Seventeen intrepid IOM sailors shook off the somewhat ominous forecast and showed up to battle for honours at the first Coastal Cup event of 2026. They were rewarded with super winds, somewhat cool temperatures and bright sunshine!! Racing began in light and puffy conditions and slowly built to solid A rig …
Hello all IOM keeners! As the 2025 Coastal Cup Season comes to a close, what a year it was !! Together we traveled and sailed in 8 wonderful locations across BC, and put together an enormously popular Canadian National Championship at the Saltspring Island Sailing Club. Starting in March we sailed …
Seven intrepid IOM’rs made the trek to Royal Victoria Yacht Club for the 8th and final event of Coastal Cup 2025. Of course the weatherman predicted rain and even snow on the drive down from Nanaimo, which convinced 3 entrants to retire in front of the fire with visions of a …
September 11th – 14th. 2025 Saltspring Island B.C. The 2025 IOM National Championship Regatta took place on Saltspring Island at the Saltspring Island Sailing Club. The Organizing Authority was the West Coast Radio Sailing Club. 31 competitors from the US and Canada registered for the event. Interestingly, the fleet was almost exactly …
CC #6 took place on Saturday August 16th in Blind Channel in beautiful downtown Squamish. A sketchy weather report dropped our entry list down to only 7 competitors. On the day, the weather was fine, totally clear for the racing with only a few small showers as we were packing …
This year CC5 was set to return to Port Alberni as a 2-day event. After much communication with the port authority and a site visit it was determined the launching dock on Centennial Pier was removed which nixed this location for this event. An attempt was made to secure another …
14 IOM’rs met on Saturday June 21st for Coastal Cup #4. This CC was hosted by the Grimm family at Kitsilano Yacht Club…a super venue right on English Bay in Vancouver. Joining the usual local suspects were Art Prufer, Robert Seline and Jim Fergusson from Vancouver Island, Jerry Brower from Washington State …
14 IOM’rs converged on Kelowna May 10 and 11 from BC, AB and WA to enjoy Coastal Cup’s first 2-day event of 2025. Kelowna did not disappoint…it was the sunniest CC yet with none of that rainy stuff. Oh, and the organizers had a special twist in the plan….more on that later. …
What a weekend it was in Nanaimo !! The Great Ocean Race 2025 and CC 2 are in the books – the fun continues! On a beautiful sunny Saturday with a SE breeze of 4-8 knots, the Great Ocean Race saw 5 of our IOM’ers enter the race. Three in …
Congratulations to all IOM sailors who braved the weather to turn out for CC #1 in Steveston on March 8th. A very special thankyou to our RC crew: Bud Fassnacht, Al Oliver and Bob Lewis who did a great job of running and scoring twelve races under difficult conditions. Difficult? Well, we …
