110 Long Wharf
Newport, RI 02840
USA
We’ll meet at the Newport YC and drive in Bill’s car to sail from the Navy Marina and head out to enjoy sailing around the lower bay. A few Frostbite sailors have been invited to attend also. After sailing we’ll pull into a slip around 4pm at Newport Yacht Club for refreshments on Vento Solare. Bill will stay on the boat overnight and do Frostbite sailing the next day. The Twenty Hundred Club dinner is at 6pm at the Viking Hotel Saturday night. If anyone wants to join Cindy & I for the dinner (and awards – we get plenty!) tickets may be purchased at this link.
Schedule:
- 1:30pm – Meet at Newport YC and leave cars there
- 1:35pm – Bill drives people to Navy Marina in his car
- ~2:00 pm – Navy Marina Slip A49 – Underway on Vento Solare
- ~4:00pm – Dock at Newport YC – Cindy meets us there
- Celebrate Spring on Vento Solare (Topside if nice, below decks with heater on if too cold)
- 5:30pm – those attending Twenty Hundred Club shore party walk to Hotel Viking for the awards dinner
We’ll have ingredients for the hot beverages & apps to warm the crew since the water temperature makes the air cold! The cocktail table will be on the boat for when we get back to the dock. The heater will also be onboard if we want to party inside.
Be at Newport YC - Sat April 13th @ 1:30PM EDT
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A great weekend on Block Island with Kathy, Claire & Bill. Great race results and appetizer contest results. We were fortunate to have the blender and the heater on the boat. After a nice weekend on Block Island we had a fast ride back with everyone taking time on the helm.
A few pictures from our family sail on Grandpa's birthday weekend. Unfortunately hurricane Ophelia changed our plans for a weekend on Block Island. We did a Friday evening sail in Newport, grabbed a mooring for cocktails and dinner, then went back to our slip at the Navy marina. We stayed on the boat Friday night and went to the YMCA for Isla's soccer which was moved to the indoor gym.
Underway on Vento Solare with Grandpa, Kai, Daddy & Isla
Enjoying appetizers in Newport Harbor before sunset.
Family dinner on Vento Solare while on the mooring.
Kai's note to Grandpa for his birthday weekend.
A great weekend of racing with everybody with Vento Solare finishing 2nd place overall. Crew work was fantastic all three days. Starting from the bow with Roland, mast with Will, pit with Andrew, trimming with Sarah & Mary, and main / tactics with Trevor (Jeff Roy for Around the Island on Friday). We saw the full spectrum of wind from 5 to 22 kts over 3 days.
Congrats to Divided Sky who put up all first place finishes. The rest of the class including J/109 URSA, J/99 Upbeat, Sunfast 3300 Avalon and Express 37 COUCOU all provided the challenge as fierce competitors.
A quick note about the finish recorded as 20:45:56 on the JYC website for the Tuesday race on 8 August. Roland noticed that the recorded time did not correspond to the finish order where we were behind Samba and in front of Grimace. I corresponded with the race committee and the finish time recorded on their scoring sheet is 20:24:56. The finish time will be updated on the JYC website and the results updated. I will send the results when the update is made.