Ship’s Log

By Preston Anderson KINGS POINT, NY (October 16, 2022) – Eighteen women’s collegiate sailing teams arrived at Yocum Sailing Center for the Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship Finals. The regatta was hosted by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York. Yale University took the win with Carmen Cowles, Catherine Webb, Helena Ware, Mia Nicolosi, Anisha Arcot, and Ximena Escobar on the water for the Bulldogs. On Saturday, racing started around noon. Competitors saw conditions starting with a…

Wisconsin Badgers Dominate, and First-Ever All-Female Team from Charleston win their Division Larchmont, NY – After the 2020 Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta was canceled due to COVID, hopes were high for 2021, but were dashed when the racing was called off due to strong wind and waves.  Fortunately, 2022’s rendition of the co-hosted event between Storm Trysail Club and Larchmont Yacht Club ran in absolutely perfect conditions, allowing the race committee to get off 7 windward-leeward races over two…

Our friends at The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America’s Cup Hall of Fame are pleased to welcome Larry Ellison, Dirk Kramers, and Dawn Riley as Class of 2022 inductees of the America’s Cup Hall of Fame. They will be inducted on Friday, October 14 at the 2022 America’s Cup Hall of Fame Induction gala at the New York Yacht Club in New York City. Tickets for this Black Tie Optional event are available at the link below and you, dear WindCheck…

The Manhasset Bay Challenge Cup stays at Manhasset Bay Yacht Club in Port Washington, New York…but not for the reason the locals were hoping for. After a valiant attempt by PRO Paul Nardone, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, the two-day event did not comply with the Deed of Gift, drafted in December 1902. Needing three races to complete the regatta, one race was finally sailed and on the books by end of the day Saturday. As several teams…

The fifth Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta for sailors with disabilities was hosted by Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, NY over the weekend of September 9-11 with fifteen sailors from across the US and the Caribbean sailing.   Since its inception in 2016, four of the five skippers racing this year have raced at a Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta.  This year’s edition was a challenge with Mother Nature making racing difficult with a limited sailable breeze over the two…

Sailors return to Oyster Bay for the fifth Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta Newport, R.I. (September 1, 2022) – After a COVID hiatus the Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta will return to Oyster Bay, New York for the fifth edition September 9-11.  This year Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club joins Oakcliff as host club.  “We are thrilled to be returning to Oyster Bay and partnering for the fifth time with Oakcliff Sailing and for the  addition of Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club as the…

Our friends at New England Science & Sailing (NESS) in Stonington, Connecticut are hosting the 11th Annual Catch a Curl Youth Surf Classic & Beach Cleanup at Westerly Town Beach in Westerly, Rhode Island on Saturday, September 17. Get out on the water and support your community and environment as we work together to promote a clean ocean. Catch a Curl is open to beginners through advanced youth surfers and will include a beach cleanup as part…

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!!!https://stormtrysail.org/regattas/intercollegiate-regatta/team-registration/ October 7, 8, 9, 2022     Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY  Dear Intercollegiate Offshore Sailors, Welcome to the 2022 Storm Trysail Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta.  We hope you had a great summer and got a lot of great sailing in.   This is your invitation to the 2022 IOR Regatta.  Please have your person in charge (PIC) go out to the above website to register your team.  If you are a school bringing more than one team…

NEWPORT, RI (August 25, 2022) – On Sunday, September 11, local sailors plan to race around Conanicut Island in the Sail for Hope. The annual race around Jamestown is a fundraiser to benefit World Central Kitchen Ukraine relief, Save the Children’s Emergency Fund and Sail Newport’s new after-school Marine Exploration Program for Thompson Middle School.  The event was founded in 2001 as “Sail for Pride” in the weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Twenty-one years later, the sailing community still gathers every…

On Saturday, August 13, the annual Antigua and Barbuda Hamptons Challenge Regatta was back in Sag Harbor, New York after a two-year hiatus and Sag Harbor celebrated the event in style with an all day Caribbean Festival at John Steinbeck Waterfront Park, complete with steel drum bands, craft vendors and artisans, stilt walkers and local musicians. Nineteen boats competed this year for the biggest amateur sailing prize in the Northeast- an all-expense paid trip to participate in…