ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy offshore sailing team's rising senior skipper Ford Buckley and his crew aboard Tenacious won the 2026 Mustang Survival Annapolis to Bermuda Ocean Race on Wednesday, one of four Midshipmen boats competing in the event from Annapolis down the Atlantic seaboard to Hamilton, Bermuda.
 
Hosted by Eastport Yacht Club and the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club, the 25th edition of the bi-annual race started on June 5, as Buckley and team covered the 753-mile trek in just over four days. Racing down the Chesapeake Bay, across the Gulf Stream and on to Bermuda, Tenacious won by 40 minutes over the second-place boat in the ORC Open division. 
 
Racing onboard Tenacious with Buckley were senior Jackson Lubalin, juniors Julia Fede and Lawton Harper, sophomores Chris Lowery, Alex Chen, Jane "JC" Ragon and Dan Silva.
 
Also competing in the race to Bermuda, Gallant finished fourth in the class and was skippered by senior Issac Katz, senior Samantha Farley skippered Defiance to a fifth-place finish, and senior skipper Mike Fernandez led Integrity to place sixth.
 
Elsewhere, senior Aden Newman skippered Wahoo to sixth in the PHRF A division at the 172nd Annual New York Yacht Club Regatta over the weekend in Newport, R.I.
 
Up next,Wahoo and Invincible will be racing in the 54th edition of the Newport to Bermuda Race starting on June 19, skippered by Newman and fellow senior Lauren Aaby, respectively.