In challenging weather conditions, the teams of the first and second German sailing leagues met for the first regatta of the 2022 season on Alster Lake in Hamburg, Germany. The Lake Constance team from the Sailing and Motorboat Club Überlingen (SMCÜ) was able to deal best with the changeable conditions […]

The second leg of the Italian J/70 Cup took place in Alassio, Italy. Forty boats from all over Europe were hoping for good conditions on the Mediterranean Sea, despite the somewhat gloomy forecasts. In the end, the YC Alassio’s Race Committee/PRO team was happy to get in five races over […]

This year’s first competition in the Swedish J/70 Sailing League was conducted in a sunny Skanör for a fleet of 18 teams from across Sweden. Halmstads Segelsällskap took the lead on Friday and kept it until it was time for the finale. The finale has double points awarded, and there […]

Thanks to the Berlin Yacht Club for the great event and especially to the race director Axel Paul, who managed five classes very confidently and quickly, despite the strenuous NE wind direction on the shifty lake conditions in the middle of Berlin. Thirteen J/70 teams participated, 10 from Berlin and […]

The first regatta of Grundig Sailing Cup 2022 took place off Horsens, Denmark, hosted by Horsens Sejlklub. After three good days of sailing, and with 14 races in winds from 8-25 knots, the winners were the Swedish team skippered by Henrik Ottosson. In the first nine races, Ottosson’s SWE 1570 […]

The J/70 South Coast Championship was hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron. Race Officer Philip Warwick and his RYS RC/PRO team were roundly applauded by the fleet for running six excellent races in highly changeable conditions. The start to Day One was delayed waiting for a seabreeze to fill in […]

The first major regatta of the season on the Baltic Sea for sailors in Kiel saw a dozen J/70 teams assemble on the inner bay for the MaiOR (May Offshore Race). Hosted Kieler Yacht Club managed to run a nine-race series for the fleet over the three-day event. Sailing on […]

The Swiss Sailing League Women’s Cup 2022 started in Biel-Bienne, Switzerland for a fleet of 18 club teams with 4-5 women sailors per boat, hosted by Yacht Club Bielersee. Over 40 women benefitted from having participated in the prior week at the sailing sports center in Tenero du BASPO; the […]

Twenty-three J/70 teams made the trek to the famous Mexican resort on Banderas Bay, and there is no question that Mother Nature did not disappoint the sailors. With simply gorgeous sailing on the Bay, punctuated by 10 to 18 kts sea breezes, dolphins swimming and jumping around the boats, and […]

The Royal Southern Yacht Club’s 2022 Summer Series is off and running with the North Sails May Regatta held 7-8 May on The Solent. The race management team, led by Principal Race Officer Peter Bateson and Race Officer Peter Saxton, provided 60 teams with great racing in seven different fleets. […]