Conanicut Yacht Club's annual Around the Island Racecircumnavigates Conanicut Island every Labor Day weekend. This is an end of season event for many sailors, and allows for a last friendly hoorah with mostly PHRF and a few One Design fleets. This year's event was slightly unusual compared to most years, as a stiff northeasterly breeze hung around most of the week through the weekend. Rain and...
A week before Race Week, Newport was host to the Opti New England Championship Regatta for the second time in the past three years. There were almost 100 more boats than the last time this event visited Narragansett Bay in 2014, and with about 100 boats to a total of 4 starts, it was attack of the optis all over again!Sailors come from throughout the region to compete, but others travel from...
This year I was asked to photograph the start for the Ida Lewis Distance Race, and I happily accepted the offer to contribute to this terrific annual regatta! This long standing distance race was hosting it's 12th iteration this summer, and sent sailors of various PHRF classes off in all directions around Buzzards Bay Tower, Block Island, Sakonnet, Point Judith and back again. 2016 hosted 34 boats...
The New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta hosted its 162nd iteration this year to big sun and breeze! This even was the same weekend as Wickford Regatta and saw the same cloudy and stormy Saturday, and breezy Sunday. But I was out on the water with them for the Friday Around the Island Race to kick off the regatta weekend.
Friday started with high winds in the morning that faded around noontime and...
This was my fourth year shooting the Wickford Regatta. I couldn't believe that it had been that long, and that I was able to revisit this one event so consistently! It was a unique year for this regatta as well. Saturday was overcast and rainy, with threat of a squall rolling through that afternoon. I wasn't in attendance for Day One, but both Alpha and Bravo circles completed a race or two in the...
