July 30, 2010   -   11,719 Photographs Online     EVENT PHOTOGRAPHS       2009 | 2007 | 2005 Block Island Race Week Presented by Rolex Block Island, RI, USA 102 Total Photographs Back to the Event Page J/105 class winner and White Circle Fleet overall winner Bruce J. Stone (POWER PLAY, San Francisco, CA) and Colette Bennett, Rolex Watch U.S.A. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11755  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge J/019 class winner and Blue Circle overall winner John Esposito (HUSTLER) and Colette Bennett, Rolex Watch U.S.A. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11754  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Roger Sturgeon (ROSEBUD/TEAM DYT), John Esposito (HUSTLER), Mort Weintraub (TROUBADOR), Bruce Stone (POWER PLAY), Eric Kreuter, Colette Bennett, Rolex Watch U.S.A. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11753  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Sunset on Block Island after an heavy rain Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11785  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge TROUBADOR (Mort Weintraub, Larchmont, NY), swept the IRC35 class with six wins in eight races. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11752  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge WHIRLWIND, owned by William Purdy (New York, NY), finished in third place in the First 36.7 one design class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11751  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Swan 42 class winner APPARITION, owned by Ken Colburn (Dover, MA). Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11750  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge US Merchant Marine Academy's VANQUISH is in second place in IRC Zero class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11749  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Rod Jabin's RAMROD (Annapolis, MD) won the Farr 40 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11748  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge YELLOW JACKET, owned by Larry Bulman / Jeff Scholz (Bethesda, MD), took second place in the Farr 40 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11747  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Beneteau 36.7 class winner QUOKKA (Tom Peelen, Dartmouth , MA) and second place CROSSBOW (Roy Halvorsen, Tenafly, NJ). Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11746  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Bruce Lockwood's ONE MORE TIME (Groton, CT) won the Farr 30 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11745  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Winner of the Swan 42 class: APPARITION, owned by Ken Colburn (Dover, MA). Photo by: Rolex /   11744  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Start of the last race in the Swan 42 fleet: QUINTESSANCE (USA4210); TSUNAMI (4215); BETTER THAN (18) and DARING (4214). Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11743  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Third place in the IRCA class: Steve & Heidi Benjamin (Norwalk, CT) Tripp 41C HIGH NOON. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11742  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge IRCZERO class won by Roger Sturgeon's STP65 ROSEBUD/TEAM DYT (white boat) with US Merchant Marine Academy's STP65 VANQUISH in second place. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11741  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge ACT ONE, owned by Allan Stern/Charlie Milligan/Tom Roche (Newport, R.I.), finished second in the IRC 40A class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11740  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Rounding the weather mark in Thursday's only race, GAMBLER, Doug Shaffer's (Bayview, TX) J/122. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11724  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge WINGS, the J/122 owned by Mike Bruno / Tom Boyle / Jim Callahan (Irvington, NY). Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11723  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Jim Bishop's GOLD DIGGER leads the J/44 fleet downwind. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11786  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Charles Shumway's J/105 SEA SHADOW. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11722  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge FLYING JENNY VI, owned by David Askew (Annapolis, MD) , leads the J/122 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11721  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge J/105 class racing between ANDIAMO (Paul Strauch, Douglaston, NY) and SEA SHADOW (Charles Shumway, Newport, RI). Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11720  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge J/122 class racing between PARTNERSHIP, David & MaryEllen Tortorello (Fairfield, CT) and CHRISTOPHER DRAGON, Andrew Weiss (Rye, NY), Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11719  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge The sun finally showed up. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11717  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge PEARL, the Morris M36 owned by Robert Lee (Old Saybrook, CT) Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11716  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Brian Keane's (Weston, MA) J/105 SAVASANA is in second place. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11715  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge William Coates's J/122 OTRA VEZ (Bellaire, TX) and Donald Filippelli's J/109 CAMINOS (Amagansett, NY) Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11714  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Upwind, downwind: Bruce Stone/ Scott DeWeese's (San Francisco, CA) J/105 POWER PLAY and Bob Schwart's (Port Washington, NY) J/109 NORDLYS. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11713  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Hugh McLean's (Windsor, CT) J/109 SHEARWATER. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11712  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge On the bow of STP65 ROSEBUD/TEAM DYT, owned by Roger Sturgeon (Fort Lauderdale, FL). Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11711  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Philip Lotz's (New Canaan, CT) Swan 42 ARETHUSA. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11710  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Swan 42 class racing: Preben Ostberg / Bud Dailey's TSUNAMI and Philip Lotz's ARETHUSA. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11709  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Gary Jobson at the helm of Swan 42 MUSTANG. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11708  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Day four start of the Swan 42 class on the red circle. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11707  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Crew from the US Naval Academy pass the time during Thursday morning's postponement. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11706  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Competitors wait during the postponement Thursday morning at the Block Island Boat Basin. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11705  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Competitors waiting at the Block Island Boat Basin while today's racing was in postponement mode. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11704  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge SWIFT, representing the US Naval Academy in the PHRF1 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11676  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge PEARL, the Morris M36 owned by Robert Lee (Old Saybrook, CT) Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11678  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge A close-up shot of David Alldian's spinnaker on his Sabre 36 CYMOTHOE (from the Greek Mythology "wave-swift"). Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11679  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Jon Bawabe's (Columbia, CT) C&C35 2ND CHANCE. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11677  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge The Swan 42 class at the starting line on day three. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11675  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Bruce Gardner's (Annapolis, MD) Beneteau 34 L'OUTRAGE is in second overall in the PHRF1 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11674  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Peter Nicholson, Rolex Watch U.S.A., presents a Rolex Submariner to Roger & Isobel Sturgeon for their STP65 ROSEBUD/TEAM DYT's win on Monday. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11673  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge US Naval Academy's Farr 53 TOMCAT. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11672  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Mort Weintraub's (Larchmont, NY) Express 37 TROUBADOR leads the IRC 35 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11671  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Mike Brown's (Yardley, PA) J/109 MISCHIEF rounds the weather mark. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11670  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Competition in the IRC ZERO class: US Merchant Marine Academy's VANQUISH and Roger Sturgeon's (Fort Lauderdale, FL) ROSEBUD/TEAM DYT Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11669  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Denis Seynhaeve's (Annapolis, MD) MOPELIA is in third place in the J/105 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11668  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Andrew Weiss' (Rye, NY) J/122 CHRISTOPHER DRAGON. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11667  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Action in the Farr 30 class between Scott Baker & Moise Solomon's KAIZEN and Gino Bottino's RAVEN. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11666  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Norman Schulman's (New York, NY) J/44 CHARLIE V. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11665  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge David Murphy's PUGWASH (Westport, Conn.) follows the J/122 fleet downwind. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11664  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Martha Parker works the bow on John Hele's (newport, RI) Swan 42 DARING. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11663  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge William Coates (Bellaire, TX) OTRA VEZ is in third place in theJ/122 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11662  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge John Storck's J/80 RUMOR from Huntington, NY leads PHRF3 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11661  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge STORM, Rick Lyall's J/109, leads its class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11639  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Rod Jabin's RAMROD from Annapolis, MD. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11638  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge The IRC 40B fleet heads downwind. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11636  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Action onboard Gordon Hall's KATABATIC (Marblehead, MA). Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11635  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Al Minella's J/109 RELENTLESS leads the fleet. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11633  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Mark rounding on day two. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11634  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Jim & Tom Rich's (Middletown, RI) Peterson / Minneford 42 SETTLER Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11632  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Dark grey skies over Block Island Sound on day two of racing. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11631  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge PHRF 3 class leader LUNATIC FRINGE, owned by Robert & Bill Lehnert (Cutchogue, NY) Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11630  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Marblehead (MA) KATABATIC, owned by Gordon Hall, is in third place in the IRC 40B class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11629  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Larry Bulman's (driving boat) Farr 40 YELLOW JACKET is in third place after two days of racing. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11628  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Austin & Gwen Fragomen's Swan 42 INTERLODGE. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11627  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Swan 42 TSUNAMI (Preben Ostberg & Bud Dailey from Annapolis, Md.) is in 6th after two days of racing. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11626  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge ACT ONE, owned by Allan Stern/Charlie Milligan/Tom Roche (Newport, R.I.), leads the IRC 40A class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11625  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Racing in the IRC 35 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11624  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Two third place finishes puts Paul Vonmaffei's SNOBIRD into third place overall in the IRC 35 class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11623  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge VANQUISH took one first and two seconds on day two of racing. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11622  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge US Merchant Marine Academy's VANQUISH is in second place in IRC Zero class. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11621  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Malcom Clarke's J/44 DIOGENES2 crashes upwind in Monday's Around the Island Race Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11620  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Andrew Skibo's J/122 PLUM CRAZY II from Ocean City, N.J. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11619  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Third place in the Farr 30 fleet after Monday's Around the Island Race is ONE MORE TIME. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11618  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge David Tortorello of Fairfield, Conn. steers the J/122 PARTNERSHIP Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11617  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge J/44 DIOGENES2, in 6th place after Monday. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11616  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Charles Townsend's BLAZER blazes through the Swan 42 class Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11615  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Swan 42 CELERITAS, owned by Malcolm Gefter of Newport Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11614  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Swan 42 QUINTESSENCE, owned by Roger Widmann Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11613  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Gosia Rojek (Brooklyn, N.Y.) sails her Swan 42 BETTER THAN in the Around the Island Race. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11612  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Annapolis Boats Duel: TEAM STORM TRYSAIL (aka Chessie Racing) follows Denis Seynhaeve's J/105 MOPELIA downwind. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11589  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Doug Shaffer's J/122 GAMBLER, Andrew Weiss's J/122 CHRISTOPHER DRAGON and Ben Hall's Evelyn 32 BLUTO past Southeast Lighthouse. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11588  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Ted Herlihy's J/109 GUT FEELING (South Dartmouth, Mass.) is in 7th place. Photo by: Rolex / Daniel Forster   11587  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge David Murphy's PUGWASH (Westport, Conn.) is in 9th place in the J/122 class after day one of racing. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11585  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Barrington, R.I.'s Michael Dominquez races his Melges 32 BRONCO on day one of racing. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11584  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Gary Beer's Farr 40 SUNDANCE is in third overall in the Farr 40 Class. Photo by: Rolex / Daniel Forster   11583  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Fourth place overall in IRC40A class is the US Naval Academy's (Annapolis, Md.) TOMCAT, skippered by MDN Josh Hinshaw. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11582  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge The Swan 42 fleet starts Monday's Around the Island Race Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11581  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge A view past the bucolic countryside of Block Island. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11580  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge First day weather was suitable for the Around the Island Race. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11579  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Fleet charging along the shore. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11576  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge View from Southeast Lighthouse, built in 1875. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11575  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Boats leaving the dock on Monday morning. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11569  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Crew readies their boat before Monday's Around the Island Race. Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11568  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Sunday night's Welcome Party under the "Big Top" Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11567  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Rolex duffel bags go to all skippers Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11566  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Boats being prepared before the race Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11565  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Ambience on the docks Photo by: Rolex / Dan Nerney   11564  |  Get Hi-Res   |  Enlarge Back to the Event Page Managed by Key Partners (KPMS) RSS Photographers Contact Terms of Use