Racing

Winners Named in Five Classes, Fundraising Extended!     All types of boats comprised the fleet of 37 entries sailing in the first-ever Rhody Regatta, which was combined with the International Yacht and Athletic Club (IYAC) Newport Cup on July 1. The event, an 18-mile race around Conanicut (Jamestown) Island, raised more than $15,000 for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank through team donations and will keep its fundraising link live through the month of July, should anyone else wish to make…

By Sam Crichton       Thirty-one sailors competing at the 21st C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta and 2023 U.S. Para Sailing Championships completed three days of racing on June 25, which was preceded by a two-day coaching clinic. The 21 sailors in the 2.4mR class and five boats in the Martin 16 class completed eight races with a variety of conditions from rain to fog to sun and everything in between. Principal Race Officer Tom Duggan…

By Chris Crawford & Kate Somers     “In 1965, we had 175 boats come to Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week and 30 years later we are still going strong with 177 boats,” noted Race Chair Andrew Weiss of this year’s edition presented by Margaritaville. “It has been a fantastic week of racing, parties, and fun – so here’s to 30 more.” And what a regatta number 30 was. The week started off strong with…

By Cole Brauer & Cat Chimney Editor’s note: In June, Cole Brauer and Catherine Chimney made yachting history as the first women to record the fastest elapsed times in both the singlehanded first leg and doublehanded second leg of this year’s Bermuda One-Two Yacht Race. Young American, a J/105 sailed by Peter Becker and Adrien Blanc, finished a few clicks ahead on corrected time to take first in fleet on Leg 2 of this biennial race from Newport,…

Adds Second ORC Class, Third “Bagheera” Class in PHRF Division, New Courses The Ida Lewis Yacht Club has refined its modifications announced earlier this year for the 2023 edition of the Ida Lewis Distance Race presented by Bluenose Yacht Sales. Scheduled for Friday, August 18 through Saturday, August 19, the race will now host a second class in ORC Division to make ORC 1 and ORC 2, while a third class – named Bagheera – will be added to the existing Aloha and Coronet classes for monohulls sailing in the…

By Phil Dickey, Essex Yacht Club Essex Yacht Club’s seventy-first Wetherill Race, which started Friday, May 19, was again a challenging and enjoyable ocean racing event. Reconfigured in 2021 to a 140-mile course from Old Saybrook, CT to Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard and back, leaving Block Island to starboard, 80% of the Race takes place in ocean waters. The Wetherill is an excellent spring tune-up for the Bermuda Races, the Marblehead to Halifax Race, or other…

Story & photos by Stuart Streuli After 45 races in conditions that ranged from heavy air to survival sailing, four of the ten teams competing in the New York Yacht Club’s third annual Women’s 2v2 Team Race were tied for first place with 7 points apiece. And perhaps that’s appropriate.   Given the dire forecast for Newport, RI heading into the weekend of June 3 & 4, the fact that any races were held at all is…

This year marked the 14th running of the Robie Pierce One-Design Regatta, hosted jointly by Larchmont and American Yacht Clubs. This year’s Robie was at Larchmont starting on Thursday, June 1 with the Robie Women’s Invitational (the world’s only all-women’s adaptive regatta) followed by the Robie One-Design Friday, June 2 to Sunday, June 4. This was the year that everyone showed up except the wind!   Despite the best intentions of the Event and Race Committee, the six…

Our friends at the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster, Bay, NY extend an open invitation to yacht clubs and sailing organizations to apply for one of eleven available berths to the 2023 Seawanhaka Invitational Regatta for the Cruise Cup, to be sailed the weekend of September 23 & 24. The Cruise Cup was first held in 2019, was canceled due to the pandemic in 2020, and returned in 2021. The college-style fleet racing held in Seawanhaka’s…

Our friends at the New York Harbor Sailing Foundation are presenting the 12 Meter Heritage Regatta in New York Harbor for the third year in a row and you, dear reader, can race on a classic 12 Meter yacht June 15 – 18. This year, racing has been added to Thursday and Friday evenings so that corporate teams and people who work in the city can participate. “For the 12 Meter Heritage Regatta, you can buy an…