VAMOS Eclipses Victorian J/70 States

(Blairgowie, VIC, Australia)- The Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron hosted this year’s 2025 Victorian J/70 States Championship for a big, competitive fleet of twenty-three teams from across eastern Australia. Boats came from near and far to test their mettle against the best the Australian J/70 fleet had to gather together.

In the end, it was the globe-girdling team on VAMOS, led by their veteran skipper Tim Ryan, that started off with four straight bullets and never looked back. After the eight race series, they counted six 1st and a 3rd for 9 pts net, a breathtaking performance theirs was! Ryan’s crew included Drew Barnes, Rob Greenhalgh, and Charlie Gundy.

The battle for the balance of the podium was fought between two Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron members- Steven Proud’s SWISH and Kim Ketelbey’s ANEMOLGOY. Both teams traded top-five finishes over the three days of racing, but in the end, it was Proud’s SWISH crew of Billy Sykes, Finn Alexander, and Shaun Connor that took the silver medal with 22 pts net. Also posting nearly all top five results was Ketelbey’s ANEMOLGOY team of Jed Cruickshank, Murray Jones, and Aiden Mansley, finishing with 26 pts net.

The balance of the top five was nearly determined by a tiebreaker at 31 pts each. Nevertheless, Bryan Northcote’s JEDI team (Max Brennan, Tom Quinlan, and Sam Ezra) took fourth place by a whisker with 31 pts net. Just one point behind was Sandringham Yacht Club’s own Rod Warren and his team (Mark Bulka, Aaron Linton, and Chris Newman) on JOUST70 with 32 pts net.

For more Victorian J/70 States Championship results
https://bit.ly/4odrf8i

For more Australian J/70 Class sailing information
https://www.j70australia.org/