Welcome to the Scotch Bonnet Light Race website 2025.
NOTICE OF RACE REGISTRATION
- The SBLR will once again have satellite based real time tracking from YB Tracking thanks to:
- Bob Johnson’s Auto Group
- We will be using PHRF-LO point to point correction for the race scoring. click here to learn more.
- The Race Starts on Friday. Skippers meeting will be at 5 pm and first signal at approximately at 6:30pm
- Spinnaker, Genoa Only, and Multi-Hull divisions
- Picnic and Awards Ceremony Sunday August 24 starts at noon, Awards at 3
- Awards for 1st 2nd and 3rd in each division and 6 perpetual trophies
- Single and Double Handed racers welcome
- A LYRA Tier 2 Event
- Profits will benefit the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- Your Passion Rewarded
New 2025 Video from Robert Lang
This Year's poster (low-res)...
Scotch Bonnet is GOLD
from Emily Conklin Program Manager, Sailors for the Sea:
Congratulations! On behalf of all of us here at Sailors for the Sea, we'd like to award the Genesee Yacht Club our Gold Level Clean Regatta certification for the Scotch Bonnet Light Race.
click here to learn more.
Jon LaRue flies in from California to Race on Waahuu, from Pultneyville Yacht club. He sent the following for the 2024 SBLR:
A great Scotch Bonnet this year. Thank you to GYC for hosting. Here is a pic I think you might like. I took it as we were rounding at about 4am.
My phone must have done some kind of long exposure thing because it was pretty dark at that hour!
Tracking
The Scotch Bonnet Light Race has Real Time On Line Race tracking thanks to:
YB Tracking is the world leader in satellite based tracking and reporting. Bob Johnson Auto Group's support means there is no additional cost to competitors. Anyone in the world can follow the progress of the race through the internet, as it happens. For more information on this awesome technology see:
