Thanks to Pedro Garra for this report: Great expectation had been building for the fourth edition of the J/70 South American Championship. Thirty-two crews from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay were to compete against Claudia and Alberto Rossi’s World’s top crews from Italy in the most numerous Championship since the […]

Henri-Lloyd’s new Chairman Hans Eckerström wanted to put the new 2020 Henri-Lloyd range to the test. The Swedish investor and sailor decided to enter two J/70 teams in the J/70 Frostbite Challenge at Marstrand and have Henri-Lloyd as title sponsor of the event. The eight races held over a weekend […]

The Mediterranean winter lived up to its reputation with sunshine, blue skies and a steady breeze topping out at 13 knots finally filling in for the 230-plus sailors to enjoy four back-to-back races on a flat sea in ideal conditions. A fleet of 38 J/70s were out on the water […]

Eleven teams vied for the third annual J/70 U.S. Youth National Championship, hosted by St. Petersburg Yacht Club in St. Petersburg, FL from November 22-24. The weekend was dominated by the teams of San Francisco Yacht Club/Annapolis Yacht Club, led by James Golden, and Cal Maritime, led by Kyle Collins. […]

Over a three-day weekend, the Hamburger Segel Club in Hamburg, Germany hosted their annual fall regatta on the beautiful Alster Lake. The 2019 edition had near record entries, and the racing was extremely competitive. Winning the 17-boat J/70 fleet was Gordon Nickel’s GER 3 team, posting a 4-1-2-1 for 4 […]

Act 1 of the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series got this season of monthly regattas off to a cracking start, with the level of participants higher than ever. Changeable weather over the three days of racing tested the wind-reading skills of the best tacticians and muscles of all in the rougher […]

The Yacht Club de Cannes in the French Riviera played host for the French J/70 Sailing League Finale on the Mediterranean for 15 sailing clubs from across France. The three-day event saw sharp racing amongst the top teams, tightly fought starts and close racing due to very even boatspeeds amongst […]

The inaugural Sevastopol J/70 International Cup was sailed in October. The regatta was held in conjunction with the Sevastopol Sailing Week festival. Eighteen teams from Russia, Serbia and Ireland participated in the first open international regatta in Sevastopol. Some of the leading teams included B-TEAM (Russia, Artem Basalkin), M-SAILING–CSKA (Russia, […]

Two-dozen teams from across Russia assembled in Sochi to sail the 2019 Russian J/70 National Championship. The Sochi Grand Marina by Burevestnik Group hosted the three-day event. After a 10-race, two discards series, it was Alexander Bozhko and his crew on AKHMAT who were crowned as the Russian J/70 National […]

At the end of an outstanding season of sailing, the Verein Seglerhaus am Wannsee (VSaW) from Berlin was crowned the German champion of sailing clubs. The runner-up was secured by the Wassersport-Verein Hemelingen (WVH). Then, the defending Champion from the Hamburg, the Norddeutscher Regatta Verein (NRV), was third. In the […]