“Build it and they will come,” reported Will Keyworth from Annapolis. “Annapolis Yacht Club built on a race format used successfully in San Francisco Bay called the Three Bridge Fiasco but named theirs’s the Two Bridge Fiasco. Over 100 single and doublehanded teams hit the starting line for this new […]

Thanks to Jim Murrell in California for this report: The weekend was a huge success. Thank you to Jeff Janov and Bruce Golison for inviting us to join the coaching session practice they set up after Cal Race Week was cancelled. California Yacht Club was very supportive and helpful with […]

The 2020 CanAm Challenge hosted by Youngstown Yacht Club in Youngstown, NY went off from July 24-26. Eight J/70s completed six races. Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger took a bullet in five of the six contests, and when dropping a second, topped the fleet with only 5 net points. Local Tim Finkle’s […]

Thanks to Bruce Cooper for this report: The Santa Barbara Yacht Club and J/70s are finding fun and creative ways to sail and compete during this pandemic. SBYC hosted the 2020 Fiesta ‘COVID’ Cup. The Santa Barbara J/70s have modified some of the normal racing Rules to keep a safe […]

The Santa Barbara Yacht Club hosted their 14th annual Fiesta Cup Regatta from July 18-19. The fleet was greeted by nice sailing conditions and a total of seven races were held per Class. The eight-boat J/70 fleet was contested by two well-known teams in Santa Barbara—Pat Toole and his team […]

For over a century, Larchmont Race Week has been a crown jewel of racing on Long Island Sound with adults racing on the weekends, as many as 450 juniors sailing during the week, and the Storm Trysail Club’s Jr. Safety-at-Sea seminar on the Friday. All that was to be accompanied […]

The J/70 Youth National Championship scheduled for November 2020 in St. Petersburg, FL has been postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns.

The International J/70 Class Association (IJ70CA) and the Port Credit Yacht Club in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada have determined, because of the varying levels of infection and disruption across the world, that the 2020 J/70 North American Championship scheduled for September 20-27 is cancelled. The Executive Committee has been closely monitoring […]

The US J/70 Class Association, in conjunction with the Organizing Authority of the 2020 Corinthian National Championship scheduled to be held at Eastern Yacht Club in June, have decided to move the event from June 2020 to the summer of 2021. The dates in 2021 will be announced in the […]

The International J/70 Class Association has been closely monitoring the worldwide developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 2, the International J/70 Executive Committee met specifically in regard to the upcoming World Championship to be held July 25-August 1 (in Los Angeles, USA). The Executive Committee understands the huge commitment […]