Lake Pend Oreille Yacht Club
LPOYC News
Awards Banquet and Election of 2025 Officers, October 19, 2024
During a delicious awards banquet at the Taverna Trattoria restaurant in Bayview, we presented 2024 perpetual trophies and elected officers for 2025. In all respects, the reports for membership, new boats, race attendance and revenues were up. We look forward to an even better year in 2025.
Perpetual Awards
Challenge Cup, Red Fleet - "Kestrel"
Challenge Cup, White Fleet - "Journey"
Commodores Cup, Red Fleet - "Spirit"
Commodores Cup, White Fleet - "Show Faith"
Looking Good Trophy - Mike Finch
​2025 Officers and Board Members
Commodore - Steve Straughen
Vice Commodore - Jon Totten
Race Commodore - Paul Franz
Cruise Commodore - Mike Finch
Treasurer - Jimmy Candelaria
Secretary - Guy Doran
Member At Large - Jacob Sheetz
Pearl Island Race, October 12, 2024
The results are in! 9 boats started the race and 5 finished. We had a wide range of conditions, ranging from 0-18 knots and coming from every point on the compass. Pretty much standard Lake Pend Oreille racing. After more than 18 hours on the water we had 4 boats finish within an hour and a half of each other. For some boats the finish occurred at 1:30 AM with a 180° wind shift in the pitch black just outside of the no wake markers. Thank you to Gary and MacDonald’s Resort for sponsoring the race. Here are the results:
1. "Show Faith" (both line honors and corrected time)
2. "Moon Star"
3. "Foot Short"
4. "Rival"
5. "Fuller House"
DNF - Kestrel, Silkye, Mr. Pringle, Kittiwake
We plan to do other long distance races next year, so dust off your coolers, get out the cockpit cushions and pack your duffle bags!