2025 ILCA North American Championship

ILCA North American Membership is mandatory for entry.

If you are from an area outside ILCA NA:
Email proof of your class membership to ILCA NA ([email protected]) and you will be given an ILCA NA membership number to enter.

WORLD SAILING

• This regatta is a 100 point graded event for ILCA 6 females and ILCA 7 males.
• We will report all ILCA results to World Sailing.  Sailors needing a World Sailing ID should visit WS Profile.
  
  

CHARTER BOATS

• VELA-LA has Element 6 ILCAs available for charter for this event.  Info and reservations can be found at VELA-LA.
  
  

HOSPITALITY

• The hospitality of ABYC is extended to all participants.
• Club hours are Wed-Sun 8:30am-5pm except Fridays until 9pm.
• The galley will be open each day. Breakfast, bag lunches & adult beverages are available.
• The club bar will be open after racing.
• ABYC yard rules do not allow dogs, other than service dogs, onto the property or in the boat yard.

PARKING AND STORAGE

• Due to space limitations, vehicle parking on ABYC grounds is restricted.
• Off‐street metered parking is available across the street in municipal lots.
• Street parking is available. Street sweeping occurs on Thursday and Friday, check the signs when parking as the parking tickets are expensive.
• Parking of unattached trailers on public streets is prohibited.

BOAT LAUNCHING

• Your entry includes launching, recovery, and storage for visiting competing boats from the day prior to the day following the event.
• Boats or trailers arriving before or leaving after the specified times must complete an application for ABYC Temporary Yard Storage.
  The application must be approved, the fee paid, and the waiver completed before arrival.
• Visiting competitors arriving outside club hours must make arrangements with one of the regatta chairs.
• Any boat or trailer arriving early or staying later without paying ABYC yard storage fees will be subject to impound and applicable fees.
• There are two hoists available to launch boats. Boats shall provide their own internal lifting sling to use the hoists.
• ABYC members who store their boats in the yard should submit a Vessel Underway Form.
  
  

LEAVING AND RETURNING TO OCEAN COURSES

• The centerline “Keep Right” buoys from the edge of the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club basin to the end of the Alamitos Bay jetty (including A mark at the end of the jetty) are a continuous obstruction. Boats entering or leaving Alamitos Bay must take these buoys to port.
• The AquaLink ferry to downtown Long Beach uses this channel and you are required to keep clear of them at all times.
  
  

COMMUNICATION WITH RACE OFFICIALS

• Regatta officials are using a web-based program to assist with the management of this regatta. 
• The program provides electronic forms for such actions as scoring inquiries, protests, equipment substitutions, etc. and it provides for electronic communication with competitors if competitors have provided an email. 
• Competitors will be notified electronically of protest time limits, confirmation of a protest filing, scheduled hearing times, etc. allowing competitors to move freely about the event and remain in contact with relevant officials and all competitors have electronic access to the scoring inquiries, jury decisions, etc. 
• More information will be available at registration.

For further information email [email protected] or call +1 (562) 434-9955

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