Upcoming Events

Presented by the Cruising Club of America with support from the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound and hosted by the Gaelic-American Club in Fairfield, Connecticut on Wednesday, May 8, this evening includes a presentation that invites you aboard, dispels myths, and offers robust discussion of past Newport Bermuda Races. Veterans of the 635-nautical mile offshore “Thrash to the Onion Patch” will present both the history and current challenges of this 114-year-old race, the next edition…

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…