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Women Take the Tiller to Race

By Christine Weaver | July 25, 2018 | Half Moon Bay, CA |

Women Sailing of Half Moon Bay Yacht Club offers their first-ever Take the Tiller Women Sailing Regatta this Saturday, July 28. All women are welcome, and you don’t need to have your own boat. The Regatta is open to Laser, Flying Junior, Coronado 15 and Cal 20 classes. The race area will be set within Pillar Point Harbor using inflatable marks.

Venus Envy, part of HMBYC’s colorful fleet of Cal 20s, sailing in Pillar Point Harbor during last year’s Women Take the Tiller seminar.

© Half Moon Bay Yacht Club

Check-in will be from 9-10 a.m. A mandatory sailors’ meeting will be held at 10 a.m. on the HMBYC patio. Five to seven races are scheduled, time permitting. The entry fee is: $20 per person, skippers and crewmembers. Lunch will be provided as part of the entry fee. Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third place finishes in each division. Register at www.hmbyc.org.

The mission of Women Sailing of Half Moon Bay Yacht Club is to empower women and girls through sailing. The group sails on the second and fourth Thursday of each month April through October, hosts winter sailing seminars for the club, and raises funds for sailing scholarships for girls. Every year they sponsor one woman member who is fairly new to sailing to attend the Island YC’s two-day Women’s Sailing Seminar in Alameda each September.

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