Virginie Hériot Trophy 2025 in Le Havre

Virginie Hériot is the first French woman to win an Olympic medal; this happened in 1928 at the Amsterdam Games. The Société des Régates du Havre (SRH) has honored her memory for years with this challenge, which brings together sport keelboats and traditional sailboats. This 2025, four Soling teams joined the celebrations, including two Dutch, NED 33 (Rudy Den Outer, Ramzi Souli, and Theo De Lange) and NED 44 (Bram Soedhoudt, Sjors Aensberg, and Gavin Lidlow), and t ...  read more

The Solings Beckons: Irish Youth Sailors Answer the Call

At 13:00 on Monday 16 June 2025, the Tralee Bay Sailing Club Cadet Team comprised of Arann Murphy (helm, 17), Peter O’Connor (17), and Sam Fitzgibbon (16) left Tralee with Santoku the Soling in tow, and headed to Westport. They were accompanied by the crew of Chinook, including Cormac Murphy (boat owner of Chinook and Santoku), Rachel Deasy (former coach of the TBSC Youth Team), and Sadhbh Murphy (fellow TBSC Cadet, 14). Upon arrival at Mayo Sailing Club, Santoku was lifted into the water and ...  read more

GBR161 Loudon, Kimberly and Loudon British champions

Past Saturday evening all the crews and helpers enjoyed a supper of Hog Roast at the Lochaber Yacht Club after a nice day of light breeze where 4 races had been held, the gathering was important to prepare the early start on Sunday. With the first race start at the unsociable hour of 0900 teams were treated to a pleasant southwest breeze of about 0 knots and, some sunshine. These conditions remained until the end of the last race at around mid-day. Then the first of the 35-knot gust arrived i ...  read more

Fantastic turnout at the British Nationals

The Lochaber Yacht Club, once more is organizing the British Nationals, the traditional Yacht Club is located at Fort William, Scotland, the home of the northern Soling fleet in the United Kingdom this despite the harsh winter, just because the Soling is the boat that can perform and hold on to the conditions, and therefore super loved at the area. The event this 2025 pulled out two visitors from Ireland, both teams sailing their first Soling regatta in the class, one of them a young team u ...  read more

Berliners crowned again in Attersee at the Zipfer Trophy

Attersee once more surprised its competitors, and from 8 races scheduled, 7 were contested, conditions kept changing and the competitive competition began with a race on Friday. On Saturday, Lake Attersee showed its tough side for the sailors: three challenging races in 9-10 knots and strongly shifting winds made anything possible. Thus, the required four races for the Austrian and Hungarian National Championships were already completed on the second day. On Sunday, the wind was at its best, all ...  read more

Three races at the Zipfer, Northern teams look stronger

This Saturday the second race of the series started with light winds but steady conditions around 7 to 8 knots from the Northwest. The windward mark was set close to Attersee am Attersee, light wind specialist team from Traunsee AUT 100 (Christian Spiessberger, Gerhard Schlipfinger and Max Reisinger) were the ones to show their skills taking the bullet of this race. They were followed also from Traunsee PROFS team AUT 114 (Christian Binder, Christian Feitchinger and Franky Fellner) in third cam ...  read more

One race in at the Zipfer Trophy new teams on the block

AP was raised under a shine sun behind some clouds moving over Attersee once master event chairman Ludwig Beurle finished his traditional opening speech to the 33 teams competing at the Zipfer Trophy, an impressive number above the 27 entries average over 20 editions of the event that didn’t even stop during the Pandemia and had its highlight on 2018 with 38 entries and 7 editions ranging similar numbers as the current one. Probably the highest number in the class for the year of 2025, showing ...  read more