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The Women’s Sailing Foundation (WSF) is offering the Sue Corl Youth Sailing Scholarship in 2023 to young women 14-19 years old who want to broaden their sailing experiences and need financial assistance to do so. The scholarship was established in 2015 in memory of Sue Corl of Marblehead, MA, a board member and a tireless advocate for WSF programs. The young women identify the opportunity of their choosing. Opportunities may include, but are not limited to, an…

Giving old race sails a new life for the planet With our global reach, Oceanum Vela strives to make positive moves toward keeping our oceans thriving. We collect Ocean Race Sails that have been around the planet and give them a new life for the planet (#aroundtheplanetfortheplanet).     Here in the U.S., the Clean Water Act has made tremendous progress since 1972 in keeping our waterways and our playground clean and safe to play in. However,…

Story and photos by Louis Meyer, Cruising Club of America Essex Station I had a simple two-part plan. Part 1: I’d sail Strummer, my Pilot 35, transatlantic from Connecticut to the Azores. Part 2: I’d sail her home.     In June 2018, I left Stonington, and 23 days later I arrived at Horta. A bit later, we sailed to Madeira, where I had Strummer hauled and stored on the hard in anticipation of a 2019 launch…

Join the high-performance sailing world with a fully funded boat, or dip your toe in with free F18 Clinics. Our friends at the Narragansett Bay Adult Athletic Sailing Association (NAASA) is still accepting applications for scholarships for the 2023 NAASA F18 League season. Applications are March 1, NAASA Scholarships provide fully funded F18 Catamarans for the NAASA F18 League including summer storage at Sail Newport, entry fees, and coaching. Sailors can apply as a DUO, INDIVIDUAL, or a MULTI PERSON TEAM…

Going strong at age 87, Rhode Island resident August “Gus” Miller is the oldest person ever to sail a Finn Gold Cup. Representing the Storm Trysail Club, Gus finished 53rd overall in the 2023 edition, hosted by the Coconut Grove Sailing Club in Miami, FL January 24-31. With 58 sailors from 16 countries, this event is the International Finn Class World Championship. Results are posted at https://yachtscoring.com/event_results_cumulative.cfm?eID=15268. Sailing Scuttlebutt reports: “The highlight was Race 7 when [Gus]…

Connecticut Spring Boat Show is April 28 – 30 The 7th Connecticut Spring Boat Show will take place April 28-30, 2023 at Safe Harbor Essex Island in Essex, CT. Visitors will enjoy seeing a wide range of new and brokerage, power and sail models ranging from 20 to 65 and above feet from leading boat brands. In addition to boats on the dock, the show will have yacht brokers, gear, artists, accessories, and service companies exhibiting on…

An accomplished offshore racer and navigator, Ed Cesare has completed five of the World’s Great 600-Milers. “I started sailing aboard our family’s Rhodes 19 along with brother Ben [our intrepid Publisher],” says Ed, who grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut. “The four of us would overnight with a boom tent and air mattresses on the cockpit sole. Later, my parents traded the Rhodes for a Menemsha 24 – sort of a Friendship Sloop copy. This boat had a…

I like to frostbite but I confess, the clothing is always a work in progress. Some seasons you find a good setup, with the right layering, and if those work well, you simply modify what’s on top for the conditions. The same goes for lots of heartier spring and fall conditions in our neck of the woods, and definitely for offshore in the spring or fall when it can be balmy by day and 40s at night….

Tracy Edwards, MBE was the first (and until the Volvo Ocean Race 2014-15, the only) skipper to muster an all-women crew and compete in the then named Whitbread Round the World Race. I spoke with Tracy aboard the same yacht, the refit Maiden, at Safe Harbor Newport Shipyard in Newport, Rhode Island. (Part One of our conversation can be found at https://www.windcheckmagazine.com/article/women-on-the-water-tracy-edwards/.) My brother, a career journalist, once remarked about interviewing: Know when to shut up and…