(Kiel, Germany)- We received a nice report from Jurgen Waldheim in Berlin, Germany-
“In Germany we had a wonderful Kieler Woche until yesterday. 12 entries
and a couple of world champions in the J 70 class. Boats from Sweden,
the Netherlands and Germany fought under very tricky conditions. Short
waves, wind up to 32 knots and yesterday –the last day- 2 races up to
only 6 knots.The winner is the current 505 World Champion- Class Lehman from Germany, second was Wouter Kollmann from the Netherlands and third Michael Ilgenstein from Germany. The World Champion of the X99 Class, Christian Soyka, finished fourth.
In 2015, we will try to have a common Calendar and Ranking List together with the Netherlands.
We
all talked a lot to many sailors of other classes. My impression is
that there are really many sailors who have a look to our class and they
are waiting to see how we develop. We have to show up whenever we have
time. It is not easy to establish a new class, especially in Europe.
But, we are much farther along than the J/80 was 12-15 years ago. Sweden
already has 20 boats! Denmark has created a “Sailing League” with the
J/70 and the Danish Sailmaker and famous sailor Bojsen-Möller is already
testing his J/70 sails and will introduce them to the market in
autumn. We look forward to also having the Great Britain J/70s join us
for the big J/70 regattas in Europe— hopefully, J/70 Europeans on Lake
Garda!”
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