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MOMENTUM NEWSLETTER The J/70 World Championship Returns to California August 7 – 15, 2021 VOLUME 8, ISSUE 4, FALL 2020 J/70 Class Office President: Treasurer: Past President: Ian Wilson Jürgen Waldheim Henry Brauer United Kingdom Germany USA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vice President: Technical Chair: Christopher Howell, CAE, Scott Weakley Polk Wagner Executive Director Canada USA J/70 Class Association [email protected] [email protected] 1604 Ventana Dr. Ruskin, FL 33573 Secretary: Copyright Holder: Vittorio Dimauro Jeff Johnstone Phone: 440-796-3100 Italy USA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Technical Committee J/70 Builders Polk Wagner, Chair J/Composites [email protected] 1 Allee Titouan Lamazou CS20402 Olonne sur Mer Egidio Babbi 85109 Les Sables d’Olonne, France [email protected] +33 251-237-990 [email protected] Alex Finsterbusch www.jcomposites.eu [email protected] CCF Composites Chris Howell 75 Ballou Blvd. [email protected] Bristol, RI 02809 USA +1 401-254-4342 Ned Jones [email protected] [email protected] J/Boats Argentina Dina Kowalyshyn España 1265 (1642) San Isidro Argentina [email protected] +54 11 4747 4162 [email protected] Frank McNamara [email protected] David McNabb [email protected] John Outhwaite [email protected] J/70 Momentum • Volume 8 • Issue 4 • FALL 2020 • Page 2 WORLD'S FASTEST J 70 Sails/ J/70 CLASS EXPERTS NORTH AMERICA EUROPE AUSTRALIA TIM HEALY CHARLIE CUMBLEY ALBY PRATT +1 401 683 7997 +44 7811 436935 +61 2 9998 8500 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ZEKE HOROWITZ RUAIRIDH SCOTT + 1 941 232 3984 +44 1329 443430 SOUTH AMERICA [email protected] [email protected] ALAN TERHUNE GIULIO DESIDERATO ALBY PRATT +1 410 269 5662 +39 3497407825 +54 11 4725 0200 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] northsails.com Photo Credit: SportographyTV J/70 Momentum • Volume 8 • Issue 4 • FALL 2020 • Page 3 J/70 World Championship Returns to California August 7-15, 2021 By Marylyn Hoenemeyer, Regatta Chair Photo courtesy of Jeff Demain Photography California Yacht Club has been preparing to host the J/70 World Championship for over two years. You can be sure that we are ready to warmly welcome the Class as they compete in this prestigious event on August 7-15, 2021. Photo courtesy of Matais Capizzano The Notice of Race will be posted this from the 2019 Worlds. We hope that all the month, with registration opening in previously registered teams will plan to mid-January. All teams who qualified return in August for a shot at the title. for the 2020 World Championship will receive registration information from the Key dates to post to your calendar include: International Class Office. • Pre-World Championship, co-hosted by our neighbor Del Rey Yacht Club, Before this year’s Championship was on July 31-August 1; postponed, the entry list was just one boat shy of the 100-boat limit. The roster was • Inspection Days, August 7-10; deeply talented and international in scope, • Five days of Championship racing, including the reigning European, North August 11-15, with a total of 10 races American and South American Champions, scheduled. and all but one of the top 10 finishers J/70 Momentum • Volume 8 • Issue 4 • FALL 2020 • Page 4 Photo courtesy of Matais Capizzano While onshore activities may look different There’s no need to leave your family behind due to health considerations, we can either, as our Marina del Rey, CA location guarantee that the racing will be top notch. is an ideal base for a Southern California As a three-time winner of US Sailing’s vacation getaway. Many of our attractions St. Petersburg Trophy for “Excellence in can be enjoyed outdoors, from our golden Race Management,” our members and beaches, to the hiking trails of Griffith Park management are confident in our ability to and the Santa Monica Mountains. Shopping deliver exceptional on-the-water racing. opportunities range from the eclectic stores Competitors coming to the Championship on Abbot Kinney Boulevard, to the world- can expect ideal, summer sailing conditions renowned merchants of Rodeo Drive in with a consistent seabreeze building Beverly Hills. And after a busy day on-the- throughout the afternoon and temperatures water or sightseeing, enjoy al fresco dining in the mid-70s. Racing will take place in the at a variety of nearby shoreside restaurants. Pacific Ocean, in an area free of commercial While the future may be hard to predict, traffic with little or no current. there is one thing that we can guarantee – this is a Championship that you won’t want to miss. We look forward to seeing you in August. J/70 Momentum • Volume 8 • Issue 4 • FALL 2020 • Page 5 2021 J/70 European Championship Royal Danish Yacht Club, Copenhagen Denmark June 4-12, 2021 Last year in November, we from the European are looking very much forward to receive all Championship Organizing Committee wrote J/70 competitors now in June instead of July, you all, “Soon we will be opening up a new but weather-wise, that doesn’t make much year – 2020 – hopefully with a lot of great difference. We can expect temperatures sailing and much fun on the water. And July between 15-21 C and normally a breeze of and the Europeans in Copenhagen are only around 8-16 knots from westerly directions. six months away.” As you all know, the 2020 sailing season turned out very different At the moment, we see a strong fleet of J/70 because of the whole COVID-19 situation. sailors on the water outside of Skovshoved But let’s look forward and cross fingers that Harbor every weekend preparing for the 2021 again will bring lots of regattas and Europeans that will be one of the major fun sailing. regattas for RDYC to host in 2021. In the beginning of July, the J/80 Class will meet in In Copenhagen, the Organizing Committee the Rungsted Station of RDYC to compete for is ramping up to take the 2021 Europeans the Worlds. So for sure, the ‘21 season will be to the same level as planned for the 2020. We a major J/Boat season in Denmark. J/70 Momentum • Volume 8 • Issue 4 • FALL 2020 • Page 6 The Manage2Sail entry platform has reusable plastic wherever possible etc., been open for some months, and the that we will work hard to minimize paper NOR is already uploaded at www. and try to make as much run electronically. J70europeans2021.com. More than 100 Getting closer, this will also mean that boats have entered! Remember there is a we will encourage you to forward all soft limit of 150, so if you have thoughts of needed documentation in scanned formats participating, make the decision fast. to facilitate registration and minimize paperwork. Racing is the focus, but when you are not on the water, there will be a lot of social BUT: We have to be very flexible in planning activities at or close to the harbor. The Mayor due to the COVID-19 situation. Our primary will receive us at the opening ceremony, focus is to go sailing, get some great races there will be a Regatta Area with food and the social part comes second. We don’t trucks, bars and bistro to be open more or know the world in June, but we work with less 24/7, we will organize a great party at a number of different scenarios on how to Bakken (have a look at www.bakken.dk), live up to different levels of governmental plus a traditional Pork-and-Beer party at the regulations. And we will do our utmost to Regatta Area. If you or the crew wants to secure the event and the racing. go central, Copenhagen is only 20 minutes away, and Copenhagen is fantastic in If you have any questions, the event e-mail June – just to mention Tivoli, Canal Touring, is [email protected] Nyhavn and the Opera. Moreover, for those not sailing, Copenhagen shopping We will do our utmost to keep you informed is world famous. on the situation and our actions. The event will be run as a sustainability Kind regards, regatta under SailorsfortheSea, meaning J/70 EUC OA among other activities like trash sortation, J/70 Momentum • Volume 8 • Issue 4 • FALL 2020 • Page 7 Brazil Report WE ARE BACK! South American Championship In order to introduce the Class to other postponed sailors, four owners shared their boats Rio de Janeiro resumed its nautical activities with other crews invited in a fun challenge in September 2020. However, due to the between eight teams. The team of Torben effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil Grael, Marco Grael, Martine Grael and Henry and other South American countries, it was Boening won the challenge, on a day of necessary to postpone the South American flat seas and wind between 10-14 knots. Championship to December 2021. Serious fun! Rio de Janeiro Championship and Brazilian Nationals J/70 Challenge The Brazilian Championship 2020 takes From early October, the J/70 Brazilian fleet place from 26 to 29 November at Iate is back racing. The Rio de Janeiro State Clube do Rio de Janeiro. Championship was the first opportunity to sail after the lockdown. The crew of Selmo Nissenbaum’s Highlanders, with Mauricio Santa Cruz as tactician, won the regional title of “Carioca Champion.” J/70 Momentum • Volume 8 • Issue 4 • FALL 2020 • Page 8 2 BrazilThe Brazilian Report Championship 2020 takes place from 26 to 29 November at Iate Clube do Rio de Brazilian Nationals Janeiro.