Texas City Dike Yacht Club

It's that time of year again to head down to Corpus Christi for the Sand Dunes regatta.  The regatta boast one of the best in hospitatlity and you for sure don't want to miss it.
 
 

Team TCDYC won the 2009 Great Texas Catamaran Race by the slimmest of margins - less than 30 seconds after 300 miles of racing. Our main sail tore on the leach at the mid point early on the last leg, losing us precious horsepower when the wind lightened up. Jim and I worked hard and managed to keep close enough to Team Sail Shop to grab the victory.

There were a number of TCDYC sailing seminar graduates out racing on Saturday. Teddy, Earnest and Chris in the dash, and of course Jim who raced the Great Texas with me (his first catamaran race!). More stories on the race to follow soon. Results and pictures from both the GT300 and dash are on the www.gt300.com

Chris.

A little footage from our shake down run before the race.

Team TCDYC is here in beautiful South Padre island. All the teams are here - including John Tomko and Ian Billings as a last minute entry (no, Tiff has not had the baby yet!). Jim and I got the boat rigged yesterday and today we made a practice run from Laguna Madre out the channel to the Padre South hotel where the start is. We arrived in style a few minutes  before our safety inspection - which we passed.

We'll be carrying a couple of video cameras with us during the race - and if the stars and the moon align we'll be posting some footage (probably once we get back - no 3G reception in the boonies on the Texas coast. The cameras got a test drive today - the first section is flickery because it was late afternoon and it caught a lot of glare from the low sun.

The race begins a week on Wednesday. You can follow the action here on tcdyc.com or on http://gt300.com Chris.

I owe a lot of thanks to a bunch of people who made this race happen for me - despite my lack of planning and last minute prep. read on

The Tybee 500 long distance catamaran race starts Monday May 11th and runs through May 16th. The race is from Islamoralda in the Florida Keys up the Atlantic coast to Tybee Island, Georgia and is one of the toughest catamaran races in the world. Texas will be represented by Team TCDYC (Green/Mcculley) and Team Chums (Wicklund/Harding). We will be posting coverage here on http://tcdyc.com in addition to coverage on major sailing sites such as http://sailinganarchy.com.

Team TCDYC

The seventh annual Great Texas 300 will be June 17-20, 2009. See the Google group.

Go. Race. Have fun.
a standard Div 6 catamaran regatta held each May on Canyon Lake. See http://groups.google.com/group/division-6/web/Longneck%20Regatta

Turnback is a very beach-cat-friendly long distance race held annually on Lake Travis in Austin. Saturday's start is in the basin of the lake adjacent to Austin Yacht Club, and the course proceeds roughly 23 miles up the lake to Lago Vista, TX, usually overnighting at the Bar K Park. Shower facilities are available, as well as camping areas. Beer and dinner are furnished. The Yacht Club furnishes a large truck to carry your gear, so if you have have a lot of stuff (or a REALLY small boat!) you can race without being weighed down.