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Family Afloat: Focus on What’s Important

Every sailing family has a different approach to developing their life together on the water. Here’s how Alec and Erin Brainerd are doing it.

Alec Brainerd grew up in Brooksville, Maine, immersed in the world of sailing. His parents owned a windjammer in the early ‘70s, and he and his brother spent time “messing about with small boats” out of Bucks Harbor Yacht Club in Maine.

As a young adult, Alec captained windjammers and crewed on voyages both transatlantic and transpacific aboard much larger wooden yachts, like the 94-foot William Fife ketch, Sumurun, while...

CCA Announces Major Awards

The Cruising Club of America (CCA) today announced the 2018 recipients of the international organization’s most prestigious awards, including Bruce Halabisky and Tiffany Loney of Orcas Island, Wash., Stan Honey of Palo Alto, Calif., and Ellen and Seth Leonard of Laupahoehoe, Hawaii. Selected for their outstanding contributions to the sport of sailing and the history of yachting, the CCA will recognize the accomplishments of these members, and others, during the Annual Awards Dinner on March 1, 2019, at the New York Yacht Club in Manhattan.

2018 Blue Water Medal - Bruce...

Accident Report from Chicago Mac posted

Several CCA members participated in a review and analysis of the sad events that took place in the recent Chicago to Mackinack race. The report has now been published. According to the Chicago Yacht Club:

Today the Chicago Yacht Club (CYC) publicly released the report on the fatal crew overboard accident that took place during the July 2018 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac (CYCRTM). The report analyzes what took place during the incident and includes important lessons learned, specifically highlighting auto-inflate personal flotation devices (PFD). The report’s...

Lessons from Dragging an Anchor

Fellow CCA Member Mark Roye shares his experiences in Cruising World Magazine. Read all about it!

Weather Course Video Available for Viewing

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Bermuda Race SAS streamlined, mandatory for skippers

Thanks to advances in technology, CCA is able to offer a considerably price-reduced hands-on SAS certificate. It's now mandatory for all skippers, so why not sign up now? See their newsletter.

Member Jeanne Socrates Circumnavigation

Perhaps you were raised never to mention a lady's age. Our Jeanne Socrates revels in it. She has embarked, on October 3, to become the oldest female SOLO circumnavigator, and the first woman to solo circumnavigate from North America. Leaving from Vancouver, B.C., this member of our San Francisco Station is now about 400 miles off Bahia San Ramon, Baja California. This is a restart of her earlier effort, which was derailed by a few mishaps including a boatyard tumble (her, not the boat) requiring a delay past a safe weather window for Cape Horn.

Follow her efforts at ...

Sanctioned Safety at Sea Seminars

Whether you're planning an offshore race or just looking to build or refresh your sailing skills, our US Sailing Sanctioned Safety at Sea Seminars can be an important step. These courses include an online orientation and a full day of hands on and seminar presentations. Climb into a life raft, fire flares, throw lines, and more. Now offered several times per year. These satisfy US Sailing and World Sailing requirements and satisfy offshore race requirements. For a further description and course list, see this link.

New Member Haley Lhamon on the Race to Alaska

Considered by some to be a sort of whacky exercise, this "almost no rules" race to Alaska (no engine power allowed) represents an interesting challengel Haley Lhamon and her "all girl" team rose to the challenge. Read about it here.

Schneiders Recognized for Safety at Sea Courses

Cruising couple Garry and Leslie Schneider have for several years been administering CCA's Safety at Sea seminars. Offered to Newport Bermuda racers and the general sailing public, the classes have benefitted many racers in meeting their race requirements and executing safer passages. This evening (June 14), Garry and Leslie were honored prior to the start of the Newport Bermuda race by CCA Commodore Brad WIllauer for their work.

Garry and Leslie are handing the responsibility for these courses over to Mark Lenci, and they expect to put their teachings into practice as they...

New Officers Elected for 2018

At the general membership meeting, the following were elected

OFFICERS

Commodore: W. Bradford Willauer
Vice Commodore: J.W. Robert Medland
Secretary: Christopher L. Otorowski
Treasurer: Peter L. Chandler
Historian: John F. Towle

GOVERNORS

Terms expiring 2021:'

Wilson Fitt (BDO)
Peter A. Darbee (SAF)
Charles S. Willauer (BOS)

Terms expiring 2019:

James M. Morgan (SOC)
G. Waddy...

Newport Bermuda Race Preview

Read all about the next edition of this classic race. And the races within the race.

Member Stan Honey honored by National Inventors Hall of Fame

How many of us have had our sports viewing by that line superimposed on the screen? Well, thank Stan. He's being honored for that development by the Hall of Fame:

Stan Honey: Sports Broadcast Graphic Enhancements
A pioneer in the field of sports television graphics, Stan Honey has transformed the viewing experience of millions of sports fans. Honey and his team created the Virtual Yellow 1st & Ten® line— which has been hailed as one of the most important developments in the history of sports broadcast technology. Work conducted by Honey and his team led...

2017 Award Recipients

Webb Chiles (Hilton Head, S.C./Evanston, Ill), Rich Wilson (Boston, Mass.) and Jessica Watson (Buderim, Queensland, Australia) are among our 2017 award recipients selected for outstanding contributions to the sport of sailing and the history of yachting. The awards will be presented at our annual Awards Dinner in New York on March 2, 2018.

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RESOLVING TO MAKE 2018 SAFER

Teamwork and Preparedness Emphasized in

Cruising Club of America’s Safety for Cruising Couples Seminars

NEWPORT, R.I. (January 4, 2018) – With the season for making resolutions in full force, we know it would be hard to find a sailor who hasn’t included “spend more time on the water” on their 2018 to-do list. Among the 1300-strong membership of the all-volunteer Cruising Club of America (CCA), the number one resolution is to help those like-minded boaters make 2018 their safest year on the water. As an...

MudRatz Set Sights on Blue Water Sailing, Joining in our NBR Race

Youth sailors will experience offshore racing thanks to surprise donation of proven 48-foot sloop.

Life changing moments can happen so fast that we often call them “sparks.” In the span of just four years, the MudRatz have been formed around such moments, but it can be hard to...

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