Scorpios – 1st place in in Class 5 of Vineyard Race
Congratulations to Costas Vlahakis and the team of Scorpios, who took the 1st place in Class 5 of the last week’s Vineyard Race
The Vineyard Race event began in 1932 and was described in Yachting Magazine as follows:
“The greatest distance races of the world have several things in common – a challenging course, competitive fleets, and an interesting array of famous yachts. By those standards, the Stamford Yacht Club’s Vineyard Race rates close to the top. Like a miniature Fastnet, the Vineyard has a combination of coastal cruising, where currents play a big role, a stretch of ocean sailing, and a mark to round – the Buzzards Bay tower.”
The 238-mile course stretches from Shippan Point in Stamford, Connecticut to the light tower at the entrance to Buzzard’s Bay, and then returns to the finish in Stamford Harbor. There are also two shorter courses that run 143 nm and 116 nm, for non-spinnaker yachts
