J-109 Just-So scoops the 2019 JOG (Junior Offshore Group) Inshore and Offshore Championship

The McGough family team on their much loved J109 Just So won her class in both the 2019 JOG (Junior Offshore Group) Inshore and JOG Offshore championships. She was racing with a full inventory of Elvstrom Sails, including a jib made to the new J109 class rules, in a series of racing in conditions from near calm to gale force winds.

Both series were closely fought epics, with everything to count on the last day of racing. The battle for both events was in held in big winds. The last Offshore series race was a downwind roaring ride in 26 knots, with wind against tide and big seas off the St Albans Head tidal race. Just So saw 15.5 knots with the spinnaker up, with only four on board to manage her instead of her normal crew of eight.

The Inshore series finals touched even stronger conditions gusting up to 35 knots. Just So won both final races and secured an outright win for both Championships.

David McGough (owner) says: “All season Just So went well upwind with the new J-109 jib design and her new mainsail. The new jib was brilliant across the wind range and easily adjustable.”

The Offshore Championship consisted of a series of cross channel races to Cherbourg, St Peterport, St Malo, Alderney and a redirected race to Weymouth owing to severe wind conditions. The Inshore Series included shorter races from Cowes to Poole, Yarmouth and Weymouth.