2024 SARW – ABOUT

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WARM OCEAN, FRIENDLY PEOPLE, HOT COMPETITION

April 6th – 13th 2024

Eight Great Days • Multiple Sailing Events

Ocean Racing • River Racing
Bayfront Racing • Youth Sailing Regatta

Special Events for
Registered Racers, Crew & Family include:

Awards Ceremonies • Parties • Live Music

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WARM OCEAN, FRIENDLY PEOPLE, HOT COMPETITION

A City-Wide Sailing Celebration

Seven Days of Racing along the city’s Bayfront, in the Tolomato River and on the Atlantic Ocean. Free Live Music for Registered Racers, Crew & Family in the SARW Events Tent located Downtown at the St Augustine Municipal Marina.
Our awesome Food and Beverage Vendors will serve up tasty treats to keep the Party going. Sailors, Spectators, and Party People can join us on Land, in the Bay, or on the High Seas!
The SARW Events Tent at Municipal Marina is OPEN to the public, including Live Music and Food & Drink vendors

Events.

Cruisers • Racers • Big Boats
Small Boats • Youth Sailing Regatta

Race Schedule

Parties • Live Music • Great Food & Drink

Party Details

Proceeds to support the John Daniel Meehan (JDM) Youth Sailing Scholarship Fund.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday

Awards Ceremonies and Parties

will be held in

The SARW Events Tent

Downtown at the St Augustine Municipal Marina.

Food, Fun, Drinking & Live Music.   Party like a Sailor!

(Notice: The SARW Events Tent is OPEN to the Public)

Racing Formats for Everyone

Offshore Racing
• Performance Spinnaker
• Performance Non-Spinnaker
• Cruiser Spinnaker
• Cruiser Non-Spinnaker
Inshore Racing
• Performance Spinnaker
• Cruiser Spinnaker
Youth Sailing Regatta
• 420 Main & Jib
• C420 Trap & Spin

Proceeds to Benefit Kids

St. Augustine Race Week raises funds to send underprivileged children to local sailing camps every summer as part of our JDM Youth Sailing Scholarship Fund, named in honor of the late John Meehan, a strong supporter of St Augustine Race Week.
In 2023, our generous Sponsors made it possible for us to send nearly 40 underprivileged kids to summer sailing camps free of charge.

Race Schedule         Inshore/Offshore NOR         Youth Sailing Regatta NOR

Sailing Instructions will be available at the Competitors & Skippers Meetings.

A Perfect Event for St. Augustine and You

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 2024 we’ll continue that great combination of competition and entertainment with Spectator Events, Parties, Live Music and Awards Ceremonies. 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! WARM OCEAN, FRIENDLY PEOPLE, HOT COMPETITION events for Sailors, Spectators and Party People on the Water and on the Land for a full week in St Augustine, Florida. This year, Parties & Live Music Events in the SARW Events Tent are OPEN to the public. It’s the world-famous St Augustine Race Week, April 6th – April 13th 2024.

Race Week 2024 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. This year’s Parties will be held in the SARW Events Tent Downtown at the St Augustine Municipal MarinaSARW Logo and are OPEN to the public. Private Ceremonies and Events will be held at the St Augustine Yacht Club. 2024 SARW shirts, hats, sail bags and other paraphernalia will be available for sale at each of the Awards Ceremonies.  And, like our 2023 event, hundreds of spectators will see the delightful spectacle of youngsters racing right off the Bayfront in their 420’s. The 2024 SARW includes two classes of 420: 420 Main & Jib as well as C420 Trap & Spin!
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 2023 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 2024 and giving even more kids their first experience at the helm of a real sailboat. The 2024 SARW 420 Youth Sailing Regatta sails in the Matanzas Bay on its own special weekend, April 6th & 7th 2024.

MULTIPLE RACING FORMATS

CRUISERS

Conquistador’s Corner – You’ll be given a prescribed latitude and longitude. Sail out to touch each line at any point and return to the finish.
Menendez’s Meander – Just like Pedro Menendez de Aviles, you’ll sail up and down the coastline to prescribed North latitude, a Southern latitude and back to finish.

SPIN and NON-SPIN
PERFORMANCE BOATS

Mariners Triangles – No imaginary points to find. It’s traditional round-the-buoys racing action with upwind, downwind, reaching legs and back to the finish line. We’ll do as many races as we can each day depending on time and wind conditions.

SMALLER YACHTS

The Inshore Series – The course will be set up in the Intracoastal Waterway North of the Vilano Bridge with tight racing between the banks. On the final day we hope to have you race downtown for spectators along the Bayfront.

THE YOUTH SAILING REGATTA

This year, our Youth Sailors will compete in the 2024 SARW 420 Youth Sailing Regatta on the Opening Weekend of Race Week. The Youth Sailing Regatta is an entirely separate regatta with its own set of trophy winners to be awarded Sunday at the St Augustine Yacht Club.

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REGISTRATION
Are you ready for 2024 SARW?

Sign up NOW for the 2024 SARW Yacht Races.
You know you want to!
Did I mention, “There will be Rum?”
And Hot Chocolate for the Youth Sailors!

2024 SARW Offshore & Inshore Registration is NOW OPEN

Click here to register for SARW Offshore / Inshore Yacht Racing

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Youth Sailing Regatta Registration

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Offshore / Inshore Entries         Youth Regatta Entries

St Augustine Race Week VIPs

Chairman: Dan Floryan
(904) 687-5145     dfloryan1@comcast.net
Co-Chairman: Guy Anderson
(904) 396-6382     guykanderson@att.net
Offshore Race PRO: Carl Shellback Inshore Race PRO: Pat Lambert
Youth Sailing Regatta Chairman: John Grannis
(904)-571-2227     jgfla1@gmail.com
Dave Montgomery
(904) 252-2195     dave-writes@comcast.net

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Sponsored by

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

JDM Youth Sailing Scholarship Fund

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 2023 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, Epping Forest Yacht Club, Florida Yacht Club, Halifax River Yacht Club, Halifax Youth Sailing, The Rudder Club of Jacksonville, Queens Harbour Yacht Club, St Augustine Sailing, St Augustine Sailing Sisters, and Smyrna Yacht Club. We look forward to another fun year in 2024.

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

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WARM OCEAN, FRIENDLY PEOPLE, HOT COMPETITION