Join the presentation live at MPYC or via Zoom on Friday, March 27, 5:30 PM. Learn about the plans for the 2026 Spinnaker Cup and some changes planned to improve the event. Presented by Dave MacEwen and Jeff Thorpe.
The Notice of Race is published and registration is open for the 12th annual CA Offshore Race Week, featuring three distance races going down the west coast. Register for any one or all three and experience some of the best ports on the California coast.
The west coast's most bad-a** offshore race is just around the corner!
And the only thing as cool as racing the SoCal 300, is getting a gallery of epic Ultimate Sailing images (and video) afterwards. Plus the chance to be featured in the Ultimate Sailing Calendar, and leading boating publications! Contact Utlimate Sailing to reserve, space is limited.
The 2024 CA Offshore Race Week featured 90 boats and over 400 sailors racing throughout the three events of the series which is in its 8th year, annually occurring around Memorial Day Weekend.
John Brynjolfsson (TP52, Saga) described the race experience best saying, “Few experiences can rival the thrill of sailing with Saga's seasoned crew under the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, alongside a fleet of fellow sailors embarking on a week-long, 500-mile odyssey. This historic week comprised the storied Spinnaker Cup from StFYC to MPYC, the Coastal Cup from MPYC to SBYC, and the SoCal 300 from SBYC to SDYC. As the fog lifted outside San Francisco, and the flood tide lay behind us, the fleet converged down the coast on Monterey, our first port of call. A welcome break and authentic eateries awaited our courageous crew.
The 2024 California Offshore Race Week (CORW) is here and the excitement is buzzing. The series includes three separate races down the coast from San Francisco to San Diego. The first leg starts off with the Spinnaker Cup, San Francisco to Monterey (84 nm), then the Coastal Cup from Monterey to Santa Barbara (205 nm), and finally the SoCal 300 from Santa Barbara to San Diego (255 nm).
In 2023, the CORW saw the smallest boat in the fleet, Marc-Andrea Klimaschewski's Dogpatch 26 Moonshine, achieve an impressive overall victory. Klimaschewski and his crew, representing the Pacific Northwest, navigated challenging conditions and enjoyed the thrill of the SoCal 300 segment. The event also highlighted notable performances from other competitors, including the Express 37s dominating the Spinnaker Cup and the MOD 70s in the CA 500 race.
The west coast's most bad-a** offshore race is just around the corner!
And the only thing as cool as racing the SoCal 300, is getting a gallery of epic Ultimate Sailing images (and video) afterwards. Plus the chance to be featured in the Ultimate Sailing Calendar, and leading boating publications! Contact Utlimate Sailing to reserve, space is limited.
Sailonline is delighted to announce that we will again be partnering with the Encinal, St Francis, Monterey Peninsula , Santa Barbara and San Diego yacht clubs, and this year online-host two of their prestigious California Offshore Race Week, the CA 500 and the SoCal 300.
Dave MacEwen and Jeff Thorpe will offer a briefing on Spinnaker Cup preparations, tactics, weather routing and safety requirements at MPYC on April 9 starting at 530pm. This briefing is highly recommended for all skippers and crew who are planning to race in the upcoming 2024 Spinnaker Cup, or simply dreaming of doing the race someday. It would also be of interest to other racers and non-racers alike, including Spinnaker Cup volunteers.
The smallest boat takes the Series again. The 2023 California Offshore Race Week has concluded with Marc-Andrea Klimaschewski's Dogpatch 26 Moonshine, the smallest boat in the fleet, earning the title of overall CORW winner. For the second year in a row, the little boat makes a big splash.
Klimaschewski said "All of us are very happy about the great result and we are proud to be representing the Pacific Northwest and following in the footsteps of our good friends on Pell Mell who won the series last year in another small, wooden boat. Being a small boat, we always try minimizing our distance sailed. We also push the boat as hard as we can, the sails and loads are very manageable so if we overdo it on the gas pedal, that's usually an easy fix."
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All it took was a year of elbow grease and a little bit of TLC for Alex Simanis to get his newly restored Pt Bonita 27, Pell Mell, back into the water… and titled a winner. The smallest boat on the course for the duration of the 2022 California Offshore Race Week has proved that it is heart and skill that gets you first overall, not size. Simanis’ Pell Mell is the official winner of not just the SoCal 300, but the overall series winner of CORW.
Simanis commented, “The Spinnaker Cup was epic. We stuck with our plan of staying out and waiting for the new breeze to come - and it worked out well. The last 50 miles we did in about 6 hours and we came into Monterey on a nice angle and 25+ knots of breeze. For the SoCal 300, it was a beautiful jib reach to the islands. We thought it was going to be game on, but it was really light. We got stuck in the island and had to battle back and forth to find a lane. A bunch of the fleet moved more to the west and we ended up sneaking towards more of the east breeze that filled in. We were able to catch up to the 1D35 and J/111 and the bigger boats for the run. Our boat is pretty quick on the run, so nobody got away from us.”
On Saturday May 28th, 30 boats departed San Francisco on the 1st leg of the California Offshore Race Week, The Spinnaker Cup, 86 miles of downhill fun, from San Francisco to Monterey. In the midst and in the mist, an improbable contestant, that had been ignored, more than it had been sailed recently and much less raced. Originally built in the mid 80's by Dave Sutter, the Point Bonita 27' Pell Mell was designed to be more of a cruiser, with inspiration from the Dogpatch 26, without the hard chines below the waterline. Her ample room below decks makes things more comfortable for a midget distance racing ride.
Long sleeve wicking shirts, hats, vests and gaiters featuring the CA Offshore Race Week designs and logos are available through the Pirate's Lair online store.
The west coast's most bad-a** offshore race is just around the corner!
And the only thing as cool as racing the SoCal 300, is getting a gallery of epic Ultimate Sailing images (and video) afterwards. Plus the chance to be featured in the Ultimate Sailing Calendar, and leading boating publications! Contact Utlimate Sailing to reserve, space is limited.
The offshore racing season continues this summer with the West Coast favorite California Offshore Race Week. The week-long journey down the California coast is broken into three separate races and is hosted by Encinal Yacht Club, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, Santa Barbara Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club. Skippers and crews are encouraged to add the entirety of the CORW to their bucket list, but have the option to opt into any of the individual legs.
Encinal Yacht Club, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, Santa Barbara Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club are proud to present the 2022 CA Offshore Race Week, and invite boats to register. The race series consists of three coastal regattas of increasing length (San Francisco to Monterey: 88nm, Monterey to Santa Barbara;: 205nm, and Santa Barbara to San Diego: 250nm). New in 2022, early entry discount during the month of February! Sign up early and encourage others to join you.
With a crew of either, the Santa Cruz 50 Horizon was competing in the 2021 Coastal Cup between Monterey and Santa Barbara. The race started on May 31, 2021. Before departure, the crew participated in their usual pre-underway discussion of duties in the event of an emergency.
During the 204-mile race, Horizon lost a large lead over competitors with Oaxaca extending a ten-mile lead. Late in the afternoon, Horizon gybed towards the beach while Oaxaca headed out to sea. As the two boats converged on Point Conception, it appeared Horizon had taken the lead while holding a speed advantage. The call was made to gybe back into the breeze to maintain the advantage.
The 2021 California Offshore Race Week was the first opportunity for many teams to stretch their legs in over a year and sail in one or more distance races down the California Coast. A variety of conditions were seen throughout the week, starting with great breeze sending boats under the Golden Gate bridge towards Monterey, to still waters during the Coastal Cup and SoCal 300 that caused several teams to retire, or fight through the light conditions to an extended version of the race.
Check out the gallery of photos courtesy of Sharon Green and Ultimate Sailing from the SoCal 300 start line in Santa Barbara, and the aerial photos as the fleet passed through the Channel Islands.
The 2021 CA Offshore Race Week kicks off on Saturday, May 29 with the 88 mile Spinnaker Cup, from San Francisco Bay to just off the pier in Monterey. 36 boats are entered in 6 PHRF classes ranging in size from the Botin 65 Artemis to the Antrim 27C ‘io. The series continues with the Coastal Cup from Monterey to Santa Barbara, a 204 miles course. This year’s Coastal Cup boasts a recent record of 24 entries in 4 ORR and one ORR-EZ classes. The final race in the series is the SoCal 300 from Santa Barbara to San Diego. The leg scoring used in previous editions of the SoCal 300 is gone, and the race will be scored as a standard start to finish single race this year. A great turn out of 37 boats in 4 strong ORR classes, 1 ORR-EZ class, and Chim Chim sailing in the multihull class.
The Offshore Race Week series started in 2016, and now it has a new perpetual trophy, donated by Denise Kramer of Sailboat Artwork. Denise has donated a custom painting of a Cal 40, Santa Cruz 50 and J/125, some of the staples of this coastal race series. Past winners honored on the trophy are Santa Cruz 50 Horizon, Santa Cruz 70 Catapult, Santa Cruz 52 Lucky Duck, and J/125 Velvet Hammer. The beautiful trophy will be on display at San Diego Yacht Club where the annual CORW series trophies are awarded after the SoCal 300. Denise was part of the Velvet Hammer crew that won the series in 2019. @sailboatartwork
San Diego Yacht Club and Santa Barbara Yacht Club are proud to co-host their signature offshore race of the summer, the SoCal 300, the Southern California leg of the California Offshore Race Week. The California Offshore Race Week has been a premier offshore California regatta series since 2015 and is made up of three different races:
Spinnaker Cup (San Francisco to Monterey): May 29-30
Coastal Cup (Monterey to Santa Barbara): May 31 - June 1
SoCal 300 (Santa Barbara to San Diego): June 3-5
The 2021 California Offshore Race Week will be the 5th edition of this great series that combines these three offshore sailing events.
The California Offshore Race Week Organizers - San Diego Yacht Club, Santa Barbara Yacht Club, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club & Encinal Yacht Club have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 California Offshore Race Week due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As representatives of our Yacht Clubs, we believe in the practice of safety as a way of life offshore. Our position has always been that we can only conduct the race if conditions for competitors and local populations made it safe to do so. After continuing to seek guidance from numerous government and medical advisors, it has become evident there is no longer a timeline allowing our sailors and supporters to prepare for and participate in this offshore race safely.
The SoCal 300 was created in 2015 as a race hosted by Santa Barbara Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club to provide a long coastal race with differing and challenging conditions. Now in its 5th year, the race is as popular as ever with a record 38 boats having competed in 7 classes in 2019. Many Southern California boats use the race as a Transpac Race qualifier (must sail a 150nm race or passage in year prior to Transpac with a specified number of the same crew on board). Additionally, teams from Northern California make their way through the CA Offshore Race Week and conclude the series with the SoCal 300.
This year, the race also had several international teams, including first to finish Alive (Phillip Turner’s RP 66), first in Class A and first overall corrected time Maverick (Quentin Stewart’s Infiniti 46R), Taurus (Barrington Darcy’s Farr 40) which sailed the CORW series but had to retire prior to the SoCal 300 with an issue with their boat). Next up for these two teams is the Transpac race, where they will compete in Division 1 against the heavy hitters such as record holder Comanche and two-time Barn Door winner Rio100.
According to the tracking, at 8.30 local time (15.30 UTC and 17.30) Maserati Multi 70 and Giovanni Soldini are 159 miles away from the finish line of the CA 500. They are sailing at 27 knots, behind their competitors Argo and PowerPlay, who already doubled the last buoy and are now heading straight to San Diego.
The Italian Team was delayed by some damages aboard. Giovanni Soldini explains: «We crashed against three different unidentified objects and that slowed us down. Yesterday afternoon we hit something with our right side rudder, the fuse system we installed last year worked perfectly and the fitting lifted above the water, but the part that connects the fitting to the transmission broke, so the right side rudder is out».
Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70 set sail from San Francisco yesterday, at 13.00 local time (20.00 UTC and 22.00 Italian time), for the first edition of the CA 500.
At 1.15 local time (8.15 UTC and 10.15 Italian time on May 31st), Maserati Multi 70 is sailing at 18 knots in third place, 24 miles behind Argo and 28 miles behind PowerPlay. The Italian trimaran, with 286 miles to go before the finish line, is following a route close to the coast of California, unlike her competitors who are further offshore.
While California might not have an excessive number of welcoming harbors for cruising sailors, it’s enviably long, north-to-south waterline makes it ideal for distance racing, especially if you don’t mind sometimes-cold water, sometimes-strong winds, and seas that enjoy a “significant” amount of fetch. But catch the conditions right, and the sailing can involve a lot of fun, fast angles, plenty of Pacific Ocean spray, and the chance to light up the offshore afterburners. For example, the SoCal 300 (May 31-June 1) starts on the waters off of Santa Barbara and takes the fleet of competing boats south to San Diego, passing the islands and the entrance to Los Angeles Harbor before crossing the finishing line between two San Diego channel-entrance buoys (“SD 5” and “SD 6”).
Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70’s Team will set sail from San Francisco for the first edition of the CA 500 tomorrow at 13.00 local time (20.00 UTC and 22.00 Italian time). The CA 500 is the last event of the California Offshore Race Week, a series of races organized by the Encinal Yacht Club, the Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, the Santa Barbara Yacht Club and the San Diego Yacht Club.
The CA 500 course is approximately 500 miles long, from San Francisco to San Diego: after crossing the starting line, off St. Francis Yacht Club, the fleet will leave Farallon Island Light to port before heading towards the finish line off San Diego.
The 2019 Coastal Cup was the fastest race in the recent 5 year history, with new elapsed time, ORR corrected and ORRez corrected times established by three different boats. In fact, the first 15 finishers all eclipsed the previous record from 2017. But for those that didn't finish by about 11:00 on Tuesday, the wind shut down and the last few boats struggled to reach the line despite the excellent racing over 90% of the course.
40 boats in 7 classes took part in the 2019 Spinnaker Cup race from San Francisco Bay to Monterey. Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club has been hosting the Spinnaker Cup on the finish end for decades, and partnered with Encinal Yacht Club in 2019 as the starting host club. The fleet made its way from all over the bay area to the west side of Angel Island, where the race committee searched for enough wind to offer a clean start. After an hour delay the 7 fleets started the race heading out to the Golden Gate bridge before turning south for the run to Monterey.
The addition of a 500 nm Race from San Francisco Bay to San Diego as part of the California Offshore Race Week was intended to provide some of the larger boats engaging in the Transpac a chance to stretch their legs a little and skip the shallow water marinas involved with other legs of the Race Week. The concept originated with Manouch Moshayedi, owner of RIO 100', seeking way to get some of Sleds and Maxi's and opportunity for a mid range feeder event for the Transpac.
The Monterey Harbor hoist is NOT operational! Due to extensive repairs to the hoist, it will not be possible to use the hoist until mid-June. Spinnaker Cup entrants who planned to take their boats out of the water after the race in Monterey, will have to make alternative arrangements. Options include sailing to Santa Cruz to use the Santa Cruz Yacht Club hoist, or using the ramp at Monterey. For enquiries contact the Monterey Harbor Master (831-646-3950), or MPYC Spinnaker Cup Chair, Jean du Preez (spinnakercup@mpyc.org).
SAVE THE DATES for the 2019 California Offshore Race Week, back by popular demand! Encinal Yacht Club, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, Santa Barbara Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club are excited to bring back the CA Offshore Race Week, connecting three distances races into a full offshore race week series.
Simon Phillips, owner of the Farr 40 Astra: “To me, it’s the perfect series of races to kick off summer. Condensed into a tight window to accommodate our busy schedules - we get the chance to experience all of the challenges of too much and too little wind while racing along the picturesque California coast. We are all looking forward to the exhilarating downwind conditions and finishing in the San Diego sun. We’re packing the sunscreen!”
This year, CA Offshore Race Week will be adding a new component for the fastest mono and multihull boats looking to stretch their legs: the CA 500 race from San Francisco to San Diego. The CA 500 will be open to monohulls with an ORR rating of 1.06 and higher and multihulls of 45' LOA and an ORR-MH rating of 1.4 and higher.
Dave MacEwen and team on the Santa Cruz 52 have participated in every California Offshore Race Week since it’s inception 3 years ago and done well in various legs of same and finished 2nd overall last year and 2nd in division in 2016. This year they put the whole package together, winning the Spinnaker Cup, had a very close 2nd in the Coastal Cup and won Division and was 3rd overall in the SoCal 300. The cherry on top was to take the Division AND Overall in the CORW cumulative points spread. A tough, grueling 8 day week that began in San Francisco and ended in San Diego, with stops in Monterey and Santa Barbara. We caught up with Dave and got some insights to the week and how things went down…
HL Enloe's ORMA 60 Mighty Merloe took down another course record, setting the multihull course record with an elapsed time of 15:22:15 in the 240 mile SoCal 300 race. Manouch Moshayedi's Rio100 holds the monohull course record set in the first year of the SoCal 300, at 16:26:58.
Saturdays 88 nm race from San Francisco to Monterey witnessed 44 boats in 6 divisions, dancing out The Gate in heavy overcast, light winds and ample ebb. With a 40 minute delay for the 1st starters, while RC juggled a cavalcade of issues, including attempting to get the Yellow Brick Trackers to all the boats, squaring the line, and sharing the start area with a bundle of Halibut fishermen hoping for fresh fish taco to start their Memorial Day Weekend.
When the 1st start commenced, the smaller boats with the higher ratings led the parade out of the bay and onto the brisk and lumpy Pacific. Early forecasts had insinuated steady winds in the 25+ knot range, so it appeared that the 2018 edition could be a fast one!
Sailonline is again partnering with Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) and San Diego Yacht Club (SDYC) for the 2018 running of the SoCal 300 race. SDYC has been racing in the waters off San Diego for 130 years, and in 2016, was the first USA West Coast yacht club to bring virtual sailing navigation to its members and the west coast sailing community.
The SoCal 300 is the third and final ocean race of this year’s California Race Week and sees the fleet race a slalom course from Santa Barbara to San Diego, starting on 31 May.
It's just over week away, the 3rd running of the California Offshore Race Week, with the start of the 1st leg, the Spinnaker Cup, an 88 nm sprint from San Francisco to Monterey departing May 26. Then boats will embark on Monday May 28th for the 204nm gear busting Big Sur Tour aka Coastal Cup that takes the fleet to Santa Barbara YC where they will relax for a short stay before gearing up for 245nm SoCal 300 which will lead them through the Channel Islands and down to San Diego, beginning on Thursday May 31.
Being that the CORW is comprised of 3 offshore legs with an evening beer can tossed in at SBYC, the majority of the entrants will participate in just one or two of the legs. See entry list here. But there are 10 boats this year that have signed up for all 3 legs.
54 boats, 450 sailors, 5 yacht club hosts, 530+ miles of sailing, and 3 races made up the 2017 California Offshore Race Week. Sailors and families spent Memorial Day weekend and the following week in some of California’s finest locations: San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Barbara and San Diego. Boats ranged from the doublehanded Moore 24 to several Santa Cruz 70s, and everything in between along with two multihulls. And the conditions varied just as much, starting with light conditions heading out of San Francisco Bay, peaking with high 30 knots during the overnight Coastal Cup, and slowing to a crawl in the final day of the SoCal 300 for most. The courses also brought out different challenges, particularly the SoCal 300 scoring of 4 race legs giving navigators additional things to consider when strategizing the race plan.
James Goldberg and the crew of the J/109 Junkyard Dog experienced the full spectrum of fun sailing and challenging conditions during the 2017 CA Offshore Race Week. Read from James about the differences in the three races, and how they supported the boat Snafu while the Coast Guard arrived on scene of their dismasting.
Returning for its second year, the 2017 California Offshore Race Week featured the combined powers of five yacht clubs along the California coast. With efforts from Encinal Yacht Club, San Francisco Yacht Club, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, Santa Barbara Yacht Club, and San Diego Yacht Club, a week-long schedule of races occurred covering almost 600 miles of the California coast between May 27 and June 3.
For a pair of experience ocean racers in the 2017 Coastal Cup, an overnight race from Monterey to Santa Barbara quickly turned into a challenging night of survival. With excellent support from two fellow competitors boats and the US Coast Guard, both sailors and the Moore 24 sailboat made it safely to shore the by the following day.
Article courtesy of Eric Simonson, Pressure-drop.us
Encinal Yacht Club's Commodore Doug Perry's report on the communications with Snafu and Chim Chim during the Coastal Cup:
"At 19:26 on Monday the Race Committee received a phone call from Chim Chim that they were about 35nm from Morro Bay with a broken rudder and were dropping out of the race. We were able to connect them with the Coast Guard and after talking with them the crew decided to continue on to Santa Barbara. At about 0830 on Tuesday they texted that they were making fine, but slow, progress. Their tracker showed them off of Point Conception and about 40 NM from Santa Barbara.
A wild ride in many respects for the 16 boats racing in the 2017 Coastal Cup. First off, the Moore 24 Snafu with Karl Robrock and Gilles Combrisson sailing doublehanded broke their mast before midnight just north of Morro Bay. Coast Guard airlifted the two sailors safely to shore, and their primary concern now is recovering the boat before more damage is done. A recovery plan is in the works, so we wish the best to the Snafu crew in their efforts. Fellow competitors Azure and Junkyard Dog were in the vicinity of Snafu and stood by in support until a rescue plan for the crew was in place. More details to come.
The 2017 edition of the Spinnaker Cup moved back and moved forward. Instead of the normal Friday 11:00 AM start as been de rigueur for some time, the normal SFYC - MPYC R/C working in conjunction with the California Offshore Race Week, moved the start to 0900 Saturday in order to compress the entirety of the events involved. 38 boats and crews lined up on this cold, grey early morning start for the 88 nm downhill slide from San Francisco to Monterey.
Now, an unofficial feeder race for Transpac, the Spinnaker Cup provides an early, first step option for NorCal boats to get to SoCal in advance of the Transpac. 18 of the boats entered in Saturday's Spinnaker Cup will continue south, competing the revamped Coastal Cup, now racing from Monterey to Santa Barbara Yacht Club.
Sailonline is again partnering with the prestigious San Diego Yacht Club (SDYC) for the 2017 running of the SoCal 300 race. SDYC has been racing in the waters off San Diego for 130 years, and in 2016, was the first USA West Coast yacht club to bring virtual sailing navigation to its members and the west coast sailing community.
The SoCal 300 is the third and final ocean race of this year’s California Race Week and sees the fleet race a slalom course from Santa Barbara to San Diego, starting on 1 June.
The California Offshore Race Week will return for its second year featuring the combined efforts of Encinal Yacht Club, San Francisco Yacht Club, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, Santa Barbara Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club. From May 27 to June 3, these five clubs will join forces to produce a week-long schedule of races in a tour from Northern California to Southern California with stops in Monterey and Santa Barbara. Participants will have time along the coast to relax and meet up with friends and family.
Managed by the Offshore Racing Association (ORA) in the USA, the Offshore Rating Rule (ORR) seeks to handicap different designs of keelboats to allow them to race together. Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck checks in with Bjorn R. Johnson, Executive Director ORA, for this update.
New for this year, the 2016 California Offshore Race Week featured the combined forces of five yacht clubs along the California coast to produce a week-long schedule of races in a tour covering almost 600 miles of the California Coast line. The race brought together the Spinnaker Cup, Coastal Cup and SoCal 300 from May 27 - June 5. In between races, the boats had enough layover time in each port to make modifications to their boats for the next legs, participate in beer can races, return to work or just meet up with friends and family.
The 2016 California Offshore Race Week will feature the combined efforts of Encinal Yacht Club, San Francisco Yacht Club, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, Santa Barbara Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club to provide a week-long schedule of races in a tour from Northern California to Southern California. The race will combine three previously solo events starting May 27 with the Spinnaker Cup, then the Coastal Cup and concluding with the SoCal 300 finishing on June 4.
New for this year, the 2016 California Offshore Race Week will feature the combined efforts of Encinal Yacht Club, San Francisco Yacht Club, Monterey Peninsula Yacht Club, Santa Barbara Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club to produce a week-long schedule of races in a tour from Northern California to Southern California. The race will bring together three previously solo events: the Spinnaker Cup, the Coastal Cup and the SoCal 300 from May 27- June 4. In between races, the boats will have layover time along the coast to relax and meet up with friends and family.
The volunteer staff at CORW are proud to announce the posting of its NOR for the California Offshore Race Week. Offshore Race Week is the exciting grouping of three California coastal races, five yacht clubs and one in-port race under an overall trophy. We’d like to thank SD Boatworks, North Sails, Ullman Sails, Mount Gay Rum and The Pirates Lair for making this race come to life! Race one or race them all, definitely get in on this inaugural event. Please sail over to our website for complete information and printable NOR!
It was the success of last year’s inaugural SoCal 300- which starts with a 35-mile reach from Santa Barbara across “Windy Lane,” before turning the corner at Santa Rosa Island and rocketing down to San Diego- that spurred the new circuit. California Offshore Race Week, which kicks off in late May, links two tried-and-true regattas with the SoCal 300 in an all-too-logical romp down California’s scenic and wild waters.
Offshore racers in California got a new race in 2015, the SoCal 300, which for 2016 has launched a new circuit – California Offshore Race Week. Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck checks in with David Servais, SoCal 300 event coordinator, for an update.
