Every year, the Sloop Tavern Yacht Club in Ballard, WA holds its annual Race To The Straits Regatta. The format is essentially a double-handed race from Seattle to Port Townsend and back. This year, 101 sailboats sailed in the 18 keelboat divisions. The leg North had the fleet beating in […]

San Francisco Bay gave sailors and race committee some of the usual course challenges, but the result was a great weekend of racing for the 23 J/105s that came out for J/Stop. The regatta commenced on Saturday, May 5, with overcast skies and raw conditions that had sailors commenting on […]

Seventy-nine teams competed in 10 fleets in the Yachting Cup, held May 5-6 in San Diego, CA. Stewart Cannon’s J-OK topped the nine-boat J/105 fleet with 12 points in seven races. Donica Ryder & Rick Goebel’s Sanity took second place with 18 points, and Hurlburt Driscoll’s Juiced was third with […]

The Fleet 6 opener at the American Yacht Club Spring Series was sailed in a variety of challenging and shifty conditions. Paul Beaudin and loulou seemed to have it the most figured out, posting seven first-place finishes in the 11-race regatta. A tight battle continued over two weekends with Maddy […]