(Newport, RI)- The New York YC Race Week will be taking place from July
16th to 21st, 2018 on the waters of Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island
Sound for a fleet of thirty-five modern keelboats, of which eleven (33%
of the fleet) are J’s. The J/109s will be sailing as a one-design class
and the other J/crews will be participating in the IRC and PHRF
Navigator classes. The half-dozen boat J/109 class includes some of the best East Coast boats on the summer regatta circuits. Those teams include Albrecht Goethe’s HAMBURG from Lakewood YC, Ted Herlihy’s GUT FEELING from New Bedford YC, Tom Sutton’s LEADING EDGE from Lakewood YC, Bill Sweetser’s RUSH from Annapolis YC, and Bill Kneller’s VOLARE from Coasters Harbor Navy YC.
In the twenty-one boat IRC Class, sailing offshore will be Sedgwick & Andrew Ward’s J/111 BRAVO from Shelter Island YC, Paul Milo’s J/122 ORION, and NYYC Vice Commodore Bill Ketcham’s J/44 MAXINE.
Sailing in the PHRF Navigator class will be Tom Wacker’s J/105 TRADING PLACES from Old Cove YC in Brooklyn, New York. For more New York YC Race Week sailing information Add to Flipboard Magazine.
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