(Seattle, WA)- The Sloop Tavern Yacht Club in Seattle, WA, hosted its annual Three Buoy Fiasco this past weekend for the forty-three-boat fleet of enthusiastic sailors. The prescribed course of NWZMN marks was exactly 11.943 nm long. Each boat had their choice of whether to sail around that set of buoys either clockwise or counter-clockwise! The race attracted quite an eclectic fleet of J/teams, with most of them finishing the race, although a few took either RET or DNC's! In fact, just over one-third of the total fleet posted RET/DNCs. It was a fast breezy race for many, with J/105s...
(Seattle, WA)- The Sloop Tavern Yacht Club in Seattle, WA, holds its annual Three Buoy Fiasco this coming weekend to much fanfare and aplomb from the masses aligning the shore at daybreak. OK, well, a few happy dogs being taken for a walk in the morning along the seawall may enjoy the spectacle. The Sloop Tavern YC gets the ball rolling in the morning for the fleet of enthusiastic sailors, and all take off on their prescribed 13.51 nm course around the three buoys either clockwise or counter-clockwise... your choice! The race attracts quite an eclectic fleet of “classic” J’s,...
(Seattle, WA)- The Seattle Yacht Club concluded its two-month-long Tri-Island Series this past weekend for the fleet of passionate offshore racing sailors in the Pacific Northwest. With races taking place in and around Puget Sound, the three-race series consisted of the Smith Island Race, Vashon Island Race, and Blake Island Race. Tri-Island Series- ORC OverallSailing mostly long courses, this fleet saw Jay Renehan & Chris Lanzinger's J/111 HOOLIGAN race a strong series to garner the silver medal amongst the fleet of Seattle's most decorated offshore gold-platers, which include several TP52s and custom 40-50 footers! Tri-Island Series PHRF OverallIn this twenty-two-boat...
(Chennai, India)- As the month of May begins in the Bay of Bengal, a flurry of activity takes place at the Royal Madras Yacht Club. The sailors begin practicing regularly to improve their skills and drills in the blistering summer heat. The 5th edition of the J/80 UNIFI CAPITAL OFFSHORE REGATTA was held between May 20th and 24th, 2026. It was organized by Royal Madras YC under the aegis of the Yachting Association of India and the National J/80 Class Association. UNIFI CAPITAL is a portfolio management company celebrating 25 years of spectacular growth and returns with a global clientele....
As the spring racing season turns decisively toward summer, J/Boats fleets are now fully engaged across the global sailing map— from the warm Mediterranean waters off Marseille to the long Pacific offshore tracks of California, from the Bay of Bengal to the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, Lake Ontario, Narragansett Bay, Puget Sound, and the Solent. It is the moment in the year when the calendar feels wonderfully full: world championships, offshore series, club classics, distance races, one-design regattas, and early-summer previews all overlapping in a busy rush of racing. At the top of the international one-design stage, the J/70 Corinthian...
(Poole, England)- The 2026 UK J/80 National Championship was hosted together with the International Paint Poole Regatta from 22nd to 25th May, 2026. The event was organized by the Combined Yacht Clubs of Poole: Royal Motor Yacht Club, Parkstone Yacht Club, Poole Yacht Club, and the Royal Ocean Racing Club. A half-dozen teams from the United Kingdom and Ireland enjoyed a festive six races for their nationals. Like their Poole Regatta colleagues, the J/80 sailors enjoyed three out of four scheduled days of light gradient wind to medium sea breeze under champagne sunny conditions. Here's how it went down for...
