(Cowes, Isle of Wight, England)- The original J/36 #1 JAZZ sailed the Round Island Race in Great Britain this year.
We received this report from her current owner- Norman Curnow- about
their recent experience sailing the famous 1,600 boat JP Morgan Round
Island Race (round the Isle of Wight):“We left Plymouth on Thursday before racing on Saturday, covered 130 miles to the Needles on the westernmost point of the Isle of Wight. It was just two of us, Charles and me. We sailed about 9.5nm out of the way and picked up “Alie” at the marina in Cowes— he’s Charles’ son.
We
got to the start line Saturday morning at 0730 hrs. We went well to
windward, passing lots of boats until we got to the Needles. My crew
did not have a lot of kite experience, so we left them in their bags.
Consequently, we lost a lot of time down the back of the island, past St
Catherines Point, all the way down to Bembridge Ledge and sailing back
through the Forts. However, it was one very good race had by all three of us!! We finished 379 out of 1579! Great stuff, eh lads??!! Not bad for a boat built in 1981 and sailed by its designer Rod Johnstone by the same name- JAZZ! Stormin’ Norm out! More stories later.”
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