*Road To The Cup – Week 5 (East Coasts Edition)* *Top-10 as of 6/15/15* (With Kim traveling, this week’s Road To The Cup is brought to you by Charlie Pendleton.) We had a lot of racing activity this week between the Twilight Series, regular MRA Saturday and of course, the East Coast Champs. *Twilight Series*: … Read more
*Road To The Cup – Week 3* *Top-10 as of 6/7/15* In the mailbag this week, my observations of last week’s racing provoked some interesting comments, the most insightful of which came from a noted college coach and is paraphrased below: “That stuff you noticed about ducking boats – blowing the jib – check out … Read more
*Road To The Cup – Week 2* *Top-10 as of 5/31/15* There was no racing on Thursday night due to thunderstorms. This from *John Casler*, our man on the Twilight scene. “Three crews gathered at CYC to watch the well anticipated storm sweep in. There were no boats with sails up in the harbor. It … Read more
*Road To The Cup – Mother’s Day Edition* *2015 Preview** -5/9/15* You know you’re getting close when you start running into all if the familiar faces. I’ve run into virtually half the fleet in the past two weeks, and that was just at Crosby’s. Add in the fleet meeting, visits to the hardware store, yacht … Read more
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This was first published in the October 2010 Newsletter. Did you know we launched a new version of the fleet’s web site in April? Since then we’ve had at least 1,035 visitors for a total of almost 1,364 sessions and 4,276 page views, including about 250 folks using smartphones and tablets. That’s a huge improvement … Read more
This was first published in the October 2010 Newsletter. In spite of races being cancelled due to a lack of wind, Jud Smith treated the fleet to a comprehensive de-brief. Thank you to Jud and to JP Zonnenberg for lending out his inflatable as an observation platform. Some of Jud’s observations included: In General Establish … Read more
This was first published in the October 2010 Newsletter. RACE WEEK Race Week lived up to it’s reputation for the best sailing of the season. Jennifer & Steve Uhl hosted the fleet to a wonderful party with a million dollar view. As usual, the event was packed. This year we were even treated to a … Read more
This was first published in the October 2010 Newsletter. What a phenomenal year we have had in Fleet 5! So much has happened. Fleet parties, East Coast Championships on our doorstep in Gloucester, Race Week, the National Championships nearby in Hingham, Speed Tips day with Jud Smith and of course our legendary fleet parties. On … Read more
