User:Stuj24/J-Boats/1978

(tag removed) article issues|article=October 2009|coi=October 2009|intromissing=October 2009|notability=October 2009|unreferenced=October 2009|date=October 2009}} (tag removed) mergeto|J/24|date=October 2009}} At the beginning of 1978, twenty J/24 one-design class sailboats attended the first J/24 Midwinter Championship one-design event at Key West, Florida. Mark Ploch from Clearwater, Florida sails J/24 #151 to victory with Stuart Johnstone as tactician against one of the most talent-laden fleets in history.

Later in 1978, sixty-eight J/24 sailboats attended the J/24 North Americans in Newport, Rhode Island.

In this year, over 1,000 boats are sold with builders set up in UK, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and US West Coast where Don Trask and son, Jeff Trask, joins the Johnstone's to build J/24's.

Here's a picture of J/24s racing off Newport, Rhode Island.