J/24 Sailing Miami Florida

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Looking for crew in South Florida. One Design class J/24 that travels around the state and Southeast.

Looking for crew for Coral Reef Yacht Club Annual Regatta. November 6, 2022.

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Looking for crew for October 22.

If you are interested in sailing J/24s please reach out to me.

J/24 Florida State Championship, Miami sailing strong as ever.

Thirty years ago, tonight we were hunkering down for the biggest Hurricane that South Florida had seen in over 30 years. Hurricane Andrew was churning its way through the Bahamas heading to its ultimate landfall in South Florida that would devastate the sailing community. I was just a teenager in high school when Andrew hit, but I do remember the house shaking, the prep we did to save our family sailboat and the 30-foot phrf racer that that I had grown up on. Andrew was headed to Fort Lauderdale, and we were all wondering if our house would survive. My parent had just finished a complete renovation of a 1958 house just a year before and this was before hurricane proof windows and all the innovations that followed Hurricane Andrew. As we left the house and the boats behind and headed to shelter the idea that all that I had know in my still young sailing career was about to be over. Would LYC (Lauderdale Yacht Club) the club that I had grown up at and learned to sail was directly in the path of the eye. As my family retreated west to the shelter, we kept hearing that there was a wobble, and the eye moved south. As we hunkered down for a long night of the storm, to emerge after the storm had passed to hear via FM and AM radio that the storm had gone south and over Homestead. We still had a ton of debris but nothing like we would see in a few hours when the power started to come back on.
The storm surge had annihilated the Coconut Grove’s waterfront. I have attached a few photos of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club and Coral Reef Yacht Club now know for the Etchells Biscayne Bay Series and the Junior Orange Bowl Regatta. This is just a little idea of what had happened to the local fleets. I was not a J/24 Sailor at the time but knew that the fleet was one of the largest at the time. The J/24 Fleet I have been told then numbered almost 30 boats at the time, well this past weekend the J/24 Fleet 10 hosted the Florida State Championship (Sunshine State Regatta) with a 12 boat fleet showing up to race.
In South Florida we really don’t take the summer for granted at all when it comes to sailing and the beautiful Chamber of Commerce conditions that J/24 Fleet 10 provided to the travel teams was nothing other than spectacular, especially with the threat of hurricanes from June to November.
Saturday opened with an Easterly at about 5 knots gusting 8 while boats were being launched at the three different sites. If you know Coconut Grove, you know that there are three clubs on the waterfront as well as the US Sailing Center and Shake-A-Leg Community Sailing Center out of the old US Coast Guard Sea Plane Hanger, so with locals launching from the US Sailing Center and Coral Reef and the travel teams launching from Shake-A-Leg, with Coconut Grove graciously hosting the regatta, most of our fleet saw their engines for the first time in many months as we motored to CGSC for the skippers meeting. Being this was the first time in my 17 years of J/24 ownership that CGSC was going to run a race for the Florida J/24 series I wanted to make sure that I got over to CGSC and met with the PRO so that we could discuss expectations his and our classes.
Ian our PRO met with me, and we sat and discussed that the class would like no more that 35–40 minute races. We discussed safety in the event of serious thunderstorms, which were not in the forecast, but my feeling is that lets go over everything so that we understand how the class and the club want to run an event since I had not met Ian before. We both agreed on safety and fun quick races. By the time the skippers meeting started Biscayne Bay was producing a nice Easterly at about 8-10knots. We set the bar high in Miami that we have serious sailing, but the camaraderie is the most important thing, and Ian agreed with that as he told us during the skippers meeting to behave on the starting line. Amazingly we went until the last race without having a general recall.
With a scheduled first warning at 11:30 CGSC race committee got things rolling with a perfectly timed start with 8-10knots out of the East the fleet couldn’t ask for better conditions. With 11 teams heading to the 1st mark and all having played nice on the starting line the power of one design showed as the top 5 boats all would round in a matter of just seconds. This would be a trend that would continue for the entire weekend.
CGSC did a great job of getting 4 races off on Saturday and our Fleet Captain who had broken his Main Halyard in the first race even reappeared just in time to sail the last race of the day. The leader had a commanding lead with six points, but second and third were not to be counted out as they both had decent throw outs if we get to that elusive sixth race on Sunday. Team Exit Strategy, on Saturday had a total of six points with a 1,1,3,1, second was Main Squeeze with a 2,5,1,5 and third was Zia, with a 3,2,2,7 so after looking at the points Team Exit Strategy knew the worst they could do on Sunday was to get a 5th in the first race but they also had to keep track of how Main Squeeze and Zia were performing.
On Sunday morning the lovely clear blue waters of Biscayne Bay we not going to disappoint anyone. At the 11:00 warning signal the breeze was a steady 8-12 knots out of the east. With two races scheduled for Sunday Team Exit Strategy was feeling pretty good but they knew that they needed a top five finish to win the regatta. Main Squeeze which is a local favorite and a road warrior in Florida came out swinging and took the bullet with 4 boats overlapped crossing the finish line with Team Exit Strategy in 4th and now having to sail the last race to make sure that they would win the regatta. The last race went off with a general recall as the fleet decided it was finally time to get aggressive and push the envelope with the top three decided 4th, 5th and 6th were battling and pushing the line. With a general recall flag down and the final race of the regatta in now 10-12 solid easterly breeze the fleet got going and did not disappoint with battles for posturing across the board.
With the final race in the books Team Exit Strategy took the regatta with race 6 being their throw out with a conservative finish of 6th. Second place was Zia 1 point behind Team Exit Strategy with 11 point and third place was Main Squeeze with 14 points.
The winning team – Team Exit Strategy consisted of the following crew: Brian Schultz, Pit – Boca Raton, FL CGSC Member, Val Shestopalov, Bow – Miami FL, Kurban Ali, Trimmer – St. Petersburg, FL, Cate Gundlach, Tactician – Lauderdale Yacht Club/CGSC Opti Alumni, Rick Jarchow, Jr. Driver – Lauderdale Yacht/CGSC Club Opti Alumni.
A big shout out to the race committee at Coconut Grove Sailing Club, the Regatta Chair – Andi Hoffman, Regatta Organizers – Rick Jarchow, Jr. and Mark Pincus, and finally our PRO Ian McCelland.
For Results: https://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=24874

To All,

I wanted to give everyone a rundown of what is going on in the district right now. Currently we have paid members of the class down from last year where we had 44 paid members. So, I want everyone to know what membership does, it drives the number of berths the US gets for each World Championship. I know with inflation that the cost of membership is low on the priority list of things to pay but wanted to remind everyone what the value of the class membership is.

Membership gives you helming privileges at major regattas, you have a say in how the class is run and you have a vote in who runs the class. You also have a say in how rule changes affect the class. You also get the beautiful free class calendar.

I am going to ask everyone to look around their area and see who has a J/24 but isn’t using it. I know in Miami that we have a few that aren’t being used at all and are available for sale or will be available for sale. With that being said let’s work to make sure that everyone knows the J/24 Fleet is alive and very strong. Our District has some of the best sailing in the World and we need to continue to grow the fact that the J/24 is not going to go away.

I want to give you all a rundown of what is going on in each fleet.

Fleet 10 racing:

Schedule:

4/2 OD race
4/23-24 Miami Key Largo and back – Must do if you never have. Sailing through the uninhabited Keys is awesome.
4/30 OD race Key Biscayne Yacht Club
5/7 OD race Make up #5
5/21 OD Race BBYC Sunburn Regatta
6/11 OD race

The Florida State Championship has not been scheduled due to it’s normal date being during the 2022 Worlds in TX.

Fleet 55 Racing:

Schedule:

Wednesday Night Racing starts again April 13 and goes until September 14th

There will be three fall races:

10/1
10/22
11/13

The Kings Day regatta is Scheduled for November 19 and 20 which is a stop of the Florida State Series.

Fleet 86 Racing:

DIYC will kick off a Spring Series starting on March 19th at 2pm sailing until dark.

Spring Series Dates are as follows:

March 19
April 9
May 7
June 11

The Davis Island Rodeo is also June 11 and 12 which is a stop on the Florida State Series.

Fleet 86 just recently hosted a fabulous midwinter under very trying conditions. I hear that a wonderful time was had by all. Comments from the national class can be found in the minutes here:http://j24usa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/22Mar7DG.pdf

Fleet 87 Racing:

The Dragon Point fleet has racing the following days:

April -Dec the first Saturday of the Month.

The Dragon Point Championship is scheduled for Oct 1 and 2. This is a stop on the Florida State Series.

Reminder to everyone that the 2023 Midwinters will be in Eau Gallie this year and the fleet is working hard to get plans in place. The dates for the Midwinters are scheduled to be Feb23-26. I would consider booking rooms soon.

So, as I write this, I am very hopeful for the J/24 class. Racing in this fleet has become my favorite pastime to get away from the everyday moments of life. The friendships that have developed from the class are phenomenal and the camaraderie that is the J/24 class just continues to grow.

I admit that I daydream about traveling to regattas as I really enjoy seeing my J/24 friends and so enjoy our competition.

I wish you all a great week and hope you are thinking about that next travel regatta so we can all hang out again.

So inclosing I believe that the state of our District is strong.

Best Regards,

Rick Jarchow, Jr.

District 10 Governor

j24usa.com

Ever been interested in learning to sail? Want to get out on a boat and learn to race? Want to meet people who love to be in the elements? Do you drink beer? Do you drink rum? Dou you like the outdoors?

I am in progress of putting together a learn to sail/race day in Miami at the US Sailing Center. We need to build the passion of sailing in South Florida. We will put a boat in the water and show everyone each position.

Depending on the number of people who show interest we will make more dates as honestly you can only train so many at once.

J/24 Midwinters

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