June Racing Preview

When you pick up your June issue of Latitude 38, out tomorrow, be sure to check our Calendar for an overabundance of intriguing events, including the following regattas:

The lake circuit will really ramp up in June, starting with Gold Country Yacht Club’s Go for the Gold on Scotts Flat Lake outside Nevada City this weekend.

The third Race to Alaska will depart Port Townsend, WA, on Thursday, June 8, bound for Ketchikan, AK, by way of Victoria, BC.

On June 10, the Delta Ditch Run will travel 67 miles upriver from Richmond to Stockton in one day. Included for the third year in a row will be Delta Doo Dah cruisers (and racers). We’ll have more on that in a future post.

June 17 will be a particularly busy day in the region. Among the choices are: 

• The OYRA Farallones Race will be run by San Francisco YC.
• The Great San Francisco Schooner Race & Classic Invitational is hosted by those industrious folks at SFYC.
• The El Toro Regionals will be held on Clear Lake on June 17-18.

Stockton Sailing Club’s South Tower Race, from Stockton to San Francisco and back (nonstop) will start on Friday, June 23. If this isn’t a challenge worthy to be a bucket-list item, we don’t know what is.

Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week on June 23-25 draws entries from up and down the West Coast and beyond.

The Trans-Tahoe Regatta will be hosted by Tahoe YC in Tahoe City on June 23-24, with buoy racing on Friday and the long-distance race on Saturday.

Encinal YC in Alameda will put on a big shindig for Summer Sailstice on June 24, including a Sailstice Invitational for Small Boats. See the June Sightings for more on Summer Sailstice.

Sailors who just can’t wait for Fresno YC’s High Sierra Regattas in July can get a taste of all that nice fresh water in Huntington Lake on June 24-25 during the Commodore’s Classic Regatta.

So many more worthy events abound in the month of June than we could possibly list here, so be sure to pick up the magazine tomorrow and check them all out!