Annual Awards Banquet

All members and friends of the Breakwater Irregulars are invited to attend our annual banquet and awards ceremony, traditionally held on a Saturday in November, and most often at Stamford Yacht Club, with the cash/chit bar opening at 7 PM. The 2025 banquet will be SYC on Saturday, November 15. Save that date!

Prepaid reservations are required. Information is distributed to all skippers in late September. Checks payable to STAMFORD YACHT CLUB should be delivered by October 31 to:

Breakwater Irregulars
106 Stamford Avenue
Stamford, CT 06902

The price per person, which is set by SYC, is $TBD. A late fee applies after the due date for any remaining seats. Early reservations will be given seating priority.

Incentive pricing will be announced to the skippers. We ask that all tickets for each boat be ordered by its skipper, rather than by individual crew members. (You can work out the payment details among yourselves.) This is where most of our surplus funds for each year are made available to those who paid annual fees and attend the banquet. The purposes of this policy are (1) to ensure that all our boats are represented at the banquet and (2) to make it a little more affordable.

The banquet is fun, but it’s also an important part of the Breakwaters program. A peculiar aspect of sailboat racing is that the sport doesn’t give us many opportunities to meet each other in person. Indeed, “contact” is something we try to avoid while racing! We arrive from different clubs and marinas, and we return to them after each race. The annual party is a special opportunity to meet the sailors on other boats, whose competition makes our racing so enjoyable. It is also an opportunity for nonracing family members and friends to see why we spend our summer Tuesday nights the way we do. Getting together strengthens us as a fleet and your crew as a team.