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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.

The Disney Corporation’s movie version of The Finest Hours will be released in October 2015

How far would you go to sail in Newport, Rhode Island’s Laser Fleet 413? Christine Neville moved 3,090 miles across the country. The aspiring Olympian, who stands an athletic 5’ 11” tall, enjoyed the temperate climate and spirited breeze of San Francisco, but longed for the crowded starting line of Fleet 413. “It’s the best and the most fun sailing education,” Neville said. “I learn more from racing against this fleet than anywhere else.”

There are plenty of exciting things on the horizon for Twenty-fifteen, including a new ocean racing series, a new multi-format regatta, new initiatives for both a venerable distance race and the 50th anniversary of a popular race week, the restoration of an historic ship, a gorgeous new runabout and more…

In the game of college match racing, an ancient tradition was rekindled in modern spirit with the second annual Hamilton Burr Regatta, held in New York, NY in September 2014.

A new scholarship fund has been established for Rhode Island’s Official Sailing Education Vessel, SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, by friends and family of Virginia Wagner of Newport. RI.

The NARC Rally (North American Rally to the Caribbean) departs from Newport, RI, on November 1, 2014. The Salty Dawg Rally and the Caribbean 1500 leave from Virginia .New this year is the Snowbird Rally, starting on the ICW (Intracoastal Waterway) and going “inside the ditch” all the way to Miami, FL.