August 18th, 2014 – Nantucket, Massachusetts. 42nd Annual Opera House Cup Registered boats: 50 Started: 48 Finished: 46 Course: “B”, 19.457 miles Winds: 14-18 knots, gusting to 22 knots. OHC OVERALL RESULTS SUMMARY OHC RESULTS DETAIL BY BOAT OVERALL OHC WINNER SUMURUN,skipper Buzz Goodall Home Port: Camden, ME Designed by: W. Fife, III Built: 1914 …
Nantucket, Massachusetts – 2014 “Opera House Cup” – Winds: SW 11 to 17 mph | Tides: Low Tide 11:56am Forecast for tomorrow’s 42nd “Opera House Cup” is for gradually clearing skies ahead of a cool front. Building southwest winds, gradually turning to the west around 5:00pm. Low tide is 11:56am and the set will be …
The 2014 North American Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge Series (N.A. PCYC) is owned by Officine Panerai and is hosted under joint authority of the three participating host entities. Boats must be registered in at least two of the three scheduled regattas to be eligible for the N.A. PCYC and one of those two regattas must …
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August 10th Update – With Nantucket’s Boat Basin, and mooring field at near capacity, and ferry traffic at its peak. The 40′ Concordia Yawl, “Winnie of Bourne”, after sinking in the channel Friday morning, was raised today by a crane onto a barge. During the New York Yacht Club Cruise Regatta in Nantucket, “Winnie of …
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Senior chief Matt Welsh of U.S. Coast Guard Station Brant Point said the collision between “Winnie of Bourne” a 1952 Concordia yawl, and the 46-foot Swan Dragon, occurred outside the harbor around 10:20 a.m. “Winnie of Bourne” received “catastrophic” damage, Welsh said, including a two-foot-by-two-foot cracked seam and two-inch hole, and sank while attempting to …
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