The club’s spring regatta, and the big weekend at the top of the season: one day of buoy racing and one day of the long way around the lake, the distance race the regatta is named for. Which happens on which day is the race committee’s call on the weather.
It is an open regatta. The fleet is usually Catalina 22s, San Juan 21s and an open Portsmouth class on the D‑PN rating; five paid entries of one boat type make a class of their own, and the race committee can adjust fleets and starts.
2027 is tentatively Saturday and Sunday, March 6–7. Everything below comes from the 2026 notice of race. The fee, the times and the trophies have held steady from year to year, but read them as last year’s until the committee publishes the 2027 notice.
- Dates
- Saturday and Sunday, March 6–7, 2027 — tentative
- Format
- A day of buoy racing and a day of the distance race, order set by the weather
- Fleet
- Catalina 22, San Juan 21 and open Portsmouth, scored by class
- Entry fee
- $60 in 2026, Sunday cookout included
- Headquarters
- The LMSA Clubhouse — directions and parking
- Radio
- VHF Ch. 69. No outside communication that is not open to the whole fleet
The weekend
How 2026 ran, for shape.
- Sat 8:00 – 10:30 am
- Registration at the clubhouse
- Sat 11:00 am
- Competitors meeting. Class flags and the safety boats are named here
- Sat 11:55 am
- Warning signal, buoy racing
- Sun 9:55 am
- Warning signal, distance race
- Sun 2:00 pm
- No race started after this
- Afterwards
- Awards, trophies and the cookout
Scoring and prizes
- Scoring
- RRS Appendix A. Every race counts, a buoy race once and the distance race twice. One completed race makes a regatta
- Trophies
- Top two in a fleet of five boats, top three in a bigger fleet
- Distance race
- The Trans Monroe McVay Trophy for the first monohull, the Trans Monroe Multihull Trophy for the first multihull
Entering
- On the day
- Registration opens 8:00 am Saturday at the clubhouse — the form (PDF)
- Ahead of time
- Fill in the form and email it to fla.lmsa@gmail.com
- Waiver
- Every boat signs a release (PDF). Under RRS 3 the decision to race is the boat’s alone
- Instructions
- Buoy races use the standard instructions in RRS Appendix S. The distance race instructions come out that morning, and anything else goes on the notice board outside the clubhouse
The March 6–7 dates are tentative and the detail here is the 2026 regatta’s. If you are planning a trip around it, ask us before you book.