St. Augustine Race Week

FAST, FUN AND FRIENDLY

March 14th – 21st 2020

Eight Great Days • Multiple Sailing Events

Once again the First Coast Sailing Association and its associated yacht clubs are proud to bring to St. Augustine the premiere sailing event of the spring season. It’s an eight-day celebration of all types of sailing set in America’s oldest seaport city. In 2020 we’ll continue that great combination of competition and entertainment with spectator events and entertainment the entire city can enjoy. As always, St Augustine Race Week offers Challenging Offshore Yacht Racing, Exciting Inshore Yacht Racing and Inspiring Bayfront Youth Sailboat Racing for sailors from 12 – 92 arriving from up and down the Atlantic coast. Sailers will race their yachts on the Ocean in the River and on the Bay! FAST, FUN and FRIENDLY events for Sailors, Spectators and Party People on the Water and on the Land for a full week in St Augustine, Florida. It’s the world-famous St Augustine Race Week – March 14th – 21st 2020.

Race Week 2020 includes all the features everyone loves including the best live local bands, great food, delicious rum drinks and convivial socializing with all your sailing friends – public is invited too – downtown in the Meehan’s Big Party Tent at the St. Augustine Municipal Marina. To get your 2020 shirts, hats, sail bags and other paraphernalia, check the MERCHANDISE page on this website.  And, like our 2019 event, hundreds of spectators will see the delightful spectacle of youngsters racing right off the Bayfront in their One-Design 420’s. We will even have a Dragon Boat demonstration on the Bayfront, too!
Something for Every Boat. You don’t have to own an ocean-going boat to participate. Slightly smaller yachts and even trailerable sailing boats are invited to race in the popular Inshore Series in the Tolomato River just North of the Vilano Bridge. The Offshore Series is for serious racers who like lots of traditional round-the-buoys, upwind-downwind racing. The Tactical Challenge Series presents a set of coordinates to be reached by any route sailors choose.
Kids – The Best Thing About Our Regatta: In the summer of 2019 proceeds from St. Augustine Race Week enabled us to send nearly 40 underprivleged kids to various summer sailing camps around the area free of charge! That’s what we’re all about – giving less fortunate children a great summer experience and training the next generation of sailors. We’re looking forward to increasing that amount in 2020 and giving even more kids their first experience at the helm of a real sailboat. The 2020 SARW One-Design 420 Youth Regatta sails in the Matanzas Bay on its own special weekend, March 14th & 15th.

WELCOME To SARW 2020

Allons-Y (Rose Ann Points, SAYC)
Ariel (Daniel Floryan, SAYC)
Bernoulli (Allen Jones, EFYC)
Caper (Peter Korous)
Cheeta (Bubba Futch, Rudder Club)
Destiny (Edward Delorme)
Encore (Stephen Michael, Rudder Club)
Estelle (Paul Jarrett, SAYC)
Fantasea (Henry Baker, SAYC)
Fin (Graeme Nichol, AISC)
Flamingo 1 (Carl Kennon, SAYC)
Girl Dog (Paul Hellings, RIYC)
Kaos (Rich Brew, Rudder Club)
Monkey’s Uncle (Carter Quillen, NFCC)
Morgana (Jindrich “Henry” Korous)
Naut-on-Call (Eddie Evans, CORA/ChYC)
Nina (Michael Fegen, SAYC)
Njord (Finn Gardner, SAYC)
Obsessions (Norman Church, HRYC/Storm Trysail)
Ocean Avenue 11 (Hunt Bowman, SAYC)
Ponce (Gilbert Wright, Sail Queen’s Harbour)
Rapid Transit (Tom Davis, Rudder Club)
Rattle & Hum (Adam Norwood, NFCC / Rudder Club)
Rendezvous with Destiny (Florentino Santana, SAYC)
Santarella (James Scalise, Shennecossett YC)
Shadowfax (Guy Anderson, SAYC)
Sky Bird (Michael Dolan, SAYC)
SnowGoose (Robert Newsome, SAYC)
Veria (Brianne Petit-Muller, SAYC)
Zaida (Chuck Fields, NFCC)

987 and one-half feet of Yachts are Registered for 2020 SARW.
Plus 60 feet of Captains!
It’s a BIG ocean. Plenty of room for your Yacht.

Send a picture of your yacht to
WebMaster@StAugustineRaceWeek.com
and be featured on our WebSite.

First to Register for 2020 SARW
Encore – Lindenberg 28
Stephen Michael, Captain
Rudder Club of Jax

Longest Yacht: 45 Feet
Monkey’s Uncle – Hunter Center Cockpit
Carter Quillen, Captain
North Florida Cruising CLub

Shortest Yacht: Tie – 22 Feet
Girl Dog – Catalina 22
Paul Hellings, Captain
Rat Island Yacht Club

Nina – Hunter 22
Michael Fegen, Captain
St Augustine Yacht Club

Farthest from Home Port:
928 Nautical Miles*
Santarella
James Scalise, Captain
Shennecossett YC – Groton CT

Welcome First-timers!
Allons-Y
Rose Ann Points, Captain
St Augustine Yacht Club

Caper
Peter Korous, Captain

Cheetah
Bubba Futch, Captain

Nina
Michael Fegen, Captain
St Augustine Yacht Club

Njord
Finn Gardner, Captain
St Augustine Yacht Club

Ponce
Gilbert Wright, Captain

Rendezvous with Destiny
Florentino Santana, Captain
St Augustine Yacht Club

Sky Bird
Michael Dolan, Captain
St Augustine Yacht Club

SnowGoose
Robert Newsome, Owner
St Augustine Yacht Club

It’s a BIG ocean. Plenty of room for your Yacht.

* Source/Nautical Miles: https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/docs/distances.pdf

Honor Roll of Past Racers

Actaea     Ariel     Adenium     Avenger     Bernoulli     BigTime     Black Pearl     Blueprint     Blue Sky     Calypso Breeze     Carpe Diam     Destiny     Encore     Estelle     Fantasea     Fin     Final Gravity     Fireball     Flamingo 1     Flyer     Forgotten Princess     French Kiss     Gaboon     Ghost     Gibson Dry Dock     Gone Postal     Girl Dog     Hillbilly     Hunter 41     J 29     Kaos     Katana     Kerberos     Kiwi Spirit II     Kotchka     Lively     Meteor     Monkey’s Uncle     Mountain Roo     Morgana     Naked Option     Naut-on-Call     Obsessions     Ocean Avenue 11     O Katana     Olive Oyle     PHRFection     Quick Decision     Rapid Transit     Rattle & Hum     Ripple     RockStar     Santarella     Sassy     Sea Breeze     Sea Hawk     Second Wind     Shadowfax     Skybird     Snow Goose     So Anyway     Spider Pig     Stray Dog     Swim Up Tiki Bar     Veria     Vixen     Water Streak     Windchaser     Zaida

Bolded Yachts are returning to race in 2020 SARW

Are you ready for 2020 SARW?

Sign up NOW for the 2020 SARW Yacht Races.
You know you want to!
Did I mention, “There will be Rum?”

2020 SARW Registration is OPEN.

Click here to register for 2020 SARW Offshore / Inshore Yacht Racing
Register at YachtScoring

Click here to register for 2020 Youth Sailing Regatta.
2020 Youth Regatta Registration

St Augustine Race Week VIPs

Sponsored by

First Coast Sailing Association is a 5013c Organization
Tom Davis, President
4446 Hendricks Ave, #227         Jacksonville FL 32207

All excess funds generated by SARW sponsorships and entry fees go to support our John Daniel Meehan Youth Sailing Scholarship Program. Each summer we send kids aged 8-18 to summer sailing camps in the Northeast Florida area where they learn the basics of sailing and water safety while also having loads of fun. In the summer of 2019 proceeds from St. Augustine Race Week enabled us to send nearly 40 underprivleged kids to various summer sailing camps around the area. All at no charge!

Our partners in this program are St. Augustine Yacht Club, North Florida Cruising Club, Florida Yacht Club, Halifax River Yacht Club, Halifax Youth Sailing, The Rudder Club of Jacksonville, Queens Harbour Yacht Club, and Smyrna Yacht Club. We look forward to another fun year in 2019.

St Augustine Race Week 2017
30-second Recap – Jeremy Garza