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Acknowledged as having won more trophies than any other boat in American yachting history, Dolphin was meticulously restored by master boatwright Donn Constanzo at Wooden Boatworks in Greenport, NY.

Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude tells the story of the many attempts to solve what the British dubbed the “longitude problem.” Authors Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt recount the pursuit of the measurement of longitude at sea, which stumped some of the finest minds of Western civilization for nearly 300 years.

SSV Oliver Hazard Perry is the first ocean-going full-rigged ship built in America in over a century. She also is this country’s largest privately-funded, actively sailing Tall Ship, one of only 75 Tall Ships in the world designated by Sail Training International as Class A.

How many know that the venerable International One Design, the oldest one-design keelboat still racing, the queen of the Long Island Sound elite sailors beginning in the late 1930s when Larchmont Yacht Club’s Cornelius Shields commissioned the first order, was in fact a one-design Six Metre? A Norwegian boat builder named Bjarne Aas is credited as the designer, and he built them out of oak and cedar beginning in 1936.

With the 50th Newport Bermuda Race coming up in 2016, I’ve been gathering stories of past “Thrashes to the Onion Patch”—a nickname inspired by the race’s frequent demanding conditions and Bermuda’s agricultural history.

The 100-foot Comanche, built to be first to finish in every race she enters and break records when the weather cooperates, is preparing for the Transatlantic Race 2015, which starts in Newport on July 5, 2015

Skipper Noyes passed away on Friday evening, May 29, 2015. He had celebrated his 94th birthday in April 2015 and was among family and friends at home in Greenport, Long Island.

For the 16th consecutive year, Sonar Fleet 23 of Nyack Boat Club (NBC) in Nyack, New York starts the spring racing season with the Tappan Zee Challenge. This year’s regatta will be held on Saturday and Sunday, May 16 & 17, 2015.

Immerse yourself in the heart of the action this July in a sailor’s paradise known as Cape Breton Island. Race the Cape is back for its third year – now even longer – with a course of 175 nautical miles and a brand new leg stretching “down north” into Ingonish in the island’s majestic Highlands.

Dexter A. Holaday II has joined his father, Dexter A. Holaday, as a partner in the long-established marine surveying and yacht consultant business in Noank, CT.