Racing

The Ida Lewis Yacht Club in Newport, RI has teamed with the Narragansett Bay Yachting Association (NBYA) to announce a new trophy for a “Narragansett Bay Middle Distance Champion” in 2021. The trophy, made of pre-preg carbon fiber and gold-plated brass, will be presented to the PHRF skipper/team with the best overall combined performance in the Ida Lewis Distance Race IN BAY race (Saturday, August 21) and NBYA’s Inaugural ‘Round the Bay Regatta (Saturday, July 24). The Ida Lewis Distance…

Photos by Allen Clark/PhotoBoat.com As this issue went to press, the 29th edition of the Storm Trysail Club’s Block Island Race Week presented by Margaritaville (June 21-25) was underway with 158 teams competing in the waters off Block Island, RI.     Looking at the weather forecast for the week, the STC Race Committee chose Monday, June 21 for the Regatta Craft Mixers Round the Island Race. Although heavy fog prevented the ORC, One-Design, and PHRF fleets…

The 5th Annual Storm Trysail Club Ted Hood Regatta (named after famed Marblehead sailor, America’s Cup winner, National Sailing Hall of Fame Inductee, and STC member Ted Hood) is scheduled for August 20 – 23. The event will be hosted by Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA, in association with The Boston Yacht Club and the Corinthian Yacht Club. While Storm Trysail Club are optimistic, as befitting an organization very much focused on safety, we will also be cautious,…

By Amory Ross, 11th Hour Racing Media Crew Member Editor’s note: Our friends at 11th Hour Racing Team, Rhode Island’s “home team” for the next edition of The Ocean Race, earned the runner-up position in the five-boat IMOCA 60 class at the Inaugural Ocean Race Europe. Led by Skipper Charlie Enright of Bristol, the team won the Genoa Coastal Race on Friday, June 19. Victory in this final contest of the three-week-long, multi-stage Ocean Race Europe saw…

A doublehanded offshore racing newcomer takes on the Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race   By Ken Read Editor’s note: In our June edition, Contributing Editor did an interview with Suzy Leech (windcheckmagazine.com/article/women-on-the-water-suzy-leech/), in which she discussed her doublehanded campaign with Ken Read. In this article, Ken recounts the 2020 Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race in which he and Suzy raced Jeanneau’s new 33-footer. In January 2020, I broke a cardinal rule that I was told…

By Nick Bowen   The Twenty Hundred Club opened their season on Saturday, May 22 with the second annual “Bridge Fiasco” Race on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. The rules are simple: start the race just south of Prudence Island and sail under each of the three bay bridges in any order: the Newport Bridge, the Jamestown Bridge, and the Mt. Hope bridge. The course is 27.8 nautical miles on the rhumbline. The format of the race is…

By Dave Easterbrooks, NBYA Communications Director     The inaugural Narragansett Bay Yachting Association ‘Round the Bay Regatta – with an innovative and exciting new format – will debut Saturday, July 24. This is the first regatta that starts and finishes in every Narragansett Bay sailor’s backyard! Why travel hours to get to and from the starting area for a race? You won’t have to if you come out for this one. There will be four different starting areas, so…

A remarkable victory for Roust in the 2013 Marion to Bermuda Race By Ian N.H. Gumprecht In February 2013, I had been doing my best for the previous couple of months to pull together a crew for the 2013 Marion to Bermuda Race. Of the four individuals I was hounding, only one, Mark Swanson, had thus far committed. Mark and I had done five Newport Bermuda Races together as crew on a J/44. For this race however,…

Courtesy of the Larchmont Yacht Club Mainsheet After a pandemic-impacted season in 2020, the 2021 summer racing season will kick off with Larchmont Yacht Club’s traditional season opener, The Edlu Race, on Saturday, May 8. Following the off-cycle running of last year’s race in September, The Edlu returns to its early May schedule, where it has traditionally served as a classic tune-up race for the summer racing season. The Edlu Race was named after LYC Commodore Rudolph…

Our friends at the Manhattan Yacht Club in Jersey City, NJ are hosting the Statue of Liberty 12 Meter Cup, the first 12 Metre regatta ever held in New York Harbor, on June 3 – 6, 2021. There will be three days of racing with two races each day. Racing will take place in the Upper Bay between Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and the West Side of Manhattan. Four boats have currently entered, and the…