Hall of Fame

Charles T. Enright
- Induction:
- 2024
- Class:
- 2008
From the moment he stepped foot into a sailboat as a young boy in his home port of Bristol, RI, Charlie Enright was a sailor - salt water and sailing were part of his DNA. He was a 2003 High School National Champion Team member at Milton Academy. At Brown, Charlie continued to excel. He was team captain, four-time Honorable Mention All-American Coed Skipper, and three-time All-New England (NEISA) Coed Skipper and Sportsmanship Award recipient in 2006. He was also selected as a British Universities Sailing Association Team Member in the summer of 2005. He led Brown to two New England Dinghy Championship titles (2005, 2006) and two Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championship titles (2004, 2005), as well as two top-five finishes in the College Sailing Team Race National Championship (2004 and 2008). During his senior year at Brown, Charlie experienced offshore sailing as part of the TP 52 class sailing crew on the Morning Light yacht in the 44th Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. This experience led Charlie to a professional sailing career. It also connected Charlie to his eventual racing and business partner, Mark Towill ’11. Together, they created the 11th Hour Racing Team.
As chronicled in the November - December 2023 Brown Alumni Magazine, in 2023, Charlie skippered the 11th Hour team’s 60-foot racing yacht, Malama, in the 32,000-mile circumnavigation Ocean Race, considered one of the most physically grueling and psychologically challenging events in the world; Charlie’s third attempt in the Ocean Race. Going into the final leg, all was going well, with Malama on top of the standings. Shortly after leaving The Hague in the Netherlands, Malama was T-boned by a competitor going full speed, whose bowsprit speared the cockpit. Charlie escaped severe injury or worse by mere inches but immediately, like most leaders, sprang into action, checking on his crew and taking charge of his vessel. The race was over for Charlie and his crew, who had hoped to become the first American-flagged entry to win the Ocean Race. Justice prevailed, however, when in June 2023, the World Sailing International Jury Awarded Enright’s team additional redress points, enough to carry them to victory. Later, the 11th Hour Team was awarded the Rolex World Sailing Team of the Year Award. As Brown’s Barry Family Director of Sailing Chair John Mollicone proclaimed, “Charlie Enright is now “top dog “in the world.” The exclamation point came later when, in February 2024, Charlie Enright was named the 2023 Rolex Yachtsman of the Year, capping a long journey from that first sailing experience in Bristol.
During his countless days at sea, Charlie and his Team have become acutely aware of the current threat to the viability of the world’s oceans. They have partnered with a Newport environmental group to address many sustainability problems facing everyone who cares about oceans. It is no wonder that the 11th Hour Racing Team named their boat Malama, which in Hawaiian means “to care for and protect.”
Ashore, Charlie enjoys spending time with his family, wife Meris, and their children, Thomas and Maggie. Having been inducted into the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Hall of Fame in 2015, Charlie Enright became the tenth Brown sailor inducted into the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame.
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