The last day of the Landsail Tyres J-Cup (hosted by the Royal Torbay Yacht Club, Torquay, UK, August 17-19) was blessed with champagne conditions in beautiful Tor Bay. A southwesterly breeze oscillated 20 degrees left and right during the day, and with tight racing in one design fleets, and closely matched handicap classes, getting the wrong side of a shift proved costly. The Royal Torbay Yacht Club produced two well managed windward leeward courses, as the club has done for the entire event, and two races were held for all six classes. In the Handicap Class, Rob Larke helming J/70 Mjölnir scored a fifth race win in the last race to secure the class, and Ralph Mason’s J/92 Jabberwock won the contest for runner-up from Richard Puddifoot’s J/70 Jibba Jabba. Rob Larke’s win was all the more amazing as he had undergone neck surgery,and was told by his doctor and his wife that sailing was out of the question. However Rob Larke was not going to miss the J-Cup. For all the results: http://rtyc.org/championships/j-cup-2017/