The Around Long Island Regatta (ALIR) is Long Island’s premier sailing race that takes competitors nearly all the way around the largest and longest island in the contiguous United States.
The race is open to all sailboats 26 feet and longer and sailors of all levels. Given the regatta’s dynamic course and fleet diversity, the regatta offers challenge, competition, and camaraderie enjoyed by everyone from college sailors, to weekend cruisers, to blue water racers.
The traditional course is 207 miles beginning with an exhilarating start off the Statue of Liberty while spectators cheer from the stadium-style vantage of the Manhattan Sailing Club’s Willy Wall. The challenge begins with competitors dodging commercial traffic and unfavorable eddies ever-present in the harbor. Within hours, most of the fleet has made the turn to sail the only true ocean leg of any local distance race.