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1 week ago | 
windcheckmagazine.com | Chris Szepessy |Vincent Pica |Joe Cooper
Aquador Boats, known for their premium Scandinavian design and exceptional craftsmanship, are now available in the U.S., exclusively distributed by SailTime. This marks a major milestone for boating enthusiasts seeking stylish and high-quality vesselsAquador models will be available for direct retail purchase as well as through PowerTime, SailTime’s powerboat ownership and membership program.
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1 week 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 week 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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2 months 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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Feb 5, 2025 | 
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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Feb 5, 2025 | 
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.
