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
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
Road To The Cup – Week 18 – Final Edition Top-10 as of 9/22/24 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Mother Nature delivered an abrupt and unceremonious end to our season this weekend in the form of a stubborn low-pressure system sitting just southeast of New England that appeared in nohurry to go … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 17 Top-17 as of 9/15/24 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Six teams came out to enjoy some of the best conditions we’ve had all summer, includingAlix (Israel) Houldin, out for the second time in her new boat. Welcome! Also out was Twilight champWalter Colsman, helming with … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 16 Top-10 as of 9/8/24 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Our season is winding down. With no more Twilight racing, there was just one scored race day this week – Day 1 of the fall Series. Four team made it out for what proved to be … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 15 – Labor Day Edition Top-10 as of 9/2/24 What You Need To Know Labor Day Regatta & Party – Huge thanks to everyone who helped to make the Labor Day Regatta a success. It wasJoe Fava’s brainchild, and he did all the organizing, trophies etc., so huge thanks … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 14 – Nationals Edition Top-10 as of 8/26/24 Before we start, I’d like to take a moment to rememberHenry Peper III, who passed away on August 5th. Long-time fleet members will remember that Henry sailed often with his dadHenry Peper Jr. on their boat Chili. Both he and his … Read more
Road To The Cup – Week 13 Top-10 as of 8/18/24 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Yet another Twilight washout, and this one was particularly tough on PRODavid Graham, who doesn’t like to cancel races. The Thursday’s forecast included thunderstorms aiming right at us from the northwest. Though generally predicted to be … Read more