Class News

Shannon Bush seems to get better every year. This year she’s set a goal for the Italian Worlds, followed by the Etchells NAs in Newport. In pushing her program to winning levels, she’s added new team members, hired a coach, and taken extra days off work each month for...

It is with heavy heart that I inform you of the passing of Thomas C. Piper. Tom left us on the morning of September 9, 2013. We remember him as a formidable competitor in many regattas both offshore and around the buoys. Tom first sailed with his brother Scott on a...

October 13-14, 2012 The Etchells fall schedule is in full swing with the last One Design Weekend, sailed on October 13 and 14th. The regatta saw fierce competition between Lola, Down Under, and Rhino, sailed by Geoff Davis, AndrewWhittome, and Bruce Nelson,...

June 2-3, 2012 Shelter Island, NY The Shelter Island Yacht Club, Shelter Island, NY, hosted the second of four events in the Etchells Atlantic Championship Series over the weekend of June 2-3. Twenty boats competed in the event and the race committee was able to...

Etchells Fleet 13 2012 ORCA Bowl sponsored by Sailing Supply The San Diego Yacht Club hosted twenty competitive Etchells teams in the 2012 ORCA Bowl sponsored by Sailing Supply and sailed on the Coronado Roads in light to medium winds over the weekend of May 19-20....

It's the main game for the Etchells class in 2012; the Etchells World Championship, to be held offshore of Sydney from the 16th to 25th February. At the close of entries 73 skippers have registered to participate in the championship hosted by Royal Sydney Yacht...

2012 Sid Doren Recap The first major regattta of 2012 hosted 51 teams from CAN, USA, GBR, BER, BAH, GRE, and SUI. Last weekend's Sid Doren regatta took place Miami and was hosted by Biscayne Bay Yacht Club. An unreliable wind field led to a dock AP on Saturday morning...

Lammens wins battle, Siegel wins the war...!  By Jonas Fyre-Panz Hank Lammens, Moose McClintoch and Dirk Kneulman won the Etchells US National Championship, graciously hosted by New York Yacht Club at Harbor Court in Newport R.I. over the weekend of Oct 2-3. Thirty...

When I started sailing Etchells actively three years ago, I expected to see merely a few teams that didn't wear some form of lifejackets or inflatable flotation device most of the time. Once we started sailing in big events, I was surprised to see how few sailors wore...