Top-10 as of 8/6/23 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing There was no Twilight race this week due to Townie Nationals. Out on the MRA line, just five teams made it out to MRA’s consolidated line for the start of MRA Series 3, aka ‘hangover weekend.’ The weekend after Race Week has never…
Top-10 as of 7/31/23 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Fast Mermaid – Last Sunday, the BYC’s held its second annual Fast Mermaid Pursuit Race, a fund-raising event for domestic violence survivor Lindsay Smith. A tip of the cap to regatta organizer Steve Herman and the BYC for a fun and well-organized event….
Top 10 as of 7/23/23 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing Eight boats showed up for this week’s Twilight, which by the way, was the last one until August 10th (RW this week and Townie event on Thursday August 3rd). It proved notable for two reasons. First is that it was a drifter…
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…
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…
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 Well, it’s just about show time. People are filing in and the orchestra is tuning. Opening day is on May 27th, which will be here before you know it. I love opening day. Like the pageantry of opening day at Fenway, when the grass looks greener and the uniforms whiter, the…