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Awesome sailing in California Offshore Race Week

by J-Boats 29 Jun 15:42 BST
California Offshore Race Week © Sharon Green / ultimatesailing.com

The annual start of the offshore racing circuit in California has been the California Offshore Race Week.

The event consists of three events over three weeks:

  1. Spinnaker Cup Race - San Francisco to Monterey
  2. Coastal Cup Race - Monterey to Newport Beach
  3. SoCal 300 Rac e- Newport Beach to San Diego

J/Teams participated in all three events, some with amazing results. Here is the breakdown by race and overall.

Spinnaker Cup

PHRF 1 Division

Yet again, the J/125 ARGO IV sailed by Johnny Vincent and Kenny Kieding took the silver medal in PHRF 1 Division. The other J/125 VELVET HAMMER, sailed by James Nichols took fourth place.

One of ARGO's skippers explained, "Our top speed was 24.8 knots with John Vincent driving. We ended up 1st in class as well as overall in the ORR class. 2nd in PHRF A Class as well as 2nd overall out of 44 boats."

PHRF 2 Division

J/Teams crushed this division. Winning was Ian Rogers's J/90 ORCA, followed by Tolga Cezik's J/111 LODOS in second, Nesrin Basoz's J/111 SWIFT NESS in fourth, and Shane Riehl's J/133 DEFIANT in fifth place.

PHRF 3 Division

Winning this division was Ross Werner's J/112E JUBILANT.

PHRF 4 Division

Three of the top five in this fleet were J/teams. Taking the silver was John Arens's J/109 REVERIE, followed by two J/99s- Camille Moussette's LATENCY in fourth and Stephen McMillan's MERLIN in fifth place.

Coastal Cup

ORR A Division

Following their excellent Spinnaker Cup performance, the Vincent/Kidding duo on the J/125 ARGO IV continued their momentum in this race by winning the ORR A Division!

ORR B Division

In this large fleet, Ross Werner's J/112E JUBILANT took the bronze medal.

SOCAL 300 RACE

This is a very challenging race for the fleet, starting off Newport Beach, rounding San Clemente Island to port, then a straight shot into San Diego, finishing off Point Loma.

ORR C Division

Rounding out their successful 2025 CORA campaign was the Vincent/ Kieding team on their J/125 ARGO 4, winning ORR C Division as well as winning their CORA Race Week Class Overall.

Follow CORA on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/groups/westcoastoffshoreracing.

For more CORA Offshore Race Week sailing information www.offshoreraceweek.com.

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