LEMWOD NAUTI GIRLS

October 18-19, 2008

Linda Elias Memorial Women's One Design Regatta

Best looking team on the line was in Boat #5... the "Nauti Chicas" kept the competition on their toes and everyone had a great time sailing on the Catalina 37's.

The boat was packed with Regatta organizers... Camille Daniels, LBYC Facilities Director, Judy-Rae Karlsen, Regatta Director and Betsy Crowfoot, Press/Media Director.

Not Nauti Enough ...

Nauti Chicas finished 3rd in the annual Long Beach Charity Regatta this weekend. The early (and dense!) fog finally melted away to a gorgeous day with est 13k breeze, fairly consistent, and pretty flat seas (until the last race...) 'A great tune-up for the LEMWOD Oct 18 & 19.
Pictures anyone?

Arrrrr!

Is that "Slash" working in the rigging??? Arrrrr!!!
Sept. 19 is 'Talk like a pirate day'.
Say something nauti!

MAN OVERBOARD! ...Wait, that’s me!

REPRINTED FROM YACHT-ITY YAK THE JOURNAL OF LONG BEACH YACHT CLUB September 2008 By Judy-Rae Karlsen, LBYCSF Boardmember --
Many of you “on-the-water types” heard the news of the
Rattle & Hum (Antrim 27) near-disaster with crew overboard
during the recent 2008 Santa Barbara-to-King Harbor Regatta.
Well, that seasoned sailor, rescued 22-miles offshore after sunset
was me.
How did it happen? I made a mistake that nearly cost me my
life. Here’s the story:
Our team entered the Santa Barbara-to-King Harbor race as a
practice for next year’s Transpac. The four of us sailing Rattle &
Hum are members of the "Nauti Chicas" Sailing Team and we all
are experienced offshore racers.
After a slow start, the winds picked up as expected and we
were having an awesome ride past Anacapa Island to King
Harbor (Redondo Beach) in 25- gusting to 31-kts of wind running
at 15+ kts boat speed. That Antrim flies in the wind and it
was an exhilarating downwind sail. For several hours, we were
flying off the tops of the waves we did not plow through, and the
green water over the deck finally encouraged me to put on my
foul weather pants to stay dry as I trimmed the main. Then it happened.
One powerful gust of wind and a violent roundup stopped
the boat, and launched me (main trimmer) and Sue Senescu (driver)
right over the low side of the boat and into the ocean. Two
of four crew members went overboard. The boat was pinned on
its side, with the spinnaker still full and dragging in the water, but
the boat continued sailing at 11-knots of boats speed!
Sue was able to grab the aft stanchion and held onto the boat,
but I got caught alongside the boat, trapped by the ankle and
dragged underwater. I knew that I had to get free or I would
drown. I managed to get myself untangled in time to find the surface
and breathe. It was then that I realized I was no longer
attached to the boat… it was sailing away.
For a moment, I was dazed and confused… still reeling from
the panic of almost drowning and a sore shoulder from the fall. I
took a quick inventory. I had no life support, no communication,
and no safety gear. Then it hit me. I was now completely alone in
the water, the sun was setting and I was 22-miles offshore in an
active shipping lane.
What was my costly mistake?….I had put on my foul weather
pants and ignored my life jacket and harness. Huge mistake.
I knew the girls would come back to look for me, but whether
they could see me became a major concern. Two racing sailboats
on a downwind course came within 100-yards of me and they
sailed right by. They never saw me and never heard my screams
for help.
Fifteen more minutes went by and I could see one more spinnaker
on the darkening horizon approaching me on a downwind
course. I learned later that the crew on Sidekick (J37) was already
looking for me in the water. The skipper Bill Webster, had just
turned on his radio and was monitoring Channel 16 when he
heard the location of an MOB on the race course. His crew was
on deck searching for me in the water. One crew member identified
me screaming and waving for help. The team executed their
man overboard drill and pulled me onboard. The rest is history. I
was reunited with my sailing team the “Nauti Chicas” in King
Harbor several hours later.
The point of sharing this experience is simple…my mistake
could have ended in disaster. I learned a valuable lesson…
“Safety First” means from now on in every offshore race and
when conditions require inside the harbor, I will “make the time”
to put on my harness and PFD. Sailing with my friends is an
absolute thrill… treading water alone in the ocean without safety
gear is not. I hope that by sharing my experience, it will encourage
you to practice “Safety First”and enjoy the rest of the summer.
Your family and friends will be glad you did.

Mixed Grill

We had a coupla chicas, a coupla chicos ... all racing together on Rattle & Hummmm on the Long Beach to Dana Point race this weekend. 'Finished 2nd in class in the wishy-washy, fluky kinda, on-again, off-again race avec kelp escort. Fun in the sun with good friends -- oh yeah, and another pickle dish for the Senescus ;-D Hooray!

Blood on the deck

So much for our motto:
"Bloodless & Amusing" ...

The Nauti Chicas go fishing and there's blood on the deck ... a veritable sushi-fest ;-)

Click here for more pix

Successful Rescue - Santa Barbara to King Harbor Race

On August 1 Rattle & Hum, our Antrim 27, raced the Santa Barbara to King Harbor race. I was the skipper, with crew Judy Rae Karlsen, Betsy Crowfoot, and Valerie Navarro. All of these women are experienced offshore racers with 8 Transpacs and numerous Cabo and PV races between them. We have trusted each other with our lives many times, but this time we called in the card.

We were having an absolutely awesome ride past Anacapa Island to King Harbor (Redondo Beach) in 25 gusting to 31 kts of wind running at upto 16 kts boat speed when we had a violent roundup that tossed Judy and I overboard.
None of us were wearing our inflatable harnesses and tethers. We thought about it, as we were surfing like a spray ball of water, pumping and grinding. We had been burying the bow into the waves in front of us every 5th wave or so, taking on green water over the deck. We were mesmerized by that need for speed. The thrill is addicting . We had moved our bodies aft, but we didn’t take the time to get ourselves tethered. BIG mistake number one.

At the moment the accident occurred I was driving and Judy was on main, Betsy was on the weather aft stanchion (blessing number one as you will see) and Valerie was on the winch.

The boat was pinned, with our largest running spinnaker flailing in the wind. I was lucky enough to pop up and grab the aft stanchion, but Judy Rae was drifting away. I’ll never forget looking at her as she said “I’ll be OK”. Betsy and Valerie were then left to go into action. Betsy was at the windward aft stanchion where she deployed the MOM unit (which by the way did not deploy in the sideways position) then moved to the leeward stanchion, throwing the horseshoe ring to Judy then holding onto me while Valerie was trying to blow the spin halyard and right the boat. That wasn’t working and my strength was quickly waning, so Valerie came to pull me in as well. I could not get my self up on the boat that was still underway, albeit on its side. Flailing spinnakers do still sail, by the way. I told them I can’t hold on any longer. Betsy quickly came up with the big difference maker for my rescue, tying the bitter end of the running back line around my torso, and then Valerie and Betsy could pull me up. That all took about 5 minutes. Next we needed to call Mayday. I had earlier put the GPS and VHF into the chart table to protect them from the waves we were taking on. Big mistake number two. These things need to be in the cockpit immediately available. Valerie got them out, Betsy called the Mayday and I read the position from the GPS and pressed the MOB button. Valerie and Betsy cut the kite away and the boat righted and the MOM unit deployed, hah!

Val and Betsy pulled out the jib and headed back on reciprocal course to the site of our accident. We tried to explain to the coast guard our reciprocal course as well, since our coordinates were 5 minutes late. We also made a strenuous request that they deploy a helicopter immediately as the sun was setting and Judy Rae had no flotation (she was not able to capture the horseshoe buoy). At about that same time a racing trimaran was reported capsized in the same area. So now they had two incidents running. Then Sidekick called in that they had spotted Judy and were in the process of recovering her. The radio communications at that point was chaotic. The Helo pilot came on and was asking, basically, what do I have here, two incidents? How many MOB each, where? Etc. We heard transmission that Judy was aboard so we turned off our radio, since there was no room to talk on it with all the other communication; we were just stepping on everyone. We continued to sail looking for Judy or the boat that may be rescuing her. We sailed right to Sidekick, seeing that her sails were down we figured that was the boat. We sailed up to her, saw Judy Rae waving at us in the cockpit, and so we yelled “we love you” and bore away to King Harbor with our harnesses on. Under main and jib we were still going 12 kts. I was down below, wet clothes off, and in a sleeping bag to get rid of the shivers.

There were more racers than you would think with VHF 16 on at that time. Blessing two is they were listening, and blessing three is they reacted. Several boats including Ono, Juno, and French Kiss doused sails or prepared to douse sails and alter course to the position we gave over the radio. Sidekick was the one that was right on track to get to her, and skipper Dr. Bill Webster and crew were ready to handle the situation, recovering Judy and communicating with the CG. Thank you so much Sidekick, we can’t begin to tell you how special she is to us and how grateful we are to you. By the way, Judy was passed by two boats in less than 100 yard distance that could not hear her and did not see her. So, please, when you’re racing, in conditions like that, monitor 16, keep your eyes peeled, and when you see a round up pinned down for two minutes or more, assume it is a boat in distress with possible MOBs. Go by them if you can and check to see.

Judy Rae on Sidekick beat us to the harbor and she left me a message “Hey, I’m here at the YC, where are you? I’m going to go home to shower and nap, and I’ll be back to meet you later today as planned to sail the boat home”. What a crazy trooper.

My husband Barry and I are happily continuing on with the build of our Antrim Open Class 40 for Transpac ’09. You can bet it’s going to have all the features for safety and speed.

Sue Senescu

Next stop ...

Santa Barbara to King Harbor Race - Aug. 1! Check here or here for details and results.

Nauti in oh so many ways ...

A bevy of Nauti Chicas will be participating in this weekend's Oceanside Yacht Club Charity Regatta. Read more about this great event here. Betsy is being extra-nauti and racing elsewhere with skipper Sandy Hayes and crew in the Mayor's Cup. Results and details here.

Don't worry, be nauti!

LBRW was another wet & wild regatta for the Nauti Chicas! See Su's pix from the regatta on Shutterfly.

Nauti again ...

The Nauti Chicas invade Long Beach for a three-day regatta June 27, 28 & 29. We'll be racing LBRW as part of the Cat37 Nationals, competing against teams crewed with the likes of Annie Nelson, Camille Daniels, Ruth Schock ... oh yeah and some boys mixed in there as well (we even have two 'token males' aboard our 'cat-boat' :-D) Click HERE for details and results (under "Senescu")

Nauti Chicas win Caroline Starr trophy!!

With a corrected time of 28:5:00 the Nauti Chicas won the Caroline Starr trophy for the best performance of an all-female crew in the 125-mile Newport to Ensenada yacht race! For more details, read the news reports in the San Diego Union Tribune and NOSA website.

Next stop: Ensenada!

The Nauti Chicas will compete in the 61st annual Newport to Ensenada Race, this Friday April 25. The 125nm race is one of the largest and longest-running international yacht races, with over 400 boats entered.

Our team aboard the J/35 Predator includes owner/co-skipper Terri and navigator/co-skipper Sue, Barb, Jennifer, Su and Betsy. Pray for wind and check for race news HERE.

May 20 - Lin & Larry Pardey speak ...

Uber-cruisers Lin & Larry Pardey are the guest speakers at the LB&LAWSA - aka SAILING CHICKS - meeting Tues. May 20 at Seal Beach YC. For tickets to see their talk on "The Compelling Power of Adventure" click HERE or contact our own Judy Rae.

DON'T WORRY, BE NAUTI

All-gal team says ‘Nothing to worry about!’
in 800nm race to Cabo

OCEANSIDE, CA – The J/35 Predator, hailing from Oceanside and Dana Point Yacht Clubs, was erroneously reported as DNF in the Balboa Yacht Club Corona Del Mar to Cabo San Lucas Yacht Race.

BYC Cabo Race PRO Doug Campbell explained that Predator was inadvertently lumped in with three retired boats, instead of designated as "still racing" at press time. "Certainly Predator finished the race and I apologize to all the many Predator supporters and fans," said Campbell. "They are a helluva group!"

At one point during the race, Predator’s skipper/navigator Sue Senescu, a four-time Transpac veteran, wrote from the race course, “The weather and sea conditions were more than anticipated but our crew handled them perfectly. The most detrimental thing to our performance has been the complete shredding of our heaviest kite.” The team, known as the Nauti Chicas, had been clocking 10+ knots of boat speed in 25-30 knot winds and big seas until they blew up their heavy spinnaker in the early hours of March 30. Subsequently they tallied an average Speed Over Course of 6.11 knots for the race (reflecting the lack of a suitable spinnaker) while their D-class rivals logged 7 to 8.2 knots.

Responding to reports that the J/35 was ‘struggling’ and comments that other racers were ‘worried about them’ the crew laughed it off. “Although we are the last of the boats to sail into the finish line, our spirits our high!” said Senescu. “We’re disappointed with our results, but very proud of our team and our boat, the second smallest and second highest rater I believe in the fleet.” The Cabo Race was the inaugural long-distance offshore race for four of the six crew: yacht owner Terri Manok, Helena Cannady, Denise Eldredge and Judy Rae Karlsen.

Meanwhile three other race boats – Muneca, Aeolos, and Bad Pak – were forced to retire due to gear failures in the heavy seas and windy conditions.

Predator’s six-woman team finished Wednesday evening April 2, with an elapsed time of 127:07:16 -- well within the published cut-off time of noon April 4. “We had two full days of barbecues, swimming, snorkeling and working on our fantastic tans before celebrating with our friends at the trophy presentation Friday,” said crewmember and Transpac veteran Betsy Crowfoot.

Next on the agenda for the Nauti Chicas is the Newport to Ensenada Race, and all-women one-design regattas in Puerto Vallarta and Long Beach.

OFFICIAL RESULTS

Cabo Pics

A smattering of Cabo Race photos are available here on Shutterfly. Enjoy!

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Thank you everyone...

Thanks John for keeping everyone posted while we are recovering poolside. Haha. We had a wonderful crowd to welcome us at the finish, all giving us huge cheers and serving great food and beverage dockside. Then we moved our operation to a set of casitas on the beach north of Cabo that belong the the Montage Corporation. Terri's Husand Tom is one of the a manager of a new resort they are building here and these houses are used for the management team. Aweseome semi private beach/cove, pool, maid service, just absolutely awesome and so relaxing after so much stress/excitement.Tonight we are going to a race party, then having dinner back here with close family and friends, and then tomorrow night is the Trophy Dinner. Sat we go home.
Thank you everyone for your enthusiasm and support. We are definitely doing this race next year. The feeling of taking the challenge and just the accomplishment is "something special" that we all will never forget.We plan to put together a slide show or something so share with everyone later.
Sue and the Chicas

Hello all from Tom Manok

Hello all,

Here’s an update you may or may not have received from the Nauti-Chicas. Based on last evening, I must say the ladies recovered quite well from their adventure.

The amount of support from our friends, fellow racers…..and my employers has been overwhelming. It has been a challenge to get the boat ready and make sure the team had every advantage they could possibly have. I am happy to report the boat made it threw in flying colors and I have been gratified by the teams’ comments relative to Predator being up to what ever they threw at her.

The delivery crew has reconfigured the boat into delivery mode and should be leaving tonight or tomorrow morning depending on the weather window. Last night, the Chicas insisted on making “an appearance” at a lovely reception thrown by Balboa Yacht Club, pool side at the old Hacienda Hotel. While I shuttled them around, the delivery crew, John Henke, Les George and Rob Keith, assisted by Chica Chaser Barry Senescu cooked up a wonderful dinner for us. Yes, “some” cerveza, rum and taquilla was consumed too. Most of the ladies are still in bed catching up on some well deserved rest.

I want to acknowledge the folks I work with in Cabo, especially Vista Serena’s president, Erich Kaufman and his team who provided me with the opportunity to offer such a great “winding down” environment for the Nauti-Chicas. I’m not forgetting you guys in SD or Laguna either, you’re support and understanding relative to my moments of distraction over the last week are certainly appreciated as well.

See all of soon,
Tom

www.montagelagunabeach.com

The Nauti Chicas have finished !!!!

While there is no official posting on the BYC website, I just received word a few moments ago that the Nauti Chicas have finished !!!!

The arrival host team was headed to the docks with 'bebidas' in hand. It's way early enough for lots of partying tonight. While the girls are probably exhausted, the adrenalin gets going once you've reached the finish and with a little encouragement the party will blast!

Here's to the Nauti Chicas, their perseverance, determination and Corinthian spirit!

Salud!

John Berry
"Official Chica Chaser"

Almost there

As of this morning they are about 83 miles from the finish and doing 7.3 knots. Right now there’s little wind down here at the tip, it should pick up but, then lighten up around 10 tonight.
The delivery crew is here, we started provisioning last night will finish this morning and be on the dock when the gals get here. We’ll take the cooler and have rum cokes and margaritas waiting for them.

All is well.

Although their spirits seem to remain high .... there were more issues for the Chicas on the water. They still have about 165 miles to go and at the pace they have been averaging should finish about 6PM tomorrow.

Message from Terri relayed through Tom, the #1 Chica Chaser.

John

"Official Chica Chaser"

Hi Babe!

All is well. This has been a fun and interesting journey. Miraculously the mast head light is back on as of last night. No idea why it crapped out or suddenly came on again. Couldn't see any issues re: wiring at all. Jib top pulled out of the foil and now has a crimp in the bolt rope which is not a concern for putting it up but could be a problem getting it down so we're on the #1. Far too much wind and nasty sea angle for the spins so it's slow going.

Thanks so much for your responses and your support! It's finally starting to warm up. Have lived in foulies for 4 days now! Looking forward to shorts and sandals! See you soon! I love you!

Cabo Race on TV

For those of you who may be interested KDOC TV (channel 12 on Cox if you are in OC) will be showing highlights of the Cabo Race on the early morning show, OC Daybreak, 6 AM to 8 AM weekdays. They started the showing on Monday of this week.

John Berry

Wet & Wild

We hope we improved last night. We continue to have wind in the 28 knot range and high seas. Avg speed made good through the night was 10kts. Not able to use the . 6 oz spinnakers we have on board as the wind is mostly abeam and the seas quartering. We tried each of them when true wind speed was under 20kts but those moments lasted short before back to 28 and jib top. We are having a super time. having our halfway party this afternoon. (actually crossed halfway a while ago but had to try to pick a time where everyone was rested enough and waiting for flatter seas just wasn't happening.
Helena says hi to the family.
Terri says, Tom please get a new mast head bulb for the return crew (we just love sailing out here without seeing the windex :-) and I can't wait to see you. Thanks for the SSB reminder.
All the crew sends love to family and especially friends that will be there for us at the dock.
Betsy says to Coco love you and miss you Buggy,very busy, wet, and wild.
Judy Rae says to Haylen Happy Bday. She says she's lost 25 lbs haha
Nauti Chicas

Let's cheer them on!

As you will see from the second message below from the boat, the Chicas have been experiencing strong winds and big seas. It has had a toll on the sail inventory but they are still hanging in there. While the leader board is showing them currently in 6th Place, I am sure if they get the wind conditions that will allow them to get another spinnaker up they will improve that position. I am obviously assuming they are not flying a spinnaker currently due to heavy winds and the loss of their heaviest spinnaker.

If you have a note that you want to send to the girls, just send it to me and I will batch them and send on to the boat. Let's cheer them on!

John
for the Nauti Chicas

Going like gangbusters

We have been going like gangbusters at lots of 10kts speed in 20 kts wind. But our computer got a little wet and flaky so we let it dry out for and it seems to be working, this is a test. We are all doing swell - haha - 10 foot crossing seasthis whole trip, as much as 70 miles off shore at on point. Hope you get this messageNauti Chica's

Spinnaker blow-out

I guess they had an exciting night.
They are currently 6th in class and 23rd in fleet. They are 514 mi from the finish with a predicted finish time 4/2 22:38, about 40 behind 5th place. 5th place is 466 mi from finish.

I didn't like that North Sails spinnaker anyway.
Tom

Sunday morning update

Well it's been a crazy day/night. If you saw our detailed track on iboat you mave noticed a big loop we did around midnight. It wasn't a manover board, or retrieving favorite hat, but we blew up to shreds ourstrongest spinaker in our inventory,while running deep in 25 kts . Of course some of it was our fault, as we were running quarterly swells invertigo-inducing pitch darkness and had just a couple of round ups which puts a lot of stress on the thing. So anyway, we got all 3 corners of the sail on deck, saved the gear, and let the kite go out for burial at sea. That and a new headsail up and a jibe all in less than an hour. You could imagine all hands on deck, tethers on, flashlights and knives at the ready. That was a first for any of us I think.

http://charthorizon.com/races/2008_corona_sanlucas/htdocs/

We are following the predicted weather and our planned course pretty much as expected, with more wind outside. We have not been able to copy the race committee ssb transitions of place in class and fleet, we are only able to receive their daily lat/long reports. We hope to get into better communications range with them soon.

Go girlfriends! ..... Go Girlfriends!

Well the Nauti Chicas aboard Predator are off and running. They started the Cabo Race today at noon. While it is still very early on in the race, they look like they are moving well and are positioned very nicely in their class. Time will tell.

Wind conditions so far have been normal Southern California winds, strength wise but not direction. The wind has been out of the SW at about 8.5 knots. This has the girls on a Southerly course at about 4.3 kts. I am sure they are looking for the winds to clock towards the West so they can use their spinnaker.

They're off!

The crew is ready...

New member

Hi from Su.

Go Nauti Chicas!

A shot of J/35 PREDATOR from the Around-Catalina Race.

Nauti Chicas have their game faces on for Cabo

REPRINTED FROM BYC WEBSITE:

CORONA DEL MAR, Calif.---The boat’s name---Predator---is intimidating enough, but wait till you see the crew lined up to sail it in Balboa Yacht Club's biennial race from Corona del Mar to Cabo San Lucas starting March 28 and 29.

Six determined members of the Nauti Chicas women’s sailing team are on an ambitious mission that will take them through seven events climaxing with next year’s Transpacific Yacht Race to Hawaii, and this is the first big step.

“We have a tremendous amount of experience on the boat,” says co-skipper Terri Manok, who owns the J/35 with her husband Tom. “Gender is not a factor. We probably have more experience than some of the other boats. It’s not anything we can’t handle.”

The smaller boats, including Predator in Class D, will start the 800-nautical mile race to the tip of Baja California, Mexico on Friday the 28th, the larger ones a day later. The starts will be at noon directly off the end of the Balboa Pier in front of the Original Ruby’s restaurant. Spectators are welcome.

Manok, vice commodore of Oceanside Yacht Club in Southern California, and co-skipper Sue Senescu, a staff (former) commodore of Dana Point YC, have selected their crew from the 18 Nauti Chicas members. The others are Denise Eldrige, Dana Point; Helena Cannady, San Francisco; Judy Rae Karlsen, Long Beach; and Betsy Crowfoot, Carpinteria.

These aren’t teeny boppers on a lark. Their ages run from 39 to 50 (;-D ), and among them they have completed seven Transpacs. Senescu and Crowfoot have raced on two and three all-woman Transpac teams, respectively, and Senescu has done two other Transpacs on coed crews. Otherwise, the crew’s collective résumés as sailing instructors and competitors are impressive but too long to list here.

“Let’s just say we’re mature in sailing years, as well,” Senescu said, dryly.

They’re approaching this race very seriously with new sails from VGM in Dana Point, new running rigging, a new boat bottom from the Villalva boat yard in Ensenada . . . and lots of practice.

Senescu said, “We’ve done some offshore practices in winds of 22 knots gusting to 33 . . . thunder and lightning and big black walls of squalls.”

Manok: “It was great experience. I’m totally confident we can handle anything at that level.”

Other events they plan to do are women’s one-design regattas at Puerto Vallarta in May and Long Beach in October, next month’s Newport-to-Ensenada race with two boats, Santa Barbara to King Harbor in August and Newport Beach to Cabo San Lucas next February.

“All of us have significant others who have been very supportive,” Manok said. “My husband has given up the boat for this year and most of next year.”

Their only problem is a shortage of sleeping berths on the J/35, the second smallest boat in the fleet, even rotating two to a bunk. An all-male crew would normally sail with five.

“We could sleep four un-comfortably,” Senescu said, “but I’ll probably just have to find someplace on the sails.”

The race is being conducted under PHRF, ORR and IRC handicap systems.Each boat will be tracked by iBoat, which has provided satellite positioning on the Internet for last year's Long Beach-to-Cabo race, the 2006 Pacific Cup from San Francisco to Hawaii and several East Coast races to Bermuda and elsewhere since 2005.

A sendoff party promising "Mexican buffet, cheap drinks and good company" is scheduled the evening of March 27 at Balboa YC. The Old Hacienda Hotel will host a poolside party late on the afternoon of Thursday, Aril 3, and trophies will be presented Friday, April, 4 at Tesoro Los Cabos. -- Rich Roberts

FOR MORE NEWS & TO TRACK THE RACE PLEASE GO TO THE BYC WEBSITE

We are livin' the dream!

Be Nauti!

Anyone can 'Be Nauti' with an authentic Nauti Chica or Chica Chaser team shirt! Long sleeve, white quick dry mesh chica chaser ($30) or periwinkle women's form-fitting v-neck ($25). Contact your favorite Nauti Chica or email me at crazeemermaid@gmail.com. Click on image for details.

Team Pix March 16

We will be taking a team photo March 16, at the boat (Oceanside) at 10AM. Wear the periwinkle 'Nauti Chica' top and black shorts.

Nauti Chicas 'Shake it like a Martini Shaker'!

Martini Queenie Jennifer - winner of the Nauti Chicas' Martini Shake-off at DPYC, with her "Weight-on-the-rail" chocolate (of course!) martini.
Our fundraiser was a huge success and will help us finance our Cabo Race entry fee, life raft servicing, and additional rating fees. Yay! Thanks to everyone who showed up and to our generous contributors. We hope you had a great time: we did!
Click on Jen's photo (compliments of Terri) for more photos.

Fundraiser & Party: Saturday Feb 9 @ DPYC

The Nauti Chicas present their first ever Martini Shake-off and contest for the Martini Queenie, at Dana Point Yacht Club; Saturday Feb. 9 starting at 7:00 pm.
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