The weather may not have delivered, but for many of the 7,000 sailors who headed out for the 90th anniversary of the Island Sailing Club’s Round the Island Race, this was a big day out in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. The forecast for overcast skies and light winds were […]

The final day’s racing at the Landsail Tyres J-Cup was blessed with champagne conditions for the 50 teams at the annual J/Boats regatta in the UK, which has been run since 2000. The three-day regatta (24-26 June) provides one-design Classes and mixed Classes with highly competitive racing, but the J-Cup […]

PROYachting kicked off their 2021 Tenzor Cup Series on the Khimkin Reservoir located on the southwest side of downtown Moscow. Twenty-six teams were eager to get racing on the tactical flat-water lake, with racing hosted by the Royal Yacht Club. Six races were run despite the cold, rainy weather and […]

The French J/70 Class held their 2021 National Championship for a fleet of 15 boats in Arcachon, France, hosted by the Cercle de la Voile d’Arcachon. The fleet enjoyed three days of racing on the Atlantic Ocean with a total of 10 races. Winning by a significant margin was Jean-Yves […]

The Italian J/70 Class enjoyed a terrific weekend of sailing off Rimini, a southwestern suburb of Rome. The Yacht Club Rimini played host to the event for 39 teams from eight countries, and their Race Committee PRO managed to knock-out eight races for the happy sailors. Italian J/70 Class President […]

The first act of the J/70 Cup 2021, organized by the J/70 Italian Class with the support of Marina di Nettuno and the Yacht Club Nettuno, ended with four good races over the weekend. In the end, it was Massimo Rama’s JENIALE EUROSYSTEM that was declared the winner of the […]

The Middelfart Sailing Festival took place at Kulturøen in the heart of the city. In addition to the start of the sailing season and the introduction of new teams in the Danish J/70 Sailing League, there were kayak trips and match races and 350 local school children on the water […]

Twenty-three J/70s came together for the Mexican J/70 Nationals in the seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Puerto Vallarta Yacht Club did a beautiful job hosting the event. The PVYC PRO was trained by Manuel Robles and ran races flawlessly. The fleet enjoyed an average 10-25 knot winds over three […]

Congratulations to Jonathan Calascione & James Peters’ Calypso and Charles Thompson’s Brutus II. Winners for the Open and Corinthian Classes for the Royal Thames Yacht Club Southern Championships – Round 2 of the J/70 UK Class Grand Slam Series! Full results at https://theclubspot.com/regatta/GQi1P3cdTo/results.

Fifty-nine teams battled each other and the elements at the 2021 J/70 North American Championship hosted by Annapolis Yacht Club (Maryland USA). Despite breezy conditions during the registration days, Mother Nature then turned off the winds, allowing three races to determine the Championship. 2017 J/70 World Champion Peter Duncan on […]