HHSA Annual TUNE-UP RACE is this Sunday, June 14th!

AHOY!

    Just a reminder that the first chance to win a HHSA first place cup in 2026 is this Sunday, June 14th.  The usual 2:00 PM warning signal will be sounded by the Vigilant crew for a course chosen based on wind conditions.  Current forecast is for a SW wind at 10 knots, expected to build so anything is on the table.  Bring along a copy of the sailing instructions, available on the Holmeshole.org website, to avoid wrong way roundings which confounded the fleet last year.  If you have a cell phone, the site can be accessed and course diagrams are available there.   

    The race is not included in Seasonal standings, but will give you a chance to make sure your boat is set up for the summer.  The first 2026 season race is Thursday, June 18th, 5:00 PM warning.   The winner of Sunday's race will have an option to choose the newly designed first place cup or the tradition cup.  

   Potluck dinner and gathering of the membership and friends will be Tuesday, June 16th, 6:00 PM at the VHYC as previously announced.  

   https://holmeshole.org/

   See you on the water!

   Roger.

Time to register your boat for the 2026 season.  Preseason racing on May 31 and June 7th.  

 

TUNE-UP Race is June 14th, 2:00 PM Warning signal.  Course dependent on weather conditions.  

 

This dues is set at $200 for more than 20 races....best Yacht Racing deal in New England.  

 

Click this link to sign up now.  You will not be scored until all fees are paid! 

 HHSA Registration link

  

 

 

 

 

 Welcome to the new HolmesHole.org website.  This welcome is coming from the Holmesholesailingassociation.blogspot.com blogger service!

 

HHSA: Saturday's Results

Ahoy!  6 boats showed up to race in the first ever Saturday race around course #3 in about 10 knots of wind.   Holmes Hole races have traditionally been on Sundays and Thursday evenings, but with a little foresight for this post season race, which was scheduled for a windy and rainy Sunday, it was moved to be raced today in conditions unlikely available tomorrow.  Good idea?  Well, the turn out was respectable and the weather, for October, was perfect.  The race featured plenty of broad reaches and a little bit of windward work.  The current favored everyone and made for a quick race, just an hour to just under an hour and a half.  Gloria won the race by just 30 seconds over Silhouette.  All six positions were within 4 minutes on corrected time.  

The island will be hunkered down for a wet Nor'easter this week but I'm thinking everyone is hanging on for another post season race or two.  

All the best,  

Roger. 

HHSA: Results for Sunday's post season race

Ahoy!  

No WInd, No problem!  5 boats, hopeful that the North wind would make it's switch to Southwest, like Edgartown, Airport and everywhere else, did actually start the course.  The start was postponed til 2:35, but the wind didn't get the message.  A couple of boats soon dropped out as getting to the can at East chop looked to be not possible.  The wind was making attempts but only in micro bursts in acre size areas.  Boats, separated by just 100 feet, were experiencing opposite wind directions and no one was getting very much.  That said, Wendell Colson sailing Silhouette was picked from the group as if raptured from above and sent on his own good way over to the Eastchop shore, along the shore, around the can and into a fair tide and 15 knots of SW wind around Nun 4 and to the finish line as if it were a normal October's Sunday wind.  Gloria's crew, finally got the wind which was mostly West South West and decided to make it for the harbor before it too died off.  Penelope, undeterred, proceeded to do the course finishing 40 minutes after Silhouette.  

Maybe we'll catch a break on Thursday and the 20 knots Northeast expected in the morning will die down by race time? 

All the best,  Roger. 

HHSA: Thursdays post season race results

Ahoy!

    5 boats for this afternoon's race around the triangle in a dying Northeaster.  We went to W. Chop first and rode the current to East Chop with a stately run back to Nun 6.  Gloria is seemingly unstoppable for reasons not apparent to her crew.  Even on the broad reaches and runs the longer boats are not making any time on her. That certainly wasn't the case during the season.  The clear views in every direction with the sun and blue skies made for a pleasant time on the water.  Hats off to the SSA captains who are not in a rush to blow their warnings, letting us maneuver as necessary in our own good time!  There was one non-HHSA boat on a sail, but otherwise the harbor was ours alone.  The fish must be somewhere else on Thursdays.  

   Sunday is forecasted to be warm with a light southwest breeze...but rain in the morning.  Hope to get in another post season outing even if cloudy. 

   All the best,  Roger.