The sixth and final event on the Sperry Top-Sider NOOD Regatta circuit culminated with the 125th anniversary of Marblehead Race Week, with 158 teams competing in the three day event (July 25-27). With a storm front moving through Massachusetts Bay on Sunday afternoon, the conditions between Saturday and Sunday could […]

Check out the drone footage from the 2014 Charleston Open Regatta (J/24s at Top Mark) here.

Sailors from 21 US states and eight countries gathered in Newport for Sail Newport’s annual Newport Regatta on July 11-13, featuring Bacardi Newport Race Week with long-term sponsors Heineken and new sponsor Helly Hansen. The mammoth event on four circles of racing on Narragansett Bay, in its 31st year, requires […]

The sailors with the best prescriptions survived the relatively windless distress of a difficult Ullman Sails Long Beach Race Week. The 35th version of the West’s largest keelboat regatta was staged by the neighboring Long Beach and Alamitos Bay Yacht Clubs, and despite the absence of the familiar whitecapped race […]

Though light, shifty winds had an unusual stronghold on this year’s 160th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta presented by Rolex, most of the 189 teams competing knew how to take it all in stride. In the nine-boat Green Class 9-PHRF 2 Navigators (spinnaker) fleet, the J/24 Nighthawk with the […]

This year’s Italian J/24 Nationals were sailed on one of Italy’s more spectacular lakes—Lago di Como, north of Milan along the Swiss border. Host for the event was the President of Circolo Velico Tivano di Valmadrera, Giuseppe De Luca. The regatta was sailed in the Bay of Pare Valmadrera in […]

Southern Bay Race Week in Hampton, VA took place from May 30-June 1 with five J/24s. It was a clean sweep for Francis Ford’s Rocket J with seven bullets in seven races. Mike Veraldi’s Quicky followed in second with 21 points, and Alan Bomar’s Roundabout in third with 24. For […]