From October 21-22, the eighth annual J/Fest Southwest Regatta took place on Clear Lake and Galveston Bay, hosted by Lakewood Yacht Club. The event featured the “Legends Regatta” on Friday afternoon. Thereafter, it was an attempt to get in as many races as possible despite the somewhat unusual weather pattern […] Read More

For the 2017 edition of the annual fall tradition on the Chesapeake Bay, a large turn-out participated in the Annapolis Yacht Club Fall Series. A variety of weather conditions greeted the crews. The J/22s had a somewhat abbreviated series. Nevertheless, winning was Cassie Todd on HOT TODDY. She was followed […] Read More

The Eastport Yacht Club in Annapolis, MD hosted 16 teams for the J/22 East Coast Championship, held in the waters of the northern Chesapeake Bay. The EYC RC team managed to run six races over the two-day event that produced a last-minute winner. On the first day, the clear leader […] Read More

The second annual J/Fest New England Regatta, hosted by Sail Newport, took place in the waters of southern Narragansett Bay and offshore on Rhode Island Sound during the weekend of August 12-13. While the regatta was missing the classic Newport summer sailing conditions of great sea breezes each day, the […] Read More

The Dillon Open is hosted by Dillon Yacht Club in Colorado each August, the nation’s highest yacht club at 9,017 feet above sea level, located just west of the Continental Divide, a 70-mile drive from downtown Denver. As usual, the DYC offers a great schedule of racing, entertainment, food and […] Read More

Alfonso Bringas and his Jacksonville University Sailing Team won the 11-boat J/22 fleet at the CanAm Challenge at Youngstown Yacht Club in New York from July 29-30. Bringas is the current recipient of the US J/22 Class Association scholarship boat program, sponsored by North Sails. The team took bullets in […] Read More