Edgartown Race Weekend (“ERW”) is one of the nation’s top regattas each summer on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. A staple on the East Coast racing calendar, the highly-competitive race weekend includes both a series of coastal and offshore races including the centerpiece ‘Round-the-Island competition, one of yacht racing's oldest distance events. Edgartown Race Weekend attracts teams of all sizes and calibers from around the U.S. and internationally.
52 teams prepare for the Edgartown Yacht Club’s Edgartown Race Weekend, which starts on Thursday with two days of ‘Round-the-Sound (’RTS) Races and finishes with Saturday’s ever-popular Round-the-Island (’RTI) Race.
A total of 14 teams will compete in Thursday and Friday’s coastal sprints (of between 11 and 19 nautical miles) around government buoys within Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds. Of those, 12 will move on to join 38 others (for a total of 50 boats) in Saturday’s 55 nautical mile circumnavigation of Martha’s Vineyard, one of America’s oldest distance races that is in its 87thyear.