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Regatta Start - Postponed to 2013


The US Treasury Department declined our application to conduct the Sarasota-Havana Regatta last year on the basis that the regatta was not in the foreign policy interest of the United States.  This has led to declining levels of support from the Sarasota Yacht Club leadership and the Race Committee has decided to curtail the efforts to conduct the regatta in the near future.  It is hoped that future improvement in relations between the United States and Cuba will allow us to re-launch a successful effort in the future.


                                           THIS COULD BE ONE OF THOSE OCCASIONS.

THE CHALLENGE.......

In what could be one of the first United States Government approved voyages to Cuba since
the Cuban Embargo was put in place in the 1960s, the Hemingway International Yacht
Club (HIYC) and Cuba's National Sailing Team has invited the Sarasota Yacht Club (SYC)
to participate in an offshore sailing race near Havana.

Citing SYC's distinguished nautical heritage and restoring a 70 year-old  international tradition
Jose Diaz Escrich, Vice President of the Cuba Sailing Federation and Commodore of
the HIYC, issued an invitation to the SYC to host the Florida-Cuba race.

Click Here to read the February 6, 2011 Sarasota Herald Tribune article Sailors Chart Course to Cuba