Top 10 as of 7/2/23 Let’s start with last week’s East Coasts. As you may recall, five teams made the trek, including Teams Lane, Dailey, Uhl / Lane, Shoreman / Reynolds and Frisch / Hourihan. Here is a summary, courtesy of Steve Uhl. “Hull and Hingham ran a great event in trying conditions. Day 1…
Top 10 as of 6/25/23 Just five teams showed up for what proved to be a spectacular evening for Twilights. Here is a quick summary from Steve Uhl. “Another beautiful twilight evening with an easterly that held up pretty much the whole race. Too bad only five boats showed up. We had a nice long…
Top 10 as of 6/18/23 Seven Twilight teams were treated this week to one of the nicer Thursday evenings of this early summer. Here is a summary from Steve Uhl. “Despite a dreary week, the weather gods blessed us with a beautiful twilight evening with a light but solid northwesterly that held up nicely through…
Top 10 as of 6/11/23 Eight teams made it out Thursday night for what proved to be a drifter. Four of those made their 2023 Twilight debuts, including Team Colehower, racing 1790 this season, Anne Marije Veenland, sailing with Emily Westhoven, Tim McCaffrey and Jay Wager. Huge welcome to them. We’ll start with Steve Uhl’s…
Greetings From the Prez Happy 2023! I haven’t got a clue how it got to be 2023. Last I remember, our boys were little and we were worried about race-day babysitters. Now they’re 20 and 23 and chasing babysitters of their own. Not kidding. My oldest is dating a nanny. Not sure what to…
ROAD TO THE CUP – HOLIDAY EDITION DECEMBER 2022 Dear Santa, It’s me again, and I’m wondering how the hell we got to December so fast. Honestly, it seems like just yesterday we were enjoying the Marblehead summer, racing sailboats, drinking rum and talking with our hands. Yet here we are,…
Road To The Cup – Week 15 – Labor Day Edition Top-10 as of 9/5/22 Eight boats made it out for the final Twilight of our short season, which was held on a picture-perfect evening featuring 10-12 from the northwest and relatively flat seas. Unsurprisingly, three of those teams were among the top five…
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 14 Top-10 as of 8/28/22 Let’s start with Nationals. Fleet 12 and the Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club threw a fantastic event that included great racing, warm hospitality and plenty of socializing. Regatta Chair John Walter and his team rolled out the red carpet and couldn’t…
Road To The Cup – Week 12 Top-10 as of 8/14/22 Nine boats did beer can battle this week on a picture-perfect evening. Here is the summary from Steve Uhl. “Nine boats showed up for a delightful twilight race with a healthy southeasterly. The course was Chappell Ledge, then a nice long beat to…