Register Today for the 2010 North American Championships before the LATE FEE
Planning on attending the 2010 North American Championships? Then register today before you forget and the $75 late fee is applied! You have until this Thursday, August 26th to register without paying the late penalty.

| 16 August 2010 | NOR | 

Jeff Johnstone wins the Buzzard's Bay Regatta!
Jeff Johnstone and his team on Little Feet won a hard fought three day regatta this weekend in Buzzards Bay! The conditions were light and fluky, but a fun time was had by the largest keel boat fleet at the regatta 27 boats! Rounding out the top three were Jay Lutz and Gary Camins on Fired Up Racing and Kerry Klingler on USA 352. Check out the full results below.

| 09 August 2010 | Read more | 

Watch the Action at Buzzard's Bay in Real Time this Weekend!
Check out how your local favorites are doing this weekend at the 6th stop on the J/80 USA Tour - Buzzard's Bay Regatta using Kattack! You can login and watch the action using the link below.

| 05 August 2010 | Kattack - J/80 BBR | 

Register Today for Buzzard's Bay Regatta
This is the 6th stop on the 2010 J80 USA Tour and your last chance to tune-up before the North American's in September. The Class will once again be using Kattack technology so your friends and family can see your progress in real time. And you will get the chance to review the days racing under the tent while enjoying a beverage! Register using the link below.

| 30 July 2010 | Regatta Website | 

Want another weekend to tune up in Newport for the World's?
NYYC Race Week(end) July 17 & 18th - is coming up and in 10 days! This will be the first year that the J/80 class participates in this great event. Another weekend of sailing Newport with superb race management not to mention a great lobster boil on Saturday night at Harbour Court.

Chris Bulger
J/80 1172

| 07 July 2010 | Register Here! | 

Calling all Sailboat Racers and Volunteers
REMINDER: Next week The Coastal Living Newport Regatta will gather a thousand sailors, 19 classes of One-designs over two hundred boats and two hundred plus volunteers for the premiere multi-class event of the season. Please visit the link and get registered today.

Register online at www.sailnewport.org (Also, check out the cool TV coverage of America s Cup events on the home page!)

Sail Newport is known for running spectacular events! Their top notch race committees have designated 5 different racing areas for the classes. Additionally, this year they will add a fifth circle of racing at the Coastal Living Newport Regatta to run the Vanguard 15 Nationals.

You dont want to miss out on the great parties too. Come to the Heineken Welcome Party on Friday, July 9th during check-in and after Etchells racing. On July 10th, there will be a full on party after racing Saturday with dinner and drinks and music. And on Sunday, awards will be given out along with cold beer, rum and wine, Crystal Spring water and New England clam chowda.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

This is an enormous event and they always need extra help on the race committee. This is a great time to give back to Sail Newport and help out. Please email Kim Cooper at kim.cooper@sailnewport.org

See you next week!

| 02 July 2010 | Read more | 

Register now for the Houston Yacht Club Leukemia Cup Regatta!

| 09 June 2010 | NOR | 

J/80's Boast Largest Fleet at the Cedar Point Annual Regatta
The Cedar Point Annual Regatta was a great event for the newly re-formed Western Long Island Sound Fleet 17 with ten boats on the starting line. They were the largest fleet in the regatta with Farr 30s, J105s, J30s and Ben 36.7s also attending in good numbers. While the other fleets had mostly local boats, the J/80 Class had boats coming in from Texas, California and Rhode Island joining on their way north during the 2010 US Tour.

Glenn Darden's LE TIGRE won the regatta by a good margin followed by a close fight for second between Kerry Klingler's LIFTED who came in second and Brian Keane's SAVASANA in third position. LIFTED, SAVASANA and John Storck's RUMOR all were tied at 16 points going into the last day of racing. The weather cooperated on Saturday and the RC did a great job getting 4 races. After a lobster bake at the club on Saturday evening crews retired early to get ready for a windy Sunday. NOAA called for gusts of up to 30kn in the afternoon and racing ended after 2 races when the RC saw 25 kn with gusts up to 27kn on their anemometer. Shortly after the boats arrived back at the dock and crews gathered for the awards ceremony BBQ when winds of 35-40kn hit the area accompanied by heavy rain. Great call of the RC to get the Fleet in before that weather hit.

Overall it was a very competitive and fun event that the local fleet hopes to establish as an annual stop for the J/80 race circuit in the North-East and a tune-up regatta to the 2011 North Americans.

| 09 June 2010 | Results | 

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