Harbor at Sunapee Yacht Club Newport, New Hampshire This weekend I participated in the Lake Sunapee Open in the Star Class. The northeast has a long tradition of Star Class racing and Lake Sunapee has had Star racing since 1939. I have long wanted to experience racing on these lakes and finally my opportunity came. […]
Saturday, an 80 boat fleet of various sizes and speeds, raced the 57 nm course, counter clockwise around Marth’s Vineyard. The forecast was not great but in the end, a nice southwesterly seabreeze filled in and helped the fleet get around before dark. In the TP52 class, we had a good battle with Vesper and […]
Edgartown, MA It was a rainy and dreary start to the day out here on Marth’s Vineyard. By 11:00, it became a blustery and rainy day. The racing started at 11:00 and I haven’t sailed in that much rain in a while. Three races were held for the TP 52’s today. Phoenix won the day with […]
Edgartown, Marth’s Vineyard This is the third leg of the east coast IRC summer series. 4 races were held today, in 9-12 knots from the southwest for the IRC fleet. The three TP52’s had hard fought battles as usual. Onboard Phoenix, we had 4 good starts. The left looked good in the first half of […]
Photo by Daniel Forester-IRC 1 start Newport, Rhode Island The wind was very late to fill in today leaving just enough time for one race. At the start we had 8 knots from the southwest and a rolling sea. Onboard Phoenix we felt the left side was going to have more wind so we started […]
Newport, Rhode Island IRC class 1, which includes the TP52’s was assigned to the “stadium” course inside the Bay and in front of Fort Adams today. The wind were light, under 10 knots throughout the racing period. Racing got cut a bit short at 14:00 as a large thunderstorm built just to the north of […]
Newport, RI The Race Committee sent us on the Coastal Race today. The wind was blowing 15-20 knots form the south today. The course had us starting just north of the Jamestown Bridge, sailing upwind, south to a sea buoy about 3 miles south of Castle Hill and then all the way back north, into […]
Vesper (inside) and Spookie rounding the windward mark. Newport, R.I. I am here in Newport racing onboard Phoenix, a TP 52 designed by Botin. We raced the boat a month ago here and broke our mast. It has been a very tight schedule to get the mast repaired and the boat back out on the […]
Marina Del Rey All 15 teams were back out on the Santa Monica Bay today for the final three races of the District 5 Championship. The conditions for race 4 (first of today) were 9 knots from the southwest, sunshine and smooth seas. Danny and i had a good srart down at the left end […]
Marina Del Rey 15 teams showed up to contest the 5th District Championship which is being held concurrently with the King of Spain regatta, an annual So Cal classic. Three races were schedule for today and we had 7-10 knots of wind from the southwest with a gentle swell. The fog line moved over and […]
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