One of City Island Yacht Club’s most popular races always takes place in September, toward the end of the all-too-short sailing season. The Sayers Series, the longest-running race in CIYC’s history, is named after past commodore Henry Sayers who started the club’s “Family Day” races sometime in the late 1940s, and its FREE to all club members. The lunch buffet will be $25 per person plus tax and gratuity, please sign up the boats and Buffet separately.

Sayers managed the Family Day races for several years, and as the story is told by a few current club members, Sayers would give each boat in the race a rating he thought it should have, not the rating determined by traditional methods. 

Today’s Sayers Series carries on the spirit of the original family day races from which it was born, explains Rich Coar, CIYC member and owner of Chaika.

“It’s a big social event. It’s an opportunity for people who don’t race that often to see what their boat can do,” says Coar about the Sayers Series and why all members should partake.