THE OWRC
2023 OPEN OCEAN REGATTA
Sunday, April 16, 2023 – Sausalito, CA.
Results: By Course Rank | By Course, Event, Bow Number
Regatta photos | PRESS RELEASE
The Open Ocean Regatta features three courses of changeable difficulty and with independent courses of different length. Each course provides astonishing scenery with challenging rowing conditions of the San Francisco Bay through the Golden Gate to point Diablo and Richardson Bay. Separate event classes for open water shells, coastal rowing shells, paddle-craft and traditional open-cockpit boats, provide competitive and recreational rowers the opportunity to self assess themselves in a supportive, fun-filled regatta. The Open Ocean Regatta is welcoming Stand-Up Paddle-boards, Ocean Coastal single, Ocean Coastal doubles, and Surf-skis to join our race on one of the worlds best surroundings for water sports.
RACE COORDINATOR: Kevin Burrell, regatta@owrc.com
Regatta Central: https://www.regattacentral.com/regatta/?job_id=8107
BOAT STORAGE & BOAT RENTAL
Boats may be stored at the OWRC boathouse in the Schoonmaker Marina on Saturday, April 15, 2023. If you plan to store a boat, please call the office (415-332-1091) to confirm time of delivery and make sure to bring your own slings for holding your boat!
OWRC also offers long term storage solutions for all rowing and paddle sport craft.
Boat rentals are available on a prepaid, first-come, first-served basis with OWRC. OWRC Annual Club members have booking priority. OWRC will provide rental-rowing shells to rowers who have been cleared to safely row the type of boat that they are renting. Contact owrc@owrc.com to reserve a boat.
REGATTA CLINICS & EVENTS
Regatta Clinic: Every Thursday, 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM
Regatta Practice Row Diablo Course : Saturday, April 1, 2023 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Regatta Practice Row Strawberry Course: Sunday April 2, 2023 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Regatta Practice Stand-up Paddleboard Course (Strawberry) Sunday April 2, 2023 8:45AM
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help with registration, parking, chase boats, launch and recovery of rowing shells and more! All volunteers will receive a 2023 Open Ocean Regatta T-shirt! Reach out to regatta@owrc.com to sign up to volunteer!
REGATTA FEES
Single $65.00
Double $130.00
Quad $260.00
THE COURSES
The Open Ocean Regatta features three courses of varying length and water conditions for open water scullers in shells and traditional boats. All courses start and finish at the same location, about 100 meters off of Sausalito ‘old town’ near the sea lion statue. All turns are accurate, but the path of travel is an approximation—part of the race is line of sight or visual navigation and understanding the conditions!
1ST RACE (DIBALO) STARTS AT 7:45AM. 7.6 NM ROWERS WILL NEED TO LEAVE SCHOONMAKER DOCK BY 7:15 AM.
2ND RACE (STRAWBERRY) STARTS AT 8:15AM. 5.3 NM ROWERS NEED TO LEAVE SCHOONMAKER BY 7:45AM.
3RD RACE (BELVEDERE Triangle - Paddleboards) STARTS AT 8:45 AM 3.0 NM SHORT COURSE NEED TO LEAVE SCHOONMAKER BY 8:15AM
Belvedere Triangle Course 3.0 NM
Strawberry Course
Diablo Course: from Sausalito to Pt Diablo, to Peninsula Point, Cone Rock and Finish.
Point Tiburon Paddleboard Course (3.0nm): The Paddleboard Course is approximately 3.0 NM.
Start Line at Committee Boat - Just off Sea Lion (Sausalito Waterfornt)
Channel Marker 3 ( Abeam Point Tiburon)
Cone Rock
Finish Line at Committee Boat
Strawberry Course (5.3nm): Named for the Strawberry Peninsula, the Strawberry Course is 5.3 nm (10.4 km) in more protected water. The course starts from and returns to downtown Sausalito, navigating three buoyed turns to Strawberry Peninsula and back. This course can be completed in flat-water boats with favorable weather.
Start Line
Cone Rock (on port)
Pylon ‘14’ (on port)
Down Strawberry channel and around 5/6 channel markers
Race Mark (Orange Buoy) (on starboard)
Finish Line
DISTANCES:
From start, 0.85 nm. (recip. 192) to Cone Rock
From Cone Rock, 1.91 nm. (recip. 119) to second turn (piling #14 )
From second turn, 0.52 nm. (recip. 328) to Strawberry Point
From Strawberry Point, 1.43 nm. (recip. 300) to final turn (orange buoy )
From final turn, 0.59 nm. (recip. 2) to finish
COORDINATES:
Cone Rock: 37 deg. 51.840’ N & 122 deg. 28.157’ W
Second turn: 37 deg. 53.173’ N & 122 deg. 29.899’ W
Strawberry Point: 37 deg. 52.677’ N & 122 deg. 29.717 W
Final turn: 37 deg. 51.662’ N & 122 deg. 28.436’ W
Finish: 37 deg. 51.091’ N & 122 deg. 28.661’ W
Diablo Course (7.7nm): The Diablo course requires rough water skill and endurance. The course is 14.3 kilometers long. As rowers pass under the Golden Gate Bridge and enter the Pacific Ocean, they will encounter a flood tide of approximately 2 knots. After the turnaround at Point Diablo, that flood tide will carry rowers back all the way to Peninsula Point, Cone Rock, and Finish. The course encounters all types of conditions, interesting turns, and breathtaking views.
Start Line
Race Mark just before Pt. Diablo (boat or large inflatable buoy)
Buoy “3” near Peninsula Rock
Cone Rock
Finish
All markers kept on port side of boat.
DISTANCES:
Point Diablo Course (7.55 nm. / 14 km.)
From start, 0.94 nm. (recip. 325) to Yellow Bluff
From Yellow Bluff, 0.30 nm. (recip. 356) to Point Cavallo
From Point Cavallo, 0.49 nm. (recip. 19) to Lime Point (Golden Gate Bridge)
From Lime Point, 0.98 nm. (recip. 59) to Point Diablo
From Point Diablo, 0.98 nm. (recip. 239) to Lime Point
From Lime Point, 0.49 nm. (recip. 199) to Point Cavallo
From Point Cavallo, 1.89 nm. (recip. 187) to Peninsula Point
From Peninsula Point, 0.64 nm. (recip. 92) to Cone Rock
From Cone Rock, 0.84 nm. (recip. 11) to finish
COORDINATES:
Yellow Bluff: 37 deg. 50.201’ N & 122 deg. 28.273’ W
Point Cavallo: 37 deg. 49.908’ N & 122 deg. 28.347’ W
Lime Point: 37 deg. 49.509’ N & 122 deg. 28.697’ W
Point Diablo: 37 deg. 49.248’ N & 122 deg. 29.898’ W
Peninsula Point: 37 deg. 51.656’ N & 122 deg. 27.424’ W
Cone Rock: 37 deg. 51.848’ N & 122 deg. 28.191’ W
Finish: 37 deg. 51.091’ N & 122 deg. 28.661’ W
Tiburon Course: Sausalito, the Needles (marker), Tiburon Ferry buoy, Peninsula Point, Cone Rock, finish.
Alternative Course: Tiburon Course If weather conditions are unsafe for rowing in the ocean, we will not go out under the Golden Gate. The Tiburon Course is approximately the same length (14km), offering challenging open water conditions. The Alternate Long Course is:
Start Line
Race Mark at the Needles, just before Golden Gate Bridge (boat or large inflatable buoy)
Tiburon Ferry Terminal market (old town Tiburon)
Buoy “3” near Peninsula Rock (anywhere between the buoy and the rocks)
Cone Rock
Finish
All markers kept on the port side of boat.
PAST REGATTA RESULTS
Effective 2020, US Rowing age handicaps are applied to results, and both lapsed times and handicapped times are acknowledged.