2024 Nationals to be hosted by Madison Beach Club

Dates are August 14 -16 Wednesday through Friday there will be a practice race On Tuesday 8/13

Sarah Davidson and Sue Hennessey are co-chairs for the event. Amanda Clark is the PRO.

There will be fundraising to cover the rising costs, Sponsors encouraged.

A raffle for a Doyle Jib will be held cost  $100 a ticket, limited to 50 tickets total. Contact [email protected] or Sue Hennessey.

Atlantic Class Annual Dinner on March 14th

The Atlantic Class annual meeting and awards dinner,  sign up soon so we can get count of attendees. 

The details: 

Dinner to be held at the Black Rock Yacht Club March 14, 2024 at 6pm

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Proposed changes Rules of the Atlantic Class Association

The Rules Committee has recently voted on and approved several modifications to the Rules of the Atlantic Class Association.

We now pass these new modifications on to the owners for your approval at the annual meeting and dinner.

 2024 Proposed Rule changes

Atlantic Class Rule Book

Atlantic Class Rules Drawings

2023 Nationals Blue Hill, Maine

The 2023 National Championship was held by Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club at Blue Hill, Maine, from August 13-19. Winner was A44 Try Again, sailed by Ian Evans, Tomas Hornos, Carsten Steenberg and Jake Evans. In second place was Scott Reichhelm in A142 Shucks, and third A49 Transit, Tim Britton. 23 boats competed in Blue Hill’s typically good southwest wind.

Ian Evans races in the KYC fleet and says that familiarity with local conditions was helpful over the course of the regatta. Try Again had consistently good results, only once finishing out of the first four. Awareness of tidal flow was important, as was picking the favored side of the course on the way to the weather mark, not always an easy choice. The center of the course was always to be avoided.

The first day dawned with a flat calm, but racing was postponed until 4 pm when a breeze arrived and two good races were fired off. On day two conditions were close to perfect for racing, while day three was slightly lighter and substantially more variable in wind direction. It all came down to the last race when either of the first two boats could have won the event. Evans and crew pulled it off, sealing the title with a final victory.

Race Officer Amanda Clark, an ex-Olympic sailor, has received much praise for her fine handling of this event. KYC deserves congratulations for putting on the best championship series the class has seen for a while.

Full results are here. 

And here are some great photos of the event from Christine Guinness.

2023 Annual Awards Dinner

2022 trophy winners (photo by Diane Rothman)

Our annual meeting and dinner took place at Black Rock Yacht Club in Bridgeport, CT, on January 26. A good dinner was followed by a lively talk by Dave Perry on the importance of teamwork, which went down very well with the crowd.

Trophies for the Nationals, held in August at Niantic Bay YC, were awarded, including to the winning crew, Bill Healy, his daughters Caroline and Kristen, and Art Landry. A trophy that's new this year is the Inflation Trophy, now awarded to the runner-up at the Nationals. This went to Dave Peck of Niantic Bay.

The Charlotte Perry Barringer Youth Award is given to the top competitor under the age of 19: three members of Sharlie's family were there to present it to Charlie Keogh and Roddy Atwood who raced on A84 Redfish: Dave Perry, Ginny Perry Worcester, and Susan Barringer, Sharlie's daughter

The crew of A65, Challenger II, with the Championship Trophy. L to R, Art Landry, Kristen Healy, Caroline Healy and Bill Healy.

Runners-up in the Nationals with the Inflation Trophy: Dave Peck, Diane Peck Rothman, and Tom Peck. Missing is crew member Neal Fowler.

Winners of the Charlotte Perry Barringer award for under-19s, Charlie Keogh and Roddy Atwood, with Dave Perry, Susan Barringer and Ginny Perry Worcester.

Ron Marsilio won the Janeway Trophy at Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club in September, crewed by Zach Black, John Mears and Brian Hayes.  Here he is with the Doyles who tied on points, but lost out on the tie-breaker. L to R, Jim and Lindsay Doyle, George Lindsay of CSHBC, Ron and Zach.