NEWPORT — The waters of Narragansett Bay will once again showcase sailing’s most elegant chapter when the 2025 12 Metre North American Championship arrives in Newport Sept. 19-21. Hosted by Ida Lewis Yacht Club in partnership with the International Twelve Metre Association Americas Fleet, the three-day regatta brings together the iconic yacht class that dominated […]
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Resolute Cup favorites prepare for epic battle
By New York Yacht Club The Corinthian Yacht Club (Marblehead, Mass.), fielding the same team (above) that took home the 2022 Resolute Cup, will return to defend its title on Narragansett Bay in just a few weeks, this time with no doubt as to what it takes to win this prestigious event as well as […]
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Exciting Ida Lewis Distance Race a chance for veterans and new skippers to perform over 24 hours of distance
Over the weekend, over forty racing teams took part in the 2024 Ida Lewis Distance Race presented by Bluenose Yacht Sales. Over the course of a straight 24 hours, race participants started out south of Pell Bridge in Narragansett Bay’s East Passage on Saturday, Aug. 16, along picturesque vantage points of Jamestown and Newport shorelines, […]
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Production boats lead the way in Classes B & C at the 2024 ORC World Championship
By New York Yacht Club For much of the recorded history of grand-prix rating-rule competition, from the CCA rule to IOR to IMS, the path to major international success was paved with gold. There were few substitutes for the money required to research, design and build the fastest boat. Custom designs and builds remain in […]
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The Ocean Race wins Sustainability Award
The Ocean Race has won the International Sports Awards 2023 for its efforts to put ocean protection at the heart of the round-the-world sailing competition. The 11th Hour Racing collaboration, titled Racing with Purpose, set out to influence global ocean policy, measure the race’s environmental impact, and inspire the next generation of ocean advocates. The […]
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The Ocean Race: Hurry up to slow down
Today’s report is from IMOCA It’s been a long, exhausting but also thrilling second leg of The Ocean Race and the pattern is not going to change in the final stages, with the five IMOCA crews bracing themselves for one last push to Cape Town. But the routing is far from straightforward, with the boats having […]
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The Ocean Race: Differing views
Credit to GUYOT environnement – Team Europe who have regained the lead on the race tracker as well as their position as the most southerly boat in the fleet. In a race south, that’s a good thing…. or is it? Two of the three boats positioned about 120 miles to the west – Team Holcim-PRB and […]
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URI Sailing team wins McMillan Cup, poised for strong spring
By the University of Rhode Island How’s this for a start to a University of Rhode Island head coaching stint? You take over at the beginning of the fall semester, and then in October, your team wins the McMillan Cup, awarded to the first-place finisher at the oldest collegiate sailing regatta. Not only that. Your […]
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Annual Sail for Hope to set sail and raise funds for charities
On Sunday, September 11, local sailors plan to race around Conanicut Island in the Sail for Hope. The annual race around Jamestown is a fundraiser to benefit World Central Kitchen Ukraine relief, Save the Children’s Emergency Fund, and Sail Newport’s new after-school Marine Exploration Program for Thompson Middle School. The event was founded in 2001 as “Sail for Pride” in the weeks […]
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Ida Lewis Distance Race a tricky one
Fully expecting light and variable breezes overnight, 43 sailing teams started the 2022 Ida Lewis Distance Race presented by Bluenose Yacht Sales on Friday, August 19 and returned throughout the day Saturday, August 20 to complete the event’s 17th edition. The wind conditions wound up ranging from 8-10 knots at the start to high teens and 20s out near Block Island to nearly […]
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Third edition of the Global Team Race Regatta starts Friday
Source: New York Yacht Club The first two editions of the Global Team Race Regatta, staged in 2018 in Newport, R.I., and 2019 on the Solent in Great Britain, had one striking thing in common: the same three teams finished on the podium. The Royal Thames Yacht Club finished first in 2018 and second in […]
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13 to be inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame
The National Sailing Hall of Fame (NSHOF) announced today thirteen sailors comprising its 12th class of inductees. The Class of 2022 includes the following (background information provided by NSHOF); Ed Adams – Sail racing legend and coach, Adams excelled in college, World Championship and offshore competitions. As a coach his teams have won numerous Olympic and […]
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Patience proves pivotal as Entropy wins historic Queen’s Cup Trophy
Newport, R.I. —Two hours after her Swan 42 Entropy crossed the finish line and won the 67th running of the historic Queen’s Cup trophy, Patti Young still couldn’t fully believe the results.”I’m in shock,” said Young, who navigated on the boat while her husband, Paul Hamilton, steered. “This is just as important to me as when I […]
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The Youth Shall Inherit the Helm at 2022 Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex
By New York Yacht Club | Photos: Ian Macinni, Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy (2) Vertically challenged and pushing 50, Mark Liebel (above, right) knew that he wasn’t ideally suited to crew in the dynamic VX One, a sporty 19-foot keelboat that planes easily downwind and can require maximum hiking leverage upwind in heavy conditions. […]
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Berdon, Darden embrace new challenges at 2022 Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex
Newport, R.I. — It might be easier to find the end of the internet than to exhaust all the possibilities for new experiences in sailing. While some people prefer to lock into one lane in the sport, others find that regularly switching things up brings the most enjoyment. Two veteran skippers employing the latter strategy will […]
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Newport Regatta returns this weekend
By Kim Cooper, Sail Newport The Newport Regatta starts today for one-design classes racing in the annual Sail Newport event. The regatta has been widely popular as an East Coast “must do” for sailors since the first racing weekend in 1984. Competitors are registered from Canada, the U.K., and 12 U.S. States, including CA, CO, MD, FL, RI, […]
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52nd Newport Bermuda Race gets underway in wildly varying conditions
By Newport Bermuda Race At approximately 1642 hours this afternoon, Christopher Stanmore-Major’s Gran Mistral 80 Osprey entered the course of the Newport Bermuda Race and drew to a close one of the most unusual starts to the race in recent memory. The first classes started in a 22-knot southwesterly in a ripping ebb tide, followed by a brief […]
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Walsh, Hight trade surf, snow to sail with 11th Hour Racing
By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer Big wave surfer Ian Walsh and snowboarder Elena Hight anticipate the ride of their lives when they sail with the crew of 11th Hour Racing in the Newport Bermuda Race. The 635-nautical-mile jaunt this weekend will be more than just a celebrity ride-along for Walsh and Hight . They […]
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75th Block Island Race Preview: Largest fleet in a decade
By Storm Trysail Club LARCHMONT N.Y. – Storm Trysail Club is getting ready for the largest fleet in well over a decade with 86 boats set to take the starting line on Friday, May 27th, 2022. The annual 186nm race starts and ends off Stamford, Conn. and takes the crews down Long Island Sound and around Block Island. This is […]
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Clagett Sailing – 20 years of reaching for success
2022 brings with it the 20th Anniversary and a new decade for the C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta. In the 20 years since the first Clagett Regatta, which had five boats racing in Newport R.I., it has evolved into a multi-program organization providing opportunities for sailors with disabilities. The organization has rebranded for […]
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Race For Ukraine to be held around Conanicut Island on June 4
The International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA), in full support of the people of Ukraine and in solidarity with our Northern Europe 12mR fleet, is honored to endorse RACE FOR UKRAINE, a fundraising regatta around Conanicut Island, coordinated by the 12 Metre Yacht Club Newport Station to be held on June 4, 2022. International 12mR fleet gathered at recent World Championships […]
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Tabasco is Newport’s hottest new charter boat
The hottest new charter boat in Newport Harbor is Tabasco, and you can be one of the first to book her for a small group charter starting May 14th. The saucy vessel — a Wasque (pronounced way-squee) powerboat that was built on Martha’s Vineyard in the ‘70s — is owned and operated by local Curtis […]
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505 North American Championships coming to Newport
Reigning 505 World Champions and 2019 Rolex co-Yachtsmen of the Year Mike Martin and Adam Lowry (San Francisco, CA) lead a talent-packed fleet at the 2021 505 North American Championships, to be hosted at Sail Newport from September 29th through October 3rd. With the Class World Championship, originally scheduled for Bermuda in late October, canceled […]
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Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup: U.S. teams from opposite coasts focus on common goal
via New York Yacht Club The road to a sailing world championship is a marathon, never a sprint. Few know that better than Peter Duncan, who will skipper American Yacht Club’s entry in the 2021 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, which starts racing tomorrow. A few weeks ago, Duncan won a hotly contested […]
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Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup: Literal storm provides brief calm before figurative one
The following was written and provided by New York Yacht Club. An unscheduled day off in the midst of a weeklong regatta is always a nice chance to recover. When it gets announced at 5 pm the day prior, it’s truly a gift. Saturday afternoon, with a solid day of practice in the rearview mirror […]