Races and Regattas

Newport, R.I. — Rating rules may make noise with the large custom raceboats, but it’s the rank and file that drive sustained success. The 74-foot Bella Mente will likely be the most eye-catching boat competing under the ORC rating rule at the 2023 edition of the New York Yacht Club’s Annual Regatta, June 9 to 11. But it’s the plethora of racer-cruisers from 30 to 45 feet in length that are the real proof that ORC has established itself…

NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, USA (May 15, 2023) – Less than three months away and on the heels of The Ocean Race stopover, the 2023 12mR World Championship will be the next world sailing competition in Newport, R.I. Sanctioned by the International Twelve Metre Association and hosted by the 12 Metre Yacht Club Newport Station in partnership with Organizing Authority Ida Lewis Yacht Club, the event is scheduled for July 30-August 5 and will see ten or more historic 12 Metres sailing on Narragansett Bay…

When the five IMOCA teams are on The Ocean Race start line for Leg 4 from Itajaí, Brazil to Newport, USA on April 23, the US-flagged 11th Hour Racing Team Skipper Charlie Enright will be joined by Navigator Simon Fisher (GBR), Trimmers Francesca Clapcich (ITA), and six-time race veteran Damian Foxall (IRL), along with media crew member Amory Ross (USA). “We have two changes to the onboard team for this upcoming leg to our hometown of Newport,”…

E The inaugural Eastern Connecticut Women’s Invitation Ideal 18 Regatta will be held Saturday, May 20, hosted by the Essex Corinthian Yacht Club in Essex, CT.          The regatta is open to boats of the Ideal 18 class owned by or chartered to a recognized yacht club. This is a non-spinnaker regatta. Both the Essex Corinthian and Essex Yacht Clubs will have Ideal 18s available for charter. Both Skipper and Crew must be women.          Eligible skippers…

Eastern Connecticut Women’s Invitation Ideal 18 Regatta is May 20 The inaugural Eastern Connecticut Women’s Invitation Ideal 18 Regatta will be held Saturday, May 20, hosted by the Essex Corinthian Yacht Club in Essex, CT.          The regatta is open to boats of the Ideal 18 class owned by or chartered to a recognized yacht club. This is a non-spinnaker regatta. Both the Essex Corinthian and Essex Yacht Clubs will have Ideal 18s available for charter. Both…

By Preston Anderson KINGS POINT, NY (October 16, 2022) – Eighteen women’s collegiate sailing teams arrived at Yocum Sailing Center for the Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship Finals. The regatta was hosted by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York. Yale University took the win with Carmen Cowles, Catherine Webb, Helena Ware, Mia Nicolosi, Anisha Arcot, and Ximena Escobar on the water for the Bulldogs. On Saturday, racing started around noon. Competitors saw conditions starting with a…

Wisconsin Badgers Dominate, and First-Ever All-Female Team from Charleston win their Division Larchmont, NY – After the 2020 Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta was canceled due to COVID, hopes were high for 2021, but were dashed when the racing was called off due to strong wind and waves.  Fortunately, 2022’s rendition of the co-hosted event between Storm Trysail Club and Larchmont Yacht Club ran in absolutely perfect conditions, allowing the race committee to get off 7 windward-leeward races over two…

The Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup stays at Manhasset Bay Yacht Club in Port Washington, New York…but not for the reason the locals were hoping for. After a valiant attempt by PRO Paul Nardone, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, the two-day event did not comply with the Deed of Gift, drafted in December 1902. Needing three races to complete the regatta, one race was finally sailed and on the books by end of the day Saturday. As several teams…

The fifth Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta for sailors with disabilities was hosted by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, NY over the weekend of September 9-11 with fifteen sailors from across the US and the Caribbean sailing.   Since its inception in 2016, four of the five skippers racing this year have raced at a Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta.  This year’s edition was a challenge with Mother Nature making racing difficult with a limited sailable breeze over the two…

Sailors return to Oyster Bay for the fifth Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta Newport, R.I. (September 1, 2022) – After a COVID hiatus the Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta will return to Oyster Bay, New York for the fifth edition September 9-11.  This year Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club joins Oakcliff as host club.  “We are thrilled to be returning to Oyster Bay and partnering for the fifth time with Oakcliff Sailing and for the  addition of Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club as the…