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HPYC Sunfish Races 2025
Friends, Like roses that bloom for just a few weeks a year but make our summer when they do, HPYC Sunfish racing starts again this...
Cesar Brea
Jun 30, 20252 min read
HPYC Sunfish Racing 2024 Recap
Another wonderful summer goes into the books, and this one came with changes! Karen Anderson Smith is the winner of the Abercrombie &...
Cesar Brea
Sep 4, 20242 min read


HPYC Anderson Trophy 2023
Each Labor Day weekend our Sunfish fleet races for the Anderson trophy, named for longtime HPYC member and past Sunfish champion Bob...
Cesar Brea
Sep 3, 20232 min read


HPYC Sunfish Series 2023
This past weekend, we wrapped the summer's racing for the Abercrombie & Fitch Trophy. It's always a bittersweet moment! Scores for the...
Cesar Brea
Aug 30, 20232 min read
2023 Sunfish First Series (July)
Hard to believe we're well into August! Or, as HPYC Sunfish sailors think of it, Long July. Following our Independence Day regatta, we...
Cesar Brea
Aug 6, 20231 min read
2023 HPYC Sunfish Independence Day Regatta
Surfing a Sunfish in heavy air is a blast, but often you're too busy just trying to stay upright to fully enjoy it. Surfing in lighter...
Cesar Brea
Jul 4, 20232 min read
August 27 2022 Sunfish Results
"Racing is life. Anything else that happens before, or after, is... just waiting." Steve McQueen, Le Mans, 1971 This morning the weak low...
Cesar Brea
Aug 27, 20221 min read
August 20 2022 Sunfish Results
This weekend the Pfrang family joined our core group to put eight boats on the line for four races in a mostly-light southerly. Though...
Cesar Brea
Aug 23, 20222 min read
August 13 2022 Sunfish Results
Accompanying this weekend's cooler temperatures (at last!) was a shifty, puffy 10-20 knot northerly. Four of us ventured out yesterday...
Cesar Brea
Aug 14, 20222 min read
August 6 2022 Sunfish Results
Our August series got off to a hot start last Saturday, and not just on the thermometer. Three of us made it to the course, and Tracey...
Cesar Brea
Aug 13, 20221 min read
July 16 2022 Sunfish Results
Last Saturday we completed our July series. Six competitors sailed three races on a modified Olympic course (triangle-windward-leeward-wi...
Cesar Brea
Jul 22, 20221 min read
July 9 HPYC Sunfish Racing Results
Following last week's inaugural Independence Day regatta, yesterday we kicked off our two-weekend July series. Set before us was a...
Cesar Brea
Jul 10, 20221 min read
HPYC 2022 Independence Day Sunfish Regatta
I said yesterday to Eric Bacon that uncovering your Sunfish to start the season here feels almost like a pagan ritual, practiced from...
Cesar Brea
Jul 4, 20221 min read
Sunfish Racing Update, Labor Day 2021
This weekend we raced for the Robert Anderson Trophy, named for the 1980 season champion, who loved being on the water and still cheered...
Cesar Brea
Sep 6, 20211 min read
Sunfish Racing Update, August 14
"We happy few." With our wonderful RC off studying in Europe, and with two fleet regulars off indulging other passions (How dare they?),...
Cesar Brea
Sep 6, 20211 min read
Sunfish Racing Update, August 7
Following two lay weekends for the Sunfish Regional at WLYC on July 24-25 and the Hyannis Regatta on July 31-August 1, we closed out our...
Cesar Brea
Aug 13, 20211 min read
Sunfish Racing Update July 17
The pea-soup fog burned off only 30 minutes after our normal start time, ushering in a very light, deceptively shifty southwesterly. Five...
Cesar Brea
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Sunfish Racing Update July 10
Once Elsa let us go, Saturday brought lighter, shifty northerlies. Six boats waged three tight contests, with places unsettled until the...
Cesar Brea
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Sunfish Racing Update: July 3, 2021
First: many thanks to Jack Campo, whose wonderfully pithy recaps of each week’s racing in summers past have been models of writing...
Cesar Brea
Jul 7, 20212 min read
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