Press Releases

June 7, 2020 (OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK) - The Oakcliff Quaranteam Regatta had a slow startwith hot and glassy conditions but the Match 40s jolted to life when a thunderhead rolledthrough bringing rain and 16 knots gusting 20 with 30 degree wind oscillations. Out of...

Oakcliff's Performance Party Buff (patent-pending). Keep your face covered while drinking socially. BUY HERE. Oakcliff continues to lead the way towards safe Covid-19 boating as featured in Newsday and Sailing Magazine. Just days after the start of the quarantine, the Oakcliff team began developing a protocol...

Newport, R.I. (February 5, 2020) – The C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. Memorial Clinic and Regatta and Oakcliff Sailing are pleased to announce that the fifth annual Clagett/Oakcliff Match Race Clinegatta for sailors with disabilities will be held on September 18-20, 2020. Sagamore Yacht Club will...

OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK (October, 7, 2019) – The third and final stage of the Oakcliff Triple Crown Series wrapped up with big breeze in five Olympic classes...

All four of the Olympic classes that competed in Stage 2 of the Oakcliff Triple Crown Series, make their way downwind (49er, Nacra 17, 470W, and 470M) OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK (September 30, 2019) - The Oakcliff Triple Crown Series has been running for three years...

Newport, R.I. (September 22, 2019) – Sailors with disabilities who have been racing in the fourth Clagett/Oakcliff Match Racing Clinic and Regatta have sailed for two days in Oyster Bay, N.Y. and there is a new team crowned the winners, Sarah Everhart Skeels (Little Compton,...

OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK (August 11, 2019) - After two days of coaching by Volvo Ocean Race sailor and World Match Racing Tour Skipper, Nicolai Sehested, Oakcliff’s August Grade 3 Clinegatta pitted eight skippers against each other, three of whom were ranked within one point...

Oakcliff's July Grade 5 saw medium breeze and a heat index of 110 and the racing was just as hot as the weather. With marked improvement in each of the five teams who participated, the racing got tighter and tighter as the day went...

June 30, 2019 (OYSTER BAY, NY) - The day started with the perfect conditions for the six teams to race Swedish Match 40s: 12 knots of breeze and sunny skies. Just after the second flight the breeze shut off. Not long after, a squall...