The Atlantic one-design is a classic keel boat designed for club racing and fast sailing.  Standing at 30'  the Atlantic was designed by Starling Burgess in 1929 for racing on Long Island Sound. Within two years, one hundred of the boats were built in Germany, shipped across the ocean, and began an eighty year tradition of close, competitive racing. In the late 1950s a mold was made for a fiber glass hull, and today's Atlantics are solid, modern boats with flotation tanks, aluminum spars, and dacron sails but they retain the classic good looks and solid performance of the original design. Currently there are active Atlantic fleets in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Madison, CT, Westport, CT, Niantic, CT, and Blue Hill, ME.  

 

• 2013 Atlantic Nationals are being hosted by Madison Beach Club July 18-20th.  NOR and other details can be found on the following website http://madisonbeachclub.com/atlantic-nationals/

 

• The Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club's 2012 Ted Janeway Memorial Series was sailed on two beautiful fall days, Sep. 22-23, with two races in brisk southerly winds on Saturday and one race in a very squirrely Northwesterly on Sunday.  Congratulations to winner Guy Gurney sailing A128 Cassidy from Cedar Point.  Three boats from the new fleet in Madison, CT participated -- a first for them, and for this series.  Thanks to all who made the trip and/or helped make the weekend a tremendous success.  Click here for more details or here to download the scoring.
• Congratulations to Norm Peck III (A137) and his crew (Robb Wyllie, Dave Samson and Don Landers) on winning the 2012 Atlantic Nationals! Congratulations to all sailors but Ben Wells (A32) on 2nd, Terry Britton (A36) on 3rd, Norm Peck Jr (A130) on 4th, Bill Barton (A141) on 5th and Steve Benjamin (A128) on 6th. Click here for full results and a proper write up to follow but KYC you raised the bar very high...fantastic week, thank you
• Congratulations to Steve Benjamin (A128) for winning the Inaugural W. Starling Burgess Around the Island Race and to Ben Wells (A32) for a very close 2nd, Bill Barton (A141) on 3rd, Arvid Brandstrom (A127) on 4th, Norm Peck Jr (A130) on 5th, Hank Mergenthaler (A139) on 6th. Click here for full results.
• 2012 Madison Invitational Atlantic Regatta, July 14 & 15.  Click here for the results. Congratulations to Norm Peck Jr (A130), Norm Peck III (A137), Rory Coster (A133), Guy Gurney (Skippering A128), and Jeff Shay (A147).  A big round of applause to the Madison Beach Club but especially to Sarah Davidson for a fantastic weekend....there was even lots of air (on Saturday) for AIR. Many of Donna Pace's fantasticphotos have been posted on Facebook and will be posted to the Class website in future. Click here to VIEW the Kattack GPS Tracking of the 14 boats from the two days. A special thanks to Mark Fortin of Kattack www.kattack.com for providing this terrific addition to our post race analysis.
• Click here for a letter Ian Evans, Chairman of the Rules Committee, sent to Skippers and Owners on 11/9/11 via the USPS regarding Rules 4.1 and 9.1

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• The rules revisions proposed in summer of 2011 were all approved by the Active Membership.  Click here for a full copy of the revised Atlantic Class Rule Book.

• Want to join the class or need to renew your dues? Click here for the membership form 

• Check out the article about us in the April 2009 issue of Sailing World