Wed Night Races — A History
WEDNESDAY NIGHT RACES
• A HISTORY •
39th Consecutive Season — 2012
First created by John Dinse in 1963 when the club was reborn at its present location, Wednesday racing was a format for training new members how to race. Eventually these races served their purpose and were dropped. Wednesday races were started again in 1974 by Regatta Chair Dale Hyerstay for much the same purpose as before. But this time the races grew in popularity each year, and they have become the mainstay of the LCYC summer racing season.
In 1992 Regatta Chair Jeff Hill began a program to attract non-spinnaker racers. John Kimura, Jeff's successor, expanded the effort to include recruitment and training and asked Dale Hyerstay to organize and run the program. By 1995 the non-spinnaker racers numbered nearly as many as spinnaker racers.
Monthly burger burns were added on 1989, and were increased to every other week in 1995.
