Top 10 as of 7/16/23 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Twilight Series 2 started with a fantastic night for sailing with a 10-15 knot southerly. Inexplicably, turnout was muted with only four boats showing up, perhaps due to people being away, yacht club cruises, or maybe due to the forecast of gusts … Read more
Top 10 as of 7/9/23 Thursday proved to be yet another perfect night for racing, featuring sunny skies, warm temps and nice sea breeze. The evening also featured one of the first general recalls I can remember on a Thursday night. Here is our summary from Steve Uhl. “Nine boats made it out for a … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more