The J/70 Midwinter Championship in Miami, FL proved to be a roller coaster ride for the full nine-race series. The top finishers kept changing, and even the more consistent teams all had a couple double-digit scores or penalties. The team who outlasted the others and therefore crowned 2023 Midwinter Champion […]

The International J/70 Class Association Executive Committee has appointed Mark Foster of Canyon Lake, Texas USA to fill the vacant Technical Chair position created by the resignation of R. Polk Wagner. “We are very happy to have Mark join the Executive Committee,” said Vittorio Di Mauro, IJ70CA Executive Committee President. […]

Idyllic conditions in sunshine and up to 10-knot steady southwesterlies allowed the 300+ sailors from 12 nations in three classes to exploit to the max their boats’ potential at the 39th Primo Cup-Trophee Credit Suisse, 2-5 March, organised by Yacht Club de Monaco in partnership with Sebago, Monaco City Hall […]

As an important element of Yacht Club de Monaco’s sports policy, the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series of monthly regattas continues to attract J/70s from across Europe. The third and penultimate act attracted a fleet of 40 boats representing six nationalities (Monaco, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy and USA). Race Committee ran […]

The Spanish J/70 Atlantic fleet completed their fourth act of the Villalia J/70 Winter Series in the waters of the Vigo estuary and surrounding islands. After three races on Saturday, Sancho Páramo and Pablo Iglesias’ NACUA-SOGACSA was leading comfortably. Second, after the first day was Luis Pérez Canal’s ABRIL VERDE, […]

The fourth and penultimate event of the Barcelona Winter Series was held despite the cold temperatures. That did not stop a total of 16 teams from the Netherlands, Germany, England, Spain and Andorra from having some fun in the breeze. Weather conditions were good enough that a total of 9 […]

The J/70 Victorian State Championship and Australian J/70 National Championship were held at Sandringham Yacht Club (SYC), Port Phillip Bay in Victoria throughout January. Eleven races were held over three days for the Victorian States from January 14-16. That event was immediately followed by the Australian J/70 National Championship with […]

An international fleet of J/70s from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay enjoyed spectacular sailing in this year’s edition of the ROLEX Circuito Atlantico Sur. With racing taking place on the waters off Punta del Este, Uruguay, the Yacht Club Punta del Este ran eight races from January 16-20. For most of […]

The second event of the J/70 Villalia Winter Series of Vigo, hosted by Real Club Náutico de Vigo, began with the addition of several top J/70 teams. One was the 2021 J/70 European Champion: Luis Cabiedes’s NOTICIA with his crew of Pablo Santurde, Alberto Padrón and Jon Larrazabal. Other new […]

The third event of the Barcelona J/70 Winter Series was held in the waters of Barcelona. There are 14 teams from five different nations sailing the five-event series. After three days of sailing, a total of 10 races were held, despite the fact the wind was quite varied both in […]