Last week saw the opening of the Taittinger Royal Solent Regatta with the champagne reception held at the Royal Solent Yacht Club’s landmark clubhouse in Yarmouth. It was gratifying to see that the Regatta had attracted over 170 entries. Perfect weather conditions enabled over 700 guests to spread out into […]

Light airs and large shifts were the order of the day at the J/24 Western Championship in Iniscealtra Sailing Club. Fourteen teams battled it out over six closely fought races. In the end, it was local boat Scorpio Jnr, skippered by Andrew Deakin who emerged out of a six-boat leading […]

As part of their three venue J/24 Winter Series, the latest event in the Argentinean J/24 fleet took place at Villa Carloz Paz along their spectacular mountain lake: Lago San Roque. In the latest regatta, 18 boats sailed, two driven by women and two by teenagers. Club Nauticos Cordoba played […]

This year’s J/24 fleet in Kiel Week had one of its best showings in recent years with 38 teams in attendance sailing from June 21-24. After sailing five races, the top two teams ended up in a tie-breaker at 31 points each. In the end, it was Frank Schonfeldt’s team […]

Recently, the Copa Bancomer BBVA Private Banking regatta had 13 J/24s participating. On Saturday, only two races were achieved due to the low wind. Then on Sunday, the wind came at 1120 hrs at northwest 16-18 knots for just an hour and a half; then unfortunately took a 180 degree […]

It took until the last minute to find out who had won this year’s Vela Dorada Regatta. The suspense was everywhere for the top five teams in an awesome event hosted by C.V. Barlovento. The CVB ran great races, and the fleet was blessed with great weather, winds between 5-12 […]

The Greek J/24 Class is well on its way into their 2014 National Championship Series having completed their first event at YC Paleo Faliro this spring. With great weather, nice breeze and awesome race management by YC Paleo Faliro, the 11 teams from Athens, Crete and Thessaloniki and about 70 […]

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 […]

Mat Short, the rising star in the fast growing fleet of J/24s at Cronulla, proved the old maxim – if you want to finish first, first you have to finish – and although he blitzed the racing on Saturday, not sailing on Sunday put an end to his (deserved) potential […]

This year’s International Paints Poole Regatta in England was blessed with great breeze and awesome race committee work, making it fun and exhausting for all. The regatta is a huge bi-annual event held over the three days of the late May Bank Holiday Weekend. This was the U.K. National Championship […]

JAMAICA and her skipper Peter Diamond crushed the fleet with a 1-1-2-1-2-4-4-1 scoreline for just 12 points to easily take the final victory in the Italian J/24 Spring Championship. The event was organized and perfectly hosted by the Club Nautico Marina di Carrara under the auspices of the Italian Sailing […]

The Brazilian J/24 National Championship was hosted by Yacht Club Brasileiro in Niteroi, and the host Race Committee managed to conduct eight races over the three day event in a broad range of conditions— mostly sunny with nice breeze. With six firsts counted in their scoreline, past multiple Brazilian Champion […]

The “classic” Easter regatta for Italian J/24 teams has always been the PasquaVela, hosted by Yacht Club Santo Stefano as part of the second stage of the Italian National J/24 series. The traditional rewards are, of course, an Easter tradition – delicious chocolate eggs for all winning crews! Twenty-three J/24 […]

Over the weekends of April 26-27 and May 3-4, the Club Nautico San Isidro held their annual J/24 Campeonato San Isidro for a very strong showing of the Argentinean J/24 fleet. There was some “new blood” in the class with good teams participating from CUBA, YCA and CNO yacht clubs […]

After a close and hard fought series of 8 races on Port Phillip last weekend, the MONJON 2014 Victorian State titles was won Dave Suda sailing Pacemaker. Sailing with Dave are Herschel, Luke, Sam and Rachel, pretty much the same team that has been doing it for the last 10+ […]