JELVIS Eclipses J/70 UK Solent Championships

(Hamble, England)- The grand finale for the United Kingdom J/70 Class was held this past weekend at the Royal Southern Yacht Club, with sailing taking place on the infamous, challenging Solent. The RSYC Race Committee/ PRO team managed to treat the twenty sailing teams to great racing in epic sailing conditions in the 15-25 pts range all weekend. Though a bit tired, the racers enjoyed a seven-race, one discard series over the two days!

While his team has suffered from somewhat mediocre results for most of the 2025 sailing season in the U.K. and Europe, Martin Dent’s JELVIS team finally pulled out their can of “Popeye’s Whupass Spinach”, flexed their muscles, and smoked the fleet. Starting out with two “practice races” of 2-2 (just getting the wheels spinning on their runaway train), Dent’s JELVIS crew blew away the fleet with five straight bullets to win by a huge margin of 12 pts. JELVIS counted just 7 pts net in six races!

While the JELVIS crew was disappearing over the horizon, it was a full-on battle for the balance of the podium between two teams. In fact, it was such a battle that both ended up tied at 19 pts net each! After the countback process to break the tie, it was Nick Griffith’s SPENCER team that took the silver medal, followed by Hector Simpson’s DADS’N’LADS team, garnering the bronze medal.

Top Women’s Helms Awards
Topping all women’s skippers was Isabelle Hung steering XV/ MANTA, with Jemima Lawson’s ELIZABETH taking second, and Carina Richards’s RTYC 2 taking third place.

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