J/Crews Ready for Crazy 2026 Delta Ditch Run to Stockton

(Stockton, CA)- The 35th annual Point Richmond to Stockton Race, known infamously as the “Delta Ditch Run”, is taking place this coming weekend on San Francisco Bay. The annual classic starts off Richmond Yacht Club in the upper San Francisco Bay and finishes in Stockton, CA, 65.0 nm east up the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and to the finish line at the Stockton Sailing Club, just shy of California’s massive Interstate highway I-5.

A number of J/Teams are participating in this fun-loving adventure; a truly awesome, crazy, over-the-top downwind blast going past buoys, islands, and sand bars in an endless “chicane” from start to finish.

Eight-eight boats are sailing, including six J/Teams. They include Nesrin Basoz’s J/111 SWIFT NESS, Robert Walden & Lori Tewksbury’s J/100 WOWIA, Rhett Smith’s J/92 HUMBLE VANDAL, and three J/70s (David Fried’s SON OF A SON, Sherry Sybertz’s COLIBRI, & Andy & Kat Dippel’s SPIRIT).

For more Delta Ditch Run sailing information
https://stocktonsc.org/on-the-water/regatta/ddr/