The 2017 IJCA World Council Meeting will take place on Saturday, October 21, 2017 at Fraglia Vela of Riva del Garda in Italy (home of the 2018 J/24 World Championship). Make sure a representative from your NJCA plans to attend. The preliminary schedule includes a welcome drink on Friday, October […]

This year’s Kiel Week was marked by a variety of weather fronts that came rolling through, producing strong winds some days and light winds on others. Kieler YC had its hands full managing the fleets and getting in a full slate of races. The J/24s started earlier in the week […]

Thank you to Mick Reynolds for this report: The June long weekend saw the running of the Cronulla Sailing Club J/24 Short Course Regatta in cold though fine (almost) conditions with wind ranging from 18-3 knots over the two days of sailing. Competitors arrived from as far afield as Sandringham […]

Thanks to Rob Clark for this report: Being a bank holiday weekend, we knew what to expect… wind and rain! We got them both, but not at the same time. The UK J/24 Fleet converged on Parkstone Yacht Club for the bank holiday weekend to contest the Southern Areas, however […]

Eighty five sailors on 16 J/24s from around Ireland gathered in Limerick with all provinces being represented at the two-day Yachtsman Euromarine J/24 Western Championship. Crews were welcomed by their host with a complimentary bottle of beer/soft drink supplied by Gala Supermarkets. BCS Crane Hire LTD made short work of […]

The Flensburger Segel-Club held their annual Pfingst Cup in Glucksburg, Germany for a fleet of J/24s in the first week of June. Many of the teams were of European and World Championship caliber in the dozen-boat fleet. In the end, winning the event was Manfred Konig’s VITESSE from Muhlenberger Sailing […]

The waters of the La Maddalena archipelago for the 37th Italian J/24 Nationals saw the dominating performance of LA SUPERBA, skippered by Ignazio Bonanno with crew of Simone Scontrino, Vincenzo Vano, Francesco Picaro and Alfredo Branciforte. After winning the US J/24 Nationals just two weeks earlier, the team on FURIO […]

For the third consecutive year, Will Welles holds the title of J/24 North American Champion. With crew Jeff Linton, Chris Morgan, Monica Morgan and Erik Rexford, team Bogus bested 28 other J/24s at the Championship hosted by Houston Yacht Club in Texas. Mike Ingham’s Nautalytics entered Sunday with a shot […]

Will Welles’ Bogus went four for four on Saturday at the J/24 North American Championship hosted by Houston Yacht Club. The Newport, RI-based skipper made a strong case in defending his title by winning all four meetings in winds at 12-18 knots. Welles is now able to discard an OCS […]

Twenty-nine J/24s took to the waters of Galveston Bay on Friday, where 12-18 knots of breeze allowed four races at the J/24 North American Championship at Houston Yacht Club. Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger has collected the early advantage with scores of 4,3,3,2 for 12 points. The Japanese team Siesta, led by […]

There’s no more iconic a race course in J/24 Class history than the 18-mile track around Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay that helped decide the outcome of the first J/24 North Americans in 1978, and then the first J/24 World Championship in 1979. It would be impossible to count how […]

The Sardinia J/24 fleet completed their spring series in Arzachena/Palau, finishing with a total of nine races in the series. For the finale, three races were sailed on the first day, but the second day’s racing was canceled due to extreme winds. Sardinia J/24 Fleet Captain Marco Frullio described how […]

Maximum number of eight races sailed in perfect conditions was a result of the three-day Balatonfüred J/24 Fleet Regatta – the season opener for the 2017 J/24 Hungarian Sailing Series. Gábor Sallai and his team on BIGFIVE was the winner with 21 points. In second place was ST.JAMES skippered by […]

With rain, sun and above all plenty of wind, the Van Uden Reco Stellendam Regatta was a spectacular season opener for the over 100+ registered sailing teams in the Benelux region (The Netherlands). In the ORC Class, the J/24 JOOL skippered by Dirk Olyslagers crushed their class, taking it with […]

The second “act” of the Italian J/24 National Circuit took place in Livorno, Italy. The regatta was hosted by the Italian Naval Academy and the City of Livorno. Nine races were sailed over the three days in a wide variety of sailing conditions. After dominating virtually every day, the winner […]