Long Beach Race Week
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Long Beach Race Week is an annual sailing regatta
for keelboats and ocean racing catamarans conducted annually at the end of June. Organized by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and Long Beach Yacht Club Racing it is organized on multiple courses in the ocean off Long Beach, California
, USA. It is the final leg of the major Southern California regattas which are Ahmanson Cup (Newport Harbor YC), Yachting Cup (SDYC) and Cal Race Week (California YC). With the end of Golison Race Week (aka Sobstad/Audi/Coast Cadillac/North Sails Race Week) after a 20 year run, Long Beach Race Week has taken the role of the preeminent regatta in Southern California at which the racers hope for the big breeze to roll down from Hurricane Gulch.
Regatta
A regatta is a series of boat races. The term typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft, although some powerboat race series are also called regattas...
for keelboats and ocean racing catamarans conducted annually at the end of June. Organized by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and Long Beach Yacht Club Racing it is organized on multiple courses in the ocean off Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
, USA. It is the final leg of the major Southern California regattas which are Ahmanson Cup (Newport Harbor YC), Yachting Cup (SDYC) and Cal Race Week (California YC). With the end of Golison Race Week (aka Sobstad/Audi/Coast Cadillac/North Sails Race Week) after a 20 year run, Long Beach Race Week has taken the role of the preeminent regatta in Southern California at which the racers hope for the big breeze to roll down from Hurricane Gulch.