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We have 2 teams representing Australia at the J24 World Championships this year. David West will be skippering Cinco Capitanes..yes, you guessed it…with 5 skippers on board…..Davids crew are Arthur Crothers, Scott Buckingham, Chris Lee and Greg Zyner.
Sean Kirkjian will also be racing with his Deathstar team of Tony Reynolds, Simon Cunningham, Tim Bilham and David Oliver.
Follow their daily progress from 15 November in a fleet of 60 at http://www.j24worlds2011.org.ar
Has anyone had problerms with outhaul cleats slipping?.. I have sailed on a few Js lately and all seem to have the same problem or the outhaul slipping under load, when the cleat teeth don’t necessarily appear to be worn.
I would be grateful if anyone has any suggestions for an alternate system so I can pass the information to the owners.
Thanks
David Suda and his crew in Pacemaker did an awesome job winning the NSW States convincingly.
For the rest of the story in pictures of the first day, go to the picture gallery page under the NSW tab above.
Greetings:
On behalf of the Yacht Club Argentino, it is my pleasure to invite you and all the competitors for the J-24 World Championship to our club at Buenos Aires City.
The Yacht Club Argentino was founded in 1884, and has a long tradition of major sailing events and it is very proud of its Race Committee experience and its reputation of great hospitality.
We are excited at this opportunity to once again welcome the World’s best sailors to one of the world’s very best fresh waters venue, the waters of the Rio de la Plata.
Sincerely
Ricardo A. Galarce
Commodore
That is the online welcome from the club Commodore.
Australia has two crews entering the worlds, skippers are David West and Sean Kirkjian and on behalf of the Australian J24 Association we wish them good luck.
We will bring you more information on their progress as we get it.
The worlds website address is http://www.j24worlds2011.org.ar
The ranking page has now been updated to include the results of the 2012 season NSW State Championship at Gosford on Oct 1 – 2 2011
J24 Tips for speed by North Sails J 24 class experts
North Sails has been at the forefront of sail design for the J/24 class since the class first started in 1977. Throughout these years North Sails have designed and developed J24 sails which have won countless national and world titles with sailors choosing to use North sails.
North Sails have gone through a restructuring exercise recently. They are wanting to put more focus on One Design racing and will provide more tips on a regular basis – of course they would also like to sell you some sails as well !
Below are some key points from their class experts on how to maximise your J 24’s performance!
Click here to go to the North Sails page
What a weekend?…5 boats from VIC making the huge effort to come to Gosford. 4 boats from Pacific Sailing School with instructors skippering and students, some very new to the sport on board! Terry Wise skippering Bandit!! Some of the old die hard fleet returning for more hot racing!
Saturday giving us blue skies and a light breeze oscilating up to 50 degrees at times….difficult for most!! Sunday was another story…torrential rain for the first race, coupled with a breeze most reckon was up to 35knots at times…tough conditions that saw just 8 of the original 15 boats race the final race of the day as one by one we saw J’s heading back towards the club!!
Gosford Sailing Club gave us the intended 4 races each day – an achievement in itself given the appaling conditions Sunday brought!..’Pure adrenalin’, ‘survival mode’…and ‘the reason we go racing’ were phrases that were bandied around back at the club….I think one member of Kaotic might have also mentioned ‘wet’ ..and that wasn’t the rain!
The results below say it all….a very competitive fleet…5 of the race wins going to current VIC Champion David Suda on Pacemaker, Sean Kirkjian, current National champion took out the other 3 firsts! They were strongly contended by many of the other boats though and competition couldn’t have been closer at times!
I am proud to be part of this fleet…and mostly…very proud to get through a State Championships and see not one red flag…and not one prang!! Well done everyone and thanks! Also, a big thank you to Gosford Sailing Club for hosting a great regatta yet again, and also to our sponsor, UVEX for providing great prizes once more.
The new inventory form should streamline things!
The J24 ranking page is now online. To find it look under ‘About J24’ on the top nav bar.
Lisa Simonov, the better half of ‘Make My Jay’ at Sandy and head programmer at Smart Marketing has done a fantastic job of turning an algorithm provided by Sean Wallis into a full on ranking system, complete with all the data entry and database systems required behind the scenes.
Currently the system is ranking on the state regattas and the Nationals last season, in the near future we will add the previous season as well. The ranking is designed to be based over the previous two sailing seasons and rewards regattas sailed and finish placing with different regattas having different weighting.
We plan to put even more bells and whistles into it in the future, but for now ……. how do you rank in the national list ?
Remeber you have just a couple of days left to enter the NSW State Championships on 1 & 2 October.