Big Boat Racing

The Commodore's Challenge Race

The 2023-24 PMYC Commodore’s Challenge is a 11.4 NM downwind time trial between yellow channel separation buoys “SF” and “T”. Run whenever you want and as many times as you want between November 20th 2023 to October 31st 2023. Post your best time and the winner gets their name on the new trophy. It's a specialty race for the wild ones (or when you're just feeling it), but everyone is welcome. Now we've got extra motivation to get out there on the windy ones.

The sailing instructions are available here: PMYC Commodore's Challenge Sailing Instructions.

PMYC has a full and varied racing season each year for big boats. To find out when races are scheduled this year, view the Big Boat Racing Calendar.  Below is the list of races that are scheduled for this year (check racing calendar for date changes):

• Jim Depue Memorial Race (2/25/2023) - first race of the year
• Opening Day Race (4/29/2023)
  
• Thursday Evening Big Boat Racing Series (4/13/23 - 9/14/23)
• Fal Joslin (6/3/2023 - 6/4/2023) - everyone's favorite overnight destination race
• Lipton Cup - 6 meter one design 
• Figure 8 Race (6/10/23 - 6/11/23)
• Round the Island Race (9/23/2023 - 9/24/2023)

Racing Calendar & Results

To find out when races are scheduled, view the Big Boat Racing Calendar.  Each event's page includes the NOR, sailing instructions, online and mail-in entry forms and other information about the races when the information becomes available.

To view the past racing results, view the Big Boat Racing Results.

The current racing rules and scoring are available in the PMYC yearbook.  Click Here to download the big boat racing rules from the yearbook.

For more information on PMYC races, please email the race chair at racing@portmadisonyc.org.