On may 8 2018 two of the boats finished overlapped after 5700 miles. With a foul tide and no wind and fog the positions changed in the final miles.
VOLVO RACE COMES TO NEWPORT
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STADIUM SAILING “SIREN”
A WONDERFUL WEEKEND OF CLOSED COURSE SAILING IN NEWPORT RHODE ISALND.
MIANTONOMI TOWER
CANDY STORE CUP 2016
CONTROVERSY IN NEWPORT
Monday evening, January 27th, the Zoning Board of Review of Newport Rhode Island will review the New Historic District Commission’s decision which would not allow the visitor’s center to be built on the property of the Breakers. The Zoning Board will review the decision as to whether or not the law was applied as written.
This has been a continuing heated issue in Newport. I cannot see how building this Visitor’s Center on the Breakers property is consistent with the Mission of the Preservation Society.
This will be a pivotal decision.
FIREWORKS ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
It is impossible to imagine the fourth of july without thinking of fireworks. In 1970 sailing “Carina” back from Bermuda we arrived at Montauk in the morning of the fourth, sailing down Long Island Sound to Greenwich we had a show as there were fireworks on each side of the Sound the entire way down, as each city and town had their own display.
These are photos of the fireworks here in Newport last night.
IF THERE CAN BE GOOD NEWS
The present track of Irene puts the eye of hurricane going over Western Long Island, about 100 miles west of Rhode Island. Very good news for us, not so for those now in the path of the storm. If this holds true, I will be very relieved.
The storm has also been downgraded and has weakened. Right now the predictions for Newport, RI are 50 knot winds, quite acceptable. (as the reader may know the force of the wind is the square of the speed, a few quick examples will show how dramatically things change as the numbers grow.)
I am feeling cautiously better.