Preparing for the big one

by Paul Green, SpinSheet
J/70 skipper and team owner Cate Muller-Terhune, a Chicago native turned Annapolis sailor, will soon head to Argentina, where she and her Casting Couch team will compete in the 2025 J/70 World Championship, October 24-November 1. This marks the second Worlds event in three years that Muller-Terhune’s team has earned an invitation to compete in.

In 2022, her team—Jackson Benvenutti, Nick Turney, and Jeff Hayden—secured a spot at the J/70 Worlds with a second-place finish at the North Americans in Canada, their second event together. At the Worlds in St. Petersburg, FL, the team was in sixth place with one race to go when a difficult race relegated them to 13th.

“There was a lot of emotion coming out of the event,” Muller-Terhune says. “Going into the last race, we had already used our drop race. The competition is so intense; you can afford to have a bad race, but you can’t have two.” – Full report