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CA Offshore Race Week Returns May 2026

Save the dates for the 2026 edition of the CA Offshore Race Week.
Spinnaker Cup: May 23-24, 2026
Coastal Cup: May 25-26, 2026
SoCal 300: May 28-30, 2026

CALIFORNIA OFFSHORE RACE WEEK NEWS

Quantum Sails and SailFlow Support Weather Briefings and Farewell Party
Posted April 23, 2026

We are very pleased to announce the renewal of our cooperation with Quantum Sails for this year’s event.

Through this continued partnership, Quantum Sails, together with SailFlow, will once again support the competitors by providing high‑quality weather briefings and forecasting tools throughout the regatta. Accurate and accessible weather information is a key element of safe and competitive offshore sailing, and this collaboration helps ensure that sailors are well prepared for the conditions they will face on the racecourse.

SailFlow’s weather data and visual forecasting tools, combined with Quantum’s deep understanding of performance sailing, create a valuable resource for teams as they plan strategy and make critical decisions before and during racing.

In addition to their on‑the‑water support, we are also delighted that Quantum Sails will contribute to the Farewell Party, helping us bring the event to a memorable close. The Farewell Party is an important opportunity to bring sailors, organizers, volunteers, and partners together to celebrate the week and reflect on the racing.

We would like to thank Quantum Sails and SailFlow for their continued commitment to the event and for their support of the sailing community. We greatly value this partnership and look forward to another successful collaboration.


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Monterey Harbor Hoist Not Operational
Posted May 13, 2019
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).

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Announcing the 2019 CA Offshore Race Week
Posted December 21, 2018
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.

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Lucky Duck’s Most Excellent CORW
Posted June 07, 2018
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…

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Mighty Merloe Sets SoCal 300 Multihull Course Record
Posted June 04, 2018

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.


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2018 Spinnaker Cup Prospecting For Bullets
Posted May 31, 2018
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!

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Race the SoCal 300 From Home With SailOnline
Posted May 27, 2018
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.

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2018 CA Offshore Race Week Preview
Posted May 17, 2018
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.

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Racing the California Coast
Posted June 07, 2017
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.

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SPINNAKER CUP
San Francisco to Monterey
May 23-24, 2026


COASTAL CUP
Monterey to Santa Barbara
May 25-26, 2026


SOCAL 300
Santa Barbara to San Diego
May 28-30, 2026





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