Welcome to the Scotch Bonnet Light Race website 2026.
Chairman John Cake and his committee are busy getting ready for another AWESOME SBLR for 2026.
Now Online
2026 Notice of Race
and
REGISTRATION.
- The SBLR will once again have satellite based real time tracking from YB Tracking thanks to: Bob Johnson’s Auto Group
- We will be using PHRF-LO point to point correction for the race scoring. click here to learn more.
- The Race Starts on Friday. Skippers meeting will be at 5 pm and first signal at approximately at 6:30pm
- Spinnaker, Genoa Only, and Multi-Hull divisions
- Picnic and Awards Ceremony Sunday August 30 starts at noon, Awards at 3
- SAVE MONEY! When ordered during registration, save $5 on picnic tickets.
- Awards for 1st 2nd and 3rd in each division and 6 perpetual trophies
- Single and Double Handed racers welcome
- A LYRA Tier 2 Event
- Profits will benefit the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- Online Apparel Store COMING SOON!
- Your Passion Rewarded
2025 Video from Robert Lang
Apparel - Online preorders coming soon.
2026 poster (low-res)...
Scotch Bonnet is GOLD
from Emily Conklin Program Manager, Sailors for the Sea:
Congratulations! On behalf of all of us here at Sailors for the Sea, we'd like to award the Genesee Yacht Club our Gold Level Clean Regatta certification for the Scotch Bonnet Light Race.
click here to learn more.
Jon LaRue flies in from California to Race on Waahuu, from Pultneyville Yacht club. He sent the following for the 2024 SBLR:
A great Scotch Bonnet this year. Thank you to GYC for hosting. Here is a pic I think you might like. I took it as we were rounding at about 4am.
My phone must have done some kind of long exposure thing because it was pretty dark at that hour!
Tracking
The Scotch Bonnet Light Race has Real Time On Line Race tracking thanks to:
YB Tracking is the world leader in satellite based tracking and reporting. Bob Johnson Auto Group's support means there is no additional cost to competitors. Anyone in the world can follow the progress of the race through the internet, as it happens. For more information on this awesome technology see:
Perpetrual Trophies
Allen Trophy for the best corrected time of the entire Spinnaker Fleet
Giambra Trophy for the first monohull to finish, elapsed time
Stewart Trophy for the best corrected time of the entire Non-Spinnaker Fleet
Warren Miller "New Issue" Trophy for the first new skipper to finish on corrected time, Genoa Only course.
Founder's Cup for the first GYC yacht under 30' LOA to finish the regular course of the Scotch Bonnet Light Race
SBLR Ernie Coleman Memorial Trophy is awarded to the best performing yacht club in the
Scotch Bonnet Light Race based on each club's top 3 finishing sailboats. To qualify, boats must
be in divisions of at least 3 boats. In the event of a tie, among the boats involved, the club with
the boat which has the best corrected time in the spinnaker fleet would be the winner.
See all of the past winners here Perpetual Trophy Winners - 2025 (PDF)
