(Wayzata, MN)- The 2025 J/70 U.S. National Championship is being hosted by the Wayzata Yacht Club, situated on the beautiful shoreline of Lake Minnetonka. Long a bastion of the world’s best scow sailors, the lake and its two principal sailing clubs have grown into small keelboats over a few decades. First, it was the J/24s, then J/22s, and now the ubiquitous and globally popular International J/70 class. A fleet of thirty-six teams from the left and right coasts, as well as the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains in between, will be testing their mettle on the wildly treacherous, shifty, puffy Lake Minnetonka waters. Plus, there’s lots of weed to muddy things up a bit! Read more here.

(Houston, TX)- While their J/70 colleagues will be doing battle in the northern reaches of the Great Plains, the J/24s will be sailing their North American Championship off Houston, TX, at the southernmost part of the Plains in the shallow mud puddle called Galveston Bay!

Hosting the J/24s will be the ever-gracious and wildly fun Houston Yacht Club on the western shores of the Bay. Twenty-one teams from across the vast continent of North America will be competing for the honors of being crowned the 47th winner since the first J/24 NA’s in 1978 in Newport, RI!  Read more here.

Berlin YC and Bocholt YC take the season lead.
(Kiel, Germany)- The 2025 German J/70 Sailing League could not have gotten off to a better start. In perfect spring weather, three days of sailing took place on the Kiel Fjord, directly in front of the Olympic Harbor. While the first day’s offshore winds demanded the crews’ knowledge of the area, Saturday morning’s calm strained the participants’ nerves. However, with little wind, a few flights were possible. Then on Sunday, there was a fresh breeze and bright sunshine.

Not only the perfect sailing weather contributed to the crews’ good spirits, but also the evenings spent together on Friday at the “Lönneberga” in Strande and yesterday with beer and gin and tonics from partner Gin Sul. Read more here.

(Floro, Norway)- Thanks to Florø Seilforening for another fantastic league meeting! That was the general feeling after the long weekend of racing in amazing sailing conditions. Nine races were sailed by each of the eighteen teams in attendace sailing off the quaint seaside village of Floro, Norway. Read more here.

(Larchmont, NY)- This coming weekend, the first of the major offshore races will be taking place on Long Island Sound- the Larchmont Yacht Club’s EDLU Distance Race.

The Edlu Race, first sailed in 1954, has long been a classic tune-up race for the around Block Island Race and Block Island Race Week. Followed by a classic party, it is one of the “must-do” events on western Long Island Sound. Read more here.

(Portland, OR)- Corinthian Yacht Club of Portland, along with the race’s long-time title sponsor, Schooner Creek Boat Works, and with new support from Portland Yacht Club, is proud to present the 49th edition of the Pacific NW Offshore International Yacht Race. The race will challenge the sailor’s skills, navigation ability, tactical skills, and offshore endurance. One hundred ninety-three miles long, this race from the mouth of the Columbia River up the Washington coast and down the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Victoria, BC, will test the competitiveness of the sailors. The race continues to be a great way to qualify for the Pacific Cup, Vic-Maui, Transpac, and other races and to get your boat north for Washington sailing events and/or summer cruising in the famous San Juan Islands. Read more here.

J/70 UK Southern Championship
(Hamble, England)- This coming weekend, the Royal Southern Yacht Club will be hosting its eponymous springtime mega-event- the May Regatta. Traditionally, the regatta has marked the beginning of the summer season of sailing on the Solent and the RSYC host team rolls out the proverbial red carpet on their huge, expansive decks, serve up tons of great food and, of course, copious amounts of assorted beer and drinks for the hungry and thirsty sailors. The regatta has become a “de facto J/Fest” and has huge appeal for J/sailors that love sailing on the capricious Solent and survive to recount all kinds of “tall tales and sea stories” (both good and bad!).. Read more here.

(Belvedere, CA)- The San Francisco YC    is hosting its annual rite of late spring, the Elite Keel Regatta, for a huge fleet of twenty-six J/105s. It’s in the May to June time frame that San Francisco Bay often serves up its nastiest weather all summer long. Why? Pure, simple physics. The water is colder than late summer and the valleys and mountains to the east heat up to “egg boiling on sidewalks” temperatures of 110 F- plus…. as Tom Blackaller once quoted, “watch out when the Golden Gate water temp is in the low 50s and the valleys eclipsing 100- a 50 F temperature difference. That fuels the famous westerly seabreezes that can often gust into the 30+ kts range by mid-afternoon!  Read more here.

(Cowes, Isle of Wight, England)- The Royal Ocean Racing Club’s De Guingand Bowl Race marks the fifth race in the 2025 RORC Season’s Points Championship— the world’s largest offshore racing series. It also serves as Round One of the IRC Two-Handed National Championship and the second race in the exciting new RORC Cowes Offshore Racing Series. Over seventy-five boats are expected to be racing in the approximate 110.0 nm race.

The De Guingand Bowl Race starts and finishes in the Solent off the co-host’s famous Royal Yacht Squadron starting line in front of the Cowes waterfront.  As a result, this gives the RORC race team full flexibility to design a course that is both tactically challenging and strategically demanding for the given weather forecast for the weekend. With no fixed route, the course is set the day before the start, allowing it to respond directly to the forecast and deliver the most dynamic racing possible. Read more here.