A record number of 84 teams competed in the first regatta of the Royal Southern Yacht Club’s Summer Series. The North Sails May Regatta was held Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday to avoid clashing with King Charles III’s coronation. A light to moderate gradient breeze provided calm conditions, but the […]

After 93 races across the various classes, the 40th Warsash Spring Series and Championship came to an end. The subsequent prize-giving saw 31 trophies distributed to the winners by Warsash Sailing Club, along with sailing jackets and bags presented by event partners Helly Hansen. Most of the prizes were the […]

The first event in the 2023 Italian J/70 Cup circuit took place in Porto Ercole, Italy for a large 45-boat fleet from seven European nations. The three-day regatta was blessed with good weather conditions, enabling the PRO to run a total of eight races. The top of the leaderboard ended […]

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 […]