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35th Black Dog Dash
22 mile pursuit distance race on Saturday (7/19) from Vineyard Haven to Edgartown and back. Start at anchor with sails down.
Raft up on a beach. Prize ceremony after the race or at the party. Back by popular demand: Saturday night party with food and beer at Sailing Camp (Oak Bluffs).
Great location, great people, ALWAYS good wind!
NEMA POC: Peter Vakhutinsky (pvakhutinsky@gmail.com)
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.
This year, the Unlimited will be co-organized with NAASA (the NE F-18 fleet). This will ensure top on-water race management while sharing resources to keep costs low. (F-18 competitors have separate registration & NOR/SI's - see https://sailnaasa.org/)
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.
Register here: https://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu/50350
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.
Registration: https://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu/50007
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
NEMA POC: Avram Dorfman
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