Congratulations to David Nelson, Frank Hart and Crew, from Fleet 46 (Hingham), for winning the 125 Marblehead Race Week just edging out Jim and Charlie and overcoming Evan and Pete’s 3x bullets (full results.) It was a grueling 10-race series with punishing conditions including large shifts, wildly varying velocity and steep chop. We were lucky enough to have Chuck Allen from North Sails on the water taking some photo and video, in addition to photos by Tim Wilkes. Also don’t miss NOOD’s own coverage of the event, which also includes some video.
Nat Taylor
Race Week Party on 7/24
Don’t miss Fleet 5’s annual Race Week Party, graciously hosted this year by Steve Uhl!
Friday Evening Racing with Greg Wilkinson
Quick, wrap things up at the office and head to Marblehead for Friday Evening Racing!
Speed Tips Day with Jud Smith
Reminder to mark your calendar for Saturday, August 2nd. Jud Smith has graciously agreed to donate some of his time to help the Fleet sail faster and race better.
Meet Dru Slattery
This was first published in the May 2014 Newsletter. By Christina Pandapas Fleet 5’s talent meter went up quite a few notches when Dru Slattery bought #1090 a couple of years ago. In addition to representing the U.S. on the international match-racing circuit, at one point ranking 4th in the world and 1st in the … Read more
Greeting from the Prez – May 2014
This was first published in the May 2014 Newsletter. We have the first weekend of racing in the books! With 10 boats on the line, the Rhodes fleet had a strong showing. We are ready for Season 2014! Fleet Website Nat Taylor has been hard at work renovating our fleet web site. The new site … Read more
2014 Registration Party
Don’t miss this year’s registration party: April 24th, 7PM The Shoreman Home 34 Ticehurst Lane RSVP Here
Sail Numbers and Ski Jackets
This was first published in the February 2014 Newsletter. By Christina Pandapas It was truly astonishing. There were so many Fleet 5ers at Sugarloaf over the holidays I’m surprised the left side of every lift line wasn’t overrun. In fact, next year I’m proposing we all put our sail numbers on our jackets, assemble at … Read more
Welcome – Feburary 2014
This was first published in the February 2014 Newsletter. Rumor has it that Dave Nelson from the Hingham fleet plans on keeping his boat at Parker’s this year. Dave honed his racing skills at Pleon with the likes of Frank Hart, Mark Crawford, Doug Buell and Jon Cressy all national champions. Dave will be … Read more