Ship’s Log

Hosted by U.S. Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound, located at 120 Woodward Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, and running from from 10 am to 2 pm, this family event helps kick off Safe Boating Week. Attendees can learn about aids to navigation, climb aboard USCG patrol vessels, and visit “Coastie,” the robotic boating safety tugboat. There will be life jacket demos, water safety tips, kayak and paddlecraft safety demos, a safety flare demo, public safety agencies’…

This year’s Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association Spring Seminar, on Wednesday, May 8 at Shennecossett Yacht Club in Groton, CT, features a special presentation by Russian yacht designer Vlad Murnikov. The Soviet Union was in disarray in the mid-1980s, and while Mikhail Gorbachev was speaking of Perestroika, no one knew where that would lead.  Murnikov, an architect with a penchant for yacht design, began talking to friends about the upcoming 1989 -’90 Whitbread Round the World Race. The…

Essex, CT (January 31, 2019) The Connecticut Spring Boat Show will be held Friday, May 3 – Sunday, May 5 at Essex Island Marina, a Safe Harbor Marina, 11 Ferry Street, Essex, CT. The show is a production of WindCheck Magazine and is sponsored by Essex Island Marina, Yacht Brokers Association of America, Essex Boat Works, Essex Steam Train and Riverboat and YachtWorld. 100% of attendee gate proceeds will go to Sails Up 4 Cancer, last year…

The Notice of Race for the eagerly anticipated 28th Edition of the famed Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race Week has just been issued by Storm Trysail Club. Rear Commodore and STC-BIRW Event Chair Ed Cesare said “We expect to have over 150 boats participate as we’ve expanded the number of racing formats to accommodate an even wider array of yachts – from world-class Grand Prix teams to families and friends racing their cruising boats. We will…

Clean Up Sound and Harbors (CUSH), a Stonington, CT-based non-profit organization with a mission to clean up and protect Fishers Island Sound and its coves, inlets, bays, rivers and harbors, has a number of volunteer opportunities. These include: Oyster shell collection from local restaurants: Research viability of collecting shells for possible introduction into local estuaries to create new bottom structure for aquaculture or wild set oysters Oyster gardening: Research viability for growers to set oysters under docks…

US Sailing, the National Governing Body of the sport, and TropicSport, an industry leading skin care and sunscreen brand, have developed a partnership to better educate the sailing community on how to protect their skin from the harmful effects of the sun using eco-friendly products. TropicSport is a complete skin care system that includes reef-friendly mineral sunscreens and after-sun face and body cleansers and moisturizers. Made in the USA from natural ingredients, TropicSport was formulated to work…

Our friends at New York Yacht Club American Magic and Oakcliff Sailing are co-hosting a special presentation, “Aerospace Technology & America’s Cup Sailing,” at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY on Thursday, November 1, 2018.

Hinckley Yachts celebrated the grand opening of its seventh yacht service location in the U.S., at Harbor Landing in Stamford, CT, last month. Harbor Landing is a mixed-use waterfront development owned and operated by Stamford-based Building and Land Technology (BLT).

On Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 1pm, at Sound Sailing Center’s annual commissioning Day, Captain Henri Marx of Landfall Navigation, on behalf of US Sailing, will present the US Sailing’s Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to the Sound Sailing

The 3rd Annual Connecticut Spring Boat Show will take place May 4-6, 2018 at Brewer Essex Island Marina located in Essex, CT. The in-water boat show has announced Sails Up 4 Cancer, a non-profit organization supporting cancer care, education, prevention and research, will benefit from the $5 entrance donation to attend the show.