When:
March 22, 2020 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
2020-03-22T09:00:00-04:00
2020-03-22T15:00:00-04:00
Boat Location:
Home at Computer
Cost:
Free
Club:
Sail Newport
Join us for Inaugural Quahog Cup Virtual Regatta for the Entire Family – Sunday, March 22, 9 A.M.
During the virus crisis, we’re joining forces with sailonline.org to hold a purely entertaining virtual regatta series starting on Sunday, March 22 at 9 a.m.
There’s no registration fee, no entry fee, no one will get a sunburn, and there will be no need to leave your house. Race with fellow sailors as we weather this challenging time together.
This series of races will be held until we can all get back on the water. The first race on Sunday will be a race around Narragansett Bay using one design Farr 30s (made in Rhody by the way!).
- Go to the link above and pre-register (it takes under a minute and there is no fee!)
- Enter your email address
- Receive an email from sailonline.org, follow link to finish registration
- Pick a username/boat name and password
- Your are registered! So easy!
PRACTICE
Once you register, you will be able to do some practicing! (These races are best done on a computer, Mac or PC). Once you register for the Quahog Cup, you will be able to practice on that course as well.
RACE START
Sunday, March 22, 9 a.m.
QUAHOG CUP COURSE
- At 0900 (EDT)/ 1300 (UTC) SHARP, all boats be virtually towed to the starting line off of the Sail Newport Sailing Center in Brenton Cove.
- Boats will go North, leaving Rose Island to starboard,
- from there, up towards Bristol to the Hog Island Mark to port,
- then Northeast to round the Poppasquash Mark to starboard,
- from there, north towards Barrington around the RumstickRock Mark to port,
- heading south, you will leave Patience Island to Port, a mark near the Jamestown Bridge to port and then head toward the ocean!
- The final marks are Newton Rock (Beavertail on Jamestown) to port, Fort Adams Mark to Starboard and then to the finish back in Brenton Cove off of the Sail Newport Sailing Center!
RESOURCES
THANK YOU TO SAILONLINE.ORG
Thanks to Rob and his team for turning this around so quickly! We are thrilled to offer this virtual race to those around the world that are eager for something fun!
Questions: brad.read@sailnewport.org
Be at Home at Computer - Sun March 22nd @ 9:00AM EDT
Registration: LinkPost # 3860
Recent Comments
A fun evening sharing a table with Eric, Mary, Chris, Maggie, Francis, Lisa, Bill & Cindy. Mary was recognized with a US Sailing award as a JYC member for her communications role on J/122 Alliance in the Bermuda Race. Maggie accepted the J/122 Leading Edge third place fall series award for Tom and Diana. The picture below shows Bill & Cindy with the 1st place spring series award for J/109 Vento Solare.
In the end it turned out that the Ida Lewis YC awarded the youth trophy to Vento Solare. Pictures from the award ceremony and the trophies are below.
Boat Trophy and Youth Keeper Trophy for Austin, Rory & Henry
Youth Trophy Presentation
Rory & Austin Receiving Keeper Trophies (Missing Henry)
Henry with Keeper Trophy at Home
Bill
Thank you for a great time. That hour penelty seems steep. If you look at yellow brick there were a few other boats in our class that were just inside that south east dot. Not sure how picky they were being.
Either way great work by everyone. Enjoy the party.
Bill went to the protest hearing about our sailing in the exclusion zone to fix the spinnaker. The results of the protest was the RC added 1 hour to our corrected time. This put us in 2nd place for the youth entries. We would have had 1st in youth if not for this. Hope to see you all at the awards ceremony!
Updated boat call time is 10am this morning. Those needing ride on base meet 0945 pass & ID parking lot.