We have an exciting lineup for the 2026 Grand Prix. The first Grand Prix event will be the D7 Championship, June 13-14, at the Portland YC in Falmouth, ME. This is going to be a fabulous event among the beautiful Maine islands.
Registration is open, so sign up soon. Next we'll move the Cape for the annual John Bentley Regatta at the New Bedford YC in South, Dartmouth, MA on June 27th, always a classic.
We'll let summer roll along with nine great July and early-August regattas spread across D7 until August 22nd and 23rd when Malletts Bay Boat Club will host the MBBC ILCA Vermont Open. This will be our feature event of the Grand Prix season.
That means scores from this event count twice! Yes, we're tipping the scales to get you to load up the boat and hit Lake Champlain. I was lucky enough to attend this event last year, and Malletts Bay is one beautiful place to sail in late August. We were treated to a day of lake sailing in 5-10 knots and then 15-20 knots as a front came through on day two. Don't miss this one.
Keeping with the fresh water theme, the next event will be the Lake Sunapee Open Regatta, August 29-30.
Registration is open. I sailed this one last year. and it was blast. We had two days of good winds and a great Saturday dinner.
We'll wrap things up with two great fall events. First. it's back to the southern D7 haunts for the Connecticut D7 Grand Prix Regatta hosted by the Duck Island Yacht Club in Westbrook, CT. This is a very enthusiastic club that knows how to host a regatta. They've received rave reviews for their recent events.
Registration is open.Then we'll have our grand finale at one of the best fleets in D7. Fleet 413 will host the Fat Boys regatta in early November. This is an awesome warmup to their frostbite season, and this year will see the awards for the D7 Grand Prix.
ScoringWe tweaked the scoring last year to give a bit more weight to fleet size, and I think the formula worked well. Just to keep it interesting, we will be providing double points for our feature event at the Malletts Bay Boat Club.
1. Grand prix scores will be a function of competitors' placement in each eligible regatta. There is no sign up or fee for the grand prix in addition to the specific regatta requirements. Upon competing in one grand prix regatta, competitors are automatically part of the grand prix and will receive points for every grand prix regatta attended and zero points for any not attended.
2. In each regatta, a given competitor will earn grand prix points equal to N minus the number of boats that placed higher than said competitor. N equals the number of competitors. For example, in a fleet of 100, first place would earn 100 points, second place 99 points, and so on.
3. Because we still want to promote showing up, which Mom says is 50% of getting ahead in life, every eligible competitor in a given regatta will have an additional 10 points added to their score as determined in 2 above. That's up to 70 points for just hooking up the trailer!
4. The winner of the grand prix will have the highest number of points, and the rest of the fleet will be ranked accordingly.
Hope to see you on the road, hanging old friends and making new ones.
YRA Greenwich Harbor Sunday RacingFirst Sunday of Laser racing is June 7th! New this year, series registration is free! You just need to be a member of YRA.
Here is the schedule for the Sunday series -
June: 6/7, 6/14(no sailing), 6/21, 6/28
July: 7/5, 7/19, 7/26
August: 8/9(no sailing), 8/16, 8/23, 8/30
Summer storage is available for a fee from Riverside Yacht Club.
See the details here.
Here is the About information.
https://www.greenwichlaserracing.com/home We will sail June thru August
https://www.greenwichlaserracing.com/racing-schedule Fleet Captain contact(me)
glrfleetcaptain@gmail.com
Ferguson, Mark Bear, Brian Fisher, Marc Jacobi, Peter Shope, and Michael Zonnenberg.