Check out a copy of the Thursday, May 17 edition of Foster’s Daily Democrat to see the Gosport Regatta Media Guide!

It tells you all about this years Gosport Regatta happening on Star Island Corporation in partnership with Piscataqua Sailing Association.

Café-style offerings to enhance visitor experience

Seacoast boaters and Star Island’s overnight guests can look forward to a new level of dining service at the Isles of Shoals this summer.

“Our goal is to enhance the visitor experience at Star Island,” said John Bynum, Star Island’s new food service manager. “Step ashore, come up to the snack bar and enjoy Star Island’s signature lime rickey on the front porch of the historic Ocean Hotel. Order a picnic lunch to take back to the boat or relax on the front lawn.”
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During the prestigious 2012 James Beard Foundation Awards, former Star Island employee Christina Tosi, of Momofuku Milk Bar in New York City, walked away with the incredibly impressive Rising Star Chef of the Year award.

The Beard awards are the highest honor for North American food and beverage professionals.

Huge congratulations to you, Christina!

Register for the Star Island Literary Festival by May 25 and save $200 off your bill!

Share the experience of literature with guest speakers that include Anita Shreve, author of The Weight of Water; Katherine Towler, author of the Snow Island trilogy; and Corwin Ericson, author of Swell.

The Star Island Literary Festival is home to creativity, imagination and the art of writing. Join us as this island experience grows into a burgeoning festival with authors, educators and those simply interested in good writing.

Click here for more information and to register.

Piscataqua Sailing Association Commodore James McCarthy is looking forward to a captivating race to launch the summer season as the co-host of the third annual Gosport Regatta.

“We are very excited to work with Star Island to put on a first class race that many regard as the kickoff to the sailing season on the New Hampshire Seacoast,” McCarthy said. “We also have many other events over the course of the summer.”

McCarthy and the regatta committee begin preparations for the Gosport Regatta right after the previous years’ race. The process begins with debrief to determine what went right, not so well, and gather suggestions for how to improve the racing for next year. “Our goal is to work continuously to provide the best racing as well as the best spectator experience possible,” McCarthy said.
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Star Island Newsletter

Spring 2012

Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1

Inside this Issue:

• Meet Joe Watts, the next CEO of Star Island
• Letter from Vicky Hardy
• Saying Thank You: List of donors
• Passages
• Gosport Regatta
• Top-selling books
• Literary Festival
• Shining the Star
• Your survey results
• Star Island online
• 40 under 40
• Star Bridge conference

Left to right – Jeremy Bell (ISSCo); Jack Farrell (SIC); Vicky Hardy (SIC); Russ Peterson (SIC); Angela Matthews (SIC); Joe Watts (SIC); Jerod Blanchett (ISSCo)

Star Island has been at the center of a lot of news this week as we get ready to kick-start the 2012 season.

Seacoast Online profiles Joe Watts, who will succeed Vicky Hardy as Star Island CEO after Hardy retires later this year to move to Seattle, Wash. to be with her family. Portsmouth Patch takes great interest in our planned green initiatives, including the use of more solar power on the island to reduce the need for fossil fuels, a reduction in energy consumed for fresh water production and wastewater treatment, fewer solid waste exports and cuts to the number of boat trips to take passengers to and from the island to reduce fuel consumption.

The Concord Monitor and TV station WMUR-9 report on Star Island’s plans to convert to solar energy

Finally, Kittery station WCSH-6 has caught wind of the exciting Star Island Literary Festival, that in its inaugural year welcomes acclaimed authors Anita Shreve, Katherine Towler and Corwin Ericson.