Rhodes 19 Class members, Greeting from your 2020 Rhodes 19 National Championship regatta committee! As promised, our committee met on June 1st to assess the viability of holding the 2020 Nationals. We have some bad news and some good news. First the bad news. We concluded that in the current environment, we would be unable…
Fleet 5 Reminder: Sunday, July 8: David Smith Trophy The format will be a ‘clini-gatta’, led by our reigning National Champion, Tomas Hornos. Plans include a combination of practice starts, short course races, and individual on the water coaching. This is perfectly timed for our annual ramp-up to Race Week, our toughest event of this…
Road To The Cup – Week 3 – East Coasts Edition Top 10 as of 6/13/22 Our East Coasts were held in the Manchester this past weekend, hosted by the fine folks of the Manchester Yacht Club, and what a nice job they did! Huge thanks to old friend Charlie Thomas, who couldn’t have been more gracious…
Road To The Cup – Week 3 Top-10 as of 6/11/17 Conditions on Thursday for the Twilight Series were definitely a step up from the storminess earlier in the week. This from John Casler, who unfortunately was forced to sit this one out in the booth after finding a busted lower when he got…
Road To The Cup – Week 12 Top-10 as of 8/14/22 Nine boats did beer can battle this week on a picture-perfect evening. Here is the summary from Steve Uhl. “Nine boats showed up for a delightful twilight race with a healthy southeasterly. The course was Chappell Ledge, then a nice long beat to…
Road To The Cup – Week 17 Top-10 for 2018 There were informal, unscored Twilight races scheduled for both Tuesday and Thursday, but to our knowledge, no Rhodes showed up. We double checked with our man on the scene, John Casler, who sent in this. “I got some progress made on cleaning the garage floor….