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    The Woodstock of Sailboat Racing

    Oct 12, 2021 6 minutes
    STORY BY PIM VAN HEMMEN
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALISON LANGLEY

    There can be a lot of egos, yelling, screaming and surly behavior in the sailboat racing world, especially when a boat doesn’t cross the line in first place. But in wooden sailboat racing there’s an appreciation for the yachts that can outshine the race results—a lovely sheerline, rich brightwork or a newly constructed cold-molded boat that captures the spirit of classic sailboats.

    And then there’s Maine’s Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, the ERR, which Ron Zarella, the owner of the 49-foot racer-cruiser Blackfish, called “the Woodstock of the wooden sailboat racing world.”

    “He had never been here,” Steve White, president of Brooklin Boat Yard (BBY), says about Zarella’s first time at the ERR. “He came up here and he said, ‘I have never had so much fun.’”

    Fun is what the ERR is about. The sailors race to win, but the event is just as much, if not

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