Races and Regattas

By Ted Corning Photos by Donna Clapp and Mike Barnes On Saturday, April 5, The Corinthians held their annual Frostbite Regatta at the Mystic Seaport Museum’s Sailing Center in Mystic, CT. This year’s event had a great turnout out despite a forecast of strong winds and rain. But just as is the case so often in New England, the actual weather did not agree with the forecast so races were easily completed with windward-leeward courses on the…

Get ready for RS Fest Miami 2025! The second edition of RS Sailing’s multi-class event in North America. The three-day regatta will be a celebration of all things RS – hosted in tropical Miami by Coconut Grove Sailing Club.  Regatta racing will be held from Friday, March 28th, to Sunday, March 30th, for the RS Aero, RS Tera, RS Feva, RS Venture, and RS21 classes. New for 2025 will be the addition of the RS Open Class, allowing…

Newport, R.I. — The New York Yacht Club is pleased to announce the inaugural International Women’s Championship, a female-only competition that will be sailed in the Club’s fleet of 37-foot IC37 yachts, September 12 to 19, 2026. “The New York Yacht Club envisions that this event, like the very successful Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, will emerge as one of the sport’s top events,” says L. Jay Cross, Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. “The…

The New York Yacht Club, which sparked the keelboat team racing revolution with the creation of the Hinman Masters Team Race in 2000, will see this discipline attain the highest competitive level in the sport when it hosts the World Sailing 2025 Team Race World Championship, May 28 to June 1, at Harbour Court in Newport, R.I. The first team racing world championship in a decade will be sailed in the Club’s fleet of 23-foot Sonar keelboats in a…

This Challenging Event is an Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association Points Regatta By Ruth Emblin, ECYC Race Committee Chair There are a lot of regattas that beckon to sailboat racers during the summer season. Sometimes it is hard to select the right one from a list of multiple events on the same weekend, especially if you ar looking to add to your catalog ECSA points. We will make it easy for you. Among all the ECSA daytime regattas,…

Newport, R.I. — From the inception of the New York Yacht Club Grandmasters Regatta in 2010, Noroton Yacht Club, from Darien, Conn., was the undisputed champion of grandmasters team racing. But the club’s streak of six straight wins ended in 2016 and despite usually being in contention, Noroton had been unable to replicate its previous successes. Until today, that is. With a 4-1 record on the final day of the 2024 New York Yacht Club Grandmasters Regatta,…

By Sarah Davidson The 2024 Atlantic Nationals, hosted by Madison Beach Club in Madison, Connecticut, was held August 14-16. Twenty-four boats competed from Niantic Bay Yacht Club, Cedar Point Yacht Club, Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club, and Madison Beach Club. Congratulations to Scott Reichhelm (CPYC) for winning the regatta. Scott has been racing Atlantics since 1970, and is a 10-time national champ as crew for his parents George and Bobby Lou Reichhelm. This was his first time as skipper….

Bring it on! NEWPORT, R.I. (August 1, 2024) – In its four short years of existence, the three-day Safe Harbor Race Weekend has established itself as a revered sailing tradition on the summer regatta schedule for Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound. To date, 65 teams have registered for the August 9-11 event, which will host as many as ten classes competing in ORC, IC37 One-Design, PHRF, and PHRF Performance Cruising. And while these teams are psyching up for…

The Newport Regatta has become a Premier East Coast Sailing Event Four Decades After its Launch. NEWPORT, RI (July 12, 2024)—This weekend marks the 40th Anniversary of the Newport Regatta at Sail Newport in Newport, Rhode Island, featuring 147 boats and ten one-design racing classes. The event has grown so successful over the years that sailors from an average of 17 U.S. states and several countries travel to Newport each year to compete.  “Sailors are captivated by sailing in Newport. What…

Royal Thames makes event debut, while veteran Chesapeake team could be the favorite With BNY Wealth signing on as presenting sponsor and a deep field of sailing talent across all the rosters, the table is set for the 4th edition of the Corinthian Yacht Club’s National Women’s Invitational Team Race, the only women’s 3v3 team racing event in keelboats with spinnakers. Six teams from across the US and beyond will vie for the Thayer Trophy off the coast…