Oakcliff Trainees to Race Historic 12 Metre Courageous in World Championships OYSTER BAY, NY—Oakcliff Sailing will campaign the historic 12 Metre Courageous for the 2023 World Championships in Newport, Rhode Island, Oakcliff executive director Dawn Riley announced today. The boat will be raced by a young...
Pearson Potts and his team of Bobby Savoie, Bryce Kopp, James Barry, Lucas Adams, and Abigail Preston (Newport, RI) crossed the finish line with huge whoops and hugs to claim his fourth U.S. Match Racing Championship title. Sailing with an all-American crew, he will also...
Dave Perry won the Oakcliff International in an epic battle with Peter Holz right up against the time limit and the committee boat. He and his team come away with $2500 in prize grants and Hobie Sunglasses for all. Chris Poole rounded out the leaderboard...
Jeffery Petersen from Balboa Yacht Club wins the third David Storrs Memorial Qualifier, qualifying him for the USMRC. Pearson Potts came in second right behind him, but not without a strong fight. In the petite finals, Peter Wickwire won the first to two over Dave...
America True during race day at the 2000 Louis Vuitton Cup in Waitemata Harbor, New Zealand. / Courtesy America True (Oyster Bay, NY) - Twenty five years after America True challenged for the America’s Cup, its assets are being donated to Oakcliff Sailing, establishing a $150,000...
Winners Nick Muller and Nevin Snow. Lexi Pline/Oakcliff Sailing Sunday, October 3, 2021 (OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK) - Oakcliff’s Olympic class Triple Crown series continued this weekend, with eight 49er teams vying for over $35,000 in prize grants. Oakcliff’s goal in hosting the Triple Crown is...
Competitors battled hard in light winds at Oakcliff’s August Grade 3 August 14-15. Cormac Murphy took first place, continuing his winning streak from July, where he took the win at the Grade 5 and Grade 4 regattas. Jack Parkin took second, while World Match Racing...
OC86 in the Chicago Mac. The newest boat in Oakcliff’s fleet, OC86, completed a banner Midwest Circuit this July as part of Oakcliff’s Midwest Maxi program. Under the tutelage of accomplished offshore and America’s Cup sailors Dawn Riley, David “The Rat” Blanchfield, Jim Turner, and Brad...
Peter Holtz races at the David Storrs Memorial Regatta April 18 in Oyster Bay, NY. Lexi Pline / Oakcliff Sailing Oakcliff’s 2021 season opened this weekend with the David Storrs Memorial Regatta in Match 40s. The regatta is held in honor of Match Racing enthusiast, champion...
OYSTER BAY, NY - Once upon a time, America’s Cup great Ted Turner claimed that Great Lake’s most prestigious Mackinac Races were to be sailed on a “mill pond” - only to take back his words as 60mph winds came screaming down the 333 mile...