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Breezy Day Delights Sailors at J/24 World Championship

The standings tightened up on day two of the 2022 J/24 World Championship hosted by Corpus Christi Yacht Club in Texas USA. Paul Foerster’s Grand Slam 2 added a third consecutive bullet in Race three, but with a seventh in Tuesday’s next scheduled race, finished with 10 points overall. John […]

J/24 World Championship Opens with Perfect Conditions

The J/24 Class began in 1978, and in 2022 still attracts nine nations to its World Championship. This year’s edition is hosted by Corpus Christi Yacht Club in Texas USA with 38 boats representing Argentina, Chile, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Trinidad and the United States. In the two […]

Lead Up to Worlds

The Surfin’ Safari Regatta hosted by Corpus Christi Yacht Club was held June 25-26. Seventeen boats competed in this “pre-worlds” event, and included many of the top contenders for the World Championship in July. John Mollicone and team took the win, with Keith Whittemore in second. “We trained in the […]

LA SUPERBA Wins Italy J/24 Cup Porto Ercole

After 10 hard-fought races, the XLI J/24 Italian Championship ended off Porto Ercole Cala Galera, Italy for the fleet of 20 J/24s. The setting for the race course was spectacular, bordered by the Tombolo della Feniglia peninsual (6 km long) on one side, the cliffs of Forte Filippo, Forte Stella […]

LA SUPERBA Dominates J/24 Livorno Regatta

The LNI Livorno hosted one of the J/24 spring series in Livorno, Italy for a fleet of 16 boats as part of the International Sailing Week of the Naval Academy City of Livorno. With six victories, Ignazio Bonanno’s LA SUPERBA from the Centro Vela Altura Napoli of the Navy (crewed […]

GRAN CARAJO Wins Central Republic J/24 Championship

The Club Nautico Córdoba successfully completed the 10th edition of the Central Republic Championship with the participation of 21 crews and boats from Bariloche, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Embalse, Mendoza, Neuquén and Salta. After eight gorgeous races over the two-day regatta, the crew of GRAN CARAJO (Javier Moyano, Adrian Berelejis, Hugo […]

BRUSCHETTA VI Crowned J/24 Victorian State Champions

Story by Adam Keys-Tilley: It was with great expectation that a dozen boats hit the blue waters of Port Phillip Bay, hosted by Sandringham Yacht Club, in what turned out to be “glam” sailing conditions. A barmy 24-28 degrees, the water was flat and the wind was 6-10 from the […]

J/24s Enjoy Grenada Sailing Week

This edition of the Island Water World Grenada Sailing Week saw four straight days of magnificent weather–10-20 knots tradewinds from the easterly quadrants, warm temperatures and sunny skies. The regatta consisted of a race out to Carriacou Island, two days of festivals and local day sailing, then a race back […]

TINTO Crowned Australian J/24 National Champion

Thanks for the contribution from Simon Grain and Adam: The J/24 Class is alive and well in Australia. Under threat of another COVID shutdown that has claimed other Championship regattas at Sandringham Yacht Club, the J/24 Class got away with a successful 12-race National Championship over four predominantly light and […]

STAMPED URGENT Top Three-way Tie at Australia J/24 NSW States

Eleven boats pulled together crews to go sailing in the New South Wales State Championship, with sailing taking place on Sydney Harbour and hosted by the Royal Australian Navy Sailing Association. After a six-race series, the entire podium ended up tied on 8 points each. On the rather complex countback […]

Benfatto Wins J/24 Verbano Championship

As has been the case for the entire 2021 sailing season in Europe, many prestigious regattas in the spring were either postponed or canceled if they could not reschedule later in the fall this season due to the pandemic restrictions by various countries. That was the case for the J/24 […]

SIROCO Crowned Argentine J/24 Champion

After nearly two years off from sailing, the Argentine J/24 fleet assembled 19 teams to sail the Argentine J/24 Championship in Cordoba in the lake next to the Andes Mountains. The sailing club in Villas Carlos Paz ran eight races over the two-day weekend. It’s all short course format, using […]

Damm Crowned J/24 Senate Prize Regatta Champion

The J/24 Senate Prize Regatta was recently held in Berlin, Germany on Lake Muggel. A fleet of eight boats participated in this popular annual fall event. After the two-day weekend regatta completed, it was Fabian Damm’s team on GER 5316 that won, scoring four firsts and a second for just […]

HEAD CASE Wins J/24 Easterns Ireland

Eighteen J/24s descended on Howth Yacht Club for the WaterWipes®️ J/24 Eastern Championship. With plenty of both new and old faces, including a first J/24 event for both Rush Sailing Club and Malahide Yacht Club’s K25 teams, the chance at some practice at the venue of the 2022 J/24 European […]