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Sailing the Northeast

Multis Take Manhattan!

AYC Junior Big Boat Team Wins Again!

Cruising in Labrador

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Editor’s Log Gimme something to write on!

I never really understood why people crave celebrity autographs. Many of us have come to deify actors and musicians, but aside from pretending to be someone else on the screen or stage, I’m not sure what there is to gaga over! I’ve met my share of famous personalities, and even a few infamous ones (yes, for you Three Amigos fans, we all know that infamous is more than famous) and the last thing I wanted was for them to sign a scrap of paper, or some part of my clothing, or body. Sports stars and authors, I think, make a little more sense. To have a signed baseball as a memento of a memorable game, or a personalized copy of a gripping novel, is pretty neat. Aside from a Junior Johnson-signed bottle of moonshine, the only autographed items that I own and cherish are sailing books inscribed by the authors.

Prior to his departure for the IMOCA Ocean Masters New York to Barcelona Race (which he won), Annapolis sailor Ryan Breymaier gave an interview in which he spoke about motivating others to do what they love, whatever that might be. “Being an example of doing what you love and then good things coming to you because of that, to me is worthwhile,” said Ryan, who is one of a growing number of highprofile professional sailors proving that the U.S. is (and always has been) capable of producing athletes who are both successful and marketable.

To see American sailors gaining the recognition of other professional athletes is interesting and exciting, I think, for a few reasons. To me, this says that kids are really getting into the sport on a deeper level and are more excited about the people making waves out there. They have become role models. In the digital age we’re living in, to see a tweet or Facebook post that a certain boat is arriving with a particular ‘idol’ sailor at a specific time makes greeting that boat and that idol much easier than in the past. Meeting pro sailors – and yes, getting their autographs – just might inspire a young sailor to stay in the sport and go for Olympic gold, or fuel his or her drive to try big boats. So, if sailing’s ‘rock stars’ are garnering admiration previously reserved for stage or screen, that’s great and in the world of sailing, a guy like Charlie Enright of Bristol, RI is both, having showcased his skills on the big screen, and now as the skipper of a Volvo team. Inspiring indeed.

It’s gotta be cool to hear well-wishers cheering as you approach the dock and to then be swarmed by adoring fans before the lines are snug. This also shows that sailing is making strides as a marketable sport. I know this is somewhat contradictory to what my colleague Coop asserts in his column on page 58, but I think events like The Atlantic Cup wouldn’t have been a viable marketing platform for many of the sponsors or advertisers before the digital age – and showcasing products along with the personalities has always been a fit…remember Broadway Joe Namath’s shaving cream and Puma commercials? If “Joe Namath Scores in Pumas” got people interested in football, the high profile sponsorship of a Volvo Ocean Race team certainly worked to turns heads toward sailing. Big personalities with great stories are interesting to everyone – advertisers and fans alike – and sailing is perfect for it.

I’m glad to see that sailing athletes are beginning to achieve role model status here in the U.S. Yes, Coop is right – we have a long way to go, but we’re moving in the right direction and the more kids who are inspired, the more Ryan Breymaiers and Charlie Enrights the U.S. will produce in the future. Sailors like Ryan and Charlie have a lot on their shoulders – and being a great role model should weigh heavily, because they are helping to inspire the future of our sport.

See you on the water.

Sailing the Northeast Issue 134 Publisher Anne Hannan anne@windcheckmagazine.com Editor in Chief Christopher Gill chris@windcheckmagazine.com Senior Editor Chris Szepessy zep@windcheckmagazine.com Contributing Editor Joe Cooper joe@windcheckmagazine.com Graphic Design Kerstin Fairbend kerstin@windcheckmagazine.com Contributors William Adler, Laurent Apollon, Julianna Barbieri, Billy Black, Bernadette Bowman, Cate Brown, Ben & Teresa Carey, Bobby Childs, Stephen Cloutier, Captain Ed Cubanski, USCG, Mimi Drinkuth, Clemmie Everett, Dave Foster, John K. Fulweiler, Fran Grenon, Andrew Houlding, Barry Hyman, Rob Jerry, Maureen C. Koeppel, Ellen Kramer, Rich Loeschke, Gene A. Magnetti, Lee Montes, Dennis Murphy, Buttons Padin, PhotoBoat.com, Vin Pica, Jason Rose, Paula Schaefer, Brian Schneider, Meghan Sepe, Cory Silken, Jeff Smith, Jen Vandemoer Mitchell, Dorothy & Tom Wadlow Ad Sales Colleen Perry colleen@windcheckmagazine.com WindCheck is a monthly magazine. Reproduction of any part of this publication is strictly prohibited without prior consent of the members.

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Contents

Editor’s Log

4

Letters

8

Checking In 10

Morse Alpha Sail Training 23

Summer Reading 24

Calendar of Events 26

Captain of the Port 37

Tide Tables 38

Sound Environment 40

The Boating Barrister 41

Stony Brook University Sailing Team 44

Yale Wins Gill Coed Nationals 46

Coaches’ Corner 47

Gryphon Solo 2 Wins 48 The Atlantic Cup

Team Alvimedica Visits Newport 51

Robie Pierce Regattas 54

Lighthouse Regatta 55

Wickford Regatta 56

Coop’s Corner 58

Features 17 Joyant In Labrador

Intrepid cruisers Dorothy & Tom Wadlow of Stonington, CT, recent recipients of the Cruising Club of America’s Far Horizons Award, share the tale of their 4,100-mile voyage to the quiet harbors of Atlantic Canada’s northernmost region aboard their Able Apogee 50.

20 Of Anchors, Crab Pots and Tugs

Sailing on Chesapeake Bay can be very exciting even when the breeze is light, says Rich Loeschke, recounting a moment to remember from a “guys day” cruise to beautiful Rock Hall, MD on his Ericson 27. Bobby Childs, the Manager of Cruise Annapolis, offers an itinerary for a family charter on America’s largest estuary.

42 AYC Junior Big Boat Team Sails to Victory in the Block Island Race

Young sailors from American Yacht Club in Rye, NY continued their winning ways in the Storm Trysail Club’s 69th Block Island Race by sailing their J/105 to first place in their PHRF division. Paula Schaefer, a proud parent of one of Young American’s crew, has the story.

50 Historic Weekend for Cedar Point Yacht Club

One hundred one-design keelboats in seven classes contested the largest regatta in the 127-year history of Cedar Point Yacht Club in Westport, CT. We have a report on the CPYC One-Design Regatta by William Adler with photos by Barry Hyman.

52 Multis Take Manhattan!

The newest regatta on the New England Multihull Association’s calendar, the Gotham Multihulls Series supports a program that gives kids in New York City an opportunity to build their own Optimist dinghy. Event organizers

Andrew Houlding and Laurent Apollon have the story and photos, respectively.

Comic 59

Bermuda Race Start 60

Crew Connection 60

Broker Tips 61

Brokerage 62

Classifieds 64

Advertisers Index 69

On Watch: Joe Sullivan 70

On the cover: Cate Brown captured this great shot of Aidan Iaconis at the Sail Newport Youth Regatta. An Opti Blue fleet competitor from Old Greenwich, CT, Aidan sails out of Riverside Yacht Club and trains with LISOT Head Optimist Coach Pepe Bettini. © Cate Brown Photography/ catebrownphoto.com

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Letters

“Girls’ Goals” about the all-female Team SCA competing in this year’s Volvo Ocean Race in our June issue, you can read it online at windcheckmagazine.com.

A Lifetime Passion I was very interested to read “Junior Sailing, Yacht Clubs and the VOR” [Coop’s Corner, April 2014]. I am a high school sailor sailing 420s, and I want to sail Lasers. My goal is to continue racing for the rest of my life. I recently have become very interested in the Volvo Ocean Race. I belong to a yacht club, but have never had the chance to go on a bigger sailboat even though they interest me.

Sarah J., via email

Brothers On Watch I’ve sailed against Chris and Waldek Zaleski [On Watch, June 2014], and their good Polish buddies Jahoo Glinski and Andrzej Rojek are close friends, but I never knew their early history.

What a wonderful story.

Peter Rugg, via email Peter – Thank you for your kind words. We invite all of our readers to nominate noteworthy sailors – especially those giving something back to the sport – to be featured on the On Watch page in future issues.

Songs of the Sea The 35th Annual Sea Music Festival was outstanding! Thank you Geoff Kaufman and the Mystic Seaport crew for organizing an unforgettable event, everyone at WPKN 89.5 FM for broadcasting live, and the wonderful performers from around the world. Kudos to the S.S. Chanteens for their amazing rendition of Stan Rogers’ “The Flowers of Bermuda” at Saturday’s Full Sail Concert!

Barrett Harris, via email

Team SCA’s Volvo Ocean 65 © Cory Silken

Sarah – Post a ‘Crew Available’ notice on your club’s bulletin board or website (and Crew Connection at windcheckmagazine.com) and you’ll likely be racing big boats very soon. If you missed Coop’s article

Barrett – Under the leadership of Paula Daddio, an aquaculture science educator at The Sound School Regional Vocational Aquaculture School in New Haven, CT, the S.S. Chanteens have been crowd favorites at the Sea Music Festival for many years. F

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Morgan Sails for First Time in Boat Captains Needed for SWIM Across the Sound Nearly 100 Years The 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan sailed for the first time in almost a century on Saturday, June 7, on the first day of sea trials for her 38th Voyage. The ship cast off from City Pier in New London, CT and proceeded onto Long Island Sound, where her crew conducted sail training drills and maneuvers.

The 27th Annual St. Vincent’s SWIM Across the Sound Marathon, an open water swim across Long Island Sound from Port Jefferson, NY to Bridgeport, CT is Saturday, August 2.

Event organizers are seeking boat captains with boats of at least 22 feet to accompany swimmers from West Beach in Port Jeff to Captain’s Cove Seaport at the head of Black Rock Harbor.

The event raises over $400,000 annually for SWIM Across the Sound, Connecticut’s largest cancer charity organization.

At 15.5 miles, it is one of the longest challenges on the World Open Water Swim Association’s Top 100 list, and one of the elite marathons deemed a qualifying swim for future English Channel Swim hopefuls, and a favorite of marathon swimmers.

Individual swimmers and relay teams (the Water Rats from Staples High School in Westport, CT are pictured) raise a specified minimum amount of money in order to participate. Boat captains donate their time and fuel for the day to escort swimmers or guide other boats in support of the fundraiser. Net proceeds are used to help individuals and families battling the multi-faceted challenges of cancer. Many swimmers and boaters participate because cancer has affected their lives, or their family and friends in some way, and they understand and want to help others with the struggles cancer brings.

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“The ship exceeded all expectations and performed wonderfully,” said Captain Kip Files, the 22nd master of the Morgan. “She is faster than we thought she would be, she turns easier, and she handles really well. There is no one alive today who has sailed one of these whaleships who can tell us how they perform, so we really learned a lot today. We have a great voyage ahead of us.”

The Morgan has been at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT since 1941, and had not sailed since her last whaling voyage in 1921. She embarked on her 38th Voyage in June, visiting Newport, RI and Vineyard Haven and New Bedford, MA. She’s open to the public on New Bedford’s State Pier until July 6. She’ll anchor off Provincetown, MA from July 11 - 13, with day sails to the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, where she will team up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to observe whales in their natural environment and call attention to mankind’s changing relationship with the natural world. She’ll be open to the public July 18 - 22 at Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, and July 26 & 27 at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, MA. A homecoming celebration at Mystic Seaport is August 9. Visit mysticseaport.org/38thvoyage for more information. F

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St. Vincent’s SWIM Across the Sound provides cancer education, screening, and prevention programs at low- or nocost for the uninsured and underinsured. The SWIM also helps individual cancer patients on a case-by-case basis with specific needs, such as the funding of wigs and prostheses, payment of utilities or rent, medication assistance, free transportation to treatments and appointments, day-care scholarships, support groups and more.

For more information, visit SwimAcrossTheSound.orgboatcaptain, or contact Mike Herrington at 203-895-1429. F

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New Waterfront Restaurants and Events in Stamford, CT Building and Land Technology, the developer of Harbor Point in Stamford, CT, has announced that nine new restaurants are opening or expanding in Harbor Point’s two neighborhoods, each accessible to boaters who dock at the multi-use development’s four marinas.

Harbor Point is also hosting several new events this summer, including live music on Thursday evenings, a farmers market in Commons Park every Sunday, free weekly outdoor movie screenings, kayak and paddleboard rentals through the Young Mariners Foundation, public sails by SoundWaters, group bike rides hosted by Pacific Swim Bike Run, and evening “Pub Runs” led by Fleet Feet Sports. Transient slips for visiting boaters are available on both the East and West branches of Stamford Harbor, and the fuel dock and full service boat yard are also both open. For more information, visit harborpt.com F

Bart’s Bash is September 21 The Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation has organized a worldwide sailing regatta as a memorial to a British Olympic Gold Medalist who lost his life while training for the America’s Cup last year. Andrew “Bart” Simpson MBE, a leading member of the Artemis team, died when the Swedish team’s AC72 catamaran capsized on San Francisco Bay on May 9, 2013. He was 36.

“Bart’s Bash,” a “monsterAndrew “Bart” Simpson MBE sized attempt across the globe (1976 - 2013) to set a new Guinness World © andrewsimpsonsailing.org Record for The Largest Sailing Race in the World Ever,” is open to all types of sailing craft. More than 500 sailing clubs in Great Britain, Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand have already signed up, and the organizers hope to attract more than 1,000 clubs.

Simpson was passionate about supporting the next generation of sailors, and the Andrew Simpson Sailing Foundation was founded by his friends Sir Ben Ainslie and Iain Percy OBE and his wife Leah to honor his life and legacy by encouraging young people to sail and to enjoy the water as much as he did. For more information, to sign your club or sailing center up for Bart’s Bash or to make a donation, visit andrewsimpsonsailing.org. F

C&C Yachts Partners with Musto, Harken and New England Ropes C&C Yachts, a division of USWatercraft, LLC in Warren, RI, has announced a partnership with three performance-orientated brands – Musto, Harken, and New England Ropes – on the launch of the new C&C 30 One Design. With hull #1 splashed last month, the 30-foot high performance race boat offers the thrill and technology of big-boat grand prix sailing in a size that’s fun, easy to sail and affordable.

“We are thrilled and honored that Musto, Harken and New England Ropes are behind our new C&C 30 One Design,” said Sarah Fawle, VP of Marketing and Communications for C&C Yachts. “These brands are leaders in the industry and when matched with the C&C Yachts Team and Mark Mills’ design pedigree the new C&C 30 One Design will certainly soar ahead of the game.”

Musto, Harken and New England Ropes are key equipment suppliers on the C&C 30 and will partner with C&C Yachts in the development of a multi-media campaign that includes video, print, digital and events. Visit c-cyachts.com for more information. F

Sail the Sound for Deafness Regatta is August 7 Oakcliff Sailing and The WaterFront Center in Oyster Bay, NY are co-hosting the Fourth Annual Sail the Sound for Deafness Regatta on Thursday, August 7. Proceeds from this classic yacht event will benefit the Mill Neck Family of Organizations, serving people who are deaf and/or have other communication needs, locally, nationally and around the world.

Oakcliff Sailing is making their classic yachts available for a race around Oyster Bay and into Long Island Sound.

Dolphin is a Herreshoff Newport 29 built in 1914, and Nautilus is a Herreshoff NY30 built in 1905. Sailors are welcome to participate with their own classic yachts, and there are new divisions this year for non-classic and non-spinnaker boats.

Spectators are invited to watch from The WaterFront Center’s Christeen, the oldest oyster sloop in North America. A post-race party will take place at the Mill Neck Manor House, a spectacular Tudor Revival mansion in Mill Neck, NY. For more information and to register, visit millneck.org/communityevents/sail-the-sound-for-deafness. F

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New Charter Company in Branford, CT

Classic Boat Shop Receives SHARP Award

Summer Wind Charters is a new business promising to provide several ways to enjoy the waters off Branford, CT. Packages aboard Summer Wind’s Seaward 25 Victoria include Historic River and Harbor cruises, set and Moonlight cruises, Intro to Sailing, as well as Wedding and Engagement cruises, all at very affordable rates. All cruises are perfect for couples as well as families.

Classic Boat Shop in Bernard, ME recently received the coveted SHARP (Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program) award from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA. The award was created as an incentive for small businesses to meet and exceed federal and state safety workplace standards.

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Owner Captain Mark Cisto is a licensed U.S. Coast Guard 50-Ton Master Captain with a Sail Endorsement. Growing up in Connecticut, he has many fond memories of boating on beautiful Long Island Sound from a young age with his family.

A serious sailor for more than a decade, he loves sharing his love of sailing with many ends and family and looks forward to doing the same with his guests.

“Memories are made on a boat,” says Captain Cisto. “But if you don’t have a boat, no problem! We would love to share the joys of being on the water with you and your family and friends!”

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“We are continually striving to improve our work environment,” said Classic Boat Shop Founder and General Manager Jean Beaulieu. “Kudos to each and every one of our employees for taking control of their future and, through their efforts, helping to make Classic Boat Shop a safer place!”

Founded in 1996, Classic Boat Shop is a full service boatyard, brokerage and boat building facility on Mount Desert Island. They are the exclusive builder of the Pisces 21 Daysailer (pictured), a C.W. Paine-design inspired by the Herreshoff FISH class. The shop has produced more than 40 Pisces 21s, and the semi-custom 21-foot sloop is available with either cold-molded wood epoxy or fiberglass construction.

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Spirit Rider Regatta is September 7

By Ellen Kramer Walking on the Long Beach boardwalk on the South Shore of Long Island back in 2004, I stumbled upon an ocean sailing race known as the Spirit Rider Regatta. From that day, when I met Noreen O’Keefe Costello, President of the O’Keefe Foundation, I’ve been involved in this unique, spirited event every year. The race, hosted by The Ocean Club in Atlantic Beach, NY on the first weekend after Labor Day, began in 2003 in memory of firefighter Patrick J. O’Keefe of FDNY Rescue Company One. Patrick, who lost his life in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, had a true love of sailing and consistent generosity to introduce others to the water.

In 2008, I met Maryann McCruden, Commodore of the Point Lookout Yacht Club at the time, and was invited to join her all-women crew for the Spirit Rider Regatta. I’ve been racing on Maryann’s Pearson 30 Windancer through the present day.

Now, as Commodore of the PLYC, I am proud to say our club represents 50 % of the racing fleet for this regatta.

According to the West Point Sailing Team’s historian, the Spirit Rider Regatta is the only 9/11 memorial regatta in the United States. The purpose of the race is to honor and

remember all those lost in the attacks in 2001, and to continue to foster the spirit of brotherhood by helping struggling high school seniors attain a college education. “All of the proceeds from the Spirit Rider Regatta are awarded in scholarships to students who have lost a parent to violence or are suffering from some radical life change,” said Noreen.

Personally, it has come full circle as I attended my son’s senior awards presentation at Long Beach High School. Tim O’Keefe, brother of our fallen hero Patrick, presented my son’s classmate with The Oak Memorial Scholarship award for 2014.

I invite you to join us for the Spirit Rider Regatta on September 7. To register, please visit spiritrider.org. F Ellen Kramer is the Commodore of Point Lookout Yacht Club in Point Lookout, NY.

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Joyant In Labrador

By Tom and Dorothy Wadlow Photos by the authors In the spring of 2013, Joyant had just completed a refit that included repowering. When circumnavigating Newfoundland in 2003, we had explored the southern third of Labrador and wished to see more. So, we decided for our shakedown cruise to head to Labrador and see how far north we could get. After a quick stop and shore trip at Sable Island and the check-in to Canada at Corner Brook, Newfoundland, we reached Labrador on June 29.

The trip was not a short summer cruise. We ended up reaching Cape Chidley, Labrador’s northeast tip, and logging 4,100 miles on the round trip from Mystic, CT. Southern Labrador is much like Newfoundland with pleasant small towns, boreal forests and numerous harbor choices. North of the Hamilton Inlet, the entrance to Lake Melville and Goose Bay, the population dwindles. There are just five small inhabited coastal towns, none reached by roads. The farthest north is Nain, about two-thirds of the way from the Quebec border to Cape Chidley.

Beyond Nain, there are no permanent settlements. As you progress north, the coast gets more mountainous with less vegetation except for the soft, low growing tundra. Trees grow only in sheltered spots and the weather gets colder. The northern quarter of the coast is made up of the Torngat Mountains National Park and is indented by numerous fiords backed by gray craggy mountains decorated with snow streaks.

In the past, Labrador charts were not correctly geo-referenced.

Navigation required constantly using bearings and radar ranges to plot your location since the GPS position was off by significant fractions of a mile. This trip, we had two charting systems running windcheckmagazine.com

when underway. Our new radar/plotter used Navionics vector charts and we had MaxSea TimeZero, which used NT vector charts, on a laptop. Both systems were on deck under the hard dodger so we could constantly compare them to each other and to radar and visual sightings. We were pleasantly surprised to find that all the way north, both sets of charts were fairly well georeferenced, a huge improvement from our last trip to Labrador.

Large areas of the coast are not surveyed or are partially surveyed, with only occasional soundings or track lines surrounded by unsurveyed areas. Even in the “fully” surveyed area, the charts are missing some rocks and sometimes the depths are remarkably far off. Having two different charting systems was useful when the errors were the result of differences in the way the two companies translated the charts into vector format. Sometimes one version was clearly better than the other. But often they both used the same raster chart as a source, so the errors on it were faithfully transcribed to both of our vector charts. Careful navigation was essential. Fortunately our only grounding was at low speed in a harbor where the chart said we should have had plenty of water.

Labrador Coast Guard radio broadcasts VHF weather reports, including both a two-day, short-term forecast and longterm information extending out three more days. Nain is the northernmost station broadcasting these reports and a day north of Nain we were out of VHF range. We found that the GRIBS we downloaded from SailMail via our SSB and Pactor modem consistently agreed with the Canadian forecast. We were also able to download the Canadian reports through Saildocs, a part of Sailmail, so forecasts were always available. In northern Labrador, there was sometimes a great difference between the forecast and actual weather, most likely due to the nearby mountains.

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The weather during the summer of 2013 was unusual. Just north of Hamilton Inlet we were stopped by pack ice as we tried to round Cape Harrison. Finally we were able to spot a lead very close to the cliffs which enabled us to sneak safely by the point to a clearer area. A few hours later, a second encounter with thick pack ice caused us to head inland behind various sheltering islands and into a relatively ice-free area. When we reached the town of Makkovik several days later we were pleased to find plenty of room for us at the fish plant dock. The crab boats, which would normally have filled the place, were a month delayed due to the heavy pack ice. After Makkovik, there was less onshore wind bringing the pack ice in, and our route was sometimes protected by off-lying islands, so ice did not stop us. In 2013, the 200-foot high bergs we saw 10 years ago were replaced by more numerous bergs rarely over 100 feet high. Our favorite spectator sport became “berg watching.”

You can find many squiggles in Joyant’s track where we diverted to photograph the beautiful and varied examples.

In keeping with the generally cold weather and poor sailing conditions for much of the summer, on the morning of July 17 we awoke in Seaplane Cove to find the entire cove frozen over and Joyant iced in. The ice was thin and we could power through it, but we had not read or heard of other boats having that happen in mid-summer. We have cruised to 62 degrees north in Prince William Sound and 80 degrees north in Svalbard without having ice form in the summer, and we were only at 60 degrees in Seaplane Cove.

We stopped at two of the five Inuit towns north of Hamilton Inlet. The cruising guide and people we met had warned us about bothersome children and items going missing from visiting sailboats in these towns. Our first stop was the southernmost town, Makkovik, which we liked very much. There we met one of the two local Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers for the town. He had also worked in Nain and gave us his opinion of which towns were fine to visit and which to avoid. Makkovik was the best and Nain was next to the worst on his list, but one of our shakedown problems necessitated several stops in Nain. The larger of our two new alternators had had three different failures, the third of which appeared to be fatal.

In Nain, RCMP officers were again very helpful and offered to let us have a replacement shipped to their office. Even though the population of Nain is only about twice that of Makkovik, there are seven RCMP officers stationed in Nain to keep a lid on things. They recommended that we leave someone aboard the boat at the dock during the day and that we anchor out at night when the drinking starts and most of the difficulties occur. The dock in Nain is a gathering and fishing spot for the populace so we met lots of people during our daytime stays there. They were uniformly friendly and helpful. The beautiful and very sheltered Kauk Harbour is just six miles south of Nain so we spent our nights there in peace and quiet. The Inuit are excellent fishermen, and twice we were given freshly-caught arctic char by friendly people who saw us anchored in harbors near one of the towns.

While waiting for the new alternator to reach us, Balmar emailed us a photo with a potential solution to our problem. Tom was able to make the repair and the alternator worked fine, so we headed north, figuring we could pick up the package on the way back. It was a good thing we didn’t wait. The new alternator never arrived and Balmar got our money back from UPS. North of Nain is polar bear territory and we were prepared.

Both our “personal protection” and our phone always went ashore with us. Tom was lucky that we spotted a large and very lithe polar bear on his birthday – July 17. We were underway at the time and diverted to take photos as it traveled rapidly, leaping large boulders with ease, along the shore and up beside a tumbling stream.

Happily, we did not see any bears while we were hiking ashore.

The number of bird species declines as you head north but not the number of birds. Several times we were surprised by flocks of several hundred scoter or eider ducks and we passed a number of islands where puffins, murres and razorbills nest by the thousands.

Low growing flowers proliferate in the tundra during the short summer, and Dorothy had fun collecting and identifying them.

In almost every harbor we found white Labrador tea blossoms.

Google says that tea made from the leaves is either poisonous or hallucinogenic. We didn’t try it.

We had several breathtaking whale encounters. One minke followed Joyant for several miles. Minkes have white spots on the

One of many icebergs Photo courtesy of Tom & Dorothy Wadlow

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pectoral fins which you can see underwater, often allowing you to spot them before they surface. We also saw numerous humpbacks and had a mother and calf orca pair surface very close to Joyant’s stern.

Over the years, Dorothy has developed two requirements for an A-rated harbor: 1) we are the only boat in the harbor, and 2) good walks ashore. Labrador satisfied the first criteria every night.

Although we were with a few other boats when tied to docks in towns, we were the only boat in the harbor at every one of our overnight anchorages. As we moved north where tree thickets decreased and then disappeared entirely, the second criteria was usually satisfied. The tundra is soft and spongy, easy to walk on and provides good traction. We clambered to the top of numerous hills to get great views of the surrounding areas.

On our cruise to southern Labrador 10 years ago, our favorite stop was Battle Harbour and we were pleased to find it still going strong 10 years later. In former days it was a bustling fishing center.

Today it is a non-profit museum with guest lodging. Short hikes take you up to where you can view the bergs in the Strait of Belle Isle. On the highest hill is the antenna from which Peary broadcast to the world that he had reached the North Pole. Family-style dinners included local fish and berries. Since it can only be reached by private boat, Battle Harbour’s ferry, seaplane or helicopter, the other guests were intrepid and interesting. On our southbound stop, at a small church, we were privileged to attend a wedding of a young man who had been raised at Battle Harbour.

One of our most dramatic anchorages ever was at the end of the North Arm of the Saglek Fiord in the Torngat Mountains National Park. The desire for a sheltered harbor, favorable currents in both directions and sunny weather for excellent viewing, prompted us to attempt an anchorage at the end of the fiord. A stream flows into the inlet creating a shallow flat place. Actually, the word “shallow” is relative. We anchored in 55 feet of water, but there was very little wind and plenty of swinging room. Both evening and morning views of the high cliffs reflected in the water were a spectacular sight and photo-op for Tom. windcheckmagazine.com

At anchor in Saglek Fiord, North Arm Photo courtesy of Tom & Dorothy Wadlow

When the cod fishery was going strong in Labrador, the government built several villages for the fishermen which included sturdy docks. We tied to two of these which were still in good shape, and good ties, especially if you could arrange to be blown off. In both Smokey Tickle, north of Hamilton Inlet, and the Punchbowl to the south, the larger buildings had been dismantled and taken away, but the remains of many fishermen’s cabins and small boats were scattered around in various states of disrepair.

We were in Labrador for just over five weeks. Weather in the high latitudes can become more difficult in the late summer, so we targeted a turnaround time of mid-July. Cape Chidley, which we reached July 18, was an anti-climax. The cape only gave us fogshrouded views. That afternoon with a forecast of 15 to 20 knots, we had sustained periods of 30 knots and gusts to 45. We were happy to be headed south.

On our way north, when stopped by the pack ice or dealing with shakedown issues, we questioned whether we would reach Chidley. But we were glad we did and that we had a chance to see the dramatic and lonely northern reaches of Labrador. F Tom and Dorothy Wadlow of Stonington, CT have sailed more than 70,000 miles in their Chuck Paine-designed Able Apogee 50 Joyant since 1995. They have cruised from Prince William Sound in Alaska to Panama on the Pacific Coast of North America and from Trinidad to Labrador on the East Coast, as well as extensive cruising in Europe, where they reached 80 degrees north latitude. Tom and Dorothy are the recipients of the Cruising Club of America’s 2013 Far Horizons Award, given “for a particularly meritorious cruise or series of cruises that exemplify the objectives of the Club.”

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the 2014 edition of Voyages, the Cruising Club of America’s (CCA) annual publication, and is reprinted with permission. Special thanks to CCA Commodore Frederic T. Lhamon and Voyages Editors Dale and Doug Bruce.

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Of Anchors, Crab Pots and Tugs A Chesapeake Cruise

By Rich Loeschke It was Guys Day on the Upper Chesapeake Bay. The crew was three adults, four kids including my two boys Cameron and Arick, and one sailor (me). A beautiful June day morning with a light southerly breeze and calm seas: a great opportunity to start some newbies off right. Our destination was Rock Hall on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a short two-hour sail away. The trip had been discussed among the adults for a couple of weeks and they were pretty excited as they had either not been across the Bay or not been sailing before. The kids, as kids will be, were a little bored, anxious to put their halfsized football to good use. Their boredom quickly changed to concern, and then alarm as I asked the adults to grab a life jacket for all hands (including me) while I attempted to deal with the crisis.

What crisis? As we approached the Craighill Channel, which angles northwest into the mouth of the Patapsco River on its way to Baltimore Harbor, we snagged a crab pot. This is a fairly common occurrence on the Bay, but usually happens in

The Waterman’s Statue is a Rock Hall landmark. © Bernadette Bowman

shallow water while approaching or leaving an anchorage, not in the middle of the Bay while approaching the main shipping channel! I gave George – who had some sailing experience – the helm while I did a visual check from the transom swim ladder.

I couldn’t tell if we were caught on the spade rudder of our Ericson 27 or the prop from the inboard engine, but it seemed likely that it was the prop. Try as I might, I just couldn’t hook

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the crab pot line with the boathook. I was also out of time.

While we were slowly sailing at 2-3 knots easterly (dragging the pot), the incoming tide was pushing us almost as slowly towards the channel…which was now occupied by a very large tug pulling a much larger barge. I clambered back over the stern rail, giving steering instructions, “requesting” the kids below and with Steve, the other adult, dropping all sail. This stopped our easting, but we were still drifting into the channel. I was sorely tempted to try the engine at this point. Instead, I grabbed the VHF and attempted to hail the pilot of the tug. Another glance in his direction showed that he had seen our dilemma and had already moved to the far edge of the channel. However, we were still unbelievably on a slow motion collision course!

How much time did we have? Should we abandon ship?

Could any of my “crew” swim? It was a Sunday in June, so we should be rescued fairly quickly… Wait a second. What about anchoring? With the incoming current and good bottom, it just might work. While the adults got the kids back to the cockpit ready to “go swimming” just in case, I dropped the anchor off the bow and paid out what I hoped would be enough line to give the anchor a chance to bury, but not enough for the tug to clobber us. I cleated and scrambled back to the cockpit. We were still drifting towards the tug. I could see that he had slowed, but would not be able to stop in time. Slowly, almost imperceptibly, we began to swing around so that our bow was facing into the current, our stern facing the side of the tug. The good old Danforth had set! Crisis over. We waved to the tug captain, who went merrily on his way while we broke the “noon rule” and cracked open three beers.

Now that we were “safely” anchored in the middle of the Bay – next to, but not in the shipping channel, I was able to ease into the water, hang onto the swim ladder and reach far enough under the boat to hook the line which was wrapped around the prop shaft. We freed ourselves, hoisted sail and re-commenced our Rock Hall adventure.

The breeze picked up a bit and we were able to make 4-5 knots. A blissfully uneventful crossing found us in wellprotected Rock Hall Harbor, where there are lots of workboats, but no tugs. Our good luck held as we found a free space at the bulkhead on the north shore and tied up alongside. After crab cakes, burgers for the kids and a quick game of “touch” football, we set out to explore the town. Although there is a golf cart trolley for only a buck, we wanted to stretch our legs and walked the half-mile to Main Street. Not as upscale or trendy as Annapolis or St. Michaels, Rock Hall is a vibrant waterman’s town with its share of shops and eateries.

There are three distinct areas within walking distance to explore. The Harbor has marinas, waterfront dining, and a memorial to the waterman. Swan Creek, just to the northwest of town, is a beautiful, mostly undeveloped anchorage with a few marinas and a yacht club. There are a few traditional Eastern Shore farms still to be seen, although more and more of them are being sub-divided into waterfront McMansion lots.

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Tied to the mast (and lovin’ it) at Pirates and Wenches Fantasy Weekend © bluecrabcharters.com

and color. The third area is the town itself. There are quite a few boat-related events each year. Here are some of this year’s events: July 3 – Rock Hall Fireworks, which can be seen from the Western Shore. In fact, if you pick the right anchorage you can experience myriad fireworks on the Bay’s creeks and rivers.

July 4 – Parade and Waterman’s Docking Contest July 19 & 20 – Log Canoe Races – if you haven’t seen these beautifully unique sailing craft, you owe yourself the experience.

August 8-10 – Pirates and Wenches Fantasy Weekend August 16 – Cocktail Class Wooden Boat Races (6-8hp powerboats) F

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A Chesapeake Itinerary

By Bobby Childs The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It stretches for 200 miles north to south, and is approximately four miles wide at its narrowest point (north) and 30 miles wide at its broadest (the Potomac River). More than 150 rivers flow into this great body of water. The most boater-friendly cruising grounds in the world with great seafood in every port, the Bay is ideal for a fun-filled family charter.

Day 1: Arrive in Annapolis I would do a sleep aboard on the dock in Annapolis, and take the kids to dinner in town by dinghy. Life jackets and a flashlight are all that’s necessary. You can tie up in Ego Alley in the middle of downtown Annapolis. The Alex Haley monument, on the site where colonists once traded slaves, is right there, and you may walk to the Market House and myriad other historic and wonderfully exotic haunts.

Day 2: Annapolis to Baltimore On the morning tide, I would sail north to Baltimore Harbor approximately 20 miles. Plan to stay for a day (or two) in historic Baltimore. Procure a reservation for a slip as close to the Inner Harbor as possible. The Rusty Scupper side is quieter, with a marina and restaurant. Closer to downtown Baltimore is Inner Harbor East, across the harbor. You’ll find lots to do with

Crab pots on the dock in Rock Hall © Bernadette Bowman

dinghy adventure and walking about, including the National Aquarium, the USS Constellation, the World War II submarine USS Torsk, countless museums and shopping. I recommend eating at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, McCormick & Schmick’s, The Horse You Rode In On, Bertha’s Mussels, or any of the countless pubs on every corner.

Day 3: Baltimore to Rock Hall Next, I would sail east about 20 miles to Rock Hall. “The Pearl of the Chesapeake” is a waterfront town located directly on the National Chesapeake Scenic Byway in Kent County. It’s a very quaint, quite remote place that was once a mecca for commercial fishing. Downtown Rock Hall has a great ice cream parlor as well as plenty of unique shops.

Day 4: Rock Hall to St. Michaels From Rock Hall, it’s another jog of 20 miles or so south to St. Michaels. Located off of the Miles River, the town derives its name from the Episcopal parish established there in 1677. The population was 1,029 at the 2010 census. St. Michaels Marina has a pool and a restaurant. There are moorings and an incredible anchorage. There are restaurants galore such as The Crab’s Claw and Foxy’s Harbor Grill (just like in Jost Van Dyke). The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, a magical place for kids from 8 to 80, is a short dinghy ride away.

Day 5: St. Michaels to Annapolis You could sail back to Annapolis down Eastern Bay and around historic Bloody Point, or make a stop on Kent Island at Red Eye Dock Bar for the Bikini Contest, then proceed on through the Kent Narrows Bridge to home. Mind, you must stay in the channel. All of these destinations have anchorages and some have mooring balls, and all have places to explore in your dinghy. You cannot see all of the Chesapeake in one charter. I love cruising the Chesapeake Bay, and have done so joyfully for years. F Bobby Childs is the Manager of Cruise Annapolis in Annapolis, MD. A Bay cruiser for over 25 years, he spends summers running the Cruise Annapolis charter fleet and winters at his home in Abaco, Bahamas.

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Morse Alpha Sail Training Expeditions Our friends Ben and Teresa Carey have launched Morse Alpha, offering coastal and offshore sail training and leadership expeditions aboard their Norseman 447 Rocinante. Summer voyages depart from Rockland, ME and head downeast to explore the rugged coasts of Maine and Nova Scotia. These ideal training waters offer many challenges including thick fog, numerous ledges, dramatic weather patterns, fast-flowing currents, and large tidal ranges.

“We limit our expeditions to only four students and each program is tailored to meet the needs and goals of the students,” said Ben. “We cover topics and drills such as man overboard, traditional and electronic navigation, night sailing, watch keeping, engine maintenance, sail trim, fog procedures, weather and more.

If there is something in particular you are eager to learn, practice or perfect, we’ll be sure to work on that too.”

“What’s unique about the Morse Alpha curriculum is that you’ll not only learn the technical sailing and seamanship skills required to sail and cruise safely and efficiently, you’ll also be trained in leadership, crisis management, communication, and facilitating a shipboard culture of positive camaraderie,” Teresa added. “Our goal is that every crewmember walks away with sailing skills, leadership skills, and a feeling they all got there together. We start each day with morning muster, led by the captain-of-the-day, and then move into chores, a full curriculum of lessons and handson practice. Each crewmember is expected to take part in all daily responsibilities aboard. While there is no typical day at sea, our training voyages usually include early morning wake-ups, rugged training drills, cozy accommodations, and an adventure like none other.”

Last year Fred and Dorothy purchased their first cruising boat and decided to take a course with Teresa and Ben. Fred grew up in a sailing family, but wanted to help Dorothy transition into being a liveaboard sailor. Yet, he was surprised by how much he also gained. “I thought I knew a lot about sailing, but with [Ben and Teresa] I learned so much more. I think I have a new appreciation for safety. It went way beyond what I thought I knew,” said Fred.

Dorothy is a confident, outgoing woman with strong leadership skills in her profession. Yet like many cruising women, aboard the boat she felt less confident. “It was definitely scary being captain-of-the-day at first,” she said. “I didn’t even feel ready. In the dark or fog was especially scary for me.” By the end of the program, Dorothy excelled as captain-of-the-day and Fred felt comfortable stepping away from command. Even now, a year later, Fred and Dorothy still alternate responsibilities as captain.

They attribute their ability to do this successfully to leadership and communication techniques learned at Morse Alpha. Dorothy says, “Ben and Teresa taught us not only technical skills of sailing a boat, but [also] new ways of communication.”

Most importantly, Fred and Dorothy gained a new perspective on life and their relationship. “There were things about the experience that happened…that are a reminder of why we windcheckmagazine.com

are even doing this,” explained Dorothy. “We are doing this to see something about ourselves that we weren’t seeing in our prior lives.” Fred agreed, “This was a major shift in our lives. It was a big deal to buy this boat, so it put a greater stress on our relationship than had been on ever before. What’s profound for me is what they’ve taught us is going to make our cruising life far better. This will change our lives.”

Ben and Teresa are both USCG licensed captains and experienced educators who have sailed a combined 65,000 nautical miles on over 60 different vessels from 16 to 180 feet.

“We’ve delivered boats to and from the Caribbean, been across the Atlantic, circumnavigated Newfoundland and lived aboard during chilly New England winters,” said Ben. “We are committed to delivering a safe, fun, and educational expedition.” For more information, visit morsealpha.com. F

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Summer Reading Rescue of the Bounty

Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy

By Michael J. Tougias and Douglas A. Campbell Published by Scribner 230 pages hardcover $25 Several months ago our friend Michael J. Tougias, the award-winning author of several excellent books about disasters and daring rescues at sea, generously granted WindCheck permission to publish an advance excerpt from his soon-tobe published Rescue of the Bounty. Tougias is the master of this genre, and this book, co-authored with veteran journalist and accomplished offshore sailor Douglas A. Campbell, is among his very best.

In a stunning lapse of judgment, the captain of the ill-fated tall ship, Robin Walbridge, elected to set sail for St. Petersburg, FL from New London, CT on Thursday, October 25, 2012.

Well aware that the ship under his command, built for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty, was in poor condition and that one of the largest Atlantic hurricanes in history was forecast to strike the East Coast of the U.S., Walbridge was nonetheless determined to sail. Explaining to his crew of 15 that “a ship is always safer at sea than in port” and that he intended to “sail around the hurricane,” Walbridge gave those who didn’t want to sail an opportunity to leave the ship, with no hard feelings. No one accepted that offer.

When Sandy hit the Bounty four days into the voyage, her pumps, badly in need of repair, were unable to keep up with the incoming water. Battered by 30-foot waves, the ship overturned that night, triggering one of the most massive and dangerous rescues in U.S Coast Guard history. An artfully crafted recounting of a needless tragedy that takes the reader aboard the doomed ship and the rescue aircraft, Rescue of the Bounty is highly recommended.

Michael J. Tougias has written or co-written 23 books, including A Storm Too Soon, Overboard, Fatal Forecast, Ten Hours Until Dawn and The Finest Hours (with co-author Casey Sherman), soon to be a major motion picture by Disney. A resident of Massachusetts, he is also a popular lecturer who gives more than 70 presentations each year. You’ll find his speaking

schedule at michaeltougias.com.

Douglas A. Campbell spent three decades in daily journalism and 25 years as a staff writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where two of his stories were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of The Sea’s Bitter Harvest and Eight Survived. An avid racing and cruising sailor for many years, he has completed the single- and double-handed Bermuda One-Two Race with his wife Monica aboard their Westsail 32 Robin. His blog is online at dougcampbellsbooks.blogspot.com.

Sea Trials A Lone Sailor’s Race Toward Home

By Peter J. Bourke Published by International Marine/McGraw-Hill 225 pages hardcover $24 After his wife’s sudden death, Peter Bourke realized he needed something more than parenting and a career to restore balance in his life.

Although he did not know how to sail – and despite the fact that his friends thought he was crazy – he bought his first sailboat and embarked on a series of offshore solo voyages that included the Bermuda One-Two. A decade later, when his daughter and son had finished high school and he was 57 years old, Bourke entered the Oldest Singlehanded Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR), a 3,000-mile passage from Plymouth, England to Newport, Rhode Island.

Bourke brings the reader aboard his Outbound 44 Rubicon to share the highs, lows, challenges and solace of sailing alone across the Atlantic for 40 days, recounting experiences in the Vietnam War, his many marriage proposals before Gail finally said “yes,” and how he found the courage to tell his young children that they had lost their mother.

“The captain of a sailing vessel must be a craftsman who can fashion his boat and his behavior to the rhythms of the sea,” Bourke writes. “At the end of a passage, that ephemeral construction that was the passage goes to memory, where it cures and reflects who you are.” Elegantly written with humanity and humility, Sea Trials is insightful and inspiring.

Peter J. Bourke was born in London, England and came to the U.S. at age six. After serving in the Marine Corps for three years, he attended college on the GI Bill. He retired from a successful Wall Street career to sail. Bourke lives and sails out of Newport, RI. Sea Trials is his first book.

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Riding the Wild Ocean

The Circumnavigation of Cape Cod in a 18-Foot Sloop, and Other Adventures

By Paul S. Krantz, Jr. Published by Tate Publishing 241 pages paperback $18.99 The cover of Riding the Wild Ocean, a dramatic painting by renowned marine artist Russ Kramer of author Paul Krantz’s 18-foot Herreshoff sloop Yvaledon reefed and battling monstrous waves, is among the best we’ve ever seen on a book about sailing. The words within, a collection the author’s adventures on waters from coastal New England to the Dry Tortugas, all in boats under 20 feet in length, deliver on the promise.

We like this book’s readability. The stories – many about days when owners of much larger craft would have happily remained in port – are recounted with a style that makes it easy to imagine you’re hearing the words straight from the author’s mouth while sharing a cold one at IYAC or The Oar. More than a compilation of well-told tales, Riding the Wild Ocean is an excellent how-to-manual for the sailor contemplating open water adventures on his or her own small boat. There’s a comprehensive glossary and a very useful “personal clothing and loose equipment list” that includes everything from foul weather gear, safety equipment and navigation devices to tools, maintenance items and nutrition (with the author’s recommendations for brand names).

Paul S. Krantz, Jr. started sailing with his father at age three. He began teaching sailing and canoeing at 15, and sailed professionally as captain of a 41-foot ketch by 19.

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The Little Blue Book of Sailing Wisdom Edited by Stephen Brennan Published by Skyhorse Publishing 214 pages, hardcover, $16.95 Sailing has provided bountiful metaphors for living one’s life to the fullest. The Little Blue Book of Sailing Wisdom is an inspiring collection of quotes on every aspect of seafaring from novelists, explorers, playwrights, musicians, actors, political figures and others: At sea, I learned how little a person needs – not how much.

– Robin Lee Graham A small sailing craft is not only beautiful, it is seductive and full of strange promise and the hint of trouble. – E. B. White

Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. – Sterling Hayden

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Stephen Brennan is an editor, teacher, and playwright. He is the editor of The Gigantic Book of Sailing Stories, The Gigantic Book of Pirate Stories, and Classic Adventure Stories. He lives in New York City. F windcheckmagazine.com

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Calendar 2014 JULY

Elks Lodge, Westbrook, CT; Wayne: 860-652-5000; shorelinesailingclub.com

Daily through 7/27 American Waters: A Marine Art Exhibition Work by the country’s premier maritime artists will be on view in beautiful sky-lit galleries. day - Saturday 10am -5pm. Admission is free (a $5 donation is suggested). Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme CT; 860-434-7802; lymeartassociation.org

3 Singles Under Sail meeting - SUS is a sailing club for adults who are also single.

Meetings are held on the first & third Thursdays of each month at various locations in Fairfield County, CT; 203-847-3456; visit SinglederSail.org for cruises, lectures and other special events.

Breezy Afternoon by Neal Hughes Daily through October Sail on the Mary E - River excursions (1.5 hours) and set cruises (2 hours) are available aboard this 75-foot gaff-rigged schooner. Fee includes museum admission.

Connecticut River Museum, Essex, CT; Reservations: 860767-8269; schoonermarye.com; ctrivermuseum.org 3 37th Annual SCYC Junior Commodores Regatta This event is open to Optimists, C420S, Laser 4.7s, Laser Radials & fish. Surf City Yacht Club, Surf City, NJ; scyc-nj.org 3 Shoreline Sailing Club meeting - If you’re an active single over 35, this club’s activities include sailing, fishing, kayaking, dances, dockside parties, golfing, skiing & more. Meetings are held the first & third Thursdays of each month (lite bites/cash bar available); 7:30pm; Westbrook

3&4 8th Annual Mudnite Madness Overnight - This circumnavigation of Block Island and Fishers Island is an ECSA double points event.

Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association; mudhead.org 4 Bristol 4th of July Established in 1785, Bristol’s Independence Day Celebration is the oldest continuous event of its kind in the USA. Bristol, RI; july4thbristolri.com 4 Independence Day Celebration - Celebrate America’s birthday circa 1876 with boat races on the Mystic River, military exercises with the 27th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry on the Village Green, a parade, a concert by the Mystic Silver Cornet Band & more.

9am - 5pm; Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; 860-572-5322; mysticseaport.org 5 Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island Fundraising Gala - Non-profit organization OHPRI is celebrating Rhode Island’s Tall Ship SSV Oliver Hazard Perry and honoring its three shipyard partners: Newport Shipyard, Senesco Marine and New England Boatworks. Live & silent auctions, cocktails, dinner & dessert and dockside tours of the ship; 6pm; Newport

Shipyard, Newport, RI; tickets must be purchased in advance at ohpri.worldsecuresystems. com/gala-registration or by contacting Carol Hill at 401-841-0080.

5 North U Match Racing Clinic with Dave Perry The goals of this clinic are to raise each participant’s skill & knowledge in match racing tactics & strategies, as well as boat speed & handling. 8:30am - 6pm; Larcht Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; yralis.org 5&6 Expressly for Fun - This family-oriented regatta has a pursuit race format.

Huguenot Yacht Club, New Rochelle, NY; huguenotyc.com 6 SSYC Independence Day Regatta - This event is open to Optimists, C420s, Comets, Flying Scots, Lasers, Laser Radials, Sanderlings & Woodpussys.

Shrewsbury Sailing and Yacht Club, Little Silver, NJ; ssyc.us 7-9 McIntyre Team Race Champs - This event will be sailed in C420s. SUNY Maritime College, Throggs Neck, NY; jsalis.org 7 - 16 Mystic Seaport Brilliant for Teens 10-day Program Teenagers (ages 15 - 18) will experience the adventure and challenge of sailing while visiting New England harbors aboard the 61-foot Schooner Brilliant.

No sailing experience necessary.

Voyage starts and finishes at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; 860572-5322; mysticseaport.org

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8 Breakwater Irregulars Thursday Night Summer Series begins - Stamford, CT; breakwaters.org 9 - 12 Hobie North American Championships - Hosted by the Sandy Hook Bay Catamaran Club and Hobie Fleet 250, this event is open to the Hobie 16 Youth Class, Hobie Wave Class & Hobie 14 Class. Atlantic Highlands, NJ; fleet250.org 10 - 12 91st Annual EYC Regatta This year’s “Regatta,” a multiclass one-design event for adults and juniors, features a celebration of 100 years of the Wianno Senior Class. Edgartown Yacht Club, Edgartown, MA; edgartownyc.org 10 - 13 U.S. Women’s Match Race Championship America’s top female match racers will compete aboard the world’s largest fleet of Swedish Match 40s. The winning team will earn a spot to compete at the Buddy Melges Cup in Sheboygan, WI, the 2014 US stop on the Women’s International Match Race Series.

Oakcliff Sailing Center, Oyster Bay, NY; Bill Si: 516-802-0368; bsi@oakcliffsailing.org; oakcliffsailing.org 11 Offshore 160 SingleHanded Challenge Sponsored by the Newport Yacht Club, this biennial race is a 160-mile qualifier for the Bermuda One-Two, designed to potentially get new skippers’ singlehanded qualifying passage out of the way in the off-year, and to provide past competitors with a long-distance racing “fix.”

Newport, RI; newportyachtclub.org 11 - 13 Vineyard Cup 2014 - This regatta weekend to support Sail Martha’s Vineyard is sponsored

by Gosling’s Rum, The Black Dog, Sugarbush, Samuel Adams and Morris Yachts, and the public is invited to join the windcheckmagazine.com

party! Vineyard Haven, MA; vineyeardcup.com 11 - 13 Newport Regatta® featuring BACARDI® Newport Sailing Week presented by EFG Bank Invited classes include Swan 42, Audi Melges 20, J/70, J/24, Etchells, Ensign, Star, 49er, F-18, A Class Cat,Viper 640, 5O5, VX One,Vanguard 15, Sunfish, Laser Radial, Byte CII & 2.4mR. Sail Newport, Newport, RI; newportsailingweek.com

overboard recovery and bigboat organization & crew work, in-the-water demonstration of inflatable PFDs and the inflation of a six-man canopied life raft, and sail handling & man overboard drills both upwind with jibs and downwind with spinnakers. Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, MA; Peter Dowd: PDowd@bostoncapital. com; stormtrysailfoundation.org/ safety-at-sea.htm

11 - 13 Mariner National Regatta This event is hosted by Narrasketuck Yacht Club, Amityville, NY; usmariner.org; nycsail.com 11 - 13 North of the Cape Catboat Rendezvous Duxbury, MA; Shauna Stone: 781-585-5641; catboats.org 21sestone@comcast.net; 11 - 27 46th Newport Music Festival - This classical music event comprises more than 60 concerts in Newport mansions.

Newport, RI; newportmusic.org 12 42nd Annual Edward S. Dole Memorial Stratford Shoal Race - Hosted by Lloyd Harbor Yacht Club and honoring the memory of a very enthusiastic sailor who co-founded the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound, this race supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation Suffolk County Chapter’s mission of granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. Huntington, NY; lhyc.org 12 Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar - This hands-on workshop, presented by the Storm Trysail Foundation and sponsored by West Marine and the Jamie Boeckel Fund for Safety at Sea, includes presentations covering safety procedures, particularly man windcheckmagazine.com

Clemmie Everett: clemmie. everett@gmail.com; jsalis.org 12 PYC Opti Rumble - Pequot Yacht Club, Southport, CT; pequotyc.com 12 IYRS Summer Gala This event celebrates the achievements of International Yacht Restoration School students. 6pm - midnight; Newport, RI; Erica Kana: 401848-5777 ext 231 or ekana@iyrs.org; iyrs.org 12 Stars and Stripes Regatta - Point Lookout Yacht Club, Point Lookout, NY; pointlookoutyachtclub.org

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12 Narragansett BayAround The Bay Race Hosted by West Bay Yacht Club, this race is open to all monohulls with PHRF-NB rating certificates and multihulls with NEMA rating certificates, and there’s a choice of three courses. East Greenwich, RI; David Lodge: racechairman@ westbayyachtclub.org; westbayyachtclub.org/wbycaround-the-bay-race.html 12 53rd Annual Branford Invitational - This ECSA points event is hosted by Branford Yacht Club. Branford, CT; Don O’Brien: 203-430-0212; branfordyc.org 12 46th Annual Friends & Neighbors Race - Noroton Yacht Club, Darien, CT; norotonyc.org 12 Clarence Horton Offshore Invitational Regatta PHRF; Watch Hill Yacht Club, Watch Hill, RI; whyc.net 12 JSA Girls Champs American Yacht Club, Rye, NY;

12 Newport Concert Series: John Hiatt & The Combo & The Robert Cray Band - Newport Yachting Center, Newport, RI; newportwaterfrontevents.com 12 & 13 68th Annual Red Grant Regatta - Honoring Adolph “Red” Grant, an avid racer who died in World War II, this popular event, comprising a oneday cruising race and a two days of ‘round-the-buoys racing, is a fundraiser for We Care Perth Amboy. Raritan Yacht Club, Perth Amboy, NJ; ryc.org/sailing-redgrant-regatta.htm 12 & 13 NYYC Race Week at Newport presented

by Rolex (Classics Weekend) - New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court, Newport, RI; nyyc.org/ yachting/racing/nyyc-raceweek 12 & 13 Sprite Island Catboat Rendezvous - Norwalk, CT; Robin Varian: 203-938-4149; bwvarian@mac.com; catboats.org 12 & 13 Wickford Catboat Rendezvous - Wickford, RI;

Jim Findley: 401-295-4190; jim@ findleysassociates.com; catboats. org 12 & 13 Newport Kite Festival - Brenton Point State Park, Newport, RI; newportkitefestival.com 12 - 14 Sailfest - This 3-day festival includes live entertainment on three stages, tours of the U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle, arts & crafts, free kids activities, fireworks and more. New London, CT; sailfestnl.org 12 - 20 116th Annual Larchmont Race Week - This venerable event has divisions for Racer/ Cruiser (IRC & PHRF), NonSpinnaker, Classic Yacht, J/70, J/80, J/105 Etchells, IOD, Shields, S-Boat, Ideal 18,Viper, RS K6, 5O5 and other one-designs with sufficient entries. Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; larchmontyc.org 13 Pine Orchard Invitational This ECSA points event is hosted by Pine Orchard Yacht & Country Club. Branford, CT; poycc.org 13 Horton One-Design Race Watch Hill Yacht Club, Watch Hill, RI; whyc.net 14 - 16 Larchmont Junior Race Week - Optimist, Blue Jay, Pixel, Laser, Radial & 420; Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; larchmontyc.org 16 TYC Annual Benefit Regatta - This Wednesday night event is open to PHRF boats, 420s & Optimists, and all sailors are welcome. Proceeds benefit Hospice Southeastern Connecticut. Thames Yacht Club, New London, CT; Judy Gibbs: 860-444-7227; jgibbs@snet.net; thamesyachtclub.org 16 Onne van der Wal WindCheck Magazine

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Photography Workshop on the Water: Nautical Newport - The award-winning photographer will give a guided photographic tour aboard the M/V Gansett, including wharves, lighthouses and Wednesday night Shields racing under the Bridge.

3 - 7:30pm; fee includes lobster rolls, beer, wine, soft drinks, snacks & a goody bag. Limited to 15 photographers; Reserve with Kristin Browne at 401-849-5556 or kristin@vanderwal.com; vanderwal.com 16 - 19 NYYC Race Week at Newport presented

by Rolex (Handicap & One-Design) - New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court, Newport, RI; nyyc.org/yachting/ racing/nyyc-race-week 17 TYC Force 5 Regatta for Hospice - Hosted by Thames Yacht Club and open

to all Force 5 sailors, this Thursday event supports the Center for Hospice Care Southeastern Connecticut.

New London, CT; Judy Gibbs: 860-444-7227; jgibbs@snet.net; thamesyachtclub.org.

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17 42nd Annual Opera House Cup Regatta This North American Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge event is co-hosted by Nantucket Yacht Club and Great Harbor Yacht Club. Nantucket, MA; operahousecup.org; paneraiclassicyachtschallenge. com

17 Stamford Sail & Power Squadron Race - Halloween Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; hyc. net; usps.org/localusps/stamford

spinnakers. Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, NY; Rich du Moulin: dumoulin111@aol.com; stormtrysailfoundation.org/ safety-at-sea.htm

17 - 20 Black Ships Festival This celebration of friendship between Newport and Japan offers a variety of events with a focus on Japanese art and culture. Newport, RI; blackshipsfestival.com

18 & 19 Mudhead Benefit Cup Hosted by the Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association, this Sailors for the Sea Clean Regatta is a benefit for the Center for Hospice Care Southeastern Connecticut. Bring your instruments, voices and dancing shoes to Mystic Shipyard for the 5th Annual Racer’s Jam on Friday, 7/18. Racing is Saturday (if you bring it, they’ll find a class for it!), followed by the Mega Party at Mystic Shipyard. Mystic, CT; George Brys: gebrys@comcast. net; mudhead.org

18 Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar - This hands-on workshop, presented by the Storm Trysail Foundation and sponsored by West Marine and the Jamie Boeckel Fund for Safety at Sea, includes presentations covering safety procedures, particularly man overboard recovery and bigboat organization & crew work, in-the-water demonstration of inflatable PFDs and the inflation of a six-man canopied life raft, and sail handling & man overboard drills both upwind with jibs and downwind with

18 & 19 Vineyard Haven Catboat Rendezvous - Vineyard Haven, MA; Mark Alan Lovewell: 508-696-4655; mark@ markalanlovewell.com; catboats.org

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18 - 20 53rd Consecutive Bullseye Nationals - This event will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the launching of the first Herreshoff 12 ½ hull from which the modern Bullseye is a direct descendant. Fishers Island Yacht Club, Fishers Island, NY; fiyc.net

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18 - 24 Race the Cape - This event comprises five days of challenging racing in the Bras d’Or Lakes and along the rugged Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island, and seven nights of legendary Cape Breton food,

hospitality and entertainment.

Cape Breton, NS; racethecape.ca 19 Northport Junior Make-A-Wish Regatta Sponsored by Northport Yacht Club, Centerport Yacht Club, Huntington Yacht Club, Head of the Bay Club, Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club and the Huntington YMCA, this event for Opti, Blue Jay, Pixel, C420 and Laser sailors supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s mission of granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. Northport, NY; Bob Doherty: 631-7573174; pbkd223@optonline.net; northportyachtclub.com.

19 6th Annual EGYC Regatta This fundraiser for Westbay Community Action includes Spinnaker, Non-spinnaker and Family Class/Cruising Canvas divisions. East Greenwich Yacht Club, East Greenwich, RI; egycregatta.com

19 Atlantic City Leukemia Cup Regatta - Co-hosted by Ocean City Yacht Club, Avalon Yacht Club, Corinthian Yacht Club of Cape May, Brigantine Yacht Club and Metedeconk River Yacht Club, this regatta supports the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure blood cancers. Atlantic City, NJ; Gina Murdoch: 908956-6617; gina.murdoch@lls.org; leukemiacup.org/nj 19 Black Dog Dash - Co-hosted by the New England Multihull Association and The Black Dog, this 22-mile race from Vineyard Haven to Edgartown is open to all multihulls with a NEMA handicap rating. Martha’s Vineyard, MA; nemasail.org 19 SYC Distance Sprint This race, part of the SYC Distance Race Series, has divisions for Spinnaker, NonSpinnaker, Double-handed and (with sufficient interest) One-

Design & Multihulls. Seatauket Yacht Club, Port Jefferson, NY; Jason Richter: 631-312-7140; Paladin32575@yahoo.com; setauketyc.com 19 Dark ‘n Stormy Regatta Point Lookout Yacht Club, Point Lookout, NY; pointlookoutyachtclub.org 19 & 20 New England 210 Championship/Kye Partridge Memorial Regatta - This International 210 regatta is hosted by Hingham Yacht Club. Hingham, MA; hinghamyachtclub.com; 210class.com 20 - 24 Club 420 Association North American Championship - Brant Beach Yacht Club, Brant Beach, NJ; bbyc.net 21 PWYC Make-A-Wish Regatta - Founded by

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members of Port Washington Junior Yacht Club, this regatta for Opti, Blue Jay, C420 & Laser sailors supports the Make-AWish Foundation’s mission of granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. Port Washington, NY; pwyc.com 21 & 22 JSA Junior Race Week This Junior Sailing Association of Long Island Sound event is open to Laser & 420 sailors. Cedar Point Yacht Club, Westport, CT; cedarpointyc.org; jsalis.org 23 Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar - This hands-on workshop, presented by the Storm Trysail Foundation and sponsored by West Marine and the Jamie Boeckel Fund for Safety at Sea, includes presentations covering safety procedures, particularly man overboard recovery and big-

boat organization & crew work, in-the-water demonstration of inflatable PFDs and the inflation of a six-man canopied life raft, and sail handling & man overboard drills both upwind with jibs and downwind with spinnakers. Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, ME; Bob Scott: ati@aerotropic.com; stormtrysailfoundation.org/ safety-at-sea.htm 23 - 25 JSA Blue Jay/Pixel Race Week - Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, Port Washington, NY; Beth Danilek: danileks@optonline.net; manhassetbayyc.org 24 Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar - This hands-on workshop, presented by the Storm Trysail Foundation and sponsored by West Marine and the Jamie Boeckel Fund for Safety at Sea, includes presentations covering safety procedures, particularly man overboard recovery and bigboat organization & crew work,

in-the-water demonstration of inflatable PFDs and the inflation of a six-man canopied life raft, and sail handling & man overboard drills both upwind with jibs and downwind with spinnakers. Raritan Yacht Club, Perth Amboy, NJ; Kelly Robinson: krobins@rutgers. edu; stormtrysailfoundation.org/ safety-at-sea.htm 24 US Junior Olympic Sailing Festival/Larry White Junior Regatta - This US Sailing event, sponsored by West Marine, Gill and Sperry TopSider, is open to all Optimist Fleets, 420s and Lasers. Niantic Bay Yacht Club, Niantic, CT; nbyc.org 24 Ram Island Invitational This ECSA points event is hosted by Ram Island Yacht Club.

Noank, CT; ramislandyachtclub. org 25 New England Solo/Twin

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Championships - Sponsored by the Rhode Island State Yachting Committee, Goat Island Yacht Club and Newport Yacht Club, this single- and double-handed event is open to monohulls and multihulls.

Newport, RI; newportyachtclub.org 25 - 27 72nd Annual Hyannis Yacht Club Regatta - This Sailors for the Sea Gold Level Clean Regatta is open to Optimists, Beetle Cats, Lasers, Laser Radials, C420s, J/22s, J/70s & F-18 catamarans. Hyannis Yacht Club, Hyannis, MA; hycregatta.org 25 - 27 Newport Folk Festival Artists performing this year include Jimmy Cliff, Mavis Staples, Ryan Adams, Nickel Creek, Jeff Tweedy, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Dawes, Robert Hunter, Aoife O’Donovan, Trampled by Turtles, The Milk Carton Kids and many more. Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI; newportfolk.org

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25 - 29 The Corinthians Ocean Race - Hosted by Stonington Harbor Yacht Club, Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club and The Corinthians, the fourth running of this ORC Category 2 event for PHRF Spinnaker and Non-Spinnaker and ORR boats is a 333-nautical mile “navigator’s race” from Stonington, CT to Boothbay, ME. Bob Scribner: 843-3647332; RKScribner@gmail.com; TheCorinthiansOceanRace.com 26 13th Sail Park City Regatta™ - Presented by Fayerweather Yacht Club and co-sponsored by Black Rock Yacht Club and Housatonic Boat Club, this ECSA points event supports SWIM Across the Sound, Connecticut’s largest cancer charity. New this year is a Navigator Class. Fayerweather Yacht Club, Black Rock, CT; give.stvincents.org/sailparkcity 26 Round-the-Island Race First sailed in 1938, this 52¼ nm circumnavigation of

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Martha’s Vineyard is open to all yachts with a valid PHRF or IRC certificate, and it’s a PHRF Lighthouse Series qualifier. Edgartown Yacht Club, Edgartown, MA; 508-627-4364; rtirace.org 26 Essex Rum Challenge This ECSA points event, hosted

by Essex Yacht Club and sponsored by Gosling’s® Rum, is open to all boats with a valid 2014 ECSA PHRF certificate.

Essex, CT; essexyc.com 26 & 27 Antique & Classic Boat Rendezvous - This popular event features a dazzling display of vessels built before 1970 including cruisers, sailboats, runabouts and launches, and a boat parade on the Mystic River.

Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; 860572-5322; mysticseaport.org 26 & 27 Gulf of Maine Solo-Twin Sponsored by Rockland Yacht Club, this overnight race from Provincetown, MA to

Rockland, ME has single- and double-handed divisions. rocklandyachtclub.org 27 Black Rock Invitational This ECSA points event is cohosted by Fayerweather Yacht Club & Black Rock Yacht Club.

Bridgeport, CT; fycct.org

AUGUST 1-3 42nd Annual Buzzards Bay Regatta - With classes for Lasers (including Radials & Masters), C420s, I420s,V15s, Bullseyes, J/22s, J/24s, J/80s, J/70s, Shields, Multihulls and

27 Outer Light Classic - This ECSA points event is hosted

by North Cove Yacht Club. Old Saybrook, CT; northcoveyc.com 31 - 8/3 38th Annual Around Long Island Regatta - Trophies for this 190-mile circumnavigation of Long Island are awarded to the top three finishers in each division: IRC, PHRF Spinnaker & Non-spinnaker, Multihull, Double-handed, Collegiate, Junior, Team Racing & Onedesign (5 or more boats). Sea Cliff Yacht Club, Sea Cliff, NY; alir.org

PHRF Racing & Cruising boats, this is the largest multi-class regatta on the East Coast.

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1-3 Mariner Annual Rendezvous - Friday night dock party, Saturday night buffet

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dinner with featured speakers, “open boat” time, behind-thescenes tours of Seaport exhibits and more. Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT; usmariner.org 1-3 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management Performers at this 60th Anniversary event include Bobby McFerrin, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, David Sanborn & Joey DeFrancesco, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dave Holland, Gary Burton, Ron Carter, The Brubeck Brothers,Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks and many more.

International Tennis Hall of Fame (Friday) and Fort Adams State Park (Saturday & Sunday), Newport, RI; newportjazzfest.net 2 SYC Lighthouse Regatta This inaugural navigator’s race

on Fishers Island Sound is a fundraiser for the New London Maritime Society Lighthouse Fund. The course encompasses three lighthouses with views of six more, and it’s an ECSA points event. Shennecossett Yacht Club, Groton, CT; syc-ct. com 2 27th Annual St. Vincent’s SWIM Across the Sound Swim Marathon - This 15.5-mile swim from Port Jefferson, NY to Bridgeport, CT is a fundraiser for SWIM Across the Sound, Connecticut’s largest cancer charity.Volunteer captains with boats are needed!

Visit SwimAcrossTheSound. orgboatcaptain or contact Mike Herrington: 203-895-1429.

2 Boardman Cup Invitational - This ECSA points event is hosted by Milford Yacht Club. Milford, CT; milfordyachtclub.com

YRA Championship Regatta - Sponsored by Thomson Reuters and cohosted by Riverside, Indian Harbor & American Yacht Clubs, this event is open to dinghies, inshore & offshore one-designs and PHRF & IRC boats. It’s a qualifying regatta for the YRALIS Gitana, Sappho, Competitors, Kings Point and Allegra Knapp Mertz trophies. Full-Rig Laser sailors compete for the Henry H. Anderson Trophy. Ideal 18 sailors compete for the Sally Finkbeiner Trophy. Male Onedesign skippers at AYC & IHYC compete for the Commodore Hipkins Trophy. Greenwich, CT & Rye, NY;Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound: office@yralis.org; yralis.org 2&3 AHYC Blue Water Regatta - J/24, J/105, PHRF Spinnaker & Non-spinnaker, Multihull; Atlantic Highlands Yacht Club, Atlantic Highlands, NJ; ahyc.net

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3 SIYC 125th Anniversary Race - Shelter Island Yacht Club, Shelter Island Heights, NY; siyc.com 3 New Haven Mayor’s Cup - This ECSA points event is hosted by New Haven Yacht Club. New Haven, CT; newhavenyc.org 5 47th Dorade Regatta Youth sailors race overnight on 29- to 44-foot PHRF boats.

Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; stamfordyc.com; jsalis.org Ray Redniss: rredniss@optonline.net; 7 4th Annual Sail the Sound for Deafness Regatta Co-hosted by Oakcliff Sailing and The WaterFront Center, this classic yacht regatta benefits the Mill Neck Family of Organizations, serving people who are deaf and/or have other communication

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needs, locally, nationally and around the world. Sail on one Continued of Oakcliff’s classics or bring your own. New this year are 1 non-classic and non-spinnaker 47th Annual Lloyd’s divisions. are Harbor invited Trophy Spectators Race - Lloyd to watch from The WaterFront Yacht Club, Huntington, NY; Center’s lhyc.org historic oyster sloop Christeen, and there’s a postrace 1 party at the Mill Neck Manor House. Oyster SYC Pre-OSC RaceBay, NY; millneck.org/community-events/ This is an ECSA points sail-the-sound-for-deafness; event. Shennecossett oakcliffsailing.org Yacht Club, Groton, CT; shennecossettyachtclub.org 8 FIYC Junior Overnight 1 Race - In this race, presented 119th Annual HYC

by Fishers Island Yacht Club and Day Race - Huntington the Storm Trysail Foundation, Yacht Club, Huntington, NY; each boat (27 - 45 feet) will be huntingtonyachtclub.com crewed by at least five sailors ages 13 to 18 and adult safety 1 advisors. The course will be 80 King’s Cup Race & to 100 nm, depending on wind Reception - Minuteman and conditions. Fishers Island, Yacht Club, Westport, CT; NY; fiyc.net minutemanyc.com 8 - 10 1 Manhasset Bay Race 32nd Polar Seltzer Week - Opti, Laser, Snipe, Ideal Great Chowder Cook18, Sonar, MBOD; Manhasset Bay Off - The original, largest

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and longest running chowder Yacht Club, Port Washington, competition in New England NY; manhassetbayyc.org officially kicks off summer in Newport!

8 - 10 12 - 6pm; Newport Yachting Center,EYC Newport, 21st Annual 12 RI; newportwaterfrontfestivals.com Metre Regatta - Edgartown Yacht Club, Edgartown, MA; 1 12mrclass.com Accelerated Safe Powerboat Handling 8 - 10 This course, taught by a Boats, 12th Annual Maine US Powerboating certified Homes & Harbors Show instructor, is in-water for anyone who Maine’s only boat and wants show, to learn how“Tradition to safely home where operateInnovation,” a powerboatfeatures or Shapes the improve theirartists, on-the-water state’s finest architects, boat handlingcraftspeople, skills and already boatbuilders, has or does not need a State designers, furniture makers, Boatinggear Safety Certificate. marine vendors, chefsAges & 10 & up. 9am - 6pm; musicians.

There’ll beU.S. liveCoast music, Auxiliary Flotilla 77, aGuard Just For Kids activities area, South Benson Marina, Fairfield, fine Maine food, and the Annual CT; register at cal.fairfieldct.org.

World Championship Boatyard Jay Lipp: JLIPP@aol.com Also Dog® Trials (Sunday at 10:30). offeredopen on 6/4at&10am 5 anddaily.

6/5 $12 &6 Gates adults; under 12 free (no pets 1 & 2 Harbor and Buoy allowed).

12th Rockland, Annual CPYC Parks, ME; OneDesign Regatta - This event showinfo@maineboats. serves as the 2013 Soverel com; 800-565-4951; 33 National Championship maineboats.com and the 2013 Viper 640 New

England Championship (any 9 one-design keelboat fleet with 44th Annual World’s sufficient entries canRace be given a Longest Sunfish start). Cedar Point Yacht Club, Around Shelter Island, Westport, CT; Laser Halsey Bullen: 4th Annual 203-247-2712; cpycodr@gmail.

Race Around Shelter com; cedarpointyc.org Island & 27th Annual Catamaran Race Around 1 & 2 Island - Southold Shelter SYC Double-Handed Yacht Club, Southold, NY; Regatta - Stamford Yacht Club, southoldyachtclub.com Stamford, CT; Don Wyllie: 9 203-561-2065; 23rd Annual Greenwich dwyllie@optonline.net; Propane Women’s Cup stamfordyc.com Race - Sprite Island Yacht Club, Norwalk, 1 & 2 CT; spriteisland.com City Island Cup - This 9 regatta, organized by the Stone Horse Builder’s Eastchester Bay Yacht Racing Cup - This one-design is Association, is open to race all PHRF, limited to the 23-foot Stone IRC &One-Design yachts. City Horse builtebyra.com

by Edey & Duff in Island, NY; Mattapoisett, MA. Overnight moorings 1 & 2 are available through New BedfordCup YachtRegatta Club.

Maritime Padanaram Harbor, South This PHRF event is part of the Dartmouth, MA; for Racing info or Hudson River Yacht RSVP, contact Tom Kenney: Association Series. Kingston 508-984-1820; Sailing Club at the Hudson River tkenney@amp100.hbs.edu Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY; kingstonsailingclub.org; hryra.org

2 9 Bay Day Skippers’ - This free community Women Race event,Island hosted

by The WaterFront City Yacht Club, City CenterNY; andcityislandyc.org Friends of the Bay Island, to “celebrate and promote 9 environmental awareness,” NSYC Moonlight Regatta includesShore live music, food & North Yacht Club, Port refreshments,NY; thensyc.net Anything Washington, That Floats Race, free harbor tours aboard the oyster sloop 9 & 10 Christeen, free sailboat rides and GSBYRA Invitational kayak demos andGreat touchSouth tanks of Regatta - This localYacht marine life. Association 12 - 5pm; The Bay Racing WaterFront Center, Oyster event is hosted

by Bay ShoreBay, NY; 516-922-SAIL; Yacht Club, Bay Shore, NY; thewaterfrontcenter.org; gsbyra.org friendsofthebay.org 9 - 11 2 Twenty Hundred Club 23rd Annual Harborfest Block Island Race & Craft Fair Arts & crafts, Newport, RI to -Block and back; live music, family fun stage, PHRF; twentyhundredclub.org children’s fun park, nautical & environmental exhibits, food, 9 - 17 a model yacht Race regatta, boat Nantucket Week cruises on Manhasset BayYacht and Co-hosted

by Nantucket more.and PortGreat Washington, NY; Club Harbor Yacht 646-580-5341; pwcraftfair.com Club, this Sailors for the Sea Clean Regatta raises funds 4 Nantucket Community for 6th Annual Dark ‘n Sailing.

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42nd Annual Opera House Cup for classic wooden boats, a 12 Metre regatta, PHRF racing, a youth regatta, an open sailboard regatta, women’s fun sail, paddlecraft races & more. Nantucket, MA; nantucketraceweek.org 10 61st Annual Day Race City Island Yacht Club, City Island, NY; cityislandyc.org 10 Newport Concert Series: Gregg Allman with special guest Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band- Newport Yachting Center, Newport, RI; newportwaterfrontevents.com

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11 47th Annual Regatta for the Dorade Trophy - Youth sailors race overnight on 29- to 44-foot PHRF boats. Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; stamfordyc.com; Ray Redniss: rredniss@optonline.net; jsalis.org 11 - 15 Ray Hunt National Championship - This International 210 Class regatta is hosted by the Boston Bay 210 Fleet, South Boston Yacht Club and Boston Harbor Yacht Club.

Boston, MA; 210class.com 12 58th Annual Beach Point Overnight Race - This race is for the Junior Distance Sailing Championship of Long Island Sound. Beach Point Club, Mamaroneck, NY; jsalis.org 14 5th Annual Zywiec Regatta - This clockwise circumnavigation of Long Island is presented by the Polski Klub Zeglarski w Nowym Jorku (Polish Sailing Club of New York). Brooklyn, NY; zeglarzeny.org

14 - 17 4th Annual Penobscot Bay Rendezvous -This event for sail and power yachts, hosted by Wayfarer Marine and Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, is a celebration of boating and boatbuilding, with racing, a photo pursuit, poker run, tours of boatbuilding shops, evening celebrations and more. Owners of superyachts, classics, performance racers, daysailers and powerboats of all vintages are invited.

Lobster bakes, barbeques, dancing and fireworks are all part of the ticket. Rockland, Thomaston & Camden, ME; penobscotbayrendezvous.com 15 Long Island Leukemia Cup Regatta - This event to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure blood cancers and all PHRF, J/22, J/24, J/70, Sunfish, 420, Optimist and dinghy sailors are encouraged to enter. Sayville Yacht Club, Blue Point, NY; Tara Spohrer: 631-370-7553; tara.spohrer@lls.org; leukemiacup.org/li 15 10th Annual Ida Lewis Distance Race - This overnighter for IRC, PHRF, OneDesign, Multihull and DoubleHanded boats 28 feet LOA and up features four coastal courses between 104 nm and 177 nm.

“The Ida” is a qualifier for the New England Lighthouse Series (PHRF), Northern and DoubleHanded Ocean Racing Trophies (IRC) and US-IRC Gulf Stream Series, and there are special Youth Challenge and Collegiate Challenge trophies. Ida Lewis Yacht Club, Newport, RI; info@ildistancerace; ildistancerace.org

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15 The Stamford Overnight Race - This race, approximately 47 nm from Stamford, around Stratford Shoal and back, is open to monohulls 24 feet LOA or over, owned or chartered by a YRALIS member and with a valid PHRF or IRC certificate.

Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; stamfordyc.com 15 - 17 Melges 32 National Championship - Sail Newport, Newport, RI; melges32.com 15 - 17 Hinman Masters Team Race - New York Yacht Club’s Harbour Court, Newport, RI; nyyc.org 16 MSSA 33rd Annual American Cancer Society Regatta - Sponsored by the Mount Sinai Sailing Association, this is the second longest running charity regatta in the U.S. PHRF Spinnaker and Non-spinnaker boats (with Double-Handed & One-Design divisions based on entries) will sail a course of approximately 8 to 20 miles, followed by a party at Mount Sinai Yacht Club with live entertainment, food, refreshments, raffle & auction.

Mount Sinai, NY; mssa.org 16 10th Annual Ms. Race Hosted by Atlantic Highlands Yacht Club, this PHRF nonspinnaker race for all-female crews benefits 180 Turning Lives Around, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Atlantic Highlands, NJ; Diane Kropfl: 732-872-9190; dkropfl@att.net; ahyc.net/ msrace.htm

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16 37th Annual Fools’ Rules Regatta - Competitors in this event, sponsored by Jamestown Yacht Club, must build a “sailboat” from non-marine materials and attempt to sail a 500-yard downwind course.

Volunteers are needed! Town Beach at East Ferry, Jamestown, RI; Candy Powell: 401-423-1492; cpowell7@verizon.net; jyc.org Rain date 8/17 16 Sam Wetherill Trophy Overnight Race - This ECSA bonus points race around Block Island, in memory of EYC’s ardent blue-water sailor, was established to encourage long distance overnight racing for cruising sailboats. Essex Yacht Club, Essex, CT; essexyc.com 16 HYC Mayor’s Cup Regatta - Huguenot Yacht Club, New Rochelle, NY; huguenotyc.com 16 Mason’s Island Regatta This ECSA points event is hosted by Mason’s Island Yacht Club. Mystic, CT; masonsislandyachtclub.com 17 The Masthead Race Hosted by Masthead Cove Yacht Club and honoring the memory of MCYC Past Commodore Carol Marcinuk, this novicefriendly race benefits the Marcinuk Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Huntington, NY; mastheadcoveyachtclub.com 17 42nd Annual Opera House Cup Regatta This North American Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge event is co-hosted by Nantucket Yacht Club and Great Harbor Yacht Club. Nantucket, MA; diana@nantucketsailing. org; operahousecup.org 17 Stamford Sail & Power Squadron Race - Halloween WindCheck Magazine

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Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; hyc.net 22 & 23 Connecticut Leukemia Cup Regatta - Hosted by North Cove Yacht Club, Duck Island Yacht Club and Brewer Pilots Point Marina, this regatta supports the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s mission to cure blood cancers. Westbrook, CT; leukemiacup.org/ct 22 - 24 NACRA 17, 49er & 49erFX US National Championship - This high performance cat and skiff regatta is hosted by Oakcliff Sailing Center. Oyster Bay, NY; Jay Kehoe: 516-802-0368; jkehoe@oakcliffsailing.org; oakcliffsailing.org 22 - 24 Audi Melges 20 National Championship Sail Newport, Newport, RI; melges20.com 23 SYC Mattituck Race - This event, part of the SYC Distance Race Series, has divisions for Spinnaker, Non-Spinnaker and Double-handed boats and (with sufficient interest) OneDesigns and Multihulls. Setauket Yacht Club, Port Jefferson, NY; Jason Richter: 631-312-7140; Paladin32575@yahoo.com; setauketyc.com 23 & 24 Newport Unlimited Regatta - This event is open to all multihulls with a New England Multihull Association handicap rating. Newport Yacht Club, Newport, RI; newportyachtclub.org; nemasail.org 23 & 24 PYC Corinthian Challenge Cup - Pequot Yacht Club, Southport, CT; pequotyc.com 24 Ram Island Invitational This ECSA points event is hosted by Ram Island Yacht Club. Noank, CT; ramislandyachtclub.org 36 July 2014 WindCheck Magazine

25 5th Annual Storm Trysail Foundation Golf Tournament This event, open to Storm Trysail Cub members and non-members, supports the Foundation’s mission to support the education of young sailors, junior safety at sea, and intercollegiate big boat racing. Newport National Golf Club, Middletown, RI: stormtrysailfoundation.org 27 - 31 32nd Annual Knickerbocker Cup Hosted by Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, this ISAF Grade 2 match racing series is sailed in Swedish Match 40s. Port Washington, NY; manhassetbayyc.org 29 80th Annual Vineyard Race - This Labor Day Weekend classic offers three courses: 238 nm from Stamford, CT around Buzzards Bay Light Tower and back, 143 nm to Seaflower Reef and back, and 116 nm to Cornfield Point Shoal and back. IRC, PHRF, Multihulls, Classic Yachts, Double-Handed and a Corinthian division for youth sailors. Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford, CT; vineyardinfo@stamfordyc.com; stamfordyc.com; vineyardrace. wordpress.com 29 - 31 17th Annual Rhythm & Roots Festival - Featured performers at New England’s Hottest Festival of Music and Dance include The Duhks, Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Masters of the Fiddle featuring Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy, Jim Lauderdale with The Travelin’ McCourys, Donna The Buffalo, CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band and many more. Ninigret Park, Charlestown, RI; rhythmandroots.com Add your event to our print and online calendar by emailing to contactus@windcheckmagazine.com by the 7th of the th.

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From the Captain of the Port Scotch & (Sea)Water – A Deadly Cocktail

By Vincent Pica District Commodore, First District, Southern Region (D1SR) United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Drunk driving, whether that be in a car or in a boat, is one place where I actually feel the legal penalties are too lenient. If a person, uninfluenced by booze, drove a car or a boat recklessly and hurt or even killed someone, they would get a more severe sentencing in many jurisdictions than doing the same thing while drunk, “under the influence” as the legal saying goes. In past ages, drinking and still being able to drive, whether that be a car or boat, might have been considered a badge of honor in certain circles. Today, thank goodness, it is considered reckless lunacy. And things are worse on the water than on land. This column is about that.

Oh, That Swaying Feeling Often times, when I come in from a boat ride with the family, some of the more lubberly members of the family say, “I can still feel the swaying!” If they happen to jump in the shower, it really gets intensified and they joke that they had to hold on to the shower wall to keep from tipping over! This is clear evidence of the dramatic impact the marine environment has on the body’s sensory perception system. While boating, we are confronted with conflicting information from the eyes, feet and inner ear. The horizon is constantly moving – up, down and sideways – as the boat moves beneath our feet. Our conscious brain has no problem with intellectualizing this. But the unconscious part of our brain is getting sensory overload. This can result in reactions ranging from slight queasiness to absolutely debilitating nausea.

The marine environment is full of “stressors” – the sun, glare and vibration, to name a few, are all pretty com. Stressors intensify the effects of alcohol, drugs and some medications. They can cause fatigue, reduced coordination, weak judgment and slow reaction time. And forget about the vision of the St. Bernard saving you from the cold by giving you brandy. Alcohol makes the body more susceptible to the effects of cold water, not less.

Not surprisingly, all of this adds to boating accidents. U.S. Coast Guard data shows that, in boating deaths involving driving under the influence, more than half the victims capsized their boats and/or fell overboard. Over one in five boating deaths are linked to the use of alcohol.

The Law Every state in the Union prohibits the operation of a boat while under the influence of alcohol. The Coast Guard, as a federal entity, enforces a federal law that prohibits Boating Under the Influence (BUI). This law pertains to every vessel, foreign or domestic, operating in U.S. waters, as well as U.S. vessels on the high seas. Penalties may include fines, jail, impoundment of boats, windcheckmagazine.com

and in some states the loss of boating and/or driving privileges.

Essential Boat Operating Skills Adversely Affected by Alcohol or Drug Use • Peripheral vision

• Night vision

• Inhibitions

• Ability to distinguish colors

• Cognitive abilities

• Judgment

• Balance

• Coordination

• Reaction time Real Risks. Real Consequences.

Boating under the influence of alcohol or drugs could cost you:

• Someone else’s life

• Your own life

• Your driver’s license

• The time, expense and shame of an arrest

• A fine

• Boat repairs from an accident

• Property damage from an accident

• Medical treatment In 2008, Operation Dry Water was started by the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and partner agencies. It is a national weekend of BUI detection and enforcement aimed at reducing the number of alcohol-related accidents and fatalities, and fostering a stronger and more visible deterrent to alcohol use on the water. This year’s program was held the weekend of June 27-29. Zero tolerance is of course the posture, then and now. Booze kills.

If you are interested in being part of USCG Forces, email me at JoinUSCGAux@aol.com or go direct to the D1SR Human Resources department, who are in charge of new members matters, at FSO-PS@emcg.us and we will help you “get in this thing.” F Captain Ed Cubanski is the Captain of the Port and Sector Commander for US Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound. Captain Cubanski is responsible for all active-duty, reservist and auxiliary Coast Guard personnel within the Sector. Vin Pica, Commodore for the First District Southern Region in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, works closely with Captain Cubanski and his staff to promote boating safety in the waters between Connecticut, Long Island and 200 nautical miles offshore. Sector Long Island Sound Command Center can be reached 24 hours a day at 203-468-4401.

Editor’s note: Weekly updates for the waters from Eastport, ME to Shrewsbury, NJ including discrepancies in Aids to Navigation, chart corrections and waterway projects are listed in the USCG Local Notice to Mariners. Log onto navcen.uscg.gov, scroll to “Current Operational/ Safety Information,” click on “Local Notice to Mariners” then “LNMs

by CG District,” and click on “First District.”

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These tide tables are predictions and are to be used as a reference only. The times of high and low are approximations and are affected, in part by onshore and offshore winds, full and new moons as well as changes in currents. Always use caution when entering or leaving any harbor and navigate in areas that are well marked. WindCheck assumes no liability due to the use of these tables.

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These tide tables are predictions and are to be used as a reference only. The times of high and low are approximations and are affected, in part by onshore and offshore winds, full and new moons as well as changes in currents. Always use caution when entering or leaving any harbor and navigate in areas that are well marked. WindCheck assumes no liability due to the use of these tables.

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Sound Environment...

Ocean Courier Filmmakers On a Conservation Mission to Central America

By Ocean Courier Media Two sailors are on a mission to discover the current state of the world’s ocean conservation efforts. In March, Ben Eriksen Carey and Teresa Carey filmed the pilot episode for Ocean Courier, a proposed docu-series about conservation efforts worldwide, from the floating studio of a sailboat. This unique docuseries will connect episodes with a character-driven seagoing adventure story. Rather than taking the pessimistic outlook on conservation issues that is common in the media today, they will share a story about people, personal growth, and the spirit of adventure. The Ocean Courier audience is invited on a virtual journey to interesting ports-of-call where they are propelled from one conservation initiative to the next, learning about the ocean while also taking on the thrills and hardships of life at sea.

Ben and Teresa are not new to adventure documentaries.

In 2011, the former solo sailors teamed up for a sailing film entitled One Simple Question, which is nearly wrapped and due to be released in September. Last year they won the Blue Ocean Film Festival YouTube submission for their short film entitled How Do You See The Ocean. Ben and Teresa have been inspiring others through other media as well, such as successful blogging, magazine articles, public speaking and private trainings. They have presented at the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis, MD and Mystic Seaport’s Adventure Series in Mystic, CT, and Teresa was a featured TEDx speaker as well as the keynote speaker at the National Women’s Sailing Association Conference and the National Pocket Cruiser’s Convention.

Ocean Courier is the logical next step for Ben and Teresa because it brings together their strongest skills: sailing, storytelling, education, and conservation. “I’m bringing to life an opportunity where I can use my best skills and interests to do something creative and most importantly something meaningful,” says Teresa. “I have no doubt that Ocean Courier will make a positive impact.” “Ocean Courier is something that I’m passionate about,” says Ben, who adds graphic arts to their list of skills.

Cinematographer Chris Rodriguez joined Teresa and Ben for their first expedition, where they voyaged to Armila in Guna Yala, Panama. Armila is a very remote indigenous village with only 600 inhabitants. Its remoteness required them to first sail, then take a tiny plane, and lastly hike a mountain to get to the village. Armila is home to one of the largest nesting sea turtle populations in the world. The turtles are able to thrive there because the local people have a strong, spiritual connection with the turtles. However, new modern ways of life are threatening their traditional ways of doing things, and therefore the health of the sea turtle population. In Armila, Teresa and Ben joined

Morisson Mast and Amanda Gibson who are working with locals to build a sustainable conservation program. “Traveling to Armila was a new and different experience for Teresa and I,” explains Ben. “We lived in an indigenous village with a lifestyle very different from any that I’m familiar with.”

Ocean Courier is also partnering with Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, a non-profit organization that is working with MERI (Marine Environmental Research Institute).

Under the guidance of scientists from MERI, Ben and Teresa are collecting critical data for marine microplastic research while crossing the Caribbean Sea and Gulf Stream. They will complete their voyage by sailing to Maine to deliver the data and water samples to MERI. It is estimated that ten percent of all plastic debris ends up in the ocean causing a negative effect on the marine ecosystem. Ocean water is connected globally.

Understanding the location and degree of plastic pollution is the first step in cleaning up the ocean.

“One of the best things about Ocean Courier is that I get to

Filmakers Ben Eriksen Carey and Teresa Carey (center) meet a baby sea turtle with residents of the remote village of Armila in Panama. © oceancourier.org

continue being a student,” explains Teresa. “I don’t need to be an expert on sea turtles or plastic pollution, yet I get to learn from the experts and use storytelling and film to share their message with the world.”

There may be an opportunity for the public to get involved with Ocean Courier. Before their Panama voyages they announced a position for Production Assistant in Guna Yala, Panama. Ocean Courier is looking for people with the resources or connections to help them bring this project to life. Ocean Courier is a project of The Ocean Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. To find out more, make a contribution, or get involved, visit oceancourier.org. F

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The Boating Barrister Slocum, McGee and the Rules Governing Your Saltwater Steed

By John K. Fulweiler Joshua Slocum, that trusty navigator of the oceans blue, used carpet tacks spread across the deck to alert him of uninvited guests. And McGee of John D. MacDonald’s twenty-one novel series salvaged hearts and dollars all while guarding his floating home with the chime of a secret alarm. Hold on, as I might plead to a frowning judge, a moment’s time and the point of these two observations will become clear. For now, join me at the weather pin where the gun just popped and we’ve got the jump on the fleet as we beat through these maritime legal curiosities.

Sometimes when you swing leg over rail, there’s a sense of stepping away from it all and into a wild west of sorts. All that salty air and vast expanse lulls you into a perception that, at least in the waters of the United States, isn’t all that accurate. They’re a lot of rules governing your craft. Take for example something as seemingly benign as your boat’s name. The National Vessel Documentation Center will tell you it can’t be more than 33 characters and it better not be or sound anything like a word used to solicit assistance at sea. And for you Star Trek fans, cute hailing ports like “Cardassian Prime” won’t fly either, because the homeport on a documented vessel must be in the United States.

On a more serious front, they’re rules about monitoring the marine radio, maintaining a radar watch, sounding an anchor bell and the list goes on.

Say your bateau is bigger than around thirty-nine feet, and I’ll remind you federal regulations demand you have a copy of the Inland Rules of Navigation aboard and available “for ready reference.” Strike a navigational aid (“It was the big genny and the cockpit converion was good”) and you’ll need to file a report with the Coast Guard’s nearest Marine Inspection Office.

T-bones, rounding mark crunches and all such similar racecourse maladies yielding damages in excess of $2,000 may likely require Coast Guard paperwork describing the when, why and how of the moment. Whales, you ask? A federal regulation mandates you keep a football field length from the humpback whale and Naval vessel alike. Want to join the Coast Guard Auxiliary and putter around in a “Mae-West” style lifejacket for the weekend?

Best be over 17 and own at least a twenty-five percent interest in a motorboat, yacht, aircraft or (and I always thought this was an odd option) a radio station. Even sailing regattas get the Coasties’ attention with a regulation insisting that in certain circumstances an application must be submitted “no less than 135 days before the start of the proposed event.”

Why all these rules have you wanting to pull the plug and let her sink, right? Maybe pursue something ashore like whacking a white ball across manicured greens. Better not! The federal statute addressing the destruction of a vessel by its owner has as its penalty, life imprisonment. windcheckmagazine.com

It’s fun to parse these rules and regulations and maybe even chide their authors for such red tape, but a lot of it makes sense. The bending blue sea is a shared commons and some refereeing of our collective endeavors is just smart business.

The general maritime law picks up and runs with this baton by advancing consistent principles in admiralty decisions that arguably benefit the recreational sailor and merchant mariner alike. For instance, there’s the Pennsylvania Rule dating back to 1873 which places the burden of essentially disproving causation on the party violating a statute involving marine safety or regulation regardless of what the maritime accident’s salty circumstances might show. Similarly, there’s the 19th Century’s Oregon Rule arising from a case involving a steamship plowing into an anchored vessel. There, in a rule adopted in subsequent admiralty decisions, the court explained that when a moving vessel collides with a stationary object, the moving vessel is presumed to be at fault. Obvious outcome, maybe, but it stands as an indelible underscoring of the obligations imposed on vessel owners and operators. Clearly, through the courts’ collective willingness to point fingers, these admiralty decisions encourage both knowing and adhering to the applicable navigational laws.

Now back to Slocum and McGee. For most of us chickens, sailing around the globe or cracking a foe’s jaw, whilst admittedly enviable endeavors, simply aren’t in our cards. And so, instead of a life girded by carpet tacks and secret cockpit chimes, I submit that the rules and laws governing your saltwater steed are an able substitute. That is, they give us some measure of understanding of where the shoal water lies, they aim to keep us safe from others and they (alright, alright) keep us admiralty attorneys making way and underway!

This article is provided for your general information, is not legal opinion and should not be relied upon. Always seek legal counsel to understand your rights and remedies.

Underway and making way.

Admiralty attorney John K. Fulweiler, Esq. practices maritime law on the East and Gulf Coasts. As a former partner of a Manhattan maritime firm, John now helms his own practice located in Newport, Rhode Island where he helps individuals and businesses navigate the choppy waters of the maritime law. John can be reached anytime at 1-800-383-MAYDAY (6293) or via e-mail at john@fulweilerlaw.com.

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AYC Junior Big Boat Team Sails to Victory in the Block Island Race

By Paula Schaefer American Yacht Club’s Junior Big Boat Team sailed their J/105 Young American (Rye, NY) to first place in PHRF 1 and third overall in the PHRF division in the Storm Trysail Club’s 69th Annual Block Island Race, which started May 23 from Stamford CT. Young American was also awarded the Harvey Conover Memorial Overall Trophy, presented to the boat that has won her class and, in the judgment of the Flag Officers and Race Committee, had the best overall performance.

The all-junior crew, ages 15 - 17, included returning Block Island Race veterans Key Becker, Nick Davis, Will McKeige and Sam Papert, joined by team members sailing the Block Island Race for the first time: Austen Freda, Emily Miller and Aisling Quirke. The team once again sailed with Peter Becker, Chairman of American’s Junior Big Boat Program.

George David’s Reichel Pugh 90 Rambler (Hartford, CT) was the overall winner of this year’s race, completing the 186-nautical mile race from Stamford, CT to Block Island and back in just over 17 hours. The big boats enjoyed better wind and better current in both directions, while the smaller boats had the current turn on them for the trip back from Block.

Young American finished 21 hours after Rambler, crossing the finish line off the Stamford Yacht Club breakwater before dawn on Sunday. After sailing for nearly 40 hours, the Young American crew had no idea how they had done and that they were the first boat to finish in their division. The next closest boat in PHRF 1 finished some three hours later, allowing Young American to hang on to first place after the corrected times were calculated.

In the 2013 Block Island Race, the AYC Junior Team sailed on John McNamara’s Swan 45 Lir (Darien, CT), which was the first distance race experience for many of them. On Lir, eight juniors sailed alongside five adults. “In one year’s time, the team has advanced to not only doing the race as an all junior crew but on a J/105 that is smaller and not particularly fitted out for distance racing,” remarked Peter Becker. “Most experienced adult sailors would probably shy away from essentially ‘camping’ their way around Block on a J/105, but not these juniors.” Returning Block

The crew of Young American (l- r) Key Becker, Will McKeige, Aisling Quirke, AYC Junior Big Boat Program Chair Peter Becker, Nick Davis, Emily Miller, Sam Papert and Austen Freda on the AYC dock

Island Race veteran Sam Papert added, “This year’s race was a different experience from last year’s. We juniors played a more active role on the boat than when we sailed on Lir. However, racing on Young American did make me miss the comforts of a larger boat.”

The challenges of prepping their own smaller boat for such a long race did not deter the team. A few days before the start on Friday, the crew met at American Yacht Club to discuss race preparations. Peter Becker reviewed the latest weather forecasts with the juniors. Predictions of light winds, rain, temperatures in the 50s at night and 60s during the day had Young American tracking for a 48-hour race in challenging conditions. Next on the agenda was a review of the gear list. Several team members had previously done overnight distance races and participated in the Storm Trysail Foundation’s Junior Safety-at-Sea Seminar and most had personal safety gear including strobes, whistles and headlamps, and others were able to borrow from other teammates. There was a last minute scramble to line up a life raft and extra safety harnesses, borrowed from fellow AYC members.

One of the hallmarks of American’s Junior Big Boat program is that the sailors make the decisions, and provisioning is no exception. Imagine provisioning a J/105 with no refrigeration and

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only a tabletop ring burner, when your crew is seven ravenous teenagers who will be on board for two days. The remainder of the prep meeting was taken up with debate about the merits of meatballs versus pulled pork (bring both), and the ideal candy for a marathon sail (Skittles). One of the boys suggested adding ramen noodles to the shopping list, a fortuitous idea since by Saturday afternoon Pot Noodle was among the few remaining food options.

Where do seven kids and an adult sleep on a J/105 for a two-day race? Apparently, they don’t. Crewmember Nick Davis claims he never really went below deck except to put on gear.

A photo snapped by teammate Key Becker of Nick sleeping in the bow in dead calm conditions tells the story pretty well. The crew organized themselves into a watch rotation and driving was shared by three of the most experienced team members, all of whom had done the Block Island Race and the Vineyard Race in 2013. Tactical decisions were all debated. Peter Becker commented, “We chose to go through the Gut…ultimately not the right choice. Weegie, the Columbia 32 next to us with a Code 0, was able to sail high up to the Connecticut shore and through the Race. They finished about one hour ahead of us, although we still beat them corrected by about one hour.”

For parents with a junior on board, there is little information during the race. Fortunately a diligent race committee at the finish line in Stamford was posting finishes to YachtScoring. com in real time. Those results showed that Rambler crossed the finish line at 8:44 am Saturday. That afternoon, parents received a text from Peter Becker with the news that they were back through the Gut and on the homestretch, but based on a few photos of very calm seas and slack sails, it appeared it would be a long night. By early evening a number of the bigger boats had finished, and just after 9 pm the first PHRF Division boat,

Oakcliff Sailing’s Farr 47 (Oyster Bay, NY) came in. At 4:36:05 Sunday morning, the race committee recorded that Young American had crossed the finish line first in their division. Then there was the long wait to confirm that in fact no other boat in their division would beat them on adjusted time.

The team returned home to American and some boat cleanup. After a few hours of catching up on sleep (and social media) later that day, several of the team went to the awards ceremony at Stamford Yacht Club. The honor of being awarded the Harvey Conover Memorial Overall Trophy at the discretion of the race organizers was a surprise, but one that underscored the accomplishments of this team and the mission of American Yacht Club’s Junior Big Boat Program.

AYC’s Junior Big Boat Program has a long history, and Peter Becker is able to share stories with the current team about his days as a junior in the program, sailing on AYC members’ boats. In 2013, under the leadership of current Co-Chairs Peter Becker and Rob Alexander, the team began actively racing Young American, which is dedicated to use by the Junior Team.

The goal was to take the juniors beyond the traditional Long Island Sound big boat activities of the Dorade and Beach Point overnights, and have them compete in a variety of buoy races and distance events. Navigation courses and the Junior Safety-atSea Seminar are also important elements of the program.

“The philosophy of the program is to give the juniors full ownership of the boat and the race by figuratively giving them the keys,” Becker explained. “We overlay that with an experienced adult in the supporting role. It is a real joy to sail with the juniors. They are keen on the racing part and are certainly having a blast sailing together as a team.”

The AYC Junior Big Boat Team tuned up Young American this spring with second place finishes in the Edlu and NYAC Stratford Shoals distance races. They also competed in the AYC Spring Series, placing fourth in the J/105 division. They are actively sailing in Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound Can One races on Thursday evenings, a series that they won overall in 2013. F

Team members Sam Papert, Austen Freda, Key Becker, Nick Davis, Emily Miller and Peter Becker with the PHRF Division 1 prize and the Harvey Conover Memorial Overall Trophy windcheckmagazine.com

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College Sailing Rises at Stony Brook University

By Jason Rose, SUNY Stony Brook Sailing Team Faculty Advisor and Lecturer in Political Science, Y Stony Brook Before 2011, young sailors entering college on Long Island found themselves leaving their homeports for New York City or for other colleges around the Northeast and around the country. Though many wanted to stay home and attend SUNY Stony Brook University (SBU) in Stony Brook because of its outstanding academics and reputation, they faced an important problem. Stony Brook had not had an active sailing team since 1980.

While there had been attempts to start a new team over the years, it was only in 2011 when four fiery and committed SBU undergraduates – Lauren Maloney, Rachel Berger, Kyle Buescher and Zachary Kyritsis – set out to establish a new team.

The intensely resolute Maloney took the helm as president of a resurrected SBU Sailing Club and the “core-four” worked their rudders off, recruiting and establishing the Seawolves sailing team. Rob Crafa, the head of the SUNY Maritime Sailing Team, was an invaluable advisor to the team, even inviting team members to SUNY Maritime College in Throggs Neck, NY to see their operations.

Under Maloney the team started with no boats, no coach, no yacht club and no money. When she left the team and graduated in 2012, the team had a fleet of 11 420s, a superb coach, a home at a friendly yacht club, and a generous annual budget from the SBU Undergraduate Student Government.

In 2011, the team entered the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Racing Association (MAISA), the regional conference for the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA), the national governing authority for college sailing competition in North America The team’s very first event was the Storm Trysail Foundation’s Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta, a big boat event hosted by Larchmont Yacht Club, although their early MAISA regatta participation and success was limited.

In 2012, the team purchased Port Jefferson High School’s fleet of Club 420s, hired experienced sailing coach Geoffrey Loffredo, and was invited by the extraordinary sailing community at Setauket Yacht Club to base the university’s sailing operations at their facilities on Port Jefferson Harbor. That same year, undergraduate Zach Kyritsis took over as president. Under his and coach Loffredo’s leadership, the team experienced stunning success. Varsity squad members Constantine Spentzos, Heather Grosso, Mary Loffredo, Cody Murphy

SBU sailors (l - r) Zach Kyritsis, Cody Murphy, Constantine Spentzos, Greg Sarafin and Heather Grosso strike a pose at a recent regatta. © Jason Rose

and Kyritsis all had first place finishes in intercollegiate regattas.

MAISA upgraded the team’s membership in the conference to compete in regional and national championship regattas and the team catapulted itself 21 places in the college rankings, from 43 to 22 during their spring campaign.

Much of the team’s success this year is due to coach Loffredo’s dedication and his ability to form a united, cohesive group of dedicated sailors. During the semester, he holds classroom instruction once per week and has three weekly practice days to help accommodate students with difficult schedules. The team’s Facebook page has post after post demonstrating how the team has bonded and how newcomers feel so welcome.

“This is the best group of people I’ve known in my life,” enthused Cody Murphy, a junior in the Engineering program and the current team president. “Not just great sailors, but great people. That’s more important! That’s why I love being around this group. Coach is amazing! The folks at Setauket Yacht Club are the best! And the team members are always there to help and support each other.

I’m inspired every day and grateful to be part of the Stony Brook Sailing Team.”

Encouraged by Loffredo, team members who can sail but have very little experience in college racing are cultivated by other team members. Ironically, some of the best sailors have turned out to be students who had never stepped onto a boat. Nikolas Floros, Alicia Elliot, Ken Myers and Audrey Sloma joined the team to broaden their horizons and have adventures. And even though none had been on a sailboat before joining the team last year, four months later

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they were some of the best sailors at intercollegiate regattas. In fact, Alicia confidently crewed during 35-knot gusts and six-foot waves at the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta last October.

“The last regatta of this past semester, hosted by the U.S. Military Academy on the Hudson River, was one of the most satisfying experiences for me as a coach,” said Loffredo. “All of the team members we had racing were our newer, less experienced sailors and it was fantastic to see their improvement as sailors and as leaders from the beginning of the year.”

The Stony Brook Sailing Team has grown into a family and is now one of the most popular clubs and teams at the University. “If this past year is any indication, sailing has a very bright future at Stony Brook University,” said Loffredo. “I am extremely excited to be coaching this team and can’t wait to see what the future holds.”

Long Island college students now have a university team they

From their base at Setauket Yacht Club, the team practices on Port Jefferson Harbor. © Lee Montes

can call their own. High school or college students who want to inquire about the team may contact coach Geoff Loffredo at geoff.loffredo17@gmail.com. All sailors are welcome to join our Facebook page at facebook.com/groups/sbusailing/ and visit our website at stonybrooksailing.wordpress.com. F

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Yale Wins Gill Coed Dinghy Nationals Yale University won the 2014 Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship, hosted by St. Mary’s College of Maryland in St. Mary’s City, MD June 3 - 6. With a final score of 121 points, Yale finished 88 points ahead of second place Georgetown University. The Bulldogs were awarded the Henry A. Morss Memorial Trophy.

The Georgetown Hoyas finished 45 points ahead of third place Boston College, winning the Oxford University Trophy for the second year in a row. The BC Eagles claimed the Metropolitan Sailing League Trophy.

Sailing for Yale were Graham Landy ‘15 with Eugenia Custo Greig ‘14 and Katherine Gaud ‘15 in A division, and Ian Barrows ‘17 with Amanda Salvesen ‘14 and Marlena Fauer ‘14 in B division. “We tried to sail our own races for this event and sail smart,” said Yale Assistant Coach Bill Healy. “You couldn’t sail safe up the middle today or you would miss the shifts. We looked to sail for the pressure closest to us and use our boat speed. Everyone is so excited and can’t wait to get home and share the good news with their friends.”

The Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship was the second of the 2014 Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) National Championship regattas won by Yale, who were also

The Yale Bulldogs are the 2014 Gill Coed Dinghy National Champions. © Brian Schneider/ebrianschneider.com

victorious in the APS Team Race Championship, sailed May 31- June 2 at St. Mary’s. Yale finished in second place at the Sperry Top-Sider Women’s Nationals, hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD on May 29 & 30, five points behind Dartmouth College’s Big Green. Full results are posted at 2014nationals.collegesailing.org. The ICSA is the governing authority for sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in some parts of Canada.

Visit collegesailing.org to learn more. F Jen Vandemoer Mitchell contributed to this report.

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Light Air Sailing

By Clemmie Everett

Summer is here, and with it comes plenty of light air days.

Light air sailing may not be as physically demanding as sailing in big breeze, but it certainly has its own challenges. A friend once advised me that when it’s light, you should “think in slow motion,” meaning not to move around too much, overthink decisions, or get too stressed out. In light air, discipline, patience, and awareness can trump brute strength.

Sailing in any condition requires preparation, and light air sailing is no different. Light air days are often long days, and in order to maintain your focus and think clearly, you’ll need to keep yourself from letting the elements get the best of you. You may not need spray gear and layers, but you will still want to make sure that you have appropriate protection – hat, sunglasses, sunblock (reapplied throughout the day), and a longsleeved rash guard or other cool yet protective layer. Polarized sunglasses will help you see the puffs on the water better. Also, stay hydrated! If you’re thirsty, it’s too late.

You might find yourself in postponement, which can drive some sailors nuts. The best light air sailors have learned to be patient and relaxed, and thus are able to mentally shift gears back into race mode when the time comes. If it’s postponement on land, be sure that you take the time to double check everything on your boat so you can avoid breakdowns. Then find a way to relax and stay ready but not anxious (easier said than done!). Again, stay hydrated and out of the sun. When the race committee does decide on a harbor start, you will want to get on the water relatively quickly to warm up boathandling and to check out the conditions. You can bet that the race committee will be getting racing going as quickly as they can!

On-the-water postponements can be tougher mentally and physically. If you can find shade on a coach boat, do so. Drink water and then drink some more water. At the very least do what you can to feel comfortable and relaxed, but keep an eye on how the weather conditions are changing around you. If the race committee sends a markboat to check out a breeze line or starts to set marks, you can bet that they’re about to drop the AP – time to start doing some roll tacks and getting ready to win!

As you move around the boat on a light air day, you will want to move slowly, gently, and deliberately. Usually, windcheckmagazine.com

Being aware of what’s happening around the entire racecourse is essential when the breeze is light. © Clemmie Everett movement should be like a cat – careful and silent. Exceptions are roll tacks, roll gybes, and unwinging the jib, when a sharp rock is both legal and necessary. As you head up and bear off, use your weight and sails to steer – rudder movement is slow! Upwind, err on the side of slight leeward heel – even the slightest windward heel can slow you considerably. When tacking, come out of the tack a few degrees lower than you think in order to gain speed before heading up again, and anytime you feel slow, don’t be afraid to foot a bit and ease your sails to get going. Pinching and/or overtrimming can be deadly in light wind. Downwind, telltales on your shrouds and/or spinnaker pole can help get the angle of your sails right.

In light air, it is particularly important to get your head out of the boat and be aware of what’s going on around the racecourse. Finding a little bit more pressure will yield tremendous dividends, so look for the puff and find your way there. Avoid large clumps of boats when windshadows will be painful and work your way to clear air. Don’t forget the current!

Its effects on your boat (including apparent wind, as anchored race committees sometimes forget) will be magnified in lighter breeze. Keep an eye on what other boats are doing; if someone else is going faster, emulate them, though don’t lose your cool if it’s something beyond your control such as getting to a puff that you simply can’t chase.

Looking beyond the racecourse can also be helpful on a light day. Is there a breeze line filling in from somewhere else on the course? Can you see boats, flagpoles, or smokestacks that indicate a new breeze filling in from somewhere else? Are there “popcorn clouds” building over a landmass that might draw a seabreeze in later in the day? Or, are clouds building over a landmass like Long Island that might block a seabreeze?

We’re all hoping for great breeze this summer, but on those light wind days, get excited to be the master of light air! Be prepared and get yourself on the water to find the breeze and go for it! F Clemmie Everett is the Assistant Sailing Coach at Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY. WindCheck Magazine

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Gryphon Solo 2 Wins the Closest Atlantic Cup Yet! Photos by Billy Black

The fourth edition of The Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing continued its tradition of extremely close racing, concluding fittingly with first place overall determined by a tiebreaker. Spanning three weeks in May, The Atlantic Cup has become a staple on the offshore race calendar as the longest offshore race on the East Coast and the only dedicated Class40 race in the United States.

The five teams set to compete in the 2014 race included American entries #39 Pleiad Racing, #54 Dragon, #106 Gryphon Solo 2 and #116 JeffreyMacFarlane.com, and Canadian entry #25 Flatline. Just two days prior to the start, Flatline had to pull out of the first leg due to setbacks that prevented the team from getting to Charleston, SC in time for the start.

The first leg of The Atlantic Cup started just off the Charleston Maritime Center at 12:05 pm Saturday, May 10 under double-reefed mains in 20-25 knots of breeze. The tight racing theme began as the doublehanded teams left the harbor, with Dragon, Pleiad and Gryphon Solo 2 in sight of each other for the first two days of the 642-nautical mile Offshore Leg to New York, NY with multiple lead changes.

Gryphon Solo 2, skippered by Joe Harris (South Hamilton, MA) and Patrick O’Connor (Buffalo, NY), crossed the finish line in New York City first at 5:20:10 ET Wednesday, May 14, with an elapsed time of 89 hours, 15 minutes and 10 seconds.

After a painful push into New York Harbor and multiple tries to finish in little to no breeze, Gryphon Solo 2, Dragon and Pleiad finished within 23 minutes of one another.

“We had the most bizarre finish,” said Gryphon Solo 2

skipper Joe Harris. “I’ve never seen anything like this happen.

We would come in get close, run out of wind and get pushed back. This happened three times and then Pleiad showed up to the party. They approached the finish multiple times and the same thing happened, and then Dragon showed up. We were able to sail over to New Jersey to get a little breeze and sail up past the mark before dipping back in to cross the line. For two years of racing in The Atlantic Cup I hadn’t won a leg, so this is a really great feeling.”

After a brief stopover in New York where teams took part in The Atlantic Cup’s education program designed to introduce students to the sport of offshore racing and highlight the environmental initiatives that make the event the leading sustainable race in the U.S. Further promoting the sustainability of the race, The Atlantic Cup and presenting sponsor 11th Hour Racing hosted Living on the Edge 2.0, showcasing new on-water technological innovation. Wendy Schmidt of the Schmidt Family Foundation kicked off the evening, held on board Hornblower Gryphon Solo 2 coskippers Joe Harris Cruises and Events’ Hornblower Hybrid (standing) and vessel at Pier 25. Speakers included Patrick O’Connor Richard Jenkins, Founder of Saildrone won The Atlantic Cup and the holder of the world land speed presented by 11th record for a wind-powered vehicle; Hour Racing in a Ryan Williams, Sustainability Director tiebreaker. for Method; Cameron Clark, General Manager and engineer for Hornblower’s hybrid technology; and Chip Giller, Founder of Grist.org.

The 231-nautical mile doublehanded Sprint Leg took teams south out of New York City to a turning mark off Barnegat on the New Jersey coast before turning north and heading to Newport, RI. Kicking off at 12:05 pm Saturday, May 17 with a large spectator fleet lining the seawall in Battery Park City, the tight racing theme continued with a duel between Dragon and JeffreyMacFarlane.com, who never lost sight of one

A better performance in the Offshore Leg might have clinched an Atlantic Cup victory for JeffreyMacFarlane.com co-skippers Jeff MacFarlane and Jake Arcand in their first attempt.

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The Inshore Series was hotly contested, as illustrated by Flatline and JeffreyMacFarlane.com.

another throughout the leg. Coming into Narragansett Bay was incredibly tense, with both teams crossing each other in match racing mode. Ultimately, JeffreyMacFarlane.com was able to squeak ahead and cross the Jamestown FiSH Finish Line with an elapsed time of 29 hours, 51 minutes, 7 seconds on day, May 18, edging Dragon by 1 minute, 20 seconds.

“We could see Dragon almost the whole night except for a couple of hours after dark when we could barely see their masthead,” said JeffreyMacFarlane.com co-skipper Jake Arcand (Oahu, HI). “Our plan [coming into the finish] was just to cover. If they were going to go around the backside of Block Island we were going to go around the backside…at Point Judith we were not more than a boatlength apart.”

After two legs, just two points separated Gryphon Solo 2, Dragon and JeffreyMacFarlane.com. In the week leading up to the Inshore Series, Atlantic Cup teams were based at Newport Shipyard alongside the IMOCA 60 fleet as they prepared for their NY-BCN Trans-Atlantic Race. Additionally, teams celebrated with a standing-room-only audience at Newport’s Casino Theater for Shipyard Shorts, a collection of documentary films put together by newportFILM. Newport finish line sponsor Jamestown FiSH hosted the teams on their patio Friday to kick off the Inshore Series on Memorial Day weekend.

Dragon, skippered by Mike Hennessy (Mystic, CT), determined to dominate the fully crewed Inshore Series on Narragansett Bay, started strong in the first race, putting 200 yards on the fleet on the run to the Beavertail turning mark, but then disaster struck. Moving at 12 knots, Dragon grounded on a rocky outcrop just before the mark, bringing the boat to a complete stop and leaving bowman Emma Creighton hanging from the sprit. The crew got Emma safely back aboard and the spinnaker down, but the collision forced Dragon out of the remainder of the Inshore Series.

“We went out yesterday and practiced our timed starts and felt really good about our boathandling skills,” said Dragon co-skipper Rob Windsor (Centerport, NY). “We were about 15 boatlengths ahead and the boat was super-fast, but we were about 15 feet inside of where we should have been. We were getting ready to take the kite down and Emma went out windcheckmagazine.com

on the end of the sprit to get the lazy spinnaker sheet so we could douse. As she went out, we hit a rock.” Pleiad Racing, six points behind Gryphon Solo 2 and Dragon at the beginning of the Inshore Series, took advantage of Dragon’s misfortune and dominated the series by winning three of the five races, en route to securing third place overall.

At the end of racing on Sunday, May 25, Gryphon Solo 2 and JeffreyMacFarlane.com were tied. According to The Atlantic Cup’s Notice of Race, all ties are broken in favor of the team with the most points earned between the first two legs. This left Gryphon Solo 2, who bested the field during the Offshore Leg and placed third in the Sprint Leg, as 2014 Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing Champions. Gryphon Solo 2 claimed $4,000 of the $15,000 purse, one of the largest in sailing in the United States.

“It feels great,” said Joe Harris. “We really got off on the right foot by winning Leg 1. Going into the Inshore Series, I was nervous because the boat is very fussy; less than eight knots and she doesn’t want to go more than eight knots. This is my third Atlantic Cup. I got third place in 2012 and fourth last year, so to win this year is terrific. The level of competition was extremely high, so it’s a really satisfying win.”

JeffreyMacFarlane.com took second overall, as they finished fourth in the Offshore Leg and first in the Sprint Leg. “I was really impressed with the boat and our crew,” said JeffreyMacFarlane.com co-skipper Jeff MacFarlane (Franklin Lakes, NJ). “We didn’t make a lot of bad decisions this weekend.

The boat was going fast, especially considering after the first leg where things weren’t looking good overall, but we really were able to get it going. It’s tough to lose in a tie-break, but this is good overall.”

“Once again we are very proud to have a terrific team with us to put together another successful event,” enthused Hugh Piggin, Manuka Sports Event Management Founder and Atlantic Cup Race Director. “A huge amount of effort goes into making this event a success from all of our sponsors, volunteers and staff.

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Gryphon Solo 2 shows her winning ways.

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Historic Weekend for Cedar Point Yacht Club

By William Adler

Sláinte, skippered by G. Mark McCarthy, won four of five races on her way to victory in the Soverel 33 Nationals. © Barry Hyman

Westport, CT had another first on the weekend of May 31 & June 1 – the largest regatta in the 127-year history of the Cedar Point Yacht Club. More than 400 sailors from Texas to Maine gathered for the 2014 CPYC One-Design Regatta, which assembled 100 boats for seven sets of races, three of which were also championships: the Soverel 33 Nationals, J/30 Long Island Sound Championship, and J/70 New England Championship.

As the cannon sounded on Saturday the winds were brisk, the skies sun-drenched and the competition fierce.

With all seven competitions unfolding at once, the course was crowded with sailors vying for every advantage. By the end of the weekend, a team of CPYC members from Westport had finished near the top. Revelation, owned by George, Ann and Alex Wilbanks, finished fifth in the 14-boat J/105 class.

Congratulations to the Wilbanks and crew.

CPYC’s Ched Proctor of Southport, CT, a sail designer for North Sails and legendary for his sailing accomplishments around the world, came in second in the Viper 640 class on Mambo Kings, owned by Justin Scott of Greenwich, CT. Proctor said Saturday’s breezes created a challenge for the lightweight Vipers and J/70s, which lifted when the winds picked up, but it also was an opportunity. “The winds changed to the Northeast, and the sudden shift was good for us as we ended up in the right place,” he said.

The regatta showcased the rapid growth of the J/70 class, with a 37-boat turnout for the New England Championship.

Young people have been flocking to the class, helping to revitalize the sport. Wes Bemus, a student at Brown University and a third-generation CPYC member, is emblematic of the younger sailors who have been taking up the sport in larger numbers. “Among the 100 boats, almost 40 were J/70s, said Bemus. “Just a few years ago there were none, so it’s a big change. This is bringing great excitement to sailing.”

Regatta Chairman Halsey Bullen was delighted with the turnout. “Cedar Point Yacht Club has been an important part of Westport since it was founded in 1887 by a group of prominent local sportsmen with a simply stated and clear purpose: to ‘promote interest in the sport of sailing,’” he said. “This year, our goal was to show that we can handle a regatta of this scale and national importance, and we couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome.”

Westport sailors finished well in other classes. In the Soverel 33 National Championships, Keing McCarthy was a crewmember on the winning boat, G. Mark McCarthy’s Sláinte. In the Beneteau 36.7 class, fourth and fifth place went to members of the Saugatuck Harbor Yacht Club, Junius Brown and Alistair Duke, respectively.

2014 CPYC One-Design Regatta class winners J/109 Rush, Bill Sweetser, Annapolis, MD J/105 loulou, Paul Beaudin, New York, NY Soverel 33 Sláinte, G. Mark McCarthy, Westbrook, CT J/30 Fat City, Carl Sherter, Waterbury, CT Beneteau First 36.7 Whirlwind, William Purdy, New York, NY Viper 640 Flux Capacitor, Jay Rhame, New York, NY J/70 Savasana, Brian Keane, Weston, MA

Brian Keane’s Savasana won the J/70 New England Championship by a 15-point margin. © Barry Hyman

Full results are posted at YachtScoring.com. Sponsors of the 2014 CPYC One-Design Regatta include Fairfield County Bank, McMichael Yacht Brokers and Yards, North Sails, West Marine, Landfall, Quantum Sail Design Group, BRYAC, Rex Marine & Cove Marina, Atlantic Yacht Rigging, and Save the Sound.

Cedar Point Yacht Club took its name from the point of land on the eastern shore of the entrance to the Saugatuck River from which members’ boats were launched and races were run, which actually is part of Compo Beach although today the club is on Saugatuck Island. The original fleet, consisting mostly of catboats and sloops between 20 and 33 feet, numbered around 20. A detailed handicap system was installed and formal courses laid out across the area in which today’s fleets still race. F

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Rhode Island’s Volvo Ocean Race “Home Team” Visits Newport Team Alvimedica, the youngest team in the upcoming 20142015 Volvo Ocean Race, has completed their first transatlantic training sail, sailing into Newport, RI on June 9. “It was a big step for Team Alvimedica,” said skipper Charlie Enright of Bristol, RI. “We had good weather all the way across. We’re excited about what we achieved and what’s to come. We’re here doing some more training before we head back across the Atlantic in July.”

Team leaders Enright, 29, and Mark Towill, 25, of Kaneohe, HI, and the rest of the crew replicated “race mode” throughout the ten-day passage as they tested their Volvo Ocean 65 and immersed themselves in ocean racing techniques and high-speed maneuvers throughout the fast-paced 3,000-mile passage from Lisbon, Portugal. Americans trying out for a spot on the crew are Rhode Islanders Nick Dana of Newport and

A large crowd greeted the team at Newport Shipyard. Final crew selection was underway at press time. © Stephen Cloutier

Light. “But at the end of the day, to furl that sail at Fort Adams and come home to Newport is the greatest feeling,” You’ll find more information about the team at facebook.com/TeamAlvimedica.

The Volvo Ocean Race starts October 4 in Alicante, Spain.

The 38,739-nautical mile ‘round-the-world race will have stopovers in 11 port cities, including Newport in May 2015.

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Team Alvimedica hoisted Old Glory for their arrival in Newport. © Stephen Cloutier

Jesse Fielding of North Kingstown, and George Peet of Grosse Pointe, MI. Amory Ross of Newport was on board to document the journey in words and images.

International crew on board for the voyage included Berkcan Arat of Istanbul, Turkey; Alberto Bolzan of Trieste, Italy; Ryan Houston of Auckland, New Zealand; Will Oxley of South Townsville, Australia; and David Swete of Southampton, United Kingdom. Volvo Ocean Race veteran Stu Bannatyne of Auckland, New Zealand was also aboard to share his expertise with the young team. “We had a great mentor with us, Stu Bannatyne, who helped us improve,” said Fielding, who first teamed up with Enright and Towill for the Disney film Morning windcheckmagazine.com

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Multis Take Manhattan!

The Gotham Multihulls Series

By Andrew Houlding Photographs by Laurent Apollon Ten trimarans from 25 to 44 feet competed in the first Gotham Multihulls Series in New York Harbor on May 31 & June 1, and we were all pushing hard around the Lower Bay just south of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. So what was a big blue-and-white

Steve Gross’ 44-foot Explorer Falcor was victorious in Race 1. © Laurent Apollon Images

trimaran doing on the racecourse? It was Banque Populaire VII, 105 feet long, 60 feet wide and 100 feet tall, flying its windward hull in about seven knots of wind and easily moving at twice windspeed. She slowed and tacked, then accelerated down the rhumbline to the finish. Her French team had, however, failed to pay the Gotham Multihulls Series entry fee and obtain a handicap rating, so they could not win.

We organized this event as a new addition to the New England Multihull Association (NEMA) race series. Most of NEMA’s races are on courses shared with monohulls, and there are only a few monohull events that tolerate multihull participation. The Gotham Series, along with the Black Dog Dash in Vineyard Haven, MA, the Newport Unlimited in Newport, RI and the Poco Loco Bay Race in Staten Island, NY, is for multihulls only. The Gotham Multihulls Series supports Brooklyn Boatworks (brooklynboatworks.org), a unique program in New York City that gives middle school students the opportunity to build their own Optimist throughout the school year. The kids

learn about cooperation, perseverance and craftsmanship, values that help them succeed in school and their future. We were supported by S-cruise by Smartboat, which loaned its innovative and stylish Smartboat 23 powerboat to handle logistics, photography and Sunday’s start, and had capable assistance from Jessica Todd-Marone, the Program Director at Brooklyn Boatworks.

Participants included Steve Gross’ 44-foot Explorer Falcor, with a minus-50 rating; Glenn Reed’s Condor 40 Intruder, a large cruising tri; Bern Wyss and Laurent Apollon’s Dragonfly 800 Windsinger, the smallest in the fleet and skippered by legendary transatlantic multihull sailor Phil Steggal; and a bunch of Corsair models – Mike Divon’s Corsair 37 Milk & Honey; three Corsair 31s: John Sampson’s Flight Risk, Keith London’s Scooch Over and Pat Harris’ Gypsy Heart; two F-27s: Peter Vakhutinsky’s Tritium and Steve Parks’ Flying Fish; and my Corsair 28R Skedaddle.

The Richmond County Yacht Club in Great Kills Harbor on Staten Island was our host, setting our skippers up with moorings and warm hospitality. Our first race, on Saturday May 31, was most exciting, with a north wind blowing down the Hudson and into New York Harbor at about 20 knots. We were set to start at noon just outside the entrance to Great Kills, with a start line set more or less at a right angle to the wind.

Trimarans love reaching conditions, but with that much breeze the boats were barely in control and all were sailing with deep reefs, some with storm jibs, reaching at high speed across the starting gate. But not Skedaddle.

We were still at our mooring in Great Kills Harbor, struggling to free the main halyard and get the mainsail up. I got hauled up to the masthead, pushed the halyard back into position on the sheave, and we hoisted the main about ten minutes before noon. Put a reef in? We couldn’t get that set right and make it to the start line on time. As we screamed along in waterfalls of spray toward the start, we radioed the committee boat. “You have about one minute left in the countdown,” was Jessica’s reply. The hell with reefing! We went for the start line and tacked away on port. Once we got Skedaddle in her groove, we were making time against the bigger boats.

The course took us across the Lower Bay over toward Rockaway Point and then north, under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, up to a mark just east of the Statute of Liberty, with a finish on a line from the Colgate Clock on the Jersey shore to a point in Lower Manhattan. These are busy waters. There are container ships, tugs and barges, water taxis, the Staten

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The Gotham Multihulls Series fleet reveled in the first day’s breeze. © Laurent Apollon Images Island Ferries, cruise ships, SeaStreak ferries, Liberty sightseeing cruiseboats, monohull sailboats, police and Coast Guard boats, DEEP enforcement boats, tankers, jet-skis and even kayaks, all going in different directions, and of course the fishing boats always anchored just where we needed to go. Tacking a tri upwind in 20 knots can be tricky at the best of times, and we needed extra precision and timing because a missed tack could leave us stuck in irons and at the mercy of the traffic.

We tacked far over to the west side of the harbor by the Jersey shoreline before turning toward the Statue of Liberty, where tourists lined up on the island and sightseeing boats jostled for position around it. We left the final turning mark to starboard and turned from the Statue toward the finish. But the blue skies that greeted us in the morning and ushered in this northerly blast suddenly gave way to an ominous storm head rolling down the Hudson River. We pointed high up the river as the rain began to spatter down and squalls of wind buffeted us. We were third to cross the finish line, close enough behind the Corsair 31 Flight Risk to know that we would correct out ahead on handicap. But Falcor, the 40-foot Condor, having shaken out the reef in her main and switched from storm jib to racing jib just south of the Verrazano, had blasted north with her minus-50 handicap rating to finish the 15.5 mile course in 2:23, too far ahead for any handicap correction to help us.

Most of the fleet stayed over Saturday night at Liberty Landing’s Pier 25 Moorings in Hudson River Park, and the crews convened for dinner and drinks at Josephine Café Francais, an excellent restaurant located a couple of The 105-foot Banque Populaire VII is in New York City as skipper Armel LeCleach awaits a weather window for a solo tranlantic record attempt. © Laurent Apollon Images windcheckmagazine.com

blocks away at 350 Greenwich Street in Tribeca. Sunday dawned sunny and beautiful and stayed that way, but the breeze had disappeared. It felt like the race would be a downwind drift, but we started just below Governors Island with a whisper from the southwest. Skedaddle crept along the Brooklyn shoreline, but that proved a poor strategy, as Flight Risk settled into what looked like a commanding lead further out in the main channel, perhaps catching a stronger southerly current out there. We all carried screachers, and when we tried our spinnaker we lost ground as it failed to get any flow, and the sail changes slowed us.

The race committee had set a tentative finish under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge if the wind did not pick up, but called for continuation of the race when we could all see ripples on the waters below the bridge. Now we were racing, though slowly, toward West Bank, a shoal area in the Lower Bay. That’s when Banque Populaire VII showed up, first as a dark blue smudge in the distance behind us in New York Harbor, then becoming larger as she squeezed under the bridge and into the bay. We were racing against our fleet, but with our cell phone cameras shooting the maxi trimaran, you could say we were a bit distracted.

Banque Populaire VII was in New York waiting for a weather window to make an attempt on the transatlantic record. Skipper Armel LeCleach will be sailing this monster solo, trying to beat Francis Joyon’s singlehanded record of five days, 13 hours from Ambrose Light to Lizard Point. While waiting for that perfect prediction of a low-pressure system that might take LeCleach eastward at a record-breaking pace, he and his team have been training and tuning the boat, roaring around New York Harbor.

Our race organizer Laurent Apollon contacted the BP VII team and informed them of our racecourse, and they obliged us with an amazing demonstration of tri-power. “Yes!” we all said. We want one of those, though who among us could manage such a boat solo, let alone race across the Atlantic?

As BP VII shot off into the distance, we were left to leg it out for the finish line, far off her pace. This time, the F-27s Flying Fish and Tritium carried the day. The fleet enjoyed a fine, challenging weekend. We look forward to building the Gotham Multihulls Series next year and to sailing again around the Statue of Liberty. Meanwhile, we wish Banque Populaire VII a fast and safe crossing. The Gotham Multihulls Series is open to all multihulls with a NEMA rating. For more information including sponsorship opportunities, visit gothammultihulls.com. You’ll find NEMA’s racing and cruising schedule at nemasail.org. F Andy Houlding is an attorney in Hartford, CT, a dedicated multihull sailor and editor of the excellent NEMA newsletter. Photographer Laurent Apollon is also a multihull sailor and freelance journalist in New York, NY. WindCheck Magazine

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Robie Pierce Regattas Achieve Mission Six boats competed in the fourth Robie Pierce Women’s Invitational Regatta on May 29, and 19 in the sixth Robie Pierce One-Design Regatta May 30 - June 1 at Larchmont Yacht Club in Larchmont, NY. Over 45 sailors with disabilities representing 19 states and Canadian provinces participated in the two regattas, which were hosted in conjunction with American Yacht Club in Rye, NY. Both regattas were sailed in specially adapted Ideal 18s owned by the host clubs. Race Committee PRO Cynthia Parthemos faced challenging conditions all weekend with winds © Maureen C. Koeppel Photography from 0 to 26 knots greeting the sailors, but managed to provide excellent racing.

The mission of the Robie Pierce Regattas is to increase the number of people involved with adaptive sailing – both competing and as volunteers. Thanks to the participation of the Burke Rehabilitation Center and the Adaptive Sailing Clinic hosted by Nyack Boat Club in Nyack, NY, this year’s Robie Regattas included ten new sailors, most of whom had never sailed before. The words of first-time Robie participant Tim Tynan (New Hyde Park, NY) summed up the feeling of many: “For a few days, I never thought about being paralyzed from the chest down. I was a guy out sailing with some great people.”

The Robie Women’s Invitational Regatta was held in 8-14 knots, and four very competitive races were run. When the smoke cleared, US Sailing team member Sarah Everhart-Skeels (Tiverton, RI), with crew JoAnn Stenk (White Plains, NY), was third. In second was Team Paradise’s Tracy Schmitt (Toronto, ON) sailing with Siobhan Murphy (Yonkers, NY). Last year, Judy Kowaleski, who traveled from San Diego,CA, announced that the Robie Women’s brought her the first bullet of her career.

This year, sailing with Karrell Reginer (Gatineau, QC), she scored three firsts and a second to win by five points.

At the One-Design Regatta’s competitors meeting Friday morning, the sailors received a surprise guest, America’s Cup Hall of Fame member and the designer of the Ideal 18, Bruce Kirby of Rowayton, CT. Bruce was clearly proud of the joy his design is bringing to so many sailors with disabilities.

Good conditions held all day Monday, with four competitive races held. Unfortunately the wind gods got a little overanxious the next day. With morning winds of 12-18 knots and gusts to

26, racing was postponed; but never let it be said that sailors waste time. A competitive game of bocce was quickly organized and a number of sailors participated. Try playing this sport with your eyes closed if you want a challenge. The winds finally abated around noon but then died, yielding only two more races.

The highlight of Saturday night’s party was the appearance of the Regattas’ namesake, Robie Pierce of Newport, RI. Robie commented that he was happy to see so many new faces, as "The Robie" is all about introducing new sailors to the sport. After a delicious dinner, the crowd was treated to some great bluegrass music by Homegrown, led by banjo player and event Co-Chair Buttons Padin.

Sunday was once again light and variable, but the RC was able to squeeze out a seventh race before going ashore for prizes.

In fifth place was the Annapolis, MD pair of Lance Hinrichs and John Tarrant, winning a tiebreaker with Rusty Sargent (Mystic, CT) and Charles McClure (Brookline, MA). In fourth was former LYC member Paul Garcia (Hyannis, MA) and Chris Livesay (Ft. Worth, TX). In third was Charlie Rosenberg (Woodstock, CT) with alternating crew Bill Blanchard (LYC’s Rear Commodore) and Nancy Jodoin (Boston, MA).

For the second year in a row, the regatta finished in a twoway tie for first. In second were US Sailing Team member Gerry Tiernan (Falmouth, ME) from Sail Maine and Dennis Moran (Framingham, MA). While still suffering from his beloved Bruins’ loss in the Stanley Cup playoffs and the Red Sox 10-game losing streak, Hyannis Yacht Club’s Mike Hersey, sailing with 2008 Paralympic Gold Medalist Maureen McKinnon (Marblehead, MA), sailed away with the title. Mike was quick to credit his son Matt, who was their on-board able-bodied sailor (AB).

As always, this regatta could never have happened without the support of so many generous sponsors including Heineken USA, Mercedes-Benz of New Rochelle, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Lucerne Capital Management, LLC, and Magnum Bars.

New sponsors this year were the Burke Rehabilitation Center, UK Sailmakers, and area realtor Houlihan Lawrence. In addition, the Bob Woodruff Foundation stepped up to provide travel funding for the wounded veterans who sailed in the regatta.

Complete results can be found at larchmontyc.org/Yachting/ Regatta_Schedule/Robie-Pierce-Regatta.aspx, and a video by LYC member Maureen Koeppel can be found on YouTube. The next Robie Pierce Regattas will be held at American YC May 28-31, 2015. F

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Lighthouse Regatta to Honor Bruce Lockwood

By Mimi Drinkuth Shennecossett Yacht Club’s First Annual Lighthouse Regatta on August 2 will honor the memory of Bruce Lockwood of Groton Long Point, CT, a distinguished racer on Long Island Sound and many other venues. The Bruce Lockwood Cup, a perpetual trophy, will be presented to the boat in the spinnaker fleet with the best corrected time.

Bruce was an avid and enthusiastic competitor, involved in racing his entire life. He grew up on Long Island Sound and belonged to many sailing organizations including Shennecossett Yacht Club (serving as Commodore 1986-1988), Ram Island Yacht Club, Baldwin Yacht Club, Off Soundings Club, Storm Trysail Club, Woodbridge Association, and the Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association. He Bruce Lockwood won Key West Race Week, three Block Island Race Weeks, the Mumm 30 Northeast Championship, was the top boat in the Mudhead fleet eight times, and was victorious in too many Off Soundings series to count; the last one in 2012, just four weeks before he died at age 90. In addition, he raced his boat to Bermuda and even participated in the Transatlantic Challenge in 2005 at the age of 83.

Many sailors on Long Island Sound have been inspired by Bruce as they witnessed his enthusiasm and skill on a series of sailboats including his J/36 Arrow, J/29 Tomahawk, and Farr 30 One More Time. A new Arrow, a 9-foot Dyer Dhow donated by family and ends, has joined the fleet at Mystic Seaport in Bruce’s memory.

All racers are invited to participate in the Lighthouse Regatta to honor Bruce by the awarding of the trophy in his name.

Cruising sailors may sign up for a non-spinnaker class with PHRF numbers assigned by the race committee. The course in Fishers Island Sound will be within view of many historic lighthouses, a unique concentration of nine in a small geographic area. Proceeds from this Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association event will be donated to the New London Maritime Society’s Lighthouse Fund.

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The Wickford Regatta

By Rob Jerry from CatamaranRacing.net and Cate Brown The Wickford Regatta, hosted by Wickford Yacht Club on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay on June 7 & 8, is the premiere early season one-design event on the East Coast. With roots reaching back to 1972, the Wickford Regatta was one of the first Laser events in the world and hosted classes of 470s, 5O5s and Flying Dutchmen throughout the ‘70s, but fell into a long hiatus in recent decades. The event was revitalized by Skip Whyte in 2009, and has successfully hosted one-design racing for the past several years.

This year’s Wickford Regatta was open to Lasers, Laser Radials, International 420s, 5O5s, Viper 640s and F18 catamarans. There were sixteen F18s and three F16s all scored as one fleet, which was double the attendance from last year. The majority of the 11-boat 5O5 fleet came directly to Wickford from the National Championship in California the previous weekend, and nearly the entire I420 fleet were from LISOT (Long Island Sound Youth Sailing Team). The regatta was sailed out of Cold Spring Beach, a few blocks from the yacht club and a perfect venue with plenty of room for boats and easy launching.

The regatta started off at a leisurely pace on Saturday, with a 10 am skippers meeting and noon first start time. There was a postponement due to lack of wind as a light easterly teased the

race committee, but the southerly seabreeze filled in by 12:30.

Once racing started, the committee ran back-to-back races in 10-15 knots. Five races were scored on the Bravo Circle for the 5O5s, Vipers and F18s, and four races on Alpha Circle for the Lasers, Laser Radials and I-420s. The weather was perfect with bright sunshine and temperatures in the high 70s. On Bravo Circle, the F18 team of Mike Easton and Tripp Burd quickly recovered their championship form on their new Falcon with three first place finishes and two seconds to finish Saturday in the lead. On Alpha Circle, Mark Bear was in the lead for the Laser fleet after the first day of racing, with 7 points for only four races.

Wickford Yacht Club hosted a cocktail hour and dinner Saturday night. The organizers provided beer, wine, soft drinks and live music throughout the night. The barbecue chicken, vegetable lasagna, vegetables, salad and cornbread were very good, as was the homemade dessert: bite-size chocolate cookie ice cream sandwiches.

Sunday morning brought very light winds and another postponement on the beach. With faith in the seabreeze, the race committee called the sailors off the beach around 11:30 am and they sailed / drifted out to the course in a very light wind. The seabreeze rewarded the committee’s faith and filled in around 12:30, although not as strong as the day before. There were three more races on Bravo Circle in an inconsistent 5-10 knots, and another three on Alpha Circle. Easton and Burd continued their F18 dominance with another first and second in the first

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two races, securing the overall F18 win with 10 points.

James and Matthew Barry of Riverside Yacht Club sailed The Bassmaster to victory in the 5O5 class with 16 points for eight races. Moise Solomon’s 3Grins from the Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association won the Viper class handily with bullets across the board (and a second place throwout from race 7). LISOT sailors Russell Clarida and Forrest Thomas from Pequot Yacht Club won the competitive I-420 class with nine points, with the second place boat only one point behind. The Laser Radials also had tight racing, with Carly Broussard of Lakewood Yacht Club coming out on top with 12 points. Mark Bear held onto his lead to win the Laser class with 11 points. Visit wickford.sailspace.net for the full results, and

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Coop’s And Not To Yield

By Joe Cooper

The scene: a yacht club bar after Tuesday night beer can racing The action: sitting around with beers, lying about what happened in the race. There is a pause in the dialogue. One of the younger guys pipes up: “Hey, did you see the story in ‘butt about Ryan Breymaier? Blank looks all around. “Who?” another asks. “Yeah, he just won the New York to Barcelona Race.” “The wha?” is the collective response.

On June 14 at about 1800 local time in Barcelona, American Ryan Breymaier and Spaniard Pepe Ribes won the IMOCA Ocean Masters New York to Barcelona Race, which is sailed doublehanded in IMOCA 60s. Oh, and this was after breaking their mast on the way to Newport and having Southern Spars repair it in record time. Name of boat: Hugo Boss, a brand well known in the U.S. Yup, another very small step up the very tall ladder towards recognition in one tiny sliver of the sailboat racing pie – solo/doublehanded transoceanic racing – yet it passes almost unnoticed on the AIS of the average American sailor.

Breymaier is a graduate of St. Mary’s College, where he started sailing and got hooked. He went to work on any and all big boat programs he could get his hands on, and in 2008, he moved to France and started working and sailing on the professional circuit. In 2011, he placed fifth (of 15) in the Barcelona World Race, a double-handed, non-stop race around the world in IMOCA 60s. Think Vendée Globe, except faster.

IMOCA 60s are almost as fast as VOR 70s, yet sailed by two people on the BWR, and usually by one. Think about this: A 60foot, 15-17,000-pound boat with a canting keel, daggerboards, and a huge sailplan. The Full Monty, sailing at 25-30 knots in the Southern Ocean crewed by one man – and not infrequently by one woman. No, I do not detract from the VOR guys at all because both races are bloody hard on boats, people and psyches.

But what is it about Americans and solo/DH ocean racing?

Mention this kind of high-performance, very hard, professional racing to the average U.S. sailor and their eyes glaze over. Yet look at pictures of these races in Europe and the docks are literally

overflowing with hundreds of thousands of people, from hard-core groupies to grandmothers dressed in black, calling Bon courage! to the skippers.

Use the phrase “professional sailor” at a yacht club here, and someone will remark that Fred always has his sailmaker onboard. If the discussion continues, “pro sailor” probably gets a mention related to the America’s Cup and possibly the Volvo.

One commentary I read regarding Larry Ellison’s idea of using the America’s Cup to promote sailing in the U.S. mused on the prevalence of wealthy owners and the technology of the foiling cats.

There was very little about the sailors apart from the afterguard.

Football, baseball and basketball are largely about personalities in this country, and that’s true of high-test sailing in Europe. Drive along a highway in France and you’re as likely to see a sailor’s picture on a billboard as a soccer player or bicycle rider.

After following this arena for 35 years and having my own share of sponsorship proposals turned down, I have decided it’s as much a cultural division as much as any kind of economic one. Consider the challenge to be faced, the skills required, the decisions to be made, and the beauty of sailing on the largest surface on the planet. The French and the Europeans do.

Americans, by and large, regard single-handed ocean racing as “one of those crazy French things.” To the French, the challenge of this kind of sailing is part of the human condition. Read, for instance, Tennyson’s poem Ulysses, whose final line is “…to strive, to seek to find, and not to yield.”

Economically speaking in the U.S., the old saw for declining to sponsor sailing because of the low number of “people who sail” and thus its absence on TV is old and tired. Fact is, there is a huge amount of trade, multiples of billions, between the U.S. and France, freedom fries notwithstanding. There has to be at least one American company that wants to elevate its profile in France particularly and Europe generally. Single- and double-handed sailing as practiced in Europe is a very cost-effective way to do just that. The Alex Thompson keel and mast walk videos garnered Hugo Boss more real “holy cow” coverage than a dozen billboards or TV ads. Look at the websites for the French solo sailors and races. They are all sponsored by the same (big name) companies and have been for many years. No publicly traded company is going to do that unless there’s a solid reason to do so.

The discussion about inspiring American kids to continue sailing after Optis/420s/college bubbles on, but it’s fractured and not very cohesive. Ryan Breymaier, who became hooked on sailing in college, followed his dream, and is now a professional sailor, a textbook example of the kind of kids we should be trying to attract to sailing on big boats. Just think how many kids would continue sailing after college if there were a chance to do so as a career. F Australian born, Joe ‘Coop’ Cooper stayed in the US after the 1980 America’s Cup where he was the boat captain and sailed as Grinder/ Sewer-man on Australia. His whole career has focused on sailing, especially the short-handed aspects of it. He lives in Middletown, RI where he coaches, consults and writes on his blog, joecoopersailing. com, when not paying attention to his wife, teenage son, dog, two cats and several, mainly small, boats.

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By Gene A. Magnetti What is most important for serious sellers is to affect a sale of their boat in the shortest possible time at the best possible price.

Since prices are fixed through the relationship of supply and demand, the only market leverage factors sellers have in today’s economy are price and the condition of the boat. Shoppers turn into buyers when they find a price advantage on what they consider a desirable boat. Desirable boats are presented in a way that shows off their good condition to the best possible advantage.

Most people are confused about prices. They seem to think that prices are set by what they paid to acquire their boat less a fixed depreciation factor. As explained by economist Henry Hazlet, “What a commodity has cost to produce in the past cannot determine its value. That will depend on the present relationship of supply and demand.”

The second factor is the condition and presentation of the boat. The seller’s objective is to present his boat in a manner that distinguishes it from other similar boats. This moves the boat out of the “commodity” pool of every offered boat to a special category of a “one of a kind” offering that is superior to the others.

Most buyers judge condition by the way the boat is presented to them. If the boat is dirty or if the interior is unkempt, they will move on to another. Sellers need to take the initiative to have the boat cleaned and organized inside and out, with personal belongings removed from the cabin and storage areas.

As a seller, it is critical that you work with your broker to research and determine a selling price that will show an advantage to prospective buyers. It is also extremely important to make sure the boat is clean, staged and presented in the most favorable light.

By taking care of these two critical factors, you will sell your boat in the shortest possible time, obtain the best price possible consistent with present market conditions, and reduce your risk of holding your boat unnecessarily for a lengthy time.

Your broker is your resource and consultant on the question of pricing. The broker will research prices of boats that have actually sold in the past year or so. But since these prices used in deliberation are of the past, they can only be a guide. The problem of the seller is to anticipate the future price at which his boat will sell.

A good broker will work with you to include in your calculation the seasonal timing of your offering, whether it is in windcheckmagazine.com

the beginning of the season, the middle, or when the boating season is over. A buyer may be willing to pay more at the beginning of the season than at the end, or even out of season.

The broker will also conduct a full survey of currently offered boats like yours. This will give you an understanding of your direct competition.

Buyers in today’s marketplace are looking for a price advantage. Desirable boats that are offered for less than the average price of comparable boats will get much more attention and will sell faster than higher priced offerings.

One other mistake of some sellers is to assume that buyers are only narrowly considering a purchase of their particular year/ make/model of boat. In actuality, buyers are free to consider boats outside of these constraints. A buyer is seeking that combination of price advantage, condition and make/model/ year that provide the basis of a favorable exchange that he is willing to make.

Furthermore, buyers have other choices on which to spend their money completely outside of the boat market. As an example, they may decide that doing an addition on their home, or a classic car acquisition is a better use of their funds. So, it is a mistake to think of a price a buyer is willing to pay in isolation of any of the virtually unlimited choices available to him. Each exists in relation to all of the other alternative and competing choices.

So, by not considering the almost unlimited choices of buyers, a seller may price himself out of the market in the erroneous notion that his boat is worth more than anyone is willing to pay for it. A look at the aging inventory of some offered boats at Yachtworld.com will give an illustration of this principle.

Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises observed that in a market economy the consumers are sovereign. It is the actions of consumers…of preferring a to b…which determine the prices on the market.

To get the best price in the shortest possible time, you need to price the boat with consideration of current supply and demand, not acquisition cost. A good way to do that is to work with your broker to obtain the market research needed and refine the offering price while presenting the boat in the best possible light. If a seller offers a desirable boat in better condition and at a price advantage to other sellers, offerings, he will succeed. F Gene A. Magnetti is a Managing Broker at Springline Yacht Sales in Mamaroneck, NY, proudly representing new yachts from Blue Jacket, Island Packet and Marlow-Hunter, and select brokerage boats.

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Joe Sullivan Joe Sullivan ‘58 was one of the early members of the Fordham University Sailing Team, and as the school’s Director of Sailing, his love for the team continues to this day.

“In the spring of 1955, with three classmates, I responded to a bulletin board ad to join the Sailing team,” Joe recalls. “The Commodore asked, ‘Who has sailed before?’

Jack Wiley had done some big boat racing, Dick Scallon and Gerry Thornton had no experience whatsoever, and I had been in a sailboat twice. ‘Welcome to the team,’ he said.

‘You’re representing Fordham in the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s Freshman Championship Saturday at Kings Point. Wiley, you’re skippering A Division with Scallon as crew.

Sullivan, you’re skippering B Division with Thornton.’ We responded, ‘Where do we practice, and where’s Kings Point?’ ‘I’ll give you directions to Kings Point,’ he said, ‘but we have no boats.’”

“I knew how to steer an outboard motorboat, but didn’t know port-starboard, windward-leeward, etc. At KP, six schools competed. After two fifth and two sixth place finishes, Gerry and I were frustrated with our lack of knowledge. Before the fifth race, Wiley said, ‘Go to the left side of the line before the start. The other boats will start from the right and change direction. Get behind the Kings Point boat. Joe, do whatever the KP skipper does.

Gerry, do whatever the crew does.’ We agreed with this bit of Jesuit logic and started at the pin end. We came storming down on port with everyone else on starboard yelling, ‘Barging!’ We had no idea what that meant, but the other boats came about and we found ourselves two boatlengths behind Kings Point. We executed Wiley’s instructions perfectly and finished second. That race was the first day of the rest of my sailing life.”

“I was named Commodore in my sophomore year. We kept getting better and the team was upgraded to provisional and then regular membership in MAISA, and elevated to varsity status by Fordham’s legendary Athletic Director Jack Coffey. A fundraiser for a new Interclub dinghy was held and the team received matching funds from the university for three more, allowing for regularly scheduled practices. With City Island Yacht Club as our homeport, Fordham hosted its first competition, the Jesuit Cup Regatta, in the spring of 1958."

Forty years later, Joe saw a notice in Fordham Magazine urging alumni, who were varsity athletes and had not received an invitation to the Arthur Daley Memorial Dinner, to call the alumni office. He learned that the team had dissolved in the early 1970s, but the university shared a list of 80 former members. He sent out a mailing to see if anyone was interested in a reunion. It was held in February 1999 and the question asked by the 20 attendees was, ‘Why don’t we have a Sailing team today?’ A display was set up at the Club Fair in September and 102 students signed up, of whom

29 had sailing experience.

That fall, former Commodore and MAISA President Charles “Bud” McEntee ’72 and Joe assisted seven undergraduates who were committed to rebuild the program. Sailing was recognized as a club sport, and Fordham was accepted as an associate member of MAISA in January 2000. For travel purposes, the university required that the team have a coach.

None was available, so Joe volunteered to coach for a few months until someone could be hired.

That was 15 years ago, and he’s still active in the program.

In September 2001, a fleet of six 420s was purchased and Morris Yacht & Beach Club on City Island became Fordham’s homeport. Today, via a joint venture with the Columbia Sailing Team, neighbors on City Island, the teams share a 30-boat fleet of 18 420s and 12 FJs. Fordham resurrected the Jesuit Open and Greater New York Dinghy Regatta, and raised enough money to hire a professional coach. This past year, Fordham was ranked as high as 12th nationally among coed teams and 15th in team racing. “To serve as volunteer coach of this team for 11 years and Director of Sailing for three years, and be associated with the terrific young adults who have built this program, has been my privilege,” says Joe. “The psychic income has been enormous.”

A Past Commodore of Southold Yacht Club who served on the club’s Board of Governors for over 20 years, Joe is an unabashed supporter of the Sunfish, the boat on which his four children learned to sail. “My wife Barbara and I built our home in Southold in 1967,” he says. “We bought our first Sunfish in 1968 and joined the club in ’69, which was when I started racing Sunfish. The club had no junior sailing program, so we created one in 1971. Today, it enrolls over 100 children every summer. The Sunfish is ideal for youngsters learning to sail. Not all are destined to become competitive sailors. Many just want to have fun with a buddy. If the racing bug bites, they can compete, and they’ll never outgrow a Sunfish. It’s an incredible boat for fun and for serious competitors of all ages, who will find dozens of regattas around the country every weekend from May through October.”

“Southold Yacht Club inaugurated ‘The World’s Longest Sunfish Race, Around Shelter Island, New York’ in 1971. To give younger children an opportunity to win some hardware, the Peconic Bay Midget & Junior Sunfish Championships were created in 1976. This year, these events will celebrate their 44th and 39th anniversaries respectively.”

Asked what he likes best about sailing, Joe replied, “I love the peace and tranquility of sailing my Sunfish across Southold Bay. Racing is icing on the cake. Southold Yacht Club has a Monday night Sunfish series. When we sail back to the beach, the sailors are usually quiet as we absorb the magnificence of the sun setting over Jockey Creek. The silence is usually broken by my buddy Dave Hilgendorf saying softly, ‘It doesn’t get much better than this!’” F

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