J/111 News

(Hamble, England)- The 44th running of the Hamble Winter Series is now in its sixth weekend of sailing on the infamous, capricious Solent Water between Southampton and the Isle of Wight. Yet again, J/teams across the board are enjoying a wide range of conditions from wet & wild to sunny…

(Hamble, England)- The 44th running of the Hamble Winter Series is now in its fourth weekend of sailing on the infamous, capricious Solent Water between Southampton and the Isle of Wight. Yet again, J/teams across the board are enjoying a wide range of conditions from wet & wild to sunny…

(San Francisco, CA)- With a three-hour-long Bay Tour race as the final test for competitors, the 61st edition of the Rolex Big Boat Series hosted by St. Francis Yacht Club came to a stunning close on Sunday afternoon. The skippers at the top of the podium in the J/105 and…

(Charlevoix, MI)- Hosted by the Charlevoix Yacht Club for more than 50 years, the premier event of the local racing season takes place every Labor Day weekend on Lake Charlevoix in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan- the Red Fox Regatta. The weekend event comprises two events. It kicks off with…

  (Bellingham, WA)- This year's infamous "adult sailing summer camp" in the Pacific Northwest- the Race Week Bellingham- was sailed in Bellingham, WA, based out of Squalicum Harbor, with direct access to Bellingham Bay. The regatta featured buoy, distance, and pursuit races for the fleet of J/70 and J/105 one-design…

(Harbor Springs, MI)- Sailing in conjunction with the Ugotta Regatta hosted by Little Traverse Yacht Club in Harbor Springs, MI, the fleet of fourteen J/111s sailed their 2025 Great Lakes Championship. Repeating their 2024 performance, Jeff Davis's team from Cleveland, OH, sailed SHAMROCK to another dominant performance, posting a 1-2-2-4…

(Racine, WI)- The 42nd consecutive running of the "Death's Door Challenge"- a.k.a. The HOOK Race- was run by Racine Yacht Club for a large fleet of 49 PHRF handicap boats, 11 of which were J/Teams! The HOOK Race is a 189.0nm race on Lake Michigan held each year in July….

(Lavrion, Greece)– The successful 5th edition of the challenging Aegean 600 Race, organized annually by the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC), saw many smiling faces among more than just the winning teams who were poised to win their trophies. Their beaming smiles were knowing that they had just completed one…

J/111s, J/125s, J/145 Dominate Podiums(Honolulu, Hawaii)- Starting on July 1st, four divisions began racing the 2,225.0nm Transpac Race on the waters off of Los Angeles’s Point Fermin. Organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club, the biennial event is considered one of the world’s premier ocean races. It uses three pursuit-style starts…

(Honolulu, Hawaii)- Starting on July 1st, four divisions began racing the 2,225.0nm Transpac Race at 1320 hrs on the waters off of Los Angeles’s Point Fermin. Organized by the Transpacific Yacht Club, the biennial event is considered one of the world’s premier ocean races. It uses three pursuit-style starts spread…

(Long Beach, CA)- The first-ever J/111 Pacific Coast Championship was held last weekend at Long Beach Race Week. It was a great momentum builder for the class in Southern California. This was the third event in the J/111 SoCal One-Design Circuit, which was a big success (the other two events…

(Victoria/ Nanaimo, BC)- The biennial Van Isle 360 Race, hosted by the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, was an epic adventure and experience for nearly a dozen J/Teams that participated in this year's edition. Comprised of nine individual legs that circumnavigate the picturesque Vancouver Island off the Pacific coastline of British…

(Victoria, BC, Canada)- The 80th running of the Swiftsure International Yacht Race, hosted by the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, got rolling with gorgeous skies and light winds, an enormous contrast to last year's stormy start. As the race progressed, the breeze filled in and several J/Teams excelled in the conditions…

(Monterey, CA)- The annual start of the offshore racing circuit in California has been the California Offshore Race Week. The event consists of three events over three weeks:1. Spinnaker Cup Race- San Francisco to Monterey2. Coastal Cup Race- Monterey to Newport Beach4. SoCal 300 Race- Newport Beach to San Diego…

(Hamble, England)- The 2025 edition of the Women's Open Keelboat Championship, hosted by the Royal Southern Yacht Club, will certainly go down in the record books as one of the most fun in recent memory. Blessed with clear skies, good breezes, and warm weather, the fifteen all-women teams enjoyed two…