Team Good Trade and Ted Hood's son Bobby presenting the award. With three days of racing with winds below 10 knots, the J/105 team from San Francisco on Good Trade, skippered by Nicole Breault, dominated the Marblehead fleet with a 1, 3, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1 scoreline for 14 points. Her team consisted of…
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J/105s Enjoy Swiftsure & Aldo Alessio Regattas on SF Bay
On a day that started grey and not particularly windy, the St. Francis Yacht Club hosted their annual Aldo Alessio & Phyllis Kleinman Swiftsure Regattas for boats LOA >35' or holding an ORR-fully measured certificate. Friday's races involved heading out the Golden Gate to marks out in the ocean. Then, on Saturday and Sunday, the…
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J/105 Featured in Sailing World
Check out the J/105 featured in the Sailing World Inside the Classes article: "Sixteen years on, the J/105 remains the gold standard of Corinthian one-design big-boat racing" at http://www.sailingworld.com/inside-classes-j-105#page-2.
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J/105 Youth Team Rocks Ida Lewis Distance Race
The weather started out gloomy, then got downright nasty for the 13th edition of the Ida Lewis Distance Race, which started Friday, August 18 off Fort Adams State Park in Newport, RI. A forecast calling for storms to pass over the race course during the night convinced seven of the original 40 entrants to drop…
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