Pinckney Reach
Every sailboat timed over 2 nautical miles (3,704 m) across the inner harbor, Fort Sumter to Castle Pinckney, the stretch every cruising sailboat takes between the sea and the city. A boat whose average speed over the course exceeds her own hull speed is disqualified and shown as disqualified, never hidden.
Today
Every run timed today, each against that boat’s own best.
This week’s fastest
Each boat’s best run since Monday 26 October 2026, fastest first.
Fall 2026
Each boat’s best run this season, with her place in her class. Classes are by overall length: under 12 m, 12 to 14 m, 14 to 16 m, 16 m and over. The seasons are the astronomical ones; spring, 20 March to 19 June, is when the sailboats come through.
All-time
Every sailboat’s best run, timed by the house’s own receiver.
2 nautical miles, Fort Sumter to Castle Pinckney · Ranked by elapsed time, lowest first · One row per boat · Both directions on one board
Hull speed is 1.34 × √LWL in feet, LWL taken as 0.9 × the AIS length when no better figure is on file. A boat whose average speed over the course exceeds that figure is disqualified and shown here, never hidden. A boat that leaves the corridor (900 m either side of the line between the gates), takes longer than 90 minutes, or averages an impossible 20 knots is not timed. The gates are where AIS sailing vessels were measured to go, not surveyed lines; if the road moves, the course gets a new version and old runs keep their own.
Before the receiver: the springs of 2021 to 2025
The same course, timed from the national AIS record, which hears a sailboat about every two minutes with holes: a time marked ≈ is bracketed by real fixes but may be a minute or two out. These runs are never ranked with the receiver’s own.