For over a century, Larchmont Race Week has been a crown jewel of racing on Long Island Sound with adults racing on the weekends, as many as 450 juniors sailing during the week, and the Storm Trysail Club’s Jr. Safety-at-Sea seminar on the Friday. All that was to be accompanied […]

For the 2020 edition of the Bayview Mackinac Race, the fleet endured many hours of beating upwind to get to Mackinac Island. Due to Canadian maritime restrictions over the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s course went north and finished. The only obstacles were having to leave Thunder Bay Island and Bois […]

The J/88 Class Association and St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco, CA have determined, because of the varying levels of infection and disruption across the world, that the 2020 J/88 North American Championship scheduled for September 17-20 will be raced in 2021 as part of the 2021 Rolex Big […]

Thank you to John Leahey for preparing these YouTube videos: Kris Werner Quantum Sails J/88 Fleet 4 Virtual Clinic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQu1CBKSKE J/88 Fleet 4 Virtual Rigging Clinic Kristian Martincic CYR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgET2rvWTN0 J/88 Fleet 4 Happy Hour Clinic with Allan Terhune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFV9MTDkqB0 J/88 Fleet 4 Happy Hour Clinic with Marty Kullman Hydra Coaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpeWT8Ei3g

Iris Vogel and her team on Deviation finished on top of the six-boat J/88 fleet with five first-place and two fifth-place finishes. She said the key to her team’s success was not to panic, especially after a few bad starts. “This fleet is so competitive,” said Vogel, of New Rochelle, […]

Iris Vogel’s Deviation won half of the eight races at the J/88 Midwinter Championship to capture victory with 11 net points. Vogel is the J/88 Class President based out of New York, and her crew included Alan Capellin, Kevin Costello, Dave Coughlin, Tim Longo and Bill McCulloch. Five J/88s participated […]

The Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac has been selected by US Sailing as the Qualifier for the inaugural edition of World Sailing’s Offshore World Championship to be held in October 2020 alongside the Rolex Middle Sea Race in Valletta, Malta. The format is a two-person mixed competition, and the […]