Road To The Cup – Week 9 – Race Week Preview Edition

 Road To The Cup – Week 9 – Race Week Preview Edition 7/20/25 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Four teams showed up for the first race of Twilight Series 2 on a sporty evening featuring a fresh southwesterly.  Steve Uhl provides this summary. “Beautiful day, but very sporty mid-teens southwesterly conditions with … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 8

Road To The Cup – Week 8 7/13/25 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Five teams showed up on a dismal, overcast and decidedly un-festive evening for the final race of twilight Series 1.  Steve Uhl provides this brief summary. “Though a dreary, overcast day, it was great twilight conditions, with a steady … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 7

Road To The Cup – Week 7 7/6/25 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing There was no Twilight racing on Thursday due to the holiday, but here’s another look at the standings with one race left in Twilight Series 1. Out on the MRA line, conditions were pretty good, with southeast 5-10 that … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 6

Road To The Cup – Week 6 6/29/25 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Let’s start with East Coasts, which was hosted last weekend by Fleet 45 and the Cottage Park Yacht Club.  16 teams from four local fleets crossed swords over the two days and six races in classic up-and-down Boston Harbor … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 4

Road To The Cup – Week 4 6/15/25 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Just four boats made it out for the Twilight race on Thursday night.  Conditions, I suspect, played a part in the conservative turnout, as it was blowing in the 20s most of the day.  The Townies, in fact, cancelled … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 3

Road To The Cup – Week 3 6/8/25 Congrats to the World Champions! Before we get to our usual programming, I’d like to give a well-deserved shoutout to Team CYC, who travelled to Newport for the 2025 Team Race World Championship last weekend and got it done.  This was a big deal!  Twelve teams from … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 2

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

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

  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

Rules Clinic

Don’t forget that Fleet 5’s Spring Clinic will be this Thursday, May 8th at 7pm at the CYC. The event will feature a panel discussion of the new race rules. This year’s panel is among the more impressive we’ve ever assembled, and will include EYC Sailing Dean and former MIT Sailing Master Franny Charles, former … Read more