Next weekend sailors eager to test their salt will head to Vineyard Haven to participate in the Vineyard Cup, the annual sailboat race that is also a fundraiser for Sail Martha’s Vineyard.

Racing yachts is endlessly stereotypically exclusive. But on the Vineyard, when all the local boats sign up for a race and others come from far away, everybody needs a full crew.

Over the weekend, 51 sailboats spread over six classes raced through the waters of Martha’s Vineyard for the 2022 Martha’s Vineyard Cup Regatta.

Following two days of spirited racing in Vineyard waters, and one day of canceled racing, sailors taking part in the 14th annual Vineyard Cup regatta joined ranks on Sunday for an awards ceremony.

The 13th annual Vineyard Cup regatta is in the books with light winds but a heavy warm front of fun sweeping over three days of racing on Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds.

Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the 13th annual Vineyard Cup regatta is the amount of waste it produces — or does not produce.

Sail MVhas entered into an agreement with the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard to become the hosting sponsor of the 2018 Vineyard Cup Regatta.

The 12th annual Vineyard Cup may go down as the most adventurous in the history of the event, with day one of racing scrapped because of violent weather and three boats dismasted in the second and third days.

At the Vineyard Cup awards ceremony Sunday, which followed three days of spirited racing in Vineyard waters, it was Nantucketer Wendy Schmidt who took the top prize in the classic division.