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A report of the 53rd Southport 24 Hour Race [5] was published in September 2019 by the Southport Reporter and a video report of the race was published on YouTube. The average turnout, which had stabilised in the years prior to 2020, had been between 60 and 70 boats, although the 50th anniversary race, held in 2016, attracted 82 entries.
The first race was sailed off the Southport Pierhead on 13 June 1899 when eight boats raced over a ten-mile course and Goshawk No.2 won. In 1906 the Star class, designed by George Cockshott for the West Lancashire Yacht Club, and built by Lathoms of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £32 each. They raced successfully at Southport until 1920.
Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (PHRF) is a handicapping system used for yacht racing in North America. It allows dissimilar classes of sailboats to be raced against each other. The aim is to cancel out the inherent advantages and disadvantages of each class of boats, so that results reflect crew skill rather than equipment superiority.
In 1950 he received support from the Portsmouth Harbour Racing & Sailing Association to produce the first edition of the Langstone tables for club use when they would be known as Portsmouth numbers. In 1960 he handed over the administration to the RYA and in 1976 a new YR2 format was used, with the Langstone tables being removed in 1986.
Newport Harbor and San Diego Yacht Club: 9 March 2013 Craig Thomas Williams (USA), 36 : Uncontrollable Urge, Columbia 32 Carbon [19] [20] Chicago-Mackinac Race Chicago Yacht Club: 21 July 2018 Jon Santarelli (USA), 53 Imedi, TP52 overboard resulting from wave strike [21] 2024 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race Cruising Yacht Club of Australia
The lake is home to the West Lancashire Yacht Club and Southport Sailing Club, both of which organise dinghy racing. The annual Southport 24 Hour Race, organised by the West Lancashire Yacht Club, is an endurance race of national standing, with an average turnout of 60 to 80 boats. In 2006, the event marked its 40th anniversary.
Southern Cross Yacht Club Australia: Sydney Southport Yacht Club Australia: Main Beach, Queensland: 1946 Sun City Yacht Club Australia: Two Rocks Baku Yacht Club Azerbaijan: Baku: 2004 Royal Nassau Sailing Club Bahamas: Nassau: 1924 Coral Harbour Yacht Club Bahamas: Nassau: Closed Barbados Yacht Club Barbados: St. Michael: 1924
Cumulative wins by Oxford and Cambridge men's and women's blue and reserve boats (in the SVG file, hover over a graph to highlight it). The first race, held in 1829, took place on a 2 + 1 ⁄ 4-mile (3.6 km) stretch of the Thames between Hambleden Lock and Henley Bridge.