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NYYC Race Week at Newport Presented by RolexOne-Design, IRC and PHRF Racers Start Racing
NEWPORT, R.I. (July 23, 2008) -- With but a few days to recharge, the New York Yacht Club (NYYC) race office is in full swing again for the second half of its sixth biennial Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex. (Last weekend, classic yachts sailed in the first half of Race Week, which also doubled as the club's 100th birthday celebration for famed yacht designer Olin J. Stephens.) Starting tomorrow, two IRC, two PHRF and four one-design classes will begin a four-day racing series that includes the 2008 North American Championship for NYYC Club Swan 42s, the North American Championship for J/109s, the East Coast Championship for J/122s, and the Northeast Championship for Beneteau First 36.7s. Joining the racing on Friday will be both the Melges 32 class, sailing its National Championship, and the J/105 class, sailing its East Coast Championship. All told, 120 boats will take to the waters of Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound for an action-packed three- or four-day “weekend.”
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Previews of New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex176 Yachts are Entered -- a Record!
NEWPORT, R.I. (July 17, 2008) -- With 53 classic yachts registered to race this weekend in the first half of the New York Yacht Club's (NYYC) sixth biennial Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex, another 123 boats are prepping for the second half of the event, which starts next Thursday, July 24, and continues through Sunday, July 27. And while there are PHRF and IRC boats signed up, it looks to be shaping up as an extraordinary one-design showcase, especially for NYYC Club Swan 42s, which will be sailing their North Americans and have 21 entries, and Melges 32s, which are vying for their Nationals and have 21. In addition, J/109s are sailing their North Americans; J/105s and J/122s their East Coast Championships; and Beneteau First 36.7s their Northeast Championships. (Thumbnail shows crew of Intrepid, a two-time winner of the America's Cup -- 1967 and 1970 -- that is sailing in the Classic Regatta. Three commodores of the NYYC came from this 1967 crew: Bus Mosbacher, George R. Hinman Jr. and David K. Elwell Jr. )
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NYYC 154th Annual Regatta Presented by Rolex
110 Yachts Competed
NEWPORT, R.I. (June 15, 2008) -- Anticipation ran high throughout the New York Yacht Club's 154th Annual Regatta presented by Rolex, hosted Saturday and Sunday from the NYYC's Harbour Court Clubhouse in Newport, R.I. Competitors, designers, journalists and spectators alike were anxious to see how the newest, hottest IRC boats measured up against one another in seven IRC classes, while five other classes (one each J/105 and Farr 40 one-designs, one each for 12-Metre Modern and Classic Traditional, and one for Classics) stirred up their own excitement. A total of 110 boats competed. Photo of Numbers by Dan Nerney View More
The NYYC's 154th Annual Regatta Presented by Rolex: June 13-15
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107 Yachts are Presently Entered; Deadline to Enter is Monday June 9 at 5PM: After which an Additional Late-fee will be Charged
Some of the world's hottest new IRC designs are gathering in Newport, R.I., this summer, and the New York Yacht Club 154th Annual Regatta presented by Rolex promises to provide the first glimpse of their collective-competitive prowess. "It's going to be ultra competitive," said Dan Meyers (Boston, Mass.) about the on-water action he expects at the June 13-15 event, which precedes the 2008 Newport to Bermuda Race, a high-profile ocean race for which these same boats are preparing. "It's the first time in years that a new group of race boats like this has formed, and it will be our first real go at each other."