(Marblehead, MA)- Eastern Yacht Club is proudly hosting the 2025 J/70 Corinthian World Championship from September 22-27, 2025. This globally recognized event will showcase the skills and sportsmanship of many of the world’s top Corinthian J/70 sailors in one of the quintessential sailing towns on the east coast of the United States. Eastern Yacht Club (EYC) hosted the J/70 Worlds in 2018 and the Corinthian US Nationals in 2021. Hank Stuart will return to join Eastern YC’s world-class Race Committee team as PRO. Read more here.

(St Petersburg, FL)- This year’s 2025 SAILING WORLD Regatta was sailed on Tampa Bay and was hosted by the award-winning St. Petersburg Yacht Club race team. As they always do, the StPYC volunteers laid out the red carpet for the large fleet of sailors, the J/70 teams loving every bit of that gracious hospitality!

For the eighteen-boat J/70 fleet, it seems the J/70 sailors were chasing the hard-charging team on Al Minella’s LEVEL 5 all weekend. LEVEL 5 won seven of ten races to close the series with a 25-point win. On board LEVEL 5 as a tactician was reigning J/70 World Champion Jeremy Wilmot.  Read more here.

(San Diego, CA)- Host San Diego Yacht Club won the 7th edition of the Women’s J/22 Invitational held February 15-16 in San Diego, CA. Twenty-four teams from across the USA, Canada, and Mexico competed in J/22s, with the home club nipping defending champion California Yacht Club by a half-point, with the 2023 winner New York Yacht Club in third. The winning team was Rebecca McElvain with crew Erika Barth and Julie Mitchell.

The Women’s J/22 Invitational Regatta began in 2018, as a grassroots women’s event in the club-owned J/22s with the hope of establishing a prominent regatta for women sailors, attracting women of all ages and across generations. In 2022, the regatta won the US Sailing One Design Regatta Award.

The format is a two-day round-robin-type event; with teams rotating boats after each race and giant inflatable flamingos standing in for “normal” windward and leeward race marks. Each 10-minute race has a four-boat fleet start, with the object being to race as many races in Stage 1 as time and wind allow for on the first day and a half of the regatta.

On day two, the top 12 teams are split into Gold (1st-6th) and Silver fleets (7th-12th place). Stage 1 finalists carry over a race win total bonus into the final. Each fleet sails three to five races to complete the regatta, and the winning team is crowned.  Read more here.

 (Marina del Rey, CA)- The annual “mega-regatta” hosted by over a dozen sailing and yacht clubs across southern California- the Southern California Yachting Association Midwinters- took place last weekend for many keelboat classes. California YC in Marina del Rey hosted the J/70 fleet. The eight-boat J/70 class saw very spirited racing at the top of the leaderboard. Read more here.

(Rye, New York)- American YC is excited to announce that registration for the 46th American YC Spring Regatta is now open! The club is building upon the success of the past two years with three days of fantastic racing planned, along with our not-to-be-missed shoreside parties!

The Spring Regatta will kick off with a Friday afternoon Coastal Race on May 2, which will be followed by the AYC Spring Series on Saturday and Sunday, May 3-4. Our Friday afternoon start will allow for traveling entries to get boats delivered in the morning. We will be sharing more details about the Friday and Saturday night events in future announcements. For more American YC Spring Regatta sailing & registration information. Read more here.

From SAIL Magazine- Lydia Mullan- Managing Editor at SAIL magazine

During the Newport Bermuda Race this year, the J/122 Alliance struck a submerged object in the Gulf Stream in the middle of the night, suffering damage that caused her to sink (see “A Eulogy for Alliance,” October 2024). Fellow racers aboard Ceilidh, a J/121, and Banter, an Archambault 40, responded to Alliance’s mayday, and while Ceilidh took on the entire nine-person crew from their liferaft, Banter stayed close by until everyone was safely in Bermuda. In September, US Sailing awarded the responding crews its Arthur B. Hansen Rescue Medal. SAIL Managing Editor Lydia Mullan was a member of Alliance’s regular crew and spoke with others about key takeaways from the sinking.

From its onset, the J/122 Alliance program was designed for learning. It created opportunities for talented young sailors to participate in offshore races alongside veterans, held scores of training days to prepare and foster crew dynamics, and enriched the on-water experience with supplemental educational materials. We learned countless lessons on seamanship and the practical skills of running a boat. In the wake of her sinking, boat owners Mary Martin and Eric Irwin, along with crewmembers from the boat that rescued us and carried us to Bermuda, share the program’s final lessons. Read more here.

(San Diego, CA)- The debate rages on. A discussion about a simple idea to make J/70s easier to sail takes place below in two articles from the Scuttlebutt newsletter.

Losing Sight of the Magic Formula
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2025/02/11/losing-sight-of-the-magic-formula/

Scuttlebutt Editor/ Publisher Craig Leweck took on this simple question posed to him by several J/70 sailors based on the context and simple principle of “Keep It Simple Stupid” (KISS). As he explains….

“The growth of the J/70 has been impressive. From 38 teams for its coming out party at 2013 Key West Race Week, this one-design class is now present in almost every corner of the sailing world.

The trailerable 23-footer was a typical J/Boat – a modern design geared for the average sailor. But, with the growth of the J/70 Class came professional sailors who have figured out how to make a J/70 go fast, and this is where the Class lost sight of the “magic formula”  Read more here.