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The HOOK Race is a 189.0 nautical mile race on Lake Michigan held each year in July. The challenging event starts outside the harbor in Racine, Wisconsin, "hooking" through Death’s Door, a narrow passageway between Washington Island and Wisconsin’s Door County Peninsula, continuing across Green Bay, and ending in Menominee, Michigan. Winning the five-boat Doublehanded…

The Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta at Marblehead Race Week was held July 22-25. The J/105s were the only fleet to start a race on Sunday before it was abandoned when a squall swept across the course. Charlie Garrard’s team on Merlin had started perfectly and were well ahead on the first leg before the race…

In its 123rd edition, 140 offshore yachts competed on the weekends of July 10-11 and July 17-18 at Larchmont Race Week on Long Island Sound. Continuing where he left off in his previous Long Island Sound regatta near the top of the fleet, Paul Beaudin's LOU LOU won with straight bullets. Second with all deuces…

The weather may not have delivered, but for many of the 7,000 sailors who headed out for the 90th anniversary of the Island Sailing Club's Round the Island Race, this was a big day out in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. The forecast for overcast skies and light winds were not enough to put off…