Dear Friend of CHARIAD: We had our last real race of the season on Sunday. We won, but I have some sadness for the passing of the season. Here is an image just before the race started. Potluck Pursuit Race at the Boston Yacht Club, Marblehead, MA This coming Saturday, the Eastern YC is sponsoring a fun race with a party afterwards. Here is what they say. Pursuit racing [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: CHARIAD’s last race of the 2018 season was a pursuit race sponsored by the Eastern YC in Marblehead. We had 14 sailing crew on board! I encouraged friends of the boat and crew to come out for our final race outing on a beautiful fall sunny day. We had up and down light winds from the SE in lumpy seas – hard to keep the [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: Race Update This past Sunday, we raced in the Manchester YC regatta. Floated around with little wind and finally got underway for two races. Our biggest competition was a very well sailed Farr 30 that is a light sport boat that is much faster than we are on close reaches. The first race was a close jib reach to the windward mark and a close [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: Please come to a Friends of CHARIAD Gathering After much clamoring and a growing roar of voices asking when Richard was hosting our party, Richard Sides has again graciously or foolishly offered to host the Friends of CHARIAD at his home in Marblehead. End of the sailing season and its will be fall and changing of the seasons. We know all sorts of good reasons [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: Time for my annual fall outreach to the Friends community. You can help build the CHARIAD team. The fall has the best sailing conditions in New England and is the best time for introducing one or two new crew members to the CHARIAD team. And the best new crew members come from recommendations from current and former crew members and our wider Friends community. We usually [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: The CHARIAD team participated in the Buzzards Bay Regatta two weeks ago. The BBR website and event brochure featured this image of the boat taken a couple of years ago at BBR. I cannot report great success with the racing results. Very high wind days on Fri and Sat and we did not handle the boat well enough to be competitive. We ended up blowing [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: July 4th BBQ & Fireworks July 4th is a special time in Marblehead. That is a race day for CHARIAD, and wonderful fireworks light the sky at night celebrating American independence. I don’t know the weather for the 4th, but we are planning to host a BBQ on CHARIAD the evening of the 4th to watch the fireworks. Let me know if you can come on board. [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: Yes, CHARIAD won its 1st race of the 2018 season Saturday of Memorial Weekend. But there is more to the story. The picture below is before the start of the first of two races for the day in 10 to 14 knot winds from the SW. The racing was sponsored by the Boston YC off Marblehead. Our competition for the day was a very well sailed J [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: You heard the story about the former commodore of the Eastern YC crashing into CHARIAD on July 4th and the boat being out of the water for the full month of July while being repaired. Shortly after she was re-launched in August, CHARIAD won the Storm Trysail Ted Hood Regatta. A remarkable recovery in what was probably the most competitive regatta we have sailed in recent years. [...]
Dear Friend of CHARIAD: This season was quite a roller coaster for the CHARIAD team. The boat was seriously damaged July 4th and out of the water for the rest of the month. We came back and won the Storm Trysail Ted Hood Regatta in Marblehead going away. This was the most competitive regatta in which we have participated for several years. In the background, I appealed the decision by [...]
