Ship’s Log

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.

J/70 World Champion Peter Duncan (Rye, New York) and Enoshima Olympic Week Laser Radial Gold Medalist Erika Reineke (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) today were selected as Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year for their remarkable sailing performances in 2017.

The Storm Trysail Foundation announces it will host its annual US Sailing sanctioned Hands-on Safety-at- Sea Seminar on Saturday, May 19, 2018, at SUNY Maritime in the Bronx, NY.