At Fraglia Vela Malcesine, the first event of the J/70 Cup 2020 September 4-6 ended with the success of Mauro Roversi’s J-Curve. After eight races, on the podium we had also with the Italian team Luca Domenici’s Notaro Team, winner of the Garmin Cup, and Alessandro Molla’s Viva. Check out […]
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Landsail Tyres J-Cup 21st Birthday Celebration
By invitation of Key Yachting, the 2020 Landsail Tyres J-Cup celebrated the 21st birthday of the annual regatta exclusively for J/Boats. Whilst the regatta was somewhat different this year, the spirit of the J/Boats family was as strong as ever. Hosted for the first time by the Royal Ocean Racing […]
Read MoreBewitched at Royal Torbay Regatta
Organized by the Royal Torbay Yacht Club, the Torbay Royal Regatta is normally a three-day festival of competitive racing over the August bank holiday weekend. Given the circumstances this year, there were doubts about any event at all, but when restrictions were eased at the end of July, Sailing Secretary […]
Read MoreWürttembergischer YC Tops SAILING Champions League Qualifier
It was an enthusiastic turn-out for the only 2020 SAILING Champions League Qualifying event in Tutzing, Germany for the grand finale in Porto Cervo, Italy at the Costa Smeralda YC. Twenty-two teams showed up to on Lake Starnberg, a lake surrounded by mountains in the middle of Germany. For four […]
Read MoreSwedish J/70 Sailing League Season Premiere
The series of four competitions sailed on the fleet of 12 J/70s that were to start this past spring has been reduced to two competition weekends, where the first was decided in Örnsköldsvik from August 14-16. Sweden’s best racing clubs are vying for the Championship title in the two competitions […]
Read MoreDanish J/70 Sailing League Season Premiere
The K.A.S. team took victory in the first division after only five flights. Aarhus International Sailing Center and Sailing Aarhus were hosts and were represented with volunteers from Kaløvig. The wind challenged sailors. Saturday morning started as planned with a skipper meeting and welcome to all first division clubs. Then […]
Read MoreEighteen J/70s Enjoy Royal Southern YC Charity Cup Regatta
With not a breath of wind in The Solent, racing was called off at midday on the final day of the Royal Southern Yacht Club Charity Cup Regatta. A virtual prizegiving was held at the RSYC Clubhouse on the banks of the River Hamble. Commodore Graham Nixon welcomed the virtual […]
Read MoreONE Kiel Tops German J/70 Segel-Bundesliga
As the hosts for the first 2020 Germany J/70 Segel-Bundesliga that took place in Kiel from July 17-19, the three Kiel clubs (Baltic Sailing Club, Kiel Sailing Association and TSV Schilksee) did not expect that one of their hometown teams would end up dominating the fleet of 18 teams. After […]
Read MoreQUARTER 2 ELEVEN Tops J/70 Bodensee Battle Regatta
There is a lake in Switzerland that is known as the Bodensee, sitting between Germany, Switzerland and Austria. When the initial Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga was created five years ago, a decision was made by all of the Bodensee member sailing clubs. The clubs agreed to standardize on one boat for inter-club […]
Read More2020 J/70 North American Championship Cancelled
The International J/70 Class Association (IJ70CA) and the Port Credit Yacht Club in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada have determined, because of the varying levels of infection and disruption across the world, that the 2020 J/70 North American Championship scheduled for September 20-27 is cancelled. The Executive Committee has been closely monitoring […]
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