J/111 North Americans 2025 Preview

Key West Southernmost Regatta Preview
(Key West, FL)- The 2025 edition of the Southernmost Regatta is featuring the 2025 J/111 North American Championship, along with an ORC handicap fleet. Sponsored by SAILING Inc. from Cleveland, OH, the regatta is hosted at the infamous Galleon Hotel Tiki Bar, where the sailors enjoy a fun, quaint, easy-going regatta in the rustic atmosphere of Key West.

J/111 North Americans
A remarkably strong eleven-boat contingent of J/111s will be vying for 2025 North American Championship honors over the five-day series running from Monday to Friday, January 20th to 24th, 2025.

There are a number of “virgin” teams sailing their first J/111 NA’s as well as enthusiastic participants to sail in the gorgeous aquamarine-blue waters off Key West. The teams are all hoping for “classic” Key West conditions with breezes from the East/ Southeast, lumpy waves, and warm trade wind-like sailing conditions.

Certain to be a factor at the top of the leaderboard will be three-times past J/111 NA Champion Peter Wagner and his SKELETON KEY crew from San Francisco, CA. Chasing them hard will be a quartet of teams that have proven to be contenders on the podium in past J/111 regattas. Those teams include Rob Ruhlman’s SPACEMAN SPIFF from Cleveland, OH; Andrew & Sedge Ward’s BRAVO for Shelter Island, NY; Bill & Jackie Baxter’s FIREBALL from Riverside, CT; and Jeff Davis’s SHAMROCK from Cleveland, OH.

ORC Division
In this seven-boat fleet are two well-sailed J/Teams. Matt Schaedler’s J/122 BLITZKRIEG just earned a bronze medal in the Ft Lauderdale to Key West Race. Then, Ove Haxthausen’s J/133 RUMBA is expecting to excel in the windward-leeward race course format over the five days.

For more J/111 North Americans and Southernmost Regatta sailing information
https://www.yachtscoring.com/emenu/16411