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A 10-knot north-northeast breeze made for a dramatic morning start of the Edgartown Yacht Club’s annual ’Round the Island Race on Saturday. A total of 47 sailboats of varying sizes converged for five starts in the 67-mile race, the best in years.
Sailboats came from all around the region, but it was one sailboat, Ceilidh, a 39-foot sloop, from Chester, Nova Scotia that became the race’s favorite. A rear commodore from Chester Yacht Club, Captain Randy Stevens, and his crew won first place in the Class 3 PHRF, a nonspinnaker division.
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has filed a lawsuit to try to block the development of the Cape Wind project on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound.
In a statement issued Friday, the tribe announced the tribal government had authorized the long-threatened lawsuit against the Department of the Interior‘s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, which has approved the 130-turbine wind farm.
When Vineyard Haven throws itself a birthday party, everybody’s invited.
And when the birthday party comes in the form of the annual Tisbury Street Fair, nothing stands in the way of a good time — not even inclement weather.
A Coral Gables, Fla., woman remained in critical condition in a Boston hospital Monday after she was struck by a car while crossing Upper Main street in Edgartown on foot on Saturday night.
Patricia Guarch, 22, who is working at the Vineyard Arts Project on Upper Main street for the summer, was crossing the street on her way to get ice cream, just after 10 p.m. Saturday, when she was struck by a 2010 Subaru Outback. The driver of the car was Robert Franklin, 85, of Vineyard Haven.
Oak Bluffs town administrator Michael Dutton resigned on Friday morning, capping weeks of tension and speculation over whether he would remain on the job. And as the dust settled over the weekend, the mood in town was decidedly bleak amid mounting financial problems and a workforce strained by low morale and uncertainty about the future.
The five Oak Bluffs selectmen met behind closed doors for an hour on Friday and then announced in public that they had accepted Mr. Dutton’s resignation, which is effective July 31.
Hundreds of boats ranging in size from eight-foot long Optimist sailing dinghies to 30-foot Shields will fill the Edgartown harbor this weekend as the 88th annual Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta gets under way.
Racing begins Thursday; boats begin arriving in Edgartown harbor on Wednesday afternoon.
More than a dozen Wianno Senior 25-foot gaff-rigged sailboats will arrive Thursday afternoon from the Cape. They race from Osterville to here.