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Great Pumpkin Regatta Gets Going Tonight

What’s the most telling thing about the popularity of the Richmond YC’s Great Pumpkin Regatta? The fact that there’s nothing else on the schedule this weekend. With three buoy races tomorrow, followed by one of the best regatta parties of the year later that evening, and a relaxed choose-your-own-adventure pursuit race around Alcatraz and Angel Islands on Sunday, the Pumpkin is the perfect coda to the summer racing schedule.

Click on the poster for the regatta website.

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Tomorrow night’s dinner will be “roast beef with all the fixin’s” and will be followed by live music courtesy of Open Road, which will be playing “laid back country soul to blistering rock & roll.” Don’t forget to wear a costume because there’s a contest to determine the best one. But those aren’t the only shoreside activities for the weekend. Tonight there’s pumpkin carving for the kids and a pasta feed for the family — regular dinner can be had upstairs too — and an RYC Foundation gear sale on the club’s front lawn that will continue in the morning on both days.

Free coffee and pastries, and $5 Bloody Mary’s get the party started at 8 a.m. tomorrow, leaving plenty of time to make make the 11:30 a.m. start. Then, on  Sunday morning, there’s a Breakfast Burrito bar to help you absolve — or absorb, as the case may be —  your Saturday night sins. The theme for this year is: “Dead Head Great Pumpkin,” so be sure to tune in and turn out; you won’t want to miss it.

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