Javier Padrón's HSN Sailing Team left Barcelona with a tidy double last weekend, claiming both the second event of the J/70 Barcelona Winter Series 2026-2027 and the Catalan J/70 Championship in the same stretch of racing.
The team, representing the Real Club Nàutic de Barcelona and the Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria, now also leads the provisional overall standings for the series.
Twenty-seven boats turned out for racing organised by the Real Club Nàutic de Barcelona from 6 to 8 November. Light, shifty winds dogged the first two days, and conditions were tough enough that Friday's lone race had to be abandoned altogether. Saturday produced only two completed races before more settled breeze arrived on Sunday, allowing the committee to finish the full five-race series with three races on the final day.
HSN Sailing Team won it on 24 points from scores of 1-3-9-7-4. New Territories, helmed by Alexey Semenov, took second on 29 points, with Rogier van Driessche's NED 1396 third on 36.
The title was still wide open going into Sunday. PTICHKI Sailing Team and HSN Sailing Team were tied on four points apiece after Saturday's light-wind racing, with PTICHKI holding the provisional lead on a tiebreaker. Padrón's crew sailed more consistently across the three Sunday races, and that was enough to settle it.
The regatta doubled as the Catalan J/70 Championship, run by RCNB on behalf of the Federació Catalana de Vela. HSN Sailing Team took that title ahead of Elvira Pinchuk's PTICHKI Sailing Team, of the Club Nàutic Vilanova, and Mon Cañellas Salas's Hang Ten, of the Club Náutic Cambrils.
In the Corinthian division for amateur crews, Peter Buhl's Sirena Chico, representing the Royal Danish Yacht Club and RCNB, claimed top spot. Grun (Stephan Mölle, sailed by Thorsten Seglitz) finished second, with Justus Reinke's Halbtrocken Dry-Light third.
HSN Sailing Team now leads the overall winter series on 40 points after two events, ahead of Luis Martín Cabiedes's Noticia on 44 and Hang Ten on 46. Phantom 7 (Thomas Müller-Uri) sits fourth on 47, with Jürgen Waldheim's Waikiki fifth on 66.
The next event runs 18-20 December in Barcelona, part of a seven-race series continuing through to April 2027.
