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June 13 2026 Race ResultsGood evening everyone,The morning began with differing opinions on where to race. Willingdon t...
06/14/2026

June 13 2026 Race Results

Good evening everyone,

The morning began with differing opinions on where to race. Willingdon to the mill and back was favoured by the more conservative folks but deemed far to boring for the younger crowd as there was no wind available. After considerable haggling the young ones got their way and we elected to motor over to Cyril rock where there was hope in the form of some dark blue water. The plan was to race from Cyril Rock, around Rebecca Rock clockwise and finish back where we started. It turned out to be an excellent plan. We had enough wind to average 3 - 5 knots of boat speed. The upwind leg was a good challenge and the downwind leg back home gave us a beautiful spinnaker run. After race comments were enthusiastically favourable. All the elements for a good race were found including lots of wind, sunshine and stunning views not to mention the excellent competitive sailing. Una had a good start shadowed by Bring Ice and followed closely by Kukuna, Revelar and Navis. Seance chose the opposite tack but joined in with the rest of the fleet at Rebecca Rock. Una maintained her lead throughout and increased it on the spinnaker run to capture line honours as well as the win in corrected time.

Results:
boat time (min) time (corr) place
Una 101.18 95.45 1st.
Kukuna 109.67 99.06 2nd
Bring Ice 110.5 102.18 3rd
Seance 111.3 120.05 4th
Revelar 136.13 142.23 5th
Navis 165 144.19 6th

Spring Series Results:

Boat points place
Una 9 1st
Kukuna 11 2nd
Bring Ice 19 3rd
Seance 21 4th
Balderdash 31 5th
Navis 36 6th

Congratulations to Una for the series win.

Have some wonderful adventures this summer everyone and we’ll see you back here in the fall.

Lauritz
race dir.

06/13/2026

Race announcement for June 13th, 2026

Good evening sailors,

We will compete in the final race of the spring series tomorrow. The winds are predicted to be on the lighter side and from the north-west. Let’s meet as usual at 0900 hours at the coast guard station.

Lauritz

June 6 2026 Saturday Race startline
06/10/2026

June 6 2026 Saturday Race startline

06/10/2026

June 6 2026 Race results

Good evening everyone,

Sailing conditions don’t get much better than todays. Five of us started and raced from Willingdon upwind to the mill, on a close reach to virtual point “G”, downwind to Grief Point with a final upwind leg to the South Harbour mark. Unfortunately Una obstructed Bring Ice at the start and failed to complete the full penalty circles and so was disqualified. In our innocence however we had a wonderful and exciting race. It just didn’t count. The winds were shifting, the sails were always drawing and the trimmers were constantly trimming. In the end Seance crossed first followed by Bring Ice, Kukuna, and Navis. Congratulations to Kukuna for the win in corrected time.

Results

boat minutes min. corr. place
Kukuna 137 123.74 1st
Bring Ice 135.57 125.36 2nd
Seance 128.6 138.71 3rd
Navis 190 166.04 4th
Una Disq.

Last race of the Spring series is next Saturday.
See you there

Lauritz

06/06/2026

race announcement for June 6, 2026

Good evening everybody,

Tomorrow looks ideal once again. Let's meet as usual at 0900 hours at the Coast Guard station. Winds are predicted to be warm and on the lighter side but hopefully not too light. No rain is expected but cloudy skies will prevail.

Lauritz

Race results May 30, 2026Good evening sailors,A fairly steady 5 15 knot north wester gave us great sailing conditions. ...
06/05/2026

Race results May 30, 2026

Good evening sailors,

A fairly steady 5 15 knot north wester gave us great sailing conditions. We raced from Willingdon upwind to the mill mark, on a close reach for 1 nautical mile out to a virtual mark, then downwind to Grief point before another close reach to Willingdon for the finish. Most of us covered the nine nautical miles in well under 2 hours.

Strong winds with a healthy chop greeted us for the start but with only 5 boats there were no complaints. Seance led the pack with Una, Kukuna, Revelar, and Navis following. The main contest was between Una and Kukuna as Kukuna remained very close which with a larger handicap meant she was leading. The reach out to the virtual mark saw Seance arrive well ahead followed by Revelar, Kukuna, Una and Navis in that order. The downwind run with spinnakers gave Una the advantage as she reached Grief Point second behind Seance. On the final leg Una actually caught Seance as the wind dropped and almost stole the show but for a last second puff which took Seance across the finish 7 seconds ahead of Una. Revelar really showed her abilities on the last leg as she caught Kukuna and finished 3rd across the line.

Congratulations to Seance for first to cross and to Una for the very close win in corrected time.

Results
boat time (min) time (corr) place
Una 101.38 95.64 1st
Kukua 106 95.74 2nd
Seance 101.26 109.22 3rd
Revelar 105.3 110.01 4th
Navis 147 128.46 5th.

Two more races folks.
See you next week

Lauritz

05/30/2026

Race announcement for Sat., May 30, 2026

Good evening sailors,

The winds look awesome for the race tomorrow. Lets meet as usual at the Coast Guard station at 0900 hours. Including tomorrow there will be 3 more Saturday races. The last one will be on June 13th.

One week later on June 20th. we are all invited to race in the Malaspina Regatta out of Pender Harbour. Find out more here: https://gardenbaysailingclub.ca We can talk more about this in the Legion tomorrow.

Till tomorrow
Lauritz

ALGERINE 2026 Dear sailing community,The Algerine was first raced on the Victoria day weekend in 1970. Sunday, May 17th...
05/20/2026

ALGERINE 2026

Dear sailing community,

The Algerine was first raced on the Victoria day weekend in 1970. Sunday, May 17th. marked the 50th race to be completed.

Thirteen boats took part in the race with 11 managing to complete. The winds gave us a smorgasbord of challenges. The start found us in a 12 – 15 knot north-west breeze with a healthy chop. With plenty of wind the race belonged to the larger boats. The start was the line between P52 and the bell buoy (P54). P54 was the favoured end by several hundred meters and so everyone was aiming for it to start. No boats got chopped in half but it was close . Being late as usual we watched from behind as Unfinished Business came powering in on starboard at twice the speed of most others. Coming within inches of the bell buoy she turned abruptly onto a port tack to dramatically lead the way into clean air somehow avoiding several others.

Our course took us from the bell buoy to the north end of Vivian Island, through the channel between Vivian and Ahgykson (formerly Harwood) Island and then across Malaspina Straight to finish just south of our south boat harbour.

The wind held for two hours until it slowly died a couple of miles from Vivian. Our windex was spinning 360’s in the slop as was our boat with no steerage. Fortunately another wave of wind built from northwest and veered around to the west and finally to southwest to take us well into Malaspina straight before it too collapsed leaving boats floundering hither and yon, one down by Willingdon and others up by the Texada shore and still others somewhere between. Finally a south-east breeze appeared to take us to the finish and the 50th successful Algerine race was completed.

Congratulations to Unfinished Business from Pender Harbour for line honours and respectable win in corrected time.

The Results

Colin Jackson and crew, proud winners of the 2026 Algerine courtesy of Monique

Unfinished Business sliding into the finish. courtesy Chris Coldham

Seance on her way to 3rd place. courtesy of Chris Rockshard

Monks restaurant was full.
A big thank you to Monks for providing great food ,drink, and space for our group😀👍👍
Pic courtesy of Monique

Happy sailing everyone
Lauritz

Results:

05/02/2026

Sat., May 3rd. race announcement

Good afternoon everyone,

A nice northwesterly breeze tomorrow should give us an exciting, action packed race. See you as usual at the Coast Guard station at 0900 hours.

Lauritz

April 25th, 2026 race resultsHi everyone,Expectations were for a morning of drifting about as the sea showed barely a ri...
04/26/2026

April 25th, 2026 race results

Hi everyone,

Expectations were for a morning of drifting about as the sea showed barely a ripple and the Predict Wind forecast was for “light and variable”. At the skippers meeting a slight breeze was apparent coming from the west and so starting north or south would be a reach. The decision (wrong) was to start going south. We would begin at the South Harbour and attempt to reach the Grief Point mark before returning to the south harbour mark for the finish. As we positioned for the start it became evident there was a trickster at work. The wind had swung to come from the northwest and so we would be having a downwind start. This is generally avoided as it can result in steerage issues and possibly even a giant CLUSTERCHUCK which it did. photo below. Thanks Chris.



Una was first to raise her spinnaker and break away from the crowd, As the rest sorted themselves out the breeze increased and the fleet moved along smartly with Kukuna, Balderdash, Seance, Bring Ice, Footloose, Solitude and Navis in pursuit. Turning the Grief Point mark and making a good 4 knots the course was changed and lengthened to take us upwind to the mill mark while the finish would be at Willingdon beach. It was another almost perfect day for sailing about in the Salish Sea with arguably a bit too much sunshine. The breeze carried us along on our zig zag to the mill mark at over 5 knots until it didn’t on the final run to Willingdon. Una cruised through the finish just as the breeze dropped leaving others struggling to keep steerage. Bring Ice slipped through to finish second ahead of Seance and Balderdash. Congrats to Una for line honours and the

Thanks Stefan

Results:
boat time(min) time (corr) place
Una 116.35 109.76 1st
Bring Ice 131.83 121.9 2nd
Kukuna 137.9 124.55 3rd.
Seance 132.45 142.86 4th.
Balderdash 135.45 146.09 5th
Footloose 159 156.76 6th
Solitude DNF
Navis DNF

Till next week
Happy sailing,

Lauritz

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