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Daytona Beach Triangle
"The Triangle Race - A New Beginning to an Old Tradition"
By Jim Ladesic and Mac Smith
In 1977 Donald S. Shaw, Jr, serving as the HRYC Race Committee Chairman, announced the up-coming '78 season would include an overnight 83nm race over the Labor Day weekend from Ponce #2 to a mark offshore, then to the Ohio Shoal buoy north of Cape Canaveral and back to Ponce #2. It was a very oblique triangular course and so the name the "Daytona Triangle" fit. There were tactical elements associated with the currents and eddies that shed off the Gulf Stream and carried over the shoals. Strong tricky currents sometimes caused favorable first-leg south-bound lifts near shore or unfavorable headers if you were headed north in the early morning on the return leg. Don had single-handedly renewed the race program at HRYC after decades of little activity. Around 1974 he began inviting local boaters to join him off-shore for a day of informal fun chasing around the marks. By 1978 the program was in full swing – interest had really boomed. On any given Sunday you could see forty or more boats on the line. The first Bermuda Race (the TransAt) for which 50-boat cap had been set in anticipation of a big turnout had produced only 11-entries. So an 80+mile overnight race on the Labor Day weekend made a lot of sense for stirring interest for the next TransAt. A way to do a bit of "voyaging" that started and ended from home – the destination. Within a year the Daytona Triangle race was called simply the "Triangle." It continued as an annual event each Labor Day weekend to Ohio Shoals from 1978 until 1985, although a few were cancelled due to very stormy weather. In 1985 the Triangle turning mark was changed to St. Augustine buoy #2 for the first time, making the race a bit longer. By the late 90's participation in the entire race program had faltered and interest in the Triangle Race had tapered off to the point that a few were simply canceled with no entries. By 2000 the TransAt was replaced with the Gulf-Streamer and to some degree the Triangle Race still made sense but with a new setting and schedule. This year with our race program finding new life and interest, thirty years from it inception, the HRYC is please to introduce the new, longer and more challenging 2007 Triangle Race with the same destination but a new agenda. To be run on Memorial Day weekend from Ponce, to "B," then to the NOAA mark north of St. Augustine and back - 121 nm and a real overnighter. No logistics, no delivery, no crew shuttling concerns or issues with unfamiliar inlets - just a good voyage off shore. Come sail with us!
By Jim Ladesic and Mac Smith
In 1977 Donald S. Shaw, Jr, serving as the HRYC Race Committee Chairman, announced the up-coming '78 season would include an overnight 83nm race over the Labor Day weekend from Ponce #2 to a mark offshore, then to the Ohio Shoal buoy north of Cape Canaveral and back to Ponce #2. It was a very oblique triangular course and so the name the "Daytona Triangle" fit. There were tactical elements associated with the currents and eddies that shed off the Gulf Stream and carried over the shoals. Strong tricky currents sometimes caused favorable first-leg south-bound lifts near shore or unfavorable headers if you were headed north in the early morning on the return leg. Don had single-handedly renewed the race program at HRYC after decades of little activity. Around 1974 he began inviting local boaters to join him off-shore for a day of informal fun chasing around the marks. By 1978 the program was in full swing – interest had really boomed. On any given Sunday you could see forty or more boats on the line. The first Bermuda Race (the TransAt) for which 50-boat cap had been set in anticipation of a big turnout had produced only 11-entries. So an 80+mile overnight race on the Labor Day weekend made a lot of sense for stirring interest for the next TransAt. A way to do a bit of "voyaging" that started and ended from home – the destination. Within a year the Daytona Triangle race was called simply the "Triangle." It continued as an annual event each Labor Day weekend to Ohio Shoals from 1978 until 1985, although a few were cancelled due to very stormy weather. In 1985 the Triangle turning mark was changed to St. Augustine buoy #2 for the first time, making the race a bit longer. By the late 90's participation in the entire race program had faltered and interest in the Triangle Race had tapered off to the point that a few were simply canceled with no entries. By 2000 the TransAt was replaced with the Gulf-Streamer and to some degree the Triangle Race still made sense but with a new setting and schedule. This year with our race program finding new life and interest, thirty years from it inception, the HRYC is please to introduce the new, longer and more challenging 2007 Triangle Race with the same destination but a new agenda. To be run on Memorial Day weekend from Ponce, to "B," then to the NOAA mark north of St. Augustine and back - 121 nm and a real overnighter. No logistics, no delivery, no crew shuttling concerns or issues with unfamiliar inlets - just a good voyage off shore. Come sail with us!
Don Shaw Memorial
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