Ready for J/70 U.S. Youth Championship

Ten teams will compete in the 2018 edition of the J/70 U.S. Youth Championship, held November 16-18 on Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg, FL. The regatta will be sailed in supplied J/70s from St. Petersburg Yacht Club and will race in a round-robin format with short courses of less than 20 minutes each.

Invited teams advanced from a series of twelve qualifying events in 2018 that started in February at the St Pete NOOD Regatta and ended in August with the J/70 Pacific Coast Championship in San Francisco, CA.

The following teams have qualified for the event: Musto Youth Team from Stonington, CT; Coral Reef YC from Miami, FL; King Harbor YC from Los Angeles, CA; South Carolina YC from Hilton Head, SC; Annapolis YC Youth Team from Annapolis, MD; American YC Youth Team from Rye, NY; Gotham Racing Team from Chicago YC in Chicago, IL; Little Traverse Sailors from Little Traverse YC in Harbor Springs, MI; Manchester YC from Manchester, MA; and Santa Barbara YC from Santa Barbara, CA.

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