2026 Chicago Yacht Club Fall Match Race

About This Event

The Chicago Yacht Club Fall Match Race is sailed out of Belmont Harbor on Lake Michigan, where eight invited skippers race the club's Tom 28 MAX fleet for two titles at once. The overall winner is inscribed on the Sterling Morton Trophy, given in 1937 for interclub Star Class racing and revived in 2018 after three decades in storage. The top eligible skipper and crew take the Richardson Trophy and the title of YRUGL Great Lakes Match Racing Champions, a sterling silver Tiffany cup donated by Commodore S. O. Richardson, Jr. of the Toledo Yacht Club and first raced in Chicago in 1912. Tradition says the cup gets filled with Stingers and nobody leaves until it is empty.