The Youth SAILING Champions League was launched out of the SAILING Champions League format, and 18 crews from eight nations raced each other in Travemünde Germany from July 27-29. The first-ever league competition exclusively for sailors from 16 to 23 years old at Travemünde Week attracted yacht clubs from Austria, […]

Five of the nine events for the 2018 J/70 UK Class Grand Slam Series have now been completed. The fifth event was the GJW Direct J/70 UK National Championship. Held 20-22 July, the National Championship was a non-discardable event for the Grand Slam Series. The Grand Slam Series was set […]

Mark Lees’ Serious Fun (Royal Southern YC) is the 2018 Open J/70 UK National Champion. Doug Struth’s DSP (Royal Southern YC) is the 2018 Corinthian J/70 UK National Champion. Glorious conditions prevailed over three days of racing in the Solent from 20-22 July. Typically, a gentle start built during the […]

The J/70 team Rex has been crowned Canadian Champion for the third year in a row at Charlottetown Race Week July 12-14. Team Rex, skippered by Scott Weakley from Port Credit, Ontario, had five bullets in seven races. He credits his success to the amount of time he spends in […]

The Fraglia Vela Malcesine hosted the 2018 edition of the Campionato J/70 Nazionale Italiano on the waters of Lago di Garda, Italy. It was a spectacular long weekend of sailing for the nine races sailed by 75 entries from 14 nations: Austria (3), France (1), Great Britain (1), Germany (8), […]

Running racing in light winds on the biggest tides of the year meant the weekend of 14–15 July was never going to be easy. With water temperature in the Solent now almost 21 degrees Celsius and unbroken sunshine predicted, the met office forecast was for a late start to the […]

It was another challenging 60nm offshore adventure for the Round the Island Race in the United Kingdom, hosted by the Island Sailing Club in Cowes, Isle of Wight. Over 1,000 boats began starting at 0630 hours. First off was the IRC Zero class, followed by over two-dozen more classes sailing […]

The Fraglia Vela Malcesine welcomed the second act of the Italian Sailing League on Lake Garda. The first day of racing after eight long hours on the water produced 24 races. The day started at 0800 hours for the first flight of teams and ended at 1600 hours. The strong […]

On the Westeinderplassen in Aalsmeer, the third act of the Eredivisie Sailing (the Dutch J/70 National Sailing League) took place over a weekend of sailing on the lake for the 15 teams from across the Netherlands. A variable wind forced the Race Committee to change the course in almost every […]

In the last weekend of June, six races were sailed for the Autumn Championship, hosted by Cofradía Náutica Algarrobo, off the Pacific Coast of Chile. Seventeen J/70 showed up at the starting line. On Saturday morning, lack of wind led to a postponement until the early afternoon, but a cold […]