After three days of thrilling racing, a range of challenging sailing conditions and a host of social events, the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club (Kongelig Norsk Seilforening, KNS) has been crowned victor of the SAILING Champions League 2015 and claimed the title of “Best Sailing Club.” Second place went to the […]

As expected, the final day of the J/70 Eurocup at Fraglia Vela Riva was a duel to the finish for the top two leaders in the standings of the J/70 Alcatel OneTouch Italian Nationals—CALVI NETWORK with Carlo Alberini at the helm and L’ELAGAIN with Franco Solerio skippering. Their duel was […]

50 J/70 teams are gathering for racing at the J/70 North American Championship in San Diego, California. The competition begins Thursday, September 24 and continues through Sunday, September 27. Keep up with all the action from San Diego Yacht Club at the regatta website: www.j70nac.com.

Several different classes participated in the Flensburger Förde Woche, including J/70s for the first time. Eight very good teams took to the water, and the winner was Christian Soyka-SV Itzehoe. This team gets a wild card for the Champions League in Porto Cervo. Second place was Gordon Nickel, third place […]

With 30 boats on one start line, the first day of the J/70 UK National Championship featured the largest fleet of J/70s that have ever raced in the United Kingdom. Ian Atkins racing BOATS.COM, with Ruairidh Scott on the helm, led after the four races and never got knocked off […]

The Deustche Segel-Bundesliga sailed it’s fifth act on the Wansee in Berlin, Germany from August 21-23. The first day of racing was canceled because of a complete lack of wind. Over the next two days, the teams were treated to reasonable winds and the host club’s team, Berliner YC, won […]

The 2016 J/70 World Championship Notice of Race has been posted, and the regatta website is live at https://www.stfyc.com/j70worlds2016. St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, California will be our host from September 24-October 1, 2016!

It was the talk of the town when a J/70 took off the starting line on port tack, crossing 99% of the fleet (which included 40 to 65 footers, many famous Soto 40s, etc) and proceeded to sail the 50nm Alcatrezes Island Offshore Race. The owners of J/70 BRA 493 […]

The 18 sailing clubs in the top league in Germany sailed the third event of the Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga in Warnemunde, Germany from July 5-7 on the Baltic Sea. After suffering from incredibly light winds on the first two days of the regatta, the forecasted 20-30 knot winds on Sunday thankfully […]

Sun and wind dominated the 2015 J/70 World Championship, and the J/70 ensured the show this week in La Rochelle, France. Superb sailing conditions and fierce competition have marked the week, which ends with the victory of the Mexican team FLOJITO Y COOPERANDO (MEX 384) and its skipper Julian Fernandez […]