Sail with a Legend

Sail with a Legend

This will be the most amazing collection of past and current World Champions, National Champions and Women on Water winners, the J24 class has ever brought together for a day of racing and conviviality. Immediately following the State Championships, this one day regatta will become the stuff of Legends itself. If you want to meet and talk with, sail against and have a beer with our Sailing Legends, you need to book early and be at the Legends Regatta.

How does one little boat create this big legend?

The J24 is one of those yachting phenomena we see only occasionally, from a single boat “Ragtime” built by Rod Johnstone in his garage back in 1976 it has grown rapidly into the world’s largest and most successful one design small keelboat. Even now nearly 40 years later it still retains an amazing and substantial place in the worlds sailing scene.

Internationally it has been the stuff of legends, with a list as long as the sailing scene itself of National and international champions, Americas Cup and Round the World sailors. Names like Kostecki, Read, Kolius and Baird, head the list of hundreds of notable sailors, all of whom have become legends in J24s and sailing internationally.

Here in Australia, we have a similar record of sailing legends from the early days of Js in Australia, Bethwaite, Mundle, Murray, Buckley, Lissiman, Short, Geitz, Basford, Plante, Anson and more – names we all know. And now we have a more recent group of sailors that we currently sail with who are creating their own records, the stuff of future legends.

The J24 Legends Regatta.  Here’s your chance to have one of Australia’s J24 Sailing Legends sail on your boat as either skipper or crew.

If you are interested in entering, or being involved, please  contact Terry on 0413 876184  or Paula on 0404 539176