Nantucket Race Week, August 7-15, 2010

by Diana Brown on 18 Mar 2010 The seventh annual Nantucket Race Week promises to be a great week of sailing competition and social events, culminating with the 38th annual Opera House Cup Regatta. Throughout the week there are regattas for one designs, twelve metres, PHRF-rated boats, and classic wooden yachts, and fun social events every night.

Nantucket Race Week, August 7-15, 2010, marshals the entire Nantucket community together in a fun-filled week of regattas, awards ceremonies, and parties. The races provide sport for everyone from young sailors and families in smaller sailboats to grand prix racers at the very top of their profession. Non-sailors join in the social events every evening and can view the on-the-water action from spectator boats. Now in its seventh year, Race Week continues to grow with new regattas, additional participants, and exciting social activities. In addition, Nantucket Race Week promotes activities that will preserve Nantucket's pristine waters and is certified as a Clean Regatta by Sailors for the Sea.

Nantucket Race Week is privileged to have legendary sailor, television commentator, and US Sailing President, Gary Jobson, as the honorary chairman. Race Week is hosted by the island's two yacht clubs, the venerable Nantucket Yacht Club and the new Great Harbor Yacht Club, to benefit Nantucket Community Sailing. Last year over 2000 sailors and 300 boats participated in Nantucket Race Week, along with several thousand spectators and partygoers. Thanks to the support of the participants, the Nantucket community, the yacht clubs, and sponsors, Nantucket Race Week has become a tremendous success.

The title sponsor for Nantucket Race Week is an island philanthropic organization, ReMain Nantucket. Other major sponsors include the luxury Italian watch-maker Panerai, Vineyard Vines, Charles Schwab, Windward Investment Management, Sperry Topsider, Carlin Contracting, ePaint, Polachi Partners, Hinckley Yachts, Nantucket's Inquirer and Mirror, Atlantis Weather Gear, Hedge Connection, Vioni Capital Management, Bacardi, and Plum TV.

Nantucket Race Week is the major fund-raising event for Nantucket Community Sailing, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational organization that provides affordable access to sailing and water sports to the Nantucket Community. Now in its 15th year, NCS served over 2000 children and adults last year, offering scholarships to year-round island youth, providing free equipment and instruction to other island non-profit groups, funding and coaching Nantucket's High School Sailing Team, teaching adaptive windsurfing clinics for disabled athletes, and running informal sailboat races for all levels.

For further information or to register for Nantucket Race Week events, please visit www.nantucketraceweek.org, email info(at)nantucketraceweek.org or call Nantucket Community Sailing at 508.228.6600