Chris Szepessy

2 weeks ago | windcheckmagazine.com | Buttons Padin |Chris Szepessy |Tom Darling |David Dellenbaugh

By Buttons PadinThis year’s Platinum Anniversary edition of Larchmont Yacht Club’s venerable Edlu Race, held Saturday, May 10, was a quick one. A predominantly northerly breeze let the fleet of fifty-one boats sail largely rhumbline courses to and from the single turning mark off Long Island’s Eaton’s Neck, 16 miles to the east. As they say, it was a “sporty” start to the race with winds in the high teens. Many boats started with reefed mainsails and small headsails.

2 weeks ago | windcheckmagazine.com | David Dellenbaugh |Chris Szepessy |Vincent Pica |Joe Cooper

When your position in the race suddenly takes a nose dive, it’s time to re-focus your gameplan. Don’t discard your well-planned strategy, but consider making a few adjustments. Take a deep breath. Before you follow a knee-jerk reaction (which seldom works), pause for a moment and assess your situation. Think about questions like:• Is it early or late in the series? • Do you already have a throwout? • How good is your boatspeed? • How confident are you in your pre-start strategic plan?

2 weeks ago | windcheckmagazine.com | Tom Darling |Vincent Pica |Chris Szepessy |Joe Cooper

It was Memorial Day 2020, and I was not sailing. Our Classics Fleet at Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay, New York was restricted by social distancing and masks. All I could do for recreation was walk. It was as eerily quiet on the water as it was in the deep of The Ramble in New York City’s Central Park. I was walking daily during the spring of 2020, and realized I was not walking by myself; I had a soundtrack around me. That was the birds of Central Park, thousands and thousands of them.

2 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.

3 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.