get something to you shortly.

Looking forward to seeing you and everyone else this Saturday at Pensacola Beach for our regatta and finishing up the Trident Series along with giving away the door prize of a new set of Sabre Sails for the winner's beachcat!

See you there!

Talked to the Race Committe Chairman last night to set the race course. They would like to wait until that morning and see what the conditions are. It will be given the morning of the race.

Bring your GPS.

See you Saturday.

Why don't we make it simple and start in Quietwater, go to Garcon and back? My "crew" does not have a GPS. Wx forecast is for hot and tstms.

Bob
Nacra 17 (singlehanded)

Hey Bob,

Excellent selection on the main course! How's the forecast looking. I've been hearing possible 10-15 out of the West.

Tom Turlington
Nacra F17 #124

Hi Bob -

Talked to Bert - he's using the PYC Bay Sailing Instruction markers, and says he's not sending us under the Bay Bridge - it'll be a steeplechase using 133 as the first and last mark. He won't commit to a course until skippers' meeting. Forecast looks like 5-15 westerlies going left for the day...

Bert Rice is RC this week end for us. As posted earlier, he will let us know the race course Saturday morning at the Skipper's Meeting. We're looking at 25 to 30 miles around Pensacola Bay.

I'd like to add a small change - we will be registering and have the Skipper's Meeting at Pensacola Beach Yacht Club. The club will open at approximately 9:00 AM for registration, skipper's meeting at 10:00 AM, race starts somewhere around 11:00 AM.

Also would like to add that we will have a cookout on the beach where we launch the boats as everyone finishes. Hamburgers, hotdogs and the trimmings with drinks. The trophies will be awarded at the same site, concluding with a few door prizes and free set of sails to be given away.

Hope to see all of you there!

Latest numerical guidance shows a huge explosion of convection between 0600-1800L. With the steering flow out of the north and a front laying close by, my bet is to go shopping at the mall! Will update tomorrow night when the latest data flows in. Had 1.5" hail and a Doppler indicated tornado in FWB today!

Bob

You say the sweetest things...

Forecast winds are up to 20 mph? Replay of Great Bay? I just wanna race, man... it's been perfect all week. Get to the weekend and we get "a huge explosion of convection??" What, am I makin' a turkey, here?

Oh, are we "small craft?"

Are "we" small craft? Well... depends, are WE talking about the 4.3?

Ha ha ha, just kidding

See you on the water!

W

Tstms will rule!!!
What's the rain date???

Bob

Due to inclement weather in the morning and extremely light air in the afternoon, the organizers of the Trident Series have postponed the Pensacola Multihull Challenge (doesn't that sound like it needs a telethon??) to August 7th and 8th.

"Wait!" you might say. "How do you postpone a one day event to two days?" Well, I'll tell ya. The Key Sailing Mayor's Cup was already rescheduled to the 7th, and Kirk generously agreed to share the weekend with the Trident Series - details are yet to be worked out but it sounded like, for the price you would have paid for one distance race, you also get a day of bouy racing. Trophies will be awarded in three classes for the Pensacola Multihull Challenge, which will be a distance race on either Saturday or Sunday, and for the Trident Series which wraps up with that event. In addition, trophies will be awarded for the Mayor's Cup buoy racing which will be sailed on whichever day the distance race isn't... get it? Krik's working on overnight parking for boats on the beach, and the Trident folks'll still have the big cookout.

I heard they were putting together a new flyer for release sometime during the week. The folks who didn't make the drive out to the beach yesterday have been granted a stay - so you still have a shot at the Trident AND the free sails from Sabre.

Ahh, the vagaries of summer weather! Regardless, two I-20s, a Nacra F-18, an I-17R, a new Nacra 570 and the mythical CFR 20 all went for a pleasure drift after the thunderstorms cleared out, sadly taking the breeze with them. Congrats to Mark Smith and Bubba Barberi for "winning," by being the absolutely farthest from land when the wind completely died. Honorable mention to Kirk Newkirk for the downwind flip in about 5 knots of breeze. P-push it real good...

See you in St. Augustine! Woohoo, Fleet 111!

Thanks for getting the word out John. Yes, Mother nature did not cooperate this week end, so we will now prepare for an even bigger week end of racing August 7th and 8th. I will post a flyer with details later this week. One regatta entry fee, distance racing, bouy racing, cookout, three sets of trophies, what are you waiting for?

See you there!