The 2016 Swiss J/70 National Sailing League Championship was won by the Regattaclub Bodensee from St Gallen after a hotly contested season. The St. Gallen crew from RCB included Massimo Soriano, Lea Rüegg, Stephan Zurfluh and Jonathan Rutishauser. Taking second was the Société Nautique de Genève. With a fantastic second […]

On the penultimate day of the season, WV Almere Central grabbed the league title with a solid performance in the finale held in Almere, The Netherlands. The sailors of the Koninklijke WSV Sneek and YC Scheveningen finished second and third in the club competition for water sports clubs in The […]

The bay offshore of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron was the scene of the 2016 J/70 Canadian Championship. Scott Weakley’s Rex took five firsts in the seven races they sailed. They won by so much they did not have to sail the last two races of the nine-race regatta. […]

The Finale of the SAILING Champions League (September 23-25) in Porto Cervo challenged the 32 European clubs from 13 nations with light winds and choppy waves. After 34 races in total, the reigning German League Champions of Deutscher Touring Yacht-Club won the regatta at Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Sardinia […]

After a full week of hotly contested racing at the 2016 Alcatel J/70 World Championship, Joel Ronning’s Catapult (USA 187) claimed the title of World Champions. Ronning, with tactician John Kostecki, finished with a 17-point lead over second place Julian Fernandez Neckelmann’s Flojito Y Cooperando (MEX 415), sailing with tactician […]

Sailors are a hearty type, but even hearty bodies get tired, especially when exposed to world-class competition that requires A-game performances for several days in a row. Such is the game at the 2016 Alcatel J/70 World Championship, hosted by St. Francis Yacht Club, as San Francisco Bay has been […]

Mother Nature had some surprises in store for the 68 boats that assembled on the Berkeley Circle for the third day of racing at the 2016 Alcatel J/70 World Championship, hosted by St. Francis Yacht Club. Split personality conditions tested each boat’s light- and heavy-air skills, as well as their […]

San Francisco has a storied reputation as a world-class venue during the summer and early fall, and day two of the 2016 Alcatel J/70 World Championship, hosted by the St. Francis Yacht Club, did not disappoint. A marine layer and 10 knots of westerly breeze greeted racers at the docks, […]

World Championship regattas always generate high-level competition, but when you stack 68 of the world’s most popular One Design boats on San Francisco Bay in a crisp, late-September breeze, you can bet your last shackle that the competition will be ferocious. Such was the case at the start of the […]

It was an epic final battle for the Danish J/70 Sailing League title in Skovshoved, Denmark. The duel between Frederikshavn and Hellerup sailing clubs went down to the wire, with Frederikshavn winning in the end. Frederikshavn Sejlklub sailed in Skovshoved with the team of Kris Houman (skipper), Rasmus Melsen, Søren […]