The Hamble Winter Series continued on the Solent and Southampton Water, hosted by the Hamble Sailing Club. The Hamble One-design Championship was sailed on both the Saturday and Sunday of week three. PRO Ian Bullock set up station in the vicinity of William buoy for the Saturday starts to take […]

The Italian J/70 Class continues to grow, as 15 nations from across Europe participated: Poland, Russia, Germany, Monaco, United Kingdom, Malta, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Ireland, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia and France. In addition, there were teams from the USA in North America and Argentina from South America. For the 2019 […]

Thank you to Michał Korneszczuk for this report: The inaugural Polish Open Championship was held on September 27-29 in Sopot. It was the next step to establish J/70s in Poland, which seems to be on a good track. Yacht Club Sopot, organizing authority for the event, scheduled nine races for […]

The Hamble Winter Series has started on the Solent and Southampton Water, hosted by the Hamble Sailing Club. The prospects for the first day looked bleak, but then some breeze arrived from the East. For the J/70s, Marshall King in SOAK RACING was able to discard a third and count […]

Under strongly changing circumstances, all 45 races of the Eredivisie Sailing were sailed off the coast of Muiden. Until the last races on Sunday, there were seven teams who had mathematical possibilities of making the podium. In the end, it was the youthful team from WSV Giesbeek who finally won […]

The S.V. Kreuzlingen Team won the Swiss J/70 Sailing League finale in Neuchatel, Switzerland. It was sunny, windy weather all weekend long for the last regatta of the season and the 18 teams who were participating. After a solid performance in the penultimate event in Neuenberg, the S.V. Kreuzlingen (SVKr) […]

The sun shone on the Solent as summer didn’t quite seem ready to quit for the inaugural Royal Thames Yacht Club Women’s J/70 Open Championship. The race committee were faced with a weekend of contrasts from little to no wind forecast on the Saturday and a very breezy Sunday. Royal […]

The Open international regatta Sevastopol International Cup was held in Sevastopol from October 3-6. It was the first time the National Sailing League team and Sevastopol Yachting Federation held a regatta using this new format—J/70s became the major part of a great marine festival ‘Sevastopol Sails’ that was organized with […]

In what can only be described as extreme conditions, St. Francis Yacht Club took first place in one of the most intensely fought matches in the second edition of the Global Team Racing Regatta. The regatta, hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron and sailed in 12 matched J/70s, saw winds […]

Oivind Lorentzen’s Nine held a mere 0.7-point advantage over Joel Ronning’s Catapult heading into Saturday’s final competition at the J/70 North American Championship hosted by Edgewater Yacht Club in Cleveland, OH. Light winds permitted only one race, and Nine nailed it, earning a second-place finish (to Catapult’s 12th) to claim […]