Glamourous weather prevailed for the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta San Diego on March 15-17 in San Diego, CA. Fourteen divisions hosted 123 teams, with racing inside San Diego and Coronado Bay and offshore on ocean courses. Each stop of the Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta series produces a challenger for the […]
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Light Airs Big Daddy Regatta
The Big Daddy Regatta marks the 34th year of mark racing on Saturday and a Pursuit race on Sunday hosted by Richmond Yacht Club. All mono-hulled keelboats with a Northern California PHRF rating of 280 and below were invited. Fleets over 5 boats may be given one-design starts on Saturday. […]
Read MoreCatapult Takes J/70s at Bacardi Invitational Regatta
Miami and Biscayne Bay showcased the best day of racing as the iconic racing venue said good-bye to the 500 sailors who competed at the Bacardi Invitational Regatta. A great Easterly breeze of around 10 knots, sun shining warm and wave chop a lot less than the previous days made […]
Read MorePeter Duncan’s Relative Obscurity Controls J/70 Midwinter Championship
Peter Duncan’s Relative Obscurity only needed eight of the nine races at the J/70 Midwinter Champion to collect the 2019 title. Fifty J/70s enjoyed postcard Biscayne Bay conditions for three days, but none more than the Relative Obscurity team of Will Felder, Willem Van Waay and Bill Hardesty, who counted […]
Read MorePeter Duncan’s Relative Obscurity Nails Perfect Day at J/70 Midwinter Championship
A fresh breeze in the mid-teens on Biscayne Bay made for an exciting Saturday for 50 J/70s competing to be the 2019 J/70 Midwinter Champion. Three more races were accomplished, bringing the total to six, five of which have been won by Peter Duncan’s Relative Obscurity. Now able to drop […]
Read MorePeter Duncan’s Relative Obscurity Jumps Out at J/70 Midwinter Championship
Fifty J/70s reveled in gorgeous Biscayne Bay conditions on Friday as the J/70 Midwinter Championship got underway with three races. Peter Duncan’s Relative Obscurity laid its claim by knocking off two straight bullets and adding a fourth for only 6 points so far. Following Duncan, Bruce Golison’s Midlife Crisis and […]
Read MoreSun and Odenbach Shine on the St. Petersburg NOOD
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 […]
Read MoreBrian 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 […]
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