This regatta is open to monohull and multihull cruising yachts of Miramar Yacht Club, of other yacht clubs and to cruising yachts of nonmembers that are sailed in Sheepshead Bay, Lower New York Bay, Jamaica Bay and Raritan Bay waters and have PHRF ratings. If a yacht has no rating, the Regatta Committee may be able to rate it. Please note: Entry fee covers all regattas for 2017 season. Party fees are separate and will be collected at the party.
Based on the number of entries, and/or the individual ratings of the competing yachts, the Regatta Committee, at its discretion, may subdivide divisions into classes. Multihull yachts will race in separate classes. A division or a class will have at least three yachts assigned to it.
On Saturday, September 9th, 2016, at 1300 hours the regatta will start at Can 1, Sheepshead Bay Channel. The course for the race will be from the starting line at Can 1 due West to round Coney Island Red nun 10 to port side then round Romer Shoal Lighthouse to port and then return to the finish at Can 1, Sheepshead Bay Channel. The course length is 12.3 NM (approx.).
Race Committee Report
Good Turn out on Saturday, September 9th, 2016, at 1300 hours the regatta started with 6 boats participating. Great North-NorthWwest wind was holding 12-15 mph all day. So skippers could really show their skills. Andy Snider on LO with his friend Roger were great beating every one by almost 5 minutes. Congratulations Andy with the first place. Felix Pustilnik on THIS IS IT was able to take second place with only 29 seconds beating Andrew Shabalin on OBSESSION. Preatty dramatic considering 12.3 n.miles distance.
| Miramar Romer Light Regatta, Division One September 9th, 2017 | Time hh:mm:ss | Time in seconds | Adj.PHRF | Total | Place | |||
| Clear Sky, Wind-N-NW 12-15, Low Tide-17:58, Start: SILVERSURFER - SB1 | ||||||||
| Course: ConeyIstand nun 10.port - RomerLight.port - Finish. Distance: 12.3 miles | ||||||||
| Boat | Type | Captain | Crew | |||||
| Obsession | C&C 29 | Andrew Shabalin | 2:30:03 | 8703 | 183 | 6452.1 | 3 | |
| Houligan | C&C 38 | Spiro Carras | 3:14:40 | 11380 | 144 | 9608.8 | 6 | |
| Zephir | Sweden 38 | Arnon Ben-Avi | Effie Dror | 2:23:57 | 8337 | 108 | 7008.6 | 4 |
| This is It | C&C 36 | Felix Pustilnik | Eli Gaba, Irv Shapiro | 2:21:35 | 8195 | 144 | 6423.8 | 2 |
| LO | Int'l FolkBoat | Andy Snyder | Roger | 2:34:23 | 8963 | 228 | 6158.6 | 1 |
| StarDust | S2 7.3 | Joe Vega | Richard Lubell | 3:30:00 | 12300 | 243 | 9311.1 | 5 |