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The Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac is a 333-mile (289 nmi; 536 km) annual yacht race starting in Lake Michigan off Chicago, Illinois, and ending in Lake Huron off Mackinac Island, Michigan. It is hosted and managed by the Chicago Yacht Club. The "Mac" (as it is known) was first run in 1898 and is the oldest annual freshwater distance race ...
Harvard and Yale held a sailing event in 1911, [2] [3] but this was a long-distance 'cruise' rather than a fleet or team race, and only one Yale yacht attended the event. Organized intercollegiate fleet racing began in 1928 between just a few schools in Eight-Metres for the Oliver Hay Trophy, now known as the McMillan Cup.
The Big Sail is the name given to the annual exhibition sailing contest between the University of California, Berkeley Club Sailing Team and the Stanford Cardinal Sailing Team. The regatta is held annually on the Tuesday or Wednesday preceding The Big Game , at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco , California.
Full Sail University is a private for-profit university in Winter Park, Florida. [4] It was formerly a recording studio in Ohio named Full Sail Productions [5] and Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts. [6] The school moved to Florida in 1980, began offering bachelor's degrees in 2005, [7] and began offering online degrees in 2007. [8]
The Chicago Yacht Club was founded in 1875 to encourage and promote the sport of yachting. In 1898, the first Race to Mackinac was held. In 1900, the club obtained its first clubhouse, the Argo clubhouse located at the Illinois Central Pier #3. Chicago Yacht Club's original Chicago to Mackinac Trophy dates to 1906.
The Kiel Week (German: Kieler Woche) or Kiel Regatta is an annual sailing event in Kiel, the capital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is considered to be one of the largest sailing events globally, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and also the largest summer festivals in Northern Europe, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] attracting millions of people every year from all ...
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