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1 month ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Vincent Pica |Joe Cooper
This past September, the Port Jefferson Yacht Club (PJYC) in Port Jefferson, NY held its 15th annual Village Cup Regatta, an event founded to support pancreatic cancer research through the Lustgarten Foundation, and the treatment of patients through Mather Hospital’s Palliative Care Unit in Port Jefferson. All funds raised are split 50-50 between these two organizations.
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1 month ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Joe Cooper |Chris Szepessy |Benjamin Cesare |Vincent Pica
Much rum has been spilled, I suggest, over discussions pertaining to “The Perfect Boat.” Most likely The Perfect Boat is the one that suits your purposes, closely followed by the one you have…The boats for folks who like racing, gunkholing, entertaining their mates or ocean voyaging are all vastly different, yet each owner might argue theirs is the perfect boat. Few of us are in a position to create a craft we view as the perfect boat.
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1 month ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Benjamin Cesare |Chris Szepessy |Vincent Pica
Craig Leweck, Editor of Scuttlebutt, put out a great opinion piece in the February 11th issue, “Losing Site of the Magic Formula.” The topic always hits me like banging my funny bone. It stings like hell and has no obvious cure! The issue is should classes, in this case the J/70, outlaw techniques that can really only be mastered by professional sailors. If classes can figure out a solution, they would maintain, as Craig said, the magic formula that keeps one-design participation high.
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2 months ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Vincent Pica |John K. Fulweiler
We have a long room in our house, the long side of which faces south. We try not to heat that room in the winter. The bummer is that my office is in this room. The other bummer is that there is a two-and-a-half-story house about 30 yards to the south.
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2 months ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |John K. Fulweiler |Joe Cooper |Vincent Pica
Registration is now open for the 40th biennial Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race, which will leave Marblehead Harbor on Sunday, July 6, 2025. First started in 1905, it is the oldest ocean race in North America. The 361-nautical mile race is sponsored by the Boston Yacht Club and the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Kate Somers |Chris Szepessy |Joe Cooper |Vincent Pica
By Kate Somers, risingTPhotos by Stephen R Cloutier @BlockIslandSteveThe 2024 Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta presented by ShopRite of Carteret (IOR), co-hosted by Storm Trysail Club and Larchmont Yacht Club in Larchmont, NY, concluded October 13 after two days of intense racing on Long Island Sound. The event saw participation by an impressive 326 sailors representing forty-one schools, spanning nineteen U.S. states and three Canadian provinces.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Benjamin Cesare |Chris Szepessy |Vincent Pica |Joe Cooper
Amazing? Sure. The professionalism of the teams, the astounding level of thought, effort and yes, the money spent, that was put into the boats and everything surrounding them, from the branding to the crew equipment to the support craft, to the base camps were truly impressive. The modern era, post-12 Metre, has seen the professionalism curve go continuously upward.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Vincent Pica |David Dellenbaugh |Tom Darling
Reported by Party Tree RacingThe Twenty Hundred Club Annual Block Island Race took place August 3-5 2024. This race has a long history with the Twenty Hundred Club and consists of a race to Block Island, a lay day and then a return race, originally on Victory Day. For 2024, The Party Tree and fleet was looking forward to a great race with typical Rhode Island conditions. At 1030 a fleet of nine boats in cruising and racing divisions took off into a solid 15-knot southeasterly.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Benjamin Cesare |Vincent Pica
The International Sonar Class Association held its 2024 World Championship at Noroton Yacht Club in Darien, CT, September 12-15. Thirty-one boats from across the USA, Canada, and Ireland competed on Long Island Sound. On day one, PRO Shannon Bush couldn’t conjure up enough breeze to send out the fleet. Day two started the same way but the fleet eventually sailed one race, followed by two on Saturday.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Marion Bartholomew |Chris Szepessy |John K. Fulweiler |Vincent Pica
By Marion BartholomewAugust 18, 2024 dawned in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey looking like it would be a fine day for sailing in Sandy Hook Bay, a body of water with a spectacular view of New York City to the north. While Sandy Hook Bay remains somewhat obscure to most, it does have an imprimatur as the site of thirteen America’s Cup matches from 1870 to 1920.
