Ship’s Log

LARCHMONT N.Y. –  Our friends at the Storm Trysail Club is getting ready for the largest fleet in well over a decade with 86 boats set to take the starting line on Friday, May 27, 2022. The annual 186nm race starts and ends off Stamford, Conn. and takes the crews down Long Island Sound and around Block Island. This is the third attempt to run the 75th edition after cancellations due to the pandemic in 2020 and extreme weather in 2021 kept the…

EDGARTOWN, MASS. (May 24, 2022) – Edgartown Race Weekend, scheduled for June 23-25, has attracted 66 entries to date and, as usual, promises fierce but fun competition among teams of all sizes and calibers from around the U.S. and internationally. Held each summer on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, the Thursday-Saturday event features as its centerpiece the 55 nautical-mile ’Round-the-Island (‘RTI) Race – one of yacht racing’s oldest distance events – on Saturday morning, starting at 8…

Periodically, our friends at the Newport Bermuda Race Organizing Committee bring you articles from race sponsors of interest or value to many in our community of race fans and competitors. This comes from Castle Hill Inn, official luxury hotel sponsor of the 2022 Newport Bermuda Race and a great place from which to watch the June 17 start get underway. CASTLE HILL INN: VIEWING OPTIONS Castle Hill Inn, the iconic Relais & Châteaux property on Newport’s Ocean Drive,…

New Orleans, LA (May 22, 2022) – After four days of racing on Lake Pontchartrain with tricky conditions and thunderstorms threatening a shortened Championship, Tulane University came away victorious on their home waters with their first Fleet Racing National Champion title in 49 years and their second in program history. Overall Final Standings:1. Tulane University2. Yale University 3. Brown University 4. Dartmouth College5. Stanford University6. United States Naval Academy7. Georgetown University8. Boston College9. Tufts University10. Harvard University11. Hobart and William Smith…

“Warrior Sailing’s 5th consecutive participation in the country’s largest keelboat regatta, Charleston Race Week, once again proved to be a fantastic venue and event!  For the 12 warriors that attended, we raced onboard two USMMA Sailing Foundation vessels in the pursuit offshore class,” said Ben Poucher, Warrior Sailing Program Director. “The Swan 44 Helios, managed by warrior Bo Darlington, was sailed by a Warrior sailing graduate crew down from Annapolis to participate in Race Week as part of a 4-day…

Bristol, RI – May 18, 2022. The Herreshoff Marine Museum / America’s Cup Hall of Fame welcomes 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 October 14that the 2022 America’s Cup Hall of Fame Induction gala at the New York Yacht Club in New York City. “These individuals have had a profound impact on the America’s Cup,” said America’s Cup Hall of Fame Selection Committee Chair Steve…

NEW ORLEANS, LA (May 18, 2022) – Racing concluded at the College Sailing Team Race National Championship on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans hosted by Tulane University with support from Southern Yacht Club and Community Sailing New Orleans. Sixteen of the best college teams across the nation qualified to compete in this event for the Walter C. Wood Trophy, awarded to the winning team. The Yale Bulldogs walked away with the title and an impressive record of 22-3.When…

Come & Celebrate with Sails Up 4 Cancer Sponsored by Mystic River Yacht Club, the Sails Up 4 Cancer Regatta is open to all, from serious racers vying for Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association points as well as weekend cruisers and daysailors. This regatta is meant to be fun while supporting a great cause. Racing begins on the water in Fishers Island Sound in the vicinity of Seaflower Reef at 12pm. Registration is $50/yacht & includes four tickets…

Expand your coaching and become a more overall inclusive program by having your programming team register for an upcoming US Sailing Adaptive Sailing Instructor Workshop: Niantic Bay Yacht Club, Niantic, CT, May 20 – 22, 2022Pleasant Bay Community Boating, North Chatham, MA, June 6 – 8, 2022Longshore Sailing School, Westport, CT, June 11-13, 2022South Beach Yacht Club, San Francisco, CA, July 29 – 31, 2022 Endorsements earned for current US Sailing Certified Small Boat Level 1+ and…

Sails Up 4 Cancer (SU4C), with Coastal Connecticut Cornhole and Sunday Gravy, present a Friday of fun! Featuring Dogwatch Mystic BBQ on June 17, 2022 at 6pm at Mystic Shipyard, 100 Essex Street, Mystic, CT. The music is free and open to the public, but donations to Sails Up are strongly encouraged. Sunday Gravy will be on stage delivering music audiences want to hear. Playing all things roots rock reggae and in between. This great, reggae band…