Fleet 5 February Newsletter!

Nationals: Winning Tips from the 2019 Champs Boats begin arriving in Marblehead for the 2021 Rhodes 19 Nationals today and no doubt skippers and crews are already getting their heads in the game – looking at the forecast, talking through what they know about local conditions, and sizing up the competition. To help all the…

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…

  Road To The Cup – Week 12 Top-10 as of 8/13/17   Twilights this week looked like a dying southerly that still had a few kicks left in it.  Here is the rundown from John Casler.   “The wind was out of the South at 6-8, with significantly interesting gusts.  The course was out…

Please save the date for the 2017 Rhodes 19 Nationals: August 17-20, 2017 hosted by the Eastern Yacht Club | Marblehead, MA More information coming soon to:  http://r19nationals.com

Fleet 5ers, In case you missed yesterday’s MRA Fall Series notice, the MRA will be unable to support the Fall Series this season.  Although the three days of Fall Series were included on the MRA calendar, it turns out that the three RCs won’t have capacity to run Fall Series races as they will all be…

Road To The Cup – Week 12 Top-10 as of 8/12/18 We heard of no R19 action in last Sunday’s morning series. Seven boats made it out for Thursday night Twilights, but in the end, only five of them actually raced. The forecast was for a light southwesterly with a chance of thunderstorms, and that,…