Road To The Cup – Week 13

Top-10 as of 8/20/23 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing The Thursday night forecast was for cloudy, in the 60s with an easterly at 5-10. That less-than-festive forecast, combined with vacations, earlier start time and having to do the laundry left the turnout a bit thin at just three boats. John Casler was … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 12

Top-10 as of 8/13/23 What You Need To Know Last Week’s Racing There was no Twilight race again this week, this time due to the threat of thunderstorms. Out on the MRA line, for the second straight week, we had four classes on one combined line, due primarily to the Corinthian Classic Regatta. Turnout was … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 11

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 … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 10 – Race Week Edition

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. … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 9

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 … Read more

Road To The Cup – Week 8

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

Road To The Cup – Week 7

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

Road To The Cup – Week 6

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

Road To The Cup – Week 5

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

Road To The Cup – Week 4

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