J/24 European Championship at - Preview
by J/Boats 22 Jul 2018 14:04 BST
23-27 July 2018
J/24 European Championship © J/Boats
The Flensburg Sailing Club in Glucksburg, Germany is hosting the 2018 J/24 European Championship on the famous fjord off the southwestern parts of the Baltic Sea in northern Europe.
There are twenty-five teams competing from five nations (Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden) with the large contingent of very competitive Italian and Monagesque J/24 teams noticeably absent- as the J/24 Worlds are concentrated on Lago di Garda, Italy in a few weeks time.
The top teams that should be factors on the leaderboard are familiar to those in the world of J/24s; the principal United Kingdom team- Ian Southworth's IL Riccio (a World and European Champion); a number of top German teams, such as Hauke Kruss' Pfau, Fabian Damm's Hungriger WOLF, Stefan Karsunke's GER 5381, Emily Kern's Rotogirl, and Daniel Frost's Jjone; Dimitrios Altsiadis' Evniki from Greece; Dirk Olyslagers' Team Jool/ Evapco from the Netherlands; and two Swedish teams with some pedigree (Per Hakan Persson's Front Runner and Andreas Olovsson's For Fun (Pink).
For more J/24 European regatta results click here.
More Flensburg Segel-club sailing information.