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Let's Celebrate 100 Years - CYC Heritage Sail Event

Start
July 19, 2024
End
July 21, 2024

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:

Double-Handed Early Bird Pricing – $130.00
Early bird pricing in place until June 14, 2024.

Please register your boat crew as guest. There is no extra charge for this guest except for the food packages.

Wine and cheese event included.
General Admission
Meals and other options can be selected later in the registration process. Registration needs to be complete by July 14 to have access to meals.

Please enter NA for Boat and Sail Number.
Single-Handed Early Bird Pricing – $105.00
Early bird pricing in place until June 14, 2024.

Wine and cheese event included.
Triple-Handled Early Bird – $165.00
Early bird pricing in place until June 14, 2024.

Please register your boat crew as your guests. There is no extra charge for this except for the food packages.

Friday night wine and cheese event included.

Notice of Event - Heritage Classic Sail

Chestermere Lake, Calgary Yacht Club

635 East Chestermere Drive

July 19 to 21 2024

Heritage Class Criteria: Sailboats of classes that were designed in 1970 or earlier. These include (Class, Design Year): Lightning (1938), Comet (1932), Fireball (1962), Y Flyer (1941), Sea Spray (1966), Mirror Dinghy (1962), Enterprise (1956), Finn (1964), OK Dinghy (1956), Flying Dutchman (1951), Flying Junior (1956), International 14 (1928), International Canoe (1886), Wayfarer (1957), 420 (1959) and potentially others. Any boat of one of these classes is eligible, regardless of construction date and materials. For example, a 2015 Fireball made of epoxy fibreglass and a 1967 Fireball made of wood would both be eligible to participate in the Heritage Classic Sail.

Sailing Schedule

Activity	Time & Date
Skippers Meeting	Saturday July 20^th, 12:00
Saturday Sailing	Saturday July 20^th, 13:00 – 17:00
Sunday Sailing	Sunday July 21^st, 10:00-13:30

Courses: Sailing courses may be windward/leeward, triangle or a combination of the two, and potentially one longer-distance event.

A single mass start will be done with overall positions based on Portsmouth handicaps. Overall winners of each class will also be recognized.

Meals and Social: Meals and social activities are part of a broader centennial of sailing celebration being held the same weekend.

Welcome Wine and Cheese Friday, July 19 5pm is included in sailing registration as is Awards Lunch Sunday, July 21 2 pm. Sailors may alternately purchase a full meal package or singly the Saturday supper. The Saturday supper will include a program of reminiscing, history of the classes and other contributions from attendees. Some of this will be recorded on video.

A classic boat ‘show & shine’ will be held Saturday evening from 1730 onward with boats displayed on the front lawn of the club (west side) with signage.

Registration/Camping/RV parking: See the registration link which includes a complete schedule for weekend activities.

(there will be an early bird registration up to and including July 1^st 2024 the first 15 boats registered will receive a hand crafted miniature sailboat)