Fleet 5 January Update

 Road To The Cup – Week 5 Top 10 as of 6/23/19 The twilight race was cancelled for the second straight week due to weather.  We got the word in a Thursday afternoon email from El Jefe which went out to a distribution list that included the usual suspects. “There will be no twilight racing…

Road To The Cup – Week 9 Top 10 as of 7/21/19 Twilight Series 2 kicked off with a bang on Thursday, with 7 boats showing up, including Team Lane / Heffernan in their Twilight debut. By all accounts, it was a beautiful evening featuring a light, shifty northeasterly that got lighter as the race…

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…

Road To The Cup  – 2018 Holiday Edition Dear Santa, It’s me again, here to tell you that I’ve been good, though I’m curious.  How do you keep track of all the people making that claim? It’s got to be hard knowing whose being honest, right?  Stretching the truth seems to be all the rage…

Let’s first pause to remember the legendary Joe Duplin, who passed away on August 7th at the age of 82 (obit here).  I don’t know quite where to start.  Joe was a lot of things to a lot of people – US Navy vet, Star world champion, Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, Olympic sailing coach,…

  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…