Nellie Guernsey Race
NELLIE GUERNSEY MEMORIAL RACE

Nellie Guernsey, in addition to a brilliant professional career in mining, was a sailor, a racer, and a volunteer administrator at Halloween Yacht Club, present in the HYC on nearly a 40-hour per week basis for many years. After her death in 2011, the HYC Fall Race was renamed in her honor.
The Nellie Guernsey Memorial Race is conducted by HYC each September. It is open for all non-spinnaker boats, HYC members as well as others. All appropriate documents can be found on this page. Registration is free for HYC members, and $25.00 for the others, payable to Alex Henkin by check or via PayPal, to [email protected].
To register, please contact Alex Henkin at [email protected]
2021
This year the race will take place on Saturday, September 18, first signal at 1400 hours.
Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, there are no definite plans for HYC Award Party this year yet.
Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions
To be posted
Race Results
To be posted. Race replay of boats using RaceQ will be available at www.raceqs.com . For better experience, use full screen view.
2020 Race Results
Boat Name | Skipper | Start time | Finish time | Place |
Flo III | Jim Goodridge | 14:05:00 | 16:33:00 | 2 |
Soup Bone IV | Lyndon Helmbolt | 14:10:16 | 17:06:00 | 5 |
Chicken Wing | Peter Sikora | 14:12:08 | DNS | – |
Take Five | Doug Abel | 14:12:26 | 16:57:00 | 4 |
Navis Bona | Chris Hynes | 14:16:10 | 16:14:28 | 1 |
Conundrum | Bruce Blasnik | 14:16:10 | 16:47:35 | 3 |
Red Lion | Esteban Vietorisz | 14:18:01 | DNF | 6 |
Eclipse | Kent Holden | 14:20:30 | DNS | – |
Fancy Bob | Bob Wilmot | 14:21:26 | DNS | – |
2019 Race Results
Boat Name | YRALIS rating | Start time | Finish time | Place |
Flo III | 234 | 14:10:00 | DNS | DNS |
Soup Bone IV | 183 | 14:17:14 | 16:04:40 | 5 |
Kinsale | 156 | 14:21:03 | 16:15:32 | 6 |
Baydreamer | 147 | 14:22:20 | DNS | DNS |
Stampede | 129 | 14:24:53 | 16:04:23 | 4 |
Navis Bona | 126 | 14:25:18 | 15:54:56 | 1 |
Vixen | 117 | 14:26:35 | 15:55:31 | 2 |
Eclipse | 84 | 14:31:15 | 16:02:37 | 3 |
Race replay of boats using RaceQ is available at www.raceqs.com/regattas/72396 . For better experience, use full screen view.