Third day of the 2015 World Championship for the 78 J/70s competing for the title, and the conditions are still ideal in La Rochelle. Yesterday evening, the crews enjoyed a dinner party with a beautiful view on the harbor and the sunset. Encounters, jokes and cheerfulness were on the menu, […]

A second World Championship day under the sun for the 78 boats competing for the title in La Rochelle. Crews from 16 countries and four different continents are present at this World Championship. After the races of the first day, three charter boats were in the top 10, which shows […]

A lot of sun, some clouds and a good wind for the first day of J/70 World Championship in La Rochelle, France. After two days of registration and a training race Tuesday, under the sun, the competitors from 16 different nationalities left the port in the late morning to get […]

This year’s annual JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race (Cowes, Isle of Wight, England), organized by the Island Sailing Club, was blessed with gorgeous sailing conditions from dawn to dusk. With the first boats starting just after 0700 hours on Saturday morning, the massive fleet of 1,540 boats […]

Sun, wind and waves: The first day of the 133rd Kieler Woche (Kiel, Germany) offered everything to make a sailor happy. As a result, “the first day in the office” for the sailors could be finished quickly. All planned races were done in less than three hours. “That was a […]

More than 75 J/70 teams are gathering from across the globe for racing at the J/70 World Championship in La Rochelle, France. The competition begins Wednesday, July 8 and continues through Saturday, July 11 for the entrants representing Australia, Brazil, Chile, Spain, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Malta, Monaco, […]

The final day of the Landsail Tyres J/Cup in partnership with B&G was nothing short of spectacular in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. With 20 knots, gusting 25 out of the southwest, there were thrills and spills across the 67-boat fleet. In the J/70 fleet, Geoff Carveth from Warsash, helming […]

After the successful inaugural Sailing Champions League regatta in Copenhagen in the fall of 2014, the Danish Sejlsportsligaen have started off their 2015 season with 36 highly motivated clubs. As a result of this enthusiasm, the Sejlsportsligaen is split into two “flights” (1 and 2) so that 18 teams can […]

At the end of May, the first Swedish Sailing League (called “Allsvenskan”) started in Saltsjöbaden. 18 clubs came to sail against each other. The weekend offered summer and sun, but very challenging conditions. The winner after 11 flights overall was the host club KSSS (the Royal Swedish YC). On Friday, […]

It was a thoroughly enjoyable event for everyone during the second Deutsche Segel-Bundesliga event sailed in J/70s over the weekend of June 5-7 in Kiel, Germany. There was lots of drama and anxiety going into the last race, but in the end, it was the Chiemsee Yacht Club (CYC) team […]