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PHOTO GALLERY (updated daily) provides a pictorial history of this great event! To download high-resolution images, copyright free for editorial purposes, register online at www.regattanews.com. Photo credits: Dan Nerney/Rolex of the Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship Regatta

The COMMENTARY and the MARK ROUNDING pages provide on the water, moment to moment coverage...

EVENT HISTORY... Inaugurated in 1985 at the instigation of US SAILING's Women’s Championship Committee, the Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship quickly became the premier women’s sailing event in the U.S. and worldwide. Held biennially, the event provides women keelboat and offshore sailors high quality racing and an opportunity to compete with top national and international women sailors. As part of the US SAILING Adult National Championships program, the winning team will receive US SAILING’s Bengt Julin Trophy.

Houston Yacht Club continues a historical precedent in women's sailboat racing with an exciting change that is taking place in the RIWKC in 2007. For the first time in its history the event will be held in a venue away from the East Coast, traveling to Texas and Houston Yacht Club. In 1959 the first national regatta ever hosted by HYC was U.S. Women's Sailing Championship for the Mrs. Charles Adams Cup. Other women's events HYC has hosted include the U.S. Junior Women's Doublehanded Championship for the Ida Lewis Trophy, the U.S. Junior Women's Singlehanded Championship and the Men's and Women's 470 Class 2004 Olympic Trials, along with many other national, international, and Olympic events Twice HYC has been awarded the prestigious St. Petersburg Trophy emblematic of excellence in race management. HYC was founded in 1897 and the high quality of its race mangement team, beautiful club house, spirit of volunteerism, and ideal easy access to open water all combine to give sailors a unique experience when racing on Galveston Bay.