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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Sixty-two boats total participated in J/Fest Southwest, hosted by Lakewood Yacht Club in Houston, TX from October 12-14. Sailors were treated to awesome sailing conditions both days; in particular, it was windy on Saturday with gusts in the high 20s. The event started out with the newly famous Legends Race […]

This year’s J/Fest San Diego was hosted by San Diego Yacht Club, with racing taking place off the Point Loma promontory and the beachfront off the city. The fleet was blessed with sunny skies and moderate winds for the two-day event. In the J/70s, it was Kim Kundrak’s PERSEVERANCE 3 […]

For the fourth annual Cleveland (216) Regatta, after some rain showers on Friday, warm weather and beautiful fall breeze welcomed seven J/70s at Edgewater Yacht Club in Cleveland, Ohio on October 6-7. Three races were completed in shifty breeze on Saturday with 8-12 knots out of the southwest, flat water […]

The 2018 Fall Series Regatta ended at American Yacht Club in splendid fashion. Saturday and Sunday, September 29-30 concluded the latter half of the Fall Series Regatta which occurred over the course of two weekends. Saturday racing was met with an anticipated Fall feel as temperatures hovered below 60 degrees. […]