Distance Racing Tips for the J/109 One of the best attributes of the J/109 is its versatility: the boat is an excellent platform for competitive in-shore one design racing, and is also set up well for short-to-medium distance racing. The appeal is simple–distance racing gives you more time on the water and you can do …
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Dec 09 2011
OUTRAJEOUS Wins Hamble Series
(Hamble, England)- Winter finally came to the Garmin Hamble Winter Series in time for the final race, to show crews just how lucky they have been throughout the unseasonably warm event. A brisk, cold westerly wind that fluctuated between 10 and 25 knots gave the assembled sailors a challenge when it came to choosing sails, …
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Dec 02 2011
An Irish STORM Wins Boat of Year Award
As predicted in the Afloat online reader poll, the yacht STORM owned by Pat Kelly has lifted the Irish Cruiser Racer Association’s Boat of the Year award at the ICRA conference in Dun Laoghaire. Among other wins, the J109 design counted five firsts in an impressive victory in class one IRC at the 2011 ICRA …
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Oct 20 2011
GUT FEELING Wins J/109 North Americans
(Annapolis, MD)- The forecast for any sailor north of Cape Hatteras along the northeastern seaboard of America was simply this- “fresh to frightening” weather conditions, winds 15-30 knots (thereabouts) and, depending on “fetch”, seas could be huge (e.g. ginormous). Fortunately, the J/109 competitors sailing off Annapolis only had to worry about a 1-2 nm “fetch” …
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Jun 01 2011
J-Dream crowned Tacktick J/109 UK National Champion 2011
On the final day of racing at the Tacktick J/109 UK National Championship, the fleet arrived on the dock to find gusts of mid 20s in the marina. The PRO took the sensible decision to postpone for one hour to see if the wind would settle as there were gusts of 30+ out in the …
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May 28 2011
Founders Trophy awarded to Jahmali
The Warsash Spring Series took place from 13 March to 20 April 2011 and the J/109 Class saw 25 entries at a time of diminishing entries for many classes. Racing one-design this fleet is the largest one-design racing class in the UK and Ireland and competition is often fierce. With six races and only one …
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Nov 19 2010
Hamble Winter Series: OFFBEAT Wins on Weekend Five
(Hamble, England)- A cold calm morning marked the restart of the 2010 Garmin Hamble Winter Series with a two-hour wait for racing to get underway. This long postponement was broken at its halfway point by two guns, these marking either end of the two-minute silence to observe Remembrance Sunday. By midday the expected breeze filled …
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