June 2016

Sailing teams from Maine to Texas finished strong across eight class competitions in the 2016 Cedar Point Yacht Club OneDesign Regatta, held on June 4 and 5.

The Storm Trysail Club has announced that the next edition of Quantum Key West Race Week will be sailed January 15 – 20, 2017 in Key West, FL.

The Salty Dawg Rally™, a Bristol, RI-based non-profit organization dedicated to offshore sailing education, safety and communication, and building camaraderie among blue water sailors, will host three cruising events on the East Coast this summer.

SUS has been in operation since 1987, with the mission of bringing single people with an interest in boating and sailing together, and providing opportunities to share those activities.

Sailing is in my blood, but I learned what I know from my dad.

With 200 entries in the 50th Bermuda Race gearing up for the start on Friday, June 17, with boats as varied as the cutting edge 100-footer Comanche and the America replica and a whole range of hard-driving smaller boats, and with a new award for boats with Youth crews that’s named for Olin and Rod Stephens—with all that and more, the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race is on line to be one of those classic events whose future and present are tightly interwoven with its past.

Growing the sport of sailing, bringing existing young sailors into sailing for life, developing skills so they can be viable crew on big boats, and looking at ways to diminish the post-college sailor flameout are but a few.

Sagamore Junior Sailing is open to kids ages 8 to 16, and parents’ membership in Sagamore Yacht Club is not required. © Sagamore Junior Sailing

The town of Milford, Connecticut has the longest shoreline in the state and a sheltered harbor with a well-marked, wide channel.

Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series event held in New York