Upcoming Events

J/Boat teams are always a big part of the action at Edgartown Yacht Club Race Weekend, and this year organizers are putting out an all-call to J/Fest participants and others who own J/Boats, inviting them to join the fun on Martha’s Vineyard over July 25-27. The three-day competition starts on Thursday with two days of ’Round-the-Buoys (’RTB) racing and finishes on Saturday with a choice of distance races: the traditional 56-nautical mile ’Round-the-Island (’RTI) race and, introduced last year, the 20-nm ’Round-the-Sound (’RTS) race. Sailors can choose to…

Stonington Harbor Yacht Club in Stonington, CT is hosting an educational presentation by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary about Maritime 911 on Saturday, April 20 at 6:00pm. The U.S. Coast Guard bears the burden of first response for incidents in the waters near the shore. Coast Guard staff communicate with the stricken vessel, coordinate with other ships in the area, and respond themselves if that is needed. To make this work smoothly, the USCG has developed the…

Presented by the Cruising Club of America with support from the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound and hosted by the Gaelic-American Club in Fairfield, Connecticut on Wednesday, May 8, this evening includes a presentation that invites you aboard, dispels myths, and offers robust discussion of past Newport Bermuda Races. Veterans of the 635-nautical mile offshore “Thrash to the Onion Patch” will present both the history and current challenges of this 114-year-old race, the next edition…

Hosted by U.S. Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound, located at 120 Woodward Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, and running from from 10 am to 2 pm, this family event helps kick off Safe Boating Week. Attendees can learn about aids to navigation, climb aboard USCG patrol vessels, and visit “Coastie,” the robotic boating safety tugboat. There will be life jacket demos, water safety tips, kayak and paddlecraft safety demos, a safety flare demo, public safety agencies’…

This year’s Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association Spring Seminar, on Wednesday, May 8 at Shennecossett Yacht Club in Groton, CT, features a special presentation by Russian yacht designer Vlad Murnikov. The Soviet Union was in disarray in the mid-1980s, and while Mikhail Gorbachev was speaking of Perestroika, no one knew where that would lead.  Murnikov, an architect with a penchant for yacht design, began talking to friends about the upcoming 1989 -’90 Whitbread Round the World Race. The…