Manhasset Bay Yacht Club in Port Washington, NY hosted the 2014 Interclub Nationals on April 5 & 6. Jim Bower & Alexa Schuler from the Winthrop Frostbite Sailing Club in Winthrop, MA were crowned the 2014 Interclub Nationals Champs

The Robie Pierce Regattas represent the largest one-design events for sailors with disabilities in
the country.

19th edition of Sperry Top- Sider Charleston Race Week, sailed April 11-13 in beautiful Charleston, SC. This international event drew competitors from 27 states and five continents, from as far away as New Zealand, Scandinavia, Brazil, Guatemala, Australia and Peru.

Two events in Florida each January provide keen amateur racers with an opportunity to compete against the world’s best professionals. Quantum Key West and the Rolex 24 at Daytona are quite dissimilar, of course, but not just because one is North America’s premier winter regatta and the other is a 24-hour sports car race. If you want to drive your Ferrari 458 Italia in the Rolex 24, the operative phrase is “bring money.” And if you can’t…

Match racing is one of the highest intensity disciplines in the sport of sailing.

Two-time Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Sally Barkow of Nashotah, WI has joined Team SCA Ocean Racing for the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15. The all-female roster currently comprises Barkow, Carolijn Brouwer from The Netherlands, Sam Davies, Abby Ehler and Annie Lush from Great Britain, Justine Mettraux from Switzerland, and Liz Wardley, Sophie Ciszek and Stacey Jackson from Australia, with trials for the remaining VOR berths underway at press time. “I think I am probably most looking forward…

Volvo Ocean Race News American sailors who cheered for PUMA Ocean Racing in the previous editions of the Volvo Ocean Race have a new “home team” to support, as well as an all-female squad with one of the best sailors in the U.S. The 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race, a 38,739-nautical mile race around the world, kicks off with an In-Port Race in Alicante, Spain on October 4, 2014. The first leg, from Alicante to Cape Town, South Africa,…

O’Pen BIC sailors from the Northeast are invited to compete in the 2014 O’Pen BIC North American Championship,

by Bill Gladstone It happens, even to the best of racers. You find yourself at the tail end of the fleet. Who knows how you got there – a third row start, a miserable first beat, a big shift, a boat handling disaster. I will not dwell on the ways to fall behind; at that, it seems, we are all uniquely qualified. The Most Important Race So, you’re back in the pack. Now what? Before getting into…

by Hannah Jenner & Rob Windsor Editor’s note: On December 11, Team 11th Hour Racing – Hannah Jenner of Shropshire, England and Rob Windsor of Centerport, NY – finished the 2013 Transat Jacques Vabre. A doublehanded race for MOD70 and Multi 50 multihulls and IMOCA 60 and Class40 monohulls, the Transat Jacques Vabre (TJV) has a rhumbline course distance of 5,400 miles from La Havre, France to Itajai, Brazil. After a forestay failure forced them to return…