Sports
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association continued its summer season of handicap sailboat racing from Vineyard Haven harbor with a night race on July 7.
Thursday night was a nice evening with a 5 knot south wind. Seventeen boats posted for the 6 p.m. start at red nun 6. The course took the fleet to nun 4 at West Chop, then to green can 23a at East Chop and back to nun 6. The first leg was a run downwind. After rounding the nun, a starboard reach to the can was followed by a beat to windward to the finish line.
Baseball Hosts
Today, Friday, July 22, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks will be hosting Island Elderly Housing at their 5 p.m. baseball games. Game time is 5 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School baseball field.
The Martha’s Vineyard Little League summer travel baseball program is in full swing and All-Star teams at five different levels (ages 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 years old) have been participating in tournament play.
Natural Healing
Heal yourself, or at least let the bounty of nature, rather than lab created chemicals, do the job.
On Tuesday, July 26, local expert Holly Bellebuono of Vineyard Herbs, will conduct a hands on salve-making workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Polly Hill Arboretum. The event starts with a walk to identify and collect medicinal herbs and weeds on the arboretum grounds. After the walk participants make their own oil infusions and beeswax-based ointments. Supplies are included and everyone gets to take home their new medicine.
The sixth annual Vineyard Cup regatta was the best yet. Wind, weather, participation and competitive spirit reached new levels in what has become the Island’s premiere three-day sailing competition. A record 101 sailboats of varying size and construction competed in Vineyard waters, from Menemsha Pond to Cow Bay.
Knowledge of the Atlantic great white shark has been relegated for too long to the fevered imaginations of nervous beachgoers and boaters. With the animals returning to the New England coastline in larger numbers, one state scientist with Vineyard roots is bringing that understanding out of the realm of the mythical and uncovering fascinating insights into this elusive two-ton, apex predator’s behavior.