Windy, close racing at the 2013 Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week for the 37-boat Melges 24 and 33-boat Melges 20 fleets. Photos: ©2013 JOY | U.S. Melges 20 & 24 Class Association Click here to view results.
J/Boats’ new one-design sensation is lighting the sportboat scene ablaze. Quick, stiff, ramp-launchable, and priced right, the J/70 checked all the BOTY boxes as it sailed its way to the top of the judges’ lists. Behold our 2013 Boat of the Year.
Photos by Walter Cooper Given the immedate success of the J/70, with hundreds of boats sold before the first was built, it was a foregone conclusion that the J/70 would end up among the judges’ favorites. With their latest sensation J/Boats has its first ramp-launchable sportboat and a polished set of class rules in place before the first big regatta (Quantum Key West) in January. The judges all agreed it delivered the excitement of a small sportboat, and the stiffness and handling of a big
Boat of the Year Nominee Photos by Walter Cooper During dock inspections of the Bavaria Yachts-built B/One, the Boat of the Year judging panel was impressed with the superb quality of the build from Bavaria Yachts: tight, clean, and absolutely barren inside the boat. Inside is a white-painted cavern that can accept a drop in V-berth module. The layout is straight-forward—really, how else can you make a 20-foot sportboat any different with the control lines? The B/One shares many similar
Photos from the first event of the Miami Winter Series, Dec. 7-9, 2012.
Michael Kiss on _Bacio _won his third consecutive national title on San Francisco Bay. Photos: ©2012 JOY | International Audi Melges 20 Class Association
A record-breaking 33 Melges 32s representing eight countries race out of Newport, R.I., for the world championship through Sept. 29. Big breeze is forecasted, and a collision has already forced the retirement of one team. Photos: ©2012 JOY | International Melges 32 Class Association
Key West Race Week served up highs and lows for us aboard the Melges 32 Warpath.
On Day 4 of Quantum Key West 2012, the team on Glenn Darden and Reese Hillard’s J/80 Le Tigre won Boat of the Day honors after posting three bullets in an elusive breeze.
In Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Steve Howe and his Warpath team (bow No. 603)—with Morgan Larson calling tactics—notched their first major win in the Melges 32 class. Photos by Joy Dunnigan. Read about the racing in our Finish Line forum.
“Not often does it come down to the last gybe as to whether or not you win a championship,” says Bora Gulari, whose New England Ropes team narrowly defeated Nathan Wilmot and Conor Clarke’s Embar team at this 38-boat affair on Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva. See our photo gallery, and read about the racing
The VX One Design meets the club criterium: portable and affordable. New Boats from our September 2011 issue.
Windy, close racing at the 2013 Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week for the 37-boat Melges 24 and 33-boat Melges 20 fleets. Photos: ©2013 JOY | U.S. Melges 20 & 24 Class Association Click here to view results.
J/Boats’ new one-design sensation is lighting the sportboat scene ablaze. Quick, stiff, ramp-launchable, and priced right, the J/70 checked all the BOTY boxes as it sailed its way to the top of the judges’ lists. Behold our 2013 Boat of the Year.
Photos by Walter Cooper Given the immedate success of the J/70, with hundreds of boats sold before the first was built, it was a foregone conclusion that the J/70 would end up among the judges’ favorites. With their latest sensation J/Boats has its first ramp-launchable sportboat and a polished set of class rules in place before the first big regatta (Quantum Key West) in January. The judges all agreed it delivered the excitement of a small sportboat, and the stiffness and handling of a big
Boat of the Year Nominee Photos by Walter Cooper During dock inspections of the Bavaria Yachts-built B/One, the Boat of the Year judging panel was impressed with the superb quality of the build from Bavaria Yachts: tight, clean, and absolutely barren inside the boat. Inside is a white-painted cavern that can accept a drop in V-berth module. The layout is straight-forward—really, how else can you make a 20-foot sportboat any different with the control lines? The B/One shares many similar
Photos from the first event of the Miami Winter Series, Dec. 7-9, 2012.
Michael Kiss on _Bacio _won his third consecutive national title on San Francisco Bay. Photos: ©2012 JOY | International Audi Melges 20 Class Association
A record-breaking 33 Melges 32s representing eight countries race out of Newport, R.I., for the world championship through Sept. 29. Big breeze is forecasted, and a collision has already forced the retirement of one team. Photos: ©2012 JOY | International Melges 32 Class Association
Key West Race Week served up highs and lows for us aboard the Melges 32 Warpath.
On Day 4 of Quantum Key West 2012, the team on Glenn Darden and Reese Hillard’s J/80 Le Tigre won Boat of the Day honors after posting three bullets in an elusive breeze.
In Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Steve Howe and his Warpath team (bow No. 603)—with Morgan Larson calling tactics—notched their first major win in the Melges 32 class. Photos by Joy Dunnigan. Read about the racing in our Finish Line forum.
“Not often does it come down to the last gybe as to whether or not you win a championship,” says Bora Gulari, whose New England Ropes team narrowly defeated Nathan Wilmot and Conor Clarke’s Embar team at this 38-boat affair on Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva. See our photo gallery, and read about the racing
The VX One Design meets the club criterium: portable and affordable. New Boats from our September 2011 issue.
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