Races and Regattas

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!!!https://stormtrysail.org/regattas/intercollegiate-regatta/team-registration/ October 7, 8, 9, 2022     Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY  Dear Intercollegiate Offshore Sailors, Welcome to the 2022 Storm Trysail Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta.  We hope you had a great summer and got a lot of great sailing in.   This is your invitation to the 2022 IOR Regatta.  Please have your person in charge (PIC) go out to the above website to register your team.  If you are a school bringing more than one team…

NEWPORT, RI (August 25, 2022) – On Sunday, September 11, local sailors plan to race around Conanicut Island in the Sail for Hope. The annual race around Jamestown is a fundraiser to benefit World Central Kitchen Ukraine relief, Save the Children’s Emergency Fund and Sail Newport’s new after-school Marine Exploration Program for Thompson Middle School.  The event was founded in 2001 as “Sail for Pride” in the weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Twenty-one years later, the sailing community still gathers every…

On Saturday, August 13, the annual Antigua and Barbuda Hamptons Challenge Regatta was back in Sag Harbor, New York after a two-year hiatus and Sag Harbor celebrated the event in style with an all day Caribbean Festival at John Steinbeck Waterfront Park, complete with steel drum bands, craft vendors and artisans, stilt walkers and local musicians. Nineteen boats competed this year for the biggest amateur sailing prize in the Northeast- an all-expense paid trip to participate in…

MOD70 trimaran is the first Saturday finisher in history of storied race HAMILTON, Bermuda (June 19, 2022)—Jason Carroll (New York City) and the crew of the MOD70 Argo outran every elapsed-time record associated with the Newport Bermuda Race when they completed the 52nd edition Saturday night at 2320:09 (ADT). Argo’s elapsed time of 33 hours, 0 minutes and 09 seconds is more than 30 hours faster than Carroll’s Gunboat 62 Elvis set in the first multihull division in the 2018 Bermuda…

Ready or Not, IC37 Class Jumps into Most Competitive Season Yet Newport, R.I. — The 2022 summer season for the IC37 class officially starts on Friday, June 10 with Day 1 of the New York Yacht Club’s 168th Annual Regatta. But the half of the fleet that sat out last weekend’s training session is already behind, according to IC37 class coach Moose McClintock. “The guys that didn’t sail last weekend, they’re going to be at a disadvantage not…

Virtual competitors in the 2022 Online Newport Bermuda Race can choose to compete in any one of four divisions NEWPORT, RI (June 8, 2022)—The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee (comprised of members of the Cruising Yacht Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club) has teamed with Sailonline, a community-owned navigation-simulator game, to provide a virtual race that will mirror the 52nd Newport Bermuda Race, scheduled to start Friday, June 17. The 2022 Online Newport Bermuda Race offered…

New Orleans, LA (May 26, 2022) – After four days of racing on Lake Pontchartrain with tricky conditions and thunderstorms threatening a shortened Championship, Boston College came away victorious for the College Sailing Women’s National Fleet Racing Championship. Overall Standings:1. Boston College 2. Yale University 3. Stanford University 4. Harvard University 5. Brown University 6. Tulane University 7. United States Naval Academy8. Cornell University 9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10. Bowdoin College11. Dartmouth College 12. Jacksonville University 13. University of Pennsylvania 14. Georgetown University 15. United States Coast Guard Academy 16….

LARCHMONT N.Y. –  Our friends at the Storm Trysail Club is getting ready for the largest fleet in well over a decade with 86 boats set to take the starting line on Friday, May 27, 2022. The annual 186nm race starts and ends off Stamford, Conn. and takes the crews down Long Island Sound and around Block Island. This is the third attempt to run the 75th edition after cancellations due to the pandemic in 2020 and extreme weather in 2021 kept the…

EDGARTOWN, MASS. (May 24, 2022) – Edgartown Race Weekend, scheduled for June 23-25, has attracted 66 entries to date and, as usual, promises fierce but fun competition among teams of all sizes and calibers from around the U.S. and internationally. Held each summer on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, the Thursday-Saturday event features as its centerpiece the 55 nautical-mile ’Round-the-Island (‘RTI) Race – one of yacht racing’s oldest distance events – on Saturday morning, starting at 8…

New Orleans, LA (May 22, 2022) – After four days of racing on Lake Pontchartrain with tricky conditions and thunderstorms threatening a shortened Championship, Tulane University came away victorious on their home waters with their first Fleet Racing National Champion title in 49 years and their second in program history. Overall Final Standings:1. Tulane University2. Yale University 3. Brown University 4. Dartmouth College5. Stanford University6. United States Naval Academy7. Georgetown University8. Boston College9. Tufts University10. Harvard University11. Hobart and William Smith…