Staples Students Set Out on 238-Mile Sailboat Race

Staples High School students (l-r) Christian Myers, Burke Anvari and Andrew Breschard set sail today from Westport’s Cedar Point Yacht Club to compete in the 2016 Vineyard Race. The yearly, 238-mile sailboat race, which began in 1932, set out from Stamford and will finish sometime on Sunday after a course which will bring competitors out of Long Island Sound to Buzzards Bay, around Block Island and back to Stamford. The Staples students have been racing in the Cedar Point Junior Sailing Program for a number of years and will be crewing for the Vineyard Race on Expresso, an Express 37 owned by Halsey Bullen and Steve Longo of Cedar Point Yacht Club. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo