MONACO, Oct. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The crusing world has gathered in Monaco for the J/70 world championship. For the 2022 version, greater than 400 sailors from 23 nations and 90 boats are able to go at sea and the competitors seems robust with half the individuals having already seen their names on trophies as the Olympics, the America’s Cup or different top circuits. “When you go to a world championship you know you will sail against the top people in the class. Everyone we expected to be here is here. At the end of the day, it’s about each team executing, getting the job done and being consistent,” explains the US veteran of the America’s Cup and a number of world championships Chris Larson. “It’s not so much about the other individual competitor, it’s about you going and getting your job done,” he provides. Larson is crusing with Smokeshow group alongside the world champion sailor Alan Terhune, the skilled J/70 sailor Patrick Wilson and the proprietor Paul Sevigny.
On the Monaco quays it’s potential to run into the Brazilian legend Torben Grael (5 Olympic medals, 4 of them in the Star class), the Italian sailor Pietro Sibello (answerable for the mainsail on the Italian Challenger Luna Rossa at the final America’s Cup) and British sailor and Olympic medalist Saskia Clark. And the listing goes on taking in Luis Bugallo, Marshall King, Ian Wilson, Peter Duncan, Jud Smith and Paul Ward, who’ve been topped J/70 World Champions lately. Luca Domenici, José María Torcida Seghers and Jonathan Calascione full the class line-up with their European outcomes.
“First of all, to us hosting the world championship means the ending of the pandemic because it should have been held in 2021, but it had to be postponed to 2022 – summarizes Oliver Campana, president of the Monaco J/70 Class Association – It is also very meaningful to us as the last one we had here in Monaco was in 1976. Therefore, to host such an important competition with 90 boats coming from all over the world is an honor for the Yacht Club.” This World Championship additionally sheds gentle on environmental initiatives adopted by the YCM: “Our Committee Boat has been operating on biodiesel for five years now. As for those of our semi-rigid safety boats which aren’t electric, they are running on bioethanol. We have dynamic positioning buoys that avoid any damage to the seabed. And last but not least, this J/70 World Championship is partnered with RAMOGE, one of the longest established environmental protection agreements in the world,” concludes Campana.
The occasion is organized by Yacht Club de Monaco, in partnership with the Monegasque Sailing Federation, FxPro, Xerjoff, Sebago and technical sportswear model Slam which is supplying clothes for all crew members on the podium.
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