J-Class - Superyacht Cup 2014

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J-Class - Superyacht Cup Palma 2014

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Thank you - I may never get to experience one of these boats first hand but with your film, I experience a sense of their magnificence most every morning. It makes me feel good just to see and know that they are out there somewhere, sailing as they were designed to. When people marvel at my little Ericson 35', I show them this video of what a real boat looks like.

MrLittlj

Beautiful boats from a time long ago. Just amazing.
Great racing.

johnadams

Magnificent! Raced against Endeavour in Barbados years ago, truly an amazing sight. Would love to sail a J-class once in my life.

CarlLindeberg

My love affair - if it can be called that - started in the early 80s. My memory is a bit fuzzy now and I can't find evidence of it, but I _do_ recall an article one of the major Danish newspapers - _Politiken_ - had brought about *_Velsheda_***. I was mesmerized with her size....her mast height and boom length were mentioned as well as the size of the crew to sail her back in her heyday. The one thing I can't find evidence of, is that ***_Velsheda_* had been tied up by a quay in Copenhagens inner harbour for at least a few months, hence the article. When driving out to visit my grandparents, we would pass this magnificent beauty and my face would be pressed to the window in the backdoor taking in every second of her I could see.

peterlarsen

The appeal of these J-Class boats is that the hull design, steerage, and tackle are a throwback to a bygone era of sailboat racing. What they design today -- these technological marvels that barely qualify as boats, literally "flying" above the water surface -- it's fun to work tech to get sailing up to freeway speed, but the boats themselves don't have any beauty or sleekness to them. They're machines; most of them have sails that aren't even sails really, just big airplane wings. These J-Class are SAILBOATS, in the most classical sense. The craftwork on these boats are simply a work of art; if I were an owner I'd be afraid to put a crew on it to race it. Can't imagine the money tossed down to maintain these things. But MAN are they pretty -- sleek, majestic, works of art.

briane

Amazing boats, great footage. Might as well be a space shuttle in terms of who gets to play on theses boats, lol. I had to chuckle at 3:50 when the lads are below decks wrestling a sail past the crystal cabinet, hahaha.

stub