Monthly Archives: July 2011

J/24 2011 North Americans in Halifax


When you look at the competitor list, you know it will be a great regatta Healy, Santa Cruz, Welles, Parker and the strong east coast locals will definitely hammer it up. Check out the list here About these ads

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A J/24 sank following a squall during Wednesday night racing at the Manhattan Sailing Club #det2011


http://pioneersailing.blogspot.com/2011/07/this-is-why-we-wear-pfds-ladies-and.html A J/24 sank after a squall hit Wednesday night at the Manhattan Sailing Club. Lots of pictures.

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Working on sheets and halyards for the J24 #det2011


We’ve had our new Dyneema® Fibre, Gottifredi Maffioli ropes for about a month now and we’ve put them through some good racing which included two regattas. All I can say is that the Newswift and Superswift have surpassed out expectations … Continue reading

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Pictures from the J24 Canadians #det2011


Here’s a slide show from the 2011 J24 Canadian Championship. As you’ll see, most of it is light air

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A couple of J24 Canadian links #det2011


Here is a recap on sail-world.com http://www.sail-world.com/Canada/J24-Canadian-Championships/85759 and for photos: http://yfrog.com/user/PCYC_Racing/photos

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Final results from the J/24 Canadians @ PCYC #det2011


Congrats to Rossi Milev and his crew for his victory. As for us, we dropped from 5th to 8th with our black flag. We were pushed over early by Navtech.ca who themselves received a black flag. It hurt both our … Continue reading

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Interesting day for Pura Vida #det2011


We fell a few positions down from our fifth after two races today. We took a black flag and had bad luck on a wind shift after our best start of the regatta. More to come with pictures. Our crew … Continue reading

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Results from the 2nd day det2011


We had a decent day today. The conditions were very lumpy with about 5 knots of breeze. We are having a good time and holding our fifth position.

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Here are the first day’s results #det2011


Check out the results here. We’re heading out to the club now. The forecast looks light and the wind at PCYC is a southerly. Our goal today is still to race clean and find a clean lanes.

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Oops.


Make that a 7th and a 5th for a fifth overall position out of 23 boats.

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