Over the weekend of November 1, Bahamian Brewery Company Limited looks to host its fourth annual Sands "Man in the Boat" E class sailing championships at Montagu Bay.
For the past three years, Andros native Clayton Bain has dominated the sculling competition and will be coming in focused on a fourth straight victory, despite the jeers and criticism from other competitors
"I don't brag. I don't have time for that," said Bain. "Lynden Johnson (marketing director of the brewery) says he has someone to beat me, but I want to see him. Whoever it is, let him come out. I'm not ashamed and I [am not] scared."
On Saturday, November 1, the activities will begin with the High Rock Scramble sculling relays at noon. At 5 p.m., the preliminaries of the Sands "Man in the Boat" competition will be held with the top two boats advancing to the championship on Sunday, November 2 that will be preceded by the E Class regatta at noon.
Race coordinator George Kelly, said the activities will begin with the three-man relay race and will feature 10 to 12 boats, including Sands, Sands Light, High Rock and Strong Back.
During the relay, each boat will cover two laps before they exchange skippers until all three skippers have completed the course.
"This is being done so that we can get as many people as possible involved in sculling," Kelly said. "We're hoping to have a great event. After that, we will do the Sands Man in the Boat sculling race with the first two advancing to the national championships the next day.
"We also intend to have some surprises out there. We are trying to put on our ladies' races on Saturday and so we are encouraging all of the ladies to come out and participate in that. Then on Sunday, we will have the E Class competition with three races back-to-back, starting at noon. We intend to have cash prizes and trophies up for grabs."
Some of the other competitors include Dennis Fox out of Long Island, who won the St. Valentine's Day Massacre; Steven Rolle, who won both the National Family Island Regatta in Georgetown, Exuma and the Long Island Regatta and Clayton Moxey, who won in Grand Bahama.

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