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The Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race is an annual 125-nautical-mile international yacht race. First run in 1948, sailors gather each spring in Newport Beach, California, to participate in one of the West Coast's premier regattas. The Newport to Ensenada yacht Race (N2E) is a race to the city of Ensenada, Baja California. [1]
Challenged Sailors San Diego (CSSD) is a California not-for-profit corporation that provides weekly adaptive sailing opportunities for adults and children living with disabilities. [1] The organization offers sailing for free from eight specially adaptive sailboats. [ 2 ]
The race was conceived and directed by Jack Johnstone and Don Shanahan of the San Diego Track Club, and was sponsored by the track club with 46 participants in the event. It was reportedly not inspired by the French events, [6] although a race held the following year at Fiesta Island, San Diego, is sometimes called "the first triathlon in ...
For many sailing craft 45° on either side of the wind is a no-go zone, where a sail is unable to mobilize power from the wind. Sailing on a course as close to the wind as possible—approximately 45°—is termed beating, a point of sail when the sails are close-hauled. At 90° off the wind, a craft is on a beam reach.
The Star World Championship are international sailing regattas in the Star class organized by the International Star Class Yacht Racing Association and sanctioned by World Sailing. [ 1 ] American sailor Lowell North has won the most titles, with five titles between 1945 and 1973 and another seven podiums.
San Diego Yacht Club was the home of the America's Cup from 1988 to 1995 and hosted three America's Cup races during that time. San Diego Yacht Club was the original home of the Sir Thomas Lipton Cup, one of the pre-eminent events in Southern California racing, which is held in the ocean off San Diego every year.
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The apparent wind on the sail creates a total aerodynamic force, which may be resolved into drag—the force component in the direction of the apparent wind—and lift—the force component normal (90°) to the apparent wind. Depending on the alignment of the sail with the apparent wind, lift or drag may be the predominant propulsive component.