From John Lillie owner hull #11
My J30 'Judicious' (although named Juggernaut at the time) did the 1979 fastnet, but retired into Ireland with a broken gooseneck fitting on the boom.
It was one of two boats imported by british builders Westerly yachts, who were the european J24 builders at the time and were looking at building the J30. I beleive that somewhere on the class association website there is an account of the 79 Fastnet in Juggernaut. She would have been in the same class as most 33-38 foot yachts (I think that was IOR class 3 or 4).
The other J30 was called Jetlag, but as far as I know did not do the Fastnet.
Westerly did not manufacture any J30's as at the time handicapping was under IOR and J30's rated the same as most other 37 - 40 footers!
We race Judicious in the UK with some success under 'IRC'handicap system.
