Lake Champlain Yacht Club

Beginning Tuesday, September 8, launch hours will be:

Weekdays: 1300 to 2000
Weekends: 0900 to 2000

Last day of launch service: Sunday, October 4

Remember that lights on your boat can help the stewards locate you after dark.

In very light and shifty conditions, smaller, slower-rated boats took seven of the top 10 overall places in this year’s Ladies Cup, with John Hill’s J-70, That 70 Show, correcting out to first overall, winning the Ladies Cup.
Hill’s boat, which rates 117, was second across the finish line, behind only Kjell Dahlen’s Odinn, with a 33 rating. Odinn corrected out third behind Benedek Erdos’s Santana 2023, Lil’ Bot, which rates 168. The other five smaller boats in the top 10 carried PHRF ratings of 120 or higher.
The Hill name should be familiar to those who have followed the history of the Ladies Cup, as John’s grandfather, Bruce Hill, won it five times between 1980 and 1998 with the two-tonner Golden Dazy.
This year’s course took the 22-boat fleet from the club mark off the Burlington waterfront, around the west side of Juniper Island, the Juniper Ledge mark, back around the west side of Juniper, around the club’s Proctor mark and finished off Burlington. Winds ranged from almost non-existent to around 6 knots, and clocking throughout the race from south to northeast.