Thanks to Michael Welch for this report: The 2018 J/70 Great Lakes Championship was hosted September 14-16 by Grosse Pointe Yacht Club (GPYC) in Grosse Pointe Shores, MI. Their new Sailing Center, in full view of the race course, proved to be an excellent base for operations. It started off […]

August 24–26 saw the return of the Storm Trysail Club’s Ted Hood Regatta to Marblehead Harbor. Under glistening conditions, almost 100 boats participated in various classes over three days. The host of the regatta was the Corinthian Yacht Club, while on-the-water Race Committee duties were shared by Corinthian, Boston and […]

The Verve Cup Inshore Regatta was held August 24-26 for 53 teams in Chicago, IL. Open to one-design fleets for boats 30 feet 6 inches long or shorter, the event attracted 10 J/70s who got in nine races. By way of keeping all their scores in the top three, Mark […]

The St. Francis Yacht Club hosted the J/70 Pacific Coast Championship August 17-19. The seven teams racing had to contend with strongly building seabreezes from the west that would peak up to 25-plus knots by late afternoon. The Santa Barbara Yacht Club Youth Team on USA 1156 were leading after […]

Edgartown Yacht Club’s Round-the-Island Race (one of America’s oldest distance races) took place around Martha’s Vineyard. It is part of the Edgartown Yacht Club’s Edgartown Race Weekend, which includes two days of buoy racing and a Round-the-Sound Race. Starting at 0800 Saturday morning, the RTI fleet sailed between Martha’s Vineyard […]

The Little Traverse Yacht Club’s Ugotta Regatta lived up to its fun reputation on the Little Traverse Bay in Michigan. The 21-boat J/70 fleet was mostly Corinthian. Sarah Berteau’s BERTEAU GROUP won both the regatta overall and the Corinthian Division, winning with just 15 points in 8 races sailed. Second […]

The Youngstown Yacht Club hosted the CanAm Challenge Regatta on western Lake Ontario over the last weekend in July. Sailing 11 races over three days was the largest fleet in the event, the dozen-boat J/70s. Tod Sackett’s FM crew sailed the most consistently, posting all podium finishes as his counters […]

Though early morning winds appeared promising, the breeze disappeared and never returned for the final day of the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta at Marblehead Race Week July 26-29. As the winner of the largest, most competitive Class in the regatta, J/70 skipper Jud Smith and his […]

The annual Fiesta Cup was hosted by Santa Barbara Yacht Club July 21-22 for the fleet of a dozen J/70s. Winning was Jeff Janov’s crew on MINOR THREAT from California YC in Marina del Rey, CA. After starting with a 4-4-2, they closed with four firsts in a row to […]

Sailors from 21 U.S. States and from U.S.V.I., Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, the Grenadines, Canada, Chile, Italy and the U.K. competed in the 34th Annual Newport Regatta, held July 7-8 in Newport, RI. The event started in 1984 as a Shields-only event and has grown to be a “must-do” on […]