Thursday, August 25, 2011
SSYC is celebrating 75 years of sailing on the Shrewsbury River in Oceanport. On Wednesday, they held their first Junior Regatta.
Sailors and boats came from all over, there was a sailor from Texas who was stopping to race here on his way home from Canada, boats came from as far north as Nyack Boat Club in New York, and as close as across the river from Rumson Yacht Club. Over 60 boats competed in the first annual Junior Regatta at SSYC. As well as the Junior Regatta, sailors competed Wednesday for the NJYRA Class Championship in C420s and Optimist, Red, White and Blue Fleets. Maureen Kearney organized the regatta, with John Garth as the PRO. In the morning winds were out of the SW 5-7 knots with a forecast that they would build to 12-15 knots by the afternoon. Three races were completed in the morning followed by a break for lunch and two races after lunch. …
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
More than 100 Junior sailors from area clubs compete for bragging rights this week. Junior Sweeps Week is being held this week, Monday and Tuesday at SSYC and Wednesday and Thursday at MBC.
Six area boat clubs will compete in Junior Sweeps this week, including the Fair Haven Sailing Club “River Rats,” Monmouth Boat Club, Keyport Yacht Club, Rumson Yacht Club, Atlantic Highlands Sail Education Program and Shrewsbury Sailing and Yacht Club. The area clubs take turns organizing the four day event, and this year, Kelly and Brian Duddy from Rumson Yacht Club are responsible for the event. The Junior Sweepstakes Regatta consists of 4 days of races. After questioning a number of adults who participated as children, we know the Sweeps goes back as far as 1972. If you can put a different number on it please email the author, we would love to set the record straight. The organized Regatta is at least 39 years old. On August 8th …
Monday, July 18, 2011
Under puffy white clouds and beautiful blue skies, sailors had a perfect day for their one race regatta
If you happened to drive over the bridge from Little Silver to Oceanport Sunday afternoon, you may have caught a glimpse of the boats out on the Shrewsbury River, competing in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Shrewsbury Sailing and Yacht Club. The format for the regatta was a Portsmouth Yardstick, which rates boats of different classes sailing the same course. This uses a time-on-time handicapping system, with each class of boat given a documented rating. There were cruising boats, 420’s, Lasers, Comets, Sanderlings, WoodPussys, and Flying Scots. (I hope I didn’t miss anyone, apologies if I did! ) Portsmouth Numbers are defined as the length of time boats would take to sail a common, but unspecified distance. Each skipper who …
Patricia Hart Zackman
8:27 pm on Tuesday, August 9, 2011
OK, Pat Corr, Jr just put the year as 1966....thanks Pat! more ›