Road To The Cup – Week 4 6/15/25 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Just four boats made it out for the Twilight race on Thursday night. Conditions, I suspect, played a part in the conservative turnout, as it was blowing in the 20s most of the day. The Townies, in fact, cancelled … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 3 6/8/25 Congrats to the World Champions! Before we get to our usual programming, I’d like to give a well-deserved shoutout to Team CYC, who travelled to Newport for the 2025 Team Race World Championship last weekend and got it done. This was a big deal! Twelve teams from … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 2 6/1/25 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Light turnout this week. Just three boats made it out for the inaugural Twilight race of 2025, due in part to the earliness of the season, but also I expect to the conditions, which included flat and fog. Here … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 1 5/26/25 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing There was no Twilight race this week. Out on the MRA line, what was to have been a 2-day start to our MRA season ended up just one day, as Saturday was a casualty of Thursday’s nor’easter. Saturday’s conditions … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 0 2025 Preview – 5/18/25 What You Need To Know Time To Register – Registration is open for everything so get it done. Details and links below. MRA Opening Day – Saturday May 24th MRA kicks off the 2025 season on Saturday and Sunday, May 24-25. Racing is scheduled for the South Line, … Read more
GREETINGS FROM THE PREZ I’d like to start with an enthusiast happy birthday to our man on the street, Mr. Thursday night, John Casler, who turned 80 years young on April 15th. Imagine that. John isn’t just a member of Fleet 5, he is Fleet 5. He’s done so much – in fact just about … Read more
GREETINGS FROM THE PREZ I don’t know about you, but March always sneaks up on me. One minute you’re skiing and watching the Superbowl, and the next the clocks are springing forward and it’s time to start digging into boat lists. Believe it or not, our first gun is in just 12 weeks. 12 weeks! So it’s … Read more
Greetings From the Prez Happy new year. Well here we go again. Today begins yet another Fleet 5 season – my 31st but who’s counting. It’s hard to wrap my head around 31 seasons. I suppose that makes me an old-timer, alongside the likes of people like Jim Taylor, Steve Uhl and Mike … Read more
ROAD TO THE CUP – HOLIDAY EDITION DECEMBER 2024 Fleet 5’s 2024 Year in Review Well, I’m glad that’s over. I mean how many campaign ads can you watch before wanting to plunge an ice pick in your ear? Let’s be honest – there was no end to the craziness in 2024, and we really … Read more
Greetings From the Prez Novemberalready! Where does the time go? Our season might be short, but we somehow manage to cram a lot in. And over the short season, this passion of ours tends to provoke the full range of emotions – nerves,joy, elation, gut-wrenching disappointment, pride, jealousy, anger, resolve to do better – it’s … Read more