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!
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 […]
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 […]
Registration for 2021 Official Media Boat
The Chester Race Week organizing committee is pleased to offer a complimentary media boat service to accredited media on a daily, first-registered, first-seated basis during Chester Race Week which runs from Wednesday, August 11th to Saturday, August 14th in beautiful Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada.
2019 – Day 1: Strong competition, close fleets and steady winds
The four Baker siblings – sister Jesleine and brothers Philip, Jim and David – and crew power their J/30 “Just Add Water” to first place in the Distance Fleet at the end of day 1 of sailing.
CHESTER, NOVA SCOTIA (August 14, 2019) – While a weather front sitting off Tancook Island yesterday threatened to becalm the fleet today, the skies cleared, the sailors were enthusiastic and the wind picked up to 10-15 knots just in time to kick off Helly Hansen Chester Race Week 2019 with ideal on-the-water conditions.
DAY 4 – 2017 RESULTS: Strong winds, rain make damp fun on final day of racing
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DAY 3 RESULTS Flat seas, steady winds make up for Day 2 blow out
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