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This year the Buffalo Yacht Club will host the Annual Regatta.
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As I previously mentioned we have a very special surprise announcement for the 2010 LYRA regatta. Through the connections of Peter Huston we were able to convince the current US Sailing President and past Americas' Cup winning tactician Gary Jobson to make a special guest appearance at Friday night's festivities for this year's LYRA regatta being held at The Buffalo Yacht Club. Gary will be our guest announcer along with the BYCs own Tim Hunt for a special charity mini match race we will be hosting. The format will be very lose and conducted directly in front of the BYC club house. Each LYRA affiliated yacht club will be invited to sponsor as many competitors as they wish to enter. The fee is $100 per entry with all proceeds going to the Leukemia Society. We will use the clubs Tech Dinghy's, which are a one person boat, that will sail in a sudden death format, starting after Fridays course racing with racing on Saturday if needed. This should be a unique and very fun event.
More LYRA news to follow as it becomes available. Maybe it's time to mark your calendar and rustle up the crew. Founders and Centennial start 7/27/10; Freeman 7/28/10. 3day Course racing 7/30-8/1 and 2 day course racing 7/31-8/1.
Each year The host club publishes a regatta program. This is your chance to recognize your boat, crew, yacht club, or market your business or organization.
Please consider taking out an ad or wish your competitors fair winds.
Download the 2010 Regatta Program Sponsorship/Advertising application form.
The Buffalo Yacht Club is happy to announce Velocitek as a sponsor to this years LYRA regatta. All boats registered prior to July 15th will be entered into a drawing to win a Velocitek SC-1. In addition all participating boats will recieve a coupon code for a 10% discount to order any Velocitek product online. Go to www.velocitek.com to check out all their cool products
and see what others are saying about them.This is just one more reason why you want to put the LYRA on your schedule as this year's MUST DO regatta.
The dates are July 27 - August 1
"I was amazed how well the starting line function worked. The unit gave fantastic starting line information and we were effectively able to use this in the final seconds before the gun. It was as good as having a full big-boat instrumentation package running Deckman for Windows or Expedition."
-Chris Larson (2009 Melges 24 World Champion)
"At the Melges24 North Americans we relied on the SC-1 to help us determine how much current we were sailing in. Since the SC-1 accurately shows the direction that the boat is traveling, rather than where the bow is aimed, we could determine if the current was pushing us to the lay lines or holding us off. This feature was key to helping us win the North Americans on a very tricky Chesapeake Bay with lots of shifts, strong currents, and tough competition."
-Scott Nixon, Tactician - USA751 Quantum Racing (2008 Melges 24 North
American Champion)
Andrew Alberti has worked hard and been able to secure umpires for the Stolze Cup. This series was started by Rochester YC Past Commodore Bill Stolze, who wanted to foster an elimination series to select the team that would represent LYRA in the YRUGL Richardson Cup. Over the years the Stolze Cup series has been elevated to a higher standard of race management and organization.
Registration for LYRA is now live at yachtscoring.com. Please note that participants need to register for the course racing and distance races separately. But once you register for one event the program will automatically input your data into the next event.
NOR and Registration form for the “mini regatta”. It is the Friday night charity regatta with Gary Jobson as guest commentator. JOIN US FOR THE FUN.