A staple of the St. Francis Yacht Club spring series for decades, a fleet of 48 boats were treated to beautiful conditions for J Fest during the first weekend in April. Starting with sunny, cloudless mornings, the StFYC PRO kept the fleet in the confines of the harbor until 11am under postponement. As soon as the first whispers of the seabreeze wafted in under the Golden Gate Bridge, StFYC PRO John Craig sent the fleet out to the starting line just off Alcatraz Island and the magnificent San Francisco city front. In the J/24 fleet, Michael Whitfield’s TMC Racing sailed a near perfect regatta, with four firsts and a second to claim victory in the six-boat fleet. Just behind them was a duel for second. In the end, it was Darren Cumming’s Downtown Uproar that took the tie-breaker over Alex Schultink’s Fly by Night. For more regatta information, visit http://www.stfyc.com/.