2023 BAMA Cup and BAMA Racetrack Posted

The BAMA Cup Series Races, plus the BAMA Racetrack Rules are now updated for 2023. Go to the BAMA website’s Racing & Ratings page to see the new races in the BAMA Cup Series for 2023 and the BAMA Racetrack Course and Rules. The BAMA Cup Series races for 2023 include: Three Bridge Fiasco; Corinthian…

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Flux Joins the Fleet

Jeremy Boyette’s new boat, Flux, made its racing debut in the Vallejo 1-2 on October 16th. Flux, a Maerstrom Seacart 30 GP, is new competition for the fleet’s other Maerstrom 30 Seacart, Bottle Rocket. We expect to see some great battles between these boats. With its previous owner, hull number 11 sailed in multiple Newport…

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BAMA Cup Update

Drew Scott & Gordon Nash, winners of this year’s DHF, approach the start BAMA Racers!  The BAMA Cup Series is just over half way through the race schedule now, with six races complete and five races remaining. Still ahead we have the Westport Regatta, the Encinal Regatta, IC#5 (which we are substituting in for the…

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BAMA Event News

Jack Reacher/Raft-Up Coming Up! The BAMA Jack Reacher/Raft Up is coming up July 31. This is a great BAMA event, where we enjoy a good natured race followed by a raft up in clipper cove for a potluck. Come out and meet your fellow BAMA members and check out their trimarans. Clipper Cove Raft up…

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BAMA Events Featured in Latitude 38

Latitude 38 features a couple BAMA events this month. Truls did an excellent write-up of our Alternate means of steering event held on April 16th, and Latitude also covered the entry of our rescheduled DHF, now running on June 18th, as a Sailstice race event.  Thanks Truls! David Kuettel deploying an improvised drogue   Round…

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BAMA Crew List Up and Running

BAMA now has a working Crew List. The List is set up as a subgroup of our Groups.io mailing list, and is easy to subscribe to. First make sure that you are subscribed to our BAMA Groups.io mailing list. You can do that here. Here are the steps for joining the crew list starting from…

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Racing News

BAMA Cup Update: After three races and Bottle Rocket’s fantastic solo finish in Corinthian Regatta, it’s a tight race for the BAMA Cup. Bird of Pray, Bottle Rocket and HMB Boys & Girls Club are leading the pack with 9.0pts, 8.6pts, and 7.6 pts respectively. All other boats in the series have either one or…

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BAMA Upcoming On The Water Training Events

BAMA is sponsoring two excellent on the water educational events:   Emergency Steering Training: Join BAMA on Saturday, April 16th, in the South Basin, for a live emergency steering training event. Participants will lift their rudders and deploy their means of emergency steering, and attempt to navigate a simple upwind/downwind course. This is a great…

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Double Handed Farallones Race Coming Up!

Registrations are open for the Double Handed Farallones Race, running April 9th. You can register here. This year’s race will once again start off Baker Beach, with an “either way” rounding of the Islands. If you don’t plan on participating in the race, the DHF Race Committee needs volunteers. Contact Dave Wilhite if you can…

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BAMA Emergency Steering Clinic Coming Soon

April 16, 2022: Save the Date! Building on the success of last year’s emergency steering clinic, BAMA is repeating this live on the water exercise on April 16th in the South Basin. Participants will pull their rudders, simulating a rudder failure, deploy their preferred method of emergency steering, and attempt to sail around a short…

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