As she prepares to enter her final year of sailing at Stanford University, Bell 42 caught up with Vanessa Lahrkamp, to reflect on a phenomenal collegiate sailing career thus far, and consider what the future might hold. Bell 42: What was your most memorable accomplishment from this past year sailing
Preface: This July, American Yacht Club christened an IC37, Fair American, which will be the training boat for the AYC team training for the 2026 NYYC Women’s International Championship. The team chose the name to continue the legacy of a series of boats named Fair American raced by a
The American Yacht Club Fall Regatta is almost upon us, with two great weekends of racing planned for September 27 and 28 and October 4 and 5. This year, AYC is evolving the format based on feedback from sailors. The opening weekend, Sept 27 & 28, will consist of two
On June 21, 2025, American Yacht Club hosted the YRALIS Queens Cup. Eight two-person, all-female teams signed for the one-design regatta, sailed in Ideal 18s. Sailors came from American, Indian Harbor, Larchmont, Norwalk, and Pequot Yacht Clubs. The day proved challenging, but PRO Sheila Cameron managed to
June has been an enormously successful month for ILCA sailors in the American Yacht Club family, with Daniel Escudero winning the ILCA 7 fleet in the US Championship in Oyster Bay, Paul Clifford and Jean-Yves Fillion coming in 1-2 in the ILCA 6 at the US Masters Championship
AYC sent a team of four talented young sailors to represent the club at the Baldwin Cup at Newport Harbor Yacht Club over April 10th-12th. The team, including Austen Freda, Audrey Fung, Michelle Lahrkamp and Lindsay Powers, put in an amazing performance and were thrilled to represent AYC, where
The American Yacht Club hosted its 46th annual Spring Regatta, running a coastal race on May 2nd and both coastal and winward/leeward racing on May 3rd and 4th. Wind conditions kept the sailors on their toes. On both Friday and Saturday, the wind clocked around completely, providing the remarkable
It's been a productive start to 2025 for Peter Duncan in the J/70 in his boat Relative Obscurity. First they won Event #2 of the Bacardi Invitational Winter Series (they didn't participate in Event #1) in January against 41 boats, then they won the Bacardi
Every new year, we look forward to the bright bursts of daffodils and the fast-fading blush of cherry blossoms, but the turn of the season also marks a busy rush to get the bigger boats in the water just in time for the American Yacht Club's Spring
If you’re wondering who was wild enough to be out kite boarding in the middle of Long Island Sound about four weeks ago, when the temperature was 25 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind was blowing a steady 40 knots with gusts up to 50, you can wonder no more.
Following an impressive second place finish in the College Sailing Match Race Nationals last month, we took the opportunity to catch up with AYC member Katherine McNamara. Katherine is in her Junior year at Brown University. She grew up sailing at AYC and fondly remembers her many JAYC summers, as
Daniel Escudero has chalked up quite a 2024, which combined disappointment at the US Olympic trials along with major victories at events like ILCA North Americans and most recently winning college nationals in the ILCA 7. He also recently became a member of the American Yacht Club. We caught up