A Hopeful Report from a New J/122 owner

 

* "Hello sailing friends in the J/Community! My wife Cindy and I purchased a 2008 J-122 from Cowes, England last fall. We had it shipped here to Annapolis, Maryland and we rehabbed her over the winter 2019 & 2020. We could not wait to go sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. But, like everyone else, we had to put our plans on ice because of the pandemic.

When racing resumed in June/July, we entered Annapolis Yacht Club's Wednesday night races, the AYC Annual regatta, and AYC Labor Day regatta. We took a first in the WNR second series, a first in the AYC annual with two bullets, and a first in the ALC Labor Day regatta with three bullets. All of these were racing under the ORC handicapping system. We have raced a few other events, but due to light wind, we abandoned two of those. The third one was an all-day affair to Solomons, but light-air downwind for 6 hours is not our best point of sail.

We are thrilled with our new boat, and, frankly, we did not see these good results coming so soon.  A great deal of credit to the Johnstone's for their design! And, the rest goes to our amazing crew!" Thanks for this report from Ed Hartman and his wife Cindy!