The San Francisco J/105 Fleet is alive and growing with 20 teams on the starting line for each mid-winter race, and 25 boats competing in the St. Francis Yacht Club’s Spring One Design, its opening fleet racing regatta of the 2018 season. This was an uncharacteristically light wind regatta due to little gradient as the…
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Team J-OK Tops J/105s at San Diego NOOD
The Helly Hansen National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta hosted 11 fleets of boats on courses outside San Diego Bay and within Coronado Bay, along with the North Sails Rally Race in San Diego Bay from March 16 to 18. Stewart Cannon’s J-OK bested the 10-boat J/105 fleet with 11 points. The Tom Hurlburt/Chuck Driscoll…
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Light Air Big Daddy Regatta
The Big Daddy Regatta marks the 33rd year of mark racing on Saturday and a Pursuit race on Sunday for the host Richmond Yacht Club. All mono-hulled keelboats with a Northern California PHRF rating of 280 and below were invited. Fleets over 5 boats may be given one-design starts on Saturday. In the J/105 one-design…
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Gorgeous Blakely Rock Benefit Race
The March 3rd weekend marked the completion of the first of the Center Sound Series, a total of three events that start spring-time sailing on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, with the start and finishing lines in Shilshole Bay. Dozens of sailors turned out for the 21.0nm race. The J/105 One-Design Class 4 had…
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