After the successful 2008 US SAILINGs Disabled Championship, it was evident that competitors wanted more top-level disabled sailing events. The American Yacht Club responded by organizing the inaugural Robie Pierce One Design Regatta. From June 5-7, 25 teams will compete in a fleet of donated Ideal 18s. Each boat will include two blind or disabled sailors and one able-bodied
When a final-arbiter court in April ruled 6-0 against Alinghis artificially inseminated Spanish challenger, the mantle of Challenger of Record for the next Americas Cup match passed to Larry Ellisons American team, BMW Oracle Racing/Golden Gate Yacht Club. Thus passed two years of wrangling and climbing through the highest courts of New York, where the Americas Cup Deed of Gift was
First time participants in this years 360 mile Marblehead-Halifax Ocean Race, which gets underway from Marblehead, Massachusetts on July 5, will be getting a lot of help from the host Boston Yacht Club. To attract more entries, Bostons event committee has come up with a Race Buddy program that pairs first-time skippers with those who have done the race one or more times. Newcomers will
Ken Read is self-described as the luckiest man alive as far as his current job, skipper of Puma Ocean Racings il mostro in this year Volvo Ocean Race. Currently, Read and il mostro are sitting in third place by a comfortable point margin (11 points), but more importantly they are locked in a death battle with Telefonica Blue for second place, with only a
If youre into dinghy sailing or high-performance sailing, youve likely heard of foiler Moths, the latest iteration in the constantly evolving International Moth Class. These latest Moths use an ingenious senor wand (click here to read about how the mechanics of a foiler Moth work) and a twistable tiller to lift the
If youre into Celtic punk, youre familiar with the Dropkick Murphys song, Im Shipping up to Boston, a tune that twangs many sailors heart strings for a bygone era of wooden ships, men of steel, and onboard accommodations that defined the term lacking. In this song, written by Woodie Guthrie, a fictitious sailor loses his leg climbing the topsails while sailing up to
The Mackinac Island Yacht Club will have its 6th annual MacMan Challenge July 23-25 this summer. The 125-mile distance race runs from Mackinac Island to Manitoulin Island, with a stopover in Gore Bay, before heading on to the finishing line in Little Current, and includes nighttime
With the Obama administration relaxing travel restrictions to Cuba, a group of hopeful sailors from Sarasota, Florida are trying to organize a regatta on the island nation this coming June. Jay Meyer, a member of the Sarasota Yacht Club (SYC), is applying for permission with the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. Meyer hopes to take as many as 100 U.S.-flagged boats to
I see that various pundits are ruminating upon a course of sagacity, wisdom and compromise for our America’s Cup antagonists, Misters Bertarelli and Ellison, urging them to come to terms and launch what both profess to be the goal, a match to match 2007.Well and good. I’ll believe it when I see it.All Bertarelli had to do, at the end of the 32nd match for the America’s
I dont know about you, but although I much prefer to go to sea with tried and tested buddies, there are times when I end up shipping out with total strangers. Youve met the type. They might be those credible people you run into in a waterfront bar with a tale to tell. There I was, and the waves were 40 feet high And so on. Then theres the friend of a friend, which often turns out to be the
Shirley Rose, a well-worn Santana 27, sorely needed refurbishing. When I took ownership, she was on stands in a sorry state looking for someone to
Over the 4th of July weekend, the National Sailing Hall of Fame announced the eleven inductees for 2021. “The remarkable achievements of this year’s class
More than just a sailor and designer, James Wharram, originally of Manchester, England, is also both a free-thinker and an individual clearly dedicated to getting
I lost a third of my crew the moment we arrived at the boatyard. My middle son and second mate, Julian, took one look at
There is an ocean-sailing science fiction novel I’ve been writing in my head now for some time. It posits a future in which the world’s
“Why would you ever want a boat with a 14ft draft?” It’s a phrase my partner, Timo, and I have heard often, ever since we
Join the live virtual sendoff ceremony for the United States’ Olympic sailing team on July 9 at 8:30pm EDT. Fans should visit tokyo.ussailing.org for the
Lagoon 55 “Our experience tells us that people ignore a design that ignores people. That’s why we wanted to draw a beautiful boat that would
While it’s safe to say that U.S. production boatbuilding is a shadow of its former self, one North American company that is still going strong
If experience has a tone, it would sound like three-time Olympian and 470 sailor Stu McNay—steady, measured, with a positive, almost Mr. Rogers feeling. “Each
