The Indian Harbor Yacht Club is a private yacht club in Greenwich, CT with a long and storied yachting tradition. The club, founded in 1889 in New York City by a group of prominent sportsmen, is based mainly around personally owned yachts and pleasure boats, but also has a long history of competitive races. The members have contributed to the sport of yachting and yacht design. The New York Times noted that "Indian Harbor ranks among the most influential institutions of its kind in the country." Membership in the club is by invitation only.
20-514: On July 1, 1889, under the leadership of Frank Bowne Jones, Richard Outwater, Henry S. Doremus, Charles J. Hart and others, the Indian Harbor Yacht Club came into being, rising from the ashes of the old Greenwich Yacht Club. The particular business was originally stated as, "Shall be to encourage and support the sport of yachting, the art of yacht designing and building, and the science of seamanship and navigation." Later, when incorporated,
40-576: A 42-foot sloop, fell overboard during strong conditions. In 2012, it was announced that the Race had committed to seeking certification as a "clean regatta", encouraging participants "to adopt a number of best practices for the health of the oceans, including reducing plastic bottle use, following a leave-no-trace approach to dealing with trash, promoting the use of non-toxic cleaning products and bottom paint, and preventing oil spills." Thomas Fleming Day Thomas Fleming Day (1861 – August 19, 1927)
60-523: Is rated under the Offshore Racing Rule (ORR). In the first race since 2018 Jason Carroll of Larchmont Yacht Club and the crew of the MOD70 trimaran Argo won line honors and established a new overall race record when they completed the 52nd edition Saturday night local time. Argo’s elapsed time of 33 hours, 0 minutes, 9 seconds. This was fast enough to achieve the first-ever Saturday night finish in
80-770: The Fastnet Race , it is considered one of the classic big offshore races with each distance approximately 625 nautical miles (719 mi; 1,158 km). To quote Gary Jobson , "It’s a feather in every sailor’s cap to have done the race, and many consider the Lighthouse Trophy the most coveted trophy in distance racing." The very first Bermuda Race was an act of rebellion. In 1906, the Establishment believed that it would be impossible for amateur sailors to race offshore in boats under 80 feet. Thomas Fleming Day , editor of The Rudder magazine, disagreed, insisting, "The danger of
100-565: The Intrepid during its America's Cup victories in 1967 and 1970. In 1989, as part of the Club's centennial celebrations, Indian Harbor Yacht Club published 'A Century of sailing : the first one hundred years of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, 1889-1989' The club's facilities on Steamboat Road were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. The designation was in recognition of
120-643: The 49th Newport Bermuda Race in 2014. Shockwave took line honors and first overall corrected time winner in one of the slowest races in recent history in far from perfect sailing conditions. All race results are posted at the Bermuda Race website. At 4:22:53EDT on 19 June 2016, James H. Clark 's 100-Foot Comanche , with skipper Ken Read and navigator Stan Honey , crossed the finish line in Bermuda with an elapsed time of 34h 52m 53s, breaking George David 's Rambler record by more than 4h 36s. The 2016 Bermuda Race
140-477: The Bermuda Race’s first loss of life. 165 boats started the 48th Newport Bermuda Race in 2012. A new elapsed time record of 39 hours, 39 minutes, 18 seconds was set in 2012 by George David 's 90-foot Rambler , which averaged over 16 knots under perfect sailing conditions. The corrected time winner for the second straight race was Rives Potts' 48-foot Carina , which also won the race in 1970. Again 165 boats
160-531: The British island of Bermuda . The Race is the oldest regularly scheduled ocean race in the world, and one of two regularly scheduled races "held almost entirely out of sight of land." The race is particularly popular among current and retired members of the United States Coast Guard , who regularly make up significant portions of the participants. Indian Harbor Yacht Club has recorded more entries in
180-520: The Indian Harbor roster, they would have been small compared with the 233-foot schooner Migrant or the 243-foot steamer Aras, which were registered at Indian Harbor in the 1930's and were representative of their day. </ref> Indian Harbor Yacht Club has recorded more entries in the Newport Bermuda Race than any other yacht club in the world. Indian Harbor members were part of the crew of
200-737: The Newport Bermuda Race than any other yacht club in the world. In a typical race, the fleet enters the Atlantic and the Gulf Stream , with rough water, giving the race its nickname, "The Thrash to the Onion Patch." Once through the rough Gulf Stream, the sailors press on to the finish off St. David's Lighthouse , then winding channel to Hamilton, Bermuda to the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club . Along with Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and
220-525: The RBYC and the Cruising Club of America teamed up to host the race. Since 1923 to this day, the task of inspecting boats, arranging for trophies, the starting and finishing lines, and maintaining the race’s emphasis on safe seamanship falls on volunteer members of both clubs. In 45 races over a century, only two boats have been lost, one on Bermuda’s reef, and the other in a deadly fire in 1932 that also claimed
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#1732868755693240-613: The club's importance in the realm of racing and yachting, as well as for the architecture of its clubhouse. The club is a founding member of the National Sailing Hall of Fame . 41°00′46″N 73°37′22″W / 41.0128°N 73.6227°W / 41.0128; -73.6227 Newport Bermuda Race The Newport Bermuda Race , commonly known as the Bermuda Race , is a biennial, 635 nautical miles (1175 km) sailing yacht race from Newport, Rhode Island to
260-457: The clubhouse, and laid on many parties culminating with a traditional turtle dinner at the prize banquet. There were four more races before the sailors decided it was too much to ask that the race be held annually. After World War I, RBYC Vice-Commodore Eldon Trimingham went up to New York to stir up a revival of the race, to much agreement. After 22 boats started in 1923 at New London, Connecticut , and every boat finished. Three years later,
280-619: The following words were added: "and to provide for the amusement and recreation of its members." This was primarily a sailing club and Henry E. Doremus was the first Commodore, William Ross Proctor the Vice Commodore, and Charles J. Hart the Rear Commodore. The club's first headquarters were in New York, and in 1892 it leased Finch's Island in Greenwich as its sailing base. The present property
300-523: The history of the Bermuda Race. Cal 40 Illusion skippered by Sally and Stan Honey took the St Davids Lighthouse trophy by winning on corrected time. In an [www.youtube.com/watch?v=02xVffWqgnw interview] Rives Potts discusses his prior St Davids Lighthouse victories and long friendship with Stan Honey. Unfortunately, 2022 saw the race’s second loss of life when the captain of the Morgan of Marietta,
320-466: The sea for generations has been preached by the ignorant." Certain that an ocean race would be enjoyable and safe – and also develop better sailors and better boats – Day founded one on his own. The Brooklyn Yacht Club started the race in New York Bay, in Bermuda, the RBYC finished it off at St. David’s Head . The smallest entry then (and in Bermuda Race history) was the 28-foot sloop Gauntlet . She
340-737: Was a sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of The Rudder , a monthly magazine about boats. He was the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. The T. F. Day Trophy is named for him. He was born in Somerset, England , in March 1861, emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was a young boy, and was brought up on Long Island Sound. In 1890, he founded The Rudder , "A monthly journal devoted to aquatic sport and trade," which he edited until April 1916. In 1911 he and Frederick B. Thurber and Theodore R. Goodwin sailed
360-434: Was developed in 1895 by Commodore Charles T. Wills, and the clubhouse dates to 1921. It is an unusual example of Mediterranean Revival design, by architect Henry Pelton, then a member of the club's race committee. Prior to World War II, huge steamers and two- and three-masted schooners crowded the channel to the west of the club and the harbor area to the south. While there are two large ketches - both over 100 feet - still on
380-412: Was notorious for her size, and also for her crew because it included a woman, 20-year-old Thora Lund Robinson . Having outpaced Gauntlet and another boat which dropped out, and the winner was the 38-foot yawl Tamerlane , with Thomas Fleming Day himself as sailing master. The yacht club provided a special anchorage off White’s Island for the race boats, set aside rooms for the skippers and navigators in
400-637: Was the 50th running of the race. More than 195 boats were sanctioned by the Bermuda Race Organizing Committee as qualified entries in the 50th Newport Bermuda Race. An International fleet competed in the biennial race that began on 17 June. There was also the Onion Patch Series, a parallel inter-club and international team-race event. The 2016 Newport Bermuda Race had seven divisions, each with its divisional and class prizes. The race has no single winner. Except Super Yachts, each division
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