Thank you to Simon Grain for this report: Sean Kirkjian’s Pacific Sailing School team admirably aided by the inimitable ‘AJ’ Tony Reynolds and the school graduates in Sailpac have taken out the 2017 Australian Nationals with a solid and consistent result over Shane Guanaria, helming Class stalwart Arthur Crother’s Kaotic […]

The J/24 Class in Italy continues to enjoy their winter series events around the peninsula, particularly in the more southern fleets in the Mediterranean. MARINA DI CARRARA: The winner for the J/24 trophy for best owner/skipper and crew for 2016 (based on four of the best scores in the circuit) […]

Here are the latest updates on some of the Italian J/24 Class winter series. TARANTO: Three good races marked the second event of the Winter Championship in Taranto. The races were well-organized out in the bay by the Ondabuena Academy Sailing Cub; Molo Sant’Eligio assisted them from the local Italian […]

The result of the 11th race of the South American Championship affirmed the advantage achieved by Carrera led by the Argentines Matias Pereira, Guille Bellinotto, Andres Guerra, J. Bellinotto and E. Losano. The Uruguayan Pedro Garra, assisted by M. Garcia, I. Guichef, M. Leite and A. Carlucio, placed second on […]

The J/24s in Italy continue to enjoy their annual winter series in the various fleets spread across the peninsula. This past weekend, racing continued in Taranto, Anzio & Nettuno and Portoferraio. Here are their updates. TARANTO: It was a good winter series start for Puglian J/24 sailor Nino Soriano as […]

Over the weekend of November 19-20, the Chile J/24 Class held their National Championship and it also served as the qualifying event for the J/24 South American Championship being sailed in December in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The J/24 fleet in Talcahuano hosted the regatta out of the Chilean Navy […]

Over the first two weekends of October, the Buenos Aires fleet in Argentina hosted their friends from Chile, Uruguay and Brazil in their prestigious and traditional Buenos Aires Week hosted by Yacht Club Argentina. Eleven teams participated. The first weekend of racing saw six races conducted over the two days. […]

The 2016 Barbados J/24 National Championship saw spirited competition amongst the fleet of nearly a dozen boats. In the end, it was Ian Mayers’ BANKS ESPERANZA (BAR 4396) that was declared the winner of the 2016 National title. In a great team effort, Charlie Gloumeau led his crew on SCOTIABANK […]

Thank you to the AUS-JCA for this report: ‘The Shire’ as it is known to the sedentary Australian TV watching population and the people who live there is an area around 30km south of the Sydney CBD centred on Cronulla that has been known in the past for a bit […]

Last weekend, the weather across the Italian peninsula was highly variable, with some J/24 fleets enjoying great racing, while others (like in Rome) could not sail due to severe weather. Nevertheless, the winter championship series in several fleets had enthusiastic participation, despite the cool weather. Cervia (Fleet Romagna): After two […]

There has been a lot of J/24 sailing taking place across Italy, as J/24s were sailing their winter series in Sardinia, Rome, Genoa and Portofino. Here are quick summaries of the activity taking place in each region. Porto Rotondo, Sardinia: After the long summer break, the Sardinian J/24 Fleet got […]

The 42nd Winter Championship of Anzio and Nettuno had 21 J/24 crews take to the water. It was a tight battle between LA SUPERBA skippered by Ignazio Bonanno and BLACK LEATHER (Paul Cecamore) skippered by the 2014 Soling World Champion Farkas Litkey. “It’s been a good start for the regatta,” […]

Watch out traditional ladies days, the high heels and questionable dress codes of Ascot, Cheltenham and Goodwood, and all of the Yacht Club coffee and tea sessions called ‘ladies days,’ The Magenta project has rewritten the rules. Annie Lush and her team at the Magenta project are using their experiences […]

The Circolo Nautico Brenzone ran the penultimate event for the season-long Italian J/24 National Championship series—a six-event program that runs from April to November. Winning the latest event was VALHALLA HOTEL VERONA skippered by Fabio De Rossi with crew of Enrico Perbellini, Massimiliano D’Elia, Marco Fiorini and Petra Kurutz. The […]

On the Gublusk Bay in Ireland, the Lough Erne YC hosted the Autumn J/24 Series. Sailing this fall were a record 11 J/24s. Their first weekend saw SSE winds, 13 kts gusting to 25 kts, and plenty of sunshine. The fleet went out to race in a brisk gusty breeze […]