Starting the second race on Day 1 of the 2022 Nationals. There was plenty of room on the starting line unless you got delayed coming around the signal boat! Newport, R.I. (Sept. 11, 2022)— Apollo 11, the oldest boat in a 34-boat fleet of Shields racing outside of Newport’s Brenton Reef, won a six-race [...]
The fleet splits and 226 leads to the right. SSeaman Photography In the 7th race of the Summer Series, Team Grace 107 recorded one of our best finishes all summer, despite a mediocre start and picking the wrong side of the first beat. One of the things we did right last night was to [...]
I walked down the dock to meet our crew last night and was initially greeted with the broad smile and hearty laughter of a long-standing (I try not to use the word “old” any more) friend, Geordie Shaver. Soon realizing that he was this week’s “fill in” on bow it became clear that this was not [...]
The July 13 race for Team Tinky brings to mind the immortal words of Charles Dickens, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us...” THE BEST OF TIMES It’s been [...]
143 Folly, the green machine, on the breeze Another beautiful night out on Narragansett bay. Wind was Southerly. Current was ripping upwind. It was a long trek down to the course and hard to stay under the line. In the first race, we fought for a lane near the pin end and were fortunate that the [...]
Earle Copeland "Stubby" Stubbs raced as a member of Newport's Fleet 9 for 42 years Fleet 9 Members: On the evening of Wednesday, June 15th, we have planned a tribute to Earle “Stubby” Stubbs, owner and skipper of Lisa #59 since 1980. First, at 4:45pm, we’d like all Shields in the Brenton Cove area [...]
Shields Fleet 9 gets underway on Wednesday night in a light, shifty, south-southwesterly breeze. Albert Nichols photo By Mike Toppa/Bomba Charger 156 The forecast for race time delivered as predicted. The light air from the south and incoming current going north meant for relatively long upwinds and shorter downwinds. It was 156's 2nd [...]
By Ron Oard, Glory #158 Fleet 9 came away with the top honors among the four boats competing in the Ocean Great Lakes Challenge last weekend at Larchmont Yacht Club. The light winds (7-8 kts Saturday and 5-6 kts on Sunday) made for a challenging event, with a four-hour thunderstorm thrown into the mix on early [...]
Note from the Fleet Captain Earle “Stubby” Stubbs, past commodore of Ida Lewis Yacht Club and past national champion of the Shields class, left us yesterday morning after several months of staving off an aggressive cancer. For the last 42 years, Stubby owned and raced his gray-hulled Shields #59 Lisa each season at Ida Lewis. We could [...]
As the sun sets on one season, we look forward to the next! FLEET 9 ANNUAL MEETING RECAP On December 15th, we held our Fleet 9 Annual Meeting on Zoom, with 16 of 30 registered boats in attendance. Fleet Captain John Burnham took us through a complete agenda reviewing the 2021 season and plans [...]