A decade ago, Patrick and Melissa Schoonveld set their sights on a truly YOLO project: to live on a boat for a year. Being planners at heart, they started saving and steadily chipping away at making their dream a reality. In 2019, they bought their boat Oestara, a 2005 Sweden
The 2024 American Yacht Club Spring Regatta wrapped up 3 solid days of sailing on May 3-5, with the Friday coastal race leading into the weekend's mix of windward-leeward and coastal courses. (see all photos) On Friday May 3rd, 5 classes of boats (ORC, PHRF 1-3, and PHRF
As we reported a few weeks ago, Jean-Yves Fillion won the 2024 ILCA Masters Midwinters East across all ILCA 6 divisions and came in second overall at the Palm Beach Florida Master. We caught up with him to discuss the events. Bell 42: Tell us about the two events JYF:
AYC member Austen Freda recently wrapped up a stint as assistant sailing coach at Tufts and work brought him back to the local area. He has been generous enough to take over leadership of AYC’s team racing effort. Bell 42 caught up with him to learn a bit about
The recent 2024 i420 Midwinters West regatta hosted 23 boats all vying for a qualifying spot to Youth Worlds, which will be held later this summer on Lake Garda. Three talented JAYC sailors were on the water: Estella Morris, Glen Foster, and Melanie Lahrkamp. After four days of tight racing,
Andrew Clark's J/122 ZIG ZAG has been tearing up the 2023-24 SORC Islands in the Stream ocean racing series. They kicked it off taking first in class, 3rd overall, in the Nov 8th St. Pete to Fort Lauderdale Race. Then they took first in class, 6th overall,
For the second year in a row, Jean-Yves Fillion put on a masterful display of sailing in the Florida masters laser races. He won the 2024 ILCA Masters Midwinters East regatta (held Feb 27-Mar 1) across all ILCA6 divisions and came in second overall for the ILCA 6 at the
The 2024 Spring Regatta is once again coming to the Long Island Sound hosted out of the American Yacht Club (sign up on Yachtscoring). It will be a 3-day affair, with a Friday coastal race on May 3rd and then the 2-day Spring Series on May 4th and 5th offering
We've had a tremendous season of frostbiting so far, which starts at the beginning of November and goes to the beginning of April. Only 4 official days of racing remain before the Cold Shoulder series begins. So far, we've had 13 days of racing with 66
In mid February, 24 teams of women converged on San Diego Yacht Club to participate in the 2024 Women's Winter Invitational. The format was short-course, non-spinnaker racing in J/22s. American Yacht Club sent a 3-women team of Laura Heiss (skipper), Carolyn Russell, and Lisl Dunlop. The courses