The New York Yacht Club has released a new documentary covering the 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, and it’s a must-watch for anyone who appreciates close-quarters Corinthian competition. Watch it here:
Last year’s Invitational Cup featured some of the tightest racing the event has ever seen. Teams representing yacht clubs from San Diego Yacht Club, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, and Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club traded the virtual lead throughout the final race, with the entire regatta ultimately coming down to the last lap of the last heat.
Velocitek was proud to support the event onsite, working closely with the NYYC Race Committee to help run the regatta using our Velocitek RTK race management system. With margins this close, accuracy wasn’t just helpful—it was essential. The ability to give teams consistent, reliable time-and-distance data contributed directly to the intensity and fairness of the competition.
One of the week’s standout reflections came from Jake Ladow, skipper of the winning San Diego Yacht Club team, who noted:
“No one is going to get 12 perfect starts this week. We had a bad one early on. We recalibrated our ratio of meters and seconds and stayed a little more disciplined on that.”
Hearing competitors talk about adjusting their time-and-distance ratio—data driven by our RTK system—was especially rewarding for our team. When sailors have access to accurate, repeatable positioning data, they can actually dial in their time-and-distance ratios and sail to the numbers and the start line with confidence. In a no-drop regatta, where consistency matters more than hero moves, that kind of trust in the data becomes even more valuable. The winning San Diego Yacht Club team was coached by Ed Adams—a legend known for drilling discipline and avoiding deep races—so you know they weren’t looking to take unnecessary risks. With conventional GPS, uncertainty forces teams to hedge—backing off the line to protect against positioning error. With RTK, that uncertainty disappears, and sailors can commit to the line knowing the data is telling them the truth. That’s the real value of an accuracy-first RTK approach.
The 2025 Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup was an incredible event to be part of, and we’re looking forward to supporting more racing with the New York Yacht Club this summer including the premier Women’s International Championships in IC37s and the biennial Resolute Cup in Sonars. However, our vision for 2026 goes well beyond Newport’s iconic waterfront. From new partnerships to groundbreaking tech, the year ahead is looking bigger than ever. We’ll see you on the starting line.