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Storm Trysail Club posted today the Notice of Race (NoR) and opened the Registration to accept entries.  The 186nm race will start on Friday, May 27th, 2022 off Stamford, Connecticut.  “In 2020, the Race was canceled due to the pandemic and in 2021, ‘N over A’ was hoisted to abandon racing the morning of the start due to a combination […]

The Narragansett Bay Adult Athletic Sailing Association (NAASA) is now accepting applications from interested sailors for scholarship boats for its 2022 season.  NAASA Scholarships provide fully funded F18 Catamarans for the NAASA F18 League including summer storage at Sail Newport, entry fees, and coaching.  Full teams or individual athletes are encouraged to apply via SailNAASA.org. Founded in 2021 […]

The battle of Rhode Island is here. The Providence Friars men’s basketball team will host the University of Rhode Island Rams on Saturday (December 4) at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence. The Friars hold a 74-56 all-time record and a 39-23 home record against URI. In their last meeting, the Friars lost to the […]

The American Hockey League announced today, December 1, that due to league COVID-19 protocols, the following Providence Bruins home games have been rescheduled: Friday, December 3 – Hartford at Providence has been rescheduled for Monday, April 4, at 7:05 p.m.Sunday, December 5 – Utica at Providence has been rescheduled for Monday, January 10, at 7:05 […]

Story and photos provided by Naval Academy Preparatory School staff The Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS ) football team on Saturday ended their home schedule with a dominating 47 to 6 win over Bridgton Academy.  This was the first time all season where the NAPS football team put together a full 60 minutes of sound […]

The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF) announced today the induction of eleven sailors during its 11th ceremony, held on Saturday, October 16th, 2021, in Newport, Rhode Island. The Class of 2021 includes: Alexander “Red” Bryan and Cortlandt “Bud” Heyniger – founders of Alcort, Inc. and designers and producers of the iconic Sunfish.William “Carl” Buchan – championship sailor, Olympic gold medal winner […]

Story and photos provided by Naval Academy Preparatory School staff The Naval Academy Preparatory School football team earned their second victory of the season this past weekend over the visiting Howard Huskies from Euclid, Ohio. The NAPS defense started the game off on a strong note by forcing the Huskies to punt. Christopher Gundy would take […]

Story and photos provided by Naval Academy Preparatory School staff The Naval Academy Preparatory School began the 2021 football season with a very exciting game against the St. Thomas More School from Oakdale, CT.  Although NAPS fell short in overtime 20 -14, the team put forth exceptional effort throughout the game.  The game was a back-and-forth […]

Courtesy of the International Tennis Hall Of Fame The International Tennis Hall of Fame is set to host a big weekend of tennis September 17 – 18 when Davis Cup competition hits the historic grass courts.  Known as the “The World Cup of Tennis”, the international team tennis competition will see Team New Zealand will […]

The following was written and submitted by New York Yacht Club. There are strong starts to a regatta and then there’s the day on the water put in by Royal Thames Yacht Club to open up the racing in the 2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup. The British team, which won the event […]

The following is a press release from 11th Hour Racing Sailing Team. Today, 11th Hour Racing Team officially named their two 60-foot round the world offshore race boats in Concarneau, France. Drawing on the Hawaiian heritage of team CEO, Mark Towill, the brand new IMOCA 60, previously nicknamed ‘11.2’ was named Mālama – to care for […]

Story provided by Kate Wilson Somers The ideal conditions for any distance race are favorable winds, advantageous tide, and warm weather – which the 94th Conanicut Yacht Club delivered on the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend for the 90 boats that lapped the 18 miles around Jamestown, Rhode Island.  At the end of the day, […]

The following was provided by Sail Newport On Saturday, September 11, a community of sailors in Newport, plans to race around Conanicut Island in the 20th Anniversary Sail for Pride. The event was founded twenty years ago in the weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. In the 2001 Sail for Pride, nearly […]

via 11th Hour Racing Sailing Team Since its earliest days, humankind has been intrigued by the power of pictures. The colorful forms and figures our ancestors painted on cave walls are the most ancient storybooks in history, our first works of art. Over millennia, they have passed on tales and traditions, without the use of […]

Day one of the 2021 Clagett Regatta and U.S. Para Sailing Championships, mother nature decided not to play ball with the fleet held ashore under the postponement flag until 1pm on a hot and humid summer day. The race committee went out onto the course to see what was developing and shortly after some storms cells […]

by Newport Polo The comeback tour for the 20th annual International Polo Charity Ball was a smash hit, reaching platinum status, shattering the past polo ball record in total fundraising, to benefit the Jeffrey Osborne Foundation.  Over 400 generous and fun-loving attendees heralded the evening’s success, exceeding $80,000 in fundraising for the foundation’s mission to support initiatives and organizations that […]

Team Jamaica makes its triumphant return to Newport, as the players arrive to challenge Team USA in the continuation of the Newport International Polo Series’ 30th Anniversary Season this Saturday, August 21st at 5pm.   The British Army brought Polo with them to Jamaica in the late 1800s, and the sport has remained a cultural mainstay […]

By New York Yacht Club If your favorite one-design class’s late summer regatta isn’t a continental-level championship, then it’s likely there’s one sparkling on the horizon. That’s certainly the case with the two biggest classes at the fourth edition of the New York Yacht Club One-Design Regatta, which will take place this coming weekend, August 21 and […]

by International Tennis Hall Of Fame An exciting weekend of international team tennis is heading to Newport, Rhode Island in September! Tickets are on sale for the upcoming Davis Cup by Rakuten World Group I between New Zealand and Korea, Republic to be held on September 17 & 18 on the grass courts of the International Tennis […]

by 11th Hour Racing After 24 months of research, development, and construction, 11th Hour Racing Team has unveiled its new IMOCA 60, the first of a new era of boats designed to compete in fully crewed, short-handed and solo offshore sailboat races. A product of Guillaume Verdier’s design studio and built at CDK Technologies in […]

By New York Yacht Club A lack of wind cut short the final day of the 20th running of the Hinman Masters Team Race, but the results to that point in the three-day regatta left no doubt which team deserved to be on top of the podium. With 17 wins in 18 races, Seawanhaka Corinthian […]

The following is a press release from 11th Hour Racing 11th Hour Racing Team will be lining up this Sunday to take on the world’s biggest offshore yacht race: the Rolex Fastnet Race. Justine Mettraux (SUI) and Simon ‘SiFi’ Fisher (GBR) will co-skipper the team’s IMOCA 60 for the 695 nautical mile (800 mile or […]

by New York Yacht Club The same things that make interclub team racing so engrossing—the close-quarters racing, the shared boats, the post-race social activity—are the same things that made it particularly vulnerable to COVID protocols in 2020. The New York Yacht Club canceled all of its team race events in 2020, the first time in […]

The United States SailGP Team held its inaugural ‘Learn to Foil’ camp with the Bristol Yacht Club & East Bay Sailing Foundation (EBSF) July 20-21 as it kicked off ‘Foiling First’ – a breakthrough athlete development program created to advance diversity and inclusion in the sport as it builds the first-ever professional pathway to foiling […]

Sailing doublehanded on the Jeanneau Sunfast 3300 Alchemist, Rhode Islanders Ken Read (Portsmouth) and Suzy Leech (Jamestown), collected a boatload of trophies for their ‘Round-the-Island (‘RTI) Race performance at the annual Edgartown Race Weekend, hosted by Edgartown Yacht Club on July 22-24. The most impressive piece of silverware – the prestigious Venona Trophy, which dates back to […]

By Hall Of Fame Open Kevin Anderson, a two-time major finalist, and 2016 Hall of Fame Open champion Ivo Karlovic have accepted wild cards for the 2021 Hall of Fame Open. Anderson and Karlovic join American Jack Sock as three accomplished champions to make up the wild card entries for the main draw. Christian Harrison, […]

The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF) announced today eleven sailors comprising its 11th class of inductees. The Class of 2021 includes: Alexander “Red” Bryan and Cortlandt “Bud” Heyniger – founders of Alcort, Inc. and designers and producers of the iconic Sunfish. William “Carl” Buchan – championship sailor, Olympic gold medal winner and 1988 defender […]

via International Tennis Hall of Fame/ Hall of Fame Open Pro tennis is set to return to Newport, Rhode Island next month for the Hall of Fame Open, which will feature an exciting player field including 2019 finalist Alexander Bublik, 2018 Champion Steve Johnson, doubles major champion Jack Sock, and a compelling mix of Tour […]

11th Hour Racing Team / Press Release It was a tense finish to Leg 2 of The Ocean Race Europe with 11th Hour Racing Team clinching the final podium spot after an epic battle from Cascais, Portugal to Alicante, Spain. The team left Cascais on Sunday, June 6, three hours behind the IMOCA 60 fleet […]

The Bermuda Race Organizing Committee (BROC) has published the official Notice of Race for the second attempt at the 52nd running of the 635-mile Bermuda Race. (The 2020 race was cancelled due to the impact of the pandemic.) According to event organizers, as many as 200 entries are expected to start the race on June 17, 2022, and the […]

The Newport Gulls defeated the Valley Blue Sox 8-4 in their home-opener Monday evening in what was the first NECBL game at Cardines Field in 672 days. Foggy conditions factored heavily in the contest all night and ultimately led to the game begin called in the bottom of the sixth inning. Read the full game […]

via 11th Hour Racing Sailing Team It was not the start they were looking for, but 11th Hour Racing Team is back out on the water and has resumed racing in Leg 2 of The Ocean Race Europe, following an incident shortly after the IMOCA 60 fleet crossed the start line for Alicante, Spain. Two […]

By Zach Letson – Newport Gulls Team Publicist / Press Release Newport (1-0) used a fantastic performance from starter Brandyn Garcia to top Valley (0-1) on opening night of the 2021 NECBL season. Garcia looked calm and comfortable in his Gulls debut, pitching 5.1 innings and completely keeping the Blue Sox off the scoreboard. The Quinnipiac lefty […]

By New York Yacht Club A decade ago, someone surveying the big-boat racing scene in the Northeast United States might’ve predicted that the future lay predominantly in one-design classes. But like many things in life, the balance between one-design and rating-rule competition is cyclical. The 167th edition of North America’s oldest sailing competition, the New […]

via 11th Hour Racing Team – Press Release Tired but content, 11th Hour Racing Team crossed the finish line in Cascais, Lisbon, in second place after Leg 1 of The Ocean Race Europe, just 1 minute 23 seconds behind first placed Corum L’Épargne.  Speaking on the dock, skipper Charlie Enright (USA) commented, “It was an […]

By New York Yacht Club Top women sailors from around the country are en route to Rhode Island for the New York Yacht Club’s inaugural Women’s 2v2 Team Race, which will be sailed out of the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court this coming Saturday and Sunday. Creating a new event always carries an element of […]

By New York Yacht Club On Thursday, May 6, the New York Yacht Club submitted to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland, New Zealand, a challenge for the 37th America’s Cup. The challenge was accompanied by a draft Protocol for the regatta, which would see the Cup Match take place in New Zealand […]

In celebration of the recent launch of Kicks on Court, a new digital exhibit about the history of tennis shoes, the International Tennis Hall of Fame is auctioning off a pair of one-of-a-kind, hand-painted sneakers featuring art inspired by Hall of Famer Björn Borg. Proceeds of the auction will support the Hall of Fame’s programs and services to […]