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• May 7, 2025
  

  CORK Summer Regatta June 2025

  The 2026 J/80 World Championship and 2026 North American Championship will be held in Kingston, Ontario in July 2026. Both events will be hosted by CORK Sail Kingston (https://cork.org/). Specific dates for 2026 can be found here – J/80 NACA Calendar. Kingston, Ontario is an excellent sailing venue with strong thermal

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• May 5, 2025
  

  Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series Annapolis

  “Race for every point” is a phrase heard often at regattas, and that was certainly the takeaway for many teams at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Annapolis May 3-6. Three days packed with races for 240 teams in 18 classes gave every sailor an opportunity to make

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  January 5, 2025
  

  New 2025 Mast Package Discount

  The J/80 North American class represented by President Emeritus Ramzi Bannura, has negotiated a discount with Sparcraft for new 2025 rig packages The discount price of just under $9,000 for a full rig: mast, boom, standing rigging and Profurl R250 furler is nearly 30% off retail. Sparcraft and Profurl are

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  December 12, 2024
  

  Sailing with North U

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• October 21, 2024
  

  American Yacht Club Fall Regatta

  The American Yacht Club’s annual Fall Regatta marks the close of the summer offshore sailing season on Long Island Sound. Fleets were treated to great sailing and good breezes for the two-weekend event, enabling racing all four days and the one-design classes to have nine races. The top two podium

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  October 8, 2024
  

  Christopher Hobb’s Lifted wins 2024 J/80 North American Championship in Toronto

  Race report by David Doyle It’s been eight years since the J/80 North American Championship came to Toronto, and again the National Yacht Club did not disappoint. Thirty teams competed in perfect warm Fall conditions on Lake Ontario October 1-6. Tight racing and dynamic shifty winds ensured no one could

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• September 16, 2024
  

  North American J/80 Class Seeks Additional Leadership

  Your J80NA Class Association Executive Committee (EC) has been hard at work planning events. Next year’s North American Championship will be held at Southern Yacht Club in New Orleans. In 2026, the J/80 World Championship returns to North America with both the World and North American Championship events taking place

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  July 15, 2024
  

  Colored Gelcoat J/80’s

  Report by Peter d’Anjou In the early days of J/80 construction circa 1992 – 1997, Tillotson Pearson, the original builder offered colored gelcoat hulls. Today, a few of those older colored boats survive. Hull 9 is for sale in New Orleans after spending most of it’s life on Lake Champlain

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• June 30, 2024
  

  Race Week Anacortes

  Race Week Anacortes had lots of races over the three days in WA at the annual event held June 24-28. The half-dozen J/80s Julian Croxall’s RECKLESS log only firsts and seconds for the victory at 10 net points. The silver was won by Mike Kalahar’s LITONYA with 19 points net,

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