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3 weeks ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Vincent Pica |Benjamin Cesare
We tend to see report cards as documents focused only on the past. But the 2025 Long Island Sound Beach Report, released by Save the Sound just before Memorial Day Weekend, is as much about the future. Yes, the biennial Beach Report presents water quality grades from recent swimming seasons—2022 through 2024, in this case. It evaluates how water samples collected at roughly 200 public and private beaches around the Sound performed against state safe swimming standards in New York and Connecticut.
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4 weeks ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Benjamin Cesare |Tom Darling |Joe Cooper
The 4th Annual CT Sea Music Festival will drop anchor in historic downtown Essex, CT the weekend of June 6-9. This family-friendly weekend includes a Symposium on the Music of the Sea, free daytime workshops and concerts featuring local, regional, and international maritime performers, a family stage, demonstrations of sailor skills, sails on the Connecticut River, a Sunday morning revival-style hymn sing, and late-night Chantey Sings in the Griswold Inn and the Essex Corinthian Yacht Club.
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4 weeks ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Benjamin Cesare |Tom Darling |John K. Fulweiler
TEMO, the French manufacturer of ‘the lightest outboard motor in the world’, has released the TEMO 1000 in North America. The new electric outboard is a follow up to the very popular TEMO 450 released in 2018. “The innovative tubular design of the 450 is ideal for smaller vessels,” says TEMO co-founder and CEO Alexandre Seux. “The 1000 offers more power for larger boats and needs more flexibility in propeller positioning.
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4 weeks ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |David Dellenbaugh |Vincent Pica |Benjamin Cesare
Zim Sailing has announced that production of the ISCA® (International Sunfish Class Association™) sailboat is underway in Bristol, RI. Extensive testing both on and off the water is complete, and the first boats will be delivered to customers and dealers nationwide in the coming weeks. Interested sailors are encouraged to request a quote and place a deposit now to get on the water this summer.
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4 weeks ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Benjamin Cesare |Joe Cooper |Vincent Pica |Chris Szepessy
I have mentioned this before. I like to beach. I remember as a junior sailing kid, we used to call the less proficient kids, or adults for that matter, “beachers.” And of course, ugly boats were called “beacher craft.” “Can you believe that beacher tacked on us? So un-cool!” Or, “Check out that beacher craft in the channel…thing is soooo ugly!” I suppose it was less rude than “check out that POS 36,” but still, we certainly were arrogant little pricks.
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1 month ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |David Dellenbaugh |John K. Fulweiler |Benjamin Cesare
By Aurora “Rory” Meunier MottPhotos by the author and Erica LushWho knew that a meeting over coffee would lead to a plane ticket to France? At the end of December 2024, I was invited to a breakfast meet and greet with my friend Ellie Menezes (with whom I’ve been sailing for about five years), Joe Cooper (my Prout Sailing coach) and shorthanded offshore racer Erica Lush. I’d heard of Erica and wanted to know a bit more about what she does as a sailor.
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1 month ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Benjamin Cesare |John K. Fulweiler |Vincent Pica
Lagoon Catamaran, the world-renowned builder of premium cruising catamarans, is proud to announce the appointment of its new exclusive dealership for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. The new dealership, operating under the name Signature Catamarans, will serve discerning sailors and yacht owners from Virginia to Maine.
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1 month ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Joe Cooper |Benjamin Cesare |Vincent Pica
Our friends at Sound Sailing Center won their class at the 51st St. Thomas International Regatta in their Caribbean racer/cruiser Tatihou, a 2012 Jeanneau 409. Club members had sailed Tatihou from Connecticut to Bermuda and on to St. Thomas in December, as they have done for many years, and have now notched their second win in the Jewel of Caribbean Racing, hosted by the St. Thomas Yacht Club March 28-30.
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1 month ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Benjamin Cesare |Chris Szepessy |John K. Fulweiler |Joe Cooper
Well April was busy, just like we said it would be. CT Spring Boat Show was a blast despite a typical spring mix of sun, rain, breeze on and decent 60s temps. The Annapolis Spring Sailboat Show had much of the same. But with that all out of the way, it’s time to get serious about the prep-and-go time of year!This is a Marion Bermuda Race year as well as Storm Trysail Club Block Island Race Week for you big boat sailors, but there are a host of events happening between now and June.
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2 months ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Benjamin Cesare |Barby MacGowan |Chris Szepessy
Welcome to the CT Spring Boat Show, 2025! Cat’s Paw, LLC, and WindCheck Magazine are proud to manage this unique event for the participating Yacht Brokers and Exhibitors that serve the Boating Communities of Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York.
