Pursuant to section 6.8 in the J/109 Class Association Constitution, I am pleased to report that 51% of eligible class members voted to elect the following officers: Bob Schwartz, Fleet 10, President Kevin Saedi, Fleet 11, Vice President Ted Herlihy, Fleet 6, Treasurer Tina Filippelli, Fleet 10, Class Secretary The Executive Board will appoint Adrian …
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Dec 21 2011
J/109 CLASS OFFICERS ELECTION – vote now!
CLASS MEMBERS, please vote for Class Officers who will begin service in January 2012. Voting is now open. Members may vote by simply emailing your selections to dailey@raptor205.com Complete information on the nominees is under the pick, GOVERNANCE at the top of this homepage. Then choose, Class Documents. Complete candidate Information is the first item …
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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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Nov 28 2011
Fall 2011 Letter from Class President Rick Lyall
Fellow J109 Class Members, I have a lot of ground to cover here so please bear with me and I will try not to take too much of your time. First, congratulations to Fleet Captain Bill Sweetser and the members of the Fleet 4 Task Force (Tony Syme, Paul Milo and Steve McManus) for the …
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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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Jul 13 2011
North Americans NOR Posted
The 2011 North Americans NOR has been posted. Follow the link below.
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Jun 22 2011
2011 Block Island Race Week Humpday Update
Excerpted from the Scuttlebutt Forum: In the J/109 class, the largest here with 15 boats, it was Bill Sweetser (Annapolis, Md.) who got the most bang for his buck today by winning both races with his crew aboard Rush. Combined with a second yesterday, the performance gave him four points to the 12 posted by …
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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 31 2011
UK Nationals Day 2
J/109 fleet enjoy the downhill ride in 28 knots at day 2 of the Tacktick J/109 UK National Championship Four races today – that is a tall order was the cry at breakfast, particularly from those who had visited the venues in Weymouth late on a Friday evening. The start of Race 4 of the …
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