The Little Traverse Yacht Club hosted its iconic Ugotta Regatta in Harbor Springs, MI on July 26-28. This year’s event was featured as the J/111 Great Lakes Championship for 13 boats. After an abbreviated three-day series (Sunday’s racing was canceled due to no wind), it was Jeff Davis’ SHAMROCK team from Cleveland, OH who won the regatta with a 1-4-1 tally of 6 points. Taking the silver was George Golder’s local team on TERRIER, posting […]

A record 332 boats pointed their bows across the line in the 100th edition of the Bayview Mackinac Race, organized by Bayview Yacht Club. This year, all competitors competed on one course. From its traditional start in Southern Lake Huron, the course covers 204 nautical miles, with the fleet heading north up Lake Huron along the Michigan shoreline before heading west, passing south of Bois Blanc Island, finishing west to east at the finish line […]

This year’s 289.0nm Chicago Mackinac Race saw the fleet start in light to medium southeasterly winds and bright sunshine. By 2:00 pm, all boats were on their way north up to Mackinac Island. It ended up being a fast, thrilling race. Most of the fleet missed the Sunday AM storms. However, no one missed those on Saturday late evening, with lightning, squalls and rain. The J/111 fleet had 15 boats. Winning his first Chicago Mac […]

Race Week Anacortes had lots of races over the three days in WA at the annual event held June 24-28. The seven-boat ORC C Division saw Bruce Chan’s J/111 65 RED ROSES II toss a third place to count just four firsts and two seconds for 8 points net to win with ease. Find event details at: https://yachtscoring.com/emenu.cfm?eID=16303.

The 19th edition of Long Beach Race Week concluded on Sunday, June 23 with a full complement of races sailed in 11 divisions, including six one-design classes and five PHRF fleets. Throughout the three solid days of racing conditions, the breeze rarely dropped below 14 knots and settled in the 16-18 knot range for the most part, blue skies prevailed, and temperatures were in the 80s. Winning the J/111 fleet was John Staff’s OBSIDIAN team […]

Hosted by Key Yachting, the J/Cup UK Regatta is an annual event exclusively organized for J/Boats. J/Cup entails three days of racing hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble. The program is coupled with daily prize giving and shoreside entertainment. The J/111 fleet completed eight races. Winning was Tony Mack’s McFLY team, although they were pushed hard by Chris Jones’ JOURNEYMAKER II. Just three points separated the two. Taking the bronze was Paul […]

The 170th NYYC Annual Regatta took place over the June 14th to 16th weekend on the waters of Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound. The regatta format features the popular Round Island Race on Friday (a 21.0nm circumnavigation of Conanicut Island) and then two days of either round-the-buoys racing or PHRF navigational racing. The PHRF 3 Division was won by Abhijeet Lele’s J/111 VARUNA with a 2-5-1-3 record for 11 points. For more New York […]

Cleveland Race Week is hosted annually by Edgewater Yacht Club in Cleveland, OH each June. Winning the J/111 fleet was Jeff Davis’ SHAMROCK with 7 points. Another local sailing family, Rob Ruhlman’s SPACEMAN SPIFF, took the silver with 10 points. Then, taking the bronze was Seth & Kevin Young’s BLACK SEAL with 13 points. For more Cleveland Race Week information, visit https://www.clevelandraceweek.com/.

Point Fermin is located just outside Los Angeles Harbor near San Pedro. Since 1905 it has been the location for the Transpac Race start, https://transpacyc.com This iconic ocean race runs from Los Angeles to Hawaii for over 2,000 miles. Under normal sunny conditions for Transpac, this location provides an upwind start on starboard with the west end of Catalina Island as the mark to round before heading southwest out across the Pacific Ocean. For the […]

The new edition of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series Detroit was hosted by Bayview Yacht Club in Detroit, MI from May 31-June 2. On the final day, the late afternoon southerly streaked out of the Detroit River and blue skies returned. By all accounts it was a perfect weekend of racing with light to moderate winds + socials hosted by Bayview Yacht Club. In the seven-boat J/111 fleet, Jeffrey Davis’ team on Shamrock […]