Dave Reed

1 week ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

Making good use of an afternoon practice session ahead of the 2025 Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Chicago in June—another step toward their goal of winning a J/70 world title, skipper Cate Terhune-Muller and her crew—husband Allan Terhune, tactician Steve Hunt and trimmer Nick Turney—are circling in the starting area on board the Terhune’s J/70 Casting Couch. This is the second practice start of the informal scrimmage, which will be followed by a short windward-leeward lap.

1 week ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

The Storm 18, which its creators categorized as a daysailer when entering this new US-built small craft into Sailing World’s 2026 Boat of the Year competition, is so much more. The design brief is for a versatile craft for clubs and hyperactive sailing centers that need a boat for teaching first, racing second, and for the adults and the youth squads expanding into team and match racing.

2 weeks ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

The Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta in Chicago captured the essence of competitive amateur sailing, featuring the impressive Melges 32 team of Jeremy Alexis and Jocelyn Saxon’s Fleetwood. On the waters of Lake Michigan and against the Chicago skyline, this team displayed its new chemistry and drive to perfection.

2 weeks ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

FINAL RESULTS If there’s a theme to be realized at the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta Series in Chicago, it is one of perfection, and we’re talking both the caliber of races over three days and that of perfect scorelines of a handful of teams that simply excelled in the weekend’s light to moderate winds. Among the picket-fencers was Jeremy Alexis and Jocelyn Saxon’s team on the Melges 32 Fleetwood.

3 weeks ago | sailingworld.com | Dave Reed

PRELIMINARY RESULTSA light northeasterly breeze on the second day of the Helly Hansen Sailing World Regatta in Chicago was good enough for the race committee to send the regatta’s eager distance race teams in ORC and PHRF on their respective 20 and 14-milers. And while the handicap fleets laid their wakes across Lake Michigan the regatta’s full complement of one-design fleets got off to a delayed start.