2013 Turnback Regatta
Promoting the sport of sailing on Lake Travis since 1951
AYC is located on 35 acres of lakefront property on the shore of Lake Travis, in the heart of the Texas hill country yet only 30 minutes from downtown Austin.
Activities are organized year round, with racing of some kind almost every weekend and many weekday nights during the summer months.
The club supports local high school sailing teams and hosts the University of Texas sailing team.
The club also offers on-the-water and classroom-based training for members and non-members, including a kids' summer camp.
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May - Into Full Swing !
With the coming of May, your Yacht Club is into full swing with series races, multiple training events, active youth sailing every week, regattas, Friday night Beer Can racing, and now with May, the return of Wednesday Night Sunfish / Laser races. There are more reasons than ever to come out and enjoy your club.
April 6 and 7 saw the return of the annual youth Roadrunner Regatta and once again, AYC provided a spectacular venue for an excellent turnout. We broke the 100 competitor threshold with 102 sailors competing. This regatta also continues to be a revenue generator for AYC, helping to fund other regattas such as Turnback Canyon. Many thanks to our Vice Commodore John Morran for another year of excellent execution in managing this great event. Sign up for Turnback!
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May - Into Full Swing !
With the coming of May, your Yacht Club is into full swing with series races, multiple training events, active youth sailing every week, regattas, Friday night Beer Can racing, and now with May, the return of Wednesday Night Sunfish / Laser races. There are more reasons than ever to come out and enjoy your club.
April 6 and 7 saw the return of the annual youth Roadrunner Regatta and once again, AYC provided a spectacular venue for an excellent turnout. We broke the 100 competitor threshold with 102 sailors competing. This regatta also continues to be a revenue generator for AYC, helping to fund other regattas such as Turnback Canyon. Many thanks to our Vice Commodore John Morran for another year of excellent execution in managing this great event. Sign up for Turnback!
If you haven’t been out to the club lately, you may not have seen our ramp extension. With the help of Jonathan Nash (Harbor), John Saunders (Buildings and Grounds) and Ray Shull, we have widened, steepened, and extended our North Ramp to within a few feet of the current lake level. After input from many members and fleets, we worked to achieve a 10% grade for the length of the ramp.
Although some fleets preferred a slightly steeper grade, each degree of increase would lead to a significant amount of additional digging and material removal, which was a major part of the project cost in the first place. The board felt that the 10% grade was a good compromise between usability and costs. Note that the lower section of the old ramp extension was only a 5% grade.
Looking forward, there is a tremendous amount of activity coming up. In addition to sailing on Wednesday and Friday evenings, the Summer Series has just kicked off on Sunday afternoons, we had a Spring Women’s Sailing Clinic on Saturday May 11, and we end the month with our annual Turnback Canyon regatta on May 25 and 26. With the continued drought, we plan to repeat the Turnback Canyon program that Wade Bingaman masterfully created last year, with two long distance races, one on Saturday and another on Sunday, with an amazing beach party Saturday evening. The food is being catered, so if you plan to race or just attend the beach party, please be sure to register in advance so that the regatta team can order adequate food for all!
Christopher Dwight
2013 AYC Commodore
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