Applications are closed for the 2024 regatta, and invitations have been sent to accepted teams. Team rosters will be posted soon.
The Bay Club Hotel & Marina Room Block
$229/night, 10 minute walk from SDYC
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Reserve by January 16, 2024 or until full
Women’s Racing Brings Strength in Numbers
November 16, 2023, by Molly Hughes Wilmer, Sailing World
Women's sailing events and regattas are essential for growing the sport, proving an atmosphere where skill development and opportunity go hand-in-hand.
At a recent coed Grandmasters Team Race Regatta, a teammate told me he didn’t understand why there were women-only sailboat races—as if to say, what’s the point? His comment was a brave one in today’s “woke” world, but it’s something that men and women alike probably think about a lot more than they talk about. Yet it raises a valid conundrum as our predominantly male sport pushes toward wider female inclusion: Why isolate women to their own sideshows when the long-term goal is organic integration across the sport?
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Fast and furious around the flamingo
July 1, 2023, by Betsy Senescu
Every winter, women head to Southern California for a weekend of one-design racing
It was fast, it was frenetic, and it was fun. The Women’s Winter Invitational Regatta brought 26 teams from across the United States and Canada, plus one from Brazil, to the San Diego Yacht Club in February.
“It was the best organized chaos I’ve ever seen and absolutely a blast,” said Kaci Yachechak-Gibbs, who traveled to the competition from North Flathead Yacht Club in Montana.
