Bolton Lake Results and Massapoag Up Next

On May 17 at Bolton Lake, Eric Woodman had a late surge, winning 2 of the final 3 races (a total of 7 were held). Ken Charles, who finished 2nd, had been leading the day throughout after a pair of bullets early, but Woodman was able to sneak by him in the final race. Brangiforte was 3rd. 

Conditions were typical Bolton Lake: Light, spotty and super shifty.

Thank you to the Bolton Lake Sailing Club for running a fun and competitive event on a beautiful Sunday!

47th Annual Bolton Lake Sailing Club Results

Place	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
1	Eric Woodman	6	2	2	9	1	4	1	16
2	Ken Charles	5	1	1	5	7	2	3	17
3	Bill Brangiforte	3	5	3	6	4	1	2	18
4	Mike Rottier	4	4	4	2	5	5	4	23
5	Will Kresic	2	3	6	8	3	3	7	24
6	David Davies	8	8	5	1	6	10	5	33
7	Brian Pracon	1	6	9	13	9	6	9	40
8	Andrew Silhavy	10	11	16	10	2	7	8	48
9	Rapid Buttner	16	9	10	3	12	9	12	55
10	Austin Williams	12	13	11	4	8	8	15	56
11	Mary Charles	7	12	8	15	11	14	10	62
12	Kimberly Jackman	17	15	12	7	17	12	6	69
13	Lyndsay Stockwell	9	16	17	11	10	13	13	72
14	Paul Odegaard	11	7	15	17	13	11	16	73
15	Bob Tomsey	15	10	7	14	15	15	14	75
16	David Nielsen	14	DNS	14	16	14	16	11	85
17	Paul Dierze	13	14	13	12	16	17	17	85

Next up is the Massapoag Small Boat Regatta on May 30.  Registration is online here: http://www.regattanetwork.com/event/10380  Registration is exclusively online this year, so sign up early and avoid the lines at the laptops on Saturday! 

A week after Massapoag is the Sunfish Regional Championship #1 at Barrington Yacht Club. Signups are online here https://www.sunfishclass.org/regattas/regatta-details/1368/

Next Up: Bolton Lake Regatta

This Sunday, the Volvo Ocean Race may be leaving Newport, but that doesn't mean that there's no sailing. Next Sunday the Sunfish season kicks off with the 47th Annual Bolton Lake Sailing Regatta. Boton lake does a great job with this regatta, so it's well worth the trip.  Last Year Bill Brangiforte bested the fleet, coming off his strong Barrington Frostbiting season.    We will post results here next week as soon as they are available.

Next up after Bolton is the Massapoag 8th Annual Small Boat Regatta on May 30.

Welcome to the North East Region Sunfish Blog

Welcome to the Northeast Sunfish News Blog.  We are starting this blog as an unofficial clearinghouse for news updates, schedules and race results around the Northeast US.  We have pages where you can submit Race Notices, Sailing Instructions, results and other items, right here on the web site.

We have reactivated the blog devoted to Northeast Sunfish racing and news. It is located at http://nesunfishnews.blogspot.com/. We will be posting news, notices and events on a (more or less) weekly schedule, or more frequently as we get newsworthy items. There are places on the blog to submit new events or to submit race reports from completed events, and we will publish information from those submissions on the blog. blog for all to see. It is a good way to publicise your event or to just get the word out.  To make a submission, just click on one of the links at the top of the blog, just under the banner photo.

Now that the epic winter of 2015 is finally over, we can turn our minds to racing.  First Class Events:  The North American Masters Championships are going to be held at the Massapoag Yacht Club from July 31-August 2, 2015 at the Massapoag Yacht Club.  We all know Massapoag from their annual small boat and multi fleet regattas. We are working with Sail Salem on a bid to host the 2016 North American Championships. We're aiming to bring the N.A.s back to the Northeast for the first time in five years.  Sail Salem is hosting a 400 boat Opti championship this year, so after that, the Sunfish NAs should be a piece of cake for them.  I'll keep everyone posted as things progress.

Now to our local Racing: First up is the Connecticut River Distance Race on May 9. It is a 10 mile multi class race down the Connecticut River. It looks to be a lot of fun.  The week after is the Bolton Lake Regatta on May 17, followed by the 8th Annual Massapoag Small Boat Regatta.  Both of these regattas should be excellent tune ups for the 2015 NAs, which are being held on a lake.

The rest of the Northeast regatta schedule is shaping up like this:

Date	Event
5/9/2015	Connecticut River Distance Race
5/17/2015	Bolton Lake Regatta
5/30/2015	Massapoag Sunfish/Laser Regatta
6/22 - 6/27	Sunfish North American Championship
6/6 -7/2015	Northeast Sunfish Regionals #1 (Barrington)
7/11 - 7/12	Newport Regatta
7/18 - 7/19	Lipton Cup
7/25-26/2015	Northeast Sunfish Regional #2 (Wequaquet)
8/15/2015	Spofford Lake Regatta
8/16/2015	Bantam Lake Regatta
7/31- 8/2 2015	North American Sunfish Masters Championship
8/9/2015 (Tentative)	Sunderstown Super Sunfish Sunday
9/12 - 9/13	Massapoag 66th Annual Regatta
10/12 - 10/17	Sunfish World Championship

Of course several yacht clubs are staging regular Sunfish racing as well.  If you like lake racing, the Massapoag Yacht Club in Sharon, MA  is running their Saturday Sunfish Series every Saturday at 2:00 from June 6 through October. Racing is free and open to all comers.  For ocean racers, The Edgewood Sailing School in Cranston, Rhode Island runs Sunfish racing on Wednesday evenings. Entry fee is $5 per week, and the Angelica Yacht Club in Mattapoisset, MA runs Sunfish racing on Sundays starting on June 30, running through Labor Day.  You have to be a member to sail at Angelica, but the fee is only $40 for the entire season, well worth the price of admission.