Hail, fellow Cocktail Class racers! Are you getting excited for another season of CCWBRA racing? I sure am, especially since I am finally going to make it to Florida next month for the “Southern Leg” of the race schedule! Even…
Hail, fellow Cocktail Class racers! I am filled with a mix of great excitement and a little trepidation at assuming the role of Commodore. Fortunately, I have had the opportunity to work closely for the past two years with Rich…
We have another great year of racing planned for you! The current Calendar of Events includes 8 races along the East Coast in 5 states: Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. The first races of the season, our Mid-Winter…
Oktoberfest 2015 at KIYC, last event of the racing season, was at times windy, chilly, cloudy, and often a combination of all three. Fortunately, the wind was blowing across the race course with little fetch so the water was relatively…
Great weather, great venue, great racing. Sound familiar? Throw in free grilled hamburgers and hot dogs and drinks and condiments provided by Steve and Kay Brendlinger, plus a few more goodies by other participants, and you should agree we had…
Last year our Association started a National Champions Award. That perpetual award will list all of our National Champions, by class, year after year. This year another perpetual award, to be presented annually, will be started to allow CCWBRA to…
Forty-one drivers and twenty-eight boats participated in the 2015 CCWBRA National Championship at Rock Hall Yacht Club on 15 August. The weather was gorgeous, although the cooling afternoon breeze led to an increasing chop from mid-day on. The traditional Rock…
The 2015 KIYC Regatta, held on 18 July, was another fun and interesting day. The weather looked bad and was forecast to get worse (black clouds and a thunderstorm in the distance, white caps on the race course, etc.). However, as…
Three Lehigh Valley CCWBRA boat-builders (Fred Allerton, Steve Brendlinger, and Tom Kerr) hosted an informal, experimental race on the Lehigh River in Allentown, PA on Saturday, 6 June. For this trial race, participation was intentionally minimal at 10 boats and 12 drivers…
The CCWBRA Executive Committee has made available their 2014 Annual Report to our membership and to the public. We had a great year in 2014 hosting 7 sanctioned regattas and participating in 5 shows! A big "Thank You" goes out to all…