With 10 teams competing in J/22s at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship, Nicole Breault (San Francisco, CA) dominated the field, winning all 16 of her matches to claim the Allegra Knapp Mertz Trophy for the fourth time. The championship was hosted by San Diego Yacht Club on August […] Read More

Jeff Progelhof’s Schitzen Giggles went wire to wire to secure the title of 2021 J/22 World Championship, racing J/22 hull #24. With crew Paul Foerster (former J/22 World Champion) and Rod Favela, the Rush Creek Yacht Club-based team tallied just 21 points in nine races, including one discard (1-1-1-6-2-4-[9]-2-4). Travis […] Read More

On the penultimate day of the J/22 World Championship, the discard race came into play but didn’t knock Jeff Progelhof’s Schitzen Giggles from the top of the leaderboard. With crew Paul Foerster and Rod Favela, Progelhof added finishes of 2,4,9 on Thursday, but able to toss the 9, maintained first […] Read More

Jeff Progelhof’s Schitzen Giggles (Rush Creek Yacht Club) with crew Paul Foerster and Rod Favela are rocking Corpus Christi Bay. Progelhof has started the J/22 World Championship with three bullets and then a 6 in the last race of day two for a total score of 9. Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger […] Read More

Forty-two teams representing 14 states took to the waters of Corpus Christi Bay for the inaugural day of the J/22 World Championship in Texas. Unsettled conditions only permitted one race, dominated by Jeff Progelhof’s Schitzen Giggles (Rush Creek Yacht Club) with crew Paul Foerster and Rod Favela. In winds between […] Read More

US Sailing will hold its Match Racing Championship in Long Beach, CA in October, after a series of seven qualifiers around the country. On May 1-2, St. Francis Yacht Club hosted the NorCal qualifier in its fleet of evenly matched J/22s, sailed by teams of four. With identical boats, this […] Read More