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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]