CYC AROUND THE ISLAND RACE

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Conanicut Yacht Club’s popular Around the Island Race returns this coming Labor Day Weekend and will be celebrating its 90th Anniversary on Narragansett Bay. Scheduled for Sunday September 3, 2017, the annual event is one of the oldest ongoing sailboat races on Narragansett Bay, featuring a complete circumnavigation of Conanicut (Jamestown) Island. An end of summer  tradition among many, the event welcomes competitors racing  mono hull sailboats over 22 feet in length that are rated for PHRF-NB, and multihull one design classes by special request.

Conanicut Yacht Club’s annual AROUND THE ISLAND RACE returns this Labor Day Weekend for its 90th anniversary! The race will take place September 3, 2017. To get in on the action, make sure to register your boat on Regatta Network:  http://ow.ly/q52F30cztUT

An 18-Mile Sprint Around Conanicut Island For the 89 th Annual CYC Around the Island Race yesterday, it was a sprint around Conanicut Island, with competitors experiencing strong chop and breeze between 20 and 25 knots throughout the day. The 68-boat fleet started on time, with a majority of the boats finishing the race before 3pm. “I’ve wondered all week if we would actually be able to do a race on Sunday,” said Race Chairman Alan Baines adding that the impending threat of Tropical Storm Hermine had many people worried that the conditions would be too rough.  “However, everything turned out all right and the fleet started in a breezy northeasterly wind, heading up East Passage, and around the top of the island before flying downwind down the West Passage of Narragansett Bay. Rounding Beavertail Point, competitors experienced a bit of a swell, courtesy of Hermine, before beating back up the Bay to the finish off Conanicut Yacht