{"id":162,"date":"2003-09-21T01:28:02","date_gmt":"2003-09-21T05:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2010-01-01T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T16:33:39","slug":"j30s-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/j30s-across-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"J\/30s Across the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Story by Bob Rutsch
\nThe last time we put our eyes on J\/30 hull #1 was during the Midwinter\u2019s in Miami as we sailed past #547 in 1995. The records indicate a 25-hull gap between 149 and 175, probably unrealized overseas production. After deducting the J\/30s reported lost, including six in Hurricane Alicia in 1983 at Houston YC, I figure there are about 500 left. So I was aware of about 80% of the J\/30s remaining. The \u2018vocal minority\u2019 of J\/30 owners are racers of two types. One-design sailors have something they wish to protect and perpetuate. PHRF racers either enjoy playing the handicappers game or accept it as their lot in life for choosing a boat, club, or a home port that doesn\u2019t have a one-design fleet at all, or at least not in a boat of their liking.
\nIt might surprise some of us to learn that most J\/30s are cruisers. The two biggest factors for choosing a J\/30 (after choosing a size and price range) are the head and the inboard diesel engine. Perceived performance comes next. Some, but not many, buy the boat because they wish to race one-design.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a breakdown by region. Chesapeake Bay has about 65 boats accounted for. Half are cruisers or inactive racers. So far in 2003, 25 have raced one-design on the weekends or Wednesday nights. About ten more sail PHRF in their home port, with all but a couple using strictly one-design sails and equipment. Long Island Sound has more than 60 boats with 30 active racers. Cedar Point has a nice one-design fleet of about a ten boats. There\u2019s a pocket of boats in City Island\/Manhasset\/Larchmont. The rest, spread out on both sides of the Sound are club racers: Riverside to Black Rock. Oyster Bay to Port Jefferson. They rarely leave their own harbor to do a J\/30 or YRA race. Most have class sails but may carry a PHRF size\/cloth genoa or kite.<\/p>\n

Southern New England (RI, Buzzards Bay, Nantucket) with at least 70 boats has the largest percentage of cruisers. When there is a local NA regatta, they generate about 10 boats that have no problem qualifying under class rules. Chicago has a dozen or so, half racing, primarily using class sails but in PHRF races. New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf coast is working towards a nice fleet (10+), and appears to be making the transition from pure PHRF (with GYA\u2019s the crazy 170% genoa limit) to class sails.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s more than half of the boats accounted for (240+\/-). I\u2019d estimate that about 120 are racing one-design or in class trim and 10-12 are using non-conforming sails or equipment.<\/p>\n

J\/30 Fleet 1 was in Holland Michigan. Once upon a time (1981) there were \u2018Fleets\u2019 in Marina del Rey, Lake Ontario, Puget Sound, Portland (Maine & Oregon), Galveston, Atlantic City, Detroit and Miami. Some never got off the ground, others died off. The J\/30s in these areas have no alternative but to race handicap. Or go cruising, which based on hundreds of phone calls and emails I get or have gotten over the years is what the unaccounted for J\/30s do. I routinely search around the country, using the internet for other J\/30s that are racing in far off places. I rarely find one I haven\u2019t seen or heard of before.<\/p>\n

In the last four-year NA cycle (Barrington RI, Chicago, Cedar Point CT, and Annapolis) 57 different boat\/owner combinations have sailed in the NA\u2019s. During the ten years prior to that, there were a total of 161. During that entire period, only about 4 or 5 boats that I can think of had to put away their PHRF rags and buy or borrow class sails.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019d say a more reasonable assessment is that one-design (and one-design suited) racers probably exceed those with PHRF sails, probably by a ratio of at least 2:1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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