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Many town yacht clubs maintain their own racing teams for both
juniors and adults. Often several yacht clubs will get together to hold
events that can include more than 100 entered boats per race making up
the regatta. Although often both adults and juniors sail the same
classes of boat, junior classes usually consist of Optimist and 420's on
the east coast, and of Naples Sabots and CFJ's (club Flying Juniors) on
the west coast, and, universally, Lasers that are broken down further
depending on skill and age levels. Age levels are usually from 8-18 for
juniors and then 19-64 for adults. Senior classes are popular on the
west coast and tend to be held in Naples Sabots, an 8' design that was
founded in the Long Beach/Naples area and is an extremely popular west
coast boat.
