Carolyn Titus attends the Acura Key West Race Week 2009
Carolyn Titus is participating in the Acura Key West Race Week 2009!
It is time once again for this pre-eminent race week event, the Acura Key West Race Week 2009. Taking place from January 19 to 23, this annual race draws owners, racing crews, race officials and sponsors to the historic town of Key West Florida in preparation for the first day of racing on Monday the 19th of January.
Carolyn Titus, of Northrop and Johnson Worldwide Yacht Charters, is attending the Acura Key West Race Week 2009 in Key West. She will be participating in the racing on board Act One, a King Marine 40, with a racing crew of ten. Act One is a Mark Mills design and was named boat of the year in 2008 by Sailing World Magazine. Act One was sold to it’s present Owners by Northrop and Johnson Yacht Sales of Newport Rhode Island.
This year there will be 10 races scheduled over 5 race days. They are as follows:
Monday, January 19: Nautica Watches Day
Tuesday, January 20: Sperry Top-Sider Day
Wednesday, January 21: Mount Gary Rum Day
Thursday, January 22: Lewmar Day
Friday, January 23: Acura Day
This race event is a gathering of top international racing and yachting enthusiasts, and is an outgrowth of the Southern Ocean Racing Conference, (SORC), which had a focus on distance racing.
The first SORC took place in 1941 and included two distance races in and out of Havana, Cuba, which continued with the last race in and out of Havana in 1959, when the race destinations were changed, with Castro in control of Cuba, to exclude Havana.
The SORC hit it’s heyday in the 1970′s, and included many participant’s racing yachts that are now well known to yacht racing history. However, the demands of time required for distance sailing slowly changed this event into a series of short day races, which eventually became Key West Race Week.
During each day of racing in the 2009 Key West Race Week, the participants will be racing for that Sponsor’s Day awards, which will be announced and presented at the end of each day of racing at an awards ceremony followed by a party for all participants. At the end of the event, overall awards will also be presented.
This is just one of many racing events in which Carolyn Titus has participated in. A few of the others include the New York Yacht Club Race Week, many Heineken Race Weeks in St. Maarten, Block Island Race Week, and many more over the years.
Carolyn is well versed in yacht racing and has, for a number of years, offered and arranged Regatta Charters for various clients.
Carolyn will be sure to keep us updated on the outcome of the racing in Key West this year for the Acura Key West Race Week, 2009.
Stay tuned for more updates to come!
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