YOUTH REGATTA

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Competition to be held Friday, July 25, 2025

Time: 11-3pm

Location:  Camden Outer Harbor

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Registration is FREE.

We are allowing 8-18-year-olds to compete.

Eligibility for registration is limited based upon age:

• Optimist competitors are eligible to compete until the age of 16.

• C420 competitors are eligible to compete until the age of 19. 

• Please reserve Optimist Green Fleet for sailors with two years or less experience.

Registration:

• The SKIPPER ONLY should register for the C420 class. Please have the following information available BEFORE you register:

  • Sail number.

  • Contact information for your crew (full crew's name, name of crew's guardian, email of crew's guardian, phone number of crew's guardian). Separate waivers will be sent to the email and phone number provided for both the skipper and crew.

  • Shirt size of both skipper and crew.

Waivers:

• The waiver will need to be signed either digitally (as part of your registration), printed and brought to the registration booth on regatta day, or signed and emailed to caysp@camdenyachtclub.org. If emailing, please put the subject line as "CCCYR Waiver." 

 

CCCYR is organized for sailors aged 8-18. This special one-day race will be held just outside Camden Harbor. Over 70 racers aboard 420s and Optis participated in 2023. 

 

Including a youth sailing event with the CCC is a wonderful way to introduce young sailors to skippers meetings and ratings discussions that they normally wouldn’t experience.  It’s also a way for the entire midcoast area and the town of Camden to get more involved with sailing and boating activities.  

 

There is no charge to participate in the CCCYR.  This regatta is sponsored by Bank of America, Lyman-Morse and the Landing School. French & Brawn provides lunch for the youth racers. Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Magazine is the awards' sponsor.

 

Youth racers will attend the CCC Skippers Meeting Friday morning before their own Youth Regatta Skippers Meeting. They will race 420 dinghies in spinnaker and non-spinnaker classes in Camden Harbor, just west of the CCC race course.

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Participating sailing programs have included Camden Area Youth Sailing Program (CAYSP); The Rockport Boat Club; The Apprenticeshop, Rockland; Harraseeket Yacht Club; Tarratine Yacht Club; Big Tree Boating of Islesboro; North Haven Casino YC; Castine Yacht Club; St George Community Sailing, Portland Yacht Club and George Stevens Academy.

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