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The Lido Isle Yacht Club was founded in 1928, though it did not fully organize until 1947. The club’s burgee is a combination of the white burgee with red St. George’s Cross of the Royal Yacht Squadron and blue fouled anchor of the South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club. Its mission has been to educate young sailors and provide activities to the ...
The Newport Bermuda Race, commonly known as the Bermuda Race, is a biennial, 635 nautical miles (1175 km) sailing yacht race from Newport, Rhode Island to the British island of Bermuda. The Race is the oldest regularly scheduled ocean race in the world, and one of two regularly scheduled races "held almost entirely out of sight of land."
The Lido 14 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, with gold-colored anodized aluminum spars and a loose-footed mainsail . The hull features a spooned plumb stem , a near-vertical transom , a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard that is ...
event start date start place → finish place distance 01: In-port race: 8 January 2023: Alicante: 02: Leg 1: 15 January 2023: Alicante → Cape Verde: 1,900 nmi (3,500 km) 03: Leg 2 (IMOCA 60 only) 25 January 2023: Cape Verde → Cape Town: 4,600 nmi (8,500 km) 04: In-port race (IMOCA 60 only) 24 February 2023: Cape Town: 05: Leg 3 (IMOCA 60 ...
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron is again the defender of the America's Cup after its yacht Taihoro, owned and sailed by the Emirates Team New Zealand syndicate, was the successful defender in the 37th America's Cup, beating the challenger Ineos Team UK, representing the Royal Yacht Squadron, 7–2 in a first-to-seven series raced from 12 to 19 October 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
The event took place in the Great Sound of Bermuda in 2017, with challenger selection through the 2017 Louis Vuitton Cup on June 5–25. The finals against Emirates Team New Zealand were June 17–26. The new AC50 class rule governed the races; Oracle Team USA launched their yacht in February 2017. Oracle Team USA ultimately lost the challenge ...
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The Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac is a 333-mile (289 nmi; 536 km) annual yacht race starting in Lake Michigan off Chicago, Illinois, and ending in Lake Huron off Mackinac Island, Michigan. It is hosted and managed by the Chicago Yacht Club. The "Mac" (as it is known) was first run in 1898 and is the oldest annual freshwater distance race ...