Lightship Classic started at 9 a.m. Saturday with the remaining four races crossing the start line in 10-minute increments.
The 78th Swiftsure Lightship Classic race got off to a spinnaker start Saturday morning under sunny skies, southeast winds and lumpy to whitecap waves as crowds gathered on Clover Point off Dallas Road to cheer the sailors on.Southeast winds changed to westerly towards Race Passage requiring spinnakers to come down “and they just had a great sail through Race Passage” putting them on their way to turning marks in Juan de Fuca Strait.
The Swiftsure Lightship Classic — named for a lightship, an aid to navigation serving as a kind of lighthouse — is the longest race. Boats in the race sail around the “lightship” before returning to Victoria. Tents are set up on the Inner Harbour’s lower causeway for Swiftsure Centre, where the public can ask questions of event ambassadors. Close to 200 volunteers make the event happen.
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