Racing

Ever think the world is kicking you in the shins? That life’s not fair? Feeling sorry for yourself? Go immediately to ClagettRegatta.org. Here you will learn about people doing things that will make you cringe that you ever thought you were having a bad hair day. The C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta honors the memory of Tom Clagett, a passionate sailor who contracted meningitis in his youth. Tom was paralyzed for a while and…

By John Bainton Racing boats in the winter is something I have done since I was probably about eight or nine years old. I started while sailing with my father, Joe Bainton, in Interclubs at Larchmont Yacht Club in Larchmont, NY and Snipes in Annapolis. When I was about fourteen, I got my first Laser Radial and started frostbiting at Cedar Point Yacht Club in Westport, CT. I was frostbiting in Lasers on and off over my adult…

Four yacht clubs on the Connecticut River in Essex, CT – Essex Corinthian Yacht Club, Essex Yacht Club, Frostbite Yacht Club and Pettipaug Yacht Club – are proud to present the Second Annual Connecticut River Leukemia Cup Regatta, a two-day one-design river regatta scheduled for May 4 and 5. This event is open to any one-design fleet with five or more registered boats, including Ideal 18s, Etchells, MC Scows, Lasers, JY15s, Club 420s, Sunfish, Force 5s, etc….

J/70 World Champion Jud Smith of Gloucester, MA and Girl’s International 420 Youth Sailing World Champions Carmen and Emma Cowles (Larchmont, NY) are US Sailing’s 2018 Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswomen of the Year. Smith and the Cowles were honored at a ceremony at St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, CA in February, where each received specially engraved Rolex timepieces and custom picture frames commemorating their outstanding accomplishments in the sport. At 62, Jud Smith is the…

With a goal of making it easier for college graduates and students to stay involved in the sport of sailing, the New York Harbor Sailing Foundation has launched a Young Adult Program to provide free sailing opportunities to sailors ages 18 to 25 in New York Harbor. “Each year, many college graduates and students come to the New York region for jobs,” observed Michael Fortenbaugh, Executive Director of the Foundation. “While getting their careers started, young adults often…

In 1851, members of the New York Yacht Club won the very first race for the trophy that became known as the America’s Cup, successfully defending the title twenty-four consecutive times before being defeated in 1983 – the longest winning streak in all sports. The 36th America’s Cup presented by Prada will be sailed March 6 – 21, 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand. The trophy’s current holders, the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and their team, Emirates…

Story & photos by Rick Bannerot Around the office water cooler, it’s one thing to talk about sailing in Key West Race Week in January on a J/105, but for real sailing creds, nothing beats talking about having just been frostbite sailing in Long Island Sound in the middle of winter, in 15-foot dinghies, in 15 knots of breeze, dodging chunks of floating ice collecting around the anchor line of the leeward mark!   Stamford Yacht Club’s…

By Ed Cesare, BIRW XXVIII Event Chair Preparations are well underway for Storm Trysail’s Block Island Race Week 2019. With format developments both on and off the water, the 28th edition of this biennial event promises not only a high level of windward/leeward competition for those that seek it but an equally spirited but more relaxed experience for teams that want to both race hard and enjoy other aspects of the week. Bring the Family Entries in…

Jason Carroll’s MOD 70 trimaran Argo (Larchmont, NY) continued her winning ways in the 34th Pineapple Cup – Montego Bay Race, taking line honors on January 30 and setting new the multihull and outright course record at 2 days, 0 hours, 7 minutes and 44 seconds. Sailing a distance of 869 nautical miles at an average speed 18.05 knots, Argo’s elapsed time slashed the previous outright course record, set by Tom Hill’s R/P 75 Titan 12 in 2005,…

Ida Lewis Yacht Club in Newport, RI, the International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA) America’s Fleet and the 12 Metre Yacht Club are gearing up for the largest-ever gathering of historic 12 Metre yachts in the U.S. The 2019 12 Metre World Championship, scheduled for July 8 – 13, will host 24 teams from seven countries including Patrizio Bertelli’s US-12 Nyala, the defending 12 Metre World Champion, and five yachts that have successfully defended the America’s Cup: US-16 Columbia (1958), US-17 Weatherly (1962), US-22 Intrepid (1967 & ‘70), US-26 Courageous (1974 &…