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On the cozy confines of New Jersey’s Toms River,where there is many luxury yachts for sale ,several fleets of small dinghies are locked in tight battles on a short course.They’re aggressively fighting for the pin at the start and contesting overlaps at each mark rounding. The crews are bailing frantically up and down the course as spectators cheer on the participants from a nearby dock.

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At a distance, it appears to be a collegiate regatta. But there are a few incongruities: it’s August, and college students are still on summer break. A closer look at the sailors reveals that while a few are close to college age, most are several decades past their diplomas. And some of those spectators appear to be Opti kids cheering on their moms.Welcome to the second annual Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association
Yacht Club Team Challenge, an interclub dinghy championship for grownups. The Toms River YC hosts the oneday event, inviting yacht clubs from the BBYRA and surrounding waters to compete for bragging rights as to which club’s sailors are “best on the Bay.”

The real point of the Challenge, however, is to take sailors from different fleets and generations, throw them into matched one-designs on the shifty waters of the Toms River, and then share some laughs at the post-race party. There are many luxury yachts for sale, unlike the team- and match-racing formats that are employed for most adult interclub competitions in the United States, the Challenge relies on multi-division fleet racing similar to a college intersectional regatta;
the lowest aggregate score wins. It also uses the type of boats prevalent in college sailing: Club 420s with neither spinnakers nor trapezes, and 12-foot Tech dinghies.“People get to race against people they don’t usually race
against, and they enjoy testing themselves against sailors from other fleets,” says regatta chair Bill Warner Sr., 60, who developed the Challenge with the help of son Billy, 31, and son-in-law Will Demand, 28.“A scow guy can compete against a Flying Scot guy, which you normally don’t get to do on the Bay.”The Challenge sprung out of theWarner family’s efforts to create a frostbiting fleet at Toms River YC. In the fall of 2003, Billy
Warner, then the sailing coach at SUNY Maritime College, organized a group of two dozen Toms River members for a mass purchase of 30 used Tech Dinghies from MIT and Boston University.The Tech is an ideal platform for frostbiting: it’s simple to rig,can be easily singlehanded, and supports competitive racing across a wide spectrum of crew weights. The boats are slow and relatively indestructible, which makes them well-suited for
close-quarters sailing.After a successful initial frostbite season, theWarners and Demand began brainstorming new uses for the fleet. The idea of a “Battle of the Bay” soon came up, and the Challenge was born.
“It’s a great opportunity for people from all the clubs to come down and race the same boat,” saysWarner Sr.“We have 13 clubs on the Bay, so we figured we could use our 30 boats to do both a doublehanded and singlehanded division. Then Roy Wilkins [the sailing coach at Ocean County College] approached us about the college boats, and we threw them into the mix.” All Challenge sailors must be 21 or older and one of the five
sailors competing in three divisions—singlehanded Tech Dinghy, doublehanded Tech, and doublehanded 420—must be a woman. Clubs are allowed to substitute crews and skippers between races. The regatta is held directly in front of Toms River YC, which encourages spectators and allows sailors to come in for a leisurely lunch, socialize, and discuss team strategy.The event drew 12 teams the first year, attracting a number of
one-design champions and former All-Americans, along with many sailors hopping into a dinghy for the first time. To no one’s surprise, current college skippers and recent alumni have dominated the 420 division. However, the Tech divisions have been more diverse, with a mix of ages and sailing backgrounds placing in the top half of the fleet. Overall, sailors in all three divisions have spanned a wide spectrum of age and experience.
“I had a blast,” says 50-year-old Bev Vienkowski of Seaside Park YC, a Sneakbox and scow sailor who skippered in the 420 division with 50-year-old Janet Miller as crew.Vienkowski hadn’t sailed a 420 since she was 15, and Miller, who grew up sailing A Cats and Sneakboxes, had never sailed one.Find out luxury yachts for sale and catamarans for sale in our site,but the pair scored a second in their first race and were getting the hang of roll tacking by the end of the day.