"[1] The race is particularly popular among current and retired members of the United States Coast Guard, who regularly make up significant portions of the participants.

Thomas Fleming Day, editor of The Rudder magazine, disagreed, insisting, "The danger of the sea for generations has been preached by the ignorant."

The yacht club provided a special anchorage off White’s Island for the race boats, set aside rooms for the skippers and navigators in the clubhouse, and laid on many parties culminating with a traditional turtle dinner at the prize banquet.

[citation needed] After World War I, RBYC Vice-Commodore Eldon Trimingham went up to New York to stir up a revival of the race, to much agreement.

[citation needed] Since 1923 to this day, the task of inspecting boats, arranging for trophies, the starting and finishing lines, and maintaining the race’s emphasis on safe seamanship falls on volunteer members of both clubs.

A new elapsed time record of 39 hours, 39 minutes, 18 seconds was set in 2012 by George David's 90-foot Rambler,[5] which averaged over 16 knots under perfect sailing conditions.

Shockwave took line honors and first overall corrected time winner in one of the slowest races in recent history in far from perfect sailing conditions.

[7] At 4:22:53EDT on 19 June 2016, James H. Clark's 100-Foot Comanche, with skipper Ken Read and navigator Stan Honey, crossed the finish line in Bermuda with an elapsed time of 34h 52m 53s, breaking George David's Rambler record by more than 4h 36s.

In an [www.youtube.com/watch?v=02xVffWqgnw interview] Rives Potts discusses his prior St Davids Lighthouse victories and long friendship with Stan Honey.