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Carvel Tefft, Bangalore |
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11/21/2007 10:06 PM
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 Our mascot, the Phoenix, represents the 77 year old cutter Bangalore. Having cut her teeth on the great lakes, winning two consecutive Chicago Mackinac races (1939&1940) and winning her class on five other occasions, she fell into disrepair by the early 1980's. At this point, Bangalore was, for the most part, in service as a party boat for a consortium of individuals ...
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Dan Galyon, American Girl |
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11/21/2007 10:03 PM
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 Life can be a search for identity. Who am I? What can I accomplish? How will I be remembered? I came to the Newport-Bermuda Race the hard way- by doing other things first and discovering later where I really belong. My pursuit before competitive sailing was motorsports and I went about as far as you can go before turning pro only to discover that something was missing. Where was the esprit ...
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John G. Coumantaros, Boomerang |
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11/21/2007 10:02 PM
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 As we all know, the Race is really 3 races: to the Stream, through the Stream, and the approach to Bermuda. The experience also has 3 parts: preparation for departure in Newport, the Race, and the Post Race in Bermuda.
As a 16 year old the Pre-Race in Newport consisted of trying to sneak myself into the Candy Bar at night and during the days preparing (with butterflies in ...
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Schuyler “Chuck” Benson, Bandana |
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11/21/2007 10:01 PM
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 Chuck Benson has raced his Swan 47 BANDANA in the last eight Newport Bermuda races. Chuck has had the same crew each time he has entered his eight races, and is blessed with a plethora of that special brand of well rounded sailors who are not only first-class helmsmen, but perfectly at home on the foredeck. He is especially proud to sail with his two sons:&a ...
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Charles F. Keifer III, Nirvana |
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11/21/2007 10:01 PM
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 Charles Kiefer has sailed NIRVANA, a 1982 aluminum MAXI designed by Dave Pedrick, in five Bermuda Races. She broke the race elapsed time record in her first Bermuda Race the same year she was built. In spite of setting that record, which she held for 14 years, she did not win the race or her class in 1982. Kiefer sails with an all-amateur crew, ...
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Rick Burnes, Cybele |
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11/21/2007 10:00 PM
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 What most people don’t realize who race in their 1st Newport-Bermuda Race is that they are beginning what could become a true addiction. There are many reasons the addiction develops, the beauty of a rough Gulf Stream in brilliant sunshine, the coordination of a well oiled crew changing a jib, the conversation and camaraderie sitting on the rail on a quiet evening and even the pomp of the ...
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L. Scott Frantz, Ticonderoga |
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11/21/2007 10:00 PM
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 During the 1976 Tall Ships Race on the way from Bermuda to Newport, Ticonderoga sailed silently and gracefully past our family’s comfortable but ungainly Sorrento not ten minutes after the start. To a fifteen year old, who at age six had already become intrigued with the great L. Francis Herreshoff and his favorite design, Ticonderoga,&l ...
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Sheila McCurdy, Selkie |
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11/21/2007 9:59 PM
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 I have raced every Newport Bermuda Race since I was 22 except for two times when I was sailing to Europe. I have raced on six different boats including skippering my family’s 38-footer Selkie to second overall in 1994. My father raced to Bermuda every two years for forty years. There must be a good reason.
Why do I race to Bermuda? ...
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Bruce & Dorsey Beard, Esmeralde |
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11/21/2007 9:58 PM
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 Sailing in the Newport Bermuda Race adds a huge jolt of adrenaline to our sailing calendar. We’re normally relaxed cruising types, but we bought Esmeralde, a Sabre 386, for her performance characteristics and the Newport Bermuda Race is the ultimate test of the boat and our skills. Preparing for the race helps to keep our boat it top condition, and c ...
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Howard Eisenberg, Isola |
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11/21/2007 9:57 PM
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 The ‘06 Race was a terrific event for us, even though it was one of the slowest in my experience. The last 12 hours were frustrating, as we dropped from a maybe fourth to a definite sixth. I know that is what we all said when we got to the bar! This race was the first time that I went in the Cruising Class, a decision based primarily on the ability to use a downwind sail. The cruising class also now h ...
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Richie Shulman, Temptress |
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11/21/2007 9:57 PM
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 In 1993, at the ripe old age of 51, I was lucky enough to be asked to participate in an ocean race as a physician/sailor because of a chronic illness of the owner/captain that had almost cost his life on his last ocean passage. That was my first blue water adventure and I never looked back – I love it – the challenge, the competition, the beauty, the great bunch of sailors on our crew: a gro ...
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