Martin 242 Fleet One / Fleet Two - Sailboat Racing

Free Moorage for 6 M242’s at the Gibsons Canadian Championships

The M242 Canadian Championship organizers in Gibsons have been working on a variety of topics over the past 6 months, and one of them had to do with arranging free moorage at the floating dinghy school raft that is always in place in past years in a very sheltered location from east, south, and west winds: see the red square in the photo below re its usual location.

As a result, free moorage for 6 M242’s has been arranged and David Guy (Organizing Committee member and a 242 owner) has asked our Fleet to reach out to the first 6 non-Gibsons Registered boats and see if they want to take up this offer. (3 Registered boats are from Gibsons and have their own permanent slips)

He’s arranging for a volunteer to run a RVYC-donated whaler back and forth to the Gibsons Landing dock (or the Marina) each morning and afternoon.

The additional speedy option is for the 242’s at the floating dock to pool resources and shuttle folks back and forth on Martins, and use the whaler to help out with first-of-day and last-boat-at-end-of-day shuttling, at a minimum.

As such, we’ve contacted the current Registered boats on the list and at this point only 1 has asked to stay at the floating dock (Ken Holland), which leaves 5 open slots.

You have to Register for the event (https://www.scycsailing.ca/regattaentrypage) to claim a slot, and then text Michael Clements at (778) 968-1713 to let him know you want one and he’ll inform the Committee to add you to the list.

Registration is open for the Canadian Championship in Gibsons

The event is on the July 18/19 weekend. So far 6 Martin 242’s have Registered for the event with a 7th pending this weekend and we are expecting 15-20 based on preliminary conversations with interested skippers in BC and Washington State.

A couple of notes about moorage at the event:

1. Competitors must arrange moorage through either of the two Gibsons marinas.

2. The Gibsons Landing Harbor Authority (public) Marina has space set aside for competitor boats, but the Gibsons (private) Marina space is dependent on how many folks take their boats cruising that weekend, because they don’t have transient space set aside. As such they have a Waitlist for July.

3. When contacting the GLHA marina ensure that you specify that you are part of the Sunshine Coast Yacht Club reservation as opposed to saying you’re with the Gary White Memorial Regatta.

4. The rates between the 2 marinas are almost the same: GLHA is $2.40 per foot per night plus GST and GM is $2.60 plus GST.

5. Contact info for both Marinas are on the main page of the regatta sub-website.

6. Motherships have the choice of staying at either Marina, or anchoring out: there’s lots of anchoring options off the Gibsons waterfront as well as the Plumper Cove Marine Park on nearby Keats Island.

*Special Event* Don Martin has agreed to give a presentation at the regatta on the history of the M242 on Friday night, July 17, 6:30PM at The Bay Gibsons (https://www.thebaygibsons.ca)

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