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Long Beach Yacht Club: Type: World Sailing grade 1 match racing event on the World Match Racing Tour: Classes: Catalina 37: Venue: Pacific Ocean off the Belmont Veteran's Memorial Pier in Long Beach, CA, United States: Competitors: Top ranked match racing skippers from around the world: Champion: Chris Poole (2024) Most titles
Organized by Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and Long Beach Yacht Club it is organized on multiple courses in the ocean off Long Beach, California, United States. [1] [2] 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 ...
The Long Beach Yacht Club Congressional Cup racing fleet. The club maintains a fleet of Catalina 37 limited production racing boats, specifically designed race in the Congressional Cup, an event hosted by LBYC. [2] Long Beach Race Week is hosted by the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club and the Long Beach Yacht Club.
On 9 December 2020, Stars & Stripes (Long Beach Yacht Club) withdrew from the competition. [29] Starting 29 January 2021, Luna Rossa faced the New York Yacht Club in a best-of-7 semi-final for the challenger's Prada Cup; by 30 January, the Italians had completed a 4–0 sweep to advance to the Prada Cup finals. [30]
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The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport. [1] [2] [3] America's Cup match races are held between two sailing yachts: one from the yacht club that currently holds the trophy (known as the defender) and the other from the yacht club that is challenging for the cup (the challenger).
The Richardson Trophy is governed and sponsored by the Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes. The'Granddaddy of Match Racing' is the Congressional Cup, held at the Long Beach Yacht Club every Spring, It features 5 days of racing on identical 37 foot Catalinas that were purpose-built for this event by Frank Butler.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Sea Cliff Yacht Club, (the owners of the physical trophy and official stewards of the event) lost interest in collaborating with the C Class, which appeared to be dying, and chose to change the format of the event known as the Little America's Cup.