J/95 YACHTING WORLD Test

(Hamble, So'ton, England)- A team of experienced sailors and writers from Yachting World, led by Toby Hodges from YW, took the gorgeous black-hulled J/95 for a lengthy test this spring on the Hamble River and on the Solent.  Titled "Thriller Keels", Toby talks about the sailing the J/95 as "Shoal with style" due to its innovative lifting keel and rudder designs and superior performance.  As Toby describes it, "With a blade-like stern and alluringly sleek, low topsides she is a strikingly pretty yacht.." and due to its shoal draft, "in the UK we know the value of escaping the crowds up creeks and shallow bays..."  Read more about it and download Toby's YW article here (a 7.3 MB PDF file).   Learn more about the J/95 shoal-draft performance cruising sailboat.