: a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races
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Plan your visit to coincide with holidays like Easter or New Year's Eve, when there are fun events like regattas or firework displays.
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
Some end up as centerpieces at local fairs and fall festivals, where artists transform them into elaborate displays, while others are chosen for crowd-pleasing traditions like crane drops and the town’s annual pumpkin regatta.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Her photos serve as a portal to the Gilded Age, with images of the annual regatta, boathouse bathers, charity balls and lawn tennis, a sport newly open to women who were too restricted by corsets to actually run for the ball.
—Margaret Hetherman, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
Stillwater Harvest Fest What: Festival including food, music, a pumpkin regatta, pumpkin weigh-off and more.
—Lulu Jaeckel, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
Some end up as centerpieces at local fairs and fall festivals, where artists transform them into elaborate displays, while others are chosen for crowd-pleasing traditions like crane drops and the town’s annual pumpkin regatta.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Her photos serve as a portal to the Gilded Age, with images of the annual regatta, boathouse bathers, charity balls and lawn tennis, a sport newly open to women who were too restricted by corsets to actually run for the ball.
—Margaret Hetherman, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
Stillwater Harvest Fest What: Festival including food, music, a pumpkin regatta, pumpkin weigh-off and more.
—Lulu Jaeckel, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Regatta.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regatta. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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regatta
noun
re·gat·ta
ri-ˈgät-ə 
-ˈgat-
: a boat race or a series of boat races
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