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The start date for the next edition of sailing's greatest Corinthian challenge has been set. The Transatlantic Race 2025 will depart Newport, RI on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 headed for the southern coast of England. A virtual gate off Lizard Point will enable teams to challenge the course record for this historic passage, but the official finish will take place off the Royal Yacht Squadron's waterfront castle in Cowes, England.

The Transatlantic Race 2025, is a direct descendant of the first great transatlantic ocean race, which started from New York Harbor on December 11, 1866. In the years since, this course has been plied with less frequency than other, shorter offshore race tracks; the 2025 edition will be just the 32nd transatlantic race organized by the New York Yacht Club. Because of that, and the fact that a race from the United States to Europe (or the return) is virtually guaranteed at least one significant storm, simply finishing a transatlantic race remains one of sailing's most coveted accomplishments.

The Organizing Authority of the TR2025 is comprised of the New York Yacht Club Regatta Association, Inc and the Royal Ocean Racing Club. Together with the support of their partners, the Royal Yacht Squadron and Storm Trysail Club, these renowned sailing established will ensure this edition of the Transatlantic Race will be a memorable one.

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For just the second time in its 16-year history, the Rolex TP52 World Championship will be contested on American waters. Sailing’s premiere monohull fleet-racing championship will take place as part of the New York Yacht Club’s Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex. The 14th edition of this biennial summer classic is the first regatta run under an historic new 10-year agreement between the New York Yacht Club and longtime partner Rolex. “There is no better event to kick off our new partnership agreement with Rolex than Race Week at Newport featuring the Rolex TP52 World Championship,” says L. Jay Cross, Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. “The support of Rolex has been essential to our commitment to running best-in-class regattas whether it’s a world championship for a grand-prix fleet such as the TP52s, one of our four renowned team races, our Annual Regatta, which was held for the 170th time in June, or any of the other 15 to 20 fine events we run each summer. We’re excited to look ahead to another decade of great competition and unparalleled shoreside hospitality.” Other major titles on the line at Race Week include the IC37 National Championship and the J/109 North American Championship. Boats racing under the ORC rule will be competing for class honors—many with an eye on the upcoming ORC World Championship in early fall—and the Rolex timepiece that will be awarded to the best overall boat.

The New York Yacht Club’s Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex was first run in 1998, and takes place this year from July 13 to 16 out of the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court, in Newport. R.I. The biennial regatta, run at the apex of the summer sailing season, has established itself as one of the premier summer race weeks in the Northeast thanks to the attractive combination of great racing conditions off Newport and the superlative shoreside hospitality at the Club’s waterfront Clubhouse overlooking Newport Harbor. Partners for the 2024 edition of Race Week at Newport include presenting sponsor Rolex and regatta sponsors Peters & May , Safe Harbor Marinas , Helly Hansen and Hammetts Hotel .

The scratch sheet can be found here .

The IC37 class will have 16 boats contesting its sixth national championship. The class in enjoying an influx of new teams, six of which will be sailing in the event. While Steve Liebel’s New Wave team is on quite a roll, having won three of the last four major championships in the class, the results of the Annual Regatta in June proved its possible for new teams to skip a few steps on the standard learning curve.

“Every boat has very good sailors,” says Peter McClennen, the 2022 North American Champion and the IC37 Class Association President. “The boats are perfectly even. There are no advantages in any equipment. The sharing is extreme across the fleet with Class Coach Moose McClintock picking up any new learning of modes and sharing. Nobody has a secret mode.” While the IC37 class goes to extremes to ensure a level a playing field as possible, the TP52 allows for variations in design and construction and encourages development. As a result the modern TP52 is much faster around the buoys than the originals from the early 2000s. But a new boat doesn’t mean an express ticket to the head of the fleet. Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon Aviation team won the 52 Super Series season championship 10 months ago, then debuted a new ride for 2024. The results have been decidedly mixed to date, but the team remains confident a breakthrough is around the corner.

“I am very positive,” says Müller-Spreer. “We have a real fighting spirit in this Platoon Aviation team, we have been together so long we know what it takes to win, and I very much believe we will be contenders here. It has taken time to get to know this new boat and in Newport last month we felt like we were really getting there when we damaged the rudder. But here we are, we are fighters. We are confident and that is so important in sport, as it will be at these world championships.” Local sentiment will surely focus on the three American-flagged teams: Quantum Racing powered by American Magic , which is led by Harry Melges IV, Austin Fragomen’s Interlodge , and Takashi Okura’s Sled . Fragomen, Melges and Okura are all members of the New York Yacht Club.

Racing for the Rolex TP52 World Championship starts on Tuesday, with the remainder of the participants commencing racing on Wednesday. Sailing will take place on Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay through Saturday. The regatta will conclude Saturday evening with a Rolex Awards Banquet on the historic Harbour Court property.

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Join us as we interview New York yacht Club Rear Commodore Claire Harrington on the process and results of a historical annual regatta held on the East Coast for over a century.

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(June 15, 2022) – ’s positive feelings about racing in the (June 10 -12) off Newport, R.I. translated into the team’s victory over five other ORC A class competitors in both Friday’s Around the Island Race and the weekend’s separately scored series of six around-the-buoys races.

“ ,” said Mike “Moose” Sanderson, who in the absence of owner/driver Hap Fauth served as ’s skipper over the event’s three racing days, “ ” The land mines were the slower boats in some of the 13 other classes that started ahead of ORC A.

According to Bella Mente Racing’s tactician Terry Hutchinson, both the Around the Island Race and the Annual Regatta series were very hard-fought, but for different reasons. “For the Around the island Race, Belle Mente had to contend with not only our competition (which included long-time rival Vesper , an IRC 72) but also two transition zones (major wind shifts) and lots of bogeys (other boats) on the racecourse to navigate through,” he said. “Saturday/Sunday racing was equally as good. Bella Mente , Proteus , and Vesper each won races, and while Bella Mente came out on top it was an incredibly tight event.”

Indeed, as stellar as Bella Mente ’s performance was in the weekend’s primarily moderate breezes, there was no real turning point when the team felt assured of overall victory. “ The last race was short, so when we led Vesper around the first lap after a lot of exciting boat-on-boat action, it was looking more likely we’d win,” said Sanderson, “however, it’s never over in this class, which makes it exciting all the way to the end.”

Victorious Bella Mente Racing Team

Sanderson and Hutchinson both noted that training sessions leading up to this event were critical in the continual development of Bella Mente and its equipment. As part of that, Coach James Lyne analyzed the boat’s sail set-up, maneuvers and weight placement. During training and racing, he photographs and records the performance of the boat from an aero and hydro standpoint. “We were really happy with the new rig and sails,” said Sanderson, “but somehow we need to find some rating optimization without slowing the boat down, so we have some fun challenges ahead!” Sanderson added that for the Annual Regatta, Bella Mente Racing knew that Bella Mente would be most closely matched with Vesper and Proteus. In the end, the three finished, respectively, in first, second and third with only one point separating each position. “The fact that we all ended up so close on points was no surprise,” he said, “but Vesper beat up on us pretty hard at the previous regatta in the Caribbean, so it was nice to be at least in the hunt. We are under no illusion, though; we still have a lot of work to do if we want to be in the mix for the Maxi World Championships later this year.” Meanwhile, next up for Bella Mente is the July 13-16 New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport.

More About NYYC Annual Regatta The New York Yacht Club’s Annual Regatta was first sailed on the Hudson River on July 16 and 18, 1846. A similar competition the previous year was called a Trial of Speed. With a few exceptions for world wars and other global crises, the event has been held every year since. For most of its existence, the Annual Regatta was raced on waters close to New York City. Since 1988, however, the event has been sailed out of the Harbour Court clubhouse in Newport, R.I., and has settled into the current three-day format.

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Challenges for 170th Annual Regatta

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The 170th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta featured an historic fleet of more than 150 boats when the racing was held June 14-16 in Newport, RI. After a successful Around the Island Race on day one, light winds limited some of the racing for the remaining two day schedule.

For the top-flight competitive fleet in ORC B, their four race series fit into the light winds on the final day where David Team’s TP52 Vesper squad fought with rival Fox, skippered by Victor Wild, doing most everything as right as can be expected on a very challenging day.

“We felt in the first two races, when it was really light, 6 knots and under, that we had a click of pace on people,” says Team. “But then the wind shifts come into play with that light of a breeze. The first race we got it called right, the second race we were on the wrong side of the shift, but our speed was still good all day.”

As the seabreeze filled for Races 3 and 4, Fox found its groove. Going into the leeward mark rounding of the final race, it appeared everything was going the way of Wild’s crew, which had a two-point lead in the standings and was ahead in the race.

“Fox was leading, we were trying to do our best to figure out how to pass them,” says Team. “They fouled [a boat from another fleet] and they did the right thing, a 360, and that kind of just reshuffled the race.”

In the five-boat ORC B, with a preponderance of professional sailors across the fleet, one small mistake can make a huge difference. In this case, it dropped Fox from first to fourth in the race, and from first to second in the regatta.

Team has actively raced his 52-foot Vesper for four-plus years. While he’s based on the West Coast, his sailing has been concentrated further east, Florida in the winter and then splitting his summer regattas between the Great Lakes 52 circuit in the Midwest and Newport. This year, with the ORC World Championship scheduled for early fall, is a Newport summer, and the Annual Regatta is one key step on the way toward contending for a world championship in the fall.

“It’s a process,” Team says. “We think we’re on the path to where we hope to be. We still have some things to accomplish. We’ve got a couple of very strong competitors that we are trying to beat. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t. We’re all trying to get better for September/October.”

While Team has his eyes squarely set on ORC competition, that’s definitely not the case for Drew Freides. A devoted one-design skipper, Freides entered his Cape 31 Pacific Yankee in the Annual Regatta hoping that enough of his fellow Cape 31 owners would follow suit and he would enjoy some one-design racing in the up-and-coming class. When the class fell short of what’s required for a one-design start, the Pacific Yankee team and three other Cape 31s were moved to ORC D.

“It definitely had us on two wheels a little bit,” says Freides, a former world champion in the Melges 24 and Melges 20 classes. “We weren’t prepared for handicap racing, so we had to adjust our sailing. We wanted to beat our fleet [of Cape 31s]. But the boat is pretty competitive under ORC. We changed our expectations after we got off to a good start and started racing against the rest of the fleet as well.”

Freides and his team were super consistent through three races, taking two seconds and a third, winning the class by 3 points. As the smallest and lightest boat in the fleet, successfully racing the Cape 31 required some strategic concessions.

“Tactically, it made you think differently,” says Freides. “We couldn’t put ourselves in spots that could compromise us because the bigger boats were faster upwind. Once we turned the corner, we could sail away from them pretty easily.”

In second and third in the overall standings were two other Cape 31 teams, which is somewhat of a surprise given that handicap rules have traditionally not been kind to lighter, smaller, faster boats.

“I haven’t done a lot of homework on the ORC rating of the Cape 31,” says Freides. “But these boats seem to rate really well under ORC. [Cape 31 designer] Mark Mills has done a fabulous job. I’m surprised more people haven’t bought these boats because they’re just a lot of fun.”

The largest fleet at the regatta was the IC37 class, with 24 boats. The fleet this year has been buoyed by nearly 10 new teams. But after the dust settled this weekend, the name at the top of the results was a familiar one, Steve Liebel and his New Wave team. With a fifth, a ninth and a second in the crucial final race, New Wave finished the regatta tied on points with Daniel Thielman’s Kuai team, winning the regatta via a tie breaker.

“Sailing was phenomenal, a little tricky today, shifty and light, but a good time,” says Liebel. “Sometimes you were looking like a hero, sometimes you were a zero. We were both today. I think we were second-to-last in the first race today, but climbed back. In the end, it was a good day.”

Last year, the IC37 fleet usually numbered around 15 boats. This year it should be greater than 20 in all major regattas, which means winning requires an extra degree of caution.

“A fleet with 12 to 15 boats is a little more forgiving,” says Liebel. “You have a bad start or have an error, all of a sudden you’re in 10th. You pass 5, you’re in the top 5, so you’re ok. In 23 or 24 boats, you get deep—and every top boat out there was deep at some point—and it’s hard to get back to the top half of the fleet.”

While the other four boats in the top five were all teams with previous experience in the class, Liebel was encouraged by the three new teams—Glory from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Nathan Allman’s Barefoot team and Bill Zartler’s Voodoo Too—that rounded out the top 10.

“It’s exciting to see those new people coming into the class and doing well,” says Liebel. “A lot of people, a lot of different boats, had some very good finishes. It’s great to have those people come into the class, see success and hopefully they’ll want to come back.”

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Now They’re Dance Partners for Life

Grayson Warrick is the son of a retired ballet dancer. Alyssa Hubbard grew up dancing. And the two first met in preschool in New York.

A smiling bride and groom, holding hands, walk away from a white church and down a path with wedding guests standing on both sides. White flower pedals cover the ground behind them.

By Sadiba Hasan

Technically, Alyssa Prescott Hubbard and Grayson Evan Warrick first met in preschool. They were in the same class at Garden House School, then on East 64th Street in Manhattan, but she doesn’t really remember him.

He does, however, remember her — particularly for the time she evicted his twin sister, Alexandra, from a playhouse and declared it hers.

“Not my finest moment,” Ms. Hubbard conceded. (Mr. Warrick added that Ms. Hubbard has a far friendlier demeanor now. “She’s got the best laugh out of anyone I know,” he said, “and I think the physically largest smile I’ve seen on anyone.”)

Ms. Hubbard lived with her parents and two siblings a block away from the preschool, and Mr. Warrick lived with his parents and twin sister on the other side of Central Park.

Fourteen years passed, and in 2012, the two reconnected at John Jay Hall, a first-year dormitory, as freshmen at Columbia. It was orientation week, and Ms. Hubbard was hauling her belongings to her room, while Mr. Warrick was visiting a mutual friend who lived on her floor.

During their getting-to-know-you conversation, when they mentioned growing up in the city, the memory of the “willful” preschool girl was conjured in Mr. Warrick’s memory, he said. It helped that she looked almost identical to the preschool version of herself — just grown up.

The two became friends, and over winter break, while their classmates returned home for the holidays, they stayed on campus. Together they went to Christmas parties, the ballet and the movies.

In January 2013, Ms. Hubbard invited Mr. Warrick to attend President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in Washington with her family and friends. (Former Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York, a close friend of the family, had invited them.) As Stevie Wonder performed “Sir Duke,” they danced, and it was on that dance floor that they realized there could be something more.

About eight months later, in September 2014, as they were swing dancing at an annual clambake in Newport, R.I., their relationship took yet another turn. After a night of partying by the beach, they had their first kiss on her family’s boat.

“No words needed to be exchanged,” Mr. Warrick said.

They even have a photo dancing together that night. She grew up dancing ballet, and his mother, Helene Alexopoulos, was a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet , who retired in 2002.

Ms. Hubbard, a product manager at Meta, graduated from Columbia with a bachelor’s degree in classics. She received a master’s degree in classics from Oxford. Mr. Warrick graduated from Columbia with bachelor’s degrees in economics and Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies. He received master’s degrees from the Yale School of Management and from the Yale School of Public Health. He will start a role as a consultant at Bain and Company in November.

As a couple, they went through two long periods of being long distance while they navigated graduate school. In June, Mr. Warrick proposed to Ms. Hubbard at Elbow Beach in Bermuda, just after she accidentally stepped on a jellyfish tentacle wrapped in seaweed.

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On Sept. 14, the couple were married at Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Conn., by the Rev. Matthew Lindeman before 150 guests. Afterward, they walked down a path of freshly mowed grass as guests tossed white petals at them.

The newlyweds arrived to the reception at the Pequot Yacht Club in Southport, Conn., on a 36-foot Little Harbor yacht.

“He’s got lipstick on his mouth,” one guest said as the couple walked along the dock to enter the party.

“Tell him to wipe it off,” said the groom’s mother.

“Nah, it’s their wedding day, let him keep it on,” the guest replied.

Then, of course, they danced the night away.

Sadiba Hasan reports on love and culture for the Styles section of The Times. More about Sadiba Hasan

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Elite Big-Boats and Crowded Starts: 170th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta Promises High Drama

The 170th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta, a storied event in American sailing, features a dynamic split in its ORC racing classes. In the limelight are Classes A and B, boasting the country’s elite big-boat programs. Class A includes four formidable 60- and 70-footers, while Class B is highlighted by four TP52s and a new, swift Botin ORC 45-footer. With professional sailors aplenty, achieving optimal boat speed around the track is paramount in these classes.

In contrast, Classes C and D, with 19 and 14 entries respectively, present a different challenge. The crowded starting line demands a clean getaway, as all the boat speed in the world won’t save a race if poor positioning and tactical missteps plague the first beat.

“We’ve had this boat two and a half years, and I think this is the most competitive class we’ve seen in ORC, and the tightest rating band,” says Andrew Weiss, skipper of the Italia 11.98 Christopher Dragon XII, sailing in ORC D. “It’s great. [The time allowances for a one-hour race] are going to be down to between no time on our sistership to a minute and a half. It’s a good precursor for the ORC World Championship in the fall.”

First raced on the Hudson River in 1846, the New York Yacht Club’s Annual Regatta has a rich history. With few interruptions, it has been a yearly fixture, moving to Newport, R.I., in 1988 and adopting its current three-day format in 2004. The 170th Annual Regatta features a historic fleet of over 150 boats, including the prestigious 52 Super Series fleet, making its North American return since 2017. Sponsored by Helly Hansen, Safe Harbor Marinas, Peters & May, and Hammetts Hotel, this event is set against the picturesque Harbour Court clubhouse.

For the past two years, Andrew Berdon has been a key competitor in the ORC C and D classes, racing his J/111 Summer Storm. This year, he’s upgraded to a TP52, competing in ORC B, where there’s more space on the line but little room for error.

“I bought [the J/111] and refit her over the winter of 2022, and splashed her in July in time for the Club’s Race Week at Newport in 2022,” Berdon explains. “We then won our class in the Vineyard Race against some very stiff ORC competition. That gave me the confidence to campaign her over the winter of 2022-’23 in the SORC, the RORC 600, and BVI Spring Regatta. We had a great time sailing her, but at 36 feet, she was not enough boat for long distances.”

The decision to transition to a TP52 was influenced by the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s announcement to re-establish the Admiral’s Cup in 2025. Berdon aims to compete in the 2024 Bermuda Race and ORC Worlds in Newport, eyeing a potential Admiral’s Cup team spot.

Berdon’s early results with the TP52 have been promising, including an overall win in the Storm Trysail Club’s 186-mile Block Island Race. Now, he faces formidable competition in ORC B, including David Team’s Vesper, Victor Wild’s Fox, and the Prospector team, led by Larry Landry and Paul McDowell. A wild card in the mix is Wendy Schmidt’s new Botin ORC 45 Azulito.

“I’m looking forward to competing against some of the best-prepared and crewed TP52 teams in the world,” says Berdon. “We have a great group of sailors and a great boat, and we are very fortunate to be racing TP52s in Newport this summer.”

Racing begins with the traditional race around Conanicut Island on Friday, June 14, and continues with buoy and navigator racing on Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound over the weekend. The 52 Super Series, back in North America for the first time in seven years, will sail separately until June 13 before joining the Regatta. Nearly 1,000 attendees are expected for Saturday night’s Annual Regatta Dinner, underscoring the event’s enduring allure.

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