Every season our Junior sailors participate in a large number of sailing events. These include regular Hawaii Youth Sailing Association regattas, El Toro Friday night races, the Bullship event, El Toro State Championships, Hawaii Laser Association regattas, and a number of other fun regattas. Our younger sailors start off racing O'Pen Bics and El Toros. As they get older many of these sailors move on to race lasers, 420s or a variety of high performance boats.
Some our junior sailors compete annually in national and international junior sailing competitions. We also have a number of junior sailors go on to compete successfully on ILH high school teams, and a number college sailing teams across the country. We have even seen a few of our students go on to become world class and Olympic sailors.
If you know a kid that would like to get involved in junior sailboat racing, please check out our sailing classes.
PACIFIC CUP
Kaneohe Yacht Club is the finish line host for the 2,070 nautical mile Pacific Cup. The Pacific Cup is a yacht race from San Francisco to Kaneohe Yacht Club. The race is run in even-numbered years by the Pacific Cup Yacht Club and others. This “Fun Race to Hawaii” has run for over 26 years with hundreds of boats from 24-foot to 140-foot yachts.
THURSDAY NIGHT BULKHEAD RACES
Kaneohe Yacht Club proudly hosts the weekly Thursday Night Bulkhead race. Throughout most of the year, this race starts at 6:00pm on Thursdays and tries to finish before sunset. This is a fun club race for all comers.
FRIDAY NIGHT DINGY RACES
Starting in late spring and throughout the summer are Friday Dinghy Races. The first start is at 18:00 and ends by 20:00, and there are 2-3 races each night.
BULLSHIP
At the end of the Friday Night Dinghy Series and the day after El Toro States, KYC hosts the annual Bullship race. Juniors are in the morning with adults in the afternoon. This fun race around Coconut Island hosts a fun after party with awards given to fastest sailors, women, as well as Tail-End Charlie, and most huli's (capsizes).