Mobility Cup 2007 will be run by Sail Able Nova Scotia and hosted at the Dartmouth Yacht Club. It will run from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, to include one day of training and four days of racing. Sailing will be on the Bedford Basin, a sheltered body of water two miles wide and five […]
Maureen McKinnnon-Tucker, who is training with Mark Lewis for the Paralympics in the SKUD-18, reports on the Pre-Trials in Newport. “We set a speed record for the SKUD-18 class during one practice, clocking 12.2 knots of boat speed on the GPS in 15-18 knots of wind.”
Rebecca Stanley won the Gold Fleet and Dave Whalen took first in the Silver, in the 7th Annual Y-Knot Cup Regatta. Check out the complete results and event photos.
Only two weeks left to register for the 7th Annual Y-Knot Cup Regatta. Moving the date this year to the second weekend in September will ensure warmer weather and warmer water, so we should all be wearing more sunscreen than fleece for a change! Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions are available for download on […]
“The four US teams held the first SKUD-18 regatta in the world (as far as we know) during the Marblehead NOOD, July 28th – 30th. It was a pretty typical Marblehead Race Week, mostly light, under 10 knots of breeze. The boat is not too exciting in those non-planing conditions…”
At the Crew Overboard Rescue Symposium, held in August 2005 on San Francisco Bay, 115 volunteers conducted almost 400 tests of 40 types of rescue gear and many maneuvers; the final report is available in both PDF and Word format at the Boat US site. Every sailor should review this information. It’s a great report […]
An avid lifelong sailor, Steve joined Y-Knot after experiencing a stroke several years ago. This year he competed in the 33rd annual Ticonderoga Race, which sails much of the length of Lake George. Steve shares his experience below. The whole story of the is race is amusing. As you know, I race when I am […]
Memorial Day weekend saw the first sunny weather upstate New York had experienced for what seemed like several weeks. So plenty of spectators were on hand to watch the Sagamore Hotel’s annual Chowder Cup regatta. Several sailors competed in the Martin16 fleet: Y-Knot veterans Steve Mintz and Rebecca Stanley, Curt Leatherbee, who heads the racing […]
Y-Knot’s exhibit of two Martin16s drew visitors at the NYS Governor’s Expo on Assistive Technology at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center on May 11. The bi-annual conference drew exhibitors, presentors and attendees from across New York State. Y-Knot members and volunteers spent the day answering questions and talking sailing with dozens of interested participants.
Danny McCoy, one of Canada’s top Martin16 sailors and a long-time friend of Y-Knot, is competing in Bermuda in the International Etchells class thanks to a new modified helm design: “The seat slides from side to side and a canting system, operated by a crewmember using a rope, enables McCoy to tilt with the boat. […]