J/24 Magazine Archive is now Online!

Find all the trivia you’d ever want to know about famous America’s Cup, Olympic, and World Champion sailors that “sharpened their teeth” sailing in the world’s largest one-design keelboat class- the J/24 class (now 5,700+ strong!).

The J/24 class admins scanned and posted over 55 J/24 Magazines in Acrobat PDF format. That archive starts in 1978 and goes to 2011!

Have fun reading… you will see MANY of the world’s top sailors mentioned in many regattas over time. Luminaries such as Ken Read, Terry Hutchinson, Ed Baird, Jim Brady, Brad Read, Tony Rey, Tim Healy, John Mollicone, Will Welles, the “Honeybadger guy” Travis Odenbach, Mark Ploch, John Kolius, David Curtis, Vince Brun, Ian Southworth, Eddie Warden Owen, Keith Musto, Luca & Toni Bassani (Wally Yachts), the Sergio Loro Piana family & sons (Italian fashion), Mark Foster, Augie Diaz, Francesco de Angelis, Ian Bashford, Franco Brcin, Mauricio Santa Cruz, Chris Larson, Charlie Scott, Bill Shore, Don Trask, the Seattle Mafia (Buchan’s, McKee’s, Mark Laura, Keith Whittemore, Brian Thomas, etc), and the list goes on and on… you can rest assured it will take more than a week to read through it all… a challenge to you all to understand why and how the J/24 influenced the world of sailing beyond anyone’s imagination.

Starting in 1978, J/Boats co-founder Bob Johnstone and his son Stuart started publishing the first International J/24 Class Magazine. After the first few years, the publication became the principal focus of the class administrators (Executive Director, et al) to publish it semi-annually- Winter/Spring and Summer/ Fall.

Here is the link to that archive from 1978 to 2012 of full copies of each magazine in Adobe PDF document format.

Here is the link for all current J/24 News from 2013 to 2022 (current). Also all in Adobe PDF document format.