Spectators will flock to Clover Point, the official starting location, and line up along Dallas Road for five races, beginning with the Lightship Classic at 9 a.m. on Saturday.
Spectators will be lining Dallas Road Saturday morning for the 78th Swiftsure Lightship Classic race, hoping to see brightly coloured spinnakers filled out by a brisk westerly wind sending boats on their way.
Out-of-town boats are expected to begin arriving at the Inner Harbour Causeway docks early this afternoon and through Friday. These days, racing yachts go around a virtual mark, but the real Swiftsure lightship was stationed at Swiftsure Bank, near the entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, west of Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park off the west coast of Vancouver Island.Tents will be set up on the lower causeway for the Swiftsure Centre, where the public can ask questions of event ambassadors. Close to 200 volunteers pitch in to make the event happen.
Boats from the Juan de Fuca race start returning about 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Sunday morning. That day will be filled with boats returning from their various races, Diamond said. Keith Wells, executive director of the Greater Victoria Sport Tourism Commission, called Swiftsure a premiere yachting event on North America’s west coast. “It has the attention of yachtsmen up and down the coast.”
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