Review the Races

By Dan Dyer

If I could name just three experiences on a short list of best things I’ve done in my life (so far!), the Newport Bermuda Race would be on that list.  In my case, it helps the collective memory to have sailed 14 of the 100 Races to the Onion Patch, but each one has been so special I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Your first Ber ...

“Getting the Olin J. Stephens Ocean Racing Trophy from Olin Stephens himself was special,” Peter Rebovich said with deep emotion. “It was the most exciting trophy we’ve ever won, except for the St. David’s Lighthouse Trophy in the 2006 Newport Bermuda Race presented by Princess Anne.” 

Peter Rebovich has been awarded the first Olin J. Stephens Ocean Racing Tr ...

There is a sense of excitement and anticipation when thinking of entering the Newport-Bermuda Race for the first time. The adrenalin flows at the thought of the challenges – getting ready to do the Race and then for the actual ocean Rac ...

By Ralph Naranjo

A midshipman from the US Naval Academy once wrote that, “only memories remain of slanting decks and wind-filled sails…a crashing bow and a white lee rail.”   These were the words of CCA member Rear Admiral Bob McNitt, USN ret., and are from an arti ...