Oktoberfest 2019
We ended the race season on October 12th at the Rock Hall Yacht Club with our annual Oktoberfest Regatta. Fifteen racers and 16 boats competed in Mixed and Heavy Classes. Check out the video of the last race of the…
CCWBRA 2019 NATIONALS
Race Directors, Todd Steffes and Vice Commodore, Capt. Peter Urbani kicked off this year’s CCWBRA Nationals Regatta on Friday, August 16, 2019. Racers and members began showing up at the Rock Hall Yacht Club for testing and registration from Maryland,…
How about it? Are you in?
The 12-year-old me was standing along a bulkhead among a crowd of many, in Toms River NJ. We were all smelling the unmistakable aroma of spent high octane racing fuel exhaust and stretching our eyeballs to look out at Barnegat…
8 Races in 8 Months!
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…
Youth Take the Stage at 5th Annual Oktoberfest
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…
3rd Annual Union Lake Regatta
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…
New Racer Takes 1st Place at National Championships
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…
Gloomy Forecast Turns into a Great Race Day
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…
Skuas on the Lehigh Informal Race
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…
Battling Sunburn, Not Frostbite in Mid-Winter Regatta
Fourteen boats, eighteen drivers and absolutely perfect weather: mostly sunny, mid 80s, slight breeze, and no other boaters. No wonder 15 of the 18 drivers were from out of state. One participant even commented how nice it was to be…