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J/22. The J/22 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass over a Baltex core, with teak wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces 1,790 lb (812 kg) and carries 700 lb (318 kg) of lead ballast.
Year Location Entries Winning Boat Country Skipper 2011 Rochester, New York, United States [2] USA Cory Sertl: 2010 FRA Claire Leroy: 2009 Rochester, New York, United States
The J/22 World Championship is an annual international sailing regatta for J/22 keelboats, organized by the host club on behalf of the J/22 Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body.
J/24 J/22 J/29 FR J/35. Rod Johnstone had completed a correspondence course at the Westlawn School of Yacht Design in the 1960s and in 1975 was working selling advertising for Soundings, a sailing trade magazine, when he started a homebuilt boat project. His first boat design, named Ragtime, was built on weekends, in his garage in Stonington ...
List of J/22 championships This page was last edited on 18 December 2024, at 01:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
American Sailing is the predominant standards bearer and codifier in the arena of recreational sailing education in the Americas and beyond. The organization was founded in 1983 by television producer Lenny Shabes, who felt there was no recognized educational system in place to learn the sport of sailing.
The Sonar is a one design trailerable racing sailboat that was designed by Canadian naval architect Bruce Kirby and first built in 1980. [1] [2] [3] The design was initiated as a commission from the members of the Noroton Yacht Club of Darien, Connecticut, United States. [1] The Sonar was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame in 2004 ...
Larger sailboats are more likely to use the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet handicapping system in North America, or the IRC handicapping system in Europe, Australia & New Zealand. There are many other methods of handicapping sailboat racing, [ 12 ] including performance handicapping systems such as Echo, [ 13 ] used in Ireland, and NHC, [ 14 ...