Oakcliff Ocean Racing Team

Great write up in this months SAILING Magazine recapping the 2014 Royal Ocean Racing Club Trans Atlantic Race a year later. Excellent interviews with the whole team! Special thanks to Scotty Guinn for writing this and helping to share our story!

http://sailingmagazine.net/article-1767-sailing-the-worlds-biggest-classroom.html

Congratulations to Dan Flanigan and Team ASZHOU on destroying the Newport to Ensenada Race Record!

http://reichel-pugh.com/2016/04/records-fall-in-2016-newport-to-ensenada-race/

Preparations have begun!

We are very excited to announce our entry in the 2016 Newport Bermuda Race! The team will be comprised of Dan Flanigan and Hobie Ponting racing in the Double Handed division aboard Oakcliff's Ker 11.3! More information coming soon!

Big news for the team coming soon. Hint: we're headed to another small island!

Look what arrived!

1st Place (IRC 1) Royal Ocean Racing Club Transatlantic Race 2014

Congratulations to our Skipper and Friend, Dan Flanigan, on joining the Reichel/Pugh Yacht Design Team. Couldn't have deserved it more!

Here's a little sneak peak of what's to come!

RAW: Approach to Lanzarote http://youtu.be/k7lVC8rFJUM

It was great to spend some time with Liz getting the boat back in double handed mode for the Pineapple Cup. Unfortunately I am headed back to New York but will continue to run shore side navigation support and media as they rocket south towards Jamaica!

-Hobie

Good to be back home.

-Hobie

Took some time to inventory the left over freeze dried from the Transat! Maybe if we were lighter we'd have caught Lupa!

-Hobie

Flew into Charleston last night to get this ol' girl ready for the Pineapple Cup! Stay Tuned!

-Hobie

We always appreciate our story being shared. Shout out to WindCheck Magazine for the feature!

Oakcliff Ocean Racing Team Wins Class in RORC Transatlantic Race On December 12, Oakcliff Ocean Racing Team finished first in class and second overall in the RORC Transatlantic Race. Dan Flannigan, 23, Hobie Ponting, 23, Chris Kennedy, 26 and Andrew “OD” O’Donnell, 27, completed the 3,100 nautical mile race from Lanzarote, Gran Canaria to Grenada aboard Oakcliff’…

Hobie is in Chicago at the Strictly Sail boat show talking about the team and sharing some stories. Shoot us a message if you are in town and want to get together!

Check out our wrap up article on Scuttlebutt!

4 Guys, 7,000 miles: The 5 lessons we learned >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News With an offer for a Class 40 sailboat to be donated to Oakcliff Sailing, the training center in Oyster Bay, NY hatched a plan on short notice to compete in

Meet Anderson Reggio, navigation support for Alvimedica and a huge friend of the team. Somewhere between his duties in the Volvo Ocean Race, running Melges 32 Worlds and professionally sailing Anderson made time to help the team prepare for the Race.

Cheers Anderson, good to see you're getting the limelight you deserve!

Meet Anderson Reggio - Navigation Support Navigation for Team Alvimedica isn't a one-man job and doesn't begin at sea. The extremely talented and invaluable Anderson Reggio joins our crew from Newpor...

Really neat to have so many people wanting to hear our story, Hobie just finalized an interview with SAIL Magazine's for their April Issue!

Super stoked to have been invited to speak at Strictly Sail Chicago! Hobie will be presenting with Elizabeth Shaw next week Friday and Saturday, stop by if you're in the area.

Chicago Boat, RV & Strictly Sail Show

This months issue of Seahorse Magazine just arrived at the shop, check out the article summing up the race!

Came back home to find a feature in the Oyster Bay Guardian!

Oakcliff Sailing has opened up applications for their summer programs. This is where we all met, we owe a lot of our success to the people and the opportunities that Oakcliff offered. Apply today!

http://www.oakcliffsailing.org/programs/training-programs/

Photos of the guys departing Grenada (for the second time) after stocking up on fuel for the light air delivery to Charleston.

And so the great adventure ends.... We all part our separate ways, leaving the boat high and dry at the boatyard, each of us jetting away towards home, desperately trying to make it home to friends and family by the holidays. Dan left us in Grenada, and the stalwart Oakcliff staff trio continued on, through 0 to 35 knots of breeze, thunderstorms and flaming alternators, to bring the yacht we have called home for the past 7000 miles home, finally, to US shores. As the Charleston pilot boat bade us at 4am this morning: "Welcome home boys, welcome home." Damn, it feels good.... Hobie then left us at patriot point marina at 5 am, rushing to make his 7am flight. So finally, whittled down to the 'A' team (just kidding Hobbs and Flan) OD and myself brought the boat to the boatyard, where we refused to step off the boat till it was hanging out of the water in the slings. That is where we bid the good yacht Oakcliff Racing a bittersweet goodbye. You can see the miles on her rudders, with their paintless leading edge (from all the w**d clearing). And the miles on us we are only beginning to realize. OD and I parted ways in the airport. As Dave told us in the beginning, things have changed for sure, and it's definitely not the other ppl and surroundings in out life, it's us. And I can 100% say, (and I think the other three would agree) it's for the better. Safe travels teammates, bunk mates, colleagues.... Friends.... Have an amazing holiday, you deserve it.

Chris out.