The sailors with the best prescriptions survived the relatively windless distress of a difficult Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week. The 35th version of the West’s largest keelboat regatta was staged by the neighboring Long Beach and Alamitos Bay Yacht Clubs, and despite the absence of the familiar whitecapped race […]

Though light, shifty winds had an unusual stronghold on this year’s 160th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta presented by Rolex, most of the 189 teams competing knew how to take it all in stride. In the nine-boat Green Class 9-PHRF 2 Navigators (spinnaker) fleet, the J/24 Nighthawk with the […]

This year’s Italian J/24 Nationals were sailed on one of Italy’s more spectacular lakes—Lago di Como, north of Milan along the Swiss border. Host for the event was the President of Circolo Velico Tivano di Valmadrera, Giuseppe De Luca. The regatta was sailed in the Bay of Pare Valmadrera in […]

Southern Bay Race Week in Hampton, VA took place from May 30-June 1 with five J/24s. It was a clean sweep for Francis Ford’s Rocket J with seven bullets in seven races. Mike Veraldi’s Quicky followed in second with 21 points, and Alan Bomar’s Roundabout in third with 24. For […]