regattas
A Return to Racing After a Pandemic
In the spring of 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was just beginning to surge across the country, many municipalities and health departments banned all competitive sailing. This left yacht clubs, sailing schools, non-profits and other sailing organizations nationwide facing the ...read more
A Racer’s Bucket List
The Heineken Regatta Need a dose of warm sunshine, hot competition and strong breeze to shake off the winter blues? The annual Heineken Regatta is perfectly timed and placed to provide all three. It’s four intense days of racing around the island of St. Maarten/St. Martin, ...read more
Classic Boats get Together in France
Photos courtesy of Simon Cohen; Alexis Courcoux; Jose Guijarro Back in 1992, when I was working at a British sailing magazine, I volunteered for some tough duty—covering the first International Festival of Sail in Brest, France. Someone had to do it, and as a wooden-boat owner, ...read more
Phaedo3 Team Crush the Caribbean 600’s Course Record
Antigua hosts some of the world’s best regattas, so it’s no surprise that an “unofficial” around-the-island record exists. While practicing for this year’s Caribbean 600 distance race, Lloyd Thornburg and his star-studded crew aboard Phaedo3, his new MOD70 trimaran, obliterated ...read more
Regattas: Comparing Sailors From Opposite Coast
On the East Coast, West Coast, and Gulf Coast...on the Great Lakes and all the little lakes and rivers, too—most American sailors have been wooed at one point or another by the siren call of an occasional low-stress, mid-week race. (OK, perhaps it was the skipper’s promise of ...read more