With just a few days left until the 2024 Melges 24 U.S. National Championship kicks off in Santa Barbara, CA, 20 teams are gearing up for three thrilling days of sportboat racing.
With each passing day, the U.S. Melges 24 Class gets more and more excited for the start of the 2024 National Championship on July 12-14 in the picturesque city of Santa Barbara, California. After months of meticulous planning, the Santa Barbara Yacht Club (SBYC) is ready to host this highly anticipated event, which marks the beginning of the 2024 West Coast racing series
Three days of competitive racing and camaraderie along with a two day coaching clinic have wrapped up in Newport, Rhode Island for the 33 sailors with disabilities at the 22nd C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta. This year the fleet had eight of the Clagett Sailing Boat Grant recipients racing in the 2.4mR class with two of the top three finishers being Boat Grant recipients.
The 2024 Quantum Snipe Nationals wrapped up on Saturday at Jubilee Yacht Club in Beverly Massachusetts. There were 44 boats racing in the Heinzerling Series and 8 in the Wells Series, with sailors from 10 states and Canada participating. Eight races over four days were held in mostly light and shifty wind from all directions.
Traditionally when the boats are close together on the racecourse and at the finish, that’s mirrored in the overall standings. But that wasn’t the case in the 2024 Women’s Championship. While the New York Yacht Club team, skippered by Hannah Swett, won seven of the 13 races in the regatta and won the regatta by a very healthy margin, there was rarely a a lot of daylight between it and the competit
After a historic and exciting week of sailing, the 53rd Newport Bermuda Race has come to a close. We caught up with sailors to get their thoughts on this year’s conditions, the significance of the Bermuda Race, and the next edition set for 2026. Video Production: Chris Love Productions, Method Media, and James Doughty Courtesy of Bermuda Tourism.
The docks are the Alofsin Pier at Fort Adams State Park in Newport Rhode Island are full to the brim with the boats of the 32 sailors with disabilities from across the US, Canada and Puerto Rico who are in Newport for the 22nd C. Thomas Clagett Memorial Clinic and Regatta presented by Clagett Sailing.
US Sailing welcomed Marcus Lynch in January 2024 as the US Sailing Team’s High Performance Director. He’s tasked with leading the US Sailing Team and all its associated high?performance programs, including the US Olympic Sailing Team, the Pan American Sailing Team, and the Olympic Development Sailing Program.
Melges Performance Sailboats is proud to announce the all-new Melges Watersports Center, the country’s newest sailing development and training venue located in the heart of Florida’s Space Coast.
The 19th edition of Long Beach Race Week concluded on Sunday with a full complement of races sailed in eleven divisions, including six one design classes and five PHRF fleets. Throughout the three solid days of racing conditions the breeze rarely dropped below 14 knots and settling in the 16-18 knot range for the most part, blue skies prevailed and temperatures in the 80s…YES, t-shirt and shorts r
It is just shy of 48 hours into the 53rd Newport Bermuda Race, and we’ve already seen a dismasting, an abandoned ship, and a few retirements. Despite these challenges, the fleet has encountered a variety of sailing conditions and sea states as they make their way to Bermuda.
Day two at Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week gave everyone plenty of breeze starting in the mid-teens out of the west, and the gift for the day was extra wind with gusts of 20+ toward the end of the racing, noted Bruce Cooper, owner of Ullman Sails Newport Beach and event lead sponsor. Most fleets sailed three races, racing was tight across all fleets with lead changes and new leaders emerging.
On a simply outstanding racing day for the first of the three-day Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week regatta, many teams got off the dock early prior to a 1pm first gun and headed out to see what Long Beach was going to deliver on day 1. With a WSW breeze in the 12-17 knot range, two races were sailed in most classes and extremely satisfied customers celebrated a fun day on the water at post-race f
Allie Tsai has chartered a Catalina 37 (C37) to race Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week which kicks off on Friday. She and her crew took second in class last year and while she’s fielding a team deep in talent, she claims that the eleven-strong fleet registered this year will be tough.
On a light-air, four-race day, the final standings in a top-flight competitive fleet are as likely to come down to the mistakes you avoid as the things you do right. That was the case in ORC B at the 170th Annual Regatta. David Team’s Vesper squad fought all day with rival Fox, skippered by Victor Wild, doing most everything as right as can be expected on a very challenging day.
Team Vayu, the Whitcraft family crew from Thailand, kept their nerves and seized every opportunity they could, to win the XS 52 SUPER SERIES Newport Trophy today at the end of two dramatic last races contested in light winds off Newport, Rhode Island.
Jeff Janov, owner of the Melges 32 appropriately named The Baby Screams, has been racing Ullmans Sails Long Beach Race Week (LBRW) since around 1982.
After winning the second race today Quantum Racing powered by American Magic have now taking three winning guns from four starts at the XS 52 SUPER SERIES Newport Trophy to lead by eight points ahead of the Thai flagged Team Vayu.
The four classes racing under the ORC rule at the 170th Annual Regatta break into two groups. Class A and Class B feature some of the country’s elite big-boat programs, four 60- and 70-footers in former and four TP52s and a speedy new Botin ORC 45-footer in the latter.
With two wins from two light airs races Doug DeVos’ Quantum Racing powered by American Magic crew made the best possible start to the 52 SUPER SERIES’ first ever races to be hosted by their home yacht club, the New York Yacht Club.
Just on cue, after a somewhat wet weekend, Newport RI turned on both sun and wind for the official practice race day for XS 52 SUPER SERIES Newport RI Trophy, the second event of the 2024 52 SUPER SERIES season. And the good news is the breezes look set to be in for the full wee, according to some of the fleet’s top navigators.
After claiming first-place in the first leg (Charleston, S.C. to Newport R.I.) second leg (Newport to Portland, M.E.) and day one of the third leg (Coastal Series) – Acrobatica becomes just the second team (2016 Spanish team Tales II) in Atlantic Cup history to win each leg of competition raced; a testament to the world-class skill and dominance of Riva and Marre.
There are few better indications of the health of a one-design fleet than the presence of new blood. Whether it serves to combat attrition, inject enthusiasm or introduce new ideas—or all three—an influx of new skippers, sailors and teams is never a bad thing for a one-design class.
In the 13 year history of the 52 SUPER SERIES it is hard to remember a level of excitement shared so universally through the fleet ahead of next week’s first ever circuit regatta to be hosted by the New York Yacht Club on the historic racing waters off Newport, Rhode Island.
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