It was another beautiful day for the final races of the Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta St. Petersburg. Once the sea breeze filled in, racing got underway and most Classes completed two races for a regatta total of eight to nine races. At each Helly Hansen NOOD […]
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Brian Keane’s Savasana Wins 2018-2019 J/70 Winter Series, and Bob Willis is Top Corinthian
Forty-nine J/70 teams qualified to win the 2018-2019 J/70 Winter Series at Davis Island Yacht Club in Tampa, Florida by competing in at least two of the three weekends with the same boat and skipper. Brian Keane’s Savasana repeated as Series Champion, including a commanding performance this weekend that including […]
Read MoreThree Bridge Fiasco
The 2019 edition of the Three Bridge Fiasco in San Francisco, CA will go down in the history books as one of the nicest in recent memory—sunny skies, gentle northeast winds of 4 to 12 knots and warm 72 F temperatures. The Singlehanded Sailing Society welcomed a fleet of 334 […]
Read MoreTale of Two Days at Bacardi Invitational
The Bacardi Invitational Winter Series continued with the second event of the three-stage inaugural series on January 19-20 in Miami, FL. With three one design classes attracting 47 teams, Biscayne Bay delivered two distinctly different days for the competition. Three races were completed by the J/70s on day one in […]
Read MoreCatapult Wins Second Weekend of 2018-2019 J/70 Winter Series
Fifty-five J/70 teams traveled to Davis Island Yacht Club in Tampa, Florida for the middle weekend of the 2018-2019 J/70 Winter Series. Joel Ronning’s Catapult took the victory with 24 points in five races. Ronning fell ill on Saturday morning, so Wendy Reuss stepped in to helm the team to […]
Read MoreIgor Rytov’s Russian Bogatyrs Wins Opening Weekend of 2018-2019 J/70 Winter Series
Forty-seven J/70 teams traveled to Davis Island Yacht Club in Tampa, Florida for the first weekend of the 2018-2019 J/70 Winter Series. Conditions on Saturday were sunny and warm with winds at 6-8 knots, allowing three races. The passage of a cold front on Sunday brought rain and storms through […]
Read MoreLight Winds Launch New Winter Series
Biscayne Bay was open again for business as the inaugural three-event Bacardi Invitational Winter Series kicked off December 1-2 in Miami, FL. The event is an off-shoot of the perennial Bacardi Invitational Regatta now run in conjunction with the Bacardi Cup every March. Despite light winds allowing only three races […]
Read MoreKing Harbor wins J/70 U.S. Youth Championship
Entering the third and final day on Sunday, November 18 of the 2018 J/70 U.S. Youth Championship with a 21-point lead, the King Harbor YC Youth Team (Kyle Collins/ Brock Paquin/ River Paquin/ Justin Zmina) posted a 1-4-3 to take the title. Merideth Moran led the Little Traverse YC to […]
Read MoreClean Sweep at The Great Pumpkin Race
Over the Halloween weekend, the Richmond Yacht Club hosts its annual Great Pumpkin Regatta over two days in the northeastern part of San Francisco Bay. It is a popular event with costume parties. In the J/70 fleet, it was Mark Thomas’ KANGAROO JOCKEY that won with all bullets, with Tom […]
Read MoreJOINT CUSTODY Dominates J/70 Fall Brawl
The Eastport Yacht Club hosted the annual J/70 Fall Brawl for a fleet of 18 boats on the Chesapeake Bay. The fleet was treated to a total of five races in nice sailing conditions. Winning the regatta with four deuces and a bullet was Ray Wulff’s crew on JOINT CUSTODY […]
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