Coast Guard calls off SF offshore regattas
This image shows a low speed chase, 38-foot sailboat from San Francisco Yacht Club in Belvedere, on Saturday the 14th April, after broadside created by the 12-foot wave as it rounded a team full of Farallones Farallones Race. Five eight crew washed overboard and the ship fell into the rocks.
Coast Guard called Thursday to temporarily suspend the oceangoing yacht races, the Bay Area in the wake of the 14th April accident, which killed five crew racing yacht off the Farallon Islands. The Coast Guard said on Saturday that affects the Offshore Yacht Racing Association, and the second event Duxship Race Sailing Society Farallones Race, which is designed for the 12th MaySaturday is the race for the removal of the San Francisco Bay, Coast Guard officials are working to find a replacement race organizers on May 12 during the course of the boundary line between Point Bonita in Marin County and the Lands End in San Francisco, said Coast Guard spokesman Mike Lutz.
Safety Report on U.S. Sailing, racing governing body, must be completed before the next planned offshore races on May 25, he said. 8 Five crew members of the 38-foot racing boat for Low Speed Chase was killed when the ship was a large wave rolled over the rocks and smashed the South Farallon Island. The accident happened during a race over the 54-mile trip between San Francisco and, of course, offshore islands, on the line, where the sailing competitions are held from the 1907th “This will take the temporary safety of offshore racing community will allow the Coast Guard and the Offshore Racing to promote our common security objectives,” Captain Cynth ia Stowe, Coast Guard, Commander, San Francisco, said the statement.This article on page C – 5 San Francisco Chronicle
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