Call it an Instant Regatta. A record 25 boats competed in last Thursday's evening race, eclipsing the record of 22 set last year.

A dour day of clouds and threatening rain greeted the Holmes Hole fleet for last Sunday’s annual race to Robinson’s Hole.

The Edgartown Yacht Club hosts its ‘Round the Island Race on Saturday, July 26, at 8 a.m. at the club on Dock street.

The just completed 2014 edition of the Vineyard Cup featured 66 competitors.

Sails dotted the horizon from Cape Pogue to West Chop from Thursday to Sunday, but fickle winds and currents were the main theme this year in the annual Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta and Vineyard Cup races.

Thirteen boats took to the water last Sunday on a glorious post-Fourth of July and Hurricane Arthur visit to race to Tarpaulin Cove. Replicating America’s first yacht race of 1833, HHSA’s yearly rendezvous race to Tarpaulin Cove is always a treat when the weather behaves.