The fifteenth annual Castine Classic Yacht Race to Camden will set sail from the Castine harbor bell at 11:45 AM on July 31. This 20-nautical mile race, which feeds into the Camden to Brooklin race and the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, is expected to attract a magnificent fleet of Classic and Spirit of Tradition yachts, according to David Bicks, chairmen of these Castine events.
The Castine Yacht Club is sponsoring the seventeenth annual Castine Classic Yacht Race from Castine to Camden on Thursday, 4 August. This 19.6nm race will be the first of three day races in conjunction with the Camden Classic
Yacht Race to Brooklin and the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. The race is open to all monohull Classic and Spirit of Tradition yachts at least 28’ LOA with a valid CRF rating certificate. Each yacht must tow a proper dinghy; no toys,
please. Each yacht must have property and third party liability insurance of at least $300,000.
Celebrating Dorade and America: The Castine Yacht Club is honored to celebrate two of the world’s most famous yachts, Dorade and America:
The 52’ yawl Dorade, designed by Olin Stephens in 1929 at age 21, took the sailing world by storm, scoring decisive
victories in 1931 in the Transatlantic and Fastnet Races—to be greeted upon its to New York return with a tickertape
parade from the Battery to City Hall. Dorade then went on to taker her class in the Bermuda Race in 1932 and to win
the TransPacific Race in 1936. Chapter II: Over 77 years later, under the stewardship of Matt Brooks and Pam Rorke
Levy, Dorade has just achieved amazing success in these same races.
The rakish schooner America, sailed by Troy Sears, is the official ambassador for the 2017 America’s Cup, the oldest
trophy in international sport. America is a 139’ replica of the vessel which started the America’s Cup tradition
in 1851 by defeating the British to win the Royal Yacht Squadron’s “100 Guinea Cup”.
These iconic yachts will be on exhibition at the Town Dock starting at noon on 3 August and at 1600 hours will be
honored at a symposium in Delano Auditorium at the Maine Maritime Academy. Doug Adkins, will chair a panel of
distinguished skippers and historians.
