On Friday, Ladi and Sappling Brock Kraebel brought Oakcliff's Nacra 20 catamaran out to the North Fork of Long Island for the Around Shelter Island Regatta. The regatta is the World's Longest Sunfish Race and has hosted beach catamarans for the last 25 years. It...
(Oyster Bay, NY) The combination of Dave Perry, Match 40s and Oakcliff Sailing’s completely unique training and coaching was too good to miss as a sold out crowd of fifty two young sailors showed up to learn and to match race. Sailors 15 to 24...
Our own Ervin Grove, Sapling is sailing aboard 92 foot super-maxi Med Spirit across the Atlantic. His notes below are well worth reading. We have left them 'as is' as we feel that is more authentic. Greetings from the north atlantic, Here is the write up of...
Oyster Bay, New York: At approximately 3:30am Saturday June 16th, my phone rang and I was instantly awake, heart pounding noting that the call was coming from a satellite phone. Jeff MacFarlane who was racing the Oakcliff Ker 11.3 double handed with co-skipper Mike Tolsma...
It was a tough regatta for competitors and race committee alike. Very light and puffy airs only allowed two flights to get off on Saturday, and extremely shifty breeze made it even more difficult on Sunday. Fortunately (and thanks to all involved) we were able...
Our first Grade 3 of the season saw some incredible action! Perfectly cleared penalties around the pin, windward dial ups, some intense luffing matches and lots of international competition, with Poland, Canada, Bermuda, Sweden and Bermuda all represented. Congratulations to Krysztof Rosinski for winning and...
May 21, 2012 – Oyster Bay New York [caption id="attachment_3858" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Celebration Captured by Cheryll Kerr Regattaphotos.net"][/caption] On a weekend where someone ordered up 4 glorious days of weather, the teams that traveled the furthest ended up with the top spots at the Oakcliff Spring Clinegatta....
Our second grade 5 of the 2012 season. 1. Andreas Giacoumis 2. Mike Quaglio 3. Anthony Pulgram 4. Doug Shannon 5. Danielle Gallo...
On Thursday August 9, 2012, the Mill Neck Family of Organizations will host a Charitable Sailing Regatta in Oyster Bay, NY called “Sail the Sound for Deafness.” Oakcliff Sailing, The WaterFront Center, Oyster Bay Marine Center, the North Oyster Bay Baymen’s Association and various other...
Our first Grade 4 of the 2012 season and the first qualifier for the A, B and C districts for the US Match Racing Championship. Congratulations to Mike Quaglio and Chris Poole for winning berths. 1. Christopher Poole 2. Mike Quaglio 3. Doug Shannon 4. Andreas Giacoumis 5. Anthony Pulgram 6....