Racing

By anyone’s standards, 2025’s 127th edition of Larchmont Race Week (July 11 – 20) was an overwhelming success. Nine days of sailing, over 450 boats and thousands of sailors involved, with nine nights of shoreside parties and events. Add to that how there was something for everyone on the schedule, ranging from fleet, team, and match racing to family fun races, swim relays, a pro/am tennis tournament, and a scheduled fishing derby and SUP relay races.  …

No, not that one… By Joe Cooper Editor’s note: This story replaces Coop’s Corner this month. I get a reasonable number of unsolicited press releases. No surprise there. One washed into my inbox right after the Annapolis to Newport Race and the headline grabbed my attention:     First All-Women Crew Finishes 2025 Annapolis-Newport Race. I opened the link and learned about the good yacht Allegiant, a J/42 owned and skippered by one Maryline Bossar. Well, ownership…

Report & photos by Stuart Streuli, NYYC Communications Director   A century ago, R Class yachts were the sports cars of the yachting world, sleek and low to the ground, nimble in the corners and quick around the course, and, above all, demanding to drive. A century later they still are, at least in the eyes of the skipper and crew that sailed Gamecock to victory in Class B at the 2025 Robert H. Tiedemann Classics Regatta. The biennial…

By Cary Wang From being the youngest sailor in the 2023 Newport Bermuda Race to being the lightest in the ILCA 6 class in the ILCA U.S. Championship, I had the incredible opportunity to race alongside 146 of the best Laser sailors and world champions from the US and other countries at the regatta, hosted by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, NY June 27-29. It’s like if you’re a quarterback and you’re in the same…

By Sam Crichton The 23rd C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta wrapped up in Newport, Rhode Island on June 22 for the 30 sailors with disabilities, after three days of competitive racing and camaraderie along with a two-day coaching clinic in the single handed 2.4mR class and the doublehanded Martin 16 class.     The three days of racing provided challenges for the Race Management team and sailors with a 30+knot breeze greeting the fleet on the…

By Kate Somers, rising Photos by Stephen R Cloutier Block Island Race Week’s final tent party was abuzz with anticipation and excitement the evening of Friday, June 27 as sailors and spectators awaited the announcement of cumulative awards for the regatta’s 60th anniversary. For the first time in recent memory, BIRW featured racing on all five days of the week, with fierce competition, extraordinary sailing and shoreside revelry.     “The Race Week and Storm Trysail team…

Story and photos by Rick Bannerot The biennial running of Noroton Yacht Club’s Susan Widmann Sinclair Women’s Championship, presented by Fairfield County Bank the weekend of June 13-15, was a second wild and wooly event, thanks again to Mother Nature. Over the three days, the eight women’s teams, sailing eight identically-prepared Sonars, came from as far away as Halifax, NS; San Francisco, CA; and Hamilton, BER. The competitors experienced everything from blue skies and a modest breeze…

The First Season: 1922 By Gail M. Martin The first full season of racing for Candy boats was in the summer of 1922. Called the “skiff class” by The Providence Journal on April 17, 1922, “the fleet of 13 ½-foot wooden sailboats would compete on Saturday afternoons at the Tiverton Station of the Fall River Yacht Club. A series would run for eight races for trophies donated by Commodore. The first three boats in each event will…

By Kate Somers, risingT     The 78th edition of the Block Island Race, hosted by the Storm Trysail Club, delivered classic Northeast spring conditions and a course that tested every sailor’s resilience, tactics, and teamwork. Sixty-two boats departed Stamford on Friday afternoon for the 186-nautical-mile lap around Block Island, facing a mix of light air starts and heavy upwind slogs in the race’s signature “around-the-island-and-back” format. On the heels of a powerful nor’easter, the weather left its mark….

By Buttons Padin Photos by Eric Kruse   Spring was unusually cold, windy, and often rainy spring in the northeast, and that cold, dampness and chill helped shape this year’s Robie Pierce Regattas for sailors with disabilities, sailed in western Long Island Sound the weekend of May 29 – June 1. The Robie Pierce Regattas are run jointly by Larchmont and American Yacht Clubs, alternating venues every year. Honoring Robie Pierce (1941-2017), a beloved man of many…