Island Yacht Club Sails Island Days #3
On January 11, Island Yacht Club held Race #3 of our Island Days Series. We had a record number of entries at 41 boats, and a record number of sailing boats for our winter series at 31 boats sailing on this day. WOO HOO! We are super-excited to see many boats sailing on the Oakland-Alameda Estuary. It was a beautiful non-rainy day!
However, our excitement started before the race began because we received a call from one of the racers that there was lots of debris in the Estuary. Our race was shortly after the storm and king tides, so many things had washed into the Estuary from all sorts of places. Fortunately, our mark-set crew of John and Chris moved and collected many items (see photo) and filled our mark-set boat to the brim! We are grateful to the racers telling us about this situation, so we could address it. We had no problems with debris during the race.
We celebrated post-race at Park Station in Alameda, but we had to wait for the 49ers game to end. This was the game that they won, so we celebrated their victory too!
We welcome anyone to join us for our last two races on February 22 and March 8! You can find our registration on the Jibeset website for Island Yacht Club.
Racing is fun!