Balboa Yacht Club members come through

Though the Balboa Yacht Club hosts the Governor’s Cup every year, its

members go out of their way to keep the event fresh and relevant.

This year, the club ensured an even playing field by creating a

new fleet of sailboats: the Governor’s Cup 21s. The previous Santana

20s were wearing down, turning the event into a game of chance in

which the lucky lads and lasses sailed the more shipshape boats.

But the members wanted to change that so that everyone, including

young sailors from as far away as Australia and New Zealand who made

the trip to the annual U.S. Junior Match Racing Championship would

have a fair shot at the Governor’s Cup trophy.

So the members put their heads and wallets together to raise the

necessary funds and then employed the talents of members Alan Andrews

and Dave Ullman to create the Governor’s Cup 21.

Andrews and Bravura Yachts designed and built the 11 boats, while

Ullman designed and supplied the sales.

It’s devotion like that that keeps the Governor’s Cup exciting and

relevant for the 11 teams of youth that fly in from across the nation

and around the world.

Everyone involved in the event owes the yacht club’s members a

great deal of thanks. Otherwise, the Governor’s Cup would lose its

edge and, perhaps, become irrelevant.

This year’s feat will be a difficult one to top, but perhaps the

members have another exciting coup in the works.