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Holmes Hole had two competitive races this past week. Thursday night, 10 boats sailed the triangle in Vineyard Haven Harbor, with a windward starting leg in 10 knots of southwesterly winds. Frank Sutula’s Soma Holiday won the cup 47 seconds ahead of Beck Colson’s Silhouette, who was 15 seconds ahead of Mike Powers’ Artful Dodger […]

Both of last week’s races called for a spirit of optimism. Thursday, the last day of June, was quite still all day, but in the late afternoon, a light southeast breeze made enough of an appearance to push nine game participants around a reverse triangle in Vineyard Haven Harbor in under 54 minutes. Artful Dodger, […]

The second week of the Holmes Hole sailing season started with an ideal evening sail on Thursday: no clouds, a nice 10- to 15-knot breeze, and a perfect temperature. Eight showed up for the 3.2-mile course around the harbor, the only drawback being that there was little windward work in the speedy rounding of the […]

The HHSA 2022 started off on the blustery Thursday evening of June 16. The strong 12- to 15-knot breeze was stronger than that of any of the preseason races, and even managed to cause Gloria’s spreader to fly off the mast, never to be seen again. That is only the third time in 35 years […]