Regatta Time!

If you live in the Lakeland area, no that isn’t a large swarm of bees coming towards your house. It is the 72nd running of the Orange Cup Regatta on Lake Hollingsworth. The boat races wil begin with testing today at 11am and racing begins Saturday at 10am and Sunday at noon. As always, admission to the races is free and fans can get up close and personal with the drivers and boats in the open pit area by the Lakeland Yacht Club. Lake Hollingsworth is known in the boat racing community as the “Lake of Records” for the frequency world records are broken on the course there. This weekend’s weather is looking great, so there should be plenty of records falling in Lakeland with boat racers coming from across the country to compete in several different classes of boats. Be sure to make it down to Lake Hollingsworth this weekend to see what all the noise is about.