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 […]

The USJCA is accepting proposals to host the 2016 or 2017 J/24 Midwinter Championship and the 2016 or 2017 J/24 National Championship. All proposals shall be submitted to director@j24class.org before September 15, 2014. The final decisions on all proposals will be decided at the USJCA Annual Meeting in December. For […]

Check out the following drone video by Stanton Bost from the Easter Regatta. (Click Here) Additional credits to Nikki Medley, Danille Bost, and Brett Lockwood for driving the boat all day.

The 26th Annual J/24 J-Daze Regatta took place over the first weekend of May at Canandaigua Yacht Club in New York. Twenty-six J/24s (including a Japanese team and two Canadian boats) competed in the seven-race series. Travis Odenbach’s Honeybadger won with 20 points, 12 clear of Mike Ingham in second. […]

149 boats showed up to race at the Vallejo Race in Vallejo, CA. After a short postponement on day one and with a fickle, light southwest breeze, the race committee sent the first two divisions off to fight a building ebb for the long 21 miles to Vallejo. Then the […]