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2025 M242 North Americans Preview!

Put it in your Calendar!    Tahiti Beach Party M242 NA’s!

Hi everyone,

 

We’d like to see at least 30 boats on the line on the August 23/24 weekend next year for the North American Championships in Vancouver.

 

The Friday afternoon will be a practice race.

 

The event will be jointly run by Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and Kits Yacht Club, and Chaired by Adrienne Mennell, and assisted by Michael Clements and others.

 

Dugald Smith from Victoria will be the PRO: he has run the Cow Bay Regatta for our Class the last 2 years and is an experienced Star racer with a fair amount of regattas in Vancouver under his belt, so he's used to the winds and currents we deal with locally.

 

We will have space for motherships at RVYC, and we’ll also work on making loaner/charter boats available for out-of-town folks.  At some point we'll be in contact with everyone re being able to Billet one or two people from out of town each, so if this is of interest please reach out to Adrienne or Michael Clements now.  We will also try to line up boats for folks to stay on in the RVYC Marina.

 

More details will be forthcoming in the next few months, but we wanted everyone (and their crew) to put a hold on their Calendars now for late August rather than booking other activities.

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Adrienne Mennell email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

M242 Mast Tubes update

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M242 Mast Article by Michael Clements in Sailing World!

Photos by Peter Grimm, who picked the test tubes up from Apex Extrusions.
The samples are now at the anodizer in Port Moody.  They’ll be ready in a week or so for distribution to the Technical Committee for review in BC, WA State, and California.

At first blush they look like 242 mast tubes. So far so good.

  

See this link: to the mast and boom project and the financials


The M242 journey to build our own masts as told by Michael Clements in an article for Sailing World published this week!

 

“How the Martin 242 Class Secured Its Future -  The North American M242 class embarks on an ambitious project to ensure its longevity by ensuring a supply of replacement masts at the ready.”

 

See the link here:

https://www.sailingworld.com/gear/brother-can-you-spare-a-mast/

SOLD - #91 White Rabbit!

As the seller, Tom Bennett, says:  “We have sold " White Rabbit" Sail/ hull # 91 on November 5th. The new owner is Simon Deller, He is one of our crew and we will continue to race with him in the Comox Area.”   Details and photos to follow soon.

 

Congratulations Simon!

 

SOLD - #63 Steel Breeze!

SOLD - 11th boat of 2024 to change hands and the 77th in 7.9 years - Nelson, BC, on November 25th, 2024: Steel Breeze -Hull 63 (Nelson, unlisted transaction): to Rob Fox and three partners from Gary & Anne Armstrong.   Details and photos to follow soon.

 

Rob is a former CDN Sailing Team Coach and then went into private coaching. He's currently working in another field in the Nelson area and has a fairly large group of younger folks that he wants to get out racing on Silver Bullet, so this is excellent news for the area.

 

Congratulations Rob and all your Partners!