Day 4 at Chester Race Week 2022: A Spectacular Day of Racing on Mahone Bay!
Day 2 at Chester Race Week 2022: The Amazingly Competitive Fleet of Bluenoses
Day 1 at Chester Race Week 2022: Good Weather, Good Winds, Great Racing!
Profile: Pat Nelder, on-water chair of Helly Hansen Chester Race Week
This article originally appeared in Atlantic Boating Magazine in June 2022. For more than 20 years, Pat Nelder has been one of the biggest promoters of sailing and boating in Atlantic Canada. Nelder, who served as the executive director of Boating Atlantic, formerly the Atlantic Marine Trades Association (AMTA), retired from that role on March […]
First-time skipper at Chester Race Week encourages more women to get into sailing
Anna Millar doesn’t remember the first time she went sailing, but she said she’s been sailing “since forever.” She was just a mere six weeks old when her father took her on a boat. “We sailed a lot and spent a lot of time on the water. As I grew up, I was very connected […]
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Roue 20 by racing at Chester Race Week
For Ted Mussett, signing up for Chester Race Week this year is a bit of a birthday bash for the boat he’ll be racing. Mussett was about 10 years old when he started racing, mostly dinghies. At Chester Race Week, Mussett, who’s 69, will be the skipper of Blue Jay, a Roue 20 he’s been […]
Taking the top prize: Sue McAlpine and the Chester Race Week trophies
Sue McAlpine has spent the last couple of weeks getting the trophies that will be handed out during Helly Hansen Chester Race Week ready for their big days. McAlpine’s been polishing, shining, and transferring the cups to the case on the main floor of the Chester Yacht Club where they will stay until after race […]
Four decades of The Hopping Penguins
The Hopping Penguins may be the band of Chester Race Week, but their origins started in a bit of a rivalry. It was 1982 and Gary Edwards and Andru Lordly played on the deck of an old farmhouse overlooking the town of Mahone Bay. The house belonged to Dougie Mosher, a sailor who was racing […]