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Fifteen sailboats race from Charlevoix to St. James in the LaBlance Memorial Cup, 1988

Also 1988 LaBlance Memorial Cup Race · Charlevoix to Beaver Island sailboat race

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Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
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TypeEvent
Dates1988-07-09 – 1988-07-10
WithinSaint James Harbor
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Saint James Harbor highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Saint James HarborLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
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Dates
1988-07-09 – 1988-07-10
Kind
Sports
Where
Saint James Harbor
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Saint James Harbor

Summary

Fifteen sailboats participated in the third annual LaBlance Memorial Cup Race from Charlevoix to St. James on July 9–10, 1988. The Beaver Beacon’s August reprint describes a slow, hot outbound trip with little wind and a quicker, rougher return in stronger winds and rain squalls.

Evidence limits

This is a short reprinted yachting report, not an official result sheet or complete vessel and crew list.

Sources

  1. Reprints a report that fifteen sailboats took part in the third annual LaBlance Memorial Cup Race from Charlevoix to St. James on July 9–10, 1988; the report describes a hot, windless outbound trip and a faster, rougher return. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-page August issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the yachting report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-08_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Fifteen sailboats race from Charlevoix to St. James in the LaBlance Memorial Cup, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-lablance-memorial-cup-race-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Yachting Notes from Charlevoix Courier 7-13-88,” Beaver Beacon, August 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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