• 2008 Season Standings revised 4/18/2008.  YRA Standings updated 8/27/2007.
• [5/13/2008] Wednesday, May 14, 2008 is the last day to signup for the Stone Cup before the entry fee DOUBLES! You can Sign-up Online at Regatta Manager where you will also find the NOR, List of Entrants and other Regatta info.
• [4/30/2008] The ODCA Sailing Instructions for the Vallejo Race are available at the YRA site. Click here for the list of entries.
• [4/16/2008] The April 21 deadline, without a penalty fee, for the May 3-4 Vallejo Race is fastly approaching. Get your entry in this week! YRA now offers Online Signup. The Social Instructions are just a click away to ensure you're ready for the 10th Annual J/105 Toast Off!
• [3/31/2008] Registration for the JFest sponsored by the St. Francis YC on April 12-13 has opened. Signup Online by April 9 to avoid a $50 late fee. The NOR is now available.
• [3/23/2008] It's time to register for the Ocean Race. The race is Saturday, March 29. Sign up Online by March 26th to avoid a $55 late fee! Please read the NOR carefully and be sure you have all the required safety equipment aboard. There will be random inspections imediately following the race and boats without the proper equipment will receive a 60% scoring penalty. Also, remember the importance of having bolt cutters and/or hacksaws with spare blades. TPI and Hall recommend hacksaws are being more useful - a bolt cutter can be hard to use and can get wrecked on the first try, and then you have no back-up unless you also have a hack-saw.
• [3/12/2008] It's time to register for our first regatta for the 2008 Championship Season. The NOR is available for the Spring One Design Regatta to be held on March 15-16. Online Registration is available for this event. Sign up by March 12th to avoid a late fee.
• [2/28/2008] Your Fleet #1 Dues and National Dues are due! Please renew your membership by making your check payable to "J/105 Fleet #1" and remitting to the Fleet Treasurer:
  
  Dues, including National*, are:
  $160 - One Owner**
  $210 - Two Owners
  $260 - Three Owners
   * National dues are $35 for 1st Owner,
      and $25 for each additional Owner.
  ** Includes spouse or significant other
  For questions, please contact Paul Farr.
• [2/5/2008] Final Minutes from the Fleet#1 Annual General Membership meeting have been posted along with the minutes from the Excom Meeting held on January 31, 2008. Links to these documents can be found on the Minutes Page under the Fleet Business menu.
• [2/5/2008] Dates for the YRA/B Season have been posted on the Fleet #1 Schedule.
• [1/31/2008] There is a J/105 boat weighing planned for Saturday, March 1 in Sausalito or Berkeley." Contact Pat Benedict for details.
• [1/14/2008] The 2008 Corinthian YC MidWinter races will be the weekends of January 19-20 and February 16-17. It looks like the J/105s will have a one-design start. NOR and Entry Form are available. SIs to be posted this week.
• [12/3/2007] The 2008 Season Schedule has been posted.

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A gaggle of J/105s at J-Fest 2008

photo by Charlie Bergstedt

2008 Spring One Design

photo by John Navas

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• [5/9/2008] Saturday's Great Vallejo Race on May 3rd was sailed in near perfect conditions. The 11 J/105s had lots of spinnaker reaching in flat water and moderate wind. Roxanne finished 1st, covering the 21.5 NM course in 3h 11m followed by RacerX in 2nd and Donkey Jack in 3rd.
  
  Sunday's Race on May 4th was predominantly close jib reaching in steady 20+ knots with gusts to 35 kts. Roxanne once again finished 1st covering the 14.5 NM course in 2:02 followed by Hazardous Waste in 2nd and Donkey Jack in 3rd. The first 6 boats finished within a 2 minute span. (see Schedule page for all results.)
  
  Donkey Jack Crew wins Tenth Annual J/105 Toast Off!! This year's Toast Off had the makings of a great event. Saturday's race was outstanding, the boats tied up together, each crew toasted the crew that "beat them", reportedly, 10-12 gallons of margaritas were consumed and everyone was happy. But there was only one winner and that was the Donkey Jack Crew who sang a version of "1-2-3-4-5 I Caught a Fish (RacerX) Alive". Finishing 2nd was the singing of RacerX accompanied with piano. Advantage³ scooped 3rd with "3 Blind Mice".
• [4/30/2008] We have a new application for members to place classified ads. See the Classifieds link at the top of the page. A login is required for members to post an ad. All non-member ads will be moderated. All ads will expire in 60 days. Notify the webmaster for modifications.
• [4/28/2008] Arbitrage and Cuchulainn finish 6-1 in the Belvedere Cup hosted by the San Francisco YC on April 19-20. Eight J/105s participated in the single-round-robin J/105 Match Race Invitational.
• [4/16/2008] Good Timin' returns to Fleet #1 racing and takes first place in the JFest Regatta sponsored by the St. Francis YC. Nantucket Sleighride, Aquavit, Brick House and Mojo make up the top five. Twenty-eight J/105 boats raced in the regatta. You can read one sailor's perspective of the two-day regatta at Charlie Bergstedt's Blog.
  J-Fest 2008 by Lyons Imaging.
  J/105 J-Fest by Glenn Youngling.
  J-Fest 2008 by Charlie Bergstedt.
• [4/1/2008] Kristin Lane and Team Brickhouse place 2nd in the Women's Match Racing Sundance Cup held at Eagle Mountain Lake. The Forth Worth Boat Club sponsored the four-day event from March 26-29. Check out Karen's Commentary and the results.
• [3/31/2008] Tiburon wins the Ocean Race sponsored by the St. Francis YC. Mojo, Spartan, LuLu and Donkey Jack made up the top five finishers. Fourteen J/105s competed in the race from Treasure Island to the Lightship and back into the bay for a downwind finish in front of the St. Francis clubhouse.
• [3/21/2008] Donkey Jack wins the Spring One Design J/105 season opener. Rhymenocerous finished second, Aquavit takes third, Arbitrage finished fourth, and Wonder rounds out the top five trophy winners. Twenty-three J/105s competed in the three race event. Saturday's J/105 racing was abandoned because of confused winds.
  J/105 SOD 2008 by John Navas.
  J/105 SOD 2008 by Glenn Youngling.
  
• [12/3/2007] New Event Galleries:
  Masters Regatta 2007 by Linda Wright.
  
• [11/10/2007] New Event Galleries:
  J/105 NAC 2007 by Sue Mikulski.
  J/105 NAC 2007 by Dan Phelps.
  J/105 NAC 2007 by Tom Wilkes.
  
  
• [11/4/2007] The 2007 J/105 North American Championship was held in Annapolis, MD on November 1-4. Final Results: Masquerade (StFYC), Mirage (Annapolis YC) and Convexity (Chicago YC). (69 J/105s participated with 7 races scored.)
• [10/30/2007] Wonder wins the RYC Great Pumpkin Regatta. Tiburon finished second and One Trick Pony takes third. Nine J/105s competed in the three race event. Sunday's Pursuit was abandoned for lack of wind. Click here for All Fleet results.

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