Successful Earls Court Boat Show for the UK J24 Class
by Stuart Jardine 12 Dec 2007 12:33 GMT
1-9 December 2007
The Class Association was fortunate to be offered a stand by the organisers at this year's Earls Court Boat Show from the 1st – 9th December.
The stand in Hall 2 was big enough to display one of the classes most successful boats “Hedgehog”, a 1987 boat built by Jeremy Rogers and recently overhauled and polished up by David Heritage. In fact we can proudly say she was shining and looked newer than some of the brand new yachts at the show.
Earls Court has certainly had a major overhaul and those of us who were fortunate to visit were impressed by the slick smart layout achieved by the show organisers. The only pity was an impression that there was a shortage of visitors. However we believe the Class was given good coverage and received many comments about how nice to see the International J24 back at a Boat Show.
The Association would like to thank all the class volunteers who manned the stand and also Inmarsat, Dubarry of Ireland, David Harding of Sailing Scenes and our sailmakers; Ullman, North & Hyde for their support.