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Learn more- the J Class yachts - the world's most elegant racing fleet.
The inaugural J Class World Championship, which will be organized by the New York Yacht Club in association with the International Maxi Association and the J ... coastal races and windward leeward racing off Newport August 21-26, 2017. Producer - Director Don Ramey Logan shot and produced this short video for the Wikipedia Foundation and it serves as a example to all of the grandeur of these majestic yachts.
The first-ever J Class World Championship pitted six of the finest historic super yachts against each other Names like Ranger, Lionheart, Velsheda, and Topaz harken back to the golden age of sailing, when financial magnates like Harold Vanderbilt and industrialists like Sir Thomas Sopwith skippered their own resplendent J-Class yachts through the 1930s in what was arguably the heyday of America's Cup racing. When World War II started, the golden age of sailing died.
J Class World Championship Repeats History The first-ever J Class World Championship pitted six of the finest historic super yachts against each other.
With their majestic sails billowed, six powerful J-Class sailing yachts glide past the manicured lawns of the New York Yacht Club summer clubhouse in Newport, RI. Jockeying for position, the long, elegant yachts are soon in full-blown racing mode, crews of 25 scrambling aboard 140-foot-long decks as they trim the monster mainsails or giant spinnakers in synch with the helmsman turning the wheel, often racing just feet from their competitors.
Names like Ranger, Lionheart, Velsheda, and Topaz harken back to the golden age of sailing, when financial magnates like Harold Vanderbilt and industrialists like Sir Thomas Sopwith skippered their own resplendent J-Class yachts through the 1930s in what was arguably the heyday of America's Cup racing. When World War II started, the golden age of sailing died.
The latest generation of J-Class yachts are either relatively close replicas, or in one or two cases, the steel hulls of the original J-Class designs. The class is unique to the sailing world partly because it's an exclusive club, with only nine active J-Class yachts and only six racers, but also because the yachts are built to J-Class guidelines from the 1930s. The sailing super yachts have the same beautiful lines and sail plans as their great-grandfathers, but these days they have modern sails and electronics, different ballast ratios, and space-age build materials.
History repeated itself last week as Lionheart, a direct descendant of Ranger, the 1937 America's Cup winner, won the first-ever J Class World Championship with the same kind of nautical beauty and sailing finesse that Ranger displayed some 80 years earlier.
Producer and Director Don Ramey Logan takes you up front and personal with these sailing giants.
The video is located on the official class Wikipedia page.
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