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Sheila McCurdy of Middletown, RI is the newest recipient of the Cruising Club of America’s top service award, the Richard S. Nye Trophy. McCurdy is one of several French, Irish and American sailors recognized for outstanding achievement internationally at the CCA’s annual gala awards dinner at the New York Yacht Club in New York, NY on March 6, a tradition dating back nearly a century. Recipients typically comprise both CCA members and non-members, and this year was no…

Sail Newport and The Ocean Race have announced that for the third consecutive edition of the competition, The Ocean Race (formerly the Volvo Ocean Race) will make its only North American stopover in Newport, RI in the spring of 2022. The Newport stopover will be one of ten during the eight-month 38,000 nautical-mile race around the world, which begins in Alicante, Spain, in October, 2021 and finishes in Genoa, Italy in June, 2022.     For the…

David Chard, a longtime and well-known rigger who recently took a hiatus, is back on Long Island Sound. Black Rock Boat Works, LLC, the largest rigging loft on the Sound, is now open for business in a fantastically huge indoor space at Steelpointe Harbor Marina in Bridgeport, CT. Nowhere else between Manhattan and New Bedford can a rigger work on projects in a indoor, climate-controlled space with an air draft of 85 feet. A 200-ton Travel Lift brings fully…

Registration for the 75th running of the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race now open, and the Notice of Race is posted at Yachtscoring – Block Island Race NoR. The 186-nautical mile race, from Stamford, CT around Block Island and back to Stamford, is scheduled to start Friday, May 22. “Just like classic race boats sometimes need to be optimized for better performance, we really wanted to update the 75th running of this annual race to encourage…

  Several sailors and organizations in the Northeast were among those honored by US Sailing for their contributions to the sport of sailing in the United States. The awards were presented during the 2020 Sailing Leadership Forum in San Diego, CA in February. US Sailing Association Award winners: Dave Perry (Southport, CT) received the prestigious Nathanael G. Herreshoff Trophy for his extraordinary contributions to sailing. Perry’s passion for the sport is witnessed in everything he does to…

The Sacred Heart University Sailing Team is hosting a North U Racing Tactics Seminar in Fairfield, CT on Sunday, March 14. A portion of the proceeds from this instructional event, led by North U Director Bill Gladstone, supports the fundraising efforts of Sacred Heart Club Sailing, an up and coming team established in 2011.   The full day seminar focuses on strategy, tactics and rules. Topics include starting set-up tips, final approach techniques, wind shift strategies (upwind…

Showpiece Shows, a luxury event and boat show production company based in Fort Lauderdale, FL and Bridgeport, CT, is bringing two new boat shows to the new Bridgeport Harbor Marina this year.   The invitation-only Steelpointe Yacht & Charter Show, scheduled for May 15 – 17, will showcase what’s available in yacht charter locally and around the world. And because the newest marina to grace the shoreline of Fairfield County is capable of welcoming yachts up to…

By Stuart Streuli, New York Yacht Club Director of Communications The New York Yacht Club and the Cruising Club of America have joined forces to co-sponsor an International Offshore Safety at Sea seminar sanctioned by US Sailing. The seminar will offer hands-on training for full certification in offshore ocean races, but is equally valuable for cruising and deliveries, power or sail. The seminar consists of two parts: an online Offshore Safety at Sea video course followed by…

Our friends at the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s Wooden Boat School in Kingston, NY are hosting the annual Riverport Women’s Sailing Conference on Saturday, March 28. This one-day event runs from 9 am to 5 pm. The conference allows participants to choose four options from a dozen hands-on and classroom workshops. Women sailors of all ability levels are invited to learn about safety around large vessels, navigation, maritime communications, outboard engine troubleshooting, marine electrical systems, sail care, race…

Our friends at Rhode Island Billiard, Bar & Bistro in North Providence, RI are hosting a free sailors’ billiards party on Friday, February 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. If you love sailing and reside anywhere between Boston and Block Island, you are cordially invited. “This is a FREE event,” said Anthony “Tony” Costanzo, Jr., a fourth generation proprietor whose family has operated a pool hall in greater Providence since 1909. “Rhode Island Billiard, Bar & Bistro…