Tom Darling

3 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.

3 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.

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.

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.

1 month ago | windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Tom Darling |Joe Cooper

Editor’s note: In mid-March, four sailors from Connecticut and Rhode Island traveled to the Principality of Monaco to compete in the Tropheé Virginie Hériot, an all-women’s regatta hosted by the Yacht Club de Monaco and sailed in J/70s. The event celebrates Virginie Hériot (1890-1932), who was known as ‘Madame de la Mer.’ She is the first woman to win an Olympic Sailing gold medal, as part of a mostly male 8 Metre team at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.