The opening regatta for Matchrace Switzerland was filled with a strong field of participants from seven nations. It was also the opening event of the Match Race Super League 2018, the worldwide match race series that honors the international champion in the classic match racing format sailing only on keelboats. […]

The Russian J/70 Sailing League has seen such strong participation and interest that it created a Premiere Division. The new teams that have joined the league can now sail the Premier Division series to, hopefully, qualify for the “A” division series in 2019. The first event had 13 sailing clubs […]

For the start of the 2018 Russian National J/70 Sailing League, 26 teams from across the country (from Vladivostok to St Petersburg) participated in the choppy waters of the Black Sea off the seaside resort of Sochi. These are the teams that began their journey in the fourth full season […]

What a difference a week makes – the first weekend of the series, all racing was cancelled as strong winds and a blanket of snow covered the south of England, but Sunday light winds and relatively balmy temperatures were the order of the day. Challenge number one for the race […]

After seven weekends of racing from October 2017 to March 2018, hosted by Real Club Nautico Vigo, the Vigo J/70 Winter Series saw a repeat winner in the form of El NOTICIA, sailed the Cantabrian Pichu Torcida and Luis Martín Cabiedes from Madrid. They started off by winning the first […]

The fifth and final act of the Barcelona J/70 Winter Sportboat Series in Barcelona, Spain is in the books. In the end, the Real Çlub Nautico de Barcelona managed to run 29 races in their monthly races. In the J/70 fleet, it was Javier Scherk on GUNTER who won the […]

As if winning the Monaco J/70 Winter Sportsboat series was not enough, Valeriya Kovalenko’s ARTTUBE RUS-1 team also won the Russian National Sailing League winter series in Sochi, Russia on the Black Sea. The primary condition for qualifying for the final was the team’s participation in at least three stages […]

The 5th Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series of monthly regattas from October to March ended March 11. Organized by the Yacht Club de Monaco, in collaboration with technical clothing supplier SLAM, the meetings offer international teams an opportunity to establish their winter base in the Principality before the main season starts. […]

The J/70 Midwinter Championship saw a different leader on each day, but Jack Franco’s 3 Ball JT was on top when it counted. Coming into Sunday in fourth place, the Texas-based skipper with Bill Hardesty (main trimmer), Rob Lindley (bow) and Allan Terhune (headsail trimmer), secured a 5,2,4 to leap […]

The Real Club Nautico de Barcelona (RCNB) just completed the fifth weekend of their 2017-2018 Barcelona Winter Series. The Mediterranean offered blue seas, plenty of sunshine and good southeast breezes to permit the RCNB PRO to run two more races, bringing the series totals up to 24 races (permitting teams […]