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Road To The Cup ­ Week 6

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*Road To The Cup – Week 6* *Top-10 as of 6/27/15* The mailbag this week was virtually overflowing with positive feedback about *Charlie Pendleton’s* two-week guest stint authoring this publication. In fact, the consensus view was that he actually added a little class to the rag. Well done, Charlie. One generous reader even went so … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 5

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*Road To The Cup – Week 5 (East Coasts Edition)* *Top-10 as of 6/15/15* (With Kim traveling, this week’s Road To The Cup is brought to you by Charlie Pendleton.) We had a lot of racing activity this week between the Twilight Series, regular MRA Saturday and of course, the East Coast Champs. *Twilight Series*: … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 3

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*Road To The Cup – Week 3* *Top-10 as of 6/7/15* In the mailbag this week, my observations of last week’s racing provoked some interesting comments, the most insightful of which came from a noted college coach and is paraphrased below: “That stuff you noticed about ducking boats – blowing the jib – check out … Read more

Road To The Cup ­ Mother’s Day Edition

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*Road To The Cup – Mother’s Day Edition* *2015 Preview** -5/9/15* You know you’re getting close when you start running into all if the familiar faces. I’ve run into virtually half the fleet in the past two weeks, and that was just at Crosby’s. Add in the fleet meeting, visits to the hardware store, yacht … Read more

Tuning Pictures from Jud

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Huge Thanks goes out to Jud Smith, who managed to get some decent photos and deliver a killer tuning clinic, despite the conditions. Here’s the link to photos.

Race Week 2014 Wrap Up

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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.

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