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The Sam Wetherill is organized by the Essex Yacht Club and invites NEMA-rated multihulls to the race from the Old Saybrook lighthouse at the mouth of the Connecticut River to Gay Head at Martha's Vineyard and back, leaving Block Island to starboard. Register through Yachtscoring: https://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu/16943.
This event will count as an offshore event for purposes of eligibility for the NEMA Moxie Trophy, provided three NEMA-rated boats enter and start.
The regatta will be held in Nantucket Sound, the start area will be in the vicinity of the Hyannis Port jetty and the finish area will be in the vicinity of the entrance to Nantucket Harbor. See Sailing Instructions for details. Hyannis Yacht Club is the host for the pre-regatta events. Nantucket Boat Basin and vicinity is the area of the Nantucket based events. See Official Program Book for details.
https://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu/17002
Saturday 22 mile race from Newport to New Harbor Block Island. Cheap dockage at Paynes Dock. Social at Block SAT PM and SUN AM/PM. Leave when you desire. NPT YC Monohull fleet stays till Monday.
https://bba.crew-mgr.com/event/owen-mitchell-spring-bi-race-2025/
NEMA POC: Avram Dorfman
Similar to Solo/Twin, but reverse course and fully crewed. Start/finish out of Padenaram.
New Bedford Yacht Club’s Whaler’s Race is an open distance race event with courses set in the waters of Buzzards Bay, Vineyard Sound, Rhode Island Sound, and the open ocean waters surrounding Block Island.
Racing starts and finishes outside the breakwater of Padanaram harbor and traverses the bay towards Noman’s Island then heads west to sail around Block Island before returning to Buzzards Bay and the finish. Racers have the choice of short or long courses of either 73 or 105 nautical miles to suit the conditions or crew experience level.
https://theclubspot.com/regatta/BLZwDUcZbF
https://www.nbyc.com/racing
NEMA POC: Don Watson (donaldclarkewatson@gmail.com)
Spring Off Soundings will be Friday June 13 and Saturday June 14. As usual, the race will sail from Watch Hill to Block Island on Friday and around BI on Saturday. Multihulls are last to start and try to catch all the monohulls (and there are many of them!). Notwithstanding any superstitions, we expect some good breeze this year. Registration has not opened yet, but check ii out at https://www.offsoundings.org/osc-spring-race-series/.
Solstice Cruise with NEMA and friends to the Mystic Seaport Museum and several beautiful anchorages nearby.
As a part of the cruise we’ll spend two nights at the Seaport Museum, June 21 and 22. That will give us a full day to relax and enjoy that very special location. The Museum is giving a discount on dockage and holding weekend dock space for us, but they ask that we reserve dockage without delay.
Current thinking about the itinerary is as follows:
For the boats coming from the East:
For the full fleet:
For boats coming by trailer
Please join. Feedback is welcome. Please weigh in on what would make it easier for you to participate. Most important, please commit to the project and reserve your dock space.
[1] More detail about Mystic Seaport Museum:
As cruisers we will have full access to the property after hours. The Museum has 19 acres of everything nautical and a town that has been faithfully restored to the year 1876. It really is a “must see” for anyone who loves boats and/or American history. The Seaport Museum has excellent showers, laundry and other facilities for cruisers. Dock fees are $6/foot rather than $7/foot. Book on Dockwa; mention NEMA in the comments to get the discount. Dock fees include entrance to the property (24 hours) for all aboard. To avoid dock fees you have the option to anchor upriver and dinghy to the Museum. In that case each visitor will have to purchase a daily ticket, but you will have after-hours access to the property also. We encourage folks to join us at the dock for convenience and to support this worthy cause, but the dinghy option is just fine too.
The annual gathering of multihulls for the pursuit race from Vineyard Haven to Edgartown and back shall be held Saturday July 19, 2025. It will be the first race in the Triple Crown Series, which includes the Corsair Nationals-Buzzards Bay Multihull Regatta on July 25-26-27 at the Beverly Yacht Club, and the Newport Unlimited on August 9-10. More details and registration will be coming soon, but save the dates now.
Sea Cliff YC, Long Island NY - 200mi fully crewed distance race starting in NYC and ending on NW shore of Long Island at Sea Cliff YC.
Registration: https://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu/50029
More Information: http://alir.org/
Shana Spanier-Ciniski Regatta Chair (516) 671-7374 alir@seacliffyc.org
Regatta Desk 516-945-9209 (While Race In Progress)
Singlehanded and Doublehanded classes will start on Friday. The courses consist of ocean triangles of from 65-125 miles in length, which begin and end in Narragansett Bay, and which vary for the Monohulls, Multihulls and Cruising Canvas divisions.
Typically 100mi double-handed race from NPT around Block, to a buoy off MV, back to Pt. Judith, then finish at NPT. Fri noon start.
Registration Link
http://www.newportyachtclub.org/Racing/Offshore/NESoloTwin/new-england-solo-twin
The Corsair Nationals and the Buzzards Bay Multihull Regatta (BBMR) will return to Buzzards Bay courtesy of our hosts at the Beverly Yacht Club. Registration is open through the Regatta Network: https://www.regattanetwork.com/event/29243
This event includes a Distance Race Friday 7/25 and windward-leeward races Saturday and Sunday. Mary Ellen DeFrias, who was our PRO for the 2023 Corsair Nationals, has kindly volunteered again. The CN-BBMR is one week after the Black Dog Dash and two weeks before the Newport Unlimited; these three regattas qualify for the new NEMA Triple Crown, won for the first time in 2024 by SaraJane Whitfield and her husband Jonathan on Wicked Wahine, a Corsair 24. To be eligible, skippers must enter all three events.
The CN-BBMR is sponsored by Corsair but it is open to all trimarans ranging from 19 to 41 feet. The NOR is posted on the Regatta Network site and here: https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/regatta_uploads/29243/NOR2025CNBBMRRegNet5165505.1.pdf
Our current additional sponsors are Colligo Marine, supplying multihull-friendly reliable dyneema shrouds, headsail furlers, and many other rigging devices; Bolt Depot, which sells high-quality stainless fasteners (among many other things); and Windcraft Multihulls of the Northwest Coast of Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. We also have support from Bob Gleason and Ira Heller at The MultihullSource.
We are actively seeking additional sponsors to support the event (the tent; beer and food; trophies; assistance with logistics; etc).
The Newport Unlimited is a two-day regatta open to all NEMA-rated multihulls. Buoy Racing Saturday August 10 usually North of the Newport Bridge; distance race Sunday August 11, usually around Conanicut Island. The Unlimited is the third regatta in the Triple Crown contest that starts with the Black Dog Dash July 19 in Martha's Vineyard and continues with the Corsair Nationals -Buzzards Bay Multihull Regatta July 25-26-27. To wear the Golden Crown (studded with saphires, rubies, and other special gems) you must sail in all three events and get the best combined score.
Registration will open soon. Save the date and make your plans.
NEMA Contact: Avram Dorfman
Organized by NAASA, the F-18 fleet.
This is a distance race in the spirit of bigger beach-cat endurance races like the Tybee 500 and Worrell 1000.
The format is two "legs," one Saturday and one Sunday, with the results added together to determine overall finish times. The "legs" are really distance courses in their own right in Narragansett Bay, both starting and ending in Newport, RI.
NAASA requires five boats for a NEMA fleet.
NEMA POC for this event is Avram Dorfman.
For more information, go to https://sailnaasa.org/schedule/
This 250-mile course stretches from Shippan Point to the light tower at the entrance to Buzzard's Bay, and then a return to the finish in Stamford Harbor.
Registration not yet open--just mark your calendars. A multihull fleet will be included.
This is a race across Long Island Sound (which is not going to be re-named Connecticut Sound) . . .The Fall Off-Soundings race goes rom New London to Greenport/Shelter Island/Gardiners Bay Friday September 12 and Saturday the 13th. Do battle with the tidal flow in and out of The Race, avoid surfacing atomic submarines, and pass 90 monohulls (Get out of the way!!!) on Friday; buoy racing Saturday; and join the parties on the North Fork of Long Island. Registration to be posted on the Off-Soundings.org website.
Single Saturday race around Jamestown about 19mi. Typically 80 monohulls and good charity.
Info. https://sailnewport.org/calendar/25-sail-for-hope/
Sail Newport Brad Read (401) 846-1983 regattas@sailnewport.org
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