Register for 2023 Islands Race: NHYC and SDYC’s Annual SoCal Offshore Race
2023 RACE NEWS | Posted November 10, 2022
Newport Harbor Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club invite you to compete in the 2023 Islands Race this February. The 130+ nm course is both beautiful and challenging, featuring genuine sea breezes and deep blue ocean swells. Competitors will depart from Pt. Fermin just north of Long Beach and head west. Then, with Santa Catalina and San Clemente Islands to port, competitors will experience some of Southern California’s best sailing before they finish the regatta at San Diego’s Point Loma. See NOR for info on the expected course and required safety rules.
Pyewacket 70 Wins 2022 Islands Race
2022 RACE NEWS | Posted February 26, 2022
The 2022 Islands Race, co-hosted by San Diego Yacht Club and Newport Harbor Yacht Club, has been a known for a decade as the start to the offshore sailing season. The 142 nautical mile race around Catalina and San Clemente Islands featured 42 boats this year — the biggest turn out in its 13 year history. One boat in particular, Pyewacket 70, showed up ready to prove their preparation for the race is on point, and the set the pace for their offshore season.
2022 Islands Race Sends Record 42 Teams on 142nm Coastal Race
2022 RACE NEWS | Posted February 25, 2022
The 2022 West Coast Offshore Racing Season kicks off with the 142nm race from Point Fermin, around Catalina and San Clemente Islands to the finish in San Diego February 25-26. Co-hosted by Newport Harbor Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club, the 13th edition of this annual race sets a new record with 42 entries competing in 6 ORR classes, 1 ORR-ez class, and a single multihull entry.
Islands Race Marks First Coastal Race of 2022
2022 RACE NEWS | Posted January 14, 2022
The Islands Race, a 142 nautical mile race around Catalina and San Clemente Islands hosted by San Diego Yacht Club and Newport Harbor Yacht Club, returns on February 25-26, making it the first offshore race of the year in Southern California. The signature offshore event currently has an entry list of over 20 boats preparing for an overnight at sea. With San Diego Yacht Club's popular Puerto Vallarta Race to Mexico only two weeks following, many sailors use the Islands Race as a practice run for their vessels and crews. While the Islands Race can be considered an exercise for more intense offshore sailors, it is not without its own admiration for many others.
Small But Mighty Antrim 27C Wins 2021 Islands Race
2021 RACE NEWS | Posted March 06, 2021
A full year ago in Spring 2020, Newport Harbor Yacht Club and San Diego Yacht Club hosted the Islands Race with a just a hint of the Covid-19 influence over our lives, one of the last “normal” regattas before the pandemic took over. A few weeks later as the 2020 Puerto Vallarta Race sailed down to Mexico, the US fully embraced the initial Covid lockdown and sailing hasn’t been the same since. But with patience and planning, this year’s Islands Race brought 32 teams to compete in the 142 mile coastal race from Long Beach, around Catalina and San Clemente to San Diego. And for those on the racecourse at night, the offshore racing experience and competition were back in all its glory. Many teams have not had the chance to compete in this way in over a year, so the Islands Race served as its own competition and also training and preparation for teams set to compete in the 600+ mile race to Cabo in March, and the 2225 mile Transpac Race in July. Fifteen of the Islands Race teams will sail the Cabo Race, and 20 will sail in Transpac this year.