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J/125 ARGO 4 WINS THE 2024 CA OFFSHORE RACE WEEK

Congratulations to Kenny Kieding and John Vincent, and the crew of Argo 4, winners of the CA Offshore Race Week series. Argo 4 won their class in two of the races, and finished 2nd in the third in a dominant week of sailing.

CALIFORNIA OFFSHORE RACE WEEK NEWS

The 2024 CA Offshore Race Week featured 90 boats and over 400 sailors racing throughout the three events of the series which is in its 8th year, annually occurring around Memorial Day Weekend. 

John Brynjolfsson (TP52, Saga) described the race experience best saying, “Few experiences can rival the thrill of sailing with Saga's seasoned crew under the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, alongside a fleet of fellow sailors embarking on a week-long, 500-mile odyssey. This historic week comprised the storied Spinnaker Cup from StFYC to MPYC, the Coastal Cup from MPYC to SBYC, and the SoCal 300 from SBYC to SDYC. As the fog lifted outside San Francisco, and the flood tide lay behind us, the fleet converged down the coast on Monterey, our first port of call. A welcome break and authentic eateries awaited our courageous crew. 

The 2024 California Offshore Race Week (CORW) is here and the excitement is buzzing. The series includes three separate races down the coast from San Francisco to San Diego. The first leg starts off with the Spinnaker Cup, San Francisco to Monterey (84 nm), then the Coastal Cup from Monterey to Santa Barbara (205 nm), and finally the SoCal 300 from Santa Barbara to San Diego (255 nm).

In 2023, the CORW saw the smallest boat in the fleet, Marc-Andrea Klimaschewski's Dogpatch 26 Moonshine, achieve an impressive overall victory. Klimaschewski and his crew, representing the Pacific Northwest, navigated challenging conditions and enjoyed the thrill of the SoCal 300 segment. The event also highlighted notable performances from other competitors, including the Express 37s dominating the Spinnaker Cup and the MOD 70s in the CA 500 race.

The west coast's most bad-a** offshore race is just around the corner!

And the only thing as cool as racing the SoCal 300, is getting a gallery of epic Ultimate Sailing images (and video) afterwards. Plus the chance to be featured in the Ultimate Sailing Calendar, and leading boating publications! Contact Utlimate Sailing to reserve, space is limited.

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Sailonline is delighted to announce that we will again be partnering with the Encinal, St Francis, Monterey Peninsula , Santa Barbara and San Diego yacht clubs, and this year online-host two of their prestigious California Offshore Race Week, the CA 500 and the SoCal 300.

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Dave MacEwen and Jeff Thorpe  will offer a briefing on Spinnaker Cup preparations, tactics, weather routing and safety requirements at MPYC  on  April 9 starting at 530pm .  This briefing is highly recommended for all skippers and crew who are planning to race in the upcoming 2024 Spinnaker Cup, or simply dreaming of doing the race someday. It would also be of interest to other racers and non-racers alike, including Spinnaker Cup volunteers. 

The smallest boat takes the Series again. The 2023 California Offshore Race Week has concluded with Marc-Andrea Klimaschewski's Dogpatch 26 Moonshine, the smallest boat in the fleet, earning the title of overall CORW winner. For the second year in a row, the little boat makes a big splash.

Klimaschewski said "All of us are very happy about the great result and we are proud to be representing the Pacific Northwest and following in the footsteps of our good friends on Pell Mell who won the series last year in another small, wooden boat. Being a small boat, we always try minimizing our distance sailed. We also push the boat as hard as we can, the sails and loads are very manageable so if we overdo it on the gas pedal, that's usually an easy fix." 

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All it took was a year of elbow grease and a little bit of TLC for Alex Simanis to get his newly restored Pt Bonita 27, Pell Mell , back into the water… and titled a winner. The smallest boat on the course for the duration of the 2022 California Offshore Race Week has proved that it is heart and skill that gets you first overall, not size. Simanis’ Pell Mell is the official winner of not just the SoCal 300, but the overall series winner of CORW. 

Simanis commented, “The Spinnaker Cup was epic. We stuck with our plan of staying out and waiting for the new breeze to come - and it worked out well. The last 50 miles we did in about 6 hours and we came into Monterey on a nice angle and 25+ knots of breeze. For the SoCal 300, it was a beautiful jib reach to the islands. We thought it was going to be game on, but it was really light. We got stuck in the island and had to battle back and forth to find a lane. A bunch of the fleet moved more to the west and we ended up sneaking towards more of the east breeze that filled in. We were able to catch up to the 1D35 and J/111 and the bigger boats for the run. Our boat is pretty quick on the run, so nobody got away from us.”

On Saturday May 28th, 30 boats departed San Francisco on the 1st leg of the California Offshore Race Week, The Spinnaker Cup, 86 miles of downhill fun, from San Francisco to Monterey. In the midst and in the mist, an improbable contestant, that had been ignored, more than it had been sailed recently and much less raced. Originally built in the mid 80's by Dave Sutter, the Point Bonita 27' Pell Mell was designed to be more of a cruiser, with inspiration from the Dogpatch 26, without the hard chines below the waterline. Her ample room below decks makes things more comfortable for a midget distance racing ride.

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Jeanneau 349	Edersail	154	154	154	2024-03-31
Sciomachen (designer), Morri & Para (builder) Sciomachen 38	Astra	93	93	93	2024-08-01
Beneteau 44.7 M-2	AEOLOS	27	21	31	2024-08-01
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Beneteau 44.7 M-3	Aeolos	24	18	27	2024-08-01
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Beneteau Oceanis 393 crz	Opportunity	149	143	143	2024-08-01
Dehler 106 M	Komet	147	147	147	2024-08-01
Catalina 385	Constellation*s Spirit	141	138	135	2024-08-01
Jeanneau 349 H	Hen o' the C	152	152	152	2024-08-01
Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 440	Cheyenne	92	87	84	2024-08-01
Beneteau 44.7 First	Tenacious	33	30	30	2024-08-01
Catalina 27T IB	Bonair	204	201	201	2024-08-01
Jeanneau JEANNEAU 53 DS	AURORA	75	75	72	2024-08-01
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Sportboat Classics Return to Race in San Diego

• By Dave Reed
• March 24, 2022

The 2022 edition of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta San Diego marks the return of the Jim Antrim-designed Ultimate 20s, claimed by its creators to be “the original sportboat.” These lightweight, inexpensive, sporty and trailerable keelboats ushered in a new era of downwind sailing in the late 1990s and this weekend five teams will sail for the Ultimate 20 Pacific Coast Championship.

The U20’s simplistic layout and handling makes it an amateur-friendly race boat, and while there are now hundreds of them scattered across the country (and internationally) only a few remain permanently berthed in the San Diego zip code. For the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta San Diego, all but one of five entries will be trailering in from out of town, and among the visiting teams is perennial class champion Mark Allen, of San Francisco, who says San Diego has become his favorite racing destination.

Over many years of competing in the earlier editions of the regatta series, Allen and a dedicated posse of Ultimate 20 teams from Utah and points east trailered their boats across the desert and over the Sierras to test their skills in San Diego’s friendly and reliable ocean winds. Allen now resides and works in the northern half of the state—for Anchor Brewing (the regatta series’ official beer sponsor)—and will, for the first time ever, motor a different route with his boat in tow. And this time, He will also be coming in fresh from a lucrative year of racing his Ultimate 20 on San Francisco Bay.

“Normally, I’d be digging the boat out of a few feet of snow to get to this regatta,” Allen says, “but as of March, I’ve already got in a lot of great sailing, so I’ll be a bit more polished than I have been in the past.”

Allen will be joined by four other Ultimate 20 teams, one from Monterey Bay, one from Richmond, California, and one from Utah, all hosted by local host Bill Mendel who recently relocated from the windy plains of Kansas with his U20 in tow. “Travis [Gregory, from Farmington, Utah], has been the ringleader and has really taken up the mantle to get people to San Diego,” Allen says. “He’s really the one who has been pushing to get everyone here.”

For the San Diego regatta, Allen will also be reunited with his “old crew” of nine years running—they’re flying in from Colorado. The last event they sailed together was the Ultimate 20 Pacific Coast Championship, so they will come with the promise of a good result and Allen’s midsize pickup laden with IPAs and Pilsner.

“I’ll have plenty of beer,” Allen says, “So if anyone is thirsty and looking for it after racing, come find me in the parking lot [at Coronado].”

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Sailing World Regatta Series moves west

Published on March 22nd, 2022 by Editor -->

The second event of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series moves west as 14 division get ready for racing on March 25-27 in San Diego, CA. Over 100 entrants from nine different states as well as Mexico will compete in an array of keelboat and dinghy classes.

“San Diego has such a unique and vibrant sailing scene, which is why this regatta has been so popular for so long,” said Dave Reed, Sailing World Magazine’s editor in chief. “The ability for us to have reliable racing conditions on the bay and in the open ocean is what local and visiting teams appreciate. Our hosts at Coronado and San Diego yacht clubs always deliver a high-quality experience—on and off the water.”

Racing kicks off March 25 with the regatta’s smaller boats, which will be spread across two racecourses set on South San Diego Bay. The bigger boats will take to the ocean off Point Loma on March 26-27 and the North Sails Rally Race will send competitors on a low-key day-long course inside the bay on March 26 only.

Competing on the South Bay circle will be the Flying Dutchman class boats, the 20-foot two-person dinghy once used in Olympic competition nearly 60 years ago. The Flying Dutchman will share one of the South Bay racecourses with Formula 18 Catamarans and International 14s, which will be racing as individual classes.

“It’s been years since the area has hosted such a fleet of Flying Dutchman,” says Doug Dommermuth, who sails his FD out of nearby Mission Bay. “We love sailing on South Bay. The winds are consistent and with the short chop it’s a beautiful area to sail a Flying Dutchman.”

The high-tech International 14s have become a fixture of the San Diego regatta’s South Bay action. The double-trapeze dinghies do not require much wind to race at full-speed. Skippers and their crews are devoted to the care and maintenance of these crafts, which have been refined for more than a century and are now almost one-design (alike).

The 2022 edition of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta in San Diego also marks the return of the Ultimate 20 class. Often referred to as the original sport boat, U20s are lightweight, sporty and trailerable keelboats. The U20s simplistic layout and handling makes it an ideal entry-level race boat and all except one team will travel from out of state to enjoy the ideal racing conditions of South Bay.

One of the larger fleets at the regatta will be the J/24s. Featuring mostly vintage boats from the late 1970s and early 1980s, the class has nearly tripled in entries from last year’s San Diego event.

The J/105 division winner in 2021 was decided by a mere three points at the end of the five-race series, with local skipper Stewart  Cannon’s J-OK (a three-time champion at the regatta) emerging as the top team. With decades of experience racing off Point Loma, Cannon and crew have mastered racing in the ocean swells. “It can be challenging conditions—especially when the big swells are running,” Cannon says. “Part of that is the difficulty of driving in it.”

The J/70 fleet this regatta in San Diego is comprised of entirely West Coast boats, including two from Mexico. Among the entry list of skippers is National Sailing Hall of Fame inductee, Dave Ullman, who has been racing in the area for over 50 years.

When the San Diego Regatta wraps up on March 27, one class-winning competitor will be chosen to compete in the Helly Hansen Sailing World Caribbean Championship in October in the British Virgin Islands.

Series information – Race details – Entry list

Formerly known as the NOOD, the National Offshore One Design series was founded in 1988 and continues in 2022 at five venues:

• February 18-20 – St Petersburg, FL • March 25-27 – San Diego, CA • May 13-15 – Annapolis, MD • June 10-12 – Chicago, IL • July 28-31 – Marblehead, MA

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JOHN KOSTECKI AND AUSTIN SPERRY ARE THE 2024 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONS

A hard-fought battle on the water among the top six teams, the Americans finished third in the last race, overall one point ahead of Will Stout with Danny Cayard and Leandro and Lucas Altolaguirre

2024 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GAMES WIDE OPEN GOING INTO THE LAST DAY TOMORROW

Will Stout and Danny Cayard win Race Five, their second bullet in the series, and are the provisional overall leaders, tied on points with John Kosteki and Austin Sperry.

2024 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY IN SAN DIEGO

Paul Cayard and Frithjof Kleen win third race out of four and are the provisional leaders

2024 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, A FAMILY AFFAIR

Paul Cayard and Frithjof Kleen win Race Three, their second bullet in the series

2024 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, FICKLE WIND HARD TO READ FOR THE 64 BOAT FLEET

Will Stout and Danny Cayard (USA) were the best at interpreting the shifts on the racecourse

2024 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, WINDY AND TACTICAL DAY ONE IN SAN DIEGO

Paul Cayard and Frithjof Kleen are the winners of the opening race with good pace and smart race course management.

2024 STAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN ICONIC VENUE

San Diego Yacht Club in San Diego, California, is hosting the event for the ninth time in the Star Class's 100+ years of history 

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2024 STAR CLASS ANNUAL MEETING

Remembering Sune Carlsson

Remembering Manfred Meyer

Notice to Members

3Di sail statement

Waiver of late entry fee for ehc 2024.

Remembering Dr Ted Engel

2024 for 2025 Resolutions POSTED

Remembering jürgen janson.

Remembering Jack Lynch

Remembering Stuart Jardine

2024 Star Worlds In San Diego Welcomes New Talent While Celebrating A Remarkable Class

Eastern YC Announces Reduced Entry Fee for all Competitors at the 2022 Star World Championship presented by Bacardi

The 2022 Star Eastern Hemisphere Championship in Naples coming to an end The World Champion Diego Negri with Sergio Lambertenghi (ITA) are the winners

Entry Open for 2022 World Championship & 100th Anniversary of Star World Championships

TITLE DEFENSE SECURED ON FINAL DAY AT BACARDI CUP

Carl Buchan Wins 2019 Star Western Hemisphere Championship

TAB on 3Di Sails

PETER MOECKL CONTINUES AS ISCYRA CHIEF MEASURER

Resolutions 2024 for 2025

Winter Clinic Feb 6-7

Bacardi cup u30 program paves the way for young star class sailors.

U30 European Youth Championship - Entry Open

Youth & Junior Star Sailors!  U30 Star Teams!

New Year - New Challenge

One down, one more to go.

100 Years of Stars Book

Winter Series

Dates are now confirmed for the 2024-2025 Winter Series in Miami:

EVENT Dec 7-8, 2024: Star Commodore's Cup Jan 10, 2025: Levin Cup Jan 11-12, 2025: Schoonmaker/Levin Cup Feb 1-2, 2025: Star Zagarino Masters Feb 6-7, 2025: Star Walker Cup Feb 8-9, 2025: Star Midwinters

Bacardi Cup : March 3-9, 2025

RESULTS
D	DATE	EVENT	RESULTS
9	09/01/2024
9	08/17/2024
6	08/17/2024
10	08/16/2024
1	08/16/2024
14	08/10/2024
2	08/10/2024
1	08/10/2024
ISCYRA	08/05/2024
21	08/04/2024
5	08/03/2024
4	07/27/2024
12	07/27/2024
17	07/13/2024
6	07/13/2024

UPCOMING EVENTS
D	DATE	EVENT
18	04/27/2024
21	09/01/2024
18	09/14/2024
6	09/14/2024
10	09/28/2024
14	09/28/2024

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